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Thinking more of Dave Sutherland's rendition of the Demonweb and how that would tie back into Temple of Elemental Evil. At various points on the map, the party just encounters room where they must defeat what is there (usually demons) and then must have one of the 4 elemental keys, and at that point they teleport to another part of web. I drew arrows to show the jump.
It feels to me, just a bit too convenient. Too linear, even though, it is a maze of meant to confuse people. It also seems so... un-realistic for actual use. Why are there demons just waiting around? And why does defeating them and holding the key just BOOM, you teleport. I know, I know... MAGIC! But still, it just seems all very gamey. Here are the set piece battles you will have to get through. Step by step, to get to Lolth.
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Thinking more of Dave Sutherland's rendition of the Demonweb and how that would tie back into Temple of Elemental Evil. At various points on the map, the party just encounters room where they must defeat what is there (usually demons) and then must have one of the 4 elemental keys, and at that point they teleport to another part of web. I drew arrows to show the jump.
It feels to me, just a bit too convenient. Too linear, even though, it is a maze of meant to confuse people. It also seems so... un-realistic for actual use. Why are there demons just waiting around? And why does defeating them and holding the key just BOOM, you teleport. I know, I know... MAGIC! But still, it just seems all very gamey. Here are the set piece battles you will have to get through. Step by step, to get to Lolth.
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Thinking more of Dave Sutherland's rendition of the Demonweb and how that would tie back into Temple of Elemental Evil. At various points on the map, the party just encounters room where they must defeat what is there (usually demons) and then must have one of the 4 elemental keys, and at that point they teleport to another part of web. I drew arrows to show the jump.
It feels to me, just a bit too convenient. Too linear, even though, it is a maze of meant to confuse people. It also seems so... un-realistic for actual use. Why are there demons just waiting around? And why does defeating them and holding the key just BOOM, you teleport. I know, I know... MAGIC! But still, it just seems all very gamey. Here are the set piece battles you will have to get through. Step by step, to get to Lolth.
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Thinking more of Dave Sutherland's rendition of the Demonweb and how that would tie back into Temple of Elemental Evil. At various points on the map, the party just encounters room where they must defeat what is there (usually demons) and then must have one of the 4 elemental keys, and at that point they teleport to another part of web. I drew arrows to show the jump.
It feels to me, just a bit too convenient. Too linear, even though, it is a maze of meant to confuse people. It also seems so... un-realistic for actual use. Why are there demons just waiting around? And why does defeating them and holding the key just BOOM, you teleport. I know, I know... MAGIC! But still, it just seems all very gamey. Here are the set piece battles you will have to get through. Step by step, to get to Lolth.
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Thinking more of Dave Sutherland's rendition of the Demonweb and how that would tie back into Temple of Elemental Evil. At various points on the map, the party just encounters room where they must defeat what is there (usually demons) and then must have one of the 4 elemental keys, and at that point they teleport to another part of web. I drew arrows to show the jump.
It feels to me, just a bit too convenient. Too linear, even though, it is a maze of meant to confuse people. It also seems so... un-realistic for actual use. Why are there demons just waiting around? And why does defeating them and holding the key just BOOM, you teleport. I know, I know... MAGIC! But still, it just seems all very gamey. Here are the set piece battles you will have to get through. Step by step, to get to Lolth.
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I recently finished playing Lies of P after a single playthrough of the main story, collecting what extra collectables and delving what optional areas I found along the way. I came away from it wondering what fans like about soulslike games, disappointed in the writing and voice acting and score (though the optional collectable songs were lovely), and soured on the genre as a whole. Spoilers follow.
This game feels like they wanted to hit a certain mood (sour, gross, sad, gloomy) and a certain game design philosophy (tough, derisive, “fair”). And goodness did they succeed. But I don’t think it’s for me.
