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- Comment on The Division Heartland Has Been Canceled 2 days ago:
Ah yes, the financially responsible decision to spend the money and then never make any revenue.
- Comment on New Doom reveal hinted at by Zenimax trademark 4 days ago:
They can’t all be as clear-cut as IDSPISPOPD.
- Comment on What's your favourite era for video games? 1 week ago:
1980s 2D had the same “every machine sucks uniquely” vibe as 1990s 3D. If the same game on two platforms looked remotely similar then someone busted their hump getting it right. By default, you were getting a game that looked and sounded as good as this system could manage, rather than being a smoothed-over downgrade of some canonical example.
Ironically it wasn’t always a great era for pick-up-and-play-ability. Late-70s games were so limited that arcade sensibilities were nearly the only thing possible, and even text-centric computer games lacked the memory to bore you with backstory. By the late 80s they could push the early inklings of an unskippable cutscene and a tutorial level. Dunno if that’s better than ZX Spectrum games getting mercilessly sink-or-swim.
Coincidentally that arcade vibe also matches the late 90s: it’s how most Dreamcast games feel.
- Comment on What's your favourite era for video games? 1 week ago:
Late 90s PC, because anything was possible. 2D? Yeah, go wild, it’ll be fast. 3D? Software rendering is the wild west! Voxels, polygons, texturing, raycasting, every game looks unique because they’re all making it up as they go. Even consoles were on PC because emulation was faster and better than owning a PSX or N64.
These were not the best games of all time. Most sucked. You can get a taste of that in PC Gamer demo discs, or like half of Civvie11’s videos. But it was an era where nothing was easy, so people reached for the fucking stars.
- Comment on Mimic Addict (by Hansoom) 1 week ago:
Hang on, I’ve got an old comment about fantasy races and gaming, based on some D&D repost.
Dragons have neverending arguments about idle games which seem painfully generic and interchangeable to anything on two legs. Swarm Simulator Simulator, Multiversal Paperclips, Urban Dead, that sort of thing. In reality the games are just an occasional distraction, and what they’re really addicted to are those years-long threads of snippy factional elitism about the games. Dragons routinely get banned from MOBA forums for being the absolute worst accounts that technically never break the rules. They bicker about the meta like they’re experts hiding behind toons. They have literally never played the game.
Liches are the ones getting wound-up by dragons in all those forums. Unironic edgelords with giant signatures and arcane medals below their ooh-so-spooky avatars. Any account created a week after the game launched, chewing out some friendly newbie for not knowing something the developer mentioned once on IRC, then getting tilted when a lizard-themed sockpuppet incorrectly nitpicks their grammar? Lich. They are of course the most toxic players in any game they hyperfixate on, because they’ll never, ever get banned. Through unnatural rituals like privately befriending the programmers, they are beyond consequence. They can still be spotted on chan boards saying shit that no mortal moderator could excuse. Ironically none of them play Urban Dead because they consider the revival mechanics insensitive.
Fairies are the squeaky shit-talkers in hypercompetitive shooter lobbies. They are genuinely terrifying where twitch reactions matter. Fairies can rinse through Nuketown with twin shotguns while playing on DK Bongos. Their contentious relationship with humanity arises primarily from not respecting any strategy besides “Rush B.”
Dark Elves fucking love Among Us. Any backstabbing accusatory “social deduction” game is right up their alley. Dark Elves have GMod Murder variants where there is only one innocent and you win by killing them last.
Tabaxi committed like half the funding for Star Citizen. Any game with exploration and arbitrage makes their pupils go wide.
Warforged adore racing games because they don’t understand there’s a little man inside the car.
Vampire visual novels are the trashiest purple fanfiction on the internet. Vampires support an industry you’d swear was taking the piss, but they can literally smell insincerity. Some extremely old money goes to teenagers and spinsters with incomprehensibly naive views of romance. Somehow they build the most meticulously-crafted storylines imaginable. Popular streamers occasionally play these as a joke, and the utterly gripping emotional intensity can turn them into “RenPyFields.”
Half-elves are too busy stanning HoloLive to play games.
- Comment on Mimic Addict (by Hansoom) 1 week ago:
Oh my god, immortal patient elves would totally be the level 300 omega whales in any real-fees game.
- Comment on Revealed: key files shredded as UK government panic grew over infected blood deaths lawsuit 1 week ago:
Draw negative inference.
- Comment on can't stop won't stop 2 weeks ago:
Are you suggesting Ben Franklin already fucked a time traveler?
- Comment on can't stop won't stop 2 weeks ago:
Benjamin Franklin time traveler netorare.
That’s enough internet for this morning.
- Comment on party poopers 2 weeks ago:
Hot glass looks like cold glass.
- Comment on The horrors we've unleashed 2 weeks ago:
The moment I knew discourse about image AI would never be sensible was when someone expanded The Birth Of Venus and people were talking shit about the composition. Like the goal was to improve on Botticelli… not to demonstrate this absurd magic that was impossible six months earlier.
- Comment on WHERE ARE YOUR COSHH FORMS, MR. FREEZE?? 2 weeks ago:
I dunno, Exile On Main Street was pretty good.
- Comment on WHERE ARE YOUR COSHH FORMS, MR. FREEZE?? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah. Gotham’s brand of crazy is strong.
