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- Comment on Steam Survey for July 2025 shows Linux approaching 3% 2 hours ago:
To be clear:
The anticheat software CAN work on Linux about as well as it does on Windows. Most of the more invasive syscalls don’t exist but said tools are also backing away from those on the Windows side as diminishing returns and fear of pulling a Crowdstrike. Alternative calls are used and most of the major anti-cheat solutions actually already do that and already support Wine/Proton in ways that most game devs never will.
The issue is that the devs (so their publishers) actively disable support for that. They have EAC et al check if it is running in Proton and quit if it is. There are reasons for that (much smaller testing surface) but it is also hard to believe that companies like EA actively updating all their old Battlefields to block Proton isn’t intentional and political.
Err, and then you have stuff like DBZ Xenoverse 2 which just will never have their EAC updated because it is more effort than adding a few new skins to go with the latest movie.
- Comment on Red Dead Redemption 2 was amazing. 14 hours ago:
LOVED RDR1. Wanted to like RDR2 but… it just kind of really sucks to play?
The “cinematic” movement makes me feel like I am piloting a giant- no, actually an Atlas would control a lot better. I don’t know WHAT RDR2’s problem is but it just feels horrible to actually move around.
And the controls in general similarly feel… way more complicated than they should be? Feels like I have five context specific modes at any given time. Like, I play some fairly complex games and have a long love of HOTASes. But RDR2 is the only game where I was ever regularly afraid that I would hit the wrong button and even managed to punch a Stranger in the face once while trying to talk to them.
Will probably try again some time. But bopping that one rando and potentially losing out on a cool quest after like 2 hours of tutorial was just… no.
- Comment on GUILTY GEAR -STRIVE- Season Pass 4 Playable Character #4 [Lucy] Trailer 1 day ago:
Its more that Arcsys just know how to make VERY varied fighting games in general. Like, Strive streamlined a lot (mostly for the better) but it is still one of the more technically complex fighting games out there. Sure you have some bog standard shotos and grapplers but a shocking number of characters don’t only play very differently but have completely batshit insane systems that other studios would build entire fighting games around.
French Bread (?) gets an honorable mention for getting a lot of those vibes with their Under Nite games but, because of the streamlined controls, most play as Shotos with an extra meter.
But yeah. When you are used to just going completely crazy to add a random character with some art you like, making new mechanics for a guest character isn’t a huge lift.
- Comment on What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you? 1 day ago:
Beloved is a REALLY strong word.
But, Mortal Kombat 11. I had always enjoyed the MK games (it helped that my sister owned the N64 so I only played maybe a grand total of two hours of the wannabe Tekken ones…). And the timeloop reboot had reinvigorated the series and I was a much more accomplished fighting game player and actually understood how to push through projectile spam.
Then they randomly recast Sonya Blade with (sandy hook truther and terf) rhonda rousey and it was just… ugh. Even ignoring she is a hateful and evil shitbag… she is just a REALLY bad actress. Could never bring myself to grab 11 and by the time “1” came out I had also realized that I actively disliked the x-ray attacks and finishers since they were just boringly gorey time sinks.
And honorable mention to Splinter Cell Double Agent. But apparently the OG xbox/wii u (?) version of that was actually good and it was just 360/PC that was a steaming pile of shit. And Conviction was a very different game but also I still think about the aftermath of the EMP every so often.
- Comment on So GOG going to relist Devotion? Seeing how they're about freedom to buy games. 1 day ago:
I like GoG but… GoG very much has a history of “performative” bullshit.
Some of us still remember The French Monk Incident where they pretended the site was shutting down and let everyone hammer the download servers so they would panic and “learn” why “DRM Free” games were better. The backlash was so bad that it actually led to the addition of a new quest (that totally wasn’t ready to go…) in The Witcher 2 that, if you won a game of dice poker (Gwent before we had Gwent) you would get a Witcher 1 code at GoG.
Also… their definition of “DRM Free” is what us olds would have called “that Stardock GOO shit”
They’ve also had a LOT of “we are going to lose the rights to sell this game so buy it now” FOMO sales. I want to say the Atari games have been through at least four?
