Vordus
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- Comment on How did money work on deep space 9? 11 months ago:
I would suspect that the real draw to working with Starfleet for non-federation personnel isn’t any concept of wages, but a comprehensive benefits package. Presumably Starfleet membership confers some level of personal federation membership, possibly for both you and your immediate family, which may mean that you get to move your loved ones to a mostly-utopic federation world.
- Comment on The New Games Journalism, Same As The Old Games Journalism - Aftermath 11 months ago:
How would he fucking know? The article is behind a paywall!
- Comment on The horrible morals of a show supposed to teach them 1 year ago:
Yep. The show was written by humans, humans are flawed, therefore the show is flawed. It’s constantly undone by an unholy mix of things that seemed okay at the time, things that were written to try and correct the things that previously seemed okay at the time (but which made things worse), the personal flaws of the creators seeping into their works, and a pile of crappy tropes that TV can’t help but lean on. It’s weird that you think this is something that isn’t a consideration of the show ‘anymore’; this all goes back all the way to the 60s. Original Trek is occasionally misogynistic crap, and once went so far as to describe Nazism as the most efficient form of government. TNG had episodes that were straight up racist, and characters that are accidentally written as creeps. This is a problem the show has always had, and sometimes you just have to deal with that to get to the good stuff.
- Comment on Here are all the Golden Joystick Awards 2023 winners 1 year ago:
The game released on the 19th September, Nominated games had to be released before the 29th September. Golden Joysticks voting was from the 3rd to the 20th October, and the premium DLC that made everyone angry was confirmed on the 24th and then released on the 27th. The timing could absolutely not have fallen more perfectly for MK1.
- Comment on The best MMOs in 2023 - PCGamer 1 year ago:
It’s not AI-based. Articles like this are generally repeatedly republished with extremely minimal editing every six months or so to keep them ‘fresh’ for the search engine optimisation.
- Comment on Who's your favourite character? 1 year ago:
Elim Garak, because how can you not love a
patently duplicitous and yet still somehow generally benevolent smooth-talker who chews all the scenery and exudes the queerest energysimple tailor? - Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 4x10 TBA 1 year ago:
Heck, Lower Decks already did it with Boimler, with the status quo being back to normal after two episodes of fun B-plots on the Titan.
- Comment on Stop using Fandom 1 year ago:
It’s a shoe-in for Merriam Webster’s word of the year, I reckon.
- Comment on Just an observation on game engines 1 year ago:
That’s why we praise RollerCoaster Tycoon’s dev, he wrote the entire thing in assembly.
It’s ironic that we always seem to praise RollerCoaster Tycoon specifically, as that’s one’s based on the Transport Tycoon engine, which was also by Josh Sawyer and also in x86 assembly.
- Comment on Every Franchise Xbox Now Owns After Buying Activision 1 year ago:
Ultimately the problem with Perfect Dark as a franchise is that everyone who made it great went off and formed Free Radical and made the TimeSplitters games.
- Comment on Every Franchise Xbox Now Owns After Buying Activision 1 year ago:
Psychonauts 2.
- Comment on You teleport into the last game world you played. What happens next? 1 year ago:
That’s fair. It’s one of the most minimal abstract puzzle games ever made, so there’s not a lot to grab onto.
- Comment on Every Franchise Xbox Now Owns After Buying Activision 1 year ago:
I think they published it, but don’t actually own it.
- Comment on Annotations for *Star Trek: Lower Decks* 4x07: “A Few Badgeys More” (SPOILERS) 1 year ago:
The choice of Bynars as the latest victims was clever; if you’re going to remind everyone what’s going on with mysterious ship, but need to get through the entire sequence as quickly as possible, go with the species that transfer information at the quickest rate!
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 4x04 "Something Borrowed, Something Green" 1 year ago:
spoiler
Good call!
- Comment on Microsoft expected to finally buy Activision Blizzard next week 1 year ago:
I mean, if we’re gonna namedrop completely unique indie darling difficult puzzles, then Return of the Obra Dinn also deserves a mention.
