I'm the most socially awkward person I know, and I'm still thinking what the actual fuck at this. Like, you're seriously such an incel you can't carry on a simple conversation? This is peak techbro.

Good call. Thank you for doing what you need to do to support the site and protect the users as necessary. And as always, the honesty and transparency is appreciated.

Ultimately, the world is not a grid. So while grids may be great for pure strategy games like XCom (and I really enjoyed XCom, not knocking it at all), I think a lot of people would say that for more story-focused games like RPGs, they break the immersion. Thus, BG3 (which I'm also really enjoying) does not use one. Neither do any of the party-based RPGs that I can think of off the top of my head. For me personally, it depends on the game. I am perfectly happy without one in BG3. But I enjoyed having one for XCom, and more recently for Warhammer 40k Mechanicus. I would offer that as a suggestion if you are looking for a gridded turn-based strategy game.

No they are not. Birthdays are calculated from the day of birth, hence birthdays. And zygotes are not yet people, no matter what the forced-birthers tell you.

RIF was fun for reddit

I like the choice for a single day of the week - seems a good happy medium.

No. And while I will treat those who do with the same level of dignity and respect I grant to everyone, I secretly do think less of them for it (especially when I see them perpetuating the indoctrination with their children).

Glib (though truthful) answers aside, I thought this was a good read. Thank you for posting it.

Current game pet peeve - the delay after each enemy acts in combat in Baldur's Gate 3. I absolutely love this game, but big combats take longer than they should because after each enemy acts, there seems to be a 5-10 second delay before moving on to the next.

Favorite game pet peeve - The overall poor performance/memory management in HBS's Battletech game. Again, love the game, have put nearly 2000 hours into it over the years, but damn the performance can just be painful sometimes.

Once again, thank you for the transparency and for keeping us (the users) informed, as well as for all the work you do to keep lemmy.world going.

US here, live in the vicinity of Boston, Massachusetts. Water is very safe out of the tap - we get an annual report of what's in it from the Mass. Water Resource Authority (MWRA) and it's tested regularly. Tastes good too, if I'm honest. I would say that MOST developed areas of the US have perfectly safe drinking water out of the tap, though it doesn't all taste very good (looking at you, Washington DC). However there are some more rural areas where the water out of tap is not safe for drinking, and where boiling or bottled water is recommended. I remember traveling out west back in 2010 and being surprised at this.

Saw it last night, mostly agree with this take on it, though in a bit less glowing terms. I didn't think the emotional payoff alluded to in this review really worked, because I didn't think they'd laid enough groundwork for it. Too much of this movie was more storyboard than story, with not enough time spent on actually delving into these characters' feelings and relationships. That said, it was definitely a fun popcorn flick, with some great action, a good sense of humor, fun characters, and, as the article points out, minimal required external knowledge. And everything said about the publicity was spot on.

Ok, maybe not Faerun, but just spitballing here - Total War: Blood War. Massive armies of devils vs demons, with yugoloth mercenary forces for hire, spread across the battlefields of the lower planes. Could tie in nicely with a re-release of Planescape as well...

THANK YOU FOR THIS!

Congratulations and good work! Thanks for all your efforts.

Pineapple and anchovy pizza.

Again, thanks for all your hard work, and your transparency about the whole ordeal. Hopefully, the userbase in general is being patient and understanding given the situation.

After finishing a playthrough of Baldur's Gate 3, I'm now on Tiny Tina's Wonderlands. Fun, but nowhere near as good as the original Tiny Tina DLC for BL2. Still, I'm 26 hours in and I'll definitely finish it. After that... maybe I'll go back and do a different run of BG3. I'm looking forward to getting back to CP2077 and picking up Phantom Liberty, but I'm going to wait for that to be on some sort of sale.

You guys are absolutely amazing. So many thanks to you @Ruud and the entire admin/troubleshooting team! Thank you.

HBS's Battletech (2018). One, it brings me back to some good high school memories playing tabletop with my friends, and two, you can never have too much big stompy robots shooting each other.

Pineapple and anchovy. Sweet + salty. It's a beautiful combo.

Honestly, a lot of NSFW subs devoted to somewhat niche fetishes. I saw lemmynsfw.com started up as a separate instance for NSFW content, and I'm hoping at least some of these subs make it over there soon.

Thanks for the update!

Saw them perform just a couple months ago after having not seem them in over a decade. They put on an AMAZING show. So much fun, such incredible energy, and they've really taken their live performance to the next level. I highly recommend catching them on tour if they ever come near you.

Happy to donate a little bit!

I just pull out my phone and look at re... er, lemmy

Milk, milk tea, and 2 different smoothies, but no milkshakes? Bah!

Gods yes. What a brilliant piece of writing that DLC was - simultaneously hilarious and deeply poignant.

AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long

Kiss - God of Thunder (Destroyer was the first album I owned)

I'm sure at some point I'll get on old.reddit again, for as long as it's still around. After all, I spent a dozen years or more on reddit; it's hard to just walk away from that cold turkey. But, I kinda like what's going on with Lemmy. I've really liked what I've seen with lemmy.world, there's a cool vibe here, and I'm already feeling at home. I think I'm gonna stick around. :-)

Just want to say thank you. Your hard work is very much appreciated.

Omg thank you! I've been missing this so much!

As a teenager, I worked in a local single-screen movie theater in an affluent town and had occasion to meet John Delancy (Q from Star Trek Next Gen) who was very friendly, and Jason Robards, who was pleasant enough but kept to himself. I've met a few famous people at conventions, but the best was Adrienne Barbeau, who I met at a horror convention in Worcester, MA years ago. It was early and there weren't a lot of people around yet, so we went over to say hello. We spent about half an hour just talking, commiserating over the then-very-recent cancellation of Carnivale on HBO. She was an absolutely lovely person in every way.

Depends, if it's hot enough to need the AC, door closed. If not, door open so I can open the window and get some airflow.

Still playing BG3. About 120 hours in, still my first playthrough, but I think I'm getting close to the end. Wouldn't be surprised if it takes me another 15-20 hours to get there though. After that I need to decide if I want to play through again with different characters/choices, or do something else first (recently got Tiny Tina in a bundle and looking forward to playing that).

In Enderal (an absolutely amazing, totally free game that runs on the Skyrim engine - if you own Skyrim you owe it to yourself to play Enderal), at the end of Esme's questline, sitting on top of the lighthouse and discussing the events of her story.
::: spoiler Esme quest spoilers If you've ever had a loved one who struggled with mental illness or depression, and you just couldn't help them, it hits like a ton of bricks :::

"In Tartarus" - The Night Eternal

I have no idea how many hours I put into WoW or SWTOR back in the day when I was playing them. For now, I've got 2,176 hours logged in Battletech.

I just finished The Dungeon of Naheulbeuk: The Amulet of Chaos. It was fun. Nothing groundbreaking, but an entertaining turn-based party-based rpg, with an emphasis on tongue-in-cheek humor. I recommend it if you like that sort of thing.

Finally picked up God of War last week on sale, so I've started that now for the first time. Liking it so far after just around 2-1/2 hours, and looking forward to seeing how it unfolds.

"Don't write in starlight, 'cause the words may come out real"

Dio - "Don't Talk to Strangers"