I think the genre you are looking for is “immersive sims”. Notable historical examples are Thief, Deus Ex, and System Shock.

I’ve set my computer so that holding caps lock lets me type in Greek

I don’t know wtf “real communism” is, all I know is that the communism I advocate for is not that of Lenin, Stalin, or Mao

That would be weird for Outer Wilds. It’s not really a game about figuring out a complex sequence of events that let you get the correct solution to the time loop, the way so many time loop stories are. There are a couple locations that can only be accessed early or late, but those locations only contain information; once you’ve reached them you have no need to go back on subsequent looks.

And since the game is about exploration, it doesn’t really feel repetitive (at least it didn’t to me), because you’re always looking for something new

Let him who hath understanding reckon the number of the beast. For it is a human number. Its number is six hundred and sixty six

Ultimately, these sorts of crimes are incredibly common for occupying armies. Culture impacts the way these crimes are handled – are they punished, ignored, covered up, or tacitly (or even explicitly) encouraged? But the common element is soldiers, and the way that war leads to the dehumanization of the enemy, not that some cultures breed uniquely evil people.

Meta Gear Solid – a game about the metal gear series

Yes – America (original by Simon and Garfunkel)

Anthony Vincent – Chop Suey in the style of Ghost (original by System of a Down)

Dr Pez & Marc Papeghin – The soundtrack of Ocarina of Time, but its a prog rock concept album (not sure it technically counts as a cover)

Brass Against – The Pot (Original by Tool)

The Jimi Hendrix Experience – All Along the Watchtower (Original by Bob Dylan)

Also, not sure how widely known this is, but Arethra Franklin’s Respect is itself a cover (and certainly one of the best covers of all time, up there with All Along the Watchtower and Johnny Cash’s rendition of Hurt)

Putting all the various “gaming” communities on kbin and Lemmy together on one page is a nice QOL feature but I’m not sure it’s a good idea to present them to users as all the same thing. Gaming@kbin and gaming@lemmy and gaming@beehaw are different groups with different rules managed by different people and if users don’t know that it’s going to cause confusion in the long run

As I understand it he starts out just living with them but then kidnaps the girl after the mother dies

They also don’t have sex in that play. It’s a romance, not erotica

Honestly I think the choice to, in order to be more like Reddit, have subreddit equivalents tied to specific instances is in tension with federation. Trying to give each instance it’s own host of micro communities instead of having each instance being a community that engages with other instances on cross-platform threads is going to give us headaches. Eventually someone is going to ask for individual magazines to federated.

That’s not too say there aren’t problems with that approach; in particular, moderation becomes more complicated. But just that we’re trying to fit a square peg in a… squircular hole.

Ah established Reddit account with real comments and lots of karma is less likely to be identified as a bot or sockpuppet, which is useful for people who want to run those accounts

I’ll take “statements that aged poorly” for $600, Alex

The album The Signal Heard Throughout Space by Parius

Its the same design but with 2020 aesthetics instead of 2005 aesthetics

MYST, and if you enjoyed that, Riven and Myst 3

I almost always prefer a quirky game that does its own thing to a bland game with mass market appeal. Most AAA studios, especially as game budgets have exploded, are afraid to experiment with their gameplay or do anything new. Nintendo is probably the largest exception to this rule, but it comes with the caveat that they generally don’t release new entries unless they come up with something new, which is sad for, like, Star Fox and F-Zero fans. But ultimately the more a game costs the less room there is for the sort of risk that makes for the truly special games

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