You can access pages that are still actively behind any given site’s paywall.

Ah, may I introduce you to No Man’s Sky permadeath mode?

I wouldn’t say a difficult game is poor art, it just challenging and may be more than the user wanted.

This is part of why reviewing a game’s difficulty and it’s play options are critical.

I mostly play sandbox games because the online ones come with the constant strife and challenge which is the antithesis of what I want.

Will really enjoy a well thought out puzzle game however…

My introduction to that was Myst, way back in the early 90’s and my main love are games of that nature.

Oh, can totally relate to winning that final battle or overcoming that boss in a fight.

My best favorite was in Horizon: Zero Dawn when I worked out how to take down a Thunderjaw with just the bow and arrow. I’m too easily visually overwhelmed by fast motion and end up just mashing buttons in melee fights, so the long, tactical takedowns are the cat’s pyjamas for me.

(I’ve been told that I would love Skyrm based on my play style. Will have to check that out at some point.)

Right now I’m on an ultra hard playthrough using just the Banuk Powershot Adept bow, (which is a mean weapon) and if done in the right order, you can disassemble the machines you’re hunting, get all the parts off, kill it then make fat bank picking up the pieces.

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I think Kojima gets it. For a lot of players, esp. on the more cinematic games, the story is the main driver and the action is how it progresses. The games I’ve played that were ordeals are often the ones I’ve given up on. It’s the ones you can start on story mode with, enjoy the narrative and then re-play at the harder levels that I’ve stuck with.

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Ooooo, hard to say. Seems like you’ve mastered the build mechanics. LOL!

Oh good god…

I’ve had good luck with Chromium.

It is, blessedly so. Maybe this will take the electricity-gobbling AI data centers off line and my power bill will go down.

Lots of kids in the neighborhoods across town wherre the families now live. In the part of town where I am where it is all rental units filed with childless professionals and retirement homes for affluent snowbirds, there was no trick-or-treating. My husband grew up here and in this part of town it used to be crawling with kids in the 60’s and 70’s. Then again, that was before rich people “discovered” our city and snapped up all the affordable rentals and converted them to luxury condos.

Oh man, is it. That is exactly what got me banned from Reddit after 14 years. I’m on old.lemmy.zip and starting to spread out and check other instances and am finding so much delightful stuff! All of it is drama-free and I love it.

Now that is being damned with faint praise!

Yeah. My husband went out to the pub 6 nights a week. He’s no longer drinking - quit last year - finally! (I quit in 2009)

Seriously, alcohol is overrated.

Some do. Thing is, it’s a BIG world and someone somewhere is being abused and oppressed at all times.

People and countries are also experiencing freedom, growth and democratic expansion.

Heheheh… I too have apple hardware… running unsupported installs (am currently on Mojave as I require 32-bit support for old peripherals and software), so when Apple tells me to upgrade, it lasts until the System Update checks the hardware then promptly fucks off never to bother me again.

I think am going to ignore Microsoft just like I do Apple and leave the gaming PC with Win10 Pro until I get a second drive for it to run Bazzite on.

Hm.

Well, Microsoft can tell me to upgrade my PC and like with Apple saying the same thing about my Macintoshes - ad nauseam - I can ignore it all. And will.

My PC is for gaming and nothing else anyhow…

… they dont want thier back/body to be broken by the time they are 30s or 40s…

Tell me you don’t understand the Trades, w/o telling me you don’t understand the trades.

I’m 60 this year, went through menopause over 15 years ago and have no arthritis or back issues whatsoever. This isn’t 1850.

In 45 years of being in the Trades, the heaviest thing I’ve had to lift has been 5 gallon buckets of paint.

In the Trades, one doesn’t have to worry about lifing a person out of a bed either. I’ve known nurses that have fucked their backs doing just that.

Anyone can be in the Trades, and the risk of AI building a house is far less than it is for AI to design some new molecule… and given that President Stephen Miller is chasing the undocumented construction labor out of the country, it’s a field ripe for women to enter into and make great coin, and have almost limitless work.

Ask me how I know.