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- Comment on Valve adds "all the Team Fortress 2 client and server game code" to its Source mod tools, letting modders "build completely new games based on TF2" and publish them on Steam 4 weeks ago:
I’m a Valve stan but it’s disgusting how they’ve abused and neglected TF2. It would unironically be significantly better if they just rolled back every change since 2016.
- Comment on Valve adds "all the Team Fortress 2 client and server game code" to its Source mod tools, letting modders "build completely new games based on TF2" and publish them on Steam 4 weeks ago:
Yeah you’d think that if you never played before it ruined the entire game.
- Comment on Valve adds "all the Team Fortress 2 client and server game code" to its Source mod tools, letting modders "build completely new games based on TF2" and publish them on Steam 4 weeks ago:
Most players are using casual mode which is terrible. The community servers in TF2 are a pale shadow of what they once were.
- Comment on Valve releases full Team Fortress 2 game code to encourage new, free versions 5 weeks ago:
Yeah I’ve touched both TF2 Classic and Open Fortress in the past. They’re certainly better than post-2016 TF2, but a) they have very low player-counts, and b) they’re definitely not trying to be vanilla TF2. Each has their own unique vision and balance.
- Comment on Valve releases full Team Fortress 2 game code to encourage new, free versions 5 weeks ago:
Putting the game out to pasture after years of neglect… Sad that they’ll never restore the actual game to its pre-matchmaking glory days. Hopefully this will result in a proper vanilla experience, but it’s pretty painful that the actual game (which will always attract the most players) is being left to rot like this.
- Comment on meirl 5 weeks ago:
VPN subscriptions are about $5/mo (Mullvad for example)
- Comment on It really is like this 1 month ago:
Lmao you know ml just stands for Mali in this case right? Like do you think they’re doing ideological purity testing when you sign up? Do you think my whole instance is CCP agents?
- Comment on It really is like this 1 month ago:
Using language like “disappeared” to refer to detainees just because the Western media can’t conduct interviews with them in prison is textbook propaganda-speak.
- Comment on It really is like this 1 month ago:
This is exactly the propaganda I’m referring to. I’m sure some people are being detained unjustly. I’m also very sure that number, whether per capita or in raw headcount, is a lot lower than in the US.
- Comment on It really is like this 1 month ago:
I’m agreeing with you for the most part, their list of talking points is the propaganda.
- Comment on It really is like this 1 month ago:
What happens? Do you have any evidence of what happens besides your imagination?
- Comment on It really is like this 1 month ago:
This is all some seriously internalized US propaganda.
- Comment on Slicing in for some opinions 1 month ago:
Any cartridge or disposable razor is a scam. Safety or straight razors provide a better shave at a fraction of the yearly cost, for a low initial investment. Straight razors are much more of a learning curve, but safety razors are just a easy to use as a cartridge razor.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
90%+ of “status symbols” are scams.
- Comment on EA will shut down the Origin app on April 2025 — company asks users to migrate to the new EA app 2 months ago:
I mean, you still own the games, you just won’t be able to access them through Origin. You have to download a different launcher. I don’t think you really have to do anything else to “migrate”.
- Comment on Are there any games like Starfield? 2 months ago:
Classic no-thought throwaway line that dismisses the massive accomplishments already made. Literally, you can go play the game right now and it’s better than Elite Dangerous.
- Comment on Are there any games like Starfield? 2 months ago:
Not really, there’s plenty of reviews out there. I just don’t think that someone who found Starfiield to be mid will find Outlaws any better.
- Comment on Are there any games like Starfield? 2 months ago:
I love how it gets called “vaporware” when it’s a playable product with more gameplay than many MMOs. I’m also very grateful to the whales for providing the funds to develop the game.
- Comment on Are there any games like Starfield? 2 months ago:
It’s not fun and the writing is bad.
- Comment on Are there any games like Starfield? 2 months ago:
SQ42 has gone gold and is in polish phase, I would expect it within two years for sure.
- Comment on Are there any games like Starfield? 2 months ago:
It’s not.
- Comment on Are there any games like Starfield? 2 months ago:
Glad you acknowledge the major problem. I found that once you realize how little there actually is to do in every system, and how similar it all feels, the illusion is destroyed and there’s very little besides PvP that’s still interesting. If they could somehow roll in some of the bigger systems from EVE Online that would be sick, but the expansions have shown that mostly what they care about is having an easily maintainable product, not an exciting one.
- Comment on Are there any games like Starfield? 2 months ago:
The E:D devs shit in every existing player’s mouth when the first paid expansion dropped, and they’ve never fixed their abusive pricing model. You’re actively punished for being a legacy user.
I probably would have bitten the bullet and kept playing if the game wasn’t incredibly shallow, though. Somehow it manages to still be that way after several content expansions… Everything is a novelty that gets repetitive the second time you do it, and the variance between systems is frankly embarrassing. PvP is the only facet that has any real replay value, and I’d rather dogfight in Star Citizen.
- Comment on Are there any games like Starfield? 2 months ago:
Star Citizen is the only modern game that I’ve got any hope for. It’s still years from being a proper game, but in the meantime you can have a surprising amount of fun in the persistent universe, assuming you can run it at acceptable framerates.
It gets a ton of hate, which I think is pretty unjustified given that it’s the single most ambitious gaming project ever, and the progress they’ve made with in-house tools is frankly amazing. Just don’t go dropping hundreds on ships and you won’t have anything to regret.
- Comment on There's fucking ads in board games now 2 months ago:
It’s visual and often auditory assault. More people should deface public advertising.
- Comment on Balatro dev shares an excellent list of his favourite indie games of 2024 2 months ago:
Animal well is great, but still has one massive problem; the keyboard controls can’t be rebound, which is an absolutely unforgivable miss in 2024. Beat the game but had to use a controller… I really don’t understand why he still hasn’t added this basic feature.
- Comment on Neil Breen: how a filmmaker with no skill became a cult hero 3 months ago:
He’s like Tommy Wiseau; an independently wealthy middle aged dude who decided to make films with no prior experience, at least partially motivated by getting hot young actresses to kiss him and/or be in nude scenes with him.
- Comment on Neil Breen: how a filmmaker with no skill became a cult hero 3 months ago:
I’ve seen several, though not all. I think Fateful Findings is a good candidate, but it’s certainly arguable.
- Comment on Let's discuss: UFO 50 3 months ago:
It’s a ludicrously good value, even if only half the collection lands for you. It’s awesome for the steam deck too. I’ve beaten a good chunk of the games and cherried several. While there are a handful that I would consider underwhelming, the vast majority are clever takes on one or more genres which would be standout hits if they were actually released in the 80s.
- Comment on 8 yr old me after my parents did my woodworking assignment 3 months ago:
No, it’s like saying that a businessman who owns a hospital has no ideas what the doctors are doing, despite the fact that once a month he shows up in scrubs to push a patient’s wheelchair for a photo op.