absquatulate
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- Comment on All hail brand synergy, Cyberpunk 2077 is getting a live action adaptation from Paramount and the producer behind the horrendous Doom movie 1 day ago:
Paramount? Producing a cyberpunk movie? Ironic
Edit: lol, Pondsmith isn’t even mentioned as a consultant or anything. Yea, my bet is this’ll be PG13 tripe
- Comment on Hackers steal millions of Discord IDs and email addresses in "deliberate, multi-stage attack" on security service Double Counter 2 days ago:
Yeah, definitely looks like a service you’d want to voluntarily submit id’s and face photos to.
- Comment on Steam Autumn Sale 2026 is live now with lots of discounts 1 week ago:
SCS’s truck sims? They’re great games, very chill driving while listening to radio or watching something on a second screen. And you can customize the level of sim-ness you want but it’s ok for both kb+m and wheel. Great community too. My gripes with them are that graphically the games are getting really long in the tooth and SCS seems to be unable or unwilling to do better and have instead been doing piecemeal map dlc for years now ( in their defense their newer maps are a lot better then what the game started with ). Btw, for map expansions you can also get the promods mods, which are huge map and gameplay expansions, but iirc they require the full game+dlc.
- Comment on ‘The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Remastered’ Hits A Metacritic Review Score Record 1 week ago:
Yeah, the record metacritic score was based off of just 10 critic reviews.
- Comment on ‘The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Remastered’ Hits A Metacritic Review Score Record 1 week ago:
Did it tho? On steam I’m seeing a third of new reviews being negative, probably due to the performance issues on amd.
- Comment on CD Projekt release full updated Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Remastered system specs, including ray-tracing and path-tracing requirements 1 week ago:
Much as I await this,it’s a bit sad to see my old gtx1660 relegated from the “high” bracket to bare minimum. Hopefully gog keep publishing the old-gen installer kit, for those with potato pcs.
- Comment on Age of Empires studio World's Edge reportedly lose nearly half their staff and a new game project in mass Xbox layoffs 2 weeks ago:
They didn’t “lose” shit, those people got canned by microsoft. After doing great work with Ensemble’s legacy, no less.
- Comment on Ahead of GTA 6, Rockstar warn modders against against making unofficial main story expansions, unauthorised ports and mods that combine GTA maps 2 weeks ago:
Lol, amazing what they can get away with. Imagine seeing a “mods are forbidden you rubes!” statement from ubisoft or EA
- Comment on Factorio gets a full ARM64 Linux port to play anywhere - especially nice for the Steam Frame 3 weeks ago:
Factorio in VR? I mean it’s good news, but why would you? Maybe for people that play exclusively in VR?
- Comment on "A dried husk of a product": former Doom producer berates Microsoft for making Halo a "mid-tier" game and mourns the "financialisation" of AAA 3 weeks ago:
we’re starting to get to the point where the financialisation period is taking place in video games in which, you know, basically every level of AAA gaming is managed by these people.
Not sure what he means with this “financialisation” period. Didn’t AAA always mean “big budget” (implying quality but not necessarily delivering) ? Of course they’ll want to manage every aspect, because developing AAA means they sunk a boatload of money into it.
- Comment on "The internet we once loved is gone": SteamDB founders announce the community-run database has been acquired by Nexus Mods' owners 5 weeks ago:
I’m just amazed at the entitlement of people about this, or number of people treating this as some sort of betrayal because he sold out and didn’t want to continue free solo work on it.
- Comment on Star Citizen spinoff Squadron 42 has been delayed yet again, citing everyone going gaga for GTA 6, even if it isn't coming to PC yet 1 month ago:
I know of his issues, but they hardly absolve him of blame.
- Comment on Star Citizen spinoff Squadron 42 has been delayed yet again, citing everyone going gaga for GTA 6, even if it isn't coming to PC yet 1 month ago:
I mean two things can be true at the same time.
It’s true that there are a lot of pc games that are trying to avoid the GTA6 release window, to the point it creates a 3 month void of games (right around christmas too!) and I suppose it’s for good reason.
It’s also true that roberts is a scammer and you should not belive his lies because SC and S42 are scams.
- Comment on I analyzed my first 30 years of gaming and the 400 games I played 1 month ago:
Yea l, figured the same. It’s just name, year, status, platform and kit type/size for now. Not like I can recall when I finished Kohan or whatever obscure 20th century game anyway.
- Comment on I analyzed my first 30 years of gaming and the 400 games I played 1 month ago:
Ooh, a fellow listmaker. I’ve started compiling a “past three decade” list as well, mostly for keeping a game kit inventory, but your tracking is way more dilligent. I’ve starte only last year and have been going from memory and old kits and you can imagine how that’s going. Tried a few online tools but none are actually satisfactory for stat purposes, so it’s still in spreadsheet form.
Anyway thank you for the great read, it’s fun to compare and contrast with someone else’s opinions on a couple hundred games.
Edit: Seeing as you liked Frostpunk dare I recommend Ixion? Different vibe but same type of tight decision making and great story.
Edit edit: You have a typo on AoE 2/3
- Comment on 'This Is Unbelievably Scummy' - GTA 6 Fans Are Annoyed By Netflix's Paywalled Extended Look at the Game 2 months ago:
…but they will still buy it.
- Comment on Midnight Moments is a cyberpunk diorama builder for the neon sign and drizzly rain lovers 2 months ago:
Longshot: playing Anno 2070 with the Eden Initiative
- Comment on "Our business did not grow with our audience": post-layoffs, Xbox execs are trying to sell a gaming division bounce back by summer 2027 2 months ago:
Yea I tried to argue against this when she was hired, but holy hell after the past month this reeks of glass cliff. I’d wager by 2028 xbox will be done for. Shame they’re taking so many good names down with them.
- Comment on Krafton have big plans for Subnautica, after the second game's once-divisive co-op "confirmed the potential to expand beyond the existing fan base" 2 months ago:
Oh god, here comes the Subnautica 3 roguelite soulslike extraction shooter with a battle royale mode! Can’t wait!
- Comment on Palworld Hits Nearly 1 Million Concurrent Players 10 Days After 1.0 Launch 2 months ago:
Gave it a try for a couple of hours to see what the fuss is about. It’s not bad, like a cross between a survival craft/ pokemon game / animal crossing, but very casual and dad-friendly. Haven’t seen many bugs but there’s some jank here and there. Story bits are pretty meh and I’m not really seeing it have a lot of staying power, but that might just be me not being familiar with pokemon games.
- Comment on Expect RAM prices to stay high with Micron locking in deals for 5 years 3 months ago:
Don’t think anybody expected micron to return to the consumer market once they got on the gravy train. What I wonder is whether they’re like nvidia now, actually producing, shipping and getting paid, or are those SCAs just promises and more IOUs? Because just reading “micron exponential growth” everywhere does not inspire confidence.