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- Comment on Nvidia plans heavy cuts to GPU supply in early 2026 3 days ago:
There's some great games out there, they are just not the big ones.
- Comment on Nvidia plans heavy cuts to GPU supply in early 2026 3 days ago:
That people keep buying into... so the cycle continues.
- Comment on Nvidia plans heavy cuts to GPU supply in early 2026 3 days ago:
Any GPU from the last few generations should be able to run any game without any problems. A lot of games are just made like complete ass unfortunately, you know because of profits ultimately.
- Comment on Microsoft Edge Pushes an "All in One Browser" Message on Chrome’s Download Page 3 days ago:
Apart from being chromium, Edge was pretty good until it released, then it had all the Microsoft bullshit added.
- Comment on No AI* Here - A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter - Waterfox Blog 4 days ago:
Exact same thing with anyone I know who uses it. You used to be able to type questions into search engines, now it picks one word from that question and gives you slop results.
- Comment on The Game Awards begins 11 hours from now. What are you looking forward to? 1 week ago:
Ignoring all the problems, sure. You could get through it, but there were lots of bugs and inconsistencies. I played again recently after all the patches and while it was much better, it still had it's fair share of issues. The overall game, lore and story is very good, though I think DOS combat is far superior for a video game than DnD.
- Comment on The Game Awards begins 11 hours from now. What are you looking forward to? 1 week ago:
Nah, Larian will jump the gun, release too early and have another bug infested game. They need to reduce their scope, actually take their time and make a great RPG. BG3 was too much for them, a smaller more refined experience would have been amazing, they shouldn't chase "bigger is better".
- Comment on The Game Awards begins 11 hours from now. What are you looking forward to? 1 week ago:
Not exactly no, they are directly involved in the process. They pick which outlets can vote, so you immediately have conflict of interest.
As a fair awards show, its fucking awful, but as we know, thats just the facade to selling people new products. It's just advertising, hyped up.
Also media publications are often biased anyway as their entire business relies on exposure, which is infinitely harder to get if you are critical of games. Nobody is gonna slap a 5/10 on their product.
Not to mention its always games with money behind them, there's lots of actual quality games released that never get a mention, let alone a nomination, because they simply werent published by a big company. They have fucking DLC nominated instead of games if the big guys didnt release anything that year.
- Comment on The Game Awards begins 11 hours from now. What are you looking forward to? 1 week ago:
The awards are done by the big studios anyway, Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, EA, Ubisoft etc, thats the jury, it always has a bias. Anything else only wins something if its so popular that it has to. It's just a AAA circle jerk mostly.
But its not about the awards anyway, its about advertising.
- Comment on The Game Awards begins 11 hours from now. What are you looking forward to? 1 week ago:
It's just a big advertising show yeah. Like E3 but with all the soul and community sucked out of it. I dont know why anyone cares.
- Comment on After Black Ops 7's weaker launch, Call of Duty will no longer do back-to-back releases in the same series 1 week ago:
Depends what generation you ask, because a lot of the CoD audience now, never even played Black Ops 2. Which I agree, was the last good game, I'll give credit to BO3 for it's amazing zombies experience, with mod tools on PC, which was a surprise.
- Comment on After Black Ops 7's weaker launch, Call of Duty will no longer do back-to-back releases in the same series 1 week ago:
Problem is, Treyarch were the only competent studio after all of IW left. So they have been constantly called in to help to clean up the mess the other studios keep making.
Now development on the games is split across Activision studios all over the world, so the chance of there ever being a coherent self contained experience again is basically zero. Their scope got too big and they couldnt find the right people to take it on.
- Comment on After Black Ops 7's weaker launch, Call of Duty will no longer do back-to-back releases in the same series 1 week ago:
Back to back releases isnt the problem.
Remember the "Call of Duty games are DLC" jokes? Well that is literally what they have become. There's no soul in them anymore. They are just a vessel to sell skins.
