Quetzalcutlass

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I second the Kinetica recommendation. It feels a lot like F:Zero for those familiar. It’s an amazing arcade racing game that will have people look at you like you’re crazy if you try to describe it to them (racers wear skintight suits that add rollerblades to their limbs and use themselves as the vehicles).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The quality of life features around base building are great. Being able to upgrade structures in-place and move buildings around freely has ruined most other base building games for me.

  The one thing I dislike about companions is how many old, bad ones you end up with. Especially with taming - a 20-30% chance at best of raising an elite tame means my bases are littered with regular hyenas, bears and rhinos who weren’t good enough to accompany me. And I’m only just now leaving the desert - I can only imagine how many reject animals I’ll have by endgame! Luckily with humans you can see what they are before deciding to capture them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been playing Conan Exiles, a survival crafting game that’s been out for several years but still receives regular major updates.

  It’s a bit generic - there’s little I haven’t already seen in another survival game - but it’s more polished than most due to having a major developer behind it. There’s a lot of content, bespoke animations for nearly every weapon, and the base building is a delight. Exploration is also great due to diverse biomes and the game’s climbing system, which also lets you grab the wall while falling and slowly slide to a halt - this looks and feels great and turns avoiding falling damage from a headache into a cinematic moment. It’s not parkour, but it tugs the same strings.

  The game has an unfortunate tendency to crash when messing with companion inventories, though that may be due to a Steam Workshop mod I’m using (one I can’t bring myself to remove because it makes inventory and companion management so much easier). Aside from that hiccup - which only triggers once every few hours, which is tolerable for me - and knocked out enemies occasionally falling through the ground (you need to drag them back to your base to recruit them as NPCs), the game has been rock-solid.

  I’m somewhat tempted to buy the new Dune game by the same devs, but I’ve heard mixed things about the solo experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Eurogamer] Grounded 2 early access review⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The first Grounded ranks up there with Abiotic Factor as the best survival crafting game of the last several years. I can’t wait for this to mature a little more before diving in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And Kerrigan should have stayed evil. That’s my “Han shot first” of the franchise.

  Agreed 100%, how Kerrigan was handled was the worst of StarCraft 2’s many sins against prior characterization. They spent an entire expansion setting her up as an irredeemable monster and the new big bad of the setting alongside Mengsk and whatever Duran was up to, only to undo it all because NuBlizzard wanted their waifu.

  Additionally there is absolutely no way Jim Raynor as of the end of Brood War would ever ally with Kerrigan after her betrayal, yet he goes from having sworn to get revenge for Fenix’s death to helping Kerrigan “redeem” herself with little more than a mention of past grievances.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  StarCraft and Brood War were amazing, but the writing quality took a nosedive in the sequel. StarCraft 2 felt like poorly written fanfiction that didn’t understand the existing characters or their motivations at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  MMOs and live service ruin lore. They’ll twist the existing story into knots so that players can fight or recruit every popular character from the series, even if it makes no sense. Even if they’re dead. Gotta keep those players engaged, even if it comes at the expense of the world that drew them in in the first place!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Darksiders 4 | Announcement Teaser⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the detailed response!

  Would you say any of them are worth picking up from a gameplay perspective? I know the first is a Devil-May-Cry clone (no idea what the genre is properly called) that takes heavy influence from pre-BotW 3d Zelda for its world and dungeon designs, 2 is an action game with random loot (the randomness is why I dropped it), and I’ve heard 3 described as a Soulslike, but are they good examples of their respective genres?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Darksiders 4 | Announcement Teaser⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  How was Genesis?

  I own the whole series but I’ve only played the first (which I loved) and a bit of the second. I dropped it since the devs didn’t seem interested in continuing from the sequel hook in the first game. Now that they are finally getting around to that, is it worth playing the rest before 4 comes out? Do the other Riders’ stories contribute to the plotline of War’s campaign, or are they all just kind of doing their own thing?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Darksiders 4 | Announcement Teaser⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  After all this time we’re finally getting a direct sequel to the first game? I never thought I’d see the day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everything is a problem⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Download size: 200 MB

  “Oh, maybe this will be quick and I’ll actually be able to play tonight.”

  Download complete. Patching files: 0.0/200 GB

  “Never mind.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The long hard road⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe I read that those kinds of hours (and worse) are pervasive throughout the medical industry because the father of modern medicine used cocaine to stay alert and was wired nearly 24/7, and successive generations kept his insane schedule because it resulted in better outcomes (for everyone except the one working).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That sounds like a fun thing to do⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s Denmark, they have a pretty robust welfare system that actually likely pays for this sort of program.

  Though I’m not sure if refugees would be able to benefit from it since they’re probably not full citizens.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Official Art] Journey Box Art⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Journey is one of those games I wish I could forget and experience for the first time again. It was amazing, and probably the only game where anonymous multiplayer actually made for a better experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Co-op climbing game PEAK is a truly great time with friends⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The hunger mechanic killed it for me. It’s a whacky co-op game; why include a system that punishes you for taking your time messing around with friends?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Star Wars Outlaws flop - Guillemot blames waning interest in the franchise⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, he 100% knows the truth. He just can’t say it since admitting it’s Ubisoft’s fault would lower investor confidence (and therefore affect his personal wealth). This is the standard “blame our failures on market forces outside our control” move that all CEOs of publicly-traded are forced to do.

