Vespair
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- Comment on Chrono Trigger Remake Seemingly Confirmed By Yuji Horii 20 hours ago:
I’m excited to see if they turn it into a FPS or a Sokoban-type game, since we learned from FF7R that apparently you can radically change the core gameplay mechanic but still call your game a “remake” somehow
- Comment on Valve's invite-only Deadlock has an even more exclusive top-secret hush-hush version 20 hours ago:
I know I’m an old head, but I fall all of these games (Deadlock, Apex Legends, Overwatch, whatever) to be fun for about two hours and then I’m sated.
I genuinely wish I understood the appeal because so many people seem to get so much joy from them.
- Comment on Recommendations for "girly" games? 1 day ago:
I can’t recommend Celeste enough, personally.
I will warn you that the platforming can be challenging, but if it’s too stressful Celeste offers almost unparalleled accessibility options that will allow you fine control over the difficulty so no matter your skill level you’ll be able to progress.
Great story, cozy atmosphere but still emotional impact, and the only “fighting” you do is against yourself.
Amazing game, highly recommend Celeste
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- Comment on Almost 19% of Japanese people in their 20s have spent so much money on gacha they struggled with covering living expenses, survey reveals - AUTOMATON WEST 2 weeks ago:
And you should sit down and stop offering your ignorant opinion. I’m going to block you now, have a nice life.
- Comment on Almost 19% of Japanese people in their 20s have spent so much money on gacha they struggled with covering living expenses, survey reveals - AUTOMATON WEST 2 weeks ago:
What an insane comparison. Addiction to gacha games is nothing like sexual assault. Talk to any specialist in addiction and while they certainly will talk about the evils of the various systems meant to capture such prey (gambling, drinking, etc), not a single one will fully absolve the addict of their part in the addiction.
Period.
A person who is a victim of rape never walked into a rapist’s house and ordered a rape; there is nothing comparable about and victims of addiction.
You’re fucking disgusting.
- Comment on Almost 19% of Japanese people in their 20s have spent so much money on gacha they struggled with covering living expenses, survey reveals - AUTOMATON WEST 2 weeks ago:
I mean…
The unfortunate reality is that both parties, the customer and the game company, are culpable and both share blame
- Comment on Almost 19% of Japanese people in their 20s have spent so much money on gacha they struggled with covering living expenses, survey reveals - AUTOMATON WEST 2 weeks ago:
Personally I don’t play any game with microtransactions.
I’m only interested in games I can purchase outright and then own. If there’s large scale DLC that’s fine, great even, but if there’s some in-game way to spend money that isn’t restricted to a DLC button/section, then I’m not interested.
I want to play games, not be inundated by constant sales opportunities
- Comment on Even his doctors are full of it 2 weeks ago:
Yes, that is exactly what I meant. Cheers
- Comment on Even his doctors are full of it 2 weeks ago:
I never said stop reporting, I said stop acting surprised. I don’t want them to stop talking about it, I just want them to be honest about it and say “Trump lied about this today” instead of “the Trump white house thinks…”
I just want them to call a spade a spade instead of acting like it’s not
- Comment on Even his doctors are full of it 2 weeks ago:
We have to stop reporting on Trump lies like they’re shocking.
Yeah dude, the lying liar lied.
Literally every time this dude opens his mouth he is either lying or spewing hate. Sure as the sun will rise tomorrow, so will Trump lie.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to ‘delete all IP law’ | TechCrunch 2 weeks ago:
Honestly, I’m a fan of abolishing IP law too, but for some reason I suspect the implementation of that they support is very different than the one I support
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 weeks ago:
First off, I’m American, but I understand your decision. Elbows up!
Beyond that, gotta be honest I’m not a huge classic rock guy, so I don’t even recognize about half those names. But that’s cool; I like stumbling into stuff I haven’t before.
I know Harvest of course (it’s great but I agree on Neil’s voice). And the Guess Who are one of those bands I know the singles from, but haven’t really explored deeper than that. Likewise I have never really dove into Gordon Lightfoot but I like what I know of his a lot; I absolutely adore Sundown. Rush I’ve listened to a bit but I’m more a Yes guy when it comes to classic prog rock.
Beyond that I’ve heard of but haven’t heard anything by Tragically Hip and Great Big Sea, but the rest are new names to me.
I’d say if I were to try to find something at the intersection of our interests and you say you like classic rock and Iron Maiden, the most recent Pentagram album ‘Lightning in a Bottle,’ which is technically a traditional doom metal/stoner rock album, but to my ears I think sounds a lot like Maiden mixed with a real classic rock sound and just a touch of doom on top (and obviously Bobby Liebling is no Bruce Dickinson) would probably be my first thought… but they’re American (from my neck of the woods, actually) and I don’t want suggest crossing the metaphorical picket line, so maybe bank the suggestion as something to check out if we’re ever freed from the insanity of our current situation. ✌
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 3 weeks ago:
Oh god, I listen to a lot of music, so get ready, and fair warning I’m kind of a metalhead (but I genuinely do listen to everything), lol. Here’s a quick rundown of my recent listening, with minimal notes
Sear Bliss - Heavenly Down. melodic black metal with a trombone!
Within Destruction - Animetal. deathcore goes pop sensibilities; I really think between this album and Left to Suffer’s ‘Leap of Death’ we’re on the precipice of the birth of a new microgenre that does to deathcore what easycore did to melodic hardcore and metalcore.
The Weeknd - Hurry Up Tomorrow. I’ve been a Weeknd fan since his original three mixtapes dropped, and finally got around to listening to his latest.