- Comment on Microsoft expected to finally buy Activision Blizzard next week 1 year ago:
And it’s even on Game Pass! Oh, wait…
- Comment on Telltale Games has reportedly laid off most of their staff 1 year ago:
The Wolf Among Us 2 is straight up a cursed game at this point.
- Comment on Epic Games to update Unreal Engine pricing for devs not making games 1 year ago:
GIMP is free and also doubles as a way to express just how much I hate myself!
- Comment on Epic Games to update Unreal Engine pricing for devs not making games 1 year ago:
But wootz! Don’t you see! Fortnite was making inroads into the metaverse, and we all know that whoever cracks the metaverse concept is going to reap infinite profits right? Because that’s certainly not a weird dystopian sci-fi pipe dream or anything! It was going to be all smooth sailing straight into forever profits!
- Comment on Epic Games Cutting 870 Jobs, 16 Percent Of Its Workforce, also selling Bandcamp 1 year ago:
They wanted to use it to sell music licences for games and media production and the like. But it never really worked out, so they’ve sold it to a company that already actually knows how to do that.
- Comment on Epic Games Cutting 870 Jobs, 16 Percent Of Its Workforce, also selling Bandcamp 1 year ago:
It went to Songtradr, who are mostly a music licencing company. So I’m guessing that at least initially things are going to stay the same but that musicians are going to get nagged into letting 7digital put their stuff up on their big licencing store. And then enshittification, because that’s how absolutely everything is going.
- Comment on Godot is Getting EPIC // 10 Games & Projects Made in Godot 1 year ago:
It’s not entirely against their own self-interest. More accessible engines on the market means more beginner devs who may graduate to Epic in a few years, and more products to sell on the EGS. Also more devs potentially means more asset store customers.
Regardless, it’s certainly more helpful to the industry than Unity at the moment.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 4x04 "Something Borrowed, Something Green" 1 year ago:
Honestly, whilst it would be nice for the mysterious ship of destruction to actually reach the central plot someone soon, I’m enjoying the little snapshots into lower deck life on other ships. It’s a shame it always inevitably ends with vaporisation.
- Comment on The Xbox Series S Is More Popular Than The Xbox Series X 1 year ago:
Depends on whether you’re willing to spend $20 to turn your Series S into a devkit, at which point the S can be an utter beast for emulation.
- Comment on The Xbox Series S Is More Popular Than The Xbox Series X 1 year ago:
It becomes even more confusing when you think about the fact that the Xbox One is not the Xbox 1, which was just the Xbox. And that the Xbox One X, the souped up version of the Xbox One, can be abbreviated as the XBOX, which again, is not the original Xbox.
- Comment on The Xbox Series S Is More Popular Than The Xbox Series X 1 year ago:
No, that’s the Xbox One S. This is the Xbox Series S.
- Comment on Neelix calling Tuvok "Mr.s Vulcan" Is actually Tuvok's fault! 1 year ago:
I’d argue that Odo fits the traditional role more directly, as his confused and sometimes disdainful fascination with solids has a similarly cold and analytical approach to that of Spock and Data. But then, Quark and Odo are essentially two sides of the same coin.
- Comment on Neelix calling Tuvok "Mr.s Vulcan" Is actually Tuvok's fault! 1 year ago:
To be fair, DS9 didn’t really have one of those. But DS9’s strength was that the entire extended cast including minor characters had interesting stories to tell. Voyager on the other hand has characters like Ensign Harry Kim, a character so underserved and underwritten that at one point he’s killed off and replaced with an alternate universe version of himself and the dynamic doesn’t change one iota.
- Comment on Todd Howard asked on-air why Bethesda didn't optimise Starfield for PC: 'We did [...] you may need to upgrade your PC' 1 year ago:
Considering that this thing runs great on a Series S (which is CPU-heavy, but with a weak graphics card) that makes so much more sense.