Glide

@Glide@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Turning into? Sony has been worse than Nintendo or Disney for years. They’re the OG “we’re going to silently brick your machine to protect our digital assets.”

  At least Nintendo had the decency to put in their EULA that they’re going to fuck you for trying to pirate content on their proprietary hardware. Sony just bricked your personal PC because fuck you and then lied about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Turbulent, Seven-Year Saga Behind Hit Game ‘Dispatch’⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m going to spoiler it and talk about it, because I am genuinely interested in other people’s opinion/experiences on this.

  Spoilers for late chapter 1, early chapter 2

  This is mostly centered around the kiss. Save the “proposition” innuendo, it became pretty clear that Blonde Blazer’s whole schtick was to recruit Robert. Even in the moment when she moved close to him, she kind of sizes him up like someone looking at a horses teeth as opposed to someone losing themselves in the eyes of a prospective lover, so I didn’t kiss her, and save making a joke on the “proposition” comment, didn’t say anything overly romantic of flirty. This made the whole conversation the next day feel weird and out of place. It was toned like Robert DID kiss her, as Blazer just constantly apologized, and the responses I had options for (“I don’t think it was a mistake” met with “it was, for reasons I’ll explain later”) kept that same awkward connotation. Blonde Blazer acted like she did something incredibly inappropriate in… being slightly drunk when she offered Robert a job? But as a result of my options, there really was nothing to act like this about. But the conversation HAD to be toned this way, otherwise Invisigirl overhearing and responding with “what, you two fuck?” wouldn’t make any sense. The game didn’t “assume I made choices I didn’t” as much as they clearly wrote it with an expectation in mind, but my choices didn’t meet those expectations, leaving the whole section flowing weird.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Turbulent, Seven-Year Saga Behind Hit Game ‘Dispatch’⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Just finished Chapter 3 of 8. It has some very classic Telltale foibles: sometimes the script seems to assume you made a decisions that you didn’t make and it makes the dialogue feel awkward, or the sarcastic tone in a written dialogue choice isn’t clear when you select the option and the resulting scene isn’t at all what you thought you were suggesting.

  Despite these fairly common for Telltale problems, it’s an incredibly witty and entertaining piece of entertainment. They use the “dispatch” mechanic to engage you as a player and they tie it into the narrative in ways that feel clever. Everyone is at each others throats because of a story beat? People are actively sabotaging each other on the job and it’s making your job as their dispatcher harder. The writing is laugh-out-loud funny, the voice acting and character animation is top notch, and there’s an interesting story and world holding it all together.

  It’s very good. Not perfect, but very good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop stressing my GPU and start hiring artists⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Monster Hunter Rise was more visually satisfying that Wilds. Prove me wrong (you can’t).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do Republicans hate the poor so much?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Capitalism is built on the notion that wealth is virtue.

  If you are rich, you made good decisions and the invisible hand has guided money to your pockets. You’ve created things that contribute to the comfort/progress of society as a whole, and your reward for it is to be held above others.

  If you are poor, you have not been actively contributing to society. You have instead been a drain, and the invisible hand is punishing you got this. Your inability to find meaningful ways to contribute is a vice, which should be looked down on. Ultimately, if you cannot afford to live, that is survival of the fittest, and the world is better off without you.

  If you believe any of the above to be true, you are delusional scum of the earth, and you are the reason everything sucks. You’d also feel right at home with the right-wing chuds currently undoing decades of progress.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨here comes the truth⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How can we accept transgender people for who they are / if they can’t accept themselves for who I see them as

  Fixed your shitty, degenerate, transphobic meme for you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Uh, yeah. Using other people as a means to your end is pretty well defined as immoral. Don’t try and throw your moral bankruptcy back at the whole world like we all feel the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Pushes Xbox Division to Hit Higher Profit Margins⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t wait to see the exemption for “part time workers” and suddenly everyone making less than a triple digit salary has exactly 32 hours a week, or whatever is legally permissible to pass as “part time work” in your country.

  You’ve provided a fantastic common-sense solution designed off the simple premise that no one needs 12x of a living wage, and I can’t agree enough, but I know the capitalists would fuck it up at every stage possible, while simultaneously arguing that they’re justified in doing so because the method of economy that they worships has given them moral purchase to look down on the poors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Pushes Xbox Division to Hit Higher Profit Margins⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The ceo makes $96.5 million a year.

  This should be severely punishable by the law. It causes more societal harm than many crimes with serious penalties.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Red balloon⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Gotta say, he fooled me too. I genuinely thought, “huh, it’s been a while since mickey7 graced us with his uncomfortable, sexist boomer humour” only to tab back. Shocked, I say.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is a real post from the official DHS account on X⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  …in that order?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Outsiders, studio behind Metal: Hellsinger, is being closed by Funcom⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Metal Hellsinger was one of the more inspired experiences I’ve played in the past several years. Really sad to see a studio making genuinely quality games have to shutter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Once again, looking for PS2 game suggestions!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Seconded for Dark Cloud 2 specifically. Game is incredibly good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HOW TO CHECK IF YOUR ARYAN GENES आसक्त TUTORIAL *WORKING 2026*⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  OP read “shitpost” and thought it was a challenge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shortly After Xbox Game Pass Prices Spiked, the Page to Cancel Game Pass Subscriptions Was Overwhelmed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You know, fundamentally, I don’t hate Gamepass as a concept. “Netflix, but for videogames” is an idea I can get behind, as it widens the audience for something I love by lowering the bar of entry. There are plenty of people out there that benefit from being able to play a few games here and there without needing to commit hundreds of hours to $100 purchases.

