[-] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

The second one suffered from being extremely rushed. Much asset reuse. It also made the game more "action-y" because I assume some souless suit said that kids don't want tactics they want biff bam ACTION.

It also made every encounter consist of multiple waves, with enemy reinforcements popping into existence inside your party and rendering positioning nearly useless. It's like they were going down a checklist of ways to make combat less tactical.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I hope they bring back spells like Virulent Walking Bomb from the first games. That one would poison an enemy and make them explode when they died, and if any enemy nearby died to the explosion or within the next few seconds they'd explode too, and so on.

It wasn't the best spell, but it fit the "mages are one misstep away from becoming eldritch abominations" narrative and damn did it make you feel powerful when the secondaries went off and it turned an entire room full of enemies into mist.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

The power grid does have a major point of failure, in that vital components are on backorder for years out so most places don't have the spare parts to get back up and running if widespread attacks on the grid occur.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Prey drive is no joke. My sister has a heeler/corgi mix, and taking her for a walk is an exercise in not dislocating your arm whenever she spots a small animal. She's adorabloodthirsty.

Oddly her other dog, a heeler/pit mix, is super chill with no apparent prey drive whatsoever. I'm pretty sure you could hold a baby bird in front of his face and he'd just sniff at it dumbly with his tail wagging.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Having owned a beagle, its brain looked more like the cat image but with "murder" replaced with ~~more food~~ "not food, but I'll eat it anyway".

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

Dogs think about food when they're hungry, or when food is present. Cats will stand on you and complain for hours because their food bowl is only 90% full and they'd really prefer it to be 100% full at all times, please and thank you.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

Burger King chicken nuggets from the 90s, before the recipe changed to crap. If I had to pick a flavor that I associate with my childhood, this would be it.

The Angus Mushroom & Swiss burger from McDonald's. The Angus was the closest thing they ever had to a real burger, but they were too expensive for most people and were eventually discontinued. Fun fact: wages have stagnated yet their basic burgers now cost more than the Angus did.

Runza used to sell frozen dark chocolate-dipped cheesecake on a stick. They were delicious, and small enough that you wouldn't feel guilty about ordering one.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

It was also the only time I can recall them having a swiss and mushroom burger on the menu. It was delicious.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You're able to run MemTest? That'd suggest it's not actually fried if it can still run things.

Check your BIOS/UEFI to see if Secure Boot was re-enabled. If your CMOS battery died and you didn't notice, your machine config could have reset to its default values during the power loss.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It should be noted the Irish team had the best catchers in the League, while the Bulgarian team was mediocre and carried by their seeker. And even then the Bulgarians only lost by a tiny bit.

If Rowling's goal was to show that other positions mattered, she chose a terrible way to do it. You'd have to be more than fifteen goals ahead in a game that often ends before a team scores fifteen goals, period.

[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago

Though you could do an identical meme with Games Workshop and Blizzard. There were so many people back in the day that didn't know Warhammer 40k had been around for over a decade when StarCraft released.

And then the same thing happened again when Dawn of War was released.

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