Not scifi or fantasy, but have you heard of Pentiment? It’s by Josh Sawyer, lead designer of New Vegas. You’re an artist in 1518 Bavaria completing your masterpiece at a monastery, when someone gets killed and you must collect evidence. There’s much more to it than that, of which I can’t speak without giving anything away. However, I can tell you that the game has no combat, it’s just exploration and dialogue. The whole game looks like an illuminated manuscript, and you walk around engaging in some of the most captivating conversations ever to be in a video game. The character creation is extremely unique; in the beginning, you pick where you spent your year abroad, what you do in your free time, what you got your Master’s degree in, and what your favorite subject was at university. All of these determine your attitude on and knowledge of pretty much every subject in the game. It has one of the most unique speech check systems in any RPG, with entire conversations counting toward convincing someone, showing you what you said right and wrong at the very end. Masterpiece.

Rod Serling

Neither did Miyamoto though?

For me it’s, “AND WHY IS HE HERE? HE LOST!”

THPS1 and THPS3 are untouchable masterpieces. The Tony Hawk license never faltered when they were in charge.

Small misconception, PvZ was created by PopCap. WildTangent was just a service on which to play games. I remember so fondly using my limited free tokens to play Polar Bowling; it really was just the best.

Don’t know if you’re aware, but FATE is available on Steam. Relive those memories, boss.

Neversoft, Rareware, Sega, Activision, EA, and Bethesda created a lot of great memories from my childhood. Neversoft is defunct, Sega still makes some decent stuff but nowhere near what they did in the 90s, EA is EA, and the rest are now owned by Microsoft… so…

I think that a fart is specifically gas passing out of your intestines. Until it does that, it’s just gas.

At the end of the day, a collection of all the information in the world is a reflection of ourselves.

Fallout: New Vegas, GTA: San Andreas, and Half-Life. All three masterpieces in their own right.

Ooh, banana

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I’d say there are more people willing to call bullshit on a spokesperson for a large company than to believe them. There are people who are good at calling out bullshit, and people who aren’t, but I think that only comes into play if there truly is a mind-numbingly, obviously nefarious goal such as the example you’ve given; at the end of the day, it comes down to what you want to believe and where you place your trust. You use X as an example, a company in which you clearly have no trust (wise). But, if a company you believed to have a clean track record and whose products you trusted made statements about their product, then you’d be more inclined to take it at face value than to look into it more. Furthermore, just because someone is trying to sell to you doesn’t mean they have to lie to you to do it, choosing to believe their pitch should be dealt with on a case-by-case basis.

And if people see two statements that are that contradictory, yet refuse to research the matter and just believe what they hear?

Then yeah, they’re just gullible.

Meanwhile, I’m enjoying stock photo memes on Lemmy, on /kbin. I think this fediverse idea could be the future.

This is so douchey. Why not just give that money to Wikipedia? Or even a smaller amount? As the largest free information resource in the world, Wikipedia is an invaluable asset for humanity as a whole. Just feels weird to say, “I’ll give you money, but do a trick first,” to anyone, let alone the holders of a free, worldwide encyclopedia.

Wikipedia is a useful tool, Elon is a major tool.

“Goddammit, there goes my power converter fund. And all Luke wanted was to go to Tosche Station this year.”

Check out OnlyOffice. It’s a fork of LibreOffice that’s almost an exact clone of MS Office. It’s a fantastic program that should be familiar to anyone coming from Windows.

Since you’re just using a VM, you should try out some other distros and then pick one to install on your machine. Linux Mint is great for new users just switching from Windows. I personally find the KDE Plasma DE to be the best replacement for the Windows 10 GUI, so I’d recommend you check out Kubuntu or KDE Neon.

I’ve been using Pop!_OS recently, and it’s amazing. Everything works out of the box with no need to tweak anything, and I love the workflow features like autotiling and the launcher. The Pop! Shop is also something I’m appreciating more. It’s an excellent place for new users to look for software, and the flatpak support really makes it perfect for me. I’ve been using flatpaks instead of official repositories as much as I can recently, and it’s been a long time since anything I have installed has caused me issues.