It would help if you identified which religion. There absolutely is a vibrant queer pagan community, but it sounds like that’s not what you’re talking about.

Also the easiest way to play the PSP version with the combat slowdown fix, which is essential.

It’s 2024. National defense infrastructure isn’t just oil and steel anymore, it’s silicon.

Magic’s primary tournament structure is based on a pool of cards that rotates out on a regular basis (every couple years or so). That pool is called Standard. Typically, these cards were all in-universe, but now they will have licensed properties like Final Fantasy in the pool. There’s also a Spider-Man set coming, so this creates official tournament situations where you could have Exdeath and Doctor Octopus facing off on the battlefield. Magic has its own robust setting, so I can’t think of words to convey how bizarre this feels to someone that started playing Magic 25 years ago.

There are also expanded card pools that create their own competitive environments (the recent Lord of the Rings set was legal in one of these). I mentioned drafting, which is drafting cards only from specific sets to build a deck. That’s how I play Magic; I mostly left the Standard scene behind a few years back.

I’ll be drafting this day one. Been looking forward to this a while. Today’s announcement said there will be series artists doing cards. If Akihiko Yoshida is on board, I’m going to have to get his card(s) and probably prints, too.

A bit out of scope for this community discussion, but the news that it’s going to be a Standard-legal set is quite surprising (and will probably drive the price of cards up, unfortunate for those looking to collect).

This succinctly covers my view on it as well. I think it’ll be more of a problem a few years down the road as statist admin culture begins to influence the mods of more communities there, but for now I treat it on an community-by-community, user-by-user basis. I wouldn’t be surprised if a majority of community leaders and users in general that went to lemmy.ml simply did because it was one of the larger instances last year and didn’t think much more of it than that.

If I have a choice, though, I’ll still try to grow a community on one of the smaller instances simply because it’s still one of the largest ones, and that’s better for the health of the network.

All I can think about is how this bot is immediately a non-starter because this is the kind of attitude I can expect from the author when asking for support or collaboration. It’s not just in this post, either.

Even if the parent comment here was hostile–it’s borderline, at worst–I can’t possibly understand the mentality of being argumentative in a post trying to encourage the use of a service.

A welcome change, though I imagine the more savvy grifters have seen the writing on the wall for a while now with virtual credit cards becoming more popular. I put a freeze date on every single purchase I make that has a recurring subscription.

Forever ago, out of morbid curiosity. I do vaguely remember it being quite bizarre.

Loved these movies as a kid. Still one of the worst games I’ve ever played.

It should also be noted that playing on authentic hardware is an inherently destructive action. Parts wear out–especially on hardware with disc drives or fans–discs get scratched, cartridge contacts corrode, etc. On top of all this, goods get destroyed or lost in transit all the time even in the collector market. All of this is driving prices up.

If one wants to have an authentic experience, they still can, but they had better be prepared to pay a premium for it. People are already compromising on displays since CRTs are rare and/or cumbersome, and there are other compromise options like MiSTers and repro carts that aren’t just emulating on your home PC.

I don’t know how well it’s aged for a new player, but I found it very notable at the time for being dark, if not outright macabre, at times. We had very little of that in the 16-bit era.

Drawing from real-world locales and cultures was interesting, too. Ys is another series that does that to good effect.

The script was a little rough at times for sure, like plenty of the other localized games of its era, but I don’t remember it being especially bad. Terranigma was definitely worse, though, possibly due to not getting a North America release. Would love to see a project tackle that one.

It never occurred to me that a con would have this, so I appreciate you mentioning it. I’m gonna keep an eye out for it at my local cons. I’ve played a ton of riichi mahjong digitally but very, very little with real tiles.

What I’ve seen when looking back is a lot of the retro games aren’t in English. It’s not a big deal once you’re familiar with the game, but I definitely don’t recommend that approach for beginners. Not retro (yet), Yakuza 0 was the game that got me started with riichi mahjong. It has the added benefit of being a way to make a little money for other stuff in the game.

The current game I play is Mahjong Soul. Super friendly to beginners. It has a cosmetics-only gacha, and sexy anime girls is very much the trend in gacha these days.

Sid Meier and Firaxis in general are probably the only ones that have been consistently great for me over the years. I still think about Alpha Centauri a lot, and I’ve played so much Civ over the years. His studio’s XCOM games and Midnight Suns are all great, too.

Pretty much all the others I could name closed up shop or have declined in recent years.

They were that style of sprite derived from prerendered 3D art that was popular in the late 90’s/early 2000’s.

It’s unfortunately looking like ports of this game are going to come later.

Calling out the Jenis Academy stretch would be bold in the fandom, lol. I mostly agree with you though, I think that whole chapter was a low point for the series.

Sky SC in particular has some brutal pacing, so it’d be reassuring for the future remake if they shuffled up this game a bit.

That’s exactly the issue here. ChatGPT’s current training set ends right around the time the Meta Quest 3 came out. It’s not going to have any discussions in there of No Man’s Sky with tech that wasn’t out yet.

Images in particular have been very slow for me lately.

You’re not getting it.

Racial segregation is rooted in legislative and legal process, and that is also the scope of free speech. It does not go beyond that to private communities.

Even if you hadn’t been snide in your reply, the mods could have taken a look at your comment history, quickly found the uncivil behavior there, and upheld the ban.

To paraphrase xkcd, free speech doesn’t shield you from consequences. The people listening found you unwelcome, and they are showing you the door.