  The stock market was a mistake.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This new SSD will literally self destruct if you push the big red button it comes with — Team Group posts video of data destruction in action⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also don’t buy this if you have small children.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Nintendo locked down the Switch 2’s USB-C port and broke third-party docking⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They went after Apple for their proprietary chargers and directed them to switch to the USB standard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ted Cruz's plan to punish states that regulate AI shot down in 99-1 vote⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey, don’t blame us for Murdoch. He’s Australian, he just bought US citizenship in his fifties in order to spread his hate better.

  … Saying that becoming American helped with that doesn’t really strengthen my case here, does it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why there are a lot of people migrating from Windows to Linux these days?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It also helps that the Steam Deck has introduced a bunch of people to Linux, plus Valve’s extensive investments into WINE/Proton (software that allows you to run Windows programs and games on Linux) means that for the first time, running Linux doesn’t mean limiting your library of usable apps.

  At this point Linux even runs many games better than Windows due to lower overhead, and most things will run without issue so long as they don’t rely on kernel-level rootkits for anti-cheat or DRM (and kernel access is being restricted in future Windows updates after that whole CloudStrike fiasco, so that will likely stop being an issue either way).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why there are a lot of people migrating from Windows to Linux these days?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the top answer, but it’s missing one key fact: Windows 11 mandates a TPM chip, a secure cryptographic processor that (amongst other things, both good and bad) allows an OS to verify that its boot files haven’t been tampered with.

  A lot of old computers don’t have this chip, making this the first Windows edition in a long while where the upgrade process isn’t smooth and painless. Rather than throw away their still perfectly fine computers to buy a new machine they don’t need, a lot of users are choosing to switch to Linux so they can keep their current PC while still enjoying software and security updates.

  It also helps that the Steam Deck has introduced a bunch of people to Linux, plus Valve’s extensive investments into WINE/Proton (software that allows you to run Windows programs and games on Linux) means that for the first time, running Linux doesn’t mean limiting your library of usable apps. At this point Linux even runs many games better than Windows due to lower overhead, and most things will run without issue so long as they don’t rely on kernel-level rootkits for anti-cheat or DRM (and kernel access is being restricted in future Windows updates after that whole CloudStrike thing, so that will likely stop being an issue either way).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Same Vibe⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The cuccos are going cuckoo!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox Producer Recommends Laid Off Workers Should Use AI To 'Help Reduce The Emotional And Cognitive Load That Comes With Job Loss'⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Given posts like this, he’s probably already using an AI for everything. While still siphoning away company money for a bloated paycheck, of course! What’s that saying about having your cake and eating it, too?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ted Cruz's plan to punish states that regulate AI shot down in 99-1 vote⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  "Here’s the thing you have to understand about Ted Cruz: I like Ted Cruz more than most of my other colleagues like Ted Cruz. And I hate Ted Cruz."

  • Al Franken
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As Data Centers Proliferate, Illinois Communities Grapple with How to Supply the Necessary Water⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem with salt water isn’t salt buildup, it’s that salt water is corrosive and will drastically shorten the lifespan of any equipment exposed to it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the games you played in your youth that you still play today?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Super Nintendo:

  • Megaman X. I was never a fan of classic Megaman, but the faster, more action-oriented sequel/spinoff X series rates amongst my favorites. It has tight controls, good music, varied stages, and memorable bosses and combat encounters. I must have beaten the first game dozens of times over the years.
  • The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. It and Link’s Awakening on the Game Boy were so close to perfect that decades later they’re still the basis of comparison for any new 2D Zelda-like.

  PC:

  • Baldur’s Gate II: Shadows of Amn. it was the game that introduced Bioware’s trademark party banter and focus on interesting and likeable characters. The systems are a little rough but it still mostly holds up. Though it’s been a while since my last playthrough, and I usually stop once I hit the Underdark and the open world structure constricts for a few hours.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any Android controllers with split D-pads?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You need to hold the PS button and select (I’ll never stop calling it that) until the LED starts flashing, then it’ll be in pairing mode.

  You can buy phone mounts for PlayStation controllers. It’d definitely be cheaper than a whole new controller.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gachapwned: How gacha MMOs drown us in progression and randomness | Massively Overpowered⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It looks like the game that changed its dailies was Star Rail, not Genshin Impact. Which makes sense: I remember seeing the change in-game but I haven’t played Genshin since around the event in Enk… whatever the underground area is called.

  I’m trying to find good articles about it but internet search is abysmal these days, especially for news outside the anglosphere. I did find [a forum thread about the Star Rail change](gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/…/80655669l as well as a Reddit comment translating and explaining the proposed law though.

  The TL;DR of it all seems to be that some time around December 2023, new restrictions were proposed affecting gacha games to curb addicting behavior. The news caused stock prices for affected Chinese companies to plummet, and the person who proposed the law was quickly removed from his position and the proposal dropped.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Hat in Time gets a surprise update with DirectX 12 and Vulkan support⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s good to know, thanks! It still ran fine with mods before, it was just the initial load to the main menu that was affected. If you didn’t experience anything then hopefully it was fixed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨THE BIBLE⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t worry, the ones who can’t develop a guilt complex end up becoming leaders. I said don’t worry, stop worrying!