absquatulate
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- Comment on I want to feel like a bad-ass wizard 1 week ago:
Wayfinder. Recently discovered it and i’ve been having quite a bit of fun with it. It’s a former live service converted to singleplayer/coop, do the story blows. But it’s a good ARPG - a Torchlight meets Warframe sort of thing.
- Comment on In the context of the leaked Warcraft II remake, do you still trust Blizzard to produce good games? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t really expect anything good coming from them. To me the likes of Blizzard, Ubi, Bioware, Bethesda, EA etc are shareholder-driven companies, that stopped innovating a long time ago and now only produce and regurgitate the absolute bare minimum slop.
I have been pleasantly surprised on occasion, like for ubi’s Anno 1800, or blizzard’s diablo 2 remake, but they’re few and far between.
- Comment on Feds Say You Don’t Have a Right to Check Out Retro Video Games Like Library Books 3 weeks ago:
Lobbying. The greedy fucks will lobby until they get their way
- Comment on Star Citizen devs report drying funds, micromanagement, overspending, and episodic release for Squadron 42 4 weeks ago:
Jesus christ. People need to realize that this is a scam. No video game is worth thousands of your dollars, especially a decade old game still in alpha.
- Comment on Thunderbird e-mail client will soon stop supporting older Windows and macOS releases 1 month ago:
Just a bit of reading between the lines
the Thunderbird team has decided to take a different approach
and
The MZLA team is working to essentially rebuild the software from scratch, featuring a new interface and support for modern email capabilities.
I may be over-reading though.
- Comment on Thunderbird e-mail client will soon stop supporting older Windows and macOS releases 1 month ago:
Oh god. They’re gonna stuff it with AI aren’t they?
- Comment on U.S. to ban Chinese, Russian software and hardware used in autonomous vehicles 1 month ago:
What are you going to do with billionaires CEOs that are basically chinese/russian puppets? What about security elements that are “american software” but have leaked to the highest chinese bidder?
How the hell are you going to enforce that no “chinese and russian software and hardware” make it into the cars? Its hilariously difficult to enforce it because its vague, and its vague because its not about national security but trade.
We do need laws to prevent the inevitable abuse that comes with chinese cars but this particular ban reeks of bullshit.
- Comment on Day 55 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 2 months ago:
I haven’t played skyrim in years and I swear this screenshot is exactly how I remember it looking like.
Yeah, RDR2 is friggin gorgeous.
- Comment on Mozilla Firefox 130 Released with Labs, Overscroll & Web Codecs API 2 months ago:
This article reads like an ad.
Also
For me, the best change in Firefox 130 is Firefox Labs. This new section in Settings makes it easy to opt-in to try-out experimental features in development for future releases. If you’ve used Firefox Nightly builds you may be familiar with this page.
A handful of ‘experiments’ are offered in this release, including the handy auto-open picture-in-picture option I wrote about recently, and the ability to access an AI chatbot of your choice from a sidebar, or selecting text and clicking the sparkle emoji.
- Comment on Star Wars Outlaws: Reviews are coming in 2 months ago:
Starfield was the same. Looked pretty meh, but almost all (initial) reviewers gave it high marks. It wasn’t until people started playing that the truthful reviews surfaced. Guessing either paid reviews, or reviewers having a skewed view of what makes a game great.
- Comment on Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era – Official Reveal Trailer 2 months ago:
Wow, it actually looks ok. Fuck, ubi, you better not screw this up!
- Comment on YouTube is Losing The War Against Adblockers 2 months ago:
Not sure why you feel the need to defend your actions by drawing analogies with real piracy - it’s their attitude towards you as a content consumer that you should note in this situation, and that’s just appaling. Your actions may well be piracy but frankly that’s just a word they use to guilt you out of choosing convenience and safety. Be a pirate and be proud, goddammit!
- Comment on Nvidia’s AI NPCs will debut in a multiplayer mech battle game next year 2 months ago:
If they really wanted to emphasize its talking ability one would think they’d use a dialog-heavy RPG or smth, not a multiplayer battle game where existing AI can already bark 2-3 word orders at you pretty coherently. I doubt this will be particularly revolutionary.
