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- Comment on Finally got a Gensis (Megadrive) after years of wanting one! 4 hours 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! 4 hours 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 day 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 day 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 2 days 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. 2 days 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 days 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 days 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. 6 days 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 1 week 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 3 weeks 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.
- Comment on What age gap is too big of an age gap if someone's in their early 30's? 3 weeks ago:
Oh, interesting! Is parental consent legally required for certain ages to date in some places?
- Comment on What age gap is too big of an age gap if someone's in their early 30's? 3 weeks ago:
I was asking if they thought that people under 18 shouldn’t date.
15 and 16 pair work by the 1/2 + 7 rule, but not by “Anything goes 18+” rule
- Comment on What age gap is too big of an age gap if someone's in their early 30's? 3 weeks ago:
16 and 15 shouldn’t date?
- Comment on What age gap is too big of an age gap if someone's in their early 30's? 3 weeks ago:
50 and 32? Maybe, I guess?..
- Comment on Research shows ‘compliment sandwich’ no longer effective 4 weeks ago:
It works the first couple of times the receiver gets feedback that way. In their entire lives.
I’ve realized that what the article says applies to me – it can be hard to receive positive feedback when you’re anticipating the upcoming “constructive feedback”.
And then you’re left wondering how hard it was for them to come up with the positive stuff. Is the positive stuff all fake just for the purposes of wrapping the “constructive” part?
- Comment on Why do i tip my bartender $2 per drink and per bar food order but 20% when I order food from a waitress? Am I tipping wrong? 4 weeks ago:
I thought bar food is tipped the same as restaurant food.
Tipping a dollar a drink is standard because
- It’s easy
… that’s really it. No thinking, no math, etc. which is important when you’re drinking.
Also, you too per drink so the bartender knows you tip right from the start.
- Comment on Why people say they have a "boy cat" or a "girl cat" but when the cat grows up, they don't call is a "man cat" or "woman cat"? 5 weeks ago:
Because they get neutered/spayed
- Comment on YSK that if you live in London, free cycle rides are offered every Sunday 1 month ago:
I can cycle for free every day where I live!
- Comment on YSK: US Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem publically bragged about killing her puppy 1 month ago:
Has anyone liimed into these horses??
Looks at keyboard
Ok, I guess that could make sense
- Comment on what are in you're top 3 favourite games of all time? 1 month ago:
Your title says “What are in you are top 3 favourite games of all time”.
You were thinking of “your”, which is possessive. “You’re” is a contraction of “you” and “are”; the apostrophe is a hint there.
- Comment on What’s the best written Pokémon game? 1 month ago:
Probably a Mystery Dungeon game. I’d go with Gen 5, having not played it on ages, for a mainline game.
Scarlet/Violet was surprisingly decent, at least in the end-game.
- Comment on Collective Shout Purge Sees Horror Games In Crosshairs 1 month ago:
Interesting! Maybe it’s a similar situation on Steam, but the payment providers demanded the platforms act immediately (or at least too soon for them to make such changes).
Or maybe Steam gets too many chargebacks on NSFW games and is ok with this? Lol
- Comment on Collective Shout Purge Sees Horror Games In Crosshairs 1 month ago:
I don’t get why the gaming platforms are removing games instead of removing the objecting payment providers as a payment option for purchasing those particular games.
I think the issue isn’t that the payment providers don’t want to support the purchase of those games with their card. They want to stop offering their services to a platform that sells those games.
- Comment on what video game deserves to be in a museum? 1 month ago:
Not every single piece of art goes into a museum
- Comment on "We approached payment processors because Steam did not respond" - Australian pressure group Collective Shout claims responsibility for Steam and Itch.io NSFW game removal 1 month ago:
Haha, it wasn’t the end of the sentence, but I don’t think the rest of the sentence meaningfully changed that particular clause!
- Comment on "We approached payment processors because Steam did not respond" - Australian pressure group Collective Shout claims responsibility for Steam and Itch.io NSFW game removal 1 month ago:
Rape and incest ain’t for me but I take serious offense when they get banned
phrasing
- Comment on Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan 1 month ago:
You can be child-free and still be married. Anyway.
A wise thing to do is for men to have their own “Tea” type of app to balance things out. I see no reason not to.
This would probably be an equal breach of privacy for less gain.
Female Tea (if used properly) is about protecting women from being abused.
Male Tea would probably be more about flagging girls that want expensive dates and don’t put out.
Like, sure, go ahead. Have a male Tea app. But the stakes are not the same.
- Comment on Gamers Bombard Visa & MasterCard With Emails and Calls Over Steam and itch.io Censorship 1 month ago:
“What about” is a fantastic way to breed apathy when people are protesting something. You’re doing nothing for any of those causes with this comment. You’re making things worse for all of those causes, plus the one this post is about. And your comment only tangentially relates to the Community this post is in…
- Comment on How did you decide what you generally wanted to do with your life? 1 month ago:
Did a whole bunch of different things. Stopped doing things I didn’t like when I had the security (money, support, etc.) to do so.