I like the philosophy of levelling up the player instead of the character. The character doesn’t accumulate experience points for failing to advance (in fact: the opposite), but you as the player accumulate experience in the attempt. And that makes subsequent attempts more likely to succeed. However, the way they ensure this arc is by laughing at the player: hiding enemies around corners to surprise you only the first time, having pitfalls to catch you only the first time. Yeah, of course it feels like my (the player’s) experience is valuable in subsequent runs… but only because jumpscares only work the first time.
For bosses, it’s the same thing but instead of pitfalls and hidden enemies, it’s hidden rhythms in the moveset and unknown numbers of stages. This appears to be the more “pure” expression of the philosophy of player experience over character experience points, though, as even knowing and having seen the entirety of a boss doesn’t mean you can avoid the punishment for failure. Repetition (training) is what grants you the resilience to outlast the onslaught and sneak in your attacks just enough so their health reaches zero just before yours.
If you’re familiar with soulslikes, I apologize for writing out stuff you already know. This was my first of this genre and I don’t think I like it. Though the philosophy appeals to me academically, I struggle to imagine an expression of it that doesn’t involve laughing at the player. I don’t know that there’s an expression of it that isn’t _mean_. And I don’t like that relationship between video game and player: to me we’re collaborators in my enjoyment. We’re in this together to trick me into not optimizing the fun out of the experience, to divert my attention from the real world for a while, and maybe to get me to think about things in a new way.
I believe the enjoyment in these games is supposed to be catharsis from overcoming a challenge with, predominantly, your improved mastery over the game’s systems. For some reason, that doesn’t stick with me. Defeating a boss, making it through a dangerous area unscathed… that feeling doesn’t last long, replaced quickly with frustration when there’s another pitfall or mean punishment for stepping foot in a new place or swinging a sword against an enemy for the first time. And many times even the catharsis was sour as it didn’t feel as I did anything better on the run that succeeded over the runs that failed.
On top of not being really sure I like this genre, or how others like this genre, I’m unsure that this is a perfect example of the type. There’s three decision prompts in the dialog system that all serve the same purpose. The writing is very tell don’t show, the voice acting is unevenly skilled, and the antagonist motivations range from cliche to nonsensical. At some point I began wondering if I was playing the game incorrectly: I never really wanted to use any of the items or any of the Legion Arms. Heck, I mostly forgot about Fable Arts, and never customized a weapon except to upgrade its damage level. Was I missing the joy because I didn’t play with all the toys? Or did I do the best I could with systems that were neither necessary nor pleasant to use?
The one thing I liked was the portrait I found in a house that grew a nose whenever I lied or did something else “human” (as opposed to “puppet”). It was goofy and gamey and strange and unsettling and odd. Wonderful. And that I could’ve walked right past it without noticing felt nice. Would that the rest of the game’s mechanics had been similarly playful in tone.
All in all, I didn’t like the game. It performed and responded well to my inputs, communicated its mechanics in a way that encouraged engagement, and had a difficulty that was surmountable after challenge… but it was mean, frustrating, nonsensical, gloomy, overwrought, and unfun. If it is indeed a typical exemplar of its genre, I might recommend it to others who like this kind of thing. Otherwise, I don’t think I could recommend it at all.
https://chuttenblog.wordpress.com/2024/06/06/so-ive-finished-lies-of-p-ps5/
#sif #soIVeFinished #videoGame #whyIsTheBadGuyTelepathicForNoReason
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/e/OS works well on my newly acquired Fairphone 4 and I like it more than I thought so I am in no hurry to switch. Still, I would love to use proper #LinuxMobile eventually and even tho I have no clue what "Partially" exactly refers to on the #PostmarketOS wiki it doesn't look too bad. Dose anyone know details on how well if at all the camera, battery life, audio and most importantly phone calls work on the device rn and what's needed to complete the implementations?