- Comment on Is there is any modern Reddit alternative on the fediverse? 2 months ago:
Yes, god forbid they see opinions from outside their respective bubbles.
- Comment on TitanFall 2 at 3$ 3 months ago:
Is there a way to play this without installing EA spyware?
- Comment on Volt Recharge - Official Announcement Trailer 4 months ago:
Omg a Revolt sequel! Please please please don’t fuck it up
- Comment on Microsoft asks many Game Pass subscribers to pay more for less 4 months ago:
That does sound like a pretty good deal. The thing is, it used to be a fantastic deal. And judging by the way they are acquiring multi billion studios and IPs left and right it’s clear as daylight that they want to monopolize the market and keep the subscription model for a long time, which means the deal will get ever worse. So yeah, this pricing change was definitely expected.
Didn’t mean to diminish your experience, sorry.
- Comment on Sony Music Entertainment Japan, Aniplex, and Pocketpair jointly establish Palworld Entertainment 4 months ago:
I’ll bet you 10 bucks sony will screw them over.
- Comment on I am inevitable. 4 months ago:
I think it had something to do with credit card fees
- Comment on I am inevitable. 4 months ago:
I wouldn’t. There was a dev ( I forget which game, but def indie ) that said the pirated keys from those dodgy sites actually ended up costing them money, and they would’ve been happier if people just pirated the game instead, if they really didn’t want to pay for it.
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- Comment on [FREE] Dakar Desert Rally on Epic Games 8 months ago:
The negative reviews are mostly complaining about the crashes ( yes, there are a bunch of those ) and the full-realistic mode being locked behind level progression ( level 25, whuch means at least some 20h of gameplay ). But honestly i found it to be a very good rally game and definitely the best and prettiest dakar sim i ever played.
- Comment on Microsoft Flight Simulator x Dune - Official Launch Trailer 9 months ago:
Damn, i love that word
- Comment on Microsoft is planning an 'Advanced Windows Settings' panel for Windows power users 11 months ago:
Ah, but you see, they are not the same. Control Panel is an archaic tool that lets you configure your windows quickly and efficiently. The new and improved AWS will be designed from the ground up to waste your time and discourage tweaking. It will probably obfuscate some settings, quietly remove some settings, track your usage, etc.
- Comment on Modern Warfare 3 disappointment has COD players hankering for the grand old days of Infinite Warfare 1 year ago:
Acti CEO reading this article: “so they want more lootboxes?! excellent!”
disclaimer: I haven’t played a CoD since maybe 4. Only read the odd review
- Comment on Modern Warfare 3 disappointment has COD players hankering for the grand old days of Infinite Warfare 1 year ago:
Wait, Infinite Warfare qualifies as “the grand old days”? Holy clickbait batman
- Comment on Cyberpunk patch 2.02 now available 1 year ago:
They did completely rework a bunch of gameplay systems, so bugs were to be expected. I tried a 2.0 playthrough, and while bug-wise it felt like the 1.04 days ( the death-on-boarding-delamain bug being particularly infuriating ) the gameplay changes are certainly interesting. I’m still holding off on getting PL just yet, maybe wait for a discount.
- Comment on Inside Intel's Chip Factory, I Saw the Future. It's Plain Old Glass 1 year ago:
Indeed.
- Comment on Starfield - Review Thread (87/100 OpenCritic) 1 year ago:
Essentially yes. Watched that Luke Stephens youtuber’s review and it looks like exploration is one of the meh aspects of the game. Apparently the game generates a new ~4km cell when you land and that is created from a seed based on a planet map. Proc-gen needs some work too, as it presumably gets very repetitive with identical assets repeating often.
- Comment on Are you holding off on any game in particular right now? 1 year ago:
I used to be in the same boat as you, pretty hopeful that Starfield will be the space game to replace Elite for me. But the more I read about it, the more I realize it can’t.
I dread the day I put Elite down cause I’ll have no space sim to scratch the itch.