GoodLuckToFriends

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I mean, I feel the same way about character deaths. It's an overused trope. Let's have them quietly working in the background, like a capable spy would, eh? I think comics should have long ago embraced having their superheroes 'retire' by simply being background mentions from time to time, rather than have big dramatic deaths and torch passing.

[–] GoodLuckToFriends@lemmy.today 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I agree with you, but it will never happen without legislation forcing it. The insurance companies don't care who the money comes from (for the most part), so take them out of the equation. The person purchasing the car will (rightfully) feel that they shouldn't have liability because they're not driving the car, but the manufacturer/dealer will also (rightfully) feel that they can't control the environment that the owner subjects the car to, so the liability should be on the purchaser.

Right now, if you don't maintain your tires, and you lose traction and cause a wreck, you're at fault. If you don't maintain your brakes and they fail and you slam into the back of another car, you're at fault. Repeat ad nauseam for every part of the car.

Unless everything becomes leased (oh god, I can hear the comments about 'you will own nothing, and you will be happy' coming) and the manufacturer/dealer can force inspection of the car every x00 miles at the purchaser's expense, they will happily (and successfully, because they'll definitely sway the majority of american idiots with their 'dire warnings' about giving up ownership of your vehicle) that they shouldn't be liable because they can't ensure owners don't set up a dangerous situation.

I also don't see them 'grounding' a vehicle because a sensor says something is wrong. That is just screaming as the bad PR looms for the companies that would spearhead that thrust.

I call them circle spawners. The enemies spawn in a rough circle around you and close in. I think you can modify that with other terms depending on the specifics of what the game adds in.

One of the scripts running on that page is squarespace, so I wonder if the artist just grabbed a preconfigured 'blog' style.

I think my favorite couch coop game was Resistance on playstation 3. Some friends had it and we spent an entire week blasting through the game. It had a lot of potential for fun, like when I meleed the enemy in the face, then my friend with a sniper rifle slowed time, aimed between my character's arms for the recoiling head of the enemy and got the headshot.

[–] GoodLuckToFriends@lemmy.today 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The problem with the first (I haven't played the second), was that it felt like a story game where you play through the story in one go, when it ultimately turned out to be an instance grinding game to get gear to progress.

I went in expecting dark souls with guns, but got the weird love child of world of warcraft and dark souls with a reset button to progress.

And lots of work relationships where you're paired with someone. I used to love freaking out my conservative acquaintances when I'd start talking about my partner, and would always be very careful to only mention aspects that made them think the partner was the same gender as me. Eventually they catch on, but for a while they get oh so worried (tm) that I'm homosexual and am talking about a relationship rather than work.

I love doing this, because two/three days later when I do laundry I find what I've been doing for the last few days as if I had kept a journal.

/cries_when_forgetting_to_check_pockets_prior_to_laundering

Those people don't even care about that. If it massed up in a pile outside their house, but not in an area they used, they'd walk right past it every morning. Plus (to them, anyway), that wrapper won't be there, because of wind/rain/wildlife. It's out of sight, out of mind for them, and fuck anyone who has it end up in their area.

I think most of us do know, and that's one reason why it's being poo-pooed.

I mean, that's been the standard since at least ocarina of time. I remember rolling my eyes at the other characters reading your responses back to you.

Won't this be the third digg relaunch?

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