I just played through Pentiment and even on the fastest speed dialogues were painfully slow. It wouldn’t fix all the other pacing issues, but the text popping up instantly would be a huge improvement.

Seeing a lack of a generalized video game meme community, I made one: !video_game_memes@piefed.social

Even though it’s not only for memes, !gaming@lemmy.world tends to be mostly video game memes right now.

That does usually tend to lead to a certain kind of environment yeah. Nazi Bar parable and all that.

It stopped being a story with unpredictability and actual stakes. There was a time I felt like anyone was at risk, even “main characters”, and it was awesome. It just turned into more of a Sunday morning cartoon - which is fine - it’s just not for me.

I also got sick and tired of them doing the “guess who’s back from the dead?” plotline a bazillion times.

I played for a while and enjoyed it, but eventually it became clear the developers were taking both the story and the gameplay in directions I didn’t like.

Heavensward was a great story, Stormblood patch quests were amazing. Shadowbringers had its very high peaks of course but even there they had started doing things in the story I hated.

Oh wow, that’s super interesting!

They had the pieces on the board to make a fine story I think, it just seems like there were multiple cliques within the writing team and they couldn’t agree on a vision so the narrative gets pulled in different directions.

If Brad Pitt could have gotten over himself and not demanded to be the underdog hero who gets the girl and wins the race we might have gotten something actually interesting.

I’ve been actively working on trying to appreciate it over the last few years and there are things I can appreciate. I enjoy swimming but I will not set foot in a public pool so that is a point in favour of the summer. There is a secluded cliff coast near where I live where I can swim by myself.

I hate bright light and summer has that in abundance, and I also hate being sweaty and sticky and during summer I have an even harder time being out in public as dealing with everything is so much harder when all you can think about is the sweat drops dripping down every surface and crevice of your body.

I’d watch it.

“Coming this fall: ten billionaires are locked in a house with a murderous psychopath. Who will be the first victim, and who make it to the end? Use your phone to vote each week on what weapons the murderer will have access to! Introducing: Bigger Brother! Only on cable!”

Lost a lot of love for him for that, and also for whining about not getting away with the penalty after the race. You’d expect Oscar of all people to be chill about these things and just take it on the chin, maybe say a dryly funny quip (remember “move of a world champion, that”?).

I guess the championship battle is actually getting to him.

I always think of another New Math.

Interesting. I don’t know that this particular solution seems great but English is a complete mess when it comes to knowing the pronunciation of a word from reading it alone for sure.

On a related note I wish we had a c/madlads around these parts.

MBS: “I am the Senate”

Must be the water.

Too often I say “incredible that they managed to squeeze out 8 minutes of highlights out of that race”, but today it’s “I can’t believe they managed to squeeze down all that into just 8 minutes!”

To me your comment reads like: “the on track action wasn’t great, but the race was good anyway because of the story”.

Awesome race, and not just due to the unpredictability and the Hulk podium. We got some great battles, some great overtakes and two simultaneous fights for position right to the flag. And of course pitwall drama aplenty as people gambled or tried to read the crossover. There was so much happening everywhere all the time I’d need multiple pages to cover everything and my posts are too rambly as it is anyway.

Aston killed me with their handling of Alonso’s race while at the same time doing absolutely everything perfectly for Stroll. The old man still has it though, him sliding around on the medium gamble and countersteering snaps every single corner was some insane car control that was absolutely thrilling - but nerve wracking - to watch. And after all that they still finish 7 and 9. Stroll is actually not bad in the wet but man was he slow when it dried up at the end.

Gasly also needs to be mentioned, he put on another clinic in the wet as he has done before on several occasions. Amazing defensive driving (against Hamilton, Verstappen and Russel no less!) and some great overtakes too. Him getting past Stroll on the last lap was so well deserved, especially after fighting that dog of an Alpine all weekend.

[EDIT]: Williams finally having a race without mechanical failures was a relief I somehow forgot about while first writing this post. Particularly for Albon who can finally leave three consecutive DNFs behind with an excellent last stint and a great last lap overtake on Fernando to get some good points again at last.

And of course, the Sauber redemption tour continues. That team is going to be scary in a couple of years. Audi doesn’t fuck around in motorsports and the operational pieces are falling into place. Good calls again, good pitstops and they’re again showing their upgrades working well. So happy for Hulk, he drove a faultless race and finally getting that podium is such a feelgood story. And doing it while starting from the back in a wet race? Stuff of legends.

I mean, I don’t disagree with you in principle but this race had so much to watch man I don’t know how you could say it had no action.