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- Comment on Video games are losing the "attention war" to gambling, porn, and crypto, according to industry report 1 week ago:
Lightning in a bottle, I had a blast
- Comment on Elder Scrolls 6 Is Powered By New Version Of Creation Engine 1 week ago:
Translation: it’s the same shitty gamebryo they’re always using.
- Comment on ‘This shouldn’t be normal’: developers speak out about bigotry on Steam, the world’s biggest PC gaming storefront 1 week ago:
bigoted reviews posted on games’ Steam pages, which can hugely affect sales for their developers; and Steam curators (self-appointed taste-makers on the platform) directing campaigns against games they perceive to lean left or pursue inclusion.
This fucking shit again. Reviews affect sales? Well, good. You don’t get to carefully select a few most-read outlets who’ll give you the thumb up. Also, chud curators are “directing” only those who follow them. This argument is about a failing industry that’d like to control what can be said about their products.
- Comment on Death Stranding 2: On the Beach - PC Announce Trailer (March 19) 2 weeks ago:
I’m gonna be there for director’s cut in 2029, up to 20€.
- Comment on The developers of PEAK, explaining how they decided on pricing for their game. 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Remedy's new CEO is a former sports betting guy and EA executive who aims to 'scale Remedy in a way that builds lasting value' 2 weeks ago:
Remedy’s cooked, though I like their games enough that I’ll gladly pay up to 25€ a year after it’s out for a single-player experience with no need for an online connection and no added live service “value”, also provided it doesn’t come with denuvo.
- Comment on Microsoft rolls out native Sysmon monitoring in Windows 11 3 weeks ago:
Not only that, Russinovich through some magic made them keep this online: live.sysinternals.com and it’s the best site MS has, no bullshit whatsoever, dates showing when the tools were last updated. If you’re helping some unfortunate soul doomed to windows, it’s a great resource.
- Comment on AI Didn't Break Copyright Law, It Just Exposed How Broken It Already Was 3 weeks ago:
Just like Aaron Swartz
- Comment on What is immersion to you? 4 weeks ago:
You can objectively measure it by asking a person playing for a fixed amount of time how much time has passed and measuring the discrepancy. Games that lately immersed me the most are Intravenous (1/2) and Riftbreaker.
- Comment on Why do you need a launcher? (asking older gamers actually) 4 weeks ago:
That’s true, but it’s also a pain in the ass compared to Steam, was my point. I can click on Dishonored and have it ready in 15 minutes while I make coffee, or I can download like
Dishonored - Definitive Edition (Part 1 of 5) 2 MB Dishonored - Definitive Edition (Part 2 of 5) 4 GB Dishonored - Definitive Edition (Part 3 of 5) 4 GB Dishonored - Definitive Edition (Part 4 of 5) 4 GB Dishonored - Definitive Edition (Part 5 of 5) 2.4 GB
and then install it by hand, after which I have double its size in used diskspace and have to delete those files.
- Comment on Why do you need a launcher? (asking older gamers actually) 4 weeks ago:
Not having a launcher is my requirement to buy a game lol
Good luck with that. I need it because I’ve fiddled with my screwdriver adjusting the cassette head position to load Scuba Diver on ZX Spectrum too many times.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Requires both Secure Boot & TPM 2.0
Fuck right off
- Comment on Nova Launcher gets a new owner and... ads 5 weeks ago:
It excellent, you can filter network access per app, or per IP, or isolate an app and allow it to access only certain addresses / ranges and the interface is really intuitive and user-friendly.
- Comment on Nova Launcher gets a new owner and... ads 5 weeks ago:
Up until today I was happy with turning off updates (as a precaution) and restricting Nova’s internet access (all phone network access is proxied through Rethink+), but this made me switch to Lawnchair and leave a 1-star review for both the free version and the paid upgrade token.
- Comment on Meta has discontinued its metaverse for work, too 1 month ago:
I would still like to see an explanation of why it is bad. Regardless of who will provide that explanation :)
Because they have Occulus’ locked up in their basement and VR gimmick du jour is worse, now instead of just having a headset where you have to use their account and see ads for their shitty corpo vr chat every time you login you’ll have a mandatory llm paperclip learning your habits and shilling 24/7
- Comment on Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” 1 month ago:
Stupidest brand mishandling ever, this is incredibly shortsighted
- Comment on What are your gaming highlights of 2025? 2 months ago:
Sektori, it’s the best game I’ve played in a long time.
- Comment on Divinity - Cinematic Announcement Trailer 2 months ago:
“cinematic announcement”
Wow, it’s fucking nothing
- Comment on The best games of 2025, picked by NPR's staff 2 months ago:
It saddens me that Sektori came out too late to be on these lists, because they are effective marketing for indies and it’s one of the finest games ever made. It works flawlessly, is Linux friendly and is polished to a shine. It’s very opinionated design, but the opinions are in my opinion all correct and the overall game is a wonderful sequel to Geometry Wars. The only thing it’s missing right now is 2-player (at least) coop.
- Comment on Epic boss Tim Sweeney thinks stores like Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI: 'It makes no sense,' he says, because 'AI will be involved in nearly all future production 2 months ago:
It does make sense, because I’ll boycott nearly all future productions.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
That’s another problem, even if we disregard optimizations, AAA games from 2015. look better than modern upscaled stuff, Unreal Engine seems to be so easy enough to use nowadays that big vertically-integrated slop publishers replaced seasoned developers with the cheapest of zoomers.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
That’s exactly it, was looking for this comment.
- Comment on Horizon Steel Frontiers, an MMORPG twist on Sony's series about plinking robo-animals with arrows, is coming to PC 3 months ago:
This just looks like total crap, gameplay videos and all.
- Comment on GTA 6 dev Rockstar says recent firings were due to leaks of "confidential information" and were "in no way related to people's right to join a union" 3 months ago:
With proton it finally does.
- Comment on GTA 6 dev Rockstar says recent firings were due to leaks of "confidential information" and were "in no way related to people's right to join a union" 3 months ago:
- Comment on Assassin's Creed is a "forever brand" because Ubisoft supported huge risks with it, ex director says: "Whereas, say, EA, you get these awful execs and they never made games and they came from toothpaste companies" 3 months ago:
Sure, it’s a forever brand, can’t wait for it to be forever shelved after someone buys it as a piece of Ubisoft’s corpse.
- Comment on 4chan fined $26K for refusing to assess risks under UK Online Safety Act 4 months ago:
Noooo the britbong threads
- Comment on Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year 4 months ago:
AC is so moldy Ubisoft could only get excited with a nice big Grow Home / Up sequel with no microtransactions, no ingame shop and everything unlockable through playing.
- Comment on Xbox: "Price Increases Are Never Fun For Anybody" 4 months ago:
I would never give Microsoft money for their shitty subscription, so it is kind of fun for me.
- Comment on New Steam study alleges that Valve's store is home to extreme right-wing "wars" 4 months ago:
Valve does nothing
It’s not Valve’s job to provide a liberal education and loving community for the young’uns, the only thing Valve can do is censor discussions and ban people for what they are saying. Like tiktok is doing with “Israel is controlling the U.S. through AIPAC”.