betheydocrime

I had a chance to play for a couple hours this morning, and I'm impressed so far! It's a metroidvania game, but with a souls-like bonfire/estus flask/lose experience on death and try to recover it mechanic. Movement and combat feel fluid, and deflecting attacks feels great. The combat system seems simple right now, but I have barely unlocked any of the systems in the game and it's a metroidvania so I know the complexity will only grow.

The world is beautiful and has a complex history that I want to learn more about, although the dialog is a little bit jointed, probably due to localization issues. There are definitely some aspects of body horror to the game, with ~~humans~~ Apemen from the Big Blue Planet being used as livestock in a creepy, gory, ritualistic fashion in the first level. It's definitely not a horror game, though-- the protagonist is powerful and can fight back against enemies without fear of running out of resources, although combat is definitely unforgiving.

I can tentatively recommend it right now, although I haven't played it enough to give it a full review yet. I haven't played it on my steam deck yet, but I'll give it a shot tonight and give my thoughts over on the steamdeck community

I ended up grabbing this, I'll come back soon and let y'all know what I think. Gonna mostly play on Steam deck

Maybe Cory Doctorow?

I think he's saying they would have to make fogs gray

Porno for Pyros, is that you?

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/d3f506e0-ce0d-4121-b644-0b2a384d6fd5.jpeg

I'm sorry, but I don't think you're asking this question in good faith because I already did link credible news sources. If you think the sources I've linked are not credible, provide credible sources of your own to prove that point.

If you can't do that, that's OK and that doesn't prove either of us right or wrong about this! But if you can't do that, you're just some random person with bias on the internet, exactly like the sources that you yourself claim are non-credible.

The person I responded to specifically wanted independent news outlets, so the fact that none of these pages are "major news sources" is I think exactly what they are looking for. I'm not sure though, goalposts have a tendency to move when it comes to this kind of conversation

I looked for the Al Jazeera article you mentioned and found that the 19-year-old who was killed by Israeli settlers in the West Bank on October 6 was named Labib Dmaidi. Then I made a Google search for Labib Dmaidi, filtered to remove aljazeera.com. I hope this helps!

https://www.google.com/search?q=labib+dmaidi+-site%3Aaljazeera.com&client=firefox-b-1-m&sca_esv=d0136fcaccc01fe6&sxsrf=ACQVn08uLISkrQemvg2ra3jokEwWkAJeOA%3A1709478913422&ei=AZTkZYi6GZTfkPIPwJq22Ao&oq=labib+dmaidi+-site%3Aaljazeera.com&gs_lp=EhNtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1zZXJwIiBsYWJpYiBkbWFpZGkgLXNpdGU6YWxqYXplZXJhLmNvbUiLmQFQxhJYto8BcAd4AJABAZgBuQGgAesaqgEFMTEuMTm4AQPIAQD4AQGYAg6gAsgKwgIKEAAYgAQYChiwA8ICCxAAGIAEGKIEGLADwgIFECEYoAHCAggQABgWGB4YCpgDAIgGAZAGBJIHAzYuOKAHgiE&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-serp

I think it's important to point out here that you think ignorance is "normal"

I'm reminded of this quote from Malcolm X:

"If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, there's no progress. If you pull it all the way out that's not progress. Progress is healing the wound that the blow made. And they haven't even pulled the knife out much less healed the wound. They won't even admit the knife is there."

That's not what this is about, though. From the fifth paragraph in the article:

As such, Florida universities are prohibited from using state or federal cash to fund any activities tied to “diversity, equity and inclusion” or “political or social activism,” which carry broad definitions and could apply to a wide range of programs. Schools now are beginning to enact these policies locally.

This isn't about "treating people differently" and it is almost certainly not about race (although it's not lost on me that they waited until the day after Black History Month to announce this change). This is about on-campus activities related to diversity, equity, and inclusion. It's about teaching students that America is varied, not monocultural. It's about teaching students that transgender people are just people, not the monsters that Ron DeSantis makes them out to be. It's about broadening perspectives, not enhancing an echo chamber. It's about giving a voice and a platform to non-white, non-male, non-straight, non-cis, and non-wealthy perspectives that have historically been silenced so thoroughly that an entire system of class and privilege was built up around that silence.