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- Comment on "Departures are necessary," Crystal Dynamics say as they yet again lay off Tomb Raider staff, but they're "fully committed" to the reboot and sequel 5 hours ago:
Gooners.
- Comment on What if glassmorphism and neumorphism had a baby? I redesigned my city-building game's menu window. 4 days ago:
Thank you for the well wishes.
A recent study performed on the large batch of one person revealed that pure black used as menu button colour is unlikely to draw out a positive emotion. When asked for more details, the study participants suggested having a more colourful UI would make it more visually pleasing and subtly influence the player’s perception of the game itself. However, the colour pallet should not be in conflict with the rest of the game or its theme, but rather to complement it.
Both the study participant and I wish you well on your journey.
- Comment on [DX] What's a Concord-like? 5 days ago:
Nah, didn’t you hear? Ever game that fails does so due to DEI!
- Comment on [TheGamer] GreedFall: The Dying World Launches To Mostly Positive Steam Reviews, Favourably Compared To Dragon Age 1 week ago:
Weird, it was Mixed when I last looked at it.
- Comment on [TheGamer] CD Project Red Founders Reportedly Tied To Mysterious Death Investigation 1 week ago:
Hmm
- Comment on Russia-backed hackers breach Signal, WhatsApp accounts of officials, journalists, Netherlands warns 1 week ago:
Real people are gullible in the sense that it’s way easier to notice trouble when it happens to others than when you’re at the center of it.
The triggers for recognition change alongside perspective so it’s harder to notice something you see as a 3rd person when viewed in 1st person.
- Comment on Crusader Kings 3 is getting a Roblox adaptation 1 week ago:
Money talks, morals walk.
- Comment on Website that let Marvel Rivals players pay each other to throw matches pivots to "transparency initiative" after NetEase get mad 1 week ago:
When pay-to-win, but skipping the middleman.
- Comment on The Helldivers 2 Community needs to get a fucking grip on itself 1 week ago:
The loudest are often the weakest. I’m averagely sure there was a (biased) study made back when it was popular which suggested many of the most intense participants of an online community barely participate in the activity itself and are instead more interested in projecting themselves as leaders or a person of influence in order to dictate or direct actions and narratives.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 weeks ago:
Tales and Tactics. It’s an auto battler like dota underlords where you merge chumps, give them items and set them on a table to beat each other off. Heavy reliance on RNG.
- Comment on The Division 2's new Realism Mode chops back the HUD, ammo and health regen, and is free for a month 2 weeks ago:
The game is on sale now and the realism mode is part of a separate expansion with its own price, which can be tried out until April. Still have to buy the base game and the expansion afterwards.
- Comment on The same people who rage against authority love moderating communities where their ideology is the only one allowed 2 weeks ago:
Incorrect. There have been plenty of cases where an observer criticizes existing rules and their application due to inherent bias rather than an unfavorable interaction.
People who see wrongdoing and act to stop them without personal gain do exist.
- Comment on Styx Blades of Greed publishers Nacon file for insolvency, will "assess all possible solutions" to "protect employees and "preserve jobs" 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
New version = old version + ai?
- Comment on 👐 aliens. 4 weeks ago:
Yup, just some goats walking on two feet.
- Comment on The Highguard Website Is Down As Players Brace For The Worst 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
As every generation ends up saying, romance is dead.
- Comment on What are your thoughts on Reanimal? 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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) 4 weeks 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.