- Comment on RAM prices soar, but popular Windows 11 apps are using more RAM due to Electron, Web components 1 week ago:
Hardware doesnt need to get more powerful either. If we actually harnessed it, we have what we need already.
- Comment on RAM prices soar, but popular Windows 11 apps are using more RAM due to Electron, Web components 1 week ago:
Why spend time making better software when the end user can just buy better hardware!
- Comment on 'Huge respect to the folks at Obsidian': Todd Howard invited Obsidian devs onto Fallout season 2's set so they could see New Vegas in the flesh 2 weeks ago:
That's the point, it doesn't matter. Enjoy any you want.
Todd just wants "his" Fallout games to be the most liked, to stroke his ego.
Also side note, sales never works as a metric because the gaming industry is constantly growing, any game released now sells much more than it ever would have 5, 10, 15, 20.. years ago. Regardless of quality.
- Comment on 'Huge respect to the folks at Obsidian': Todd Howard invited Obsidian devs onto Fallout season 2's set so they could see New Vegas in the flesh 2 weeks ago:
I mean the set has missed the mark, from that image in the article. So I'd be pretty disappointed if I was a dev.
- Comment on 'Huge respect to the folks at Obsidian': Todd Howard invited Obsidian devs onto Fallout season 2's set so they could see New Vegas in the flesh 2 weeks ago:
The fact of the matter is it doesn't matter. It doesn't mean it was a good game or something was done better (which is what Todd is looking for, validation), because some people liked it.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 install size reduction effort yields 131GB in cuts, and you can try the slim build right now 2 weeks ago:
That should be an option they add, not something forced on every user. A lot games are just poorly made..
- Comment on Samsung reveals first tri-fold phone 2 weeks ago:
Impressive from an engineering standpoint and it's only going to get more refined. Give it 5-10 years and maybe they will be durable enough for regular use.
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 3 weeks ago:
I'd rather pay for neither.
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 3 weeks ago:
I like to think I hold myself to a higher standard or at least just a standard. General consumption, I'm not sure, but for video games, people standards have dropped significantly, the masses accept a lot of bullshit and even defend it.
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 3 weeks ago:
These people must have genuinely been dropped on their heads multiple times. How do they think anything got done before the "AI" boom? Its mind boggling ahahahha
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 3 weeks ago:
Respectfully, fuck right off.
Indie games compete all the time, they make millions. Games are an artform. Any developers using AI are in it for a quick buck and people dont want to reward that versus traditional hardwork.
Indies have been wildly successful for decades before AI has even existed, so dont suddenly pretend its a crutch they need now. And you are down right disrespecting any legitimate artists by defending AI use. It's disgusting.
It's the AAA devs that are going to use AI to pump out more garbage, not the honest indie developers.
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 3 weeks ago:
It's very much consumer these days, people buy literally anything marketed to them.
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 3 weeks ago:
Isn't that the point of major version upgrades? To make breaking changes?
- Comment on Epic CEO wants Valve and Steam to stop requiring devs to disclose generative AI usage 3 weeks ago:
They've always wanted all of the money without any of the effort.
- Comment on Epic CEO wants Valve and Steam to stop requiring devs to disclose generative AI usage 3 weeks ago:
Good. Fuck "AI". They should have to disclose exactly what it was used for and that should be displayed right at the top of the games store page, along with any extra transactions in the game, extra accounts or launchers needed.
- Comment on Epic CEO wants Valve and Steam to stop requiring devs to disclose generative AI usage 3 weeks ago:
Fuck right off Tim. You cunt.
And you wonder why nobody wants to use your shitty storefront.
- Comment on Valve confirm the Steam Machine will be priced like a PC with similar specs, rather than a console 3 weeks ago:
Steam Deck proved that Linux can now be a success in the hands of the general public. This is basically a more powerful one you plug into your TV.
While it is a custom PC, like the Deck, its also a curated experience, like the Deck.
The evidence is already there, I would understand you if this was their first product back, but it isnt.