Vodulas
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- Comment on Valve must address swastikas and other hate on Steam, writes US senator in a letter to Gabe Newell 1 day ago:
Oh, got ya
- Comment on Valve must address swastikas and other hate on Steam, writes US senator in a letter to Gabe Newell 1 day ago:
Why would a gaming news website talk about twitter? How is it whataboutism? Two things can be bad at the same time.
- Comment on Four Dead In Fire As Tesla Doors Fail To Open After Crash 4 days ago:
Just…wow
- Comment on Four Dead In Fire As Tesla Doors Fail To Open After Crash 4 days ago:
Oof, glad you did not get hit. That is fucking scary. I have heard some shit about the factories, but go fast and break things does not work in this scenario
- Comment on Four Dead In Fire As Tesla Doors Fail To Open After Crash 4 days ago:
For sure needs to be more obvious/put a sticker on it, and this still doesn’t excuse the driver. If other cars are doing the same thing they should be getting the same coverage, but Tesla gets clicks.
- Comment on Donald Trump Team Plans to Cancel Biden's $7,500 Tax Incentive On EVs 4 days ago:
Build more mass transit in outlying areas, but also there are reasons for personal car ownership. My partner uses her personal car to do home health, for example. That is not possible with transit or on a bike. Plus it rains almost 9 months out of the year here, and good rain gear is spendy. I love e-bikes and transit, but electric cars have their place. There is not one solution.
- Comment on Four Dead In Fire As Tesla Doors Fail To Open After Crash 4 days ago:
The front latch is fine, but the rear one is a wire behind a piece of trim you have to remove (unless that has changed). The passengers in the rear would have to know where it was and how to use it. In an emergency, the likelihood of being able to do that is pretty low.
- Comment on GOG’s new preservation program intends to keep classic games playable ‘forever’ 1 week ago:
Same, run the install file via proton even. Works great
- Comment on GOG’s new preservation program intends to keep classic games playable ‘forever’ 1 week ago:
Or even playing it via Steam using Proton.
- Comment on How Self-Driving Cars will Destroy Cities (and what to do about it) 1 week ago:
Ah, got it. Could also be my migraine making me not fully get things.
- Comment on How Self-Driving Cars will Destroy Cities (and what to do about it) 1 week ago:
I’m all for mass transit, but there are some jobs that require cars. My partner does home health, for example. She often has to take a lot of bulky durable medical equiomemt (DME) to a person’s home. Even if mass transit existed in all of her territory, transporting DME on it would be prohibative, especially when there are often multiple people that need different pieces of equipment.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of November 3rd 2 weeks ago:
That might be part of it. The shooting doesn’t do it for me, and the movement feels bad unless you nail it.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of November 3rd 2 weeks ago:
I’ll for sure have to see how it plays out in match. Part of it is I also am not a fan of MOBAs, and Deadlock seems to pull a lot from them. We were also looking for a game that my partner could play kinda like Overwatch, bit I think she’ll bounce pretty hard off Deadlock.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of November 3rd 2 weeks ago:
Finally got an invite to Deadlock. After watching a let’s play and messing around with different heroes in the Hero Sandbox, I think there is just too much. I know it is a MOBA shooter combo, but between the movement mechanics, skills, and item shop, it just kinda seems they added stuff just because other titles in either genre have them. I might still give it a few matches, but it definitely dropped in priority.
Been playing through Raft again with my partner, and that’s been a blast. I love a survival crafter, and realized she had not played since the full release. Kinda a cozy survival game if that is even a thing. The only downside isn’t it has been moving our normal sleep schedule later, and we need to move it earlier bee laugh sweat emoji
- Comment on OpenAI launches ChatGPT with Search, taking Google head-on - Ars Technica 3 weeks ago:
Ah, exactly what we need. An inaccurate search engine to replace the dominant inaccurate search engine.
