mysticpickle
@mysticpickle@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Your childhood smells 5 days ago:
That orange marker gave me shivers. The dark blue one made me retch
- Comment on If evolution is real, then why isn’t it happening now? An anthropologist explains that humans actually are still evolving 1 week ago:
Epigenetics :o
- Comment on Cities: Skylines upheaval: Developer and publisher announce “mutual” breakup 1 week ago:
No, it’s pretty one-sided. They even have communications exchanges between Krafton’s CEO and their global ops head how to avoid paying out the bonus before firing them.
“Krafton terminated the Founders and seized control of Unknown Worlds in order to avoid the earnout,” reads the group’s latest filing. “Smoking gun documents show that Krafton was looking for ways to ‘cancel the earn-out’ and that its secret ‘Project X’ was designed to either make a ‘Deal’ on the earnout or execute a “Take over.” When the Founders would not agree to Krafton’s demands related to the earnout, Krafton decided a ‘take over’ would be the ‘easier’ route.”
- Comment on ‘Clair Obscur’ Leads The Game Awards 2025 Nominees With 12 Nods; ‘Silent Hill f’ Has Four Nominations 1 week ago:
I think Blue prince would have made more sense than another installment of Donkey Kong 🤷♂️
- Comment on ‘Clair Obscur’ Leads The Game Awards 2025 Nominees With 12 Nods; ‘Silent Hill f’ Has Four Nominations 2 weeks ago:
Donkey Kong inclusion was definitely Nintendo fan tax 🤭
- Comment on ‘Clair Obscur’ Leads The Game Awards 2025 Nominees With 12 Nods; ‘Silent Hill f’ Has Four Nominations 2 weeks ago:
Your can turn off the QTEs for optimizing attacks which I definitely did. Dodging/parrying I can’t be avoided but if you turn the difficulty to story mode it’s generally pretty trivial.
- Comment on ‘Clair Obscur’ Leads The Game Awards 2025 Nominees With 12 Nods; ‘Silent Hill f’ Has Four Nominations 2 weeks ago:
The gameplay itself is just “okay”. Turn based JRPG combat with some QTE not much different from Super Mario RPG on the SNES.
I think the attention it has received is based on how well they type together the quality of storytelling, dialogue, art direction, music, and the universal theme that resonates with everyone:
It’s an interactive cinematic experience that has me in emotional shambles multiple times throughout the playthrough.
If you’re dead inside like me and desperate to feel anything, it’ll do it for you :>
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
It’s getting made into a movie so you can probably wait for that :>
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Expedition 33 is the only game on the list that isn’t a sequel or derivative of a previous IP so it’s got originality going for it :>
- Comment on Cities: Skylines upheaval: Developer and publisher announce “mutual” breakup 2 weeks ago:
I mean it’s pretty obvious they are. The original reason Krafton gave for firing the founders was that Subnautica 2 was being pushed out before it was ready just so the founders could get their bonuses.
Krafton has since dropped those arguments in the legal fillings to some nebulous shit like:
“abandoned their posts” and “deceived” their employer."
I mean come on. This isn’t even a both sides issue anymore.
- Comment on Cities: Skylines upheaval: Developer and publisher announce “mutual” breakup 2 weeks ago:
Latest development makes it seem like Krafton just wanted to save the cash to plow into their lame AI venture.
I mean honestly, when has a video game company actually been on the right side when things came to a head with the founders?
“The termination notices of the founders gave one reason for their termination,” said Fortis, “and that was the supposed lack of readiness of Subanutica 2 for release. Krafton reiterated that basis for its actions repeatedly.”
Fortis called it a “seismic shift in the case” and “a little bit bewildering”. This was also echoed by the judge, Lori W. Will, when the parties met for a ruling on the filed motions, saying: “Well, that’s something that we definitely need to get to the bottom of today, because that is precisely what was cited as the reason in the answer.”
Krafton’s representatives were not clear about why this argument has been taken off the table, only that it has been, and that it’s no longer why they are saying the founders were terminated.
Instead, Krafton is focusing on the argument that the founders “abandoned their posts” and “deceived” their employer. Causing more confusion is the accusation that the founders downloaded files and kept devices with confidential information on them. This only came to light after the termination, so its relevance has been questioned.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Silksong, KCD 2, Hades 2, Death Stranding 2 alongside. It’s quite the lineup!
An overall really good year for gaming!! 👍
- Comment on Cities: Skylines upheaval: Developer and publisher announce “mutual” breakup 2 weeks ago:
Maaaaan. Fuck Krafton.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Impressive list of nominees except for Donkey Kong Bananza?! that just looks so out of place. But it’s gotta be Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 all the way for GOTY.
Think it’s going for a Titanic level sweep here
- Comment on Hegseth Is Purging Military Leaders With Little Explanation | The moves to fire or sideline generals and admirals are without precedent in recent decades and have rattled the top brass. 3 weeks ago:
Hm turns out it’s all the people who didn’t like the taste of Putin’s butthole.
- Comment on Krafton is now an 'AI-first company,' will spend $70 million on a GPU cluster to 'serve as the foundation for accelerating the implementation of agentic AI' 5 weeks ago:
Ohhhh so this is why they stole the Subnautica devs bonus for.
- Comment on How do Ghostwriters work? Does the person the book is about say to the writer I will give you 2 or 20 percent of the sales or is it a 50 50 split? 1 month ago:
They seem to help kids solve mysteries by encouraging them to read and write. Not sure what the split on that is though
- Comment on Space battle games for casual player? 1 month ago:
If you’re into Babylon 5, there’s actually a game called Babylon 5: I’ve Found Her that captures the spirit of the fighter combat pretty well IMO. Might be worth checking out!
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has sold 5 million copies worldwide; new content update to come to celebrate 1 month ago:
The better be more awesome new music to accompany everything too!
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has sold 5 million copies worldwide; new content update to come to celebrate 1 month ago:
Robert Pattinson for Gustave or riot
- Comment on PSA: Stop using Imgur for now 1 month ago:
People still use imgur?
- Comment on New EA Owners Hoping AI Will Cut Costs And Boost Profits, It's Claimed 2 months ago:
- Comment on Why can't countries with vast deserts make solar farms to power the world? 2 months ago:
Won’t somebody think of the Fremen?!
- Comment on ‘That claim is startling’: Tencent fires back at Sony’s lawsuit accusing it of ‘cloning’ Horizon with Light of Motiram | VGC 2 months ago:
Horizon: Temu Dawn
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Maybe not checkers, but there’s jumping alright
- Comment on Fata Deum, a god game where you have convert citizen living across an island to your faith, released in early access on Steam. 2 months ago:
The music in that game was fire af.
- Comment on I Was Scammed Out of $130,000 — And Google Helped It Happen 2 months ago:
Man with $130,000 worth of crypto falls for a scam. Whodathunk 🤭
- Comment on Fata Deum, a god game where you have convert citizen living across an island to your faith, released in early access on Steam. 2 months ago:
No thanks bro, I already live in Utah.
- Comment on Thoughts on the humble bundle this month? 2 months ago:
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Nintendo can go fuck itself
