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- Comment on Styx Blades of Greed publishers Nacon file for insolvency, will "assess all possible solutions" to "protect employees and "preserve jobs" 1 day ago:
Blades of Greed indeed. Now I’m wondering if the naming was intentional…
- Comment on Finally a possible path toward peace in this long war 2 days ago:
No peace. Only war fueled by annoyance.
- Comment on Never understood this. If something foreign enters you your white blood cells go after it like a dog in heat, Would this not mean that our cells are smart enough to discern bad from good? 2 days ago:
They don’t go after everything foreign. They are produced with instructions by which they identify a threat. It’s their production source which provides the instructions and it’s not that smart or we wouldn’t have cases where the immune system attacks the body itself.
- Comment on How should Lemmy & Piefed handle voting activity from banned/deleted accounts? 4 days ago:
Gog disabled down votes on its forum and now there’s a bot up voting every reply in derailed threads. Mass up voting can also be a problem in creative hands.
- Comment on How should Lemmy & Piefed handle voting activity from banned/deleted accounts? 4 days ago:
Well, I’m here for the internet points. I’m a hoarder, so I like collecting stuff, internet points included.
- Comment on What do you guys think of Crimson Desert? 5 days ago:
But you can swipe the enemy’s feet to knock them down!
- Comment on Elder Scrolls 6 Is Powered By New Version Of Creation Engine 1 week ago:
New version = old version + ai?
- Comment on 👐 aliens. 1 week ago:
Yup, just some goats walking on two feet.
- Comment on The Highguard Website Is Down As Players Brace For The Worst 1 week ago:
The devs were going to be laid off either way as that is the standard for today’s crappy industry.
- Comment on What are your thoughts on Reanimal? 1 week ago:
It’s been years since I saw it, so my memories are vague and tinted, but they still exist. It’s, well, pretty much what you’d expect from a movie about killer sheep. I liked it at the time.
- Comment on This week's new PC games are a treasure trove of the scary, eerie and occult, plus a charming Star Trek game 1 week ago:
I mean. The ship management gameplay is more like fallout shelter or XCOM (newer ones) base building.
Ship combat, well, I forgot what it was like. Which kinda says a lot about how engaging it was at the time. Possibly like FTL.
Ground missions depended on officer skills for outcomes, with RNG and exhaustion components.
Each had its own thing, which makes me wonder how deep the systems really are.
- Comment on This week's new PC games are a treasure trove of the scary, eerie and occult, plus a charming Star Trek game 1 week ago:
What the… They’re releasing the Voyager game now? I was expecting a summer or autumn release since first look was only a few months ago and the demo was barebones.
Red alert! Raise doubts and lower expectations! We may have a shallow puddle before us.
- Comment on Video game romances need to evolve beyond lore dumps 1 week ago:
As every generation ends up saying, romance is dead.
- Comment on What are your thoughts on Reanimal? 1 week ago:
My thoughts? Well, the poster reminds of me of a flick named “Black Sheep” or something similar where a chemical substance turns sheep murderous.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 week ago:
If you have time, also check out https://piefed.social/c/bmoviebonanza@lemmy.world
Or
There will be plenty of recommendations to watch.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 week ago:
It’s not a writing style exactly. Piefed has its own peculiarities when it comes to comments and i simply worked around them. One ‘-’ seems to add a bullet point. So I added a second one hoping to bypass that automation. The bullet points were added anyway… And I only used them because I wasn’t satisfied with the regular spacing to separate different subjects visibly enough. But it’s not a style i adhere to.
As for the movies, I used a topic on GOG’s forums for recommendations. It’s called “Cool B-rated forgotten sci-fi flicks”. Can’t say i have real preferences in this. For me, almost all sci-fi movies are enjoyable and i don’t have favourites.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 week ago:
Busy week.
Started with Team Fortress 2. Basically I was looking for a pvp game to scratch the itch. Many of the current ones suck terribly. Either weird and unreasonable requirements with full access to PC data or plain bad gameplay.With TF2, it’s steam so they’re kinda lawful evil about it. But I do suck at the game. Completed the tutorials, played against bots a bit, then went into a regular match. Ended with 16 kills and 32 deaths, most of the better ones had over 40 kills. It’s good enough to slap the pvp itch away from time to time.
