Just to add some even longer time goals to the other replies: you could get all achievements for games that have them. Though some of those, like the ones for Civ 6, are excessive. It could give you ideas or shorter term goals to work towards, then you can decide if you’ve had enough at any point before 100% if things get too BS.
So they just compared averages/peaks and said “it’s just your perception being used to too hot weather, it’s not unusually cold”.
Fair, but that feels very superficial. Was the temperature variation higher than usual? More/less rainfall or humidity?
This is not to say our perception isn’t warped by climate change, but climate change isn’t just higher temperatures. Normal weather patterns changing, more extremes, etc.
I don’t have the time or will to check on that, but I just feel making a 3 paragraph article on a complicated phenomenon as weather and climate is just a bit lacking.
Ah oops, I meant to say “in the headline”. I agree, his tweets were disgusting and I think they should’ve been highlighted more from the get-go. I just dislike that the headline as it is makes it seem as if the SNP possibly overreacted or reacted in a pro-Israel way. Feels like it’s misleading by omission.
Would’ve been nice if they added the little tidbit in the headline that said Gaza posts were specifically denying what is happening in Gaza is genocide.
John Mason stripped of SNP party whip after ‘unacceptable’ posts claiming events in Gaza ‘not genocide’
Maybe remove the unacceptable quote if that’s too long. And suddenly some might not go in with the idea that maybe it was because he made a pro-Palestine post.
I mean if you know John Mason you probably wouldn’t assume that, but I think it’s healthier for journalists to presume you don’t know all the MPs and MSPs.
*: edited to add that the info should’ve been added in the headline
Labour, LibDem, Green together also would have a majority, and hopefully people would vote tactically for Labour if all the right wing votes would go to one party as well, though you never know. So I’m not sure I agree with that part of the analysis.
Otherwise: yeah, it’s at least as, probably more, accurate to say Tories lost, as it is to say Labour won.
By the way the votes fell, 38% seem to have voted Tory or Reform. Ignoring how people would vote differently if the system were to change, that to me implies proportional voting would still see the right wing lose. Not nearly as much as they did now, but perhaps more securely.
I just hope Labour will think of this similarly and actually do something to make sure we get a system where that 38% doesn’t overcome the rest and leads to a Tory or even Reform government.
Yeah, I don’t think that coalition situation is likely to happen. Under FPTP, it’s too risky for the voters to try manufacture.
That said, if their popularity massively tanks and polls show they’d lose big, I could see Labour introducing it just before the next election. It would be a huge boost to their popularity.
My impression from the trailer was that the combat lacks any weight. The player character floated all over, the attacks looked like they didn’t even make contact, and the enemies seemed to be on the spongy side. That makes it look and feel bland. If that is the case the reaction won’t be great even from players who like action games.
And yeah, I think making this the first Dragon Age game after so long is a mistake. People will expect a game that follows on with same or similar gameplay. This feels like a spin-off game. That’s not inherently bad, but you do want mainline games to also release to keep the main fan base happy. Right now it’ll just be judged compared to mainline expectations and will obviously not meet most of those.
Three games came to mind just now, for slightly different reasons.
Similarly to others, just for feeling good: Earth Defense Force (whichever release, really). While it’s great to have a challenge in the missions, getting through the game, finding a good mission to farm weapons on, then using those fun weapons to destroy horses of insects and aliens is just so fun. And some missions can feel a bit BS with the weapons you might have available normally.
I would also actually say Baldur’s Gate 3. I know a lot of people enjoy the tactical side of things, but my opinion is that the DnD 5e ruleset kinda just sucks for a video game. I play it as a TTRPG, it’s fine. But I found rolling badly in something my character’s meant to be good at just so frustrating. This let me actually explore the story and world my own way, which was way more fun to me than restarting combat because I got unlucky.
That one might be controversial, but I was also speed running completion because I wanted to know conclude the story and see the world, but something about the game just didn’t click for me.
And finally, because I think it’s a fantastic game that deserves attention (with the best soundtrack I’ve heard in a while): Rabbit and Steel. It’s a brutally hard roguelike bullet hell that’s based on dungeon raid boss mechanics from FFXIV (which I haven’t played, but that’s what everyone says). The difficulty will make you want to not play it, and for me stuff only really clicked once I unlocked my penultimate class. I can now heat Hard fairly consistently, but it has taken a lot of runs to get there. No shame in admitting that those started from Cute and Normal and involved me grinding out all the unlocks by charging through Cute difficulty.
So really, the summary of this far too long reply is: just lower the difficulty when it’s frustrating or keeping you too much from getting to the fun stuff. You can always try again on a higher difficulty later.