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'Gut punch': Steelworkers union stunned after Trump vows to scuttle international deal in c/news@lemmy.world
[–] the_gmg@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

U.S. Steel has brand new currently non union facilities in Arkansas. For sure anyone buying the company definitely wants these.

Nippon Steel says they would keep older (unionized) facilities in Pennsylvania open. Union leadership has said that they don't believe them.

U.S. Steel has said that they might close older facilities if the sale doesn't go through. Union members who work at the plants say that they believe Nippon Steel will protect their jobs and disagree with leadership.

IMO this is defyingly more of a "that's capitalism baybee!" than anything else.

Michael Mann's horror cult classic [The Keep] is finally available on 4k ultra HD in c/homevideo@feddit.uk
[–] the_gmg@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The regular edition should be restocked at some point.

Game of the Year Edition | Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous in c/games@sh.itjust.works
[–] the_gmg@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

How does this compare to Kingmaker?

I spite finished that and the experience definitely soured me on other Owlcat games.

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Client which allows hiding thumbnails? (lemmy.world)
 

Are there any bluesky android clients which allow hiding thumbnails / image previews on the timeline? I took a look at several but didn't see anything.

Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing? in c/patientgamers@sh.itjust.works
[–] the_gmg@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I have an anti-recommendation for Pathfinder Kingmaker.

They almost have a good RPG here but the combat is so frequent and the encounter design is just wack. The second to last dungeon is the worst I have ever experienced.

Normally I stop once I'm not feeling it. I'm not really sure why I pushed through here.

Arkane's founder left because Bethesda 'did not want to do the kind of games that we wanted to make', and that's how it ended up with Redfall in c/games@sh.itjust.works
[–] the_gmg@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

He sold the company in 2010! Big searching for the guy who did this energy here.

Feargus Urquhart on The Outer Worlds II: "Development is going really well; I'm really impressed with the team. We have people on this project that just get it and worked on the first game. [...] in c/games@sh.itjust.works
[–] the_gmg@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I quit playing partway in.

Imo writing was a major weakness. They were going for the sardonic Fallout-y tone, but didn't get there. The humor wasn't funny, and the writers didn't appear to really have anything to say about humanity or capitalism - the themes the story was supposedly about.

This was definitely not helped by having every conversation be an extreme super close up with the npcs starting deadeyed straight in to the camera.

Combat was pretty meh. It has the worst weapon upgrade system I have ever seen. The player just pays money to make the number go up. Then in the next planet over, everyone has "pistol II" or "rifle II" which does way more damage anyway. I guess if one was being extremely generous, this could be interpreted as a gaming meta commentary but the game doesn't earn this.

Overall, it just kinda felt like they were operating off of a "fallout in space" checklist, which made everything feel generic and boring.