RiikkaTheIcePrincess

@RiikkaTheIcePrincess@pawb.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CD Projekt Red Announces Surprise Cyberpunk 2077 Update - Insider Gaming⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks!

  I had to click anyway, though, just to be sure… they’re announcing that they’ll announce an announcement they’re going to announce tomorrow. Kinda baffling. Hopefully they’ll announce something interesting when they actually announce the announcement they’ve announced. 🤦

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TRIBES: The Most Influential FPS You (Probably) Never Played [video essay 52:59]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Soo ANNGRRRYYYY raaaaawrrrr!!! flails and makes exaggerated ridiculous squeaky angry noises ✊ 🐭 💢

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TRIBES: The Most Influential FPS You (Probably) Never Played [video essay 52:59]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Coooool! Thanks for mentioning that! :3

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TRIBES: The Most Influential FPS You (Probably) Never Played [video essay 52:59]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  … Why do they figure I never played one of my favourite games?

  Played that, 2, Ascend, Vengeance… was there another? Feels like there’s another I played. Also played Starsiege. And Cyberstorm. … Now I want new stuff like those. Bleh!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US rep asks Valve to remove ‘Oct. 7’ game from Steam⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I see the matters as connected: I figure people who flip out about “antisemitism” at anything even mildly unfriendly to Israel are serving (deliberately or not) to defend, justify, or even glorify its vile actions. That is, I think it’s not “zomg those poor pixel Jews!” but rather “Shhh, don’t talk like people are fighting against the IDF for a reason! (Let’s just accept that they’re all horrible evil sub-humans who must to be exterminated for the good of our wonderful, beloved friends and allies!)”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US rep asks Valve to remove ‘Oct. 7’ game from Steam⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the information. I really didn’t know about that attack and was on my way out at the time so I was more reacting to generalities and what was right in front of me.

  I don’t mean to suggest that anything and everything should be socially acceptable as freeze peach, just that I feel some people are being disingenuous and should be expected to point out an actual problem like “Look here, the rewards you get vary based on the racial and religious background of every civilian you kill!” Killing civilians who happen to be present regardless of other matters is murder. Killing opposing military personnel regardless of other matters is battle. Killing people because they’re Jewish is murderous antisemitism. Not wanting something seen doesn’t make it a crime… but I think some people are so stuck picking sides that even mention that there’s another point of view offends them 🤷

  That said, could be Hamas is pure evil for all I know and there’s just no way to present anything they do without it being disgusting. I just… bleh, maybe it’s an autism thing. There’s a nit there that I can’t help but pick 😅 I want more sincerity and sense in this world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US rep asks Valve to remove ‘Oct. 7’ game from Steam⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The wording of the complaints has me wondering if the game actually does anything “wrong” by the normal standards of video gaming. Like, does it actually glorify violence specifically against Jews? Is there some mission objective to butcher a bunch of civilians? I glance at the Steam page and it looks like the political statement its creator claims it is.

  I’m pretty sick of this “anything that isn’t hardcore pro-Israel is antisemitic terrorism” horsecrap. Either care about human life or don’t, don’t BS me and everyone else like the acts and atrocities committed in video games suddenly matter when characters who happen to be (presumed) Jews are involved.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dutch, French Police Take Down Major Crime Chat Service⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  illegal communication tools

  This term seems absurd and disgusting to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon pumps additional $4Bn in AI Start-up Anthropic⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Eight billion dollars into a fad but somehow “the economy” is a shambles and no real people seem to be doing well. I suddenly have many unnice things to say 😮‍💨

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Arc Line Is a Surprising Blend of Arcanum and Disco! - Early Access Preview Impressions [ACG]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Am just here to represent Team Interactivity in the apparent war versus Team Animate the Background Mechanics 😛 swipes the dice and uses them for a lockpicking minigame 😈

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For me, Cyberpunk 2077 was uninteractive and has low replayablility value.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a weird critter and play things differently from most, I think 😅 My greatest fun tends to be alting hard, trying nearly every imaginable build. Beat up the same jerkwad thirty times just to try out all’ the toys, that kind of thing :3 I did get annoyed at having to wait for the map to open up but I replay beginnings so many times anyway… 🤷 I wanna go back to CP77 pretty badly, too 😅 Am stuck on a laptop that I can’t imagine running it playably but even just driving around was fun for me. Helped me through a rough patch a night or two, actually.

