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- Comment on Judge scolds Mark Zuckerberg's team for wearing Meta glasses to social media trial 1 day ago:
Now I’m just imagining a field trip to the grand canyon.
“And this, kids, is the wreckage left behind when we voted to lock Elon Musk into the back of one of his ‘self driving cars’ and set it loose on the top of the canyon.”
- Comment on Texas becomes leading test ground for small nuclear reactors 4 days ago:
Fair enough point. And while it’s not the article’s headline, that is the tab’s label when you open it.
- Comment on Texas becomes leading test ground for small nuclear reactors 4 days ago:
The website is called The Texas Tribune. They write articles about Texas. I really don’t know why you expected them to mention Canada.
- Comment on Mewgenics Co-Creator Responds to Cameo Complaints: 'I Understand We Live in a Time Where a Meow From Someone Who Has Different Beliefs as You Is Scary and Frustrating, Confusing and Controversial' 6 days ago:
Very disappointed, Edmund. I guess anyone can have shit takes.
- Comment on BMW’s Newest “Innovation” is a Logo-Shaped Middle Finger to Right to Repair 1 week ago:
- Comment on A New Era of Safety: Facial Age Checks Now Required to Chat on Roblox | Roblox 1 week ago:
Would you still defend it if they added porn to the platform?
- Comment on Games you fell out of love with. 1 week ago:
They added a temporary mode called Classic Overwatch that was basically just launch OW1. Then later on they added a permanent 6v6 open-queue (2 tanks max though) gamemode. Funny enough, my friends tell me they even removed the “2” from the game again and restarted back at “season 1” as of a few days ago. I guess it’s no longer a sequel anymore somehow.
- Comment on Games you fell out of love with. 1 week ago:
Haha, that’s funny, I was also a Zarya player on the off chance I did play tank. Bubbling others was always fun.
- Comment on Games you fell out of love with. 1 week ago:
Alright, here’s a long one. Overwatch.
I’ve never been a fan of PvP games, but hero shooters might be my one exception. Even then, I almost exclusively play support because I prefer helping my team to fighting the enemy. But the better I got at the game, the more I realized support was just the damage role but you also attack your team sometimes. A Lucio with only 1,000 damage or with 80% healing uptime by the end is a bad Lucio. I guess what I was looking for was a healer role, not a support role.
This pushed me more and more into just playing my favorite character, Mercy, because she kinda lives in her own world and rarely interacts with the enemy team. Her movement is fun, and I genuinely enjoy playing her. So I’d be more than happy to pick OW back up as a Mercy one-trick, but that brings up several other problems.
First of all she’s straight up ass in high-level play. Which is fine I guess, I don’t need to play comp, but the more consistent matchmaking than what shows up in quickplay was appreciated. Secondly, people expect you to switch if things aren’t going well… the game’s been called counter-watch for a reason. This is also fair enough, I understand my team shouldn’t need to baby me if I’m hard-countered, but like… I don’t want to. At this point I’m here to play Mercy, not OW, so I’d rather just lose than switch. Which can make me a useless teammate.
The biggest issue though is their expensive and greedy monetization and abusive use of FOMO. Anybody that has played the game before knows Mercy is one of a few characters that gets beautiful limited-time skins every season, because they sell extremely well. Most of them cost $20, and some can only be bought in $45+ bundles. Unfortunately I’m a sucker for pretty Mercy cosmetics and struggle to stop myself from buying a lot of them. So I stopped playing entirely, because hating myself for spending $20 on pretty Mercy skin #37 is bad for my health and wallet.
- Comment on Games you fell out of love with. 1 week ago:
I’m in a similar boat with BO2 and BO3 Zombies. Except in my case, it’s because I don’t have any friends even remotely interested in the game anymore. And holy shit is training a group of zombies in circles for hours boring when you’re alone. It’s a shame because I do really like the early game setup still. Buying perks, finding and upgrading weapons, and opening up the map. Especially on high quality custom maps I’ve never explored before.
I still find easter eggs fun to do, but most require a group which completely kills my chances of doing them. Origins is my favorite vanilla map though, and at least that one can be completed solo.
- Comment on Random Screenshots of my Games #67 - HELLDIVERS II 1 week ago:
Yeah, I’m a big fan of the friendly fire personally. It causes some hilarious moments. I’ve been in a lot of situations where I get knocked over by a stray rocket or something right as I planned to throw a stratagem, causing me to drop it at my feet and napalm the entire team.
- Comment on Random Screenshots of my Games #67 - HELLDIVERS II 1 week ago:
I didn’t know Starship Troopers was based on pro-military propaganda, that’s pretty interesting. And a clean 5,000 friendly damage but only one accidental? Pink likely killed somebody by shooting a damaged hellbomb at some point.
- Comment on "Benefit of the doubt" is a very important aspect of a game's success 2 weeks ago:
Uh… no. That is just factually wrong and it’s not even close. I don’t know what world you live in, but I could go through my steam library of 300+ games and probably county on my hands the number of them that have a demo.
- Comment on Sony Patents System to Generate AI Podcasts in the Voices of Your Favorite PlayStation Characters - IGN 2 weeks ago:
At that point a cheat code to enable godmode achieves the same purpose and still gives you player agency, unlike an AI taking over. Or just an accessibility option to skip boss fights. We really don’t need to reinvent the wheel here with AI.
- Comment on Why is Valve being sued for almost $900 million, but Epic Games wasn't sued when they bought Rocket League and Fall Guys to remove them from steam? 3 weeks ago:
To be clear, the original comment I responded to said:
looks at Hytale doing quite well without even touching Steam
In response to a comment that said:
There are laws that say that abusing a monopoly is illegal. Steam is objectively a monopoly in pc games. Sure, you don’t have to use it, but it is basically impossible for indie developers to make a living without it.