And so forth throughout the years. It was more or less guaranteed GoG would do a smut games sale once Steam delisted games. The freebies is a surprise but stuff like House Party is a massive DLC sink and the Postals get given away five with every soda.
So e’rybody saying “Now is the time to let GoG know they were being inconsistent and they will fix everything”: Hey, I got a really great deal on this bridge. And I’ll give you a discount if you pay in whatever “untraceable” crypto kids like this week. Err, but through this site that just gives me fiat currency. No reason.
- Comment on DYNASTY WARRIORS 25th Anniversary Trailer 2 days ago:
Yeah. I go back and forth but I think Origins is exactly what the series needed… I just don’t know if I like it.
The big difference is that you aren’t really picking a side (until near the end). This works really well for the Yellow Turban Rebellion and the aftermath but gets increasingly awkward as the civil war grows and you are still friends with everyone. And it also means you can’t really do the different perspectives on the same battle as you might be rolling with Cao Cao on one run and Meng Huo on the next.
By having the viewpoint character they were able to actually tell a story. Otherwise it is the same dipping in and out of the Romance as every other DW because… the vast majority of what is interesting has nothing to do with the battlefield. By focusing on Ancient Chinese Forrest Gump it gives people a reference point other than “And then Zhuge Liang was rescued. Some time later he led an army against this castle to get revenge on his rescuers”.
I personally think Wo Long did a better job of “what if Romance Of The Three Kingdoms but also magic and demons and shit” but is also borderline incomprehensible unless you are at least aware of the major beats. Which… is better than “what if The Bakumatsu but we glaze the dude who set Imperial Japan on its path to horrific war crimes. Also Bisexual Icon Sakamoto Ryoma” but… yeah.
- Comment on GOG’s Freedom To Buy Campaign Gives Away Controversial Games For Free To Protest Censorship 2 days ago:
Of the list, I would say Lust Theory is worth a look.
You are groundhogs daying through high school/college trying to bang every single woman in your life. Animations are… sufficient and I do kind of like that any of the more fucked up stuff is almost always followed up with “and then you were kicked so hard in the balls you died” although it would be nice if they weren’t critical path for progression. And it is pretty hilarious that the game lets you define your relationship to the various ladies you live with… but it is still pretty clearly coded for incest of some form which leads to hilarity like “It is so morally wrong that you are having sex with your Live In Janitor”… which I guess would actually be really morally wrong…
But yeah. Mostly the bundle is the bottom of the barrel. Or stuff that has been around so long it is mostly just a meme for how bad porn games are (house party).
- Comment on GOG’s Freedom To Buy Campaign Gives Away Controversial Games For Free To Protest Censorship 2 days ago:
Eh… I am not gonna protect games fundamentally about raping people. And would ask that you maybe not associate that with smut and art games.
- Comment on PlayStation 6 Console And New PS6 Handheld ‘Canis’ Specs Leak, It’s Claimed - Insider Gaming 3 days ago:
Part of the “problem” is that the current gen launched basically at the height of COVID.
But it is coming up on 5 years and console generations tend to be 6-8 years if memory serves. Considering how much work goes into prepping the hardware, it makes sense to see “leaks” now for what will likely hit shelves in the fall of 2027 or 2028.
But I think the bigger issue is that we kind of all know these are “just” computers and most games are multiplatform. Combine that with backwards compatibility and there really aren’t that many distinguishing games of a generation. Which is why it is a common refrain that this is probably the last “console generation” with the future being closer to PCs where you just have new hardware every few years and upgrade when a game you want needs it or you get bored.
- Comment on GOG is fighting back censorship - Freedom To Buy Bundle 3 days ago:
Yeah…
I like GoG in general but they have a LONG history of “performative” bullshit and… yeah. At least one of those games is a pretty infamous DLC sink and the other ones I am familiar with are mostly “Yeah… the first game is horrifically mid but the second one is where it is at” and are the studios that leapt to have sales the moment they heard the news back when it was just Steam.
