Vodulas
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- Comment on Tesla Stock Is Plunging Again. It Could Drop for a Ninth Straight Week. 1 week ago:
You mean Boeing’s screw up. They were the designer/manufacturer of the capsule that had issues. Plus Musk has very little if anything to do with SpaceX engineering or operations (Gwynn Shotwell is in charge of operations). Mostly he just does “Funny” shit like telling engineers to make Starship more pointy.
- Comment on My Scammer Girlfriend: Baiting A Romance Fraudster 1 week ago:
That was well worth the long read. I especially appreciate the rules of engagement including not going after identities, but techniques. So many “scam busters” tend to target individuals under the guise of getting to the larger organization. That has always weirded me out since it ignores the fact that a lot of those front line scammers are probably just desperate for work and are not the main beneficiaries of these scams.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of March 9th 2 weeks ago:
Keep Driving has had a lot of my free time. Semi emergent narrative, with rogue lite elements and semi Oregon Trail elements. Amazing soundtrack, great art. Just all around fun game.
- Comment on After two hours, open world shooter Atomfall is far more Far Cry than S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 weeks ago:
Atomfall is compared to STALKER in the article refernced in the first paragraph. This article is just stating the author disagrees with his coworkers original assessment
- Comment on The most influential video game of all time - BAFTA 2 weeks ago:
Not that I don’t think Doom isn’t a good answer, mind you. There is a reason “Can you run Doom on that” is a thing
- Comment on The most influential video game of all time - BAFTA 2 weeks ago:
Oh cool, did not even know about Monster Maze or Catacomb 3d. I’ll have to check them out. Monster Maze looks more survival than shooter, bit still in that vein for sure.
- Comment on The most influential video game of all time - BAFTA 2 weeks ago:
Wolfenstein 3d can out the year before and I believe was the first. Still id Software, just slightly predates Doom
- Comment on 3,700 hrs in Rimworld - my current colony 2 weeks ago:
Your colony looks a lot like how I do mine. Only difference is I really don’t do animals, and only do barracks in the beginning
- Comment on Acclaim Entertainment returns to 'support indie developers and reignite classic franchises' 3 weeks ago:
Exactly. All they have is nostalgia to sell. That is all most of these big corpos have anymore.
- Comment on Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic 3 weeks ago:
Good they rolled it back. Feels a bit like go for what you want and see how folks react, then have a plan for rolling it back.
- Comment on Let's discuss: Pokémon 3 weeks ago:
I’m not too concerned with that. If I don’t like the best in the series, then I probably won’t like any of them, but I am OK with that. A lot of folks are saying HeartGold/SoulSilver as better starting points, so I went with that. Got it emulated, so no real loss for me if I don’t like it.
- Comment on Let's discuss: Pokémon 3 weeks ago:
I played the Beastieball demo, and it is a ton of fun. The combat is tactical volleyball, and is pretty satisfying to play.
- Comment on Let's discuss: Pokémon 3 weeks ago:
Excellent. Sounds like a great place to start. Thanks!
- Comment on Let's discuss: Pokémon 3 weeks ago:
I have never played a pokemon game (except Go). I don’t have nostalgia for pokemon, but I would like to play. I am down to start at any point (I can probably emulate for any platform I don’t own). Where would folks recommend I start?
- Comment on Meta fires 20 employees for leaking 3 weeks ago:
Only into bottles, though.
- Comment on Marvel Rivals Version 20250214 Patch Notes - Steam News (February 12, 2025) 5 weeks ago:
You have the original commenter confused. millie just said if you were spamming patch notes, you’d get a block
- Comment on Marvel Rivals Version 20250214 Patch Notes - Steam News (February 12, 2025) 5 weeks ago:
That is a much more reasonable take, for sure. I would do the same, and probably go one step further and ask mods to step in.
In this case I don’t think OP is spamming patch notes, they just found this on interesting.
- Comment on Marvel Rivals Version 20250214 Patch Notes - Steam News (February 12, 2025) 5 weeks ago:
lol, what? This is a general gaming community. Also, that implies people can only post about games you are playing, which is such a wild take
- Comment on Corinne Busche, director of Dragon Ave: The Veilguard, departs BioWare 2 months ago:
It might just be that Taash isn’t the companion for you. I did not find them unlikable, just incredibly direct.
Dunno where you saw that, steamdb (steamdb.info/app/1845910/) has it listed on 38.99€ at a 35% discount, which is horrendous for a not even 2 month old release.
I found an article from about 3 or 4 weeks after release, so clearly the price dripped a couple times. And agreed, it is a bad sign for sales
- Comment on Corinne Busche, director of Dragon Ave: The Veilguard, departs BioWare 2 months ago:
I don’t think so. The writing of Taash was so bad and uncomfortable for the most part that I genuinely didn’t know if they were trying to mock trans-people with this representation
I disagree. The writing of Taash, while basic, has a lot in common with folks early in discovering their trans identity. Yeah, it is awkward and uncomfortable. Guess what, self introspection often is. I would say with Taash we see a lot of what would be internal struggles being vocalized. The good news is that Taash isn’t the only character you can interact with.
