Adulated_Aspersion

@Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baldur's Gate 3 and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 show that the future of RPGs is in games way more ambitious, weird and unexpected than anything Bethesda and Bioware have to offer⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Completely agree. BioWare started it’s downward trend when it thought it could cash in on MMORPG billions by creating Star Wars: The Old Republic. Don’t get me wrong, Bioware made awesome games until ~2010. They were bought out by EA in 2007, and that is where we can clearly see that passion was lost. Good games still came out, but they weren’t great.

  I will always hold a special spot in my heart for the Elder Scrolls. I’ve played since Daggerfall in the late 90s. I got into Fallout later, but went back and played the originals (except for tactics). A lot of people hate on Skyrim as being janky, but I was there for the original release. Did it have issues? Of course, and it still does. But this was 11 / 11 / 2011 we are talking about. Skyrim was doing things that no one in gaming was doing well, and they told a good story to boot.

  The issue that I have with most studios is that they step away from the ideas of furthering or completing a story just because they can’t think of a new gimmic or mechanic to make it hugely profitable. They need those profits to justify the staggering wages paid to the CEO’s. Not to the writers, programmers, or artists.

  So Bethesda lost a lot of love when they (like BioWare) attempted to cash in on MMORPGs with Fallout 76.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baldur's Gate 3 and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 show that the future of RPGs is in games way more ambitious, weird and unexpected than anything Bethesda and Bioware have to offer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  But BioWare games used to be the top tier gaming company standard for excellence. Bethesda used to release amazingly ambitious titles that were unmatched (albeit buggy!).

  Greed outweighs the love of games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FuckYourHeadlights - A community for people to organise and vent about ridiculously bright lights⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The main issue I see comes from regular headlights being replaced with LEDs and other High-Intensity bulbs. Don’t get me wrong, Bubba with his lift kit is just redneck high-beams, but I get more frequent glare from someone in a Sentra who decided to put LEDs in her stock headlight assembly that wasn’t made for LEDs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FuckYourHeadlights - A community for people to organise and vent about ridiculously bright lights⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I disagree with this.

  A mirror of the other hand…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Plus, think about the logistics of that.

  Goods produced in the US are categorically more expensive due to infrastructure, cost of living (and therefore wage expectations). If we could wave a magic wand to transplant an effective manufacturing facility from Pakistan and place it in rural Mississippi, hire Americans to do the work, and begin pumping out goods, the price to produce the goods would increase substantially.

  Americans wouldn’t be able to afford American made goods, which is true even now. Many Americans try to buy American “when possible”, but cost quickly outweighs patriotism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this a c/ for making fun of conservatives?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember how France dealt with some of their kings. Great kings. Some have even said the best kings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Only 22 countries have never been invaded by Britain⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess Britain’s attempt to restore order in the colonies that recently became the US doesn’t count?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google will use machine learning to estimate a user’s age⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  GrapheneOS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG’s New Plan To Weaponize Its Community’s Wishlist Of Games To Pressure IP Holders⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can literally request Nintendo IP there. Doesn’t mean that it will come true, but I requested literally all Mario amd Zelda games as soon as I found out.

  There is no comparable equal to those titles on PC.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Treyarch co-founder pleads guilty to grounding firefighting plane with drone during LA wildfires⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, this guilty person stood up, plead guilty, and accepted the sentencing.

  That is the key difference. People who will never admit fault or guilt will invariably delay the end of the trial and resulting sentence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MIT builds swarms of tiny robotic insect drones that can fly 100 times longer than previous designs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve seen this episode of Black Mirror.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don’t ever hand your phone to the cops⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you are operating a motor vehicle, you are required to hold a license to operate that vehicle. Ergo, if you are operating the vehicle, the police can ask for proof of your licensure to operate that vehicle, and you are reauired to prodice it. That is not covered under search and seizure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Switch 2 cartridge format leaked via patent⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In this video:

  It looks like the new cartridge will be very similar to the original Switch Cartridge. We can’t confirm for sure, and we can only speculate why.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Moms, I you were struggling with your child in public and a man offered to help, would you let him and why?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, if a parent yells at me for grabbing a kids hand to keep them from running into traffic, I will look them in the face and tell them that I will just let their kid get smeared for 80 yards next time.

  I have no patience for that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The stats don't lie⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You know?

  It’s just one of those days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG Summer Sale has arrived⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  On all non-steam games added to my library, I always do a quick internet search for “+ steam deck control” to help with the layout. It’s not perfect, but I find a lot of useful info for starters.

  The cool thing about the Deck is that you can push the Steam key and update those controller settings on the fly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG Summer Sale has arrived⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I play all my GOG games on the Steam Deck. It takes only a very small amount of tweaking. Additionally, I add them as “non-steam games” in the library, update the artwork and icon, and have a very clean interface.

  I play Minecraft on the Deck the same way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would you decorate this room?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I came here to specifically say this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m calling it now.

  Windows 11 will be the new Windows 8. Or NT. Or millennium.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ska came before Raggae 🏁>>>🇯🇲⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t gatekeep Reel Big Fish.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Boston Dynamics introduces a fully electric humanoid robot that “exceeds human performance”⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Until the manufacturing delays start due to actuators disintegrating and locking pilots in the machines.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is a different kind of kissing booth⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Something something “puts the D in bulge”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨High quality channel⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The BoD? Made from a black horn? Green smoke?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Morgan Freeman voiceover…

  They did.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm Heading to Phoenix Can Anyone Recommend Anything Cool To Check Out While I'm There?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ask locals who were present in 1997 about the Phoenix Lights.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking to build my first PC in almost 30 years; What should I be on the look out for?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Double-check the physical size of your NVME. Some laptops have a smaller M2 form factor than desktops.-

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit has reportedly signed over its content to train AI models⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  And that is another unintended example of why all of my post history was purged before migration.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Choose your ultimate lineup!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The only correct answer is System of a Down followed by System of a Down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Want to watch porn in Britain? Get your passport ready⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Passport is an interesting way to spell VPN.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Diablo 4's new mount costs more than the actual game⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m with you. I buy almost exclusively on-sale games. I try to buy the super-premium editions about a year after release so I can get lots of content for less than the original game costs, and I avoid any p2w or lootbox games altogether.

  Do I miss interactions with some friends who only play the latest titles? Absolutely. I have primarily been a single player gamer anyway, so maybe it just doesn’t impact me as terribly.