- Comment on Kamala Harris' 'Fortnite' map bans guns, has less than 400 people playing 3 weeks ago:
And I don’t think gun control is even a campaign promise. Just shows either lack of forethought or lack of understanding from their campaign
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of October 27th 3 weeks ago:
Somehow replied to my own comment. Good thing I am actively drinking coffee. Yeah, although it makes me wonder if the game pass version isn’t basically the console version. They do some weird stuff with required windows processes.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of October 27th 3 weeks ago:
I tried to play Alien Isolation but I kept getting game breaking bugs
I tried the gamepass and PS5 version and ran into the same game breaker. It is such a shame since it is supposed to be fantastic.
- Comment on Let's discuss: Uplifting Games 3 weeks ago:
Night in the Woods was such a standout game. I started to watch a let’s play, realized that it was going to be fantastic, stopped the let’s play, played the game, then finished the let’s play to see their reactions. If you like wholesome let’s plays, I highly recommend PlayFrame. Here is their Night in the Woods play list
- Comment on Please ban data caps, Internet users tell FCC 4 weeks ago:
Do you live outside the US? The way the US works is far less centralized than other countries. Most of this time this kind of stuff is left up to state regulations or even city regulations and contracts. The truth is that capless plans exist, but that is not the reality for large swaths of the US. You’re taking a broad approach to a specific problem. Ending data caps ends at the Federal level ends the problem and does away with the mess of state BS. Anyway, I am done talking to a brick wall. Have a good one
- Comment on Please ban data caps, Internet users tell FCC 4 weeks ago:
You act like I work at the FCC. The reality is the city has tried focusing on that in the past and failed because the contracts set up with the ISPs were renewed by the centrist city government. I think you are thinking of an ideal situation where one does not exist.
- Comment on Please ban data caps, Internet users tell FCC 4 weeks ago:
WHAT CHOICE!? Data caps are on all plans. What options are there? Lay out what you think the choices are.
- Comment on Please ban data caps, Internet users tell FCC 4 weeks ago:
Around here they charge for going over your cap, so easy profit with no regulation would be the likely culprit. Also, you keep talking about competition, but there are 2 whole broadband companies in my area, and one does not have fiber/gigabit in my area. That is not what anybody would call healthy competition.
- Comment on Please ban data caps, Internet users tell FCC 4 weeks ago:
Consumers can pick a subscription with a data cap, or they can pick one without.
I am in a major metropolitan area and I do not have an option to have no data caps. Even the slow internet plans have them. I don’t think you realize the stranglehold telecoms have on consumers.
- Comment on Subnautica 2 - Teaser Trailer 4 weeks ago:
For sure one of the scariest moments in a video game.
- Comment on Subnautica 2 - Teaser Trailer 4 weeks ago:
Below Zero had far less open ocean, and far less just inky blackness. Plus I think if you played the original, you have an idea of what to expect. Nothing compares to dread of seeing a Leviathan come up from total darkness in the first one.
- Comment on Subnautica 2 - Teaser Trailer 4 weeks ago:
I love both Subnauticas, but there are really only 2.5 things this tells us:
- Giant hermit crabs exist
- Likely multiplayer 2.5. Maybe giant squids?
I am super excited either way
- Comment on PC Gamer: The top 100 PC games 5 weeks ago:
Prey kinda kicked off the immersive genre. I think the thing folks are not getting is that this is not a best game of all time list, even though they say “100 best.” It is a “100 Favorite Games of the PC Gamer Staff” list. It is going to be different than anyone’s exact taste. There are a ton of games on there that I think would not be in my top 100, but I am not mad or confused about it. It’s just something someone else is into.
- Comment on PC Gamer: The top 100 PC games 5 weeks ago:
What if I told you I find Valheim to be just fine, so I am surprised it is on this list? The subjectiveness of enjoying a game is a very large spectrum
- Comment on PC Gamer: The top 100 PC games 5 weeks ago:
True. They did mention Doom and Doom: Eternal as being different enough to warrant both. Don’t think that is true for BG2 and BG3 though
