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- Comment on Rebecca Heineman, grandmother of modern gaming, has passed away 4 days ago:
Damn. One month, you find out you have cancer. Next month, you’re dead.
- Comment on A list of open source games. 6 days ago:
Originally released for PC in the early 90s and ported to the 3DO with voice acting and FMVs. The 3DO version got released open source.
UQM Mega Mod is a fan-made remake with optional HD graphics, QoL features, and all kinds of extra goodies. Only possible because the game is open source.
Originally known as Star Control, the series is now known as Free Stars. UQM is SC2, and they released it for free on Steam in anticipation of the release of its long-awaited sequel, which fans backed upwards of 6 figures.
The game is a space adventure game. The dialogue is great, and was the cited source of inspiration for Fallout’s dialogue trees. There’s also space battles with a couple dozen unique spaceships.
The game inspired things like Mass Effect and Stellaris. So if you enjoyed any of those, give this game a try!
…or at least add it to the list!
- Comment on TIL there was a TV tuner attachment for the Game Gear! 1 week ago:
I’m generally of the same opinion about the Switch, but it’s amazing to be able to play it on flights
- Comment on pwned: do you pronounce it as "pohned" "pawned" or "owned" 1 week ago:
I was about to say that garage doesn’t have the wrong “g” for GIF, but then I realized that some people might be ending “Garage” with an actual “j” sound
- Comment on Why do all text LLMs, no matter how censored they are or what company made them, all have the same quirks and use the slop names and expressions? 1 week ago:
Given that they’re using stack overflow, I’m guessing they also have “professionals who have more time than work to do at work”
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
with the exception of two brief situationships I was in cus women suck.
This is part of the problem. You’re blaming an entire gender because you ended up in situationships.
Even if those two women are 100% at fault, you’re not just blaming women, but saying that all women “suck”.
women don’t wanna be talked to for more than small talk
This is part of the problem. Why are you talking “to” women and not “with” them? What do these two different phrases (“talking to” and “talking with”) look like? There’s a huge difference.
Plus getting out is anxiety provoking
This is part of the problem. It’s natural for some people to have anxiety. If you have the means, see if this can be treated by a specialist.
- Comment on Sora might have a 'pervert' problem on its hands 3 weeks ago:
What else would it mean? That’s the kind of content the internet creates.
a centaur-woman pregnant with octoplets
You may have spent too much of your lifetime on the internet if you think that this should be common knowledge, haha
(I say that as someone who probably fits into that category)
- Comment on GOG asking for more donations from gamers with the new GOG Patrons program 3 weeks ago:
I’ve heard it’s 30%, or whatever the same as Steam is
- Comment on Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it 5 weeks ago:
On the contrary, I think the standard way that just about everybody who can read English would be best.
- Comment on OpenAI wants to stop ChatGPT from validating users’ political views 5 weeks ago:
Literally the motivation behind Grok.
“ChatGPT doesn’t lie in the way that puts us in a positive light. So I’ll make my own AI to do just that!”
- Comment on BALL x PIT | Release Trailer 5 weeks ago:
I can’t help but pronounce this as “Bollocks Pit”
- Comment on More Online CO-OP Games should have option to pause 1 month ago:
- Give all players a pause limit. A certain number of minutes per game and per pause, and a number of pauses. Players can’t pause anymore after going over their time limit or pause count limit. The game resumes after a pause’s time limit is reached.
- Pausing should happen after a delay of a certain number of seconds. So a player hits pause, countdown starts before actually pausing.
- Resuming from a pause also has a timer.
- Players’ pause stats are retained. People who take more pauses or spend more time pausing the game get matched with each other.
- Comment on YSK When you hover over a piece of the phonetic notation on (English) Wikipedia, it shows you an example for its pronunciation 1 month ago:
To stop the edit wars.
Also the creator of the format attempted to troll people by saying it’s officially pronounced “jiff”, and it’s taken as truth by the gullible and the people who believe that if you create something, you should be able to control what people call it (even if it defies logic).
- Comment on How long can someone physically walk for? 1 month ago:
Most are at airports, but it’s amazing to me that number one is a shopping mall in Canada… albeit Canada’s Texas.
The other non-airports were media-related amusement parks (mostly Disney)
- Comment on Is there a drink with taste of energy drink without caffeine? 1 month ago:
What are you eating for dinner that the taste of energy drink goes well with it?
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Dev Gearbox Asks PC Gamers to Wait 15 Minutes for Shaders to Compile in the Background While Playing After Reports Indicate Recent Update Causes Stuttering - IGN 1 month ago:
No wonder the last guy thought we got disconnected 30s in after I told him I was unplugging my router.
“Sir? Are you still there?”
“Oh, yes. I was just waiting with the router unplugged.”
“Oh. Well… it’s probably fine now.”
