[Indubiously] Forta would be filled with pride knowing that. [Bewildered] Imagining having to script all of Hamlet with all that pretext

To be fair the greatness of experiencing Elcor Hamlet was intended to be seen through his actions not emotions.

[Regretfully and with much sorrow] One cannot truly experience it in its 14 hour splendour

[Restrained Optimism and sadness] It will be a different game considering the people behind it and the aftermath of the trilogy. [Wistful Contentment] Having the next Mass Effect have some grounded world building and, if need be, mix elements to a compromise of old and new

That is fair, I prefer renegade femshep as well. Jennifer Hale, for me, does her renegade lines with more menace and she carries authority better.

Male Shepard, I feel, does the vulnerable moments well, especially in 3… maybe it is a bias in the display of male lead vulnerability. I feel like Mark Meer does the more meme-worthy comedic moments better.

Generally I lean towards light hearted paragon MaleShep and badass renegade FemShep on voice preferance

Jade Empire, takes me back. Great game and had a nice morality system that effected how your character developed with skills and how the playable character interacted with the world and how it had a strong effect on type the ending that would play out.

Also thank you for the link, will have a look

Disppointed there are no insert

Greedy Corpo:

“Aah yes, 👐 A.I. 👐 we have dismissed those claims”

Jokes aside, at least in regards to Mass Effect both voice actors bring something to the game for me

Although, I admit female shepard is consistently better throughout the triology, male shepard has his charm as Mark Meer improved on his performance throughout the trilogy. The human element can do much to elevate a weaker performance and in its own way leave a stronger impact, at least for me.

It is probably been said, but roll with the failures in disco elysium, sometimes the failures bring out a better result. It systems do a great job commenting on your decisions and whether you do your job as a cop or not, it still drives across a very human story

In regards to a game with a good story, I can say OneShot surprised me. It breaks the 4th wall by having you be the character that guides the protagonist through the world as they wake up in another world and go on a journey trying to get back. Simple graphics and one has to read everything, but by the story’s end was I left feeling some emotions in regards to its conclusion.

Tldr:

Having too many cultures that have not established a “market share” in politics makes the, people who run a country, job harder as it has to contend with dealing with the potential of new cultures forming and the inevitable culture clashes that follow as differing values and ideals will demand different things.

It fractures and dilutes points of control which encourages politics to try ensure loyalty though aligning itself with views of the majority.

End tldr

Unironically, Stellaris is probably a decent example of the thought experiment played out. Unless a species is built with ideals of the intergration and/or has its proper foundation set then it can quickly spiral out of hand as you have to deal with " a hunded voices asking for one thing".

It is far easier to control and secure a foundational majority based off of one species as it can be more easily guided towards an established outcome.

Adding too many “outsiders” has the potential to cause an imbalance and a shift in thinking which then requires a new paradigm to “herd the sheep” as it were, while still trying to maintain a standard that the base species has become accustomed to.

If it not carefully controlled, it can potentially lead to a fracturing of opinion and thoughts which is a lot harder to manage and “guide” as one runs the risk of isolating one group and in doing so opening up the potential cascade of problems if the ignored minorities builds up steam which then forces leaders to contend with trying to figure out a way to maintain control over the many species bases while still doing it in a way that causes the least amount of disruption to their control.

Hope this cross-post works

https://lemmy.world/post/927104

Although, if I had to think of beginner tips - knowing the keyboard shortcuts help a ton in getting familar with the game and one can use the “enter” key until you get use to it

I personally learnt by using the starting scenario of the shelter to get familiar with getting the basics of water purification, food sustainability and crafting going and camped out in the shelter and get my crafting up to scratch.

I know that I started to enjoy taking advantage of the weaker zombies in the early game and try and find a small town and try clear it out for a nice cushion to get one up to have a lot of raw material on hand, but that is more when one is more confident in the ability to handle zombies and found a style of play one enjoys

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There is another one on the !cataclysmdda@lemmy.ml instance, but it is not my post but here is it is https://lemmy.world/post/1796938

Noita, a precedurally-generated fully destructible, with physics, pixel-graphics action rogue-like game where you play as a mage going through the various layers of a dungeon with the use of your spells that one can spell mix and match with a wand system that can provide the player with interesting and wacky spell combinations.

I know I cannot provide advice in this sitaution because I get what you are saying as I too have been dealing with the thoughts.