I still think this is a net good (minus postal 2) but… I have a hard time seeing this as particularly altruistic. Which, actions and all, but still…
- Comment on Itch.io Re-indexes free NSFW content, are in ongoing discussions with payment processors to re-introduce paid content 3 days ago:
I empathize with the developers because unannounced interruptions to their revenue streams are not good.
You can emphasize with suddenly telling companies to get fucked and figure it out themselves during a time of REALLY big economic certainty (seriously, game dev is a wasteland) and think it is “not good”? Good for you!
given a timeline of “IMMEDIATELY OR ELSE” and had to shut off the tap and adjust or risk their own ability to receive ANY payments.
That REALLY isn’t how things work and that still doesn’t excuse silence outside of whinging on discord.
Remember, itch IS NOT the bad guy here, it’s the payment processors. Do not lose sight of that.
There are multiple “bad guys” here.
People, good people, fuck up all the time. How they manage the mistake matters more than the mistake itself.
Say it with me: Corporations are not people.
Good, itch fucked up. Really great that absolutely nobody else has been impacted except for John Itch. Oh… wait…
Like, seriously, read what you fucking posted. “I can understand how companies might have been afraid that they would be forced to fire everyone they work with and go bankrupt but, really, isn’t the important thing that itch learned a lesson?”. Like… the only thing missing was a ukelele.
- Comment on GOG is fighting back censorship - Freedom To Buy Bundle 3 days ago:
Yeah. Postal 1 I think would be good.
Postal 2 was racist and mean spirited and leaned entirely into it in full edgelord shit. I firmly believe it has the right to exist but also think adding it to this collection is a mistake.
- Comment on Itch.io Re-indexes free NSFW content, are in ongoing discussions with payment processors to re-introduce paid content 4 days ago:
Ehhhhhh. Happy is a strong word.
I think itch is doing a much better job now. I think they still completely removed things from people’s accounts (sort of. It is still there, we just can’t access it. Maybe) and cut off a LOT of developers’ entire income source with absolutely zero warning outside of some whinging in a discord.
They are course correcting and hopefully this goes somewhere. But the trust thermocline is breached and no developers are there by choice anymore. Similarly, as (primarily) a consumer, I genuinely don’t feel comfortable buying games on itch that I am not planning to fully back up myself.
- Comment on Itch.io Re-indexes free NSFW content, are in ongoing discussions with payment processors to re-introduce paid content 4 days ago:
The issue isn’t the amount of effort required to undo one action.
It is the complete lack of effort every other time this is done. Gamers Rise Up STILL pretend this is some watershed moment that nobody could have foreseen. And while it is always dangerous to consider The Internet to be a monolith, you can even see threads here where people didn’t care when it was just “incest and furry shit” on Steam.
Let alone when it was basically the entirety of Pornhub a couple years back.
And that is the problem. This kind of shit happens. Why should a megacorp fight it when nobody will care one way or another and this avoids any bad press? Why should news outlets report on it when the outcome will be “Ugh, fucking scammer journalists. How fucking dare they put that behind a paywall or have ads”?
So they just kind of acquiesce to the loudest voice in the room until people DO care.
- Comment on Elegoo Centauri Carbon 4 days ago:
If you know what you are doing it isn’t a huge issue.
But enclosures generally provide the following benefits either by design or as knock ons:
- Temperature control. A heated bed or even chamber is obviously the optimal but even just having a big ass bag over there catching all the heat of the printhead goes a long way towards preventing rapid cooling of layers and all the impacts of that.
- Filament guiding/management. A shockingly common issue is that a rapidly moving printhead can increase kinking in the filament or even back feeding and “tangles”. Most enclosure systems come with some form of a bowden tube rig which helps a lot for that as the filament says mostly “stable” as the printhead moves
- This is less of a “guarantee”, but a lot of the enclosed printers also come with a camera of some form. Which helps a lot for when people suddenly get confident enough that they don’t immediately run to their printer at the start of every print and minimizes the “My entire printer is now a blob of ABS. How do I fix that?” posts.
