Sage_the_Lawyer

@Sage_the_Lawyer@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Discussion] New month, new games. What are you playing on your Deck? - February 2024⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess I probably have more experience than the average player, about 25 hours so far. But I also learned my 3rd point the hard way, by doing ~10 hours of research outside of playing to try to optimize. It mostly just drove me crazy, but I did pick up a lot of little helpful tidbits. So if anyone has any general gameplay questions I’m happy to do my best to answer!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Discussion] New month, new games. What are you playing on your Deck? - February 2024⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh that’s my bad. I missed what community this was in. I don’t have any steam deck specific knowledge.

  I’ve heard about some performance issues on multiplayer servers for console users, but iirc most people don’t have issues for single player. Wish I could say more but I’ve only played on PC, sorry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Discussion] New month, new games. What are you playing on your Deck? - February 2024⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Palworld is mine. I’ve been loving it so far.

  I’d say a couple things though:

  1. don’t expect perfection. It’s still early access and there are bugs. They put out a patch last night that fixed some of the most glaring issues, but there’s still some wonky stuff. I’d recommend, when you build your base, to keep all the workstations that pals use on the ground level, and build two levels up off the first floor if/when you want to add another. Some larger pals can’t get through single tall doorways.

  2. Feel free to play around with your server settings if you want things a little easier/harder (but I’d say definitely turn off structure decay right away, and maybe increase pal spawn rate slightly, mine is at 1.2x and feels good). The game is almost entirely customizable to what you want it to be, everything between super casual fun and hardcore survival is easy to set up.

  3. Don’t stress about min/maxing everything just yet. First of all, you probably simply don’t need it while leveling up. Second, people don’t know what the fuck they’re talking about yet. There are conflicting sources for the best of pretty much everything. So just play how you like (but I’d say wait until you have a pal you know you’ll use endgame before powering it up with essence/condensing, those can’t be refunded to my knowledge).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kevin Hart Says He Won’t Host the Oscars Again: Awards Shows ‘Aren’t Comedy-Friendly Environments Anymore’⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “The freedoms of others should be respected, including the freedom to offend. To willfully and unjustly encroach upon the freedoms of another is to forego one’s own.” -The Satanic Temple’s Fourth Tenet

  However. I also believe the right to be offended is one of the freedoms we all have. There’s a lot of discussion over what this tenet truly means. I believe it should work hand-in-hand with the other tenets, which include “one’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone,” “one should strive to act with compassion and empathy toward all creatures in accordance with reason,” and “every tenet is a guiding principle designed to inspire nobility in action and thought. The spirit of compassion, wisdom, and justice should always prevail over the written or spoken word.”

  I take it to mean that yes, you do have the right to offend, but also to be offended when someone violated your own personal freedoms. To say something that challenges someone’s understanding of the world may offend them, but that doesn’t mean its wrong. However, the use of the freedom to offend should be used sparingly, and with caution.

  But if we start telling people they’re not allowed to say things that are offensive to us, then that same logic can turn back on us later when we say something offensive to them. Pretty soon, nobody will be allowed to say anything. People should be free to express their opinions, so long as they abide by the rest of the tenets, in my opinion.

  But, that doesn’t mean we need to give people who are out to offend others bigger platforms to spread their messages. We don’t even have to listen to them.

  I’m reminded of the famous Voltaire quote, “I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”

  This is a complex topic, and I’m worried I’m not making my message clear enough here. Let me try to boil it down to a more direct response.

  I do not agree that people are “too easily offended nowadays,” but I do agree that people have the right to say things that might offend. I think people have the right to be offended about whatever they want. But they do not have the right to impose their own beliefs on others. If you want to say something offensive that I don’t agree with, knock yourself out. But if you want to try prohibit me from saying something offensive to you, you can fuck right off.

  It’s a fine line. Yes, you have the right to offend others, but not the right to control them.