It can be difficult, I have had a LOT of instances of bad things happen because of my misaligned views ( been told I need a priest to exorcise the “demons” kind of bad) and I am still have to deal with my sitaution and the invasive thoughts that come with it. It takes a lot trying to deal with it, but somehow in my life I have at least found a few people that have accepted me.

Like I don’t need to maintain constant contact but for me it is being “accepted” is a lot ( a low bar I know) and in some cases just recently have been in contact with someone I haven’t heard in years, but I can still feel comfortable communicating with them after all that time.

I mean I really do not like my life where I am at and there is a lot of things that I wanted to do and want to do but cannot because there are reasons beyond my control. At least for me, it feels like I am hanging by the sinews of the good will of others.

So yeah, just a long winded reply going on about sharing in the pain. I don’t know what the answer is but I have tried to push myself lately to dig myself out of things otherwise I would be drowning in the tunnel that I am stuck in.

I been doing writing stuff and trying to be more involved in social media a bit more has been my “digging” out attempt

I started a blog this month and happy I got 20 posts published

I am surprised no one has spoke about the mutli-launch fatman launcher? - Fallout 3

Quests I found interesting- limiting myself 7 points

Fallout 3 :

• Republic of Dave is a fun diversion
• Agatha’s Song add another radio channel if I can recall
• Working for the slavers and getting everyone on their list
• Dunwich building
• Killing all Behemoths
• Bobblehead collection
• Deciding what to do with the Declaration of Independace

Fallout New Vegas

• White Glove Society
• Sunset Sarsaparilla
• Collecting snowglobes
• Michelangelo quest
• Red Lucy’s Quest
• A decision with Euclid’s C-Finder
• Vicky and Vance Missing Gun

Fallout 2 recommendation

• Had to really earn brotherhood of steel trust
• Has a whole new play style at “brain dead” low intelligence level
• Mysterious hooded stranger on a bridge
• Can have a car
• Can build your own super brain bot buddy
• Meet an unlucky dog
• Get a deathclaw companion

That was very interesting to read and to think about. Thank you

Seems to be something like what I am doing because that fits me to a tee in some respects with idolizing someone and now I have fallen out of that when I did not get a response when I sent a message. So while I do still appreciate the effort they provided, I have in essence emotionally written them off because I do not feel like they are not fully respecting me.

I guess the writing part also is in that regard because I am in a state of trying to think and apply positive memories, reinforcing that reading it with it having an additional potential positive reinforcement if someone looks at it, making me feel like what I have done has value.

I guess because I am rummaging around in this “positive” headspace it leads to more “positive” experiences because I am doubling down on thinking of something good and then reading something I thought of as good.

I appreciate reading that and trying to approximate it into my situation

Thank you for sharing your experiences and kind words, it is cliche saying but I do appreciate the feedback. It helps provide perspective for me.

Another long post to follow:

I think what I am doing is like doing 3 things at once, with the 3rd being something of a far off “maybe” goal but in the back of my mind trying not to let it influence things.

The 3 things being “emptying my head” trying to put myself in a less busy headspace, wanting to engage with people because I feel socially stunted and the 3rd and far off goal is being able to financially benefit from something that I enjoy.

It is why I have had a desire to do streaming or video uploads as it feels like something I can take control of - It is the only conclusion came to as I cannot envision other aspects of entrepreneurship as I do not have any great ideas or the knowledge and aptitude to be able to finance it)

I came to this conclusion after experiencing high levels of frustration in the work hierarchy being on the lower end of the system with no chance of upward mobility (all work experience has been of the minimum wage type) or being too honest in interviews to the point I feel it isn’t worth it anymore because of frustration at the general disdain I have experienced and kept quiet about and at how exploitative the companies can be (and convince myself out of frustration to want to accept) and still not make the cut.

This has had a knock-on effect of making me being disinterested in improving in the field I studied for as I felt wholly unqualified in both comparison to my peers when I studied and also by the attitude that has been presented to me in interviews. It is essentially a piece of fancy paper at this point and I have not put the effort into improving as it fuels frustration which further distances me from it.

I didn’t do the streaming/ video thing because I both feared for the health of the PC that broke would cause too big of a disruption, which it would have done and also because I hated hearing my own voice which demotivated me during editing having to listen to it and try and “fix” it in an audio application.

I feel that so far the writing is a middle ground for me to both explore an aspect that I wanted to do but didn’t feel cut out for because of my personal fears and still having that comfort of not having to be self-conscious of every aspect along the way.

