absquatulate

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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'⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Indeed

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plants vs. Zombies: Replanted – Pre-Order Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Tamriel! Or at least Cyrodiil+Elsweyr

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Random Screenshots of my Games #63 - The Alters⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pop it in your calendars⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, juat read that. Man, what a fuckin’ shitshow is SN2 gonna be.

  Fuck krafton

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pop it in your calendars⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Afaik krafton have been insisting for a while that the game is not ready. Founders disagreed and they were ousted. But seeing as the previous two games were in pretty dire state when they released into EA, I wouldn’t really trust the founder’s word on it. The whole “squirreling out of paying them 250 million” thing seems like speculation, but what do I know.

  Besides, the OP is just ragebainting, seeing as we know exactly fuckall about the game’s actual state at this point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pop it in your calendars⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Jesus tapdancing christ is the subnautica fanbase rabid. How about we actually wait and see how the game turns out before we crucify everyone?

  I do agree that you should definitely not pre-order it and remove it from your wishlist. But you should’ve done that already.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Smaller rally/racing games I recommend you try!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can add a few mentions to your list:

  Tokyo Xtreme Racer - street racing game set on Tokyo’s highway network and featuring a lor of JDM cars. Sim-cadey physics, great progression loop, nice graphics.

  Motortown - not a racing game as such, more of a “drive anything” game that also festures some racing, among cargo hauling, buses, vehicle rescuing and others. Still in early acces but amazingly complete for an early access game. The developer is also very active and open to feedback.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft EULA demanding consumers destroy delisted games adds fuel to Stop Killing Games movement⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  IANAL but wasn’t that text just some “standard” legalese relating to the way they license software? I know it’s cool to pick on ubisoft for being a shit company, but BG3 had a similar requirement in the game’s EULA: Image

  Same for GOG iirc, but I’m too lazy to search.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Subnautica 2 studio begs rioting fans for benefit of the doubt after leadership axed by owner Krafton: 'The team that has been working on the game day-to-day ... remains completely unchanged'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, this is the right approach, especially with the subnautica community that seems to be really thirsty for drama. I was going to wait for reviews anyway before getting it, so this dev request is probably for the preordering folk.

  That said, my money’s on “subnautica 2 will disappoint regardless” because it continues to build on the original instead of being new. What made the original so good was the novelty of that format, combined with the horror aspect and the fresh lore. Now, after two games set in the same world and the same general flow, people know what to expect so they will be extra picky about s2 and I wager they will end up underwhelmed. I’m still hoping s2 will at least be extra pretty because goddamn if I didn’t love the environments of the first two games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 finally overtakes Windows 10⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lost those 400 million in 3 years no less. I know this seems like good news, but to me this is worse, because it looks like the PC market is shrinking fast in favor of mobile, and mobile is atrocious when it comes to user freedoms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the chances⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Weren’t polynesians a bunch of warrior tribes that pretty much hunted some pacific birds down to extinction and when they got their hands on gunpowder weapons one tribe pretty much obliterated every other tribe?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘The vehicle suddenly accelerated with our baby in it’: the terrifying truth about why Tesla’s cars keep crashing⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Drove a few cars with “lane hold” and it’s infuriating to have to suddenly correct the car’s trajectory at every curve because it misjudges the road line. Some cars are worse than others but it was literally the first thing I disabled every time. I wonder how truck drivers feel about it. Do modern trucks even have this?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developer interview: my Q&A with a PC game 'repacker'⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a great interview, thank you! It (sadly) confirms some stuff I’ve been suspecting for a while about the piracy scene: that repackers are a very rare bunch, repacking is getting more complex and liveservice/streamed games would truly be the end for piracy.