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Meta Gear Solid -- a game about the metal gear series

I think the genre you are looking for is "immersive sims". Notable historical examples are Thief, Deus Ex, and System Shock.

I don't know wtf "real communism" is, all I know is that the communism I advocate for is not that of Lenin, Stalin, or Mao

Some of them are. IMO the best are Way of Life, Holy Fury, Conclave, and Old Gods. If you want to play some who isn't a Christian King, such as a Christian merchant or pagan/hindu/muslim king, you'll need to get the expansion for that. Respectively, those are The Republic, The Old Gods or Holy Fury (either will unlock Pagans), Rajas of India, and Sword of Islam. That being said, if you like playing a Christian, Sons of Abraham is worth picking up. Finally, if you're the type of person who really likes optimizing these sort of games, then you'll probably want Legacy of Rome, which adds retinues, customizable standing armies that let a skilled player solve the combat system to punch way above their weight

As I understand it he starts out just living with them but then kidnaps the girl after the mother dies

Yes -- America (original by Simon and Garfunkel)

Anthony Vincent -- Chop Suey in the style of Ghost (original by System of a Down)

Dr Pez & Marc Papeghin -- The soundtrack of Ocarina of Time, but its a prog rock concept album (not sure it technically counts as a cover)

Brass Against -- The Pot (Original by Tool)

The Jimi Hendrix Experience -- All Along the Watchtower (Original by Bob Dylan)

Also, not sure how widely known this is, but Arethra Franklin's Respect is itself a cover (and certainly one of the best covers of all time, up there with All Along the Watchtower and Johnny Cash's rendition of Hurt)

Ultimately, these sorts of crimes are incredibly common for occupying armies. Culture impacts the way these crimes are handled -- are they punished, ignored, covered up, or tacitly (or even explicitly) encouraged? But the common element is soldiers, and the way that war leads to the dehumanization of the enemy, not that some cultures breed uniquely evil people.

Putting all the various "gaming" communities on kbin and Lemmy together on one page is a nice QOL feature but I'm not sure it's a good idea to present them to users as all the same thing. Gaming@kbin and gaming@lemmy and gaming@beehaw are different groups with different rules managed by different people and if users don't know that it's going to cause confusion in the long run

MYST, and if you enjoyed that, Riven and Myst 3

They also don't have sex in that play. It's a romance, not erotica

I generally have a few "forever games" that I sink thousands of hours into. Right now that's Stellaris but in might try to get back into Crusader Kings with the new patch and of course when Civ 7 comes out I'll be all over that.

I generally prefer my other games to be fairly short, especially for story heavy games. I've left hundreds of Civ games unfinished, and it doesn't really matter, but I do actually want to finish games with a strong narrative, and really long ones can be hard. I never finished either of the Divinity original sin games, for instance, despite enjoying then quite a lot. Same with Witcher 3, though in that case it has more to do with rapidly becoming fatigued with the open world and also starting grad school about 3/4 if the way through and not having much time to play. I'm general though, I'd say about 20-30 hours is ideal for a game that I can't just replay forever.

The album The Signal Heard Throughout Space by Parius

I've set my computer so that holding caps lock lets me type in Greek

The problem is that the user is necessarily confronted with the technical design of the fediverse from the moment they create an account. "Do I join lemmy.ml or lemmy.world or mastodon.social or kbin.social" can only really be answered by explaining how the fediverse works, because the simple answer is "it doesn't really matter but it also sort of does", which is profoundly unhelpful

Look if people are getting mad because you're using "they" to refer to someone who has not disclosed their pronouns, then they're being unreasonable. But I've literally never seen that. What I have seen is people getting mad when someone uses "they" to refer to someone who has disclosed their pronouns. And often, this is something that is done by mildly transphobic people who aren't fully comfortable using, e.g., "she" to refer to someone who they feel looks insufficiently like a woman, but recognize that using "he" is wrong. Using "they" in this situation is just as wrong.

That being said, it doesn't help that there's no easy way to disclose your pronouns on this app. I'm a lot of discord servers I'm in, they use badges for pronouns so you can click on someone's username and see their pronouns. But no such option exists here

I can't really recommend this because its more or less a dead multiplayer beta that's not even legitimately available anymore but Shattered Horizons was a microgravity first person shooter that was really cool. So, uh, if there are any indie devs in this chat, uh, please steal this dead idea!

Let him who hath understanding reckon the number of the beast. For it is a human number. Its number is six hundred and sixty six

That would be weird for Outer Wilds. It's not really a game about figuring out a complex sequence of events that let you get the correct solution to the time loop, the way so many time loop stories are. There are a couple locations that can only be accessed early or late, but those locations only contain information; once you've reached them you have no need to go back on subsequent looks.

And since the game is about exploration, it doesn't really feel repetitive (at least it didn't to me), because you're always looking for something new

i go about 50/50 between CD and bandcamp. I never got into vinyl, though i can appreciate the physicality of it. That being said, i do listen to a fair amount of stuff on youtube or spotify, especially when exploring new artists but also for stuff that i just haven't bought

I've found a few decent hits from random music blogs. actually while writing this i went to one of them and now i'm listening to a Japanaese prog rock band that sings in an invented language

Reddit wikis are more about having a static page for information associated with a community than being a wiki proper. For example, music subs that maintain a "hall of fame" in a wiki page, or subreddit rules, or FAQs, etc. Not at all the type of stuff that would go on a fan wiki or wikipedia. This use case is valuable, although there are other solutions to the problem, e.g., sticky posts.

I'm not sure that would need to be federated. Maybe just to lemmy and other platforms with a similar model. But also, that should be up to the other instances, not us. If Mastodon figures out how to show a kbin "wiki" to their users in a way that is useful and makes sense, then why not let them do it?

3/4 but i can see why you went with universe sandbox; paring it down to 5 words was tough

Ah established Reddit account with real comments and lots of karma is less likely to be identified as a bot or sockpuppet, which is useful for people who want to run those accounts

Honestly I think the choice to, in order to be more like Reddit, have subreddit equivalents tied to specific instances is in tension with federation. Trying to give each instance it's own host of micro communities instead of having each instance being a community that engages with other instances on cross-platform threads is going to give us headaches. Eventually someone is going to ask for individual magazines to federated.

That's not too say there aren't problems with that approach; in particular, moderation becomes more complicated. But just that we're trying to fit a square peg in a... squircular hole.

Paradox put a lot of effort into making Ck3 more accessible, and I think largely succeeded. of course its still a massively complicated game, but strategy fans are generally willing to put up with that. its being obtuse and impenetrable and confusing that's the problem

Fight on both screens simultaneously

Explore a toybox solar system

Push logic like blocks

Die while climbing a mountain