  But Netflix has overstepped with price hikes and ads, and I’ve cancelled my service with them. That Microsoft thinks it can charge some ~$40CAD a month is pure hubris. I hope they learn quickly that, at that price point, the enthusiast market will happily cancel and just buy their games outright, and the casual market will decide it’s an expense they don’t need.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Former BioWare lead writer reads the runes on EA-Saudi deal and speculates that 'guns and football' are in, 'gay stuff' is out, and the venerable RPG studio may be for the chop⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Because if they’re shuttered, the company/people that make the company have the opportunity to go somewhere else and do something better. I’ve disliked everything they’ve produced since they were purchased by EA, so I’ve come to think the publisher holds them back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Former BioWare lead writer reads the runes on EA-Saudi deal and speculates that 'guns and football' are in, 'gay stuff' is out, and the venerable RPG studio may be for the chop⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The last Bioware game I genuinely enjoyed was Dragon Age: Origins, which was the last thing (mostly) developed before the EA buy-up. I’m sure it’s scary for the employees, but I suspect this is good for Bioware in the long term.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Former BioWare lead writer reads the runes on EA-Saudi deal and speculates that 'guns and football' are in, 'gay stuff' is out, and the venerable RPG studio may be for the chop⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  and the Switch port was (apparently) never fixed…

  What’s the supposed issues on the Switch port? I only owned the game on Switch, and I didn’t have any issues playing through it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Autumn Sale 2025 Has Begun⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m already playing Hades 2 and FF Tactics comes out tomorrow.

  So that, I guess, then probably nothing. /shrug.

  Steam sales lose their luster when they’re so frequent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rhythm Doctor - Official Release Date Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  An absolute masterpiece of a game. What starts off as a “cute rhythm game” very rapidly evolves into some of he most immaculate gameplay design and in-game storytelling I have ever seen. I “joke” often than the final boss is the tears in your eyes, but it’s a lot less of a joke than you would imagine.

  If you like rhythm games, emotional storys and ludonarrative harmony, I cannot recommend this game enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Political discourse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Trying to pretend that there’s a concerted far-left effort to create civil war in 'Murica is patently absurd

  Idk man, I spent altogether too much time over in .ml, and now my view on what is “far left” has changed quite drastically. And that group certainly seems hell bent on starting a civil war.

  There are absolutely far more MAGAs, but the tankies are, unfortunately, still far left.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lord of the Power⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, I guess 9 is “several,” but the ratio tells a very different tale.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A friend of mine once described this kind of behaviour as acting like “welfare moms.” While there’s a certain level of sexism there that I am sure she really didn’t mean in the moment, I get the point she was making: parents who sit at home scheming up the next excuse to call social services on that other parent that they pretend to like but also keep an air of superiority about. And that’s all it is. Convincing yourself that you’re better than everyone else not by lifting yourself up, but by tearing others down.

  It’s commen behaviour in narcissists, too. Contrary to popular belief, narcissism is often found in people with low self-esteem. They try to validate themselves by bringing everyone else down below them. It seems like obsession with another person outwardly, but it’s still self-obsession: “this person made me look bad, but they’re so much worse than me. I need to prove it (even to myself).”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Lord Frogmire] The Switch 2 is EVIL and I'm Tired of Pretending It's Not⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The cost of food and shelter driving people homeless and hungry is evil. The cost of Nintendo products causing people to play fewer Nintendo games is rude and unfortunate.

  I’m just pissed off at all this misdirected frustration. We should be lobbying governments to manage grocery and real estate megacorps, and instead we’re creating YouTube videos about Nintendo being evil because the price of an individual game went up $20. The gap between unfettered corporate greed of UHC causing suffering on scales previously only seen in wars against Nintendo getting an extra $20 here and there if you want to keep up with their products isn’t even a fucking comparison.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Lord Frogmire] The Switch 2 is EVIL and I'm Tired of Pretending It's Not⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And I’m tired of pretending a completely unwelcome and tone deff price increase is “evil.” I hate paying more for videos as much as the next gamer, but the cost of living has increased by 50% in basically every metric. Rent, food, power, gas, restaurants, movie theatres, snacks, alcohol… Literally everything I spend money on has gone up between 25-50%. Nintendo is the first asshole in the video game industry cocky enough to up their prices by the same about, and suddenly, “The Switch 2 is EVIL.” Really?

  Listen, I am not a fan. $10 for a tech demo that should be packaged in is insane. But pull your head back and look at the wider picture instead of coming in here with these terminally online takes. If you can’t distinguish between “evil,” (like health insurance corporations condemning millions to chronic pain and, in extremes, death) and “shit I wish wasn’t so expensive” (like a singular brand of videogames) then maybe it’s worth figuring out where the nearest patch of grass is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump to be welcomed by giant Epstein banner outside Windsor Castle⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The current US President and convicted paedophile famously crossed paths

  Crossed paths with who? There’s only one Donald Trump.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Got This Right, Right?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but why is this in shitpost, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  With you. We can’t sit here and make fun of him for thinking so poorly of empathy while refusing to show any empathy. He was a piece of trash and needed to be taken out like one, but I’m not going to throw a party over it. It’s a “you gotta do what you gotta do” situation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨thick skinned employees, how can you be so thick skinned?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t you find it tiring? Doesn’t it make you feel like shit when you go back home? Don’t you feel taken advantage of?

  I find it so much more tiring to be caught up in what other people are doing.

  I realized a while ago that life isn’t, and will never be, fair. If I spend all my energy on thoughts that include the word “should,” I won’t have the energy for myself when I need it or others when I believe they deserve it.

  Being anything else just isn’t worth my time or energy and makes me unhappy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After two years of development, Heroes of the Seven Islands, a cRPG that I drew by hand on paper, will be released on Steam, in four days the 9/9/2025 (demo available)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I teach 7s and up, so the absolute youngest I deal with is 11. I will absolutely check it out. Thank you for both creating and sharing this.