absquatulate

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• ⁨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 ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Tamriel! Or at least Cyrodiil+Elsweyr

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Random Screenshots of my Games #63 - The Alters⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

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

  Fuck krafton

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pop it in your calendars⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft’s Forza Motorsport developer hit hard by Xbox cuts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I was just trying to get the point across and didn’t really have other recent metrics. Just checked and it grew to 1k avg users per day after the most recent update and is now 15x less active than FH5, if that paints a more accurate picture.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How China's new auto giants left General Motors, Volkswagen and Tesla in the dust⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It was just a really strange comment. I mean yeah, road quality varies wildly ( jyst come to eastern europe if you wanna see some remarkable road craters ) but its a broad generalization and the quality surely it varies in china as well, no? I keep trying to imagine what roads were these vehicles designed for if “european” roads prompted a redesign.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How China's new auto giants left General Motors, Volkswagen and Tesla in the dust⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was going to say “because they’re probably state subsidized” but your suggestion is better

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft’s Forza Motorsport developer hit hard by Xbox cuts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It may be, and I feel for Turn10, but they really dropped the ball with the latest motorsport. It only has like a few hundred players on steam, after two years of essentially live service game. Of course the game itself is fine, it’s the “update trickles” and “grind to own” philosophies that are at fault and those were probably decisions also pushed by MS, but here we are. I really hope that Playground doesn’t screw up their next Forza, because rhey might meet the same fate. Then again these days success doesn’t guarantee you’re not getting the axe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to Reclaim Social Media from Big Tech⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Decentralized platforms based on open protocols, such as Mastodon and Bluesky, have been designed from the ground up to prioritize user choice and agency—without needing permission from a corporate gatekeeper. This is most apparent on Bluesky

  Tells you that you can take your social network back from big tech then casually recommends Bluesky. Gimme a break.

  Also if you want your news free of the l constant noise of social networks, RSS still exists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Randy Pitchford asks fans if they'd swallow future Borderlands exclusivity deals, almost 10,000 people say just put your damn games on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Boy, they really are pulling all the stops in trying to make the game shit, aren’t they?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft pushes staff to use internal AI tools more, and may consider this in reviews. 'Using AI is no longer optional.'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We’re in the honeymoon phase, shit didn’t hit the fan yet. Problem is we devs are fucked either way. If productivity does increase, then workforce demand will go down especially for entry level devs and seniors will be relegated to vibe coding and fixing AI bugs. If it all goes south then layoffs, because line must go up!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft pushes staff to use internal AI tools more, and may consider this in reviews. 'Using AI is no longer optional.'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Company I’m at also does the forced AI and it’s all but mandatory now. Problem is as code monkeys we’re past the point of heading down to the Winchester for a pint until it blows over. They’re pushing so hard in order to “not fall behind” that you literally can’t escape it. I think even malicious compliance won’t cut it. And when 8/10 companies that dictate the market say that “this is the future”, then this is the future they’ll make whether we like it or not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DEATH STRANDING 2: ON THE BEACH | Final Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know about Kojima making the best games. All I know is Death Stranding 1 was a jumbled mess of barely coherent and oddly paced plots and I loved every minute of it. I must have more! When PC Kojima???

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure. This phone seems better in some regards and worse in others, so I’d say wait for reviews.

  As for me I probably won’t get it. Already have a fp4 I got in a sale to experiment with and see if I can completely degoogle and couldn’t ( not completely anyway ). Now it’s more or less a paperweight that I might revisit in the future, when my daily phone kicks the bucket. The dealbreaker is Android15 because that’s when they shoved gemini in, so any phone with Android14 and security updates will do fine. God I hope that linux phones finally get off the ground already

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I know I know, but it was really convenient to keep a spare battery and do a quick swap on the fp4.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it me or did they get slightly more vague on their marketing materials, wrt the environmental impact ( at least compared to fp5 ) ?

  Also the battery seems a bit harder to replace, as you now need a screwdriver. It does appear to be more flush, so it may be due to size constraints.