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Notices by Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com), page 28

  1. Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Sunday, 10-Feb-2019 11:32:09 EST Annah Annah
    • matt 🏴
    • Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅
    @purplehippo @matt @bob The Micro I remember from school cos getting to play on the like two my school had was literally the best thing at that age.
    In conversation Sunday, 10-Feb-2019 11:32:09 EST from community.highlandarrow.com permalink
  2. Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Sunday, 10-Feb-2019 11:27:40 EST Annah Annah
    • Annah
    • matt 🏴
    • Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅
    @purplehippo @matt @bob We had to retrofit our C64 when we moved here because 50hz and PAL.
    In conversation Sunday, 10-Feb-2019 11:27:40 EST from community.highlandarrow.com permalink
  3. Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Sunday, 10-Feb-2019 11:19:53 EST Annah Annah
    • matt 🏴
    • Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅
    @bob @matt C64s were big back home to ... but it was a much more diverse market in the UK than it was in the US.  Here we also had the Dragon, the BBC Micro, and so on, along with the Commodore C64 and the C128, but in the US it was pretty much just that
    In conversation Sunday, 10-Feb-2019 11:19:53 EST from community.highlandarrow.com permalink
  4. Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Sunday, 10-Feb-2019 09:26:33 EST Annah Annah
    in reply to
    • Verius
    @verius It becomes a lot easier to understand why it does things the way it does when you learn that it was essentially designed for the US Department of Defense.
    In conversation Sunday, 10-Feb-2019 09:26:33 EST from community.highlandarrow.com permalink
  5. Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Sunday, 10-Feb-2019 07:17:18 EST Annah Annah
    • Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅
    • nil
    @bob @sim I don't want it over this, because it means idiots will likely just flock to Brussels instead of Westminster.  Neither gives a fuck about us and both will exploit us.  Plus, SNP can go fuck themselves, the nationalist twats.
    In conversation Sunday, 10-Feb-2019 07:17:18 EST from community.highlandarrow.com permalink
  6. Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 10-Feb-2019 04:09:04 EST Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅
    • Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅
    The brexit thing isn't really about xenophobia, although there is always a quotient of that. It's a power struggle between the westminster and brussels governments over who gets to make laws. Who owns the proles on this particular runway strip. The manner in which both of these create laws is opaque and very corrupted by lobbyists.

    The reason why people, especially on birdsite, get so riled up is that they do want genuine control over their lives and communities. But neither westminster nor brussels has the intention of delivering that, and nor can they.

    The current economy consists mostly of scams anf oppressive stuff. We've had a lost decade of austerity and food banks and other really grim stuff. It's not surprising that people want more autonomy, and to dismiss that as xenophobia is to miss the point.
    In conversation Sunday, 10-Feb-2019 04:09:04 EST from soc.freedombone.net permalink Repeated by maiyannah
  7. Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Saturday, 09-Feb-2019 21:55:57 EST Annah Annah
    @purplehippo Feels like its mostly there to satisfy some requirement for everything on console to have multiplayer these days.  I don't hate it, its kind of lowkey fun, but it is a lot of wasted potential.
    In conversation Saturday, 09-Feb-2019 21:55:57 EST from community.highlandarrow.com permalink
  8. Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Saturday, 09-Feb-2019 21:50:27 EST Annah Annah
    in reply to
    • Annah
    Its not unenjoyable but its enjoyable in basically the least satisfying way imaginable.
    In conversation Saturday, 09-Feb-2019 21:50:27 EST from community.highlandarrow.com permalink
  9. Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Saturday, 09-Feb-2019 21:48:42 EST Annah Annah
    AC7 multiplayer is ... ehh?