“But it’s only been like 30 seconds.”
"Oh, has it? Well…uh, ok I guess.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Dev Gearbox Asks PC Gamers to Wait 15 Minutes for Shaders to Compile in the Background While Playing After Reports Indicate Recent Update Causes Stuttering - IGN 1 month ago:
There was probably some peak, but I don’t think games as a whole every “just worked”.
If it wasn’t a problem with the game, it was a problem with your hardware.
- Comment on Should you copy a person's accent when pronouncing their name? 1 month ago:
From experience speaking with Americans, Bahb would get really confused because he probably can’t hear the difference between his name and Bob.
I thought this post would be about calling a French guy Pierre vs. pee-Air, even when speaking English, lol
- Comment on YSK the basic techniques for "deprogramming" people who you think are in a cult 1 month ago:
I believe some cults grew out of communes
- Comment on Finally got a Gensis (Megadrive) after years of wanting one! 1 month ago:
Have you heard that the developers are making an ACTUAL sequel?
Yes, after all these years. They legally had to rename Star Control, so now it’s “Free Stars”. And the sequel to Star Control 2 is “Children of Infinity”!
Check it out! I’m so excited for it.
- Comment on Finally got a Gensis (Megadrive) after years of wanting one! 1 month ago:
Back in the day, Sonic 2, Sonic 3, and Sonic & Knuckles. I find the series can be a hard sell to people who didn’t grow up in that era though. Sonic 1 is a classic too, but doesn’t hold up as well as the others, imo.
Streets of Rage is another solid trilogy. I think it peaked at SoR2, but the other games are fun too.
If you’re just looking to play games and not buy them, Crusader of Centy is a lot of fun. A bit of a unique Zelda-like game where instead of new items, you get new animal followers!
The Shining Force duology is great, too. It was probably one of the first SRPGs to be released in North America!
And obligatory name drop for Star Control. The sequel is so much more fleshed out, but this one is a tactical strategy game where you have space ship fights when you encounter the enemy. There are two sides, each with ~7 unique and distinct ships!
Other than those…check out Sega Lord X on YouTube! He always talks about Shinobi, the arcade ports, and other awesome Sega games!
- Comment on [de] Chatting with right-wing extremist “paedophile hunters”: Group hunts down suspected pedophiles. Their fantasies also target gays, Jews, and leftists. Reporter has been reading their Signal chat 1 month ago:
Fair, but that doesn’t make them pedophiles specifically.
- Comment on [de] Chatting with right-wing extremist “paedophile hunters”: Group hunts down suspected pedophiles. Their fantasies also target gays, Jews, and leftists. Reporter has been reading their Signal chat 1 month ago:
I believe the research suggests that homophobes (to give one example) are no more likely to be homosexual than the average population. … though not much less either.
Just because some are projecting doesn’t mean all/most of them are.
- Comment on [de] Chatting with right-wing extremist “paedophile hunters”: Group hunts down suspected pedophiles. Their fantasies also target gays, Jews, and leftists. Reporter has been reading their Signal chat 1 month ago:
Is there truth to this? I get projection, but I haven’t heard anything about this before
- Comment on Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter, a JRPG, just got released on Steam—and this is a big deal because this game is to PC what Final Fantasy VII was to PlayStation. 1 month ago:
Notice I wrote in present tense
Immediately after saying “some history is in order”.
Square Enix didn’t give us the original Final Fantasy nor the original Dragon Quest. They give us those games now. But writing as if they were always one company feels like rewriting history.
- Comment on Twitch starts requiring face scans to watch mature streams in certain countries: Your face is now the key to unlocking gambling and hot tub content. 2 months ago:
If you’re handsome enough, your face was always the key to unlocking hot tub content!
- Comment on Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter, a JRPG, just got released on Steam—and this is a big deal because this game is to PC what Final Fantasy VII was to PlayStation. 2 months ago:
Some history is in order. The two most influential JRPG developers are Square Enix and Nihon Falcom. Square Enix gave us Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy.
Uhh… credibility lost. They’re saying history is in order and they immediately begin by rewriting history.
Squaresoft and Enix were two different companies for decades, particularly when they were giving us Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest.
- Comment on Whether you use AI, think it's a "fun stupid thing for memes", or even ignore it, you should know it's already polluting worse than global air travel. 2 months ago:
Just goes to show that you don’t even need AI to spread misinformation! Haha
- Comment on Microsoft mandates a return to office, 3 days per week 2 months ago:
Microsoft says AI is more productive than workers. Microsoft says workers are more productive in the office.
AI is not in the office.
So do we bring AI into the office to make it more productive?
- Comment on Today’s game consoles are historically overpriced 2 months ago:
If you mean games, yes.
If you mean consoles (like the post suggests), then what they’re saying is that your strategy won’t work…at least if you want to buy them new.