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I have played it a lot in the past. Used to log in again with every new update. But for some reason I haven’t touched it since late 2023. Just got a little busy with reading and other games. Though to be honest I can’t seem to work up the motivation to start it up again and I don’t really know why.

It has come such a long way since launch and I can only commend them for staying active for so long. The regular updates and expansions for a game that has no micro-transactions… it’s awesome. I would recommend at least trying it to anyone who’s even a tiny bit curious. Wait until it’s on sale and you can’t really go wrong.

Perhaps I will give it another go in the future. I can see I’ve missed a lot of new features.

Oh yeah, you’re right, and the side content is actually so good too. Very little worthless filler and fetch quests. The NPCs really are a highlight in this game, they’re so well-written. The Miller is amazing with his dumb bullshit about golems, and I loved the Striped Tonies!

They did the stealing thing really good. If you steal stuff and then immediately parade around in it in town, they will still go after you, because shocker: people recognize their own clothes.

It’s also one of the very few games I played where I enjoyed the horse riding.

I loved the first one. I never noticed any rocky parts myself. It could be a bit difficult and it doesn’t hold your hand, but that’s what I loved about it.

I do remember that many people complained about the diffuculty of combat, but most of those issues could be solved by training and learning master strikes asap.

I would really recommend playing it. The story is great, it lets you know more about certain characters and it has some really awesome and funny quests, for example the one where you meet/get to know Godwin.

It’s certainly worth it if it goes on sale.

Hmm, definitely Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2. Best game I’ve played in years. Loved the first one and waited many years for the second game and well, to not be disappointed was great! Now that the DLC’s are done, I’m about to start a new run. Really curious what they’ve done with the monastery.

Oh absolutely. You can’t agree with someone 100% of the time. Or well, you can, but it’s rare. ;)

You’re obviously right, there is no absolute free speech and there shouldn’t be, imo. I see Lemmy a bit in the same way I see my real life. Everyone has rules in their own house and if you want to be invited in, you’ll have to live by them. If you don’t want to do that, that’s fine, but you can’t expect them to keep inviting you - and you’re welcome to go to another party where another group of people might not be invited.

Does this mean there are instances where I won’t be welcome? Sure. But it also means there are instances where I won’t be forced to see/read things I really don’t want to see. I can’t speak for anyone else, of course, but in my experience it’s perfectly possible (with few exceptions) for me to say what I want, as long as I sometimes go about it with a little tact (but the fact that I don’t want to be a huge asshole probably helps. ;))

My point is this: SPEECH IS NEVER FREE. Not in the way you mean, i.e. without consequences. Find me one place in the entire world where you can say whatever you want without any consequences. I’ll wait.

In your daily life you can also say what you want. People might get pissed at you, refuse to talk to you, break off friendships, get you fired from your job if you go too far, whatever. That’s just life. What you say and do has consequences. Even online. Even at Lemmy.

Freedom of speech means your government won’t arrest you and lock you up for your opinions, but any other consequences in your social circle, for example, are just that. When you’re an asshole, people will think you’re an asshole. Sounds normal to me. And if you’re surrounded by assholes, they will act like assholes no matter what you say. If an instance has values so diametrically opposed to yours that they end up banning you, then good riddance, no? Edit: E.g. getting thrown out of a Nazi bar is no huge loss.

Yes. And why is this wrong? You can also kick someone out of your house if they say crap you don’t want to hear. This is not the government, there can still be consequences to what you say.

You are free to still use Lemmy though, which is infinitely better than a site-wide reddit ban. You are free to say what you want and individual instances can decide whether they want to platform you. I don’t see any issues with this.

And if you really get banned from so many instances that using Lemmy becomes impossible, then might I suggest a fucking mirror so you can see the irredeemable asshole looking back?

The big difference is that while you can be banned from one instance, you can still use the rest of Lemmy.

You’re free to say what you want, but individual instances can decide whether they want to platform you. I prefer this over reddit-wide bullshit bans.

I think they just misread Portland for Poland. That’s where the misunderstanding lies.

Hmm, there are quite a few of those, I think. Let’s see.

Bioshock reveal. A man chooses, a slave obeys.

First time talking to Sovereign in Mass Effect, oh and the ending sequences from going through the Conduit and Sovereign attacking the Citadel, the Alliance fleet coming through. The cinematics and music were just so well done.

D:OS2, fighting Alexander when Battle for Divinity starts playing. Or the end fight, with Sins and Gods. The soundtrack was a delight.

The Witcher 3, the first time you arrive in Skellige, the landscape and the music, it just made me feel these things, it was beautiful.

The Deep Roads in Dragon Age:Origins, when Hespith starts reciting her poem and the Broodmother afterwards. Oh dear lord, I still remember the first time I was there, it was so fucking creepy. “First day they come and catch everyone.” Truly superb.

In Kingdom Come: Deliverance, when you’re forced to flee Skalitz, but you’re so incredibly noob that you can barely ride a horse, and you realize this game is different from many others, because you’re really just a nobody without any skills - and you’ll stay a nobody, pretty much. This entire game was a joy to me.

There are also some games that are entire masterpieces, where I can’t really pick a single moment but the entire game would count, for example Disco Elysium, a true masterpiece. This game made me experience the entire rainbow of human emotions. Another example would be Deus Ex, which to me will never get old, however bad the graphics might be.

Let’s stop here, before this turns into simply a list of my favorite games. :D

I agree she is amazing, but Andrew Wincott’s Raphael is just so phenomenal, for me it’ll only ever be him.

Outside of BG3, I guess I would also say Claudia Black, Jennifer Hale and Lenval Brown (the narrator of Disco Elysium, he is so good!).

F.E.A.R. has such good enemy AI. It’s an amazing shooter.

Still, I’ve only ever played it once, because I’m a big wuss and scary is not my thing, I just can’t do it again. Alma is fucking creepy and the entire atmosphere gives me nightmares.

But yeah, for anyone who enjoys shooters, F.E.A.R. is a great one.

Not to be thát person, but Archduke Franz Ferdinand was not a Serb, he was Austrian. Even though Austria-Hungary did annex Bosnia and Herzegovina in the late 19th century, Franz Ferdinand was not born there - in fact he was born before the annexation.

Unless you mean his killer, but then your wording is a little off and I would say “murder BY a Serbian.” Even so, the ethnicity of the murderer wasn’t really as important as his target. ;)

You’re right, always good to have a buffer.

The load time on this is insane. But I got it signed! Not that it really helped much, both my own country and my country of residence had already reached the threshold.

But still, it’s about time for an EU-wide ban on this barbaric shit.

English, German, French, Dutch, Finnish.

With a bit of effort I might get pretty close in Spanish or Latin, but I’d probably make some mistakes, so that doesn’t count.

Yeah, it’s been that way for decades. You just empty the jar/bag into the machine and it sorts/counts everything automatically, and then you can transfer the amount to your bank account.

When I was a kid I used to love this. We’d go sell stuff at flea markets and then take the bag of coins to the bank. Watch number go up, yay.

600k? You dropped some zeros there. It’s $600,000,000.

He’d have to go a lot higher than 10k p.p. to even make them consider it, so that’d be billions. Luckily he has millions of tax payers who can fund his little obsession!

Only things like airport security, or when going to music festivals or other events, they’ll (sometimes) check you for weapons.

Lived in 4 different countries in the past decade, all in the EU.

Oh that’s a good one, yes. It’s something that costs you time and you get absolutely nothing in return.

Another one would be how they leave their (public) toilets behind. “That’s what cleaners are paid for.” No fuck off. – Though of course this one would be a little harder to actually witness. ;)