- And… honestly? Bed slingers haven’t really advanced all that much in years. You can buy a brand new printer but it is still an Ender 3 (which I think is actually a Prusa something or another?) whether you bought that in 2015 or 2025. Whereas Core XY (and the few enclosed ender 3s that aren’t just a tent) actually has had a good amount of R&D and starts to highlight the differences between companies.
I am not saying people should throw out their printers and get a new one (although I did late last year but that is more becuase I hate anycubic with a passion. Qidi Q1 Pro is shockingly nice). But if you are buying a new printer and looking at like a 200 dollar difference between a rebranded ender 3 and an enclosed core xy? I would very much say to think that through.
And for a newbie who doesn’t really have the built up skills and Opinions? There is a lot to say about being all but guaranteed a solid benchie and califlower right out of the box.
- Comment on Elegoo Centauri Carbon 4 days ago:
Was looking at that the other week when the usual “what should I buy” topic came up and… I am a firm believer that nobody should buy a printer without an enclosure in 2025 and core xy is basically standard but the centauri carbon being about half the price of everyone else is more than a bit alarming.
- Comment on Nintendo announces partnet showcase tomorrow (31 Jul 2025) 5 days ago:
It is hard to tell but either Nintendo are still being insanely stingy with devkits or they are actively snubbing any studio with ties to Tencent. So… that is gonna be a big impact for a lot of the “This already exists on X and now it is getting a Switch 2 release” “nindies”.
- Comment on The Substack app sent a push notification promoting a Nazi newsletter to several users. 6 days ago:
Good on you even if I hate Patreon’s usability for just about anything
But if you haven’t already, I would recommend doing some research about why so many writers/creators have stuck with substack. I want to say Aaron Rupar actually talked about this and I would be shocked if the 404/Aftermath crews didn’t. I remember reading and basically nodding my head and acknowledging it was all way above my head but… these are the people who would both know and care.
- Comment on The Substack app sent a push notification promoting a Nazi newsletter to several users. 6 days ago:
Yes, this has come up repeatedly over the years.
The problem is that it is really the only viable platform for independent articles/blogs these days. That is already a ridiculously small potential audience (people who can read AND people who are willing to pay for content). Cutting out the one platform that got any traction is as good as quitting.
It is similar to why businesses (which is what we are talking about) couldn’t leave twitter until like a year and a half ago or whenever bluesky went open sign ups. Yeah, it is a platform owned by nazis and infested with them but… it is also the only way to advertise said businesses and have any hope of surviving. That said, once bluesky gained traction there is absolutely zero reason to not, at the very least, diversify (preferably dropping musknet entirely).
For Substack? Ghost is an increasingly viable platform. But just look around here for any time someone posts a link to a 404 media article and you get “Ugh. Fucking scammers want to rugpull and steal all my personal information” for… wanting ANY email to be used for a free account to just limit the impact of bot/ai scraping.
Its less that “more people are ok with Nazis than we want to admit”… especially considering many of the people on substack are talking about said fucking Nazis. The problem is that “fewer people are willing to support independent media than we want to admit”. It is the same logic of “if I like a youtube channel I’ll give them money on their patreon” that is patently flawed.
- Comment on Itch.io are seeking out new payment processors who are more comfortable with adult material 6 days ago:
The canary was when the exact same thing happened (with much greater impact) to pornhub.
Nobody cared. and Pornhub Corp STILL can’t use credit cards and are dependent on bank orders and cryptocurrency.
And I can’t see a lot of developers going out of their way to prioritize this. Because it is easy to say you are sex positive. It is another thing to actually stand with smut and risk getting attacked by all the same groups.
Also, you know what else is a de facto monopoly? Steam! (cue all the usual suspects). You know what people will never stop whining about? Games not having Steam versions.
So yeah. Gamers Rise Up?
- Comment on Gamers Bombard Visa & MasterCard With Emails and Calls Over Steam and itch.io Censorship 1 week ago:
And would just lead to outsourcing even more or encouraging a shift toward “AI” instead.
