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aeronmelon, (edited ) do games w ‘Less Star Wars – more Blade Runner’: the making of Mass Effect 2’s Bafta-nominated soundtrack

Suicide Run - When the Mass Effect franchise peaked.

PlasticExistence, do games w ‘We are not a retro company’: Sega prepares to go back to the future

I just want OutRun 3

Agent641, do astronomy w Atmospheric analysis shows Venus never had Earth-like life, scientists say

Well no. By definition it had Venus-like life.

muhyb,

Zoidberg:

-If you call that living.

Olap, do astronomy w Atmospheric analysis shows Venus never had Earth-like life, scientists say

Not ruling out some stange bacterial life that’s generating phosphene however. Come on space agencies, Venus atmosphere sample mission when?

FlashMobOfOne, do gaming w Does anyone have "Neopets revival" on their 2024 bingo card?
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I mean, it’s legitimately a bright spot.

But with November of this year likely heralding the legitimacy of fascism in the US, it’s incumbent upon us to try enjoy the silly shit before that comes along.

Telorand,

You speak as if it’s already decided. It’s incumbent upon us to enjoy the silly shit and do our damnedest to prevent the fascist rise.

Go play some Neopets, and stop listening to news orgs for a while (you’ve likely already decided who you’re supporting, anyway), especially the ones who trade in the 24h News Cycle; they have a vested interest in selling rage, not nuanced journalism. Hope eats into their profit margins.

FlashMobOfOne,
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You speak as if it’s already decided.

I think it is. Trump won in 2016 because people were largely impoverished and Democrats didn’t do anything about it. The impoverishment is worse now.

BUT, that does make it more important to enjoy the silly shit. Absolutely.

Telorand,

I think Trump won, because people underestimated him and thought it was somebody else’s problem to go vote.

We will have to agree to disagree, plus, I don’t want to derail this Gaming community into a political debate. Enjoy your games! If you see a golden Shoyru, it might be mine.

FlashMobOfOne,
!deleted7243 avatar

Fair enough. Enjoy your awesome Neopet!

Occultist0178, do gaming w Why do some gamers invert their controls? Scientists now have answers, but they’re not what you think

I actually switched from inverter to non inverter after some time not playing with a controller. After the break inverted controls felt wrong 🤷‍♂️

Katana314, do games w Four wheels good, two wheels bad: why are there no exciting cycling games?

The excitement of F1 racing is unattainable to most people, which is why it makes sense as a game, but bikes are pretty tame. However, one thing that makes bikes interesting is their smallness, ease and simplicity. The Yakuza series has started picking up on giving protagonists such small vehicles, including a skateboard and a segway, and they make much more sense within those worlds than full vehicles.

I feel like this could be envisioned as part of a larger open-world game, not as the vehicle itself as a means to fun. Something like: You have an open world game, and it has cars, and they are faster than your bike. But they are far more nimble, can go in tighter areas, and can be stored in larger vehicles used to get around. So, something like picking the Gravity Gun in Half-Life 2, they’re a tool that’s fantastic for making use of the environment for better results, but not a “first-order strategy for movement”. This is even sometimes how they work out in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.

echodot,

Yeah bikes were really useless in GTA V because even the narrowest alleyway could be driven down. Hopefully they have some narrow alleyways that you might be able to skip down to avoid the police.

thenewred, do games w Four wheels good, two wheels bad: why are there no exciting cycling games?

We have Road Rash. What more could you want?

dereality, do games w ‘Less Star Wars – more Blade Runner’: the making of Mass Effect 2’s Bafta-nominated soundtrack
@dereality@lemmy.world avatar

Meh, I vastly preferred the first soundtrack. The whole edgy orange color palette and music of the second game always seemed cheesy to me. Still loved the game though—but the first is my fave.

fpslem, do trains w ‘Transformational’: how a California city launched America’s first hydrogen-powered passenger train

I posted this because I think this is absolutely silly. A hydrogen-powered train that runs on a low-volume 9-mile track? Why on earth couldn’t this just run on gantry-provided electric power? I guess it’s fine as an experimental trial system, but let’s not pretend that hydrogen is better than electric in basically every rail application imaginable.

Jumuta,

it’s also hilarious that the picture in the article shows overhead wires

livus, do gaming w Does anyone have "Neopets revival" on their 2024 bingo card?
@livus@kbin.social avatar

Cool, I still have my pw but haven't been there in years. Will go and feed my immortal pets.

NOT_RICK, do scifi w Authors ‘excluded from Hugo awards over China concerns’
@NOT_RICK@lemmy.world avatar

The Hugo’s have been a mess for over a decade now; seems like they’re happy to piss away what little credibility they had left.

inkican,

And here I was, sad that I wasn't nominated

theodewere, do astronomy w Saturn’s ‘Death Star’ moon has hidden ocean under its crust, say scientists
@theodewere@kbin.social avatar

Mimas’s ocean appears to be relatively young, forming in the past 25m years when powerful tidal forces exerted by Saturn deformed Mimas’s core, warming it like a massaged squash ball. The heated core then melted overlying ice, creating an ocean inside the Saturnian moon.

we think of glacier water as pure, the water on Mimas is brand new and never been touched

awwwyissss, do astronomy w Nasa unveils quiet supersonic aircraft in effort to revive commercial flights

“Ok boys, we need ideas. We’re fucking the planet up irreparably in a way that will cost many, many millions of lives… but I feel like we could be doing it a lot faster. Get off your ass and invent a way for rich assholes to screw us even more than they already are”

TropicalDingdong, do astronomy w Newly discovered cosmic megastructure challenges theories of the universe
@TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world avatar

Wild. Truly wild.

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