Breaking with an established formula can be a big detriment to a franchise.
Of course it can, but it doesn’t solely make it a bad game.
Veilguard, on the other hand, doesn’t get better. It just stays bad and even confusing at times.
I disagree. I really like the gameplay. It gets better almost immediately after the tutorial, though the tutorial is a little long for my taste.
All time peak on steam is 90k - that’s horrendous. Obviously, that’s not the total sales and it’s also sold on other platforms, so we do not know the real number. However,the game went on discount not even 2 months after release, and a pretty hefty one at that, 35% I think.
Yeah, again, I don’t think the numbers are great, but 90k on 1 of 4 or 5 big platforms isn’t dismal. And the discount could be telling, but (I just looked it up) it was around 29%, which is still $50. Part of that could be backlash to the $70 AAA price tag. All that being said, all of this is speculation without numbers being released from EA
- Comment on Corinne Busche, director of Dragon Ave: The Veilguard, departs BioWare 2 months ago:
If the discourse I’m seeing on dev/gaming twitter/bluesky is anything to go off of
It’s probably not. Everyone I know that has actually played has found it to be quite fun. It’s not perfect, but highly enjoyable 7/10. Most of the negative reviews I have seen are 1 of 3 things:
- It’S tOo WoKe And
- It not a CRPG like Origins
- The writing is not up the same standards as previous Dragon Ages
So the first one can be thrown out. 2 is true, but doesn’t make it a bad game. 3 is true for the tutorial portion for sure, but after that things open up. The story isn’t amazing, but it suits the gameplay well.
EA hasn’t released any sales numbers, so hard to say on that part, but probably not in the multiple millions. From what I can find it is probably selling fine. Not amazing, not bad, but fine. That also could be due to a variety of factors like marketing clarity or using an IP in a way that fans of the IP did not want. It does not necessarily mean the game is a bad game
- Comment on TikTok tells LA staff impacted by wildfires to use personal/sick hours if they can't work from home 2 months ago:
For the most part I agree, but we are quickly moving to a place where voting either won’t do anything or won’t be a thing. For now, organizing and community support is the best thing to do, but there may come a time where we need to think about other options
- Comment on TikTok tells LA staff impacted by wildfires to use personal/sick hours if they can't work from home 2 months ago:
Guess we better not try then…
The fact is that while there is no guarantee, you can at lest push to something better. Don’t self-defeat so early
- Comment on Apple CEO Tim Cook Donating $1 Million to Trump's Inaugural Fund 2 months ago:
Hate to shatter that ideal more, but the US has never been a bastion of democracy. The electoral college has existed since the founding, women have only been able to vote since 1920, and black folks have only fully been enfranchised since 1965. Even so, the right has been working to disenfranchise black and poor folks ever since.
- Comment on Discussion: Cybertruck involved in attempted bombing in Las Vegas auto-locked after explosion 2 months ago:
Do they? Or is that just an extension of the right wing rumor that EVs explode more often than gas cars?
Cybertrucks are super fucking shitty, but for a lot of other reasons. Shitty to no QA, panels that are not properly attached, incredibly low visibility (even for a truck), undersized drive train components, and low actual utility to name a few. Oh, and everything that Elon is
- Comment on After years of holding out hope, 2024 was the year I finally gave up on BioWare 2 months ago:
I have not quite finished the game, but I did go through and do as many companion quests as possible, and they felt kinda drip fed. Probably just less developed than the main quest, which is a shame.
- Comment on After years of holding out hope, 2024 was the year I finally gave up on BioWare 2 months ago:
I hated the combat in Witcher 3. The combat in Veilguard does not feel the same to me, so if it is biting the Witcher, it also improved it. I get they were probably chasing trends, but Veilguard is a solid action game. The author clearly has a bias to CRPGs, and a soft spot for Origins (as do I), but that does not make Veilguard a bad game. Just different
- Comment on After years of holding out hope, 2024 was the year I finally gave up on BioWare 2 months ago:
The Witcher games have all had terrible combat, just getting slightly better each game. The folklore and universe are really what sells the Witcher games. Though the first one was still real bad.
- Comment on After years of holding out hope, 2024 was the year I finally gave up on BioWare 2 months ago:
I can’t say this for the author since they seemed to have finished the game, but Veilguard starts real rough, but got really fun to play. The story isn’t anything to write home about, but it suits the more action oriented combat well. I get it is not the DA CRPG everyone seemed to want, but it is a damn fun 3rd person action game. Besides, we still have Baldurs Gate 3.
- Comment on Fallout 76 Ghoul Experience Detailed by Bethesda 2 months ago:
The weight limit is bad. I played recently and it seems like they did some adjustments, so not as bad as it used to be