TotesIllegit

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some video game quotes that is stuck in your head?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind. It happened when important NPCs died, rendering unfinished or future quests associated with that character impossible to complete it start; iirc essential NPCs didn’t have immunity to damage and death in Morrowind like in later Bethesda titles, so these NPCs were protected only by the player reloading their save after getting this message upon the essential NPCs’ death.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some video game quotes that is stuck in your head?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “I hate Ayn Rand.” -Francis

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Random Screenshots of my Games #46 - Deep Rock Galactic⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Tbf, as a Driller main I, too, drill straight toward objectives. Though I’ll ensure I don’t drill at too steep an angle, since I don’t want to have to bother jumping off I can avoid it. I’ll also drill straight toward the escape pod from whatever room the group is in, which usually winds up helping everyone.

  In my group, the person that usually plays engineer has the nuke OC, so I’m generally not the main source of friendly fire. I do fight giant bugs’ with C4, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Random Screenshots of my Games #46 - Deep Rock Galactic⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The Driller specializes in drilling tunnels and igniting alien bugs with his flamethrower using C4 on Scouts.

  I love this game, even though I haven’t played in months. I’ve got a verified mod installed that gives every enemy googly eyes (and one semi-mobile plant that already looked like a Muppet opening and closing its mouth) which makes me very happy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo has lowered its Switch forecast after sales fell 31%⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not to mention, a major reason why people buy Nintendo consoles is to play first-party Nintendo games. Sure, it’s possible to emulate those titles on PC and probably the Deck, but a lot of people either don’t know how or don’t want to invest the time, money or effort to do so when they know the game will just work on the intended console.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Screenshots of what I'm playing, day 1: progressing through Sonic 2⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember planting so, so many rings in a single place with debug mode enabled in Sonic 2 just so I could play through each stage as Super Sonic without effort- aside from the super slippery controls.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 92 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been playing this game off and on for years, and it’s always a delight.

  That perfect investigation bonus can get pretty big, and that needs a full photo album of 3-Star photos. Disturbed salt is an easy way to get close to that, so your friend is sleeping on some great cheese.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What happened to the turn based RPG and RTS genres?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For C&C fans, Tempest Rising is C&C in all but name. The most recent playtest felt like a hybrid of Tiberian Sun and Tiberium Wars. It’s not out yet, but I’m very excited about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 1 of someone finally posting screenshots from a screenshot-worthy game, until I forget to post screenshots⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I enjoy them; they’re a small, mundane, humanising element in a sea of (often bad) news or game trailer links in my feed.

  Though I also appreciate the parody.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 69 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nice. Also, I like the storyline you’ve got going with the respawns.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Coming Soon: Pathfinder: The Dragon's Demand - Kickstarter⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I hope it turns out well; I’ve wanted to experience 2e as a player since before the playtest, and this would be the closest I expect to come for a long time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨75% of all PS5 owners prefer Performance Mode according to PlayStation⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That claim is such a pet peeves of mine. That’s not even how our eyes work, and it’s demonstrably untrue.

  It can even be proven false by rapidly moving the mouse cursor across the screen very quickly and the lack of motion blur.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 44 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This bug has been around for a while. It’s apparently reliably repeatable if you know how to manipulate it, but I haven’t looked into it too much myself. For context, I’ve been playing Phas on and off since 2020.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What category is games like Life is Strange and Until Dawn?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re effectively visual novels with light gameplay mechanics for navigation or making some narrative path choices. At least, that’s how I felt about Until Dawn.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Teaching Jordan Peterson That Climate Change Is Real: Part One – SOME MORE NEWS⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The subtle difference between their voices is the crying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is someone safe if they report income from illegal means to the IRS?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Tax evasion on top of the other illegal activity can increase the consequences if you’re caught. They tend to require warrants before divulging information to other authorities, however any information gathered through legal means can be used against you.

  The main benefit of reporting the income is to reduce the likelihood that somebody gets suspicious of the change in buying habits and starts in investigation in the first place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games with graphics resembling PS1 or PS2?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been enjoying Signalis. It’s a survival horror game with a top down 2.5d perspective and a late ps1-early ps2 graphics style. It’s very reminiscent of the older Resident Evil games where ammo is scarce(more or less is available based on difficulty), inventory space is limited(adjustable limits are available in settings), and there are specific rooms with a storage container where you can store items and save your game (there is no autosave or checkpoint system; you have to manually save your game), but it very much feels like it’s own thing.

  I picked it up on a whim when looking for games with female protagonists to play on a new-to-me hand-me-down Steam Deck, and it happens to run perfectly on it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does the USPS, FedEx and UPS give a crap about weed shipments since Hemp sprayed with th same terpenes and looks the same as weed has been shipped legally for 9 years now?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not hard, but it’s still a hurdle. Warrants also can’t be requested from a judge by just anyone in the USPS iirc, so the start of the process often relies on an employee taking time out of their day to report something they deem suspicious in the first place, likely in an understaffed and overworked office that’s not built to handle the package volume of the area they serve.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does the USPS, FedEx and UPS give a crap about weed shipments since Hemp sprayed with th same terpenes and looks the same as weed has been shipped legally for 9 years now?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Iirc, the USPS can’t unilaterally search your letters or packages because, as a government institution, it would be a major violation of the 4th amendment- even postal inspectors need to get a warrant to open a letter or package that’s not expressly addressed to them if it was in the care of the USPS. I think the only exception is when it’s an ‘Operation Santa’ letter, and there are regulations in place for how those get handled to protect the privacy of the sender.

  The private parcel and package companies probably don’t have to abide by the same restrictions because they’re not government owned and operated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox's new policy — say goodbye to unofficial accessories from November thanks to error '0x82d60002'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s frustrating for me is when the PC side cripples mixed-input entirely even though I just want mouse-look, gyro aim, and analog movement from my controller without any aim assist. (Looking at you, Destiny 2 and Halo.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨a tale as old as time⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a couple. For one, they specifically promoted her on Twitter even though she’d been monetizing the work of other people without their knowledge or consent, and her use of their videos are practically never transformative enough to fall under fair use. It may have been a while ago, but a company with very aggressive copyright practices promoting a content thief doesn’t look great.

  She escalated an issue she’s having on YouTube by allegedly engaging in offline harassment and doxxing his home address to millions of her followers on Instagram. YouTube is inextricably linked to this because her videos, and his videos criticizing them, are hosted by YouTube, and YouTube is earning ad revenue from all of that. She may have used Instagram to perform the alleged harassment, but people tend to follow online personalities on multiple social media sites, so there’s definitely audience crossover.

  Her audience trends young, and she’s had at least one or two videos taken down for violating community guidelines involving bullying, iirc. At the moment, there are rumors that a video of her on Omegle doing blatantly illegal shit has been reported to the FBI, and that the video had been up on her YouTube channel for nine years, though the video has since been deleted.

  He’s not calling for YouTube to act just on the offline harassment, but the full collection of provable bad behaviors on the site on top of the potential harm he and his family could face as a result of her present illegal actions and access to a platform with a lot of reach.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unity Claims PlayStation, Xbox & Nintendo Will Pay Its New Runtime Fee On Behalf Of Devs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This sounds like it would mean charging Valve money for the privilege of using Valve’s own infrastructure every time a player installed a Unity game after a major PC upgrade/reinstall or after uninstalling that MMO they dumped every other game in their library try out.

  Steam could probably bake a ban on software that uses installation trackers into their developer/publisher ToS, or ban the collection or transmission of Steam user data related to installations, or something similar.