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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half-Life 25th Anniversary Update⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Cool. I remember a buddy showing it to me in his college dorm room. I was more interested in Unreal Tournament (which released a year later) at the time and probably couldn’t afford to buy another game anyway. But I was positively obsessed with Half Life 2 a few years later…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GTA 6’s Publisher Says Video Games Should Theoretically Be Priced At Dollars Per Hour⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Factorio would cost me $370

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Dyson Sphere Program. Factorio and Satisfactory tend to get all the press, but DSP is AMAZING.

  • They learned a lot of quality of life lessons from older factory games and built them in, e.g. you get bots right away.
  • The visuals can be breathtaking: not because it’s raytracing/whatever fancy tech, but simply the scale of the game: giant gas planet rises at the horizon, etc.
  • It does power exceptionally well: there are a ton of power sources, and a lot of depth in figuring out how to power your mega factories. You can even charge up a battery and ship it by spaceship to another moon/planet. Going back to Factorio’s simplistic steam/solar/nuclear power feels like a let down.

  It’s in early access, but it’s one of the most polished early-access games you’ll find. They’re currently working on a large combat update that should drop in December. Price-to-value ratio is ridiculous. It’s $20 and I have 155 hours in the game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m so hyped for the next Rimworld DLC!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox users call out Activision and Microsoft for "vomit inducing" full-screen Modern Warfare 3 ad⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  with Valve continuing to rapidly improve Proton, just about any Windows game runs on Linux now

  I hope this is actually true, or becomes true. The only reason I’m on Windows is for gaming.

  Heck even my Bitwig DAW runs on Linux.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox users call out Activision and Microsoft for "vomit inducing" full-screen Modern Warfare 3 ad⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought there’s no way… when you boot up!? Sure enough. “the ad in question pops up when players boot up their Xbox”

  Wow

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion - 02-10-2023⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Based

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion - 02-10-2023⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m between games at the moment, so I’m revisiting old favorites: Factorio and Hitman

  I was playing Baldur’s Gate 3 but I’m burnt out on it at the moment. Combat is relentless in that game…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Martin Scorsese urges filmmakers to fight comic book movie culture: ‘We’ve got to save cinema’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Based

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate using mobile to read articles⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  A workaround I like is using the Reader View built into Safari on iOS – strips most junk out, leaving clean text