absquatulate
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- Comment on GOG is Getting Acquired By Its Original Co- Founder: What It Means For You 1 day 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 1 day 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? 5 days 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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! 2 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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 5 weeks ago:
Never heard of this game but it looks like a near identical Starbound clone.
- Comment on LEGO Star Trek Enterprise REVIEW 1 month 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? 2 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 2 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.
- Comment on Home secretary calls Gaza protests in wake of Manchester attack ‘un-British’ 2 months ago:
Ah yes, the british approach: “We understand that people dying is horrific and painful but there’s no need to make such a fuss about it”
- Comment on Facebook and Instagram to charge UK users £3.99 a month for ad-free version 2 months ago:
Imagine paying to have your data harvested by a social network full of bots
- Comment on Forza Horizon 6 Japan setting confirmed 2 months ago:
Seeing the series’ progression so far, I just know microsoft will stuff it full of FOMO crap and monetization, as well as a lot of AI generated stuff ( which, admittedly, may not be all bad ). But still, I’m fairly excited for it.
- Comment on Helium-3 mining on Moon: A new frontier for science and geopolitics 2 months ago:
Time to play Anno 2205
- Comment on 3 months ago:
I loved him in mafia, he had such a recognizable voice. Almost bought Mindseye because of him lol.
But seriously, I wish him luck and hope he doesn’t give up on games.
- Comment on xkcd #3142: -Style Pizza 3 months ago:
What he means is that while his memes are in general universally applicable, this one is a US-thing.
- Comment on I've been on GOG for more than a decade and HoMM 3 is always on bestsellers 3 months ago:
Incidentally, if anyone is looking for similar gameplay, there’s a small project on steam, called Heroes of Science & Fiction. It’s essentially HOMM3 with a scifi coat of paint and it’s very enjoyable. Hoping it comes to gog too someday.
- Comment on Starmer: Leaving ECHR puts UK ‘on par with Russia and Belarus’ 4 months 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 4 months 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 4 months 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 4 months 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 4 months 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 4 months ago:
For children’s safety, right?
- Comment on Mass Effect 1 is still my favourite sci-fi game of all time 4 months 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 4 months 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 4 months 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 4 months 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 4 months 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.