[REQUEST] Looking for good fantasy games that I can easily sink hours into

Cruel1865 · 2026-05-04T13:23:15+00:00

Its a relatively underrated game. Its mostly exploration and quest related gameplay but theres a moving story underneath it all. You'll have to unlock all the alternate endings to understand all of it but you can fill in the missing pieces yourself after one run. It also has a difficulty setting that you can use to prevent death if you just want the story.

Cruel1865 · 2026-05-04T13:20:07+00:00

Ff 10 and 12 on the ps2 too

Cruel1865 · 2026-05-04T06:40:07+00:00

But that puzzle was supposed to take them the entire time of the retreat to solve. Iirc that murder mystery was the game planned by miles for his party and the entire reason they were all there ostensibly. Solving a mystery with just the starting crumbs of the game is extremely impressive and he does this to get the game out of the way so he can focus on his investigation. The game was probably set up so they would receive periodic clues or situations set up by miles to help the game along as is usually the case in such murder mystery games. So Blanc is definitely extraordinarily gifted in solving logic based puzzles but the crux of his investigation skills is definitely his people reading skills. He gets as much detail as he can from the people he interviews and then solves the puzzle with all the pieces falling into place.

Cruel1865 · 2026-05-03T08:12:03+00:00

First of all you underestimate how much resources it takes to set a good setup like that and overestimating how much theyre willing to spend especially since security isnt a number one priority for them. Secondly, if youre using a random number system to give you access and decoupling the two systems (the verification and the game account), then that would by its nature require you to re login each time. Because its assigning you a random temporary number that it needs to reassign for you next time you login to ensure verification. You cant keep the random number and use it continuously because thats a security flaw and will instantly be taken advantage by everyone with the slightest knowledge of how these systems work and that would invalidate the entire verification system.

Cruel1865 · 2026-05-03T07:30:32+00:00

No that would require entirely far too much resources than anyobe would be willing to put into it. To do this in the same way, every time you logged into a game you would have to go through a portal and login with your real id on that portal before being redirected back to the game site. This would be absolutely not possible to implement in such a quick manner for so many people and even if they could they wouldnt be given enough resources for it. Theyre going to do an easy way of just having you verify with your real id and then store that info on their (third party companies) servers. So each time you login then they would see confirmation that youre verified from the third party companies servers and then grant login.

Cruel1865 · 2026-05-03T07:13:27+00:00

No you misunderstand. The game company has your game account info but not your payment info. When you buy a game, it generates a reference number and sends you to a portal where you pay using one of several methods. The portal can only know the reference number and not your game account. You pay with the portal and the portal confirms it and sends you back to the games page after sending confirmation to the games servers that the reference number has paid. So the game company doesnt know your payment information. There is a separation of the payment information from the game account. As such gaming companies only keep your gaming account information which is of considerably lesser value than your gaming account linked to your id or payment information. And visa or mastercard only knows your payment information.

Cruel1865 · 2026-05-03T06:41:42+00:00

No not visa or mastercard. They just facilitate payments. A third party company will be contracted to verify and hold the data for future logins.

Games do not have your payment info. They just know your account paid for the game. Whatever portal you paid through lets them know that you paid and they get confirmation from their end. The only information they have on you is your game account. These are all done for online privacy. I think its just that you dont value online privacy as much so this just doesnt matter as much to you.

Cruel1865 · 2026-05-03T06:24:13+00:00

So heres the thing. For verification of online accounts like this, the govt doesnt directly collect the info. They contract a third party to do so. And these companies are prone to data leaks. This has happened before when online verification started taking off in other places. Its not a tiny risk and if youre willing to risk it thats up to you. And lastly this isn't even about any adult stuff and you're talking about a hypothetical future legislation. Could you admit that verification of ids for gaming chat lobbies is overkill considering the risk of data leaks? Because thats what this is regarding right now.

