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- Comment on YouTube will stream the Oscars -- exclusively -- beginning in 2029 | TechCrunch 2 days ago:
Dying industry pats itself on the back one last time.
- Comment on Divinity - Cinematic Announcement Trailer 1 week ago:
Sadly that is the trend, but not always (thank goodness). I do think people are getting wise to this smoke and mirrors garbage though. Anyone can make a sexy looking rendered scene. Without a hint of what the actual gameplay will look like, it's just pointless.
- Comment on Divinity - Cinematic Announcement Trailer 1 week ago:
Visually stunning? check
Meaningless? check
About as relevant to the actual game as that Witcher 4 Unreal Engine tech demo? check checkety check. - Comment on The best games of 2025, picked by NPR's staff 2 weeks ago:
Really nice list and well laid out too. Currently downloading the demo for Revenge of the Savage Planet from it :)
- Comment on Do you cheat in video games? 2 weeks ago:
Multiplayer games are absolutely off limits cheating wise for me. HOWEVER... using trainers and mods and things like Cheat Engine in single player games is not only ok, but I often treat it like it's a mini game. Can I give myself an extra 100k gold? Hmm fire up CE and let's see :)
The immense thrill I get from reducing some horrible grind from hours to minutes is just huge fun. I'm basically a sandbox guy. GTA5 cheats, for example, have led to more unexpected sandbox fun than I could ever have imagined over the years.
Not using cheats in single player grindfests is like having a first class ticket on a plane but choosing to travel economy. I think it's basically that I don't like being told to grind for the sake of it or for some "moral" reason.
I love a FUN grind though. I've spent days in games like My Time At Portia just fishing for example. It comes down to this: If a grind is fun, I'll happily do it but if it's just like I'm a mouse being toyed with by some cat then hello God mode lol
- Comment on Radon 4 weeks ago:
Extreme physical danger of drowning, hypothermia, severe injury, insane hours, unpredictable income, huge mental and emotional stress in an industry that often damages the environment and is plagued with human rights abuses?
This comic feels like it was written by the fisherman.
- Comment on Surprise EU rollback of 'GDPR' digital-rights rules prompts alarm 5 weeks ago:
There really is no need for this rudeness. I'm sure you can make your point without resorting to this sort of language. Let's try not to turn into reddit.
- Comment on Great to see some actual progress over there 1 month ago:
Laughs in Elizabeth Tower.
- Comment on No, commuters of Bus Bound's Steam Next Fest demo, I will not stop publicly transporting you to the scene of accidents 2 months ago:
Really fun demo. Do yourself a favour and ignore Hond's review. I have no idea what they're talking about or why they're so filled with hate.
I'll go negatives first - It definitely needs optimising, but I was getting a pretty smooth 55 fps on my 4060 RTX on medium settings with DLSS set to "Balanced" on my Ultrawide at 2560 x 1080. Also, why is it having to precompile shaders every time I launch it? I found at least one hilarious bug where a mountain bike would suddenly appear glued to the front of the bus sideways when I pulled into a bus stop. And that's it... pretty much.
The rest of the game is really fun. I've been looking for a decent Bus driving game (not so much sim) for AGES. Also, going into this I had no love for Sabre Interactive. They absolutely ruined Dakar Desert Rally. What a horrible mess that game turned out to be! I have to admit though... they've redeemed themselves a little with this demo. At least I think so.
So, the good things that come to mind are...
It worked immediately with my T-248 wheel. No messing about with confusing settings like in THE BUS. It just worked and it was really easy to adjust all the settings.
I love how you have fixed side mirrors but you get a temporary mirror that appears only when you indicate and only on the side you indicate. It works really well and doesn't clutter up the UI when it's not needed. ETS2, for example does offer UI mirrors but they're either on or off and not cleverly tied to the indicator like in this game.
The people in the town look good and walk around naturally. At least a LOT more naturally than the pedestrians in BUS SIMULATOR 21. There's also a decent amount of people and a nice variety of cars as well.
I love the town itself. It feels like a city that's buzzing with activity and looks really nice. The lighting is great and the sunshine and rain effects feel perfect to me. Compared to the weird plastic town feel of BUS SIMULATOR 21 this is a breath of fresh air. I wanted to love BS21 so much but I just couldn't play it because the environment was so jarringly fake feeling.
I also really liked the game loop. How you unlock extras routes and buses by getting "likes" from your passengers for each bus stop by following all the good driving rules. It made me want to keep driving the routes till I'd filled up each bus stop's "Like" meter and got that all important star. I also really like not having to fiddle about with change and tickets for passengers because bus travel is free in this game. I really didn't enjoy BS21 where you have to get up and go check each passenger for tickets and figure out if anyone's trying to ride the bus for free. I just wanna drive man!
