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- Comment on Lego Skylines' devs want your city's problems to be visible without digging into a stats screen, which means finding a "family friendly" version of showing homelessness 1 week ago:
Very realistic. Actual cities also hide away their homelessness problem.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 week ago:
I liked it well enough. It’s a mix of open maps and linear corridors. It still uses morality points for good/bad ending. It’s like Dishonored in that. The intermission scenes are not cinematics, so they can’t all be really skipped. It’s all together kinda telling you to chill.
I only played on normal, so there weren’t many issues with difficulty, more so if you stealth your way through it, and you can see there’s an intended way of participating in the story even though the player has some freedom.
Have to mention, I played the enhanced version because I didn’t really under the difference from regular one. And on the first run, it takes a very long time to compile shaders, so if the extra graphics don’t matter, the non-enhanced version is reportedly the same.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 week ago:
Dunno. Finished Metro Exodus in the weekend and now I’m thinking on where to go next.
They added OpenMW and Tamriel Rebuilt on GOG, so I might give Morrowind another go. But I’m not into lengthy endeavors anymore…
- Comment on GTA 6 life simulation elements confirmed: thank god, we can turn the offensively hot Jason and Lucia into exhausted slobs like the rest of us 2 weeks ago:
What? Fat Lucia!? Woke GTA!!! … Bazillion preorders cancelled.
- Comment on No unicorns were harmed in our research during the creation of this meme. 2 weeks ago:
Yup. Magic mythril, invincible adamantium, amazing vibranium etc. we love our magic metals
- Comment on Enjoy the parties, lament the human sacrifice 2 weeks ago:
You’re just here looking to argue. Have fun with that.
- Comment on Enjoy the parties, lament the human sacrifice 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Enjoy the parties, lament the human sacrifice 2 weeks ago:
If we did this shit in the modern age when we are much more connected and aware of each other, we did it millennia ago when we were isolated and warmongering. And people are the same everywhere, no matter how much we like to argue about cultural differences.
- Comment on Enjoy the parties, lament the human sacrifice 2 weeks ago:
Nah, there was a big thing with sacrifices for Kali or Mara I think back in the 90s or early 2k. Lots a deaths.. People can get freaky when it comes to fanatical beliefs.
Edit: For those looking to join random death cults, please remember that when it comes to sacrifices, if the head of the cult isn’t the first to go, it’s a scam. And if the head of the cult isn’t enough, continue downward through the hierarchy. The most devout make for the greatest sacrifice.
- Comment on XBOX PC and Game Pass coming to Linux with the 'Xodus' project 4 weeks ago:
I think it’s more about gaining access to your telemetry data. All that unsold info is starting hurt profits.
- Comment on Gold for the [insert Empire] 4 weeks ago:
One of the americas taking oil from everywhere else.
- Comment on THE FINALS will be adding a new "Elytra" anti-cheat 5 weeks ago:
When I tried playing the game, I was surprised to find it had 3 anticheat installers in its folders. There was Easy, which ran first. They let you play a few games with it, then Denuvo popped up and you weren’t allowed to play anymore without installing that as well. And finally there was something which wasn’t really named per say, but it was just laying there, all suspicious -like. It must have been this one.
Well, fuck that.
- Comment on Colonialism’s sole defensible product 1 month ago:
Most of current technology was evolved through the pillaging and looting of resources from weaker countries.
Our comforts, our phones, our PCs are the result of cruel and substandard practices against people who were deemed subhuman and unworthy of having rights and the spilling of blood on a global scale.
We are a civilization of death and suffering and will likely bring about our own extinction through our mindlessness and cowardice.
So as you can see, you are wrong.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 month ago:
Still hanging on with The Riftbreaker. Was suckered into a fight by what i believed to be the final boss. It was just the first boss fight and they ran away. After that, i went around map to map to unlock all the resources I was missing and now I’m on the last one, Palladium. No idea how close i am to the end game, but I haven’t gotten bored with it yet.
I’ve been looking for some multiplayer shooty squad-based action, but the popular ones are too pricey for my wallet or are joined at the hip with unpleasant and unwelcome elements. Dunno, I’m just maybe looking for that special something which doesn’t exist… Doesn’t help that I’ve lost my touch and can’t aim as well as i used to.
Also, I have Metro Exodus on standby, but it doesn’t really draw me in yet. Hopefully that changes because I finished the previous two in the series when they came out and i liked them back then.
- Comment on well well well 1 month ago:
Find India, many trade contracts to India. Find the boonies, no trade contracts at all.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 month ago:
So I’ve been making some Rogue Legacy runs while also playing poker (not gambling with real money) for fun in the background. It weirdly works because while the other players think their moves, I clear a room or two and then switch to make a dumb decision like going all in with a pair of 2s.
I’ve also been playing The Riftbreaker one map at a time. Barely unlocked titanium recently and next I’ll have to see what I can research and build with it.
Also, Soulframe in small doses. It’s like Warframe, but with way less content.
- Comment on Any "social" games like old CODs or something like pre-2020 rust? 1 month ago:
A monster fart
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 month ago:
Soulframe became available to the public and i joined the rabble going in. It’s fun, but slow and grindy. Also very confusing. As an alpha state game it’s also full of bugs and incomplete content. .I do recommend it though.
- Comment on Gotta keep up with the meta 1 month ago:
Sounds reasonable. But it might have been an “eat the rich situation” as well. Just sayin’..
- Comment on Gotta keep up with the meta 1 month ago:
I’m actually starting to think it was ye ol’ corruption and decadence which did them in. The rich hoarded wealth, gave up or banned knowledge and then conveniently found a boogeyman to blame for the unavoidable collapse.
It’s been happening too many times to discount it as a possibility.
- Comment on History,s Greatest Redemption arc 2 months ago:
One-sided declaration because he became a consummate buddhist. His enemies disagreed.
- Comment on Nobody ever brings up post WWII aid when bringing up the US contribution to WWII. 2 months ago:
USSR. PRC. A need to invest does not mean a want to invest.
- Comment on Sneaky Austrians 2 months ago:
They’re doing it again a third time because they sick of having to deal with all the countries east of them.
- Comment on What are you all buying during the Steam summer sale? 2 months ago:
Nothing yet because I don’t decide easily, but I’m having an eye on Dragon ball XenoVerse 2, the SPAZ collection, Dungeon Siege collection and A House of many Doors.
I was also eyeing the EA 90+% discounts, but they’re EA and their apps/anticheat are a nightmare to deal with and i don’t think it’s worth the trouble.
- Comment on Graham Hancock's modus operandi 2 months ago:
Everything dug up is an archeologist conspiracy. It’s a cartel meant to drum up sales of old junk to pay for their expensive hobby of playing in dirt. Wading through dust and grime every day isn’t cheap you know!
- Comment on Nothing a 90-degree bow couldn't fix 2 months ago:
So, will they enforce the same values they follow by committing seppuku for their transgression?
- Comment on Waiting for GTA 6's PC release might save you dropping an extra $20 for access to some special shops, based on my wading through GTA 5's editions soup 2 months ago:
Addicts won’t care.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 months ago:
I don’t know. I have a vague state of being this week, so I really don’t know.
- Comment on The Mongol Empire - the most powerful nomadic empire in history 2 months ago:
Remember the mountains, their natural foes.
- Comment on Nobody remembers the people with the good quality copper 2 months ago:
Bad press lasts the longest.