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Mod wanted!

2y 10mon ago in poetry@sh.itjust.works from sh.itjust.works

Presto. It's all yours. Have fun!

Virtually nil. Subscriber count has risen steadily (yay!), but as you can see from the posts the traffic is mainly me. I haven't had to break up a single fight lol.

Hopefully the community has an active future, but for now it's a pretty sleepy corner of the site.

piece of shit

2y 10mon ago in poetry@sh.itjust.works from lemm.ee

I don't see the lie.
I see the line break; I see
the frog hop away :(

I love them both. I feel like they both need to be played on harder difficulties because they're built for a pushy playstyle, especially Eternal which requires melee finishers for ammo drops even more than the '16 game already did.

'16 has more of a straightforward plot. The story is fine. The main NPC looks and sounds like James Spader's Ultron, which thrills me. I love the Mars station design and wish the Hell levels were a bit more creative. Other than some mysterious hints at a connection between Doomguy and all the Hell stuff, '16 doesn't bother much with lore.

Eternal takes everything good about '16 and gives it an espresso, some laughing gas, and a whole bunch of lore that might have been written by Tenacious D. It's deeply silly, very hard and has some of the best game design I've ever seen. I don't think one is better than the other; 2016 is more nostalgic, but Eternal is more ambitious. The only catch about Eternal's ambition is that you really have to be on board, because there aren't optional play styles — you play Eternal the way the devs tell you it's supposed to be played.

Incidentally I just started Prey about an hour ago after sitting on it in my backlog for a couple years. It's very good so far, seems to have a good spread of systems with decent depth and the graphics are still 2023-approved.

I've been playing a lot of DOOM so the combat feels a bit Lite™, but I felt that way about Dishonored too—blows land like wing chun and not like a rock crusher.

It's got BioShock's turrets, F.E.A.R.'s slow-mo and Dishonored's stealthy parkour, and so far it all comes together nicely.

It feels very much like an Arkane title, too. Maybe a bit too much going on at once, but boy do they know how to throw everything at the wall to see what sticks.

Wtf is going on in Australia

2y 11mon ago in linguistics_humor@sh.itjust.works

Oh naur.

POTUS approves mobilization of 3,000 reservists

2y 11mon ago in credibledefense@sh.itjust.works from www.defense.gov

As an aggression against Ukraine, which it obviously is, from which helpless Ukrainians must be rescued.

It's a consequence of retail. Because carriers in the US determine which phones most of us can access, with the exit of LG from the market the Android landscape in the US was effectively reduced to Samsung. Other manufacturers may as well not exist for all the average shopper is led to believe -- the brick and mortar store where you pick out your phone gives you two options: iPhone or Samsung.

Certain markets too, perhaps. I'm in the US with an A32 because I've just flat-out stopped paying for flagships, and I haven't seen any junk in the most recent update.

Writing A Résumé

2y 11mon ago in poetry@sh.itjust.works

The Unveiling

2y 11mon ago in poetry@sh.itjust.works

Diego,

2y 11mon ago in poetry@sh.itjust.works

Someone Is Always Shouting

2y 11mon ago in poetry@sh.itjust.works

Epitaph

2y 11mon ago in poetry@sh.itjust.works

Waterlily Fire, 5. The Long Body

2y 11mon ago in poetry@sh.itjust.works

Waterlily Fire, 4. Fragile

2y 11mon ago in poetry@sh.itjust.works

Waterlily Fire, 3. Journey Changes

2y 11mon ago in poetry@sh.itjust.works