It’s a little frustrating how slow medical knowledge progresses.

I don’t know about Australia specifically but another example historically has been Autism and Schizoid Personality Disorder being misdiagnosed as each other. Which is especially frustrating as they’re quite different under the hood and medical professionals should know better.

Thank you so much for a super detailed reply! I imagine a huge part of how the work feels is down to your partner(s) and how well you get along. As someone who struggles greatly in social gatherings where I have to interface with more than 1 person at a time I can see the appeal of working in a 2 man team.

Interesting, it’s my absolute favourite personally. I don’t hear many people dislike it.

On the subject of pixel art retro styled RPGs though I want to make a case for Skald: Against the Black Priory. It doesn’t have voice acting, but otherwise should satisfy your demands given you say you tolerate pixel art. It’s very short for an RPG (16-20h) but that also means it’s very concise, has no filler and no grinding. Should play well on a Steam Deck too. I played it back in January I think and had an absolute blast with it. Cool story and world building, fun somewhat simple combat. Very enjoyable.

EDIT: though there is some dice rolling in dialogue, so maybe that’s a no go.

Games that I really enjoyed:

• Final Fantasy 7 through 10
• Final Fantasy 5

So… did you skip FF VI or did you specifically not like it?

That does sound fairly satisfying. Probably not too much stress or social interactions?

While this was a fine comment I agree that maybe it wasn’t quite “Best of Lemmy”. That being said, the purpose of this sub was always just manually highlighting things people found high quality. I don’t think certain upvote counts were ever required.

The creator would have had no stubble, denim pants that touch the ground and are usually wet, and hope for the future.

I wonder if we were the last unsullied generation who were allowed to have regular childhoods without the weight of soul crushing despair over the future.

Yeah I am diagnosed with both and it’s fairly accurate, this.

What kind of tree work?

To quote Expedition 33: “maybe contentment is the highest form of happiness”.

That’s good looking out, sorry for posting the regular link. I’ve edited my comment.

If reading about this makes you sad, then this might give a small solace. Most of these animals are lost for good, but the Tasmanian Tiger is surprisingly close to being revived!

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I imagine that will be the case many places elsewhere also. Certainly that is in line with my own thinking.

Also like, the whole selling point initially for making a Bloodlines 2 was getting Brian Mitsoda back to write the script. But they’ve thrown it out to make their own story and it will be like BG3 in that sense - a sequel in name only but no actual connection to the original game(s).

Saved you a click: it was due to the chemical treatment applied to the wood. The exact formula is not yet known, further research is needed.

The basic concept of Pyst was to show what Myst Island (from the best-selling game) would look like after four million people (that game’s players) had visited and “explored”.

(…)

With Bergman’s “seal of disapproval”, the concept is that the familiar Myst locations have been vandalized by millions of virtual players who have been trapped on the island, having “giv[en] up on trying to finish the damn thing”, and as a result have trashed the space, while a shady entrepreneur has built a “Dorian Grey money-making scheme”.

It’s a shame it sounds like it was poorly executed and didn’t stick the landing on neither the humour nor the gameplay because at first glance the setup and idea sounds kinda decent.

I struggled - and still struggle - so much with this after getting diagnosed.

I still use my old iPod from like 15 years ago.

Same, all the Star Wars slop Disney has churned out has completely washed any lingering magic out of the fabric of the franchise for me. I don’t even feel the desire to watch supposedly good Star Wars products like Andor these days.

Here is where I was surprised. My second case the game makes me choose. Between placing Blame, Ascend or Descend the spirit and its most loved one. That shapes the game for you each case choice matters in the end.

What I want to know is: are the choices actually interesting, though? For so many games with choices like this they aren’t really choices. It’s just “do the right thing and get the good ending or don’t and get the bad ending”.