There are different dimensions here. For the purpose of “hey, maybe don’t glaze the christofacists” it is number of complaints. For the purposes of “Hey, maybe there is a better way than paying these CSRs” it is metrics such as calls resolved per hour and average time per call.
- Comment on Gamers Bombard Visa & MasterCard With Emails and Calls Over Steam and itch.io Censorship 1 week ago:
Complaining, yes.
Weirdly bragging about wasting half an hour complaining?
- Comment on Gamers Bombard Visa & MasterCard With Emails and Calls Over Steam and itch.io Censorship 1 week ago:
Yeah…
Assuming that was true, (presumably) OOP was just wasting their own time AND hurting the CSRs’ statistics because that is going to be the same “someone complained about X” in the logs/reports.
- Comment on [Mouthwashing], One Of The Greatest PC Games Of 2024 Was Removed From Itch.io Search Results 1 week ago:
Christofacism.
- Comment on [Mouthwashing], One Of The Greatest PC Games Of 2024 Was Removed From Itch.io Search Results 1 week ago:
Gasp?!!? The game about being ground up by capitalism and the abuses of power mad men got blocked?
Sounds about christian.
- Comment on Xbox returns to gamescom next month with over 20 playable demos, including Hollow Knight: Silksong 1 week ago:
The ones from first party studios (which Team Cherry is not) that are near completion will be, the teams fully fired, and then phil spencer will talk about how MS needs more studios like them and that those are some amazing games and have you seen any Palestinians lately because he has some friends who want to know.
- Comment on I am excited for Dying Light - the beast. 1 week ago:
Maybe I am just noticing it more these days (see: Wuchang) but holy crap are the community manager originated “talking points” so ridiculously transparent while also being disturbingly effective.
Ain’t NOBODY ever gave a shit about Kyle Crane. That is right up there with “The Iconic Hayden Pierce’s Hat” in the ubi-verse.
That said: I would like it to be good but I still think 2’s biggest mistake (aside from the hilariously bad story which… 1 wasn’t much better) was that there just isn’t that much water in the “parkour around zombie city” genre and all that wingsuits added was another case of being frustrated when we couldn’t do something we should be able to do (the grappling hook in 1 had similar problems). And apparently they are going for 18 hours of story in Beast? That… is a bold move.
- Comment on A Hellraiser video game. What do you all think? 1 week ago:
Which is a problem the movies themselves increasingly did by having cannon fodder cenobites to add action or a sense of hope.
Hellraiser, at its best, is about despair and helplessness where the only way out is to destroy your own humanity.
- Comment on A Hellraiser video game. What do you all think? 1 week ago:
survival horror action game
Yeah, no.
Hopefully it is just a case of buzz words and not an actual genre description. But the fundamental nature of the Cenobytes is that you can’t fight back against them. All you can really do is endure the psychological harm (because you aren’t enduring the physical) while sacrificing others and trying an end run to the lament configuration.
Survival Horror/Action inherently involves fighting back. And that undermines so much of what makes Hellraiser Hellraiser (even in a lot of the horrible ones).
I DO think a point and click adventure game would work perfectly. I would… probably not play an Alien Isolation but I do think that would also be a fit (I got my fill of hiding in lockers back with Penumbra/Amnesia). But the moment we have ANY way of fighting back… meh.
- Comment on ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing 1 week ago:
I am of multiple minds on it.
I very much do like the idea of sharing your location (once you are in a committed relationship). Knowing when your partner is coming home or stuck at work or at the grocery store is useful. Same with knowing that someone can check in on you if something horrible happens. And I have 100% shared my location temporarily for that.
The problem is that… you don’t always want to do that. And explaining that becomes a mess.
At its core it is opt in versus opt out but it also can trigger the kinds of conversations that are really better suited to a lot later in a relationship. Like with prenups. There are a lot of REALLY REALLY REALLY good reasons to have them but it is the kind of topic that you can’t even raise without having the implication of “I don’t trust you”.