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I need the Steam Summer Sale

I feel like the Steam sales stopped being good a few years ago. I think when they stopped doing flash sales? Now most games are just regular sale price off. No real special deals anymore.

I miss checking daily for new updates on what was for sale and getting a game at a really good price. Now everything is the same price for the entire two weeks so it feels exciting for maybe the first 5 minutes when you check your wishlist and after that it's done.

Don't want to be too negative though. Hope there are some good deals and everyone can grab something at a good price!

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Akira Toriyama, the Creator of Dragon Ball, Dead at 68

Dragon Ball was the first manga I read. I still own every volume of the original series and Z that I bought when I was a kid. It probably took me a year or two to collect and save up for each one. I read the series so many times when I was a kid and played every single game of it that I could get my hands on. The anime wasn't on tv where I grew up so that was the only way for me to experience it. I was absolutely addicted to the series. It's probably one of the most formative pieces of media in my life and shaped who I am today.

Introducing friends to Dragon Ball, pretending to be Goku or Vegeta with my friends and not so pretend fighting, reading it on long car journeys, buying Dragon Quest because it looked like Dragon Ball and so many more. Thank you Toriyama for all of those memories.

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Where are all of the reddit refugees these days?

I would say 99.9% of people are still on Reddit. I mainly use Lemmy to get the bigger news stuff and the gaming community is pretty active here too. Also I use Lemmy on mobile only really since the Reddit app is still terrible.

If I want to read about one of my other interests I'll go to the specific subreddit on my desktop browser and use old Reddit but with no account since I deleted mine a few months ago. Sometimes I'll post or comment on one of those smaller communities here but I don't want to be someone who posts tons of things to a community. Too much work for me.

Hopefully the user base and engagement will grow over the next few years. Welcome to being an early adopter!

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Jewish theatregoers felt 'unsafe' at comedy show - BBC News

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Based on the article he called them out after they didn't show support for Palestine at the end of the show. The comedian also is from Belfast which explains why he has such a strong opinion on this.

I would hope that any Israeli citizen is against the genocide that their government is doing and would show support to stop people being killed. If they disagree publicly in an open place like this I'd expect them to be called out on it.

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FINAL FANTASY XIV: DAWNTRAIL Full Trailer

Love this trailer. It gives off a pretty chill vibe and will hopefully give the scions a much needed break after Endwalker.

Though personally I thought Endwalker was a good stopping point I get that this is an mmo so there can never really be an end. I'm pretty sure even FFXI is still getting new content!

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Is Destiny 2 Still Worth Playing in 2023? - IGN

I tried Destiny 2 when it went free to play with some friends and none of us had a clue what was going on. Just go do these missions with minimal story reasons or explanation.

We got through the first area and to the main hub but it just seemed boring. Played a bit more after that but saw no improvements in the second area when it came to missions or story. I'm not sure why someone new would ever play this game?

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Kings of market saturation Ubisoft have 11 Assassin's creed titles planned.

The last one I properly played was Revelations and I couldn't even finish it. You can only do the same thing so many times before it gets stale and loses all its charm. I tried black flag but was so sick of the AC formula that I ended up refunding it after an hour.

Now they all seem like the definition of mid. I've seen videos of Valhalla and it looks like a Witcher 3 clone with none of the interesting characters or good writing.

This series needs a long break before I'd ever consider buying one again. I guess it keeps selling well every year though so...

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Dublin Riots

Just seeing this now. Absolutely crazy. Seems like it's a group using the attack as a "protest" since the attacker was a naturalized Irish citizen. Complete scumbags

If this doesn't get more Garda presence in Dublin I don't know what will