  Also liked how well-done the story bits felt, though maybe that’s partly because I was told they’re really good and just expected them to be 🤷 I do remember some bits fondly, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your favorite 1000+ hour games?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow, so many posts 😵‍💫 Sooo I think I’ll be the one to mention ESO ^.^ I’ve got 1800 hours in that and miss it pretty bad v.v Am stuck on a laptop that can’t run it (nor much else) playably :-\ Anyway, it’s got many things to do. Three faction storylines, lots of side stuff (everything can be played at any level; people will take low-level characters into Trials and not even worry about it), crafting, character build funs deeper and more interesting than they seem, just plain wandering around peekifying all’ the Elder Scrolls places… Idunno, it just somehow kept me of all critters hooked for quite a while, which is very odd. I tend to get bored of things realquick 😅

  I only have 800 hours in it but I suppose I can second (or, well, nth) Warframe? 😅

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palworld Developer Reveals The Pokémon Patents Nintendo Claims It's Violating⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  trying to destroy all type of emulation for Nintendo consoles

  Only emulation used by others. They’re happy to kang all’ the ROMs and emulators off’ a site before destroying it for everyone else, then not even sell most of the damn things. Absurd. There’s nothing good about that, not even for Nintendo themselves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disco Elysium Successor Dev Says He Is Being Sued By The Others⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  All in all, this kind of in-fighting among leftist game developers is something that was actually parodied in Disco Elysium, making the situation all the more ironic.

  The article’s author put politics into your video games news, not me. Not that I’m at all sorry: those who want to bury their heads in sand shouldn’t peek out and get upset at the world for still being present. I want out too but I’ve not got nearly enough privilege to pretend “this is fine” except for people talking about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disco Elysium Successor Dev Says He Is Being Sued By The Others⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The left eats the left because we are delicious ;3

  I don’t really know what’s going on here nor whether anyone involved is actually a leftist; I just wanted to spew some wordplay :3

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Not a Scam 😂:’ Caitlyn Jenner Is Being Sued For Memecoin Securities Fraud⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s totally okay to ban you for crap like that. Maybe that’s why nobody makes me a mod any more 🤔

  Anyway, you’re a transphobe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of November 10th⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My system (a laptop, all I’ve got 'cause I had to skitterflee from doomness v.v ) can’t run much so I’m kinda stuck at “playable” framerates on old games :-\ I kinda hate to admit it but I’ve been playing Borderlands 2 … the Linux version, 'cause the Windows version, which has a bunch of patches and mod support, just doesn’t run well enough for me 😭 Can’t even get any DLC, though I’ve been really wanting to try Gaige. May be too burnt out to enjoy it any more anyway.

  Before that was Titan Quest, which just doesn’t really play like I wish it did. Played it a bunch anyway. Bleh.

  So now I’m just sitting around trying to avoid losing my mind to boredom or despair. flailyskitters around in circles 😵‍💫

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dragon Age: The Veilguard’s Clumsy, Preachy Political Messaging Does More Harm Than Good⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This article stinks of ignorance and bellendness. Complaining about “modern” or “new” terms is always a huge red flag to me, so now I have to wonder, for example, whether the The Bright Sword character referenced does in fact use she/her. Oh noes, the setting wouldn’t have this one word! It does, of course, have the entirety of any English dictionary other than that word, though. Just the one is icky, like all of those pronouns the woke crowd keep _shoving down our throats! But the woke crowd don’t exist in that world! The whole damn world is drastically different but this one conveniently common language is almost identical! Couldn’t have been that they say “are with” instead of “have,” noooo, it’s one coincidentally “political” word that’s gotta go. That’s the one critical difference in “a fantasy setting divorced entirely from the real world” where they’d suddenly not say things the same way we would!

