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- Comment on Nippon Ichi Software announces Nippon Ichi PC Games service 15 hours ago:
Tl;dr: because physical version bonuses (art books, acrylic stands) haven’t been available to PC players, they’re adding a service where, by buying a game directly through their own online storefront on PC, you can also get those physical items
- Comment on Heavily modded SRB2 inspired by early versions of the game 1 day ago:
As a reminder, this game, SRB2, is a Doom mod. Also, a derivative mod, SRB2K (kart) is one of the best freeware classic mario kart-likes in existence. The devs have moved on to Dr Robotnik’s Ring Racers, but SRB2K is the goat in my heart.
- Comment on looking for people for mvm in tf2 3 days ago:
Mann vs Machine
- Comment on Sony is testing dynamic pricing: one game - different prices on the PlayStation Store 3 days ago:
That last note. Ughhh… Don’t put fear in my heart. Every generation it’s “all you have to do to come out on top is not step on your own dick” and every generation these massive companies manage to find at least one way to fuck up spectacularly. Steam ISN’T just doing nothing, but even if they did, it would be a lot better than most of the major players most of the time
- Comment on The Untold Story of Classic Games: Inside ZOOM with CEO Jordan Freeman 5 days ago:
Also, and I’m no fashionista, but, a suit jacket and jeans is a very strange choice
- Comment on Day 595 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 week ago:
For me, the hottest trend has always got to be ADULT TOYS
- Comment on Day 594 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 week ago:
Ooh this reminds me of getting almost every pokemon, one from each family, just had a little level grinding and breeding to do, all on AS, before my 3DS died and I lost all of it due to Nintendo’s bonkers save protections. I had the SD card for the longest time. Haven’t made a catch em all attempt since.
- Comment on Day 594 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 week ago:
It has been jarring getting to your dad’s gym and finding out
Tap for spoiler
He’s the furry type gym leader, though no one will say it to you out loud. And he has a lopunny, and a vaporeon, and his lucario has bone rush… Is this why he lives in a different town than you and mom? Oh no furry is weak to dragon type? Oh no…
- Comment on Day 594 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 week ago:
I’ve been playing Pokemon Too Many Types, a rom hack of emerald that triples the number of types and gives each pokemon new typing, up to three types per pokemon. It’s a lot of fun to try and figure out the brainrot logic. For example, gamer type pokemon are weak to water and grass, because they don’t shower or touch grass, probably. Freshens everything up and pulls in quite a few pokemon from further in the series. Starters are poplio, a water/silly type, fennekin, a fire/fluffy type, and chikorita, a grass/bean type.
It’s a beautiful mess.
- Comment on Paper Mario: TTYD (GameCube) - What Am I Doing Wrong? 1 week ago:
It’s been a while, but for this early in the game you have a LOT of BP. I would put more into health, I think that’ll improve your mortality rates significantly
- Comment on New sodium ion battery stores twice the energy and desalinates seawater 2 weeks ago:
The harder to obtain materials aspect, while long term relevant, is barely a factor right now. Lithium production has exploded and resulted in a massive drop in prices that’s making the main consumer appeal for sodium batteries, price, a non-factor and driving some sodium battery producers out of business
- Comment on The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents 2 weeks ago:
This. And chromebooks are glorified tablets. Much less capable than a proper laptop, much less for a child to learn than a proper laptop. Google did MASSIVE pushing to get chromebooks into the classroom to get kids hooked on their platform as early as possible
- Comment on Fury over Discord’s age checks explodes after shady Persona test in UK 2 weeks ago:
Read the article. Persona was the third party service. Even so, I’m skeptical given that discord told us DAYS ago that everything would remain on your local device in a blatant lie.
- Comment on Fury over Discord’s age checks explodes after shady Persona test in UK 2 weeks ago:
What do you mean all data was deleted? They’ve been doing age checks off client through a third party service. Are they checking every drive in the world for the data?