I never moved the goalposts; modern indie devs were always the goalpost.
- Comment on Why is Valve being sued for almost $900 million, but Epic Games wasn't sued when they bought Rocket League and Fall Guys to remove them from steam? 3 weeks ago:
Notably, almost none of those are indie games, and almost any indie game that you did list came out in the 2000s like Roblox, before Steam was the behemoth it is today. Half of them are games by the same sets of AAA studios like Epic Games, Blizzard, and MiHoYo, and most Blizzard games have an entire franchise of games older than Steam itself to piggyback off of. Speaking of, anything by Blizzard isn’t even true… their most recent games like Diablo IV and Overwatch 2 are both on Steam. Tarkov is also on Steam now, but I’ll admit I’m splitting hairs here since it spent nearly a decade off of it. Though the fact that it released on Steam with its 1.0 update does say something.
So I really don’t think any of those games aside from debatably Tarkov shows that modern indie devs can be successful outside of Steam.
- Comment on Why is Valve being sued for almost $900 million, but Epic Games wasn't sued when they bought Rocket League and Fall Guys to remove them from steam? 3 weeks ago:
Got any other modern examples than just the one game that had a massive following for the last 7 years of development?
- Comment on PSA: There's a free Fallout 4 mod for that Fallout Show NCR power armour Bethesda are charging $30 for as DLC 3 weeks ago:
$30 for a cosmetic DLC with like 4 items in it is crazy regardless. Especially for $40 game with a $13/month subscription.
- Comment on Stardew Valley Creator Shuts Down Rumors Haunted Chocolatier 'Will Be Abandoned,' Insisting: 'It Will Come Out When It’s Ready' - IGN 3 weeks ago:
You’re telling me chocolate isn’t some natural pre-existing resource? Smh. Next you’re going to tell me chocolate milk doesn’t come from chocolate milk cows.
- Comment on Day 560 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 weeks ago:
I’m not into photography so I could be mistaken. But from what I’ve gathered, power points are the four points where the lines intersect in the rule of thirds (or the four corners of the middle box). Supposedly the eye is drawn to these four points of an image.
- Comment on Plague Inc: Evolved gets a "vastly improved playing experience on Steam Deck" 3 weeks ago:
It’s hard to say if there’s any new differences, as the FaQ listing them hasn’t been updated once in the last decade. But if the mobile version is getting new content like the steam version, I’d say they’re probably getting the same updates.
The big changes are multiplayer (both a competitive mode and cooperative mode), all of the expansions come with the game for free, and general UI improvements. Plus you have access to a Steam Workshop full of custom scenarios. Most of which are low effort shit posts (see: “femboyitis"), but there are plenty of high quality ones in there.
- Comment on Terraria 1.4.5: Bigger & Boulder - Official Trailer 4 weeks ago:
I will say that, while the other comment comparing it to Minecraft isn’t wrong to do so, you shouldn’t go in expecting some 1:1, 2D Minecraft experience. Because while they have plenty of similar features, the core of each game is quite different. Minecraft for example is primarily a sandbox game, with lite survival elements sprinkled in. You’re mostly just there to build and farm and do whatever the hell you want, and the game doesn’t differ greatly between peaceful and hard. Terraria on the other hand is primarily an action game with some survival elements. Sure, you can build huge, beautiful cathedrals if you’d like, but unlike Minecraft that’s not really where the game shines at all. Terraria instead shines in it’s exploration (especially when you’re new to the game) and combat.
- Comment on Phobos: Doomed Moon of Mars 4 weeks ago:
True, though as far as I’m aware our sun will destroy Earth and its moon long before it manages to break free.
- Comment on Phobos: Doomed Moon of Mars 4 weeks ago:
I mean in the grand scheme of things, all moons, planets, and even stars are doomed eventually. For a species with an average life expectancy of 80-some years, there ain’t much of a difference in 50 million and 5 billion years anyway.
- Comment on New Fable game removes feature core to franchise's DNA 4 weeks ago:
A welcome change imo. The morality system in the Fable games were always heavily lopsided, with one side being strictly superior than the other. Though I will say that I did like the cosmetic changes it made.
- Comment on Ubisoft initiates colossal restructure to become a more 'gamer-centric' company 4 weeks ago:
They do want to be more focused on the gamer. That is, more focused on how to extract as much money from gamers as possible with as little work on their end as they can get away with.
- Comment on Nova Launcher gets a new owner and... ads 4 weeks ago:
I picked up Lawnchair when I de-googled my phone a bit more than a year ago. There were a couple launchers I considered, but honestly the name is what sold me. And I haven’t missed Nova since.
- Comment on Ubisoft target audience when they play a good game 4 weeks ago:
What challenge? HL2 is not a particularly difficult game. And there isn’t going to be any joy in overcoming whatever challenge you’re talking about if they’re hating every second of the game. Its not like we’re talking about a souls-like where they cheated because they couldn’t defeat a boss. No, they cheated because they got bored, not because of some imaginary skill issue.
And they’re not better off quitting if they still want to know how the game ends.
- Comment on What challenge from a game isn't worth completing and what challenge from a game is worth completing? 4 weeks ago:
The professor oak challenge is rough lol. I tried it out on Pokemon Silver and must have spent well over 10 hours grinding to get my Feraligatr.
- Comment on Ubisoft target audience when they play a good game 4 weeks ago:
What does that have to do with anything? If someone’s mentally checked out of the game so much that continuing to play through it becomes a slog, I can’t blame them for cheating just to get it over with.