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(1/2) Hey #MobileLinux folks, I haven't been around the community much in ages now and I have a few question to those who followed development more closely. I found a used #Fairphone4 for cheap and while mainline seems to have barely moved since I left (still the same base features missing for any device except the Librem5), Ubuntu Touch might be a good choice on this device. Unfortunately it had major issues last time I used it (see next post)
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To anyone who struggles to get all #Chrome based apps to work on #Linux with a #Arc GPU there is a bug in the Intel media engine that prevents these apps from working even without hardware acceleration. I only experienced it on my brothers machine without #Rebar while mine with it worked fine but there seem to be reports of people with a similar issue with it enabled too. Removing the packages related to that solves the issue and setting the Flatpak driver for VAAPI to dummy works too!
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I want to get #davinci_resolve working on #Fedora 42 with my now very old AMD rx480 8GB but it uses #OpenCL. The obvious choice would be #rocm but that dropped support for my GPU years ago and from what I found also causes issues with Davinci resolve for even more years. The other obvious choice would be mesas implementation but while #Rusticl improved things it's still not a feature complete implementation and rather slow. Is it smart to use the amdgpu-pro ICD with mesa drivers for this?
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I can't believe #Mixtral 8x7B works on my hardware, that's crazy! It seems like my actual system or at least parts of it switch to the extremely slow Swap partition on my old HDD which causes a lot of lags and it takes literal minutes to load it initially but the model itself responds very fast and without any issues, now I just have to test how it compares to #Mistral 7B but if I had to guess the pure size beats the newer version in this case and probably by quite a bit!
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Mir war bewusst, dass #Discord datenschutzrechtlich und sicherheitstechnisch fragwürdig ist, aber das Ausmaß war mir auch nicht bekannt! Bitte hört auf #Matrix Gruppen mit diesen unglaublichen Datenkraken, der nicht mal der #DSVGO folgt, keine Verschlüsselung einsetzt, von Anfang an von Konzernen wie #Tencent finanziert und bereits von APT Gruppen missbraucht wurde zu verknüpfen!
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Has anyone run #Phosh or #PlasmaMobile in #UserLAnd yet and is it even possible? So far I only used CLI distros with it but my #Pinephone is gone for a while now (the cops took it) and it would be kind of cool to get #LinuxPhone desktops to work on the #Android tablet I borrowed!
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Hab gerade das neue #Ultralativ Video über #Twitter geschaut und es ist kaum vorstellbar aber diesmal ist es nochmal schlimmer bzw besser, wieder mal einfach köstlich und absolut unfassbar das ganze Chronologisch aufgelistet zu bekommen! Genau wie das letzte Video wider ein absolutes must watch, ich verlinke einfach mahl beide falls aufhol bedarf besteht! ;)
- Neues Video: https://piped.video/watch?v=bZhUOCT-wR8
- Erster Teil: https://piped.video/watch?v=FTFm7qgdcM8
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I just installed Sync for Lemmy because I was curious what all the hype is about (never used it for Reddit) and I totally get it! The app is just plain amazing to use and light years ahead of any other Lemmy client but the free version includes Google ads and tracker and payments are done through Google Play so I can't use it properly on my degoogled phone! :(
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I just installed Sync for Lemmy because I was curious what all the hype is about (never used it for Reddit) and I totally get it! The app is just plain amazing to use and light years ahead of any other Lemmy client but the free version includes Google ads and tracker and payments are done through Google Play so I can't use it properly on my degoogled phone! :(
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I just installed Sync for Lemmy because I was curious what all the hype is about (never used it for Reddit) and I totally get it! The app is just plain amazing to use and light years ahead of any other Lemmy client but the free version includes Google ads and tracker and payments are done through Google Play so I can't use it properly on my degoogled phone! :(
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I just installed Sync for Lemmy because I was curious what all the hype is about (never used it for Reddit) and I totally get it! The app is just plain amazing to use and light years ahead of any other Lemmy client but the free version includes Google ads and tracker and payments are done through Google Play so I can't use it properly on my degoogled phone! :(
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Good news for everyone in need of a anonymous way to access #Reddit for stuff you can't find elsewhere, the following pull request should fix #Libreddit soon! I can't say that I fully understand what they are doing there but apparently the Android apps OAuth endpoint can be used to create a anonymous user and authorize requests with that to avoid rate limits, if you understood that make sure to check in and possibly help them a little! ;)
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@cccfr Ihr wisst das wahrscheinlich schon aber neben #Sponsorblock (blockiert Werbung in Videos) gibt es auch noch #DeArrow vom gleichen Ersteller das Thumpnails und Video Titel crowdsourced und so Clickbait reduziert. Seit neustem ist beides neben den offiziellen Browser Addons auch in #Piped (alternatives Youtube Frontend) integriert! Ich werde in naher Zukunft sicher nicht auf Youtube verzichten können aber damit kann ichs zumindest etwas besser benutzen!
