No_one
Underemployed Slav. Likes playing Factorio.
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No_one
8d ago
Not sure where saw a recommendation for 'Encased' and it can be best described as 'Fallout 2' but with a modern engine and somewhat less memorable writing. Takes place in an alternate past where during the 70s an 200 km wide and probably invisible from outside 'force field' was discovered in a desert somewhere, with a single entrance. Inside are some enigmatic ruins. Borrowing liberally from 'Roadside Picnic', a joint US/Soviet company is established to research what's in there. Game starts a couple years after that.
The rulest is broadly but not too similar to Fallout 2 with abilities themselves gated beyond skill levels (e.g. if your lockpick is too low, you can't pick locks at all etc). It's more complex.
Then there's people who accuse it off knocking off Stalker which is fair, e.g. the anomalies are pretty much ctr+c; ctrl+v and (so far) it seems there aren't many novel anomaly designs, but come on, it's a wholly different genre and apart from the anomalies themselves, the vibe / aesthetics /settings are wholly different.
I've found a fair amount of people hating on it. The writing and quests aren't usually very inspired but they're not that bad usually. At least it's not offensive like most of e.g. Baldur's Gate 3. I suspect a lot of people got filtered by the combat which is absolutely not levelled to the player so you can pick impossible fights.
No_one
8d ago
I find this really odd. I take lots of photographs but I don't remember them specifically well. Every time I look at old photographs I go 'huh', I didn't remember that etc, or 'that guy was there?'.
When you take a photo you step out of the flow of your life into the chair of an observer.
.. ? You guys don't have a part of your mind observing your own life in 3rd person at the same time as you're living it? I recall 'just living in the moment' from age like 5-8 but have always regarded those memories as proof that children aren't fully human or something like that.
I hate cameras, but that's only because I love taking photos.
If people are aware they're being photographed, they start mugging for the camera and the shot is ruined. Not going to lie here, I'll be pretty happy once there are synthetic aperture cameras that can look like anything with a bunch of small holes.
It seems I haven't even gotten to the second half yet, so. I'll let you know, I guess.
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