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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I friggin loved Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture! It was like listening to those dramas on british radio, but set at your own pace. And it had the most excellent 80s UK vibe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The amount of glazing they do, holy fuck. They had me too for a minute before I started wondering if this is just an april fools joke

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Getting real tired of this bullshit activism, man. I get it, we all hate LLMs but it’s literally one or two burnt out guys writing this in their spare time. If people really want to do something useful at least go and review the code and then you can shit on his work for legitimate reasons if you really do find it’s bad. Stop demonizing open source devs ffs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia to temporarily ease fuel quality standards⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “Omg, fuel cost is skyrocketing” “We could promote elec-” “Time to allow cars to run on bunker fuels!”

  Is Australia trying a mad-max speedrun?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox Co-founder Says Microsoft is Quietly Sunsetting the Platform⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One can only hope

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox Co-founder Says Microsoft is Quietly Sunsetting the Platform⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some victory. PC sales were plummeting in favour of mobile and now component prices. Console space is now done with any semblance of competition - Sony is now a monopoly and will start behaving as such. And xbox’s portfolio of many many IPs will go straight to the bin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox chief Phil Spencer is leaving Microsoft⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re gonna fuck up Forza Horizon 6 and Fable, aren’t they? I was cautiosly optimistic about those two under Phil, but I’m pretty sure they’re doomed now

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Discord probably did the math and are willing to take a hit to the user counts (much like reddit did when they closed the apis), as the vast majority will stay and keep “threatening” to leave. There’s at least the hope that the ones who quit now will establish communities elsewhere, on a (hopefully) better server platform.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DVDs and public transit: Boycott drives people to ditch Big Tech to protest ICE⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  targeting tech companies who, they believe, are not doing enough to stand up against President Trump’s aggressive immigration crackdown

  Oh ffs, they’re not doing enoigh because they’ve submitted to him! They literally went to his inauguration to kiss the ring!

  But better late then never I suppose

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Civilization 8 could be a proper early access game - "never say never", comment Firaxis⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the major changes with Civilization VI was that Firaxis had access to lot more player telemetry, compared to Civilisation V, rather than monitoring the feedback on Reddit and fansites like CivFanatics. Amongst other things, they discovered that most players don’t finish a single game, which is part of the reason for Civ 7’s more broken-up, modular historical progression.

  So they used all that user data to change the future game to appeal to the lowest common denominator, as it were. And it resulted in the most controversial civ of recent years. And their plan for the future? Continue like this, of course - only now they’re considering formalizing this approach with an official EA label. God I hate the gaming landscape these days

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Coastal road swept away into the sea in Devon⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hm, doesn’t look much worse than some of the B roads i’ve driven there

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RAM Prices Got You Down? Try DDR3. Seriously!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean DDR3 is provably fine. I ran a 16GB DDR3 machine with a goddamn 2500k up until several years ago and pre-2020 games usually ran fine, on playable framerates ( i did have win7, not sure how win10 fares ). Question is: who is this article for? Most tech enhusiasts have probably moved on by now, and even those are a small subset of PC users. “Normies”? Those moved on to phones and tables - it’s why windows has lost 400million machines in 3 years. So who are all these people so left behind that DDR3 is an upgrade but are still currently itching to buy ram? I don’t get it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Pricing on this is something else, man. 70€ base, 100€ deluxe, 120€ for the premium. And they moved most of content into the premium tier. The only difference btw the 70 and the 100 € versions is the car pass ( which could act as a huge car pack as in the past they had a couple dozen cars ). Also the premium tier does not include future car packs ( which may be fair but i have a feeling they will nickle and dime us for cars already present in FH4/FH5 ). There’s a good chance the game will be good, but you can also bet MS will squeeze us dry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For an article quoting a study, this one is embarrasingly short on actual references or links to the reddit subs and posts it mentions. There’s literally only a link to the 2018 study and the rest coild well be speculation.

  Now I don’t know about corporate manipulation, but what I can confirm I’ve seen is a lot of small businesses using reddit to shift opinions. For example: local rental car providers on the madeira sub. Or food retailers on my local city’s sub.

  And, more worryingly, there’s an absurd amount of political propaganda. For example the waves of accounts on my native language sub supporting absolutely everything a political party does. Or the blatant manipulation being done on conservative. Or the sudden vanishing of near all kamala-supporting accounts in the morning following american election night. It’s absolutely astounding.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox Developer_Direct Returns January 22: Fable, Forza Horizon 6, and Beast of Reincarnation to be shown⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you have a source for that? I’m curious about what they said

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The 2025 Steam Awards Winners⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s definitely flawed. But I found it to be original if nothing else and a breath of fresh air in a world of extraction shooters, rogueliles and soulslikes. Rather reminded me of Death Stranding when it came out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The 2025 Steam Awards Winners⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn, they did my boy The Alters dirty. Not a single win.