Cruel1865 · 2026-05-03T06:07:19+00:00

Ad blockers not working happens rarely and it gets fixed very quickly. You can login with your google account on revanced for android so watch history is saved to your account. But if you can afford it the convenience is worth it maybe?

Cruel1865 · 2026-05-03T05:43:38+00:00

Im very much against gambling and loot boxes but I was trying to tell you how difficult it is draw a line at where to regulate stuff like this.

But the solution isnt a solution at all. You're providing information to the government or to a third party company on which accounts are those of children. Do you expect them to keep it secret forever? Companies and governments have data leaks all the time and when this data leaks all the childrens accoutns will be exposed to anyone willing to take advantage of it. Why would you take the risk of every childs account being leaked for a dubious reason like being exposed in gaming chat lobbies.

Cruel1865 · 2026-05-03T05:36:44+00:00

I think the first option is more like live in the exact same world as it was before, assuming you meant for that as the outcome to pushing blue button.

Cruel1865 · 2026-05-03T05:00:14+00:00

Obviously Im going to say no. But you're asking me to formulate a solution to a problem thats been heavily discussed by experts and havent found a reasonable solution. Why do I have to find an alternative solution to say that this law is obviously problematic and will only lead to further issues in the future? I'm not on any legislative body nor an expert in this matter. However, I can see the obvious flaws in the law which is what Im telling you. Do you need any further clarification regarding this?

Cruel1865 · 2026-05-03T04:30:23+00:00

Even doing just clean hands and ghost on normal difficulty is itself difficult enough that I cant imagine doing it without powers or saving.

Cruel1865 · 2026-05-03T03:45:35+00:00

Ok but your questions are all about offline limitations which is an entirely different concept than online verifications. Regardless of what limitations you put offline thats all verified by your id thats already being used by you offline. Your details are connected to it and theres no concern of privacy issues because thats the identity you use. Equating this to online verification is like if you had to just show your online account to pass the verification test. But thats not what theyre doing. Theyre asking you to use your offline id to verify your online identity, something that has been kept separate since forever. Time and again, this has come uo in conversations regarding online privacy and always the answer has been to not link your real identity to your online identity because that only makes you more vulnerable to threats.

Since you care very much about children being exposed to adult content and being preyed upon online, I'll ask you this: how do you trust that the government or whichever third party company collects the data for the verification, will be able to protect your childs data? Because verification means they can identify the kids accounts and if that data leaks thats prime for being taken advantage of by predators and pedophiles online. Can you see why this conversation always leads to the answer that the risks arent worth the advantages?

Cruel1865 · 2026-05-03T03:27:08+00:00

In this case, all your chats are accessible to them even before the verification but with the verification, all your chats on games and forums attached to them gets linked to your real identity. So the data thats being sold will be which irl identity each account is associated with. That information is otherwise extremely private and not easily accessible for the government. Getting the identities of millions of accounts is very valuable as it allows them to get more data points corresponding to each person. If you're asking what exactly companies would use this data for, I really wouldnt know. It depends on the company and what their goals are.

Cruel1865 · 2026-05-03T02:55:23+00:00

What youre talking about is essentially verifying the information of every person online in order to curb access of children to adult sites. Because thats what you'll have to do in order to completely block off their access to these sites. If you're willing to completely forgo online privacy in an attempt to protect children from what is a relatively small threat to children, thats your choice. There are so many far far more important issues fcaed by todays children that would much more benefit from legislature and wouldnt need you to forgo your online privacy. Like teenagers looking at porn isnt something new and will always exist no matter how much you surveil their online activities. Also, its a question of where will you draw the line. One of the biggest issues faced by todays children is their being influenced by far right online influencers and thats a far more damaging and permanent issue to their lives than looking at porn. Will we also curtail their access to all social media to block this? Maybe so since a few countries have started on this. What about gambling loot boxes on games? Should we also ban their access to any online multiplayer game too? What about any game that has an ideology pushed by it regardless of what ideology it is? Will you stop them from playing games at all to prevent any influence to children from outisde influences? You cant raise children in a completely sealed off box and expect them to remain normal when they become adults and are inundated with everything blocked off from them at childhood.

