The Halo 3: ODST OST is so good, man.

Hades, although I refuse to call it a “patient gamer” game

Why? It's 6 years old at this point so I think it qualifies.

Following Iron Lore Entertainment's failure to secure funding for its next project, former members of Iron Lore announced they had created a new company on February 18, 2008.

The first paragraph of their wiki page.

I didn't mean to imply they aren't allowed- just that I don't think anyone would really consider this community an issue unless they're a tankie that's mad about being mocked.

SJW hosts two communities that probably generate 99% of the issues/hate our instance gets: NonCredibleDefense, which is basically just edge-y military shitposting, and this community which is entirely based around making fun of tankies.

In NCD some of the takes can be really hot, but I'm usually pretty sure it's a joke. Sometimes it can go too far, though.

This com is fine idk. Unless you're a tankie and you come here to read about yourself getting mocked, I guess.

Yeah, that's been my experience. 99% of any drama coming out of Blahaj that I've seen was just that their admin banned a thing while being polite about it.

Isn’t it potentially a bit self defeating for them to close themselves off in a closed forum?

At this point everyone that's drinking their koolaid is all the people that might be willing to.

It's so polarized after years of this stuff that 95% of people are either very anti-trump, very for-trump, or very very tired. I think the echo chamber from their closed forum further radicalizing people is probably worth more to them than the very very few people still being willing to be converted.

Consider: all 600,000 of those people are the most rabid fanbase Trump has. If he loses the upcoming election, all he really needs to do is post 'Jan 6 2: electric boogaloo' on Truth Social and suddenly there's a hundred thousand people that base 50% of their identity on Trump and 50% of their identity on their right to bear arms outside the capitol building, or the white house, or whatever the hell else he picks.

That's my guess, anyways: it just sort of reached a critical mass where that sort of 'getting out there' isn't as beneficial anymore. At least in most online circles.

I deeply dislike Nintendo.

Some of them are related. Some of them aren't.

Black Ops and Modern Warfare are generally two separate series- the Modern Warfare games are all related.

Black Ops is a lot more complicated. Black Ops 2 is a direct sequel to Black Ops 1. Technically Black Ops 1 is sort of a sequel to World At War, as well. They share a major character, but it's kind of a minor thing and you won't be missing a ton.

Black Ops 3 has basically nothing to do with the rest- it takes place in 2065 and basically the only thing that links it to the previous games is a throwaway line related to a previous villain and some text logs.

Black Ops 4 didn't have a singleplayer campaign.

Black Ops 5 is Black Ops: Cold War, it is related to 1 & 2 but it's less of a direct continuation and more just the same characters are involved iirc.

Black Ops 6 follows up Cold War, but again is just the same characters.

Personally, I'd suggest doing World At War, Black Ops 1, Black Ops 2, Cold War, and then Black Ops 6 for the 'full experience.' If you wanna circle back around and do Black Ops 3, you can do that pretty much whenever because as I said it's unrelated. You can drop World At War if it doesn't interest you without any real issues. As I said, it just sets up a single character. Dropping any of the others you might actually be confused on plot and characters at points, idk.

Modern Warfare is a lot simpler. Just do them in order.

Things are fine as long as we're not on blahaj, then? Just clarifying.

If you mean singleplayer campaigns: as far back as you can stomach the graphics of.

If you actually want good campaigns, Black Ops 1 is fuckin legendary. World At War was also great. As is Modern Warfare (2007) and Modern Warfare 2(2009). Modern Warfare 3 (2011) was also good. Black Ops 2 was good. I wouldn't bother with any further Black Ops games- one of them doesn't even have a campaign iirc.

For the much much newer titles, Modern Warfare (2019) was good. Modern Warfare (2022) was also solid. Modern Warfare 3 is 'last years title' being referred to in the OP.

None of these are narrative masterpieces exactly- the closest is probably the Black Ops games. With that said, they're very much 'action movie' videogames. Tons of crazy set pieces, unique segments, and then the cutscenes that usually tie together a reasonable enough plot to be interesting.

If you mean multiplayer: honestly just jump into Black Ops 6. None of the older titles are likely to be a great experience at this point. Or just spend your time on a better game lol

Narrative-driven games give players the illusion of choice.

What do you mean by this? There's a finite amount of possibilities coded into the game? You only get (number) of possible choices so choice is an illusion?

and more political just in general, actually

Yeah, that's pretty much the only part of Lemmy I really don't like. It feels drastically more political than Reddit did. I didn't even know what the hell a tankie was before I joined Lemmy.

idk it certainly feels weird to me that videogames- even ones I don't personally enjoy- are viewed as relevant enough to get this kind of political attention.

Realistically, if I take a step back from it I'm just stuck in 2008, but.. yeah.

Besides, weird isn't necessarily a requirement here. Just 'it looks like satire but isn't'.

Also: you have excellent taste in videogames. Noita is great.

Who knows?

This stuff just happens sometimes.

I remember Tokyo by Imagine Dragons wasn't available on Spotify for a few years. No clue why, but it just reappeared one day.

TIL. That's actually really cool info!

Double up. Assert dominance. Demand to be referred to as 'Mister Doctor'. Hmm.. 'Doctor Mister'? I think I like Mr. Dr. better.

I am so sorry to do this to you but it was 2010.

Boners are largely age dependent. I remember in high school I got random boners all the time and anything could trigger them.

100%. I remember sometimes they'd happen in church of all places. No clue why, but like clockwork the choir would start and bam. Tip for anyone with this problem currently: flex your legs hard and repeatedly. Always worked for me.

I didn't see much of it except for one burst where Hexbear was getting rowdy with my instance- that was.. annoying.

There was some drama I don't recall the specifics of but it apparently angered Hexbear enough that I started seeing a lot of them in basically every comment section.