Dayseeker - Dark Sun. metalcore-tinged synthpop.
Watsky - Intention. kinda hippie-drenched indie hip-hop?
Rioghan - Kept. melodic and slightly djenty alt-metal; I was really hyped for Jinjer’s new album before it came out but honestly Rioghan’s Kept kind of sounds like what I wanted but didn’t fully get from Jinjer.
and I also recently caught up on some classics that somehow flew under my radar:
The Devil Wears Prada - With Roots Above and Branches Below.
Whitechapel - This is Exile
Emmure - Goodbye to the Gallows
As I Lay Dying - An Ocean Between Us
and today I’ve been obsessively listening to: Deafheaven - Lonely People With Power. just absolutely insanely incredible blackgaze post-metal.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 3 weeks ago:
I’ve been so focused on active album listening lately that I haven’t been playing much, so I’m still chugging my way through Cyberpunk and Moonlighter currently, and enjoying both of them thus far.
Although I did pick up Furi while it’s 80% on steam, but honestly I only played it for a little bit so far so I don’t really have any opinions about it yet
- Comment on Who else misses Battlefield 1943? 3 weeks ago:
Honestly the difference between 1942 and 1943 on NES is enormous. 1942 was okay, but 1943 was so much better in every way, especially sound (the audio in 1942 is awful).
If you enjoyed 1942, I recommend loading 1943 on an emulator for a spin.
- Comment on Who else misses Battlefield 1943? 3 weeks ago:
I’ve never played any of the Battlefield games at all, tbh. I don’t even know what they’re about, really. Somebody convince me to try them!
But you know what game I do miss regularly? 1942. I just played the absolute hell out of 1942 as a kid, probably one of my most played NES games.
- Comment on Cassette Beasts, my favorite pokemon-like, is 50% off. 3 weeks ago:
Hahaha yeah it took awhile for her to grow on me but I ended up pretty fond of her by the end of it.
And yes, I liked it more than any Pokemon game, but tbh I think it’s such a different thing that it doesn’t even feel entirely accurate to directly compare them in that way
- Comment on Cassette Beasts, my favorite pokemon-like, is 50% off. 3 weeks ago:
This is exactly how I feel about it. It feels like the creators love and were inspired by Pokemon, but aren’t just making a carbon copy. There are so many Pokemon-clones out there, it’s great to see that Cassette Beasts merely took only the most basic foundations of Pokemon and truly built their own original game on top of that foundation, rather than trying to rebuild the exact same structure.
- Comment on Don't ever hassle a dog when on a plane 3 weeks ago:
Nah, one of the major entitlement epidemics of our time absolutely deserves that level of ire. Keep your fucking dogs at homes or stay at the dog park.
- Comment on Cassette Beasts, my favorite pokemon-like, is 50% off. 3 weeks ago:
Tbh I didn’t intentionally do that, so I think there much be some kind of trigger on this sub to automatically cross-post?
- Comment on Request for FPS recommendations. 3 weeks ago:
If you want an unorthodox suggestion, Metal:Hellsinger is a rhythm-FPS that’s not like GOTY material, but it’s a lot of fun. Great for turning your brain off and just going vibe mode while you shoot a bunch of demons.
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- Comment on We are so cooked 4 weeks ago:
Did Mark Wahlberg hate crime all the bees to death?
- Comment on Rocky rock rocking 4 weeks ago:
It’s definitely not a pipe
- Comment on Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot 5 weeks ago:
And it’s beyond obvious in the way LLMs are conditioned, especially if you’re used them long enough to notice trends. Where early on their responses were straight to the point (inaccurate as hell, yes, but that’s not what we’re talking about in this case) today instead they are meandering and full of straight engagement bait - programmed to feign some level of curiosity and ask stupid and needless follow-up questions to “keep the conversation going.” I suspect this is just a way to increase token usage to further exploit and drain the whales who tend to pay for these kinds of services, personally.
There is no shortage of ethical quandaries brought into the world with the rise of LLMs, but in my opinion the locked-down nature of these systems is one of the most problematic; if LLMs are going to be the commonality it seems the tech sector is insistent on making happen, then we really need to push back on these companies being able to control and guide them in their own monetary interests.
- Comment on Could you explain to me why you like silent hill 1? (Spoilers) 1 month ago:
Yeah having already played D a couple years earlier, when Silent Hill came out it didn’t look like anything revolutionary to me, and replaying D had already shown me that cinematic horror only works the first time through anyway. Still don’t get the appeal.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 month ago:
I had good times on WoW for a long time, and a good time on a private UO server for awhile… Maybe I should look into a private WoW server. Blizzard (as it is today) is a shithole I don’t want to give more money, but my love for WoW as a property is undeniable.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 month ago:
I picked up Cyberpunk on the Steam sale so I’m just starting that. Aside from that, I’m kind of casually working my way through Coromon, which so far isn’t great but it scratching the Pokemon-like itch well enough. That said, if other folks were looking for a Pokemon-like to try, I’d recommend Cassette Beast a hundred times over before recommending Coromon.
- Comment on Your all-time favorite game? Let's discuss the best options! 1 month ago:
I dunno. Frankly they’re both absolutely pantheon, legendary games that deliver a near-perfect gaming experience, but I feel like Portal 1 delivered a kind of tighter package where Portal 2 meanders just a little bit, and while Wheatley is still brilliant I’m not sure I he hit the same way or struck the same tone as GlaDOS. But we’re talking about like nanometers of difference in quality here either way as both games are goddamn stellar.