While Meta are obviously bad news, it is cool to see ActivityPub getting traction from the big players.

But no, definitely not for me. Mastodon is just fine.

The Starfield Direct showing really sold me on this. It looks like it comes the closest to my dream space game of anything released so far. Elite Dangerous nailed the feel of piloting your own spacecraft, but I didn't get on with the actual structure of the game. No Man's Sky continues to do amazing things, but its spaceflight feels a bit too stripped back for me and it still feels a little too aimless for my tastes.

This looks like a perfect middle ground, all backed up with a full blown Bethesda RPG too keep me engaged. :D

My only criticisms based on the Direct are that characters, and indeed character interactions still look a bit dated compared to more recent games, especially Cyberpunk 2077, and that the combat still looks a little janky. Don't get me wrong, it looks a lot better than Bethesda's older games, but still seems to be showcasing some rather basic AI and spongey enemies. Hopefully the RPG elements will make this side of the game feel more rewarding.

What an amazingly hostile move. It's finally pushed me to delete the mobile app altogether.

I loved season 3 of Enterprise, and while I didn't think as highly of 4 as some, it was still a decent show at that point. It was a shame it was cancelled.

I'm not sure there's much reason to pick up where the show left off though, unless it's for a one off limited series covering the Romulan War or something. Strange New Worlds is doing the regular Star Trek thing and doing it well, so it would need to be something that really justified returning to the setting.

If I could wipe Enterprise from history and start over, I think I'd have liked it to lean more into the low tech stuff and make that the hook. The show very quickly seemed to drop that side of things, and even early on it mostly just replaced later Trek stuff with other stuff that did the same job. Polarised hull playing replaced shields, lasers replaced phasers etc. They even had a transporter. I'd like to see humanity taking its first steps to the stars without any of that stuff.

I love Nintendo and have a Switch I still use, but there's clearly a lot more to discuss about the Steam Deck right now than there is that console. The hardware is much newer, and there are far, far more questions people are asking about it as it's a much more open device. Nobody's asking how to set up multiple stores on the Switch, for instance, and for obvious reasons.

I played a lot of the first game, but like lots of games of this type it kind of lost me with the endless DLC releases. It would be nice to start over with a fresh game, and it does look cool.

I remember seeing the original go up against the most recent Sim City, and it's still unbelievable to think how badly EA messed that one up.

I found PCPartPicker really useful when I last built a PC:

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/

It helps you pick compatible parts, and links to sites you can buy them from. I'd still shop around for the best price after building your list(s), but it's a great place to start.

Welcome! I'm new here too, so thanks for helping keep this place chil and cool. :)

That's reassuringly low. I guess it's not that surprising as it's using what I think is a modified version of the Skyrim engine.

Oh wow, I had no idea this was so extensive. I doubt I'll have time for this on release, but I'm looking forward to trying it out. Sometime...

I don't use Apple products myself, although I do have an old iPad. My main issue with them isn't a moral one though, it's that Apple seem to design their products to work as slickly as possible with their own ecosystem to the detriment of everything else.

If you use an iPhone, an iPad, an Apple Watch and a Mac then you're probably enjoying a great user experience. If you want to use an Apple device with anything else you're probably in for some amount of pain. I'm not against them, but they're not for me.

I do try and use FOSS software where I can, not least Lemmy and Mastodon, but my main devices are a Windows PC along with an Android phone and tablet. Windows is obviously closed source, and while Android itself is open source you can't say the same for all the vital Google stuff on top. I have a plan to get my hands on a high specced Raspberry Pi when they're finally back in stock and use it as my main home desktop for light use. If I had a laptop of my own I'd definitely be running Linux on it too.

I think everyone should absolutely look into FOSS hardware and software, although in reality I doubt most people would care. If anything it's just the "free" part they care about, but there's obviously a huge benefit in software and hardware being free for others to build on, fork and improve. I'd love nothing more than seeing everything work on this principle, but that's sadly not the world we live in.

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I love my Steam Deck, although at the moment it's mainly being used as a PS5 remote play device while I'm playing God of War:Ragnarok. I play all sorts of stuff on it though, and it probably gets more use than my desktop gaming PC these days.

It did look cool, although I'd like to have seen more of the game beyond the combat. I wasn't expecting something like the Starfield deep dive, but from the trailer alone you'd think combat was what the whole game was about.

Paradox are only publishing, and not developing this, sadly.

I hope it's good as I'd love a proper Star Trek 4X, but we shall see.

I think it is just a delay, and maybe some kbin weirdness. I can browse to https://beehaw.org/c/[email protected] for instance, but not some other magazines including [email protected]. Searching for fedia.io brings up posts but no communities, and even searching for [email protected] which we know is federated here brings up no results regardless of whether I use the "!".

Kibu looks lovely too, as does A Highland Song. That one's definitely getting bought.

I'm watching this now, and I think it's doing more for me than any of the other gaming shows recently.

I don't tend to actually buy many of the games in the Wholesome Directs, but it's just nice to get a glimpse of something a bit different.

Station to Station looks amazing though. I'll have to check out the demo.

I don't think there's anything like VATS, but I'm hoping a lot of combat is optional. You can definitely talk, or at least stealth your way past some of it.

Cool, thanks. So I guess my question is how you search for a kbin instance from Lemmy? If I search for ![email protected] for instance I only get results from lemmy threads rather than the magazine itself.

I like that they keep making it very easy for me not to buy their games seeing as they've done basically nothing about their harassment scandals.

I guess it's kind of moot for me whether they try something different to their usual formula, but yes they absolutely need to try something new.