Paradachshund

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[–] Paradachshund@lemmy.today 7 points 3 days ago

I really thought there was going to be a bezos hidden in there.

[–] Paradachshund@lemmy.today 2 points 4 days ago

Oh I see. Sorry for the off-topic response then!

It's a shame that multiplayer games really struggle with paid models these days. It heavily cut into a player base if things aren't free to play. That kind of forces all but the biggest releases to turn to other monetization models in order to keep the base game free.

[–] Paradachshund@lemmy.today 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I think it's tough with card games because they come from a physical form of lootboxes. Being expensive is kind of baked into their lineage. Collecting cards is a big part of the fun, and if you made it very easy to do I think it's hard to say whether people would enjoy them as much.

I don't play any collectible card games anymore because I don't want to pay for it anymore, but there is something very entertaining about the model even if it's easy to argue it's a scummy business model by today's standards.

I haven't looked into this game beyond your description, but it does sound like a pretty weird model. Do you also have to pay for cards on top of that?

I remember kind of disliking the arena system in hearthstone because I liked the game mode a lot, but as a casual player it was really hard to get to play it much. I guess they wanted to keep people from spending all their time there since you didn't need to buy cards to play. I much preferred magic arena's drafts where you pay an upfront cost but get to keep all the cards you played with. Much more accessible for casual players and more satisfying, too, since you always get something out of it.

[–] Paradachshund@lemmy.today 1 points 4 days ago

Merci beaucoup pour le recette! 🙂 C'est plus simple que j'ai pensé.

[–] Paradachshund@lemmy.today 43 points 4 days ago (6 children)

This meme is selling shovels, and the comments here are more than happy to dig holes it seems.

[–] Paradachshund@lemmy.today 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Nail clippers. Got them originally to help with a bad habit of cuticle picking, but I've learned they're weirdly useful. They can cut things in a pinch and no security check gives a shit about them unlike a pocket knife.

[–] Paradachshund@lemmy.today 3 points 5 days ago

That game hurt. So many opportunities handed to us and thrown away.

[–] Paradachshund@lemmy.today 23 points 5 days ago

You mean CE doesnt stand for "clear everything"? And here I thought more letters meant more clearing.

[–] Paradachshund@lemmy.today 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yeah wow. Hard to imagine firing your coach mid season will improve things, but maybe they decided the writing was on the wall.

[–] Paradachshund@lemmy.today 1 points 5 days ago

Yeah the sweet stuff isn't my thing either. Thankfully only a few are like that here. The others aren't acidic, but they're more just savory, not sweet. "Best Foods" is a pretty standard American style mayo from my experience, and isn't sweet.

[–] Paradachshund@lemmy.today 1 points 5 days ago

Thanks for the info! What I had in France came out of a packet, so definitely wasn't homemade. I don't doubt doing it this way is good, though.

[–] Paradachshund@lemmy.today 2 points 5 days ago

Thanks I'll keep an eye out for that brand, too. I haven't heard of that one before.

 

I was recently on a vacation in Marseille, and I was really taken by the mayo there. This was often served with frites. Does anyone know a brand I could get in the west coast US that would be similar?

The main difference I noticed was a slight tang to it? Not sure how to describe it better. Hopefully someone has had it. 😅

 

I've been using duckduckgo for years now with no issues, but today I opened it and realized there were no longer any search results before scrolling. It was all ads/info cards. So I guess I'm looking for a replacement. Any suggestions?

Related: anyone know if there's a way in the Adnauseum Firefox extension to hide ads on a specific trusted site? I like their goal of not punishing ads following the do not track standard, but DDG has crossed a threshold and I now want to blacklist them specifically.

 

Is there any way in boost to browse all communities on an instance other than your own?

 

I'm so impressed with the regular events in Lowland Shore so far. I think they're the best in the game excepting maybe Grothmar. Just like that zone they managed to make almost all of them have some little gameplay twist or gimmick that makes them more interesting than bog standard versions we've seen a hundred times before.

I'm honestly having so much fun exploring this map and just taking it in as it comes. Such a great feeling after years of repetitive meta events that all boil down to the same zerg rush gameplay.

Janthir actually makes me want to log in and get lost in the world in a way I haven't felt for a while.

 

I use Gboard.

The main things I like about it are:

  • Very customizable (I like having number row always visible, and having long press for symbols on each letter).
  • Has gif support built in.

My biggest pain point is:

  • It auto corrects words that are spelled correctly to other words. I type "our" and it changes to "out", I recently typed "purpose" and it changed it to "purple". Autocorrect is awesome and necessary, but I hate that it corrects words to other words and not just typos. I wish I could find a keyboard that has the things I like without this annoyance.

Am I looking for a unicorn? Let me know! 😄

 

I made a comment to this effect the other day. Scrolling through this community, out of about the 10 most recent posts, I see one that is borderline oniony and the rest are just straight up news, mostly US politics-related.

Is this OK? Is this what this community is for? I ask because I want to see can't-believe-it's-real headlines, but if this is going to be another doom scroll bad news sub I'm going to leave and look elsewhere. Just curious to hear people's feelings on this before I do.

 

What are some of your favorite content creators that highlight small indie games? Can be big or small, I'm just looking to find some lesser known games for a change.

Edit: I'm checking all of these out, thanks everyone!

 

Has something new come along? It's been so long since I've needed to do this that I assume CCleaner has enshittified by now.

 

I haven't been following the general reactions to the new patch, but fair warning going into this that I personally was pretty disappointed in it from a story standpoint.

I was very pleased with Soto overall, and I think they seriously improved on many of the issues I've had with the writing over the years, but I can't help but feel that somehow it has regressed in the newest patch.

The crux of my issue is that I want to distrust peitha and keep her at arms length, but it really feels like the story is making it crystal clear that I'm not allowed to feel that way. The speed at which not just my character, but even the astral ward, an organization dedicated to stopping her kind for thousands of years, is happy to not only help her, but to frequently espouse how much they trust her completely. I don't think I've ever felt less connected to my character.

I was hoping for the story to keep her in a suspicious and interesting place, where we're helping her for now but no one is sure what to think yet. Instead we're back to the often hamfisted story telling of the end of dragons era, where it feels like every character is to be taken at complete face value.

To be honest I hope she does betray us, because that would at least be an interesting direction, and something to shake my character's naive level of confidence. Though if they do go that way at this point they laid it on pretty thick with the implicit trust angle.

I'm curious if anyone else feels the same, or differently. Would love to hear other's takes on it.

 

I've been trying to get the app setup today, and I'm struggling to find communities through search. It seems like the search is only checking communities on my instance, not everywhere? Not sure if I'm missing something but I can't find a way to search the broader fediverse.

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