I had a chance to play for a couple hours this morning, and I'm impressed so far! It's a metroidvania game, but with a souls-like bonfire/estus flask/lose experience on death and try to recover it mechanic. Movement and combat feel fluid, and deflecting attacks feels great. The combat system seems simple right now, but I have barely unlocked any of the systems in the game and it's a metroidvania so I know the complexity will only grow.

The world is beautiful and has a complex history that I want to learn more about, although the dialog is a little bit jointed, probably due to localization issues. There are definitely some aspects of body horror to the game, with humans Apemen from the Big Blue Planet being used as livestock in a creepy, gory, ritualistic fashion in the first level. It's definitely not a horror game, though-- the protagonist is powerful and can fight back against enemies without fear of running out of resources, although combat is definitely unforgiving.

I can tentatively recommend it right now, although I haven't played it enough to give it a full review yet. I haven't played it on my steam deck yet, but I'll give it a shot tonight and give my thoughts over on the steamdeck community

I ended up grabbing this, I'll come back soon and let y'all know what I think. Gonna mostly play on Steam deck

Just a guess, but my guess is that the full text reads "JewsAgainst(Something)", but it got automatically shortened to what you see here

Maybe Cory Doctorow?

I think he's saying they would have to make fogs gray

Hamas has around 90% approval in Gaza:

https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-palestinians-opinion-poll-wartime-views-a0baade915619cd070b5393844bc4514

I'm sorry, but that's not what the article says. 90% of respondents think Abbas should resign, but that is separate from "approval". FTA:

Despite the devastation, 57% of respondents in Gaza and 82% in the West Bank believe Hamas was correct in launching the October attack, the poll indicated. A large majority believed Hamas’ claims that it acted to defend a major Islamic shrine in Jerusalem against Jewish extremists and win the release of Palestinian prisoners. Only 10% said they believed Hamas has committed war crimes, with a large majority saying they did not see videos showing the militants committing atrocities.

/r/AnarchyChess

No, the right to bare arms. Like, you can wear a tank top if you wanna

Porno for Pyros, is that you?

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/d3f506e0-ce0d-4121-b644-0b2a384d6fd5.jpeg

No problem! My mutual aid budget is reserved for helping a trans friend move out of Tennessee right now, but please let me know if you have an emergency expense come up and I might be able to help

Lemmy is small enough that we can care about each other here, man :) I did read it, and man that really fucking sucks. I've been through some similar stuff before, both with severe food aversion and having a narcissistic parent. I understand why you have a negative view of the world right now, and I hope that your circumstances improve. I also hope that you're able to look at the world more charitably regardless of your circumstances, although I think you've got bigger things on your mind right now than emotional growth and that it's totally reasonable for you to prioritize your physical health.

Hi! I just read this, and man that is such a frustrating situation to be in. I dealt with severe food aversion when I was in high school, and ended up getting a diagnosis of gastroparesis. Similar to you, there was a day where I just suddenly got "better", although I never recovered to the point of having a normal appetite for a person my size. I never reached the point where the smell of food triggered a gag reflex, but I'm definitely familiar with how personally we take our relationships with food and how that must be affecting you and your family. I've been in situations where I desperately wanted to eat something in order to make someone's effort feel appreciated, but haven't been able to because of my body. When I read about you not being able to get a meatball sub for your daughter, it brought up feelings I hadn't thought about in over a decade.

Do you know of any mutual aid groups that could help you with transportation or lodging or financial aid in Rochester, if you ever have to go back? It may be worth looking for other ways to access care

No, no one ever suggested that. That is an entirely new sentence that you made up. The only thing that was said is that a person cried, and that that same person fished by the bridge as a child. People can feel emotions for more than one reason at a time.

For real, what is going on in your personal life?

Don't you think that's an uncharitable analysis? Joe Wade never said anything like what you're suggesting he did, and the journalist wanted to provide supporting context for the headline's claim about a lost piece of Baltimore cultural identity. We also do not have access to the full interview, only a single line of it--Wade could have said something about the workers, only for the journalist to omit it because that is not what the article is about. The interview would have been very different, with different questions and different answers and a different person being interviewed, if the topic had been the people who died rather than the culture of the city.

I know you're capable of better reading comprehension and media literacy than this, and I don't think you hold a personal grudge against Joe Wade, so what's going on in your personal life to make you have such a negative presupposition about the world?

It's a stack of fuckshit, on top of itself!

And also, you're contradicting yourself. Your original comment opens with "who the fuck cares, it's 200 years ago" and now you're saying any information about the past could important?

Bad.

Faith.

My friend, did you even read the article before you typed up your comments? What you're describing is exactly why they're removing the binding. FTA:

The Library is now in the process of conducting additional provenance and biographical research into the book and the anonymous female patient whose skin was used to make the binding. The Library will be consulting with appropriate authorities at the University and in France to determine a final respectful disposition of these human remains.

That is a bad faith argument because the physical appearance of the person whose skin binds the cover of a book has absolutely no relevance to the information in the book. In fact, it wasn't even Arsene Houssaye who bound the book in skin-- it was the book's first owner, Dr. Ludovic Bouland, who did that.

Can you tell me what the color of a dead stranger's eyes whose skin was added to a book by a third party has to do with a nineteenth century French novelist's views on the soul and life after death?

You can't, because there is no relevance to be had. It's a bad faith argument.

The information of the book is encoded in the markings on its pages, not the molecular makeup of the binding holding the pages together. Meanwhile, it is the fact that this skull is made of bone that gives it its veracity.

Up until now you've been here making good faith arguments, it'd be cool if you could keep that up.