I think it is a bit of an unclear wording personally. “Made with”, despite technically meaning what you’re saying, is often colloquially used to mean “fully created by”. I don’t mind the AI tag, but I do see the photographers point about it implying wholesale generation instead of touchups.

How does this one still work? Does it do it in a different way than the old apps did?

Glad I’m not the only one who couldn’t figure that out lmao

Oooooh got it! That’s cool actually I had no idea. I imagine she’s pretty mutually exclusive with some of the others.

I’ll be honest, I don’t even remember who Minthara is, so I definitely didn’t get her either.

In my playthrough (which I’m still working through so no act 3 spoilers please), I couldn’t figure out how to open the pod she was in at first. I ended up shooting something overhead which fell and put caustic brine everywhere. When I finally opened the pod she jumped out and immediately died to the brine. I’ve never actually heard her speak 😅

What’s bad about the re-release? I read the article and it honestly sounds like it’s trying to improve the game. I must be missing something.

I like this way too, as long as they don’t make every area start at the same easy level. It’s fun to find places you can’t do yet. I think the new enemies thing works even better if it’s more like they start to show up in areas you previously cleared out, rather than appearing in places you haven’t been yet.

I think you can compare whatever you want. The farther apart the two things are though – apples to oranges – the more the comparison becomes a matter of your taste and opinion rather than a critical, objective comparison.

That does sound like an improvement. Have you tried Bluesky at all? I dipped my toe into that one and was just curious how you thought it compares if you have.

I can give you a real answer, because I asked my wife this exact question (she’s black and uses the skin tone closest to hers, I’m white and also just use yellow ones). She said it’s so rare to get to choose a digital representation that matches her skin tone that she just thinks it’s fun to get to do it for once.

Thanks, I’ll check it out.

Those all seem like good ones to me, too. Honestly the defensive juggernaut thing doesn’t really exist period in GW2, so I guess it’s by design. At least not compared to other RPGs. Everyone is quite squishy.

You’ve made me realize that a mesmer fantasy I miss from GW1 is a domination magic mesmer. Something that heavily punishes certain types of gameplay and doesn’t do the illusion thing. Is that what you were getting at with the mesmer part?

I wonder if they would ever consider adding new specs to only some classes instead of all at once. On one hand people would definitely rage and whine, but I could imagine that making for much better designed specs over time.

I’m curious, what kind of niches do you see unfilled still? I already felt like some of the gen 3 specs were reaching a bit.

It felt like they wanted to focus on features more in this one. There was a lot to unpack I think for those who like to go through and theory craft.

I do agree that the ones you mention were much better cinematically though.

Definitely check out the myst remake, as it has modern movement available (and it’s gorgeous). These two games are basically puzzle game masterpieces and remembered so fondly for a reason. Hope you enjoy them. 🙂

I didn’t even buy them at 60. This would change nothing for me except further cement my patient gaming lifestyle.

What do you like more about mastodon than Twitter? I always end up bouncing off microblogging sites but I still haven’t tried that one.

Just wanted to back you up on this. I’m also very outside the techy core of people on here and have been hoping for more diversity to join as well. There’s at least two of us!

I haven’t really been back either, and I also miss it in some ways. I think for me I mostly miss the broader user base. Lemmy skews hard into a few interest groups, especially tech-focused ones, and while I have overlap there, I wish there were more types of people on here with less techy interests.

I tried bluesky for a little bit, but I honestly just bounce off Twitter whenever I try it, and Twitter clones have the same problem I guess. They have such a strong undercurrent of outrage and smugness, and while reddit and Lemmy could be accused of having some of this too, something about it feels much worse to me on microblogging sites.

I also miss the culture of linking to other subreddits in comments. That was a big way I found new communities on Reddit over the years, either ones I joined or just funny things you can’t believe exist. I think the lack of that on here really hurts the ability for me to find smaller communities. Thanks to federation I’m not even sure how you do it on here. I’m sure it’s more complicated than L/whatever.

I actually don’t mind Instagram, but only after revancing it. 🙃