- Found an Eternal something game, Korean isometric battle royale. Can’t remember the name, but it’s alright. Many characters, currencies, micro transactions as is standard. A forced tutorial that’s kinda annoying. A solo mode that doesn’t work. And only one regular match with bots before being thrown into hell.
I’ll probably get frustrated quickly enough and quit, but for now it’s fun.
- Through family share, Ghost of Tsushima was recommended and I’m still on Act 1. It’s big in size. As with all games, I’m really bad at parrying so that’s not good.
A fun thing i enjoyed was when I met enemies on some cliffs and dropped on them to assassinate. I don’t know if it’s fixed to that area or to a number of kills, but the interruption made me chuckle.
The default enhanced visual settings make the game look crappy though for my hardware, so I had to disable a lot of the extra options. Like during cinematics, the background would get patchy, blotchy, low res dissonant kinda way. It was distracting.
- Other than games, I’ve been running old sci-fi (50s-60s) movies in the background. Though rare, it’s funny to hear when some actors are quite bad at saying their lines.
- Comment on "I hit a cow and the way it fell made me never do it again." (Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon) 1 week ago:
I hit a doe in Ghost of Tsushima thinking it will give me skins to upgrade my stuff like pigs do. It didn’t.
- Comment on Toph Character Reveal Trailer (Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game) 2 weeks ago:
Hmm
- Comment on I'm not complaining, but the trailers definitely oversold the level of drama in this show. 2 weeks ago:
As we can clearly see, misinformation is currently the greatest threat to humanity.
Changing the course starts with the next generation, and as seen with the spreading social media bans, we are currently failing.
Academy has a very clear insight in regards to what the lack of proper attention and nurture will create in the years to come.
They fucked up and are trying to do better for their children, despite the constant setbacks. Can we say we are doing the same or better?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Democracy works on the presumption of virtue.
- Comment on Why do horses allow humans to ride on their backs? 3 weeks ago:
They usually don’t and have to be “broken in”.
For those few that do so naturally, it’s more of a proto-symbiotic relationship where the rider helps provide food and safety, so they’re kept around as a pet or dumb kid. Also, if a predator wants to bite you, having something on your back to throw at them as a distraction can be pretty damn helpful.
- Comment on Ashes Of Creation director quits over decisions he "could not ethically support" as staff report mass layoffs 3 weeks ago:
So he says.*
- 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:
As per my understanding (which isn’t saying much), Steam takes a 30% cut of each sale. In UK, someone with a specific agenda claimed to represent gamers as a class and sued reasoning that the 30% cut inflates the price of games globally even beyond Steam’s store, harming everyone.
Did i understand it right? No idea. What’s the actual goal here? Also no idea. Is Steam the “good guy” in all this? Of course not.
- Comment on Ubisoft propose cutting up to 200 jobs at Paris headquarters, as unions reportedly agree three day strike 4 weeks ago:
Agreed. The underperforming system in this case is clearly upper management. They should get rid of it.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
“smart"boot and tpm required. It’s dead to me.
- Comment on Arknights Endfield disables Paypal payments after players report unauthorised transactions | GosuGamers 5 weeks ago:
Not many who pay for microtransactions are what one would consider to be a smart person.
- Comment on PC game recommendation for my partner and I 5 weeks ago:
I don’t have specific games to recommend because there are many of many genres. I’d instead suggest to make trying out cooperative games as an experience for you both. The fun will be in exploring them on your own. Or the frustration. He he.
- Comment on Elder Scrolls Online seasons will add new zones, but "it'll be a different flavour" 5 weeks ago:
Probably “more grind, more subscription” flavour.
- Comment on Hero shooter Highguard reportedly didn't even pay for the Game Awards slot that's earned it so much preemptive hate—the showrunners thought it deserved the spotlight 5 weeks ago:
In spirit.