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Joined 10 months ago
Cake day: January 19th, 2025
  • Miner_Fabs@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•Say again ruleEnglish
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    22 days ago

    idk where you get that impression from, you can definitely find nice streamers if you look for them.

    take RTGame. no controversy whatsoever. swears a bunch, but only as a result of being irish. fantastic community. but he streams on twitch, so i guess he’s trash?

    is it because streamers ask for donations? because they play games as a job? i’m genuinely curious.

  • Miner_Fabs@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•rulecistEnglish
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    1 month ago

    yeah, i’d say there’s a difference between borrowing a word from another language/dialect and using a word that was invented to be racist.

    English specifically has a ton of loanwords - “tycoon” is from the Japanese 大君 (taikun) meaning “great prince/high commander”, “balaclava” is from the name of a settlement in Crimea (Балаклава), “pet” is from the Scottish Gaelic “peata” meaning “tame animal”… and that’s just three words out of thousands, from a little digging on wikipedia.

    so i’m not sure if excluding AAVE from contributing to the development of English as a language out of ‘respect’ is strictly good or not.

    now, i don’t speak AAVE, and i haven’t done any reading about if AAVE speakers mind their vocabulary making its way into broader English slang - if so, then i rescind what i said here. i just think it’s interesting to think about.

  • Miner_Fabs@lemmy.worldtoMinecraft@lemmy.world•Microsoft actually cooked with the minecraft liveEnglish
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    2 months ago

    another reason to not just use the elytra is always a plus, and another bit of regular, tiered gear is great - hoping they do that for armour next, which tends to be really samey compared to the tool/weapon variety the game has.

    it’s unfortunate that both the Nautilus and spears were both leaked beforehand, since it got people speculating about a much larger ocean update which was never gonna be the case. Mojang’s official teasers also basically confirmed the Nautilus leak, which didn’t help.

    while i’m fine with them doing smaller updates and touching up old areas of the game, i did find myself saying “cool, but that was it?”, like i did when the happy ghast was announced. really hoping they have something good planned for 1.22 - i would be satisfied with something similar in size to 1.21, but it feels like the community will implode if they don’t do an end update at some point soon.

    edited to add: there will probably be more stuff added in snapshots than what they’ve announced here, like there has been for every other “game drop”, so that’s probably not it. still, wish they at least said that… unless they did, and i missed it…

  • Miner_Fabs@lemmy.worldtofurry_irl@pawb.social•Time_irl (Art by Sunnyyeen)English
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    5 months ago

    This was, apparently, the wrong move

    Well, not exactly. Keep in mind that Undertale was never supposed to get as popular as it did. The player isn’t really supposed to know about how to get the ““true”” endings from the get go, or that they exist.

    spoilers for Undertale, in case anyone cares

    Undertale is designed to naturally guide you through all 3 routes - Neutral, Pacifist, then (optionally) Genocide.

    This is why some of the sparing mechanics can be so obtuse, especially with Toriel, who you don’t hear about until the Asgore fight when you’re like “oh damn I killed his wife”. There’s even a Froggit NPC in the Ruins who says you can spare enemies at low health, which could trick you into trying that with Toriel - doing so doesn’t work as your last hit does a lot of damage.

    The game wants you to earn some EXP to increase LOVE until you learn what the acronyms mean.

    If you spared Flowey at the end of a Neutral run, he comes back and tells you he won’t kill Asgore if you can get there without killing anyone, basically telling you how to do the Pacifist route.

    Then, when you re-fight Toriel after killing her once, the Talk option explicitly mentions that you’ve killed her, and hints that you can “show mercy without running away”, making it easier to do a Pacifist run on your second go.

    Characters will also mention feelings of deja vu on a second playthrough - Toriel has “a feeling” about your pie choice and Papyrus thinks you look familiar. And you won’t have to re-fight Omega Flowey.

    Of course, it’s possible to figure out all the spare mechanics on your first try, which is why fighting Omega Flowey once and seeing the Pacifist phonecall is mandatory to unlock the final sidequest needed for True Pacifist.

    And if you happen to boot the game up again after the True Pacifist ending, Flowey tells you that you’re the only threat left, with the power to reset everything, hinting at Genocide.

    There’s some extra wrinkles, like how you can just reload your save if you killed Toriel and try again (which Flowey calls you out for), or how doing Genocide first changes things, but I think this was the main intended path - to do a run before you know you’ll be judged, then decide if you wanna be nice or evil with that in mind.

    TL;DR: Get it twisted, you’re meant to kill Toriel once.