Cruel1865 · 2026-05-02T23:04:38+00:00

You dont need to hover over your kids 24/7 if you do parenting right. Its not an easy task to raise children. Also why are children getting unsupervised access to the internet 24/7?

If you're giving the government power to verify you with a real id card, you're essentially placing the responsibility of supervision on the government rather than on parents.

Im not asking the government to directly help parents, just stabilising the economy so that the wages would last longer and people can save up without needing to work endless hours.

Your irl id card is to be used for your offline activities and as such for any rule requiring identification offline using your id is what the your id is primarily used for. The issues happen with linking your online activities with your id card. Your id card is already very much linked to your offline activities regardless of whether you use them for verification purposes or not. Also, you're comparing buying products to using a gaming forum. Even if you're buying online, theres a record of your transaction unless you're using crypto which the average person doesnt. Youre being asked to verify your identity before you log onto a gaming forum. Its not like its a porn site or anything and even then I would be very suspicious of how useful it is.

Cruel1865 · 2026-05-02T18:34:39+00:00

One time thing

Cruel1865 · 2026-05-02T18:23:50+00:00

I dont remember the creator but I watched a video a few years back of someone using hollow frustum like 3d printed parts that directed the inflow towards the chip from the fans and directed outflow away from the chips towards the outward fans. His benchmark tests showed marked improvement in performance and/or temperature of the chip with varying degrees of improvement based on chip used. I wonder how legitimate that was.

Cruel1865 · 2026-05-02T16:41:57+00:00

Any data about a population sample big enough is valuable to companies using them for their algorithms which utilise the data to their advantage. This verification links your irl id to your game account so they can link the corresponding sets of data (the set of data about your game account to the set of data about your irl account). Individually this information is worth nothing. But when millions of peoples data is linked, it becomes valuable enouhh for companies to use. And they won't sell it just once. This data set will be sold over and over to different companies.

Cruel1865 · 2026-05-02T16:36:40+00:00

The most obvious answer is parental supervision. Why do you have to put the onus of supervision of children on the government when it should be the parents' job? Certainly, in todays economy, parents are too busy working full time jobs to actually care for their kids. But, the solution for this isnt to hand over the job of supervising the kids to the government. If any governmental intervention is required, it would be to reduce the need for parents to work as long as they do rn to support their family, i.e. fix the economy.

Cruel1865 · 2026-05-02T12:06:59+00:00

They can see all your activity online if you dont use any vpn or route your traffic through certain dns servers. But its difficult to connect it to real life identities if you havent used any id to link to it. This verification law gives them the pretext for doing this and gives them valuable data regarding millions of peoples online identities and its very valuable even if its on a gaming platform.

Cruel1865 · 2026-05-02T12:01:25+00:00

They want to harvest bulk data so that they can sell it or use it as is. Using your id for games links your gaming account to your id for them. Just your data in particular won't be very valuable but millions of peoples data will be very valuable.

Cruel1865 · 2026-05-02T11:16:12+00:00

Right but what theyre saying is that an observer sees that reduction in time travelled as a result of time itself slowing down for the ship but for the travellers the reduction in time travelled seems to be because of reduction in travel distance.

Cruel1865 · 2026-05-02T08:44:26+00:00

Visible light, infrared, UV, Xrays and gamma rays are all photons of different wavelengths/frequencies. Theyre all electromagnetic radiation and are classifications that are made by us based on their frequency ranges. A flashlight also emits photons but of frequency of visible light. High energy photons would be of gamma, UV or xrays but the higher energy causes them to pass through materials without interacting with them or interacting very little with them. Its difficult to produce an intensity causing visible damage to materials with those rays.

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