absquatulate

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starmer: Leaving ECHR puts UK ‘on par with Russia and Belarus’⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You are running a police state that monitors its citizens and arrests protesters. So yes, from a human rights perspective, dropping the ECHR is probably the last step required to become just like the ruskis.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨95% of Companies See ‘Zero Return’ on $30 Billion Generative AI Spend, MIT Report Finds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Does abybody have the original study? I tried to find it but the link is dead ( looks like NANDA pulled it )

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Road Kings - Reveal Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Finally, some competition for scs. From the trailer it doesn’t look like it will be a sim tho. Maybe a story driven teucking game?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War – Definitive Edition is out now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn. The original was (to me) the highlight of many, many lan-parties.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam can't escape the fallout from its censorship controversy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I see it didn’t take long for polygon to turn into a clickbait factory.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facial recognition vans to be rolled out across police forces in England⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For children’s safety, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mass Effect 1 is still my favourite sci-fi game of all time⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks. Yeah, I did try it. Must’ve replayed it a few dozen times since it released. Another masterpiece, that one. Might give it another run after 2.4 is out, lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mass Effect 1 is still my favourite sci-fi game of all time⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I just sort of ignored it initially thinking it will definitely flop after seeing a trailer or two. But I played it recently after a legendary edition replay and it’s an ok game. The story and charaters are pretty uninspired, there’s no escaping that, but the gameplay, the combat, the exploration vibe are all great. It also looks great. And the new mako is brilliant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mass Effect 1 is still my favourite sci-fi game of all time⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do it. All mass effects are great. Even Andromeda ( despite the lackluster story )

  I’ve been itching for a similar game these past few weeks and I swear there is nothing contemporary that is quite like Mass Effect. KOTOR is close, but is has aged like milk ( graphically ). Maybe the deus exes? I am still open to suggestions.

  Also you’ll want to play the legendary edition, I think they fixed some of the less pleasant gameplay quirks ME1 used to have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mass Effect 1 is still my favourite sci-fi game of all time⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Had to be Bioware. Someone else might have gotten it wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Even if they wanted to bank on the adblocker thing I imagine they can’t because they have to stay in Google’s good graces. Like 90% of their revenue was google money, and has been for years now.

  At this point I’d honestly even pay for a privacy focused mozilla browser that is clean of all this crap, just to keep them afloat, but fat chance of that happening.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Consumers are not okay with okay': Take-Two boss says BioShock 4 is taking so long because the company's goal is 'to make the best entertainment, not necessarily the most entertainment'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Third separate article about this game in a week? I see we’re in the hyping up phase.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I want to go back⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Goddamn! This game was peak NFS. I keep replaying it every few years, and the handling model still holds up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Red Dead Redemption 2 was amazing.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s so damn good. I must’ve replayed it like six times since it came to pc. The story, the voice acting, characters, graphics, everything is absolutely top notch. Except for the goddamn controls (and the menus). I’m not sure if it’s due to it being a console-first game or just a rockstar thing as rdr1’s were also crap, but holy shit they’re infuriating. The amount of times I shot people by mistake, lost missions because of a wrong key, or just plain ended up with an unpayable bounty is too damn high.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Next BioShock Game Suffers From More Development Hell After Failing an Executive Review⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s TakeTwo - you know they did. Bioshock was a complete arc and died with Irrational. Whatever this zombie project is, I expect it won’t live up to the name, but they’ll slap it on anyway because goshdarnit executives just can’t help milking a franchise dry instead of innovating.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plants vs. Zombies: Replanted – Pre-Order Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Indeed

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plants vs. Zombies: Replanted – Pre-Order Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I still keep a copy of a pre-EA version on my pc, as that was the cleanest one. I played pvz2 for a bit and don’t remember it being complete shite, but it was absolutely riddled with mtx. As far as the other pvz games, holy hell what a shitshow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EA CEO Says No $80 Games for Now: 'We're Not Looking to Make Any Changes at This Stage'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Love how fast they all dial back after seeing the reaction on nintendo’s 80$ approach. But seriously EA I don’t care for those extra 10 bucks upfronf if your games are still the mtx and gambling infested shit they currently are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Age-Checked Internet Has Arrived⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder what it was that made Pornhub cooperate this time around. Iirc in texas and france they just “left” instead of implementing the age verification.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Bringing your games to other platforms is how you’re going to win" - Circana⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As a PC player I wholeheartedly welcome the demise of exclusives, but are the strategies toward them really changing? Near as I can tell it’s only microsoft that’s pivoting, and that’s probably because they have to. Sony is sticking to their strategy of the past few years of delayed PC releases, and nintendo does what nintendo does - keep everything in-house and sue everyone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK police hold pro-Palestine protester, 80, for almost 27 hours and search house⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re arresting 80 year olds in their home for protesting you are NOT the good guys.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Same. They’re thw only games I’ve actually bought from them.

  Not sure how they haven’t fucked it up so far - maybe because anno is a small franchise in the grand scheme of things, and has a cult following particularly in Germany, so apaet from online requirement and denuvo added to the latest entries, they let it be. I’m actually more amazed that bluebyte/ubi mainz haven’t butchered the anno games like they did with the settlers series.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mass Effect 5 is "still in pre-production" says director as BioWare shifts full focus to the sci-fi RPG amid dev reshuffles and reported layoffs⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ffs bioware, your last two “story-heavy” games were both IP “extensions” and they were both pretty meh. Cook up something new for once, see where that goes. Because I guarantee that yet another friggin attempt at mass effect will not go well. The story was cool, it ended and it is now done. Leave a good thing be and think of something new ffs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft: Microtransactions make games more fun⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, according to Ubisoft, they allow for a more unique experience by letting players personalize their characters or speed up progression. In other words, it makes things more fun… allegedly.

  Ah, so he didn’t actually say that, then? Tired of these mf clickbaits man.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Panama Proxima⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Tamriel! Or at least Cyrodiil+Elsweyr

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Random Screenshots of my Games #63 - The Alters⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It really is a great game. The story’s imaginative, the ambiance is jawdropping. And that sound design, man. It’s also fairly well polished. Played it for a good while, until I could not be bothered to manage people anymore. It felt too much like a job lol. The UI is a bit clumsy too I felt, but it’s awesome that the grindy bits are sped up and the game doesn’t waste your time, I appreciated that. However I hated the lack of manual saving, especially in a game that sometimes crashes at inopportune moments. It also does this thing where it appears open, but it punishes you if you don’t do things the way it wants you to. I’m in the “it’s a difficult game” camp, but there’s plenty of people who feel it’s an easy game just because they did some actions differently, or timed some events at different times. Still, it’s definitely worth a play.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New gaming website "This Week in Video Games" launched by Skill Up⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Been following the guy on youtube for a while and I love the initiative, but damn, I find it hard to justify 10€ a month for just a single dedicated gaming publication. I expect I will support them every few months or so, but yeah, to me 100€/year seems too hefty.

  Also what worries me is that this model has been tried, before the days of ad-supported web, and didn’t fare so well, so why would it work now?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sid Meier’s Civilization VI: Platinum Edition is free to claim on Epic⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Just add the application to the firewall block list. That’s how I’ve been running most games these days, pirated or not. Sighs

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTuber Faces Possible Jail Time for Reviewing Gaming Handhelds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Aah, the Guardia di Finanza, the one police organ italians actually respect and fear ( or so I hear ).

  The charges don’t make sense though. Maybe by reviewing “pirate” material he was indirectly bypassing paying the italian state its due and thus they jumped him?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EA reportedly shelves Need For Speed completely to focus on other projects⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Have they finally had the revelation that the series has been shovelware for the past decade or more?