Pisha [she/her, they/them] @ Pisha @hexbear.net

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Linke Antideutsche sind deutsche Anti-Linke

Metal Fatigue also had a nice system of putting mechas together out of individual parts, which you could steal and reverse-engineer from the enemy factions. That game maybe had a few too many mechanics going on, but I had a lot of fun with it.

Looking forward to Mastodon-style blocklists coming to Lemmy. Surely nothing can go wrong having a few individual admins with no oversight, evidence or chance to appeal make a list of instances to block

Publising Distribution is one of my favorite publisers/distributors

Reminds me of Kamala Harris mocking the words "build more schools, less prisons". It's the same smug, neoliberal affect

It's a role-playing game, why would you try to find the most effective class? Pillars of Eternity had a system where every class and every stat was supposed to be equally viable and as a result, none of them are memorable or really stick out. Besides, mages can only do what they've prepared each day; the power creep is another issue that magic points on their own don't fix (see all the arguments about D&D psionics).

Spell slots for life. It combines great versatility over the long run with focused choices over the short term: A mage can be a blaster one day and a self-buffed fighter the next, particularly in 2e. In various Final Fantasy games, in contrast, every mage class is usually the same (and so you only get one of each, usually). In my current Baldur's Gate 2 playthrough, on the other hand, my Fighter/Mage is buffing themself to become a better fighter while my Cleric/Mage is using her Cleric spells for buffing and her Mage spells for damage-dealing, and I could switch that up at any point. I've never seen that kind of build variety in a game with magic points.

That's the only way to deal with them. Got hired by Oxford/Harvard/Cambridge? I just won't acknowledge your existence.

Always a good sign when self-declared Hegelians/dialectical materialists start denying that something is a contradiction

The book fair won't even ban Neo-Nazi publishers from attending, but in a case like this they react. Shows where their allegiances lie

He's a writer who's so bizarre I don't even know who would pay to read his crap. Irony-poisoned online neoliberals? Is that a viable demographic? He can't even manage the veneer of being reasonable that ghouls like the NYT pundits manage, it's just all fantasy all the time.

In Germany, the freelance journalist Malcolm Ohanwe got blacklisted by the state-funded broadcasters and he's not the first PoC to whom this has happened.

22 year old woman from germany - not even Israeli.

Wrong! According to Spiegel, she never lived in Germany, her mother was a convert to Judaism who immigrated to Israel and her father was Israeli. Besides, I don't see how it even helps your argument to point out that some of the colonizers are of German nationality. Historically speaking, that's never a good thing.

The mod over there trying to rein in the misgendering has multiple downvotes. Who put all this transphobia in my anticommunism?

Another despicable historical distortion going on in those comments is about the treaty of Versailles. American liberals like to go on about how it was so harsh that the rise of Nazism was a perfectly rational reaction. That's not only historically highly dubious – it was much less harsh than most anything the German Empire did to the losers of its wars (see Brest-Litovsk) – but it's also, like, only two degrees away from the stab-in-the-back myth (Dolchstoßlegende). That is to say: The Nazis liked to claim that the horrible economic state of the Republic was due to the "traitors" who gave up on WWI and signed the treaty, causing all of Germany's economic problems (never mind the Great Depression). No one should be agreeing with the Nazis on any part of that idea.

Rooted injustice

Don't worry, there's nothing psionic about these mind flayers.

It's pricefield.org and we're federated with it! It's not terribly active, but I always smile seeing it.

Aside from the big liberal instances, we're federated with some small ones that I don't mind seeing, like Star Trek.website or the Life is Strange-themed instance. I hope we can keep those at least.

I don't think you'd gain much enjoyment of 3 by replaying the originals. The characters that come back are basically just for fanservice and the story kind of acknowledges the premise of the originals but conflicts heavily with Throne of Bhaal. Other than that, there's just a few written jokes referencing various old characters. So if you want to play 3, just go for it.