    It's so basic and small as to be kind of boring honestly.
    In conversation Saturday, 09-Feb-2019 21:48:42 EST from community.highlandarrow.com permalink
  10. Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Saturday, 09-Feb-2019 20:37:12 EST Annah Annah
    @purplehippo Little bit of both likely.  As Carl Sagan pointed out, the longer you buy into a con-man, the less likely you are to admit you've been conned.
    In conversation Saturday, 09-Feb-2019 20:37:12 EST from community.highlandarrow.com permalink
  11. Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Saturday, 09-Feb-2019 20:27:12 EST Annah Annah
    @purplehippo Once upon a time they were a good mid-teir publisher of niche titles, nowadays they're the "selling your data to people" borg collective, and one of the publishers that has the most egregious DRM schemes that somehow flies mostly under the radar in that regard.
    In conversation Saturday, 09-Feb-2019 20:27:12 EST from community.highlandarrow.com permalink
  12. Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Saturday, 09-Feb-2019 14:57:51 EST Annah Annah
    • Feli Goldstein
    @feli 1/10 low quality hot take try harder
    In conversation Saturday, 09-Feb-2019 14:57:51 EST from community.highlandarrow.com permalink
  13. Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Saturday, 09-Feb-2019 13:22:46 EST Annah Annah
    About 73 bucks short this month.  And thats if I can get them to pay for this med.  Oof.
    In conversation Saturday, 09-Feb-2019 13:22:46 EST from community.highlandarrow.com permalink
  14. Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Saturday, 09-Feb-2019 13:16:49 EST Annah Annah
    • Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅
    • @h
    @bob @h Well we wouldn't want to be humanising anything, that's just terrible.
    In conversation Saturday, 09-Feb-2019 13:16:49 EST from community.highlandarrow.com permalink
  15. Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Saturday, 09-Feb-2019 13:13:46 EST Annah Annah
    in reply to
    • Annah
    @purplehippo I don't want to oversell it, the plot turns were fairly predictable, but they were at least interesting things.
    In conversation Saturday, 09-Feb-2019 13:13:46 EST from community.highlandarrow.com permalink
  16. Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Saturday, 09-Feb-2019 13:12:00 EST Annah Annah
    @purplehippo Its like any of the earlier Ass Creed games.  Its not bad, but they're all basically the same thing.  The appeal with Black Flag is PIRATES! but they never really do much with it other than some cameos.  Rogue actuallyt had some interesting plot turns in an Assassain dude going over to the Templar and exploring the consequences thereof, and the fact that made the game actually interesting is probably why they never went any further with it.  Interesting isn't "safe".

    Hmm, I need to fix image links in this apparently, but wordy words: https://www.highlandarrow.com/review/pc/assassins-creed-rogue.html
    In conversation Saturday, 09-Feb-2019 13:12:00 EST from community.highlandarrow.com permalink

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  17. Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Saturday, 09-Feb-2019 13:01:51 EST Annah Annah
    @purplehippo There's plenty of point to it ... just nothing that benefits the consumer.  It essentially is a long con ... getting people to buy into a series using a false premise, only to then change things fundamentally once people are invested.
    In conversation Saturday, 09-Feb-2019 13:01:51 EST from community.highlandarrow.com permalink
  18. Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Saturday, 09-Feb-2019 12:53:55 EST Annah Annah
    @purplehippo Probably the most egregious example of this lately was that Ass Creed game where they let players project on the main character all they like and then decided in the expansion only one very specific set of conversation choices was canon.  (To force them into slashficy relationship of the developer's choosing, to boot.)
    In conversation Saturday, 09-Feb-2019 12:53:55 EST from community.highlandarrow.com permalink
  19. Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Saturday, 09-Feb-2019 12:46:00 EST Annah Annah
    @purplehippo I would in fact actually say the story elements they added actively are to the game's detriment.  Before, the main characters had a sort of base personality expressed through their characters, a general persona, and that's it.  They became fairly projected-upon by their respective players and people would invent their own little stories, which made people somewhat attached to them.  2 having the story elements for the characters like that essentially makes them a singular character where they weren't before, and that appeal is lost.
    In conversation Saturday, 09-Feb-2019 12:46:00 EST from community.highlandarrow.com permalink
  20. Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Saturday, 09-Feb-2019 12:44:17 EST Annah Annah
    @purplehippo It was likely more a case of "hey we were doing this anyways, might as well get paid for it"
    In conversation Saturday, 09-Feb-2019 12:44:17 EST from community.highlandarrow.com permalink
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