- Comment on The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about 2 weeks ago:
Is this a thing? Because what comes to mind for me is “the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent,” which just happens sometimes
- Comment on Get. Out 2 weeks ago:
Oh yeah. Very correct. They’re actively trying. I’m aware of some taco bells that have implemented AI ordering, but, as you said, people fucking hate it, and AI struggles with orders like “I’ll have 14,000 free waters” and then the system crashes for several minutes. People I know have consistently gotten meals comped because it’s failed in one way or another, so they’re abandoning it, for now
- Comment on “Mate or die.” Major women’s game developer in Japan explains how the “straight omegaverse” works in its upcoming Switch exclusive visual novel - AUTOMATON WEST 3 weeks ago:
This is hillarious. Absolutely bonkers
- Comment on Next-Generation Xbox Could Launch in 2027, Hints AMD - IGN 4 weeks ago:
I feel so sorry for people who don’t play indie games
- Comment on DigitalFoundry: Resident Evil 4 Remake's New PC DRM Impacts CPU Performance 4 weeks ago:
Ugh I was so happy when they first announced “denuvo is being removed from RE4,” because that’s a sane business decision that capcom has made in the past. Studies have shown that drm only makes a meaningful difference within… I’ve forgotten but I want to say it’s like the first year of release, after which time not only has the game probably been cracked anyway, but also the game has already likely seen the bulk of it’s sales. Adding NEW drm doesn’t make any goddamn sense this late into the lifespan for a single player game. It’s extra expense and also providing a second, alternative drm that might be easier to crack if the first wasn’t already
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Why does the first review, CGMagazine, claim this game is a real time strategy…?
- Comment on Game companies see share prices plummet following the launch of Google's very limited virtual world generator, Project Genie 5 weeks ago:
They’ve already begun to rebound, but with GTA6 allegedly around the corner, this was a pretty good chance to pick up take 2 stock.
That being said, as we can all see, genie 3 is less like a game maker and more like “real time video generation from a base image with limited interaction for 60 seconds” wherein a user can move a camera around and maybe there’s a character that camera is centered on. It’s not anything that’s going to compete with a real video game. There’s no interaction, at best objects can crash into each other, sometimes, while others they act… Strangely. There’s no inputs allowing for any sort of user action other that camera movement and camera focus movement. It will strongly resist deviating from the initial image generation. And the classic AI concept of “everything is uncanny and also changes every time you look at it with no consistency” is there, too. You wanna see a cat that has a different number of legs every time the camera circles around? A boar whose butt is sometimes a head? Go ahead and use this “world explorer”
- Comment on Mass Effect is one of the greatest games ever and EA makes good games 5 weeks ago:
Agreed, I actually did like the ME3 multiplayer, and played a TON of it. With regard to loot boxes, I was happy that updates were free and progress was achievable without buying in (until I started getting horrible rng on weapon mods and just didn’t get any).
That being said, there’s no arguing it paved the way for the horrible modern equivalent.
For those curious about ME3 multiplayer today, it’s worth noting that purchases are only client side checks, and EA doesn’t care about the property enough to be banning anyone anymore (multiplayer didn’t make it to Legendary Edition), so you can buy all the boxes you want by spoofing your credits with cheat engine with no consequences
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Having met the guy while working at activision this does not surprise me even a little bit
- Comment on Mass Effect is one of the greatest games ever and EA makes good games 5 weeks ago:
As others have noted, EA acquires devs AFTER they’ve started an incredibly successful new IP and then grinds them into action games from whatever they were until the series has nothing left of what made it good in the first place.
Mass Effect 3 was the first major release with loot crates, for fucks sake!
- Comment on Austrian Supreme Court rules that FIFA loot boxes are not gambling 5 weeks ago:
I’m 100% with you that’s clearly, demonstrably bullshit
- Comment on Austrian Supreme Court rules that FIFA loot boxes are not gambling 5 weeks ago:
Haven’t read the article, but the argument made in the past for these things has been “The prizes have no value and there is no way to ‘cash out’ therefore it’s not gambling.”
- Comment on PC game recommendation for my partner and I 1 month ago:
I will toss in, don’t starve together is very much NOT beginner friendly. Playing with someone less experienced with video games can turn into effectively playing with one hand behind your back as you try to cover the needs for both of you, the world is threatening, and the penalty for death is high. Might not be well suited to what you’re looking for
- Comment on Looking for 3D Platformer recommendations on sale on Steam 1 month ago:
I’m borderline necroposting, but I just picked up humble’s decked out collection (still available for a little over a week) and noticed Haste, which looks like it has very tasty movement and might be up your alley.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Also the CEO showing up to an event hyping the game in a “Make FPS Great Again” hat was a pretty big turn off to a lot of people
- Comment on Day 530 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 months ago:
This may go without saying, but if you’re enjoying starbound you’ll probably have more fun with terraria. For years I wanted starbound to be a spiritual successor and generally better game, but it simply isn’t.