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The #Reddit protest started strong but that time limit was a mistake right from the start and it's gone down hill quite a bit despite the awesome trolls on the start page. Now the 3rd party Reddit client #SyncForReddit will apparently try to switch to #Lemmy instead of shutting down, if a few more projects go that route the Lemmy app ecosystem could develope far quicker than I ever expected! I think if we want to not only hurt Reddit but also save some of the devs work that's a great strategy!
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The #Reddit protest started strong but that time limit was a mistake right from the start and it's gone down hill quite a bit despite the awesome trolls on the start page. Now the 3rd party Reddit client #SyncForReddit will apparently try to switch to #Lemmy instead of shutting down, if a few more projects go that route the Lemmy app ecosystem could develope far quicker than I ever expected! I think if we want to not only hurt Reddit but also save some of the devs work that's a great strategy!
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The #Reddit protest started strong but that time limit was a mistake right from the start and it's gone down hill quite a bit despite the awesome trolls on the start page. Now the 3rd party Reddit client #SyncForReddit will apparently try to switch to #Lemmy instead of shutting down, if a few more projects go that route the Lemmy app ecosystem could develope far quicker than I ever expected! I think if we want to not only hurt Reddit but also save some of the devs work that's a great strategy!
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The #Reddit protest started strong but that time limit was a mistake right from the start and it's gone down hill quite a bit despite the awesome trolls on the start page. Now the 3rd party Reddit client #SyncForReddit will apparently try to switch to #Lemmy instead of shutting down, if a few more projects go that route the Lemmy app ecosystem could develope far quicker than I ever expected! I think if we want to not only hurt Reddit but also save some of the devs work that's a great strategy!
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The #Reddit protest started strong but that time limit was a mistake right from the start and it's gone down hill quite a bit despite the awesome trolls on the start page. Now the 3rd party Reddit client #SyncForReddit will apparently try to switch to #Lemmy instead of shutting down, if a few more projects go that route the Lemmy app ecosystem could develope far quicker than I ever expected! I think if we want to not only hurt Reddit but also save some of the devs work that's a great strategy!
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Just some screenshots of EOG a image viewer running on the Pinephone.
#Pinephone #EOG #Phosh #Librem5 #LinuxMobile #LinuxPhoneNote: It scales really well but switching between the images can still be a bit annoying. I currently use it myself and it generally works well.
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Just some screenshots of Quickddit a Reddit client running on the Pinephone.
#Pinephone #Quickddit #Reddit #Pine64 #Librem5 #LinuxMobileNote: Quickddit is a QT/QML based Reddit client which was developed for Ubuntu Touch but also works really well on other distros. It doesn't really look all that native in Phosh but KDEs blink based rendering engine is just so much faster and more light weight then Gnomes Webkit based one.
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Just some screenshots of Youplay a Youtube music player running on the Pinephone.
#Pinephone #Youplay #Youtube #Pine64 #Librem5 #Purism #LinuxMobileNote: Youplay is a Youtube music player made with GTK and Python. It doesn't look that good in my opinion but works really well. (just a little slow at times)