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  • homicidalrobot@lemm.eetoTechnology@lemmy.worldX launches E2E encrypted Chat
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    1 month ago

    1000% worth it. You’re a concern troll and you post non-stop nonsense. You literally are too inept at reading comprehension and critical thinking to understand that without the weights or promotion criterion, the “open source” algorithm isn’t showing what’s promoted. Those are the driving force behind algorithmic promotion with what we’ve been shown and they’re not public.





  • Densely packed open world without much empty space, dialogue trees that will frustrate people with ADHD (seriously, random non-quest npcs have 10 minutes of voiced lines sometimes), fluid mix and match skill trees with easy access respec in the menu, no micromanagement mechanics like ammunition or town NPC line of sight causing every guard in a town to turn hostile, better optimization to run on less powerful machines than recent comparable titles, ability to upgrade gear you like throughout the entire game, magic system held on to some of the CRPG elements (you need to find grimoires with a spell to learn it, but putting points into a spell lets you cast them without the grimoire and upgrades them an extra rank if you still use the book anyway). Does an excellent job of bringing new players into the setting if they didn’t play Pillars or Pillars 2.

    My current complaints are that the melee combat tree is a bit less exciting than the others, and a few visual issues have presented themselves like enemies with multiple elemental effects applied to them having some visual flickering and distant shallow water looks wrong. There’s some player character options that are missing from Pillars of Eternity, but if you haven’t played them you’d never know.

    I think it’s a pretty strong GotY contender to kick off the year, personally. I made this post because people are mentioning user reviews, but steam user reviews have been pretty worthless lately. Way too many people expecting games to behave like another game or genre entirely and basing their entire review on that, or complaining about things that have no relation to gameplay (on that note, the game has XBL login but it is not required).


  • homicidalrobot@lemm.eetomemes@lemmy.worldJust a tad too tender
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    5 months ago

    It’s just as likely as any other meat. If it was frozen and shipped beforehand, less likely, so with fast food beef you’re probably right; but the reduced chance of infection comes from actually killing bacteria present in the meat, meaning you need to hit the elimination heat threshold for e. coli and the other usual suspects throughout the cut.









  • Hi, linguist by degree, app admin by trade

    Code-switching as defined by wikipedia is cool but I learned it with examples like loaned words becoming permanent between languages being one of the major reasons for “code-switching”. Worth noting you rarely see this behavior online comparatively, mostly because of prescriptivist assholes like you that insist they know the entire definition of a word. You’re a lot more likely to hear code-switching than see it. The provided example (someone asking for the salt in another language) counts.

    Here’s a link since you can’t possibly comprehend being so unbearably wrong on the internet without a link. https://www.britannica.com/topic/code-switching


  • Microsoft didn’t spend multiple decades trying to force their own chargers and ports over universal standards. Not saying any of them are good, but apple is in no way better and has spent years creating contention between consumers. It’s just as likely they sell your tracking data as anyone else, they spend developer time every month making sure their ecosystem is considered better for cultural reasons while being ostensibly worse than competitors for most things. Their phones are generally a year or more behind competitors but they have made-up features that serve no purpose consumers rally around like imessage. They have a tiny sandbox to play in without completely voiding your warranty - Themes instead of real customization. “Blue bubbles”? Are you kidding me? How about allowing any form of tinkering beyond a garden path? How about supporting repair of devices at their actual branded stores? They’re easily up there as one of the worst for consumers at large.