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Ah yes, that’s what I was trying to go for.
I messed around and it happens that in order to see that, you need to go to Kbin’s quick settings and turn on the “auto media preview” option. The issue is that 1) every user needs to enable the option manually, and 2) it makes separate thumbnails on the feed, so personally, I turned it back off.
It is indeed, the elusive vengeful crying cat. https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/890/820/4c1
Monetize this, u/spez.
I adored the original XBOX but when 360 and PS3 dropped, one was a literal toy with everything stripped down and sold as proprietary extras, and the other was an amazingly powerful and open entertainment system with state of the art tech from out of the box.
Then yeah, the exclusives sealed the deal for me.
I’m relatively new to the hobby since I began playing in late 2019, but I discovered that the narrative and rules-loose games are not for me, so my question would be ”How little is too little?".
I’ve played some narrative campaigns using the Stalker RPG (diceless narrative), Ironsworn, FATE and I ended up loathing purely narrative systems. Now it’s been 6 months since I started to play solo and I keep buying new systems whenever I can, but as of now, I’m completely enamored with 5e adaptations like CARBON 2185, and other systems like Lancer, Twilight 2K, Shadowrun, Mutant Year Zero, and Savage Worlds’ Settings.
Maybe my perspective would change if I went back to play with more people and had to wait 25 minutes to play the next 6 seconds of my actions, on a fight that would take 2 IRL hours to resolve, but as a solo player, what I want is plenty of improv and creativity for the lore/narrative parts (which is why I appreciate lore books and supplements) but complex, high-stakes board/wargame mechanics for the build/combat segments without a GM fudging rolls or events to maintain me alive or to add drama or keep the story going, which was my resumed experience with narrative systems.
I assume the game that puts out 3+ books a year is D&D?
When I bought my iPad Pro I imagined I’d have this thing filled with gigabytes of handwritten text but that’s not the case at all. It’s not even the feeling of pen and paper that makes not want to use the iPad… it’s the immediate access to write and read what I want, that only a notebook and pen can provide. The iPad is filled with other apps and distractions, it heats up when you rest your palm on it, there’s always this anxiousness of balancing brightness and battery life.
Also, with handwritten messages you can convey so much more that it’s impossible to do with typed text. You can determine how fast or how methodical the person was while writing. You can convey emotions by how much strength you use or by the size and kerning of the letters, and also, a lot of the personality traits of the writer are mirrored on their calligraphy.
And yes, typing with a keyboard is so much faster, which enables me to ramble, which I often do I and I just did.
After being with Steam for over a decade and disliking it more and more, I ended up trying everything to maintain myself away from that platform and GOG was a godsend.
There’s a public list that has all the GOG releases that treat the GOG customers like “third class citizens”, but if the game I want is not on that list, I will 100% buy it there over any other storefront. It’s great to read they’re doing well.
Oh, shut the fuck up CDPR.
Besides the ocean of technical issues that are mostly fixed now, the game is not even a tenth of what Mike Pondsmith and CDPR drooled and parroted the whole decade prior to its release.
It’s a beautiful looking FPS with enormous production values, PS2 era AI, no joke Vice City has a more lively world, and it has Assassin’s Creed Valhalla’s depth for it’s “RPG” systems. Even when you accept the puddle deep experience and try to like it for what it is, the game gives a huge “fuck you” with how offensively quick the game ends.
As someone who loves the CP TTRPG and was an idiot to trust Pondsmith and CDPR, hating on C2077 was something that came from inside me.