I'm really excited to see how they improve this game and for an early access demo this seriously impressed me. It feels like there might FINALLY be a good bus game on the horizon 😁
- Comment on Steam Next Fest is back for October 2025. What good demos have you found? 2 months ago:
G-Rebels demo is back. I just love how nimble the ship is in this one. Fully upgraded you can get up to insane speeds with it darting around the cyberpunk style city. Personally I think they should make more of that, so that you can fly through more narrow gaps and maybe even underground tunnels. Also I've been watching their Discord for a while and they seem to be really going full steam ahead (no pun intended) with this one. Can't wait for the full game 🙂
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- Comment on Is it me or does it seem like review bombing on Steam has become so much worse recently? 2 months ago:
Absolutely. Also, I'd love to make it a rule that you can't start a review with
"I really wanted to like this game but..."
Aww... Did you pumpkin? Are you SO disappointing that you don't get to like a thing you wanted to like? That must be so rough for you. Anyone using that opener is immediately suspicious to me.
- Comment on Is it me or does it seem like review bombing on Steam has become so much worse recently? 2 months ago:
You've just reminded me actually, there was a game I loved playing the demo for called "Truck World: Australia - First Haul" I saw back in June that got hugely review bombed (maybe by ETS2 fans?). "Worse than a mobile game" and "It's way too red" were two I remember 🤣
- Comment on Is it me or does it seem like review bombing on Steam has become so much worse recently? 2 months ago:
I believe how it works is people buy the game, write the negative review and then refund it. Review bombing is not only definitely a thing but Steam have gone to great lengths to combat it, which would be odd if it was imaginary.
- Comment on am I cooked chat 2 months ago:
You're right. He doesn't tend to kick the little people, unless they're nicking stuff. I still remember that episode with those two owners (Amy and Samy) at Amy’s Baking Company. They were just such completely unrepentant, terrible people. Apparently they shut the place in 2015 and left the country lol
- Comment on Is it me or does it seem like review bombing on Steam has become so much worse recently? 2 months ago:
Oh ok 🙂 It was Seafarer: The Ship Sim. A day after they launched they got a load of negative reviews that took them down to a "Mostly Negative" rating. That's improved since then, presumably once more genuine reviews came in.
- Comment on Is it me or does it seem like review bombing on Steam has become so much worse recently? 2 months ago:
Really well explained thanks! 🙂
- Comment on Is it me or does it seem like review bombing on Steam has become so much worse recently? 2 months ago:
That's good to know.
- Comment on Is it me or does it seem like review bombing on Steam has become so much worse recently? 2 months ago:
Didn't want to mention the name of the game cos some might claim I'm stealth marketing for it or some bs like that.
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- Comment on Steam Autumn Sale 2025 Has Begun 2 months ago:
Played the demo of Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream a while back so might buy it now it's 20% off. Not surprised it got "Overwhelmingly Positive". Bloody excellent game.
- Submitted 2 months ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 34 comments
- Comment on Which stage are you at? 3 months ago:
I'm at the "Happy with Windows, thanks" stage.
- Comment on Reddit lost it 3 months ago:
Wow... there's already labels for the sides that would fight each other: "Accelerationists" and "Doomers". I really hope that's not a road we all end up going down for real. Would make interesting fiction though!
- Comment on Reddit lost it 3 months ago:
Just wait till someone turns AI worship into a literal religion. I'm kinda surprised it hasn't already started happening. That would be a heck of a turning point for humanity. Just takes someone to train an AI into thinking it's a God and then we really are done.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
See, this is why I keep struggling when I'm telling someone about something I heard on here and they ask if it was on reddit
"No... it was on erm... well... it's this other place. It's not reddit... thank God it's not reddit but it's called erm... well it was Mbin and then that shut down and then it was kbin and now I'm on fedia.io but actually it's lemmy... but it's part of the fediverse... I think? it's... yeah it's like reddit basically but it's not... anyway this asteroid is going to zip by the earth later today. Here's a live youtube page that's tracking it" 🤣
- Comment on The World’s Largest Solar Plant is Rising in Tibet. It's So Vast It's the Size of Chicago 3 months ago:
Wow, I had a look around on Google maps for "solar panels in NW China’s Qinghai Province"... it's incredible and so vast and there's so many other massive solar and wind farms everywhere as well. How do they keep them clean? Surely output must degrade over time no? There's even one where they made it into the shape of a giant horse. I guess that must be the logo of the energy company? Amazing...
- Comment on What strategy would you use to estimate the number of hazelnuts 3 months ago:
Can't math so would do it entirely visually and I would get it wrong but feel happy that I'd picked a number (in this case 215) and been able to move on 🤣
- Comment on Reeves ‘plots tax raid on landlords’ to help plug £40bn Budget black hole 3 months ago:
So... Reeves thinks taxing landlords using NI will make them sell up and release properties into the market which will drive down prices. What is more likely to happen though is that taxing landlords more = landlords immediately charge more rent = fewer people rent = more people buy houses = increased demand drives house prices up = landlords charge even more rent as their property is worth more now = landlords make more money than ever and renters get unbelievably screwed in a rental market that was already bleeding them dry. Reeves makes £2Bn though, so what's a few more homeless families eh?