I, at least, feel it is an healthier outlet than being stuck in the listless rumination I have subjected myself to while at the same time try and improve my “social intelligence” and move towards a goal I want to achieve

Yeah, it is so far been something that I doing so that I am trying to get into the habit and then if I feel “stuck” I leave it and try and get back to it later.

I like to try start multple projects and when I have a “general theme” I finish off at least one and start on another so that the next day at least I have a starting point to work from.

If the creativety gets harder to do then I can imagine spacing things out, but so far my internal monologue might moan a bit but I still do enjoy doing it

Thank you for the advice

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I enjoyed

• “One Shot”, it has a few achievements that might require going back to try to complete.

It is puzzle top down story adventure game( it does the whole look into your actual files for solutions thing), once I finished the main story I felt satisified. It allows for playing after the ending but doing so feels hollow and unsatisifying which is the point. It asks the question of why do you still want to play, but oh well I will allow it and makes it possible.

I would like to say thank you for your reply and long message to follow is not in any an attempt to discredit your advice, I believe I just feel very trapped in difficulty finding options that can result in a postive outcome and it is a verbose outburst on why I feel it is difficult.

Tldr:

If I really what to get help I need therapy yes, but all the “help” I get is predicated that taking medicines is enough and thus miss out on the “therapy” aspect.

I cannot afford a therapist and all the options that I have tried been horrible experiences that do not address any problems and it devolves into passing it on to someone else to deal with because again I have not been told definitively I have specific problems just given a general idea what they believe it to be and given medication for it and thus it is believed that medication is enough to solve the problem.

:TLDR

There in lies a lot of problems, I cannot afford a therapist and when seeking help via either the state or helpline I have received similar help.

State hospital devolved into handing out medication to solve the problem, the therapist felt half-assed in the sense I saw a qualified doctor twice ( they just listened and wrote things down for most of both sessions) and had sessions if one could call it that with the nurses at most probably 4 times and then for the next 6 months it was going to the hospital to collect medication. They mentioned they have an idea what it might be but never really came out and diagnosed what it is specifically and go through the process of saying what I have, it felt more like it probably seems most likely like the problem so lets give you these medications to check.

So it felt like the problem was just looked down as a physical thing and it was then called a day and to that effort I got incredibly frustrated and went cold turkey as they repeatedly refused to listen to what I was saying.

Then not to long ago, tried the help line, well because I have a mobile device that is not fully functioning (the microphone is damaged and requires a earpiece to talk) I could not get the earpieces plugged in fast enough before I could answer.

When I finally could answer I was given lip about why I don’t answer even though I wrote multiple emails to express to the facility asking if they could provide a rough idea when I should expect a call because of my situation and it took the help of a friend to make an arrangement to get a time.

The phone call felt detached, like someone going through the paces, and again like the hospitial not fully listening, but addressing things but more like reading out of a hand book. It felt like I was wasting their time and I got worked up about it because I spoke about issues but they speak about solutions in the sense it felt like they were ignoring everything I was saying.

I had an anxiety attack while on the phone with the person because when I spoke about my difficulties it ultimately boiled down to their answer being to go to the hospital, get medication and that is the extent of the help they would offer because they cannot really help.

And again when I asked if they could provide an idea about time of calls, they would answer that they will call when they have time, yet my friend was able to arrange a time. And I specifically wrote if they could be please be patient when they call because I would need to plug in the earpieces and all that when I see who is calling but they wait 5 rings then write it up as I do not answer.

So ultimately they have other people to call - which they specificially mentioned they have to do about 2000 calls a day. I am sure most with issues far worse than mine, so I rather not bother them with my problems if it comes across as such a burden to them.

And then the most recent problem, is when a friend offered to help but that never went anywhere and fizzled out as they also going though problems themselves, and financially they were additionally burdened by a family member and they are similarly going through mental problems and going to a professional therapist themselves.

So yeah, I am somewhat stuck, because I appear “functioning” enough to appear like everything is fine, added with my poor communication skills that make things appear better than it is assumed, made worse because I feel horrible if people haven’t been taking me seriously then what the hell is wrong with me that when I try to get help it feels like it is looked at in one dimension and written off as a lower priority.

I feel like I am not listened to, because they have worse problems to deal with so I get “triage” into maintenence mode.

Added to that events out of my control happen that derail the attempts to get professional help and just yeah it is a whole lot of things bubbling under the surface which is either too intense for a normal person to deal with or not intense enough to be taken seriously.