msage
@msage@programming.dev
- Comment on Bumper sticker 2 weeks ago:
Why keep focusing on a single group?
- Comment on shoe 2 weeks ago:
sh0eonhead?
- Comment on Got 20 euro, what game/games to get on steam autunm sale? 3 weeks ago:
Terraria
- Comment on What are your favorite "gotta go in blind" games? 3 weeks ago:
Not really, the out-of-combat movement was almost strictly 2D? And the first real fight did not teach me the controls in any way, I had no idea what was going on.
- Comment on What are your favorite "gotta go in blind" games? 3 weeks ago:
I bought it expecting like a Devil May Cry or maybe Souls… then the game started and I noped the hell out. It’s weird and I did not like it at all.
- Comment on Anon is a nostalgic gamer 3 weeks ago:
I just spun up a server, and before I knew it, there were 16 players having the best time. I wonder if it could happen again, but I have no time to try it.
- Comment on Anon is a nostalgic gamer 3 weeks ago:
Had the same experience with AssaultCube last year.
CS2 still has server browser. Even I have my own dedicated server.
- Comment on What are your favorite 1000+ hour games? 4 weeks ago:
LoL sucks, it’s like a shallow copy of DotA. I’ve played around 300 hours, it’s very silly in comparison.
Stellaris is kinda easy once you figure out that expanding is the No1 priority for the entire game. Expand, build ships - nobody will be able to stop you.
There was always a need for a ‘tall’ empire - so you don’t expand, but focus on your small part of the galaxy - but so far it’s always crushed by the expanding ones.
Once you get stargate tech, it’s 24/7 war. For even more territory.
Right now I remembered a game that never was really finished, Stardrive, where you could design your own ships down to the electrical wiring. It had layouts with sections, and you could fill it up to your liking. It was a shame that ground troops could finish the game in minutes.
Sometimes I feel like 4X games are usually more suited for roleplaying than actual challenge of micromanagement.
Anyway, I have a huge jam on my main line in OpenTTD, gotta fix my intersection again.
- Comment on What are your favorite 1000+ hour games? 4 weeks ago:
Dota 2.
I’ve played Dwarf Fortress, Stellaris, yet I still find Dota to be the most complex game ever.
It sucks that it’s a multiplayer game, and you need people to play it well with you, but when it works, it’s amazing.
Everything in it has layers of usability, usually componded by the everything else in the game - hero abilities, items, map, neutrals, even the stupid trees play a large role in the game.
I’ve spent hundreds of hours studying the mechanics, and I still don’t grasp everything.
I played a lot of DotA too, but that doesn’t have a playtime counter. But I have over 3000 hours in Dota 2.
My second favourite game is OpenTTD. It’s just so satisfying to optimize the train network and add another 100 trains to it. I’ve tried Factorio, but for some reason that did not scratch that itch.
Or some roguelites, like Slay the Spire (or the Touhou: Lost Branch of Legend), Synthetik (haven’t tried second one yet), they are always fun.
- Comment on Half-Life 2 peaks at 52,000 concurrent players, 20 years after its release 5 weeks ago:
Artifact? Both of them?
- Comment on GOG’s new preservation program intends to keep classic games playable ‘forever’ 5 weeks ago:
No, there are DRM games on GOG (or have been anyway).
And Steam also has DRM-free games.
- Comment on If I threaten a politician to kill them like Trump did to Liz Cheney could I be arrested? If so how come Trump hasn't been arrested for it? 1 month ago:
- Comment on Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages 1 month ago:
Boo freaking hoo.
It’s not like there are so many other ways to cheat, actually used in many games with anticheats.
We should all stop pretending it’s necessary to put malware into your computer just so some company can claim they have no cheaters, which is never even true.
- Comment on Robert Downey Jr. Bans Hollywood From Creating Digital Replica: I Will Sue 1 month ago:
“Over my dead body”
“Two birds one stone?”
- Comment on bitey 1 month ago:
- Comment on bitey 1 month ago:
Oh, we are bad-ass runners. Top that one!
- Comment on Eat lead 1 month ago:
I remember a time when all of this happens again
- Comment on Literally Nineteen Eighty-Four 1 month ago:
I’ve seen Breaking Bad, yes
- Comment on Nobel Prize 2024 2 months ago:
‘AI hate’ is usually connected with insane claims like ‘we have “reasoning” model’.
That shit needs to die in fire.
I’m still waiting for the full-planet weather model. That will be something.
- Comment on How do I avoid enshitification of my keyboard and mouse 2 months ago:
Hey, block me too!
Since the best course of action is not supporting predatory companies, using Linux is THE solution for such problems.
- Comment on when AI tries to get in my way 2 months ago:
- Comment on gentoo 2 months ago:
Finally someone else who uses Gentoo ^^
- Comment on Rip 3 months ago:
Go climate catastrophy!
- Comment on Rip 3 months ago:
Just in case - I did not mean you, just the people who spew such shit.
Like my mother. Jesus, I had to explain a lot to her for her to stop saying that stuff near me.
- Comment on Rip 3 months ago:
If you want to be all natural, get off the internet.
Stop eating modern vegetables and fruits.
Return to monke.
- Comment on Games industry layoffs not the result of corporate greed and those affected should "drive an Uber", says ex-Sony president 3 months ago:
I’ll donate his yearly salary for this cause
- Comment on biodegradable 3 months ago:
I hear ya
- Comment on biodegradable 3 months ago:
Vasectomy
- Comment on How many squirrels do you think you could take in a fight to the death? 3 months ago:
No weapons for me or the squirrels?
- Comment on i will never understand scientific fraud 3 months ago:
I want all of those things for everyone, not just for ‘someone else to provide’, but for every able person to provide for everyone.