PonyOfWar
@PonyOfWar@pawb.social
- Comment on Peak 3d game. Nothing can beat this 2 days ago:
Not sure if I want to play a non-gay racing game.
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 2 days ago:
Eh, DLSS maybe, but they’ve been quite critical of UE5, especially its stutter issues. They’re always happy when something isn’t UE5.
- Comment on Retro yet? 3 days ago:
That’s GBA/PS2 era, definitely retro.
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 3 days ago:
It’s probably gonna turn all characters into AI Anime Waifus.
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 3 days ago:
Can’t believe DF is so positive about this, just looks horrible. I’ve actually been quite positive about technologies like DLSS and FSR but this… no thanks.
- Comment on Are achievements still relevant in 2026—especially when mods disable them? 1 week ago:
For me, they’re just a nice to have. I don’t actively chase them or anything, but it’s sometimes neat to see when I did a thing that only 1% of players managed to do. I personally don’t care that they’re public. If I did, I imagine I’d have a private Steam profile anyway, so the achievements would be a moot point. I don’t see a meaningful difference between publishing my achievements and my other game activity like play times.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Well, it comes from Spain. Even if all your American ancestors came from Norway (which is unlikely), people in Europe have been intermixing for millennia. “Pure blooded” people don’t exist.
- Comment on The highs and lows of AI in the tattoo industry 2 weeks ago:
Maybe so, but getting neither kind of terrible tattoo is always an option, isn’t it?
- Comment on The highs and lows of AI in the tattoo industry 2 weeks ago:
Imagine wearing some AI slop on your skin for the rest of your life…
- Comment on Why is Iran attacking Dubai and Kuwait? 2 weeks ago:
Kuwait and UAE have US military bases. Iran doesn’t really have the ability to attack the US directly. Pretty sure they did also target Israel.
- Comment on Pokémon Winds and Waves announced, releasing 2027 2 weeks ago:
Finally, hardware is powerful enough that even Gamefreak can make a decent looking 3d game!
In all seriousness though, it looks pretty nice. Looking forward to the return of diving. South-east Asia is an interesting setting for a new region. I have a feeling IGN isn’t going to like it though…
- Comment on 3D Printer Reviewers: Being honest in this industry will put you out of a job. 2 weeks ago:
The most trustworthy reviews are always those where the reviewers just bought the products. Even when it’s not as blatant as it is here, there’s always a motivation to not anger the company too much when you get their products early and for free.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, so what’s your point? The meme is talking about the “most successful of last 25 years”, so a 22 year old game fits perfectly within that.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Pretty sure WoW and Overwatch were way bigger commercial successes.
- Comment on Why are we not getting stress relief games where we take our stresses out on normal people? 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Did anyone really think the Final Fantasy 7 remake was better than the original PS1 version? 4 weeks ago:
I’ve only played the first remake so far, but I do prefer the original game. The remake is gorgeous and definitely not bad by any means, but it adds so much unnecessary padding to what was originally a perfectly well-paced game. And the story beats they added mostly don’t improve on the writing of the original. Feels almost mean to say it, but it reminds me a bit of the Hobbit movie trilogy in that regard.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Ashes of the Rug-Pull it looks like. Released on Steam less than 2 months ago. Looks like they just waited long enough so nobody who bought in can refund it.
- Comment on PC game recommendation for my partner and I 1 month ago:
“A Hat in Time” is an excellent 3d-platformer with local co-op.
- Comment on GOG is Getting Acquired By Its Original Co- Founder: What It Means For You 2 months ago:
My heart stopped at reading “GoG is getting acquired”, but that doesn’t sound so bad.
- Comment on "When did video games become so violent and scary?" -Wreck-It Ralph 2 months ago:
In the 90s they put random English phrases instead of translating.
Nah, that’s just not the case for Pokemon. In the Japanese version he says 「たんパンうごきやすくっていいぜ」or “It’s nice that shorts are easy to move in”. Same meaning basically, dude just likes shorts in any version.
- Comment on Dying Light 2 months ago:
When Steam had its outage recently, I decided to go through my GOG library instead to find something to play. Noticed I had the Thief Trilogy, which I had never played, so I gave the first game a try. I wouldn’t have thought that a 3d-game from 1998 would hold up so well! It pretty much does stealth as good or even better than modern games. Sound design is brilliant as well. I’m 10 hours in and quite hooked on it right now.
- Comment on Can machines suffer? 2 months ago:
So what conclusion do you draw from this? If humans can’t be trusted to make any judgement, literally anything should be considered to be capable of suffering, including pebbles, rainbows and paper bags? Seems like an impractical way of living.
- Comment on Can machines suffer? 2 months ago:
Where do we draw the line though? Humans assign emotions to all kinds of inanimate things: plush animals, the sky, dead people, fictional characters etc. We can’t give all of those the rights of a conscious being, so we need to have some kind of objective way to look at it.
- Comment on Can machines suffer? 2 months ago:
Fundamentally impossible to know. I’m not sure how you’d even find a definition for “suffering” that would apply to non-living entities. I don’t think the comparison to animals really holds up though. Humans are animals and can feel pain, so of course the base assumption for other animals should be that they do as well. To claim otherwise, the burden should be to prove that they don’t. Meanwhile, Humans are fundamentally nothing like an LLM, a program running on silicon predicting text responses based on a massive dataset.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 2 months ago:
Not quite. Larian also wants to use it for concept art, which is not the same thing as placeholder assets. To give you a bit of context, the standard for placeholder textures at the software development companies I worked so far has mostly been “vaguely fitting images you found on Google”.
- Comment on Any games I missed in the last 21 months? 2 months ago:
Welcome back! BTW, there was some user wondering whether you’re okay some months ago: pawb.social/post/33129287
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is excellent.
- Comment on A cool feature/mechanic you want to see in games again 3 months ago:
I was recently discussing Farcry 2 with some friends and how cool the fire spread system was - And how it essentially was never used again after that title.
In case you didn’t know, Zelda Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom have a very similar fire spread system.
- Comment on Sean Murray just crushed my hopes of playing Light No Fire anytime soon 3 months ago:
I think the author might be interpreting a bit too much into Sean’s words here. “In the background” could just mean out of the eye of the public and he said it’s another tiny team, not necessarily smaller than the NMS one which he also calls tiny in the same post. Hello games is a pretty small studio. LNF could easily still be years away, but I don’t think Sean’s comment here tells us anything either way.
- Comment on Starbound Fans: New Dedicated Server Open to Lemmy 3 months ago:
Now that’s a game I haven’t thought about in a while. I backed the game in 2013 and played it for 100+ hours in beta, but dropped it shortly after 1.0 because I didn’t like many of the fundamental changes they introduced. How is the game these days? Maybe I’ll join and give it another try.
- Comment on What is your favorite Metroidvania? 3 months ago:
I’ve played Ultros recently and thought it was really cool and unique.