  Also, Arc Raiders most innovative? Isn’t it just an (admittedly improved) extraction shooter?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We'll probably never see a Grand Theft Auto set in a futuristic city like GTA 2 because the team "hated it": "People didn’t connect with the game or its city"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, the historical and geographical context of the newer entries definitely adds to the satire, but GTA2 wasn’t a bad game at all. I def liked it more 1 and 3 at the time. Interesting that the dev team wasn’t fond of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG is Getting Acquired By Its Original Co- Founder: What It Means For You⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I do too, but imagine the drop in donations/subscriptions if they were to pull a stunt like the one with steam/mastercard and porn games. Or if they were to not want to remove a game that features, say, the gaza genocide but on israel’s side, or some other extremely divisive issue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG is Getting Acquired By Its Original Co- Founder: What It Means For You⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m having mixed feelings about this. On the one hand it could be better for gog to break away from a stock listed company that has proved on occasion it still behaves like a stock listed company and likely still do in the future. Also it seems like they’re keeping their values.

  On the other, gog has been fairly volatile and hasn’t always returned a profit. Without a big company behind, it may be just a few years of unprofitability away from from going under. More worryingly though, it doesn’t have the same staying power as steam or its infinite funds, so it might get harder to uphold those “no drm, independence” etc policies.

  Time will tell I guess

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Elite Dangerous. Always Elite Dangerous. But seriously, it’s a great time to get into E:D

  Other than that, I’ve been having great fun with Escape From Duckov

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jason Schreier's List of the Best Video Games of 2025⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree but these are usually supposed to be the first line when games/news hit the web, and sometimes it appears that the only decent journalist left is Schreier, with everyone else seemingly following him and his direction. Paid coverage definitely accounts for some of the overlap, but like you said it’s probably just reviewers aiming for a greater audience.

  There’s always steam curated lists for the rest, I suppose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jason Schreier's List of the Best Video Games of 2025⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The one surprising bit about this is the lack of E33. I know it’s not Jason’s fault but it irks me that every game news outlet repeatedly highlights the same dozen games or so. I’m following four of them and 80% of coverage and reviews is for the same games over and over again. Only digitalfoundry strays off on occasion, and that’s because they aim towards a more technical discussion. There were literally 19000 games released on steam alone last year, and everyone seems to only cover E33, BG3, Blue Prince, Hollow Knight, Elden Ring, CoD etc. I have to subscribe to obscure subs or youtube channels just to get coverage of the occasional forgotten indie.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RAM and SSD prices are still climbing—here’s our best advice for PC builders⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sadly it may actually be your ram. I had a 1660 until a couple months ago and the card kept up fine, at lest for older games. With 16gb of memory though my system kept bottlenecking. Upgrading to 32 was like a breath of fresh air

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for games to watch Let's Plays of: Recommend me something!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pacific Drive?

  It’s a great game with a great story ( that I kinda rushed through because I couldn’t enjoy the constant tension - instead the couple playthroughs I watched were very enjoyable )

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨steam vs gog, which game store to buy from?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I try to go GOG first, so I can keep the installation kits offline. There are however a lot of good indies on Steam, and few of these ever get ported from there. Steam workshop is also fantastic and doesn’t really have a match on other platforms, and unlike GOG they provide good linux support. Also worth noting that some of the old games on GOG are inferior to their steam counterparts ( see Commander Keen for example ). So yes, I’d say both are good, but maybe prioritise GOG first.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"I really get the feeling that Planet Centauri is cursed", says dev of a game that's now been Steamrolled by Valve twice⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Never heard of this game but it looks like a near identical Starbound clone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LEGO Star Trek Enterprise REVIEW⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Could be. I’m not seeing any particularly rare pieces other that the two blue printed canopies under the saucer. However, odds are it’ll be way more expensive to source and ship the parts unless you already have a lot of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Space battle games for casual player?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In increasing order of casualness I recommend: Elite Dangerous->X3/X4->Everspace/Everspace 2-> No Man’s Sky.

  Everspace 2 is a spiritual successor to Freelancer, so probably your best bet ( Everspace 1 is more roguelike, but holds up nicely ). Speaking of Freelancer, I hear the game is still alive and has a vibrant community around it.

  If you ever want to revisit Elite shoot me a message, I may help you with starting up. They say Elite doesn’t have a learning curve but a cliff, so help is usually needed. Luckily the game has the most welcoming and helpful community I’ve seen in/around a video game.

  Other than these, there’s Chorus, but I haven’t played that one and it seems more story driven than open-ended.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone remember Heroes of Might & Magic 3? A remake is coming⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For those unaware, there is also Heroes of Science and Fiction, which is essentially homm 3 with a fresh scifi coat of paint and lots of qol stuff. It’s in early access but man it catches the vibe so well.