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    What are you playing right now?

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    Posted · Edited by TrueNeutral

    Tell me! Tell me now!

    Last people talking were playing the indie AAA title about mental health, Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice and Harvest Moon for creeps and necrofiliacs, Graveyard Keeper. Discuss away!

     

    Personally, I am playing World of WarCraft: Battle for Azeroth, but I'm a bit meh on it for now. First zone, Drustvar, was fantastic. Second zone, Tiragarde Sound, was a nightmare because of ridiculous mob density. So far enjoying the dungeons, not sold on Island Expeditions and burned out on World Quests.

     

    Hellbalde:  Senua's Sacrifice.  I'm only at the very start, but I can attest that the graphics are stunning.  I've got everything cranked up to the max on it and it's breathtaking.  Also, while I'm too old to get excited of pixels, I actually think the main character has an interesting face that's somehow weirdly appealing.  The voices are an interesting touch.  Having just got off my Mental Health rotation, I got a laugh out of the whole "we used psychotic people in our design" schtick.  Still, the voices really are creepy.  The gameplay so far gives me the feeling combat will be clunky, but this is clearly a story based game.  I have hopes for something Tormentesque in its storytelling.  We'll see.  I'm just glad to have a few days to get into something.  I'll probably have to put it on hold halfway through, but even if that happens, I'll finish it eventually.  Last game I played was some sort of Edith Finch thing, but that was truly a walking sim and even the wife felt letdown by it.  Not a bad concept, but just a little to boring in execution.

     

    Graveyard Keeper which is all kinds of awesome. It was free on Xbox Game Pass but I don't mind giving these guys my money at all. It is also a special treat that I can play the game on a 4K screen.
     
    This will most likely end up being my GOTY 2018 but we'll see...

     

     


    Graveyard Keeper which is all kinds of awesome. It was free on Xbox Game Pass but I don't mind giving these guys my money at all. It is also a special treat that I can play the game on a 4K screen.

    This will most likely end up being my GOTY 2018 but we'll see...


    Can’t wait to hear more of your impressions of the game. Seems pretty interesting from what I’ve seen of it.

    What are you playing right now?

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    I've bought the last couple expansions but only played for a few days before dropping it each time so I'd be starting fresh. I wanted to play a void elf.

     

    If you've got a character close to max level anywhere (since you bought the previous expansions, I assume you had boosts) you could probably knock the rep out in three weeks, assuming you have time. But that doesn't sound like fun at all. I unlocked the allied races because it was content I'd done already anyway, but I think for new players Blizzard seriously dropped the ball with their allied race unlock requirements. Races are a huge draw and telling new players "no, you can't be them" is a massive turnoff.

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    What are you playing right now?

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    That is correct, Allied Races are reputation rewards. It gets better, the majority available right now are gated behind the last expansion's reputations. If that's a dealbreaker, I suggest steering well clear.

     

    Currently available from last expansion's content: Nightborne, Highmountain Tauren, Lightforged Draenei, Void Elf

    Currently available from new content: Dark Iron Dwarf, Mag'har Orc

    Announced, listed on the official website but actually not even available: Zandalari Troll, Kul'Tiran Human

    What are you playing right now?

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    BFA is enjoyable, the zones are all pretty at least on Kul Tiras. A nice change from Legion at least. The Azerite gear is a decent enough mechanic even if it is sort of like reforging of old.

     

    Got a late start and just finished my first zone, Drustvar, but what a zone it was. Witches' covens, giant pig monsters, assassinations at weddings, little girls singing creepy songs about their villages being massacred... y'know, the good stuff.

    Political Thread XX

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    Here's my theory on religion and its effect on "good and evil".

     

    There's a difference between instinctual and naturally evolved. Humans evolved larger brains and developed complex social behaviours to deal with increasing needs of infants because of those large brains. Evolutionary mandated complex behaviour, because if we hadn't organized in such a way there's no way we could have kept reproducing with infants as helpless as ours. This suggests being nice to people in your community is a natural part of life, but natural doesn't mean instinctual. It is conditioned, it is self-organized, because that's how human behaviour has naturally evolved to exist. Religion has been part of the human drive to self-organize and in the past has been useful to keep doing that in the face of population growth and the chaos that exists outside of human organisation, but at this point it is no longer strictly neccesary to do so. Our sphere of existence has grown to deal with those things in other ways, hence the slow removal of organized religion. Change doesn't come easily, however.

    The problem with "kindness" lies in our brains not being a unified organ. For example, the part that says "I'll be more socially accepted and healthy if I work out and eat right" is at odds with the holdover little rodent brain going "need to grab as much sugar and fat as I can because I don't know where my next meal is coming from". Most people will attempt to self-organize in a beneficial way, but some will be listening to old instincts that evolution has allowed us to grow beyond but never truly gotten rid of. That's where greed and selfishness come from. There's a reason we stereotype greedy people as weasels and rats. Most will not have learned how to succesfully be part of a self-organizing community and individuals like that can work as serious wrenches in the works - one single person listening to their rat brain by, say, robbing people, requires the entire community to adapt their self-organisation in favour of security. Sadly, with the breakdown of real communities due to urban living and the internet we might need another paradigm shift in how we self-organize.

     

    tl;dr Humans on a whole are generally built towards being good, but brains are ineffective tools that make some people jerks that ruin it for everyone

    Political Thread XX

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    Here, the National Sexual Violence Resource Center says 1 in 5 among other statistics and every statistic there is cited. Cited sources include the CDC and Justice Department. They even differentiate between rape and other sexual violence for the discerning skeptic.

     

    https://www.nsvrc.org/statistics

     

    You couldn't find it.

     

    Edit: Hold the phone. Uh, your own link says 1 in 6. It literally says 14% of all women in the link YOU provided. How is that not pervasive?

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    Political Thread XX

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    WTF! Are you saying 72-96% of women have been sexually assaulted? Where do you guys live, Sodom and Gomorrah?

    You seem to have misunderstood, but even if that's not the numbers at all, I'd point out that you can take the experiences I've listed and realize the sexual assault rate is much higher where you live than where I live.

    Political Thread XX

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    That "Get em, Twitter!" part of it, though. I've seen that, but I've also seen literal nobodies barely hint at something and Twitter deciding to go after it all on its own. How much agency rests with who for outrage culture?

    Shouldn't the "agency" rest with the Tweeter? Yell "FIRE" in a theater and see what happens.

    - My example is more like someone quietly saying 'there's a fire starting there' to the person next to them and other people overhearing and going berserk.

    - Your comparison implies it's always a lie. If there's really a fire, should the person who spots it keep their mouth shut?

    - I dunno about you, but comparing the general twitter account to a full theatre would be the highest arrogance. The vast majority of these people are yelling 'fire' in a theatre with two people in it.

    Political Thread XX

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    " diddled my years ago, I swear. Get em, Twitter!" This is the world we live in. smh.

    That "Get em, Twitter!" part of it, though. I've seen that, but I've also seen literal nobodies barely hint at something and Twitter deciding to go after it all on its own. How much agency rests with who for outrage culture?

    What did you do today?

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    On my way to the zoo with my lady for our anniversary. :)

    Give my warmest regards to all manner of cats.
    The lions and cheetahs say hi, but the tigers and panthers managed to elude me. :( To make up for it, I offered your regards to the not-true-cat "bear cat".

     

    Binturong.jpg

     

    He didn't seem to care.

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