  Does this person give a damn at all and have a crappy take, or just feel like spewing another “omfg woke newspeak agenda” wall of whinge onto… er, Forbes. Not the place I’d look first for sensible discussion of social matters. I guess a click is a click.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 trailer reveals Andy Serkis, Ben Starr, Charlie Cox, and more⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  [Joke] Credits further include Doug, Eoin, Frank, Greg, Harry, Ivan, Jack, Kevin, Leonard, Mike, Nick, Oscar, Pat, Quentin, Rudy, Sven, Tim, Unas, Victor, Will, and another Mike.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every Video Game Is Woke Apparently... [The Act Man, YouTube]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not a fan of someone who uses the r-slur and makes a show of not being “woke,” but I agree that that list is utterly ludicrous. Flagging something like it’s practically unplayable because you can if you search for them find a couple of same-sex characters in the ass end of nowhere holding hands is kinda mind-blowing.

  They even complained about someone claiming to be asexual. Seriously?? Someone not wanting sex is the big horrible Woke Agenda™ being shoved down poor, innocent Gamers™’ throats? Look here, it’s incels doing reverse wokism “making” a game engine because Real Men™ never use a premade one! Don’t think about why they would want to associate with a general-purpose game engine despite also claiming that every dev must make their own! Thinking is WOKE! You’ll turn gay if you think!

  🤬 Baffling absurdity, I say!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Godot fork- Redot emerges after recent events within the Godot project.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How is using a game engine “woke?” I feel like I’m missing something about either gamedev history or yet another new meaning of “woke” 🤔

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Doom mod that turns Margaret Thatcher into an undead cyberdemon has been removed by Bethesda yet again, this time for 'disobeying a ZeniMax employee'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Disobeying a ZeniMax employee” being apparently some kind of crime gives me a sudden, near-desperate urge to disobey a ZeniMax employee.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo and Pokémon are suing Palworld maker Pocketpair⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Changed it 🤷 I’ve no idea why I decided to abbreviate there at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo and Pokémon are suing Palworld maker Pocketpair⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If corporations are to be considered people they should have to have shins or something to kick them in!

  Am tired of hearing about Ninty attacking everyone who even thinks about fun outside of their discrete products.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What games would you recommend others to just play on easy difficulty⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m taking this as an opportunity to illuminate issues with particular games, since… well, play on easy if you wanna, naturally. So, for my recommendation: If you don’t use the mod that makes all weapons very dangerous, Mass Effect Andromeda. Without a mod to speed it up a lot, every fight becomes ages of tedium. There’s one weapon that can be made any good and even that doesn’t make fights bearable. You’re basically sitting for like ten minutes at a time hosing down foes with off-brand Super Soakers until they get frustrated and leave. It’s quite bad. Just play it on easy. Not just easy, the easiest easy. Whatever the lowest difficulty is, pick that one. There’s just no point in anything higher unless you’ve got infinite patience. And ammo. Bleeegh.

  So, generally I play things on easier difficulties when I feel like anything higher will get tedious rather than interesting. The Mass Effect trilogy, I play on the maximum difficulty because that adds a bunch of mechanics that give me more to work around. Fighting armoured enemies should be done differently from fights against shielded enemies, that sort of thing. Enemies become more dangerous when they’re not shut down so there’s that encouragement to get them figured out before they bring out the scary attacks. Some games just increase health amounts, which… okay, just shoot them more? 😴 Boring.

  tl;dr: Games like Mass Effect Andromeda where difficulty settings only increase tedium. Am never gonna want to crank up the tedium setting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deadlock on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Woo, maybe Shrine Wars will be coming out soonish!

  … Har har! 'Used to love that game 😅

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looks like it was a ... boobie trap⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Somehow I hadn’t noticed this place was transphobic. Whoopsy!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Want to see me with the covers off, big boy? [NSFJDV]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We’d best not even ask about the crab 🙀

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A robot just performed fully autonomous surgery on a live patient for the first time⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And then the ads!

  Apparently we pay to see ads anyway these days. :|

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft and Reddit Are Fighting About Why Bing’s Crawler Is Blocked on Reddit⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  [Joke] See, Reddit’s doing a good thing here! They’re making sure nobody ends up toxifying their own dataset by using Reddit’s garbage heap of bot posts!