- Comment on WHERE ARE YOUR COSHH FORMS, MR. FREEZE?? 2 weeks ago:
IIRC “The Batman” was about him figuring out he needs to do money things in addition to punching dudes.
- Comment on WHERE ARE YOUR COSHH FORMS, MR. FREEZE?? 2 weeks ago:
Superman - Peace On Earth.
- Comment on WHERE ARE YOUR COSHH FORMS, MR. FREEZE?? 2 weeks ago:
In many depictions he does fund social programs and whatnot, but it doesn’t fix Gotham being Silicon Valley for supervillains. Half his rogues gallery have doctorates.
- Comment on Misfit Of Demon King Academy's Ugly CGI Animation Draws Criticism 2 weeks ago:
That is some Xavier: Renegade Angel shit.
- Comment on Explain yourselves, comp sci. 2 weeks ago:
It’s how you want an array to work.
- Comment on Geography is neat 2 weeks ago:
Stop censoring screenshots.
- Comment on Evolution isn't linear. 2 weeks ago:
At least we call bullshit now! Until the debacle of the W administration, the very premise of religious objections was nigh unquestionable. They had to move on to high-test crazy because nobody was buying the old brand.
- Comment on Evolution isn't linear. 2 weeks ago:
And would have avoided so much pearl-clutching from right-wing fundamentalist busybodies.
God damn were the 90s stupid.
- Comment on [DISC] Ijiranaide, Nagatoro-san - Ch. 148 4 weeks ago:
WeCanSexy, twelve years ago:
- Comment on Former Blizzard president wants to be able to leave a "tip" after completing $70 games: "I wish I could give these folks another $10 or $20" 4 weeks ago:
Only banning that business model will work.
Nothing inside a video game should cost real money.
- Comment on Former Blizzard president wants to be able to leave a "tip" after completing $70 games: "I wish I could give these folks another $10 or $20" 4 weeks ago:
Fractal bullshit. Every aspect is both awful on its face and viciously dishonest.
To pick one: no fucking way does that money reach anyone responsible for making the game.
- Comment on me too 4 weeks ago:
What an efficient… Clodsire.
- Comment on Apple will allow reuse of iPhone parts for repairs, with a notable catch 5 weeks ago:
You need to review how you’ve acted in this thread.
I said Apple needs to be hit harder. You said they probably never will be. You said only consumers could help. I said that’s fatalist bullshit. You’ve since insisted you’d never be fatalist about this… while being fatalist in literally every comment. Quoting you to prove it just makes you scoff louder.
And now you want to scold me for a tone that is largely imaginary. Listen: when I am being an asshole, I’m not fucking shy about it. I know exactly how I prod people in internet arguments. So when I tell you you’re projecting, it’s not some insistence I’ve never done wrong or been rude, it is frustration for how you’re ignoring why and how I am actually giving you shit. If you’re going to whinge about being hassled then the least you can do is recognize what you’re being hassled about.
Adding to that list: tone policing is abuse. If I read this haranguing (aggressive cheerleader, pummeling people!) and tell you where to shove it, well, that must prove the haranguing was right! No way a middle finger is a valid response when ‘calm down, honey’ is lobbed at, say, one sentence expressing disinterest. Or if you’d prefer a direct quote, “take a breath, and go outside.” Sure, guy who responded to my top-level comment, clearly I am picking a fight with you, by being exasperated with the shit you keep saying. Your bickering on this website is totally different from my bickering on this website.
Obviously I should bend over backwards to please you, o sainted pessimist. Arguing just makes you double down. Right? “Good luck trying to pummel people into being more optimistic.” God forbid anyone try unconscionable language like “baloney” or “stop.” You must coaxed gently from the ledge, with soft pillows and a lilting voice. I mean god fucking dammit, aggressive cheerleader, are so pig-ignorant you’ve never heard of pessimism? The thing you’re criticizing? News flash: that group you’re tired of? They exist! I’m sorry we can’t all live in the magical fantasy land where everything goes right forever, la dee dee da da.
Gosh, why can’t you just have this dialogue with me? You seen disinterested for some reason.
- Comment on Apple will allow reuse of iPhone parts for repairs, with a notable catch 5 weeks ago:
‘What you wrote the first two times sounded exactly like what you accused me of making up.’
‘Wow, touch grass.’
Good dialogue, super valid.
Especially when you’re still reiterating the undercurrent of pessimism that I’m criticizing in the first place. ‘Companies just out-spend regulators. I have no faith it will work out. Oh well, agree to disagree!’
- Comment on Apple will allow reuse of iPhone parts for repairs, with a notable catch 5 weeks ago:
Here are the words from your mouth:
They have an answer to everything lawmakers come up with. Consumers are the only group that could punish Apple in a meaningful way
Regulations, however, always seem to be one step behind, don’t they?
Congratulations on this new suggestion of trust-busting to fix that, but please do not pretend it’s my fault for reading where you suggested it’s unfixable. Or I’m sorry, unfixable “in any meaningful way.”
- Comment on Apple will allow reuse of iPhone parts for repairs, with a notable catch 5 weeks ago:
I’ve lost all patience for people whose hot take is that laws can’t work.
- Comment on Apple will allow reuse of iPhone parts for repairs, with a notable catch 5 weeks ago:
Baloney. Consumers didn’t do shit - only state power has curtailed their abuses.
Stop this fatalist expectation that we’d have to shop our way out it. This is what regulation is for. It works. All we have to do is do it.