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- Comment on Let's discuss: Half-Life 7 hours ago:
HL2 is probably the game I’ve replayed the most. It’s just as amazing every time.
When I played it for the first time almost 20 years ago (gosh!) I expected all games would have this level of immersion onward. It was such a leap forward. Things I normally could expect from the real world applied to HL2 as well.
Oh, there’s roller mines hurtling towards me? Obviously I’m supposed to throw them down the cliff using my gravity gun. No explanation from the game about this. It just felt like I would do the same in the real world.
Is this immersion the future of gaming? I can’t wait to see what the future will bring!
Turns out 20 years later that HL2 was a one of a kind game. Other games might have better graphics and physics, but few games match HL2.
- Comment on What is a good eli5 analogy for GenAI not "knowing" what they say? 18 hours ago:
There’s the Chinese Room argument, which is a bit related:
- Comment on The RTS genre will never be mainstream unless you change it until it's 'no longer the kind of RTS that I want to play,' says Crate Entertainment CEO 2 days ago:
My point is that there’s usually an easier level of entry for other types of games. You aim and shoot, and you get instant feedback if you succeeded or not. You don’t need to understand advanced meta to get this, although it can help.
For many RTS games it can all be dependent on how fast you expanded your economy, not on how you play your units. You can fail the entire game because of bad gameplay early.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of May 12th 3 days ago:
Currently playing Dark Souls 3. Haven’t played it before, so I guess it’s a good time to check it off the list. I guess I’m near the end now.
I’m a bit disappointed by its linearity. It’s way more linear compared to Dark Souls. It’s also pretty easy compared to Elden Ring. I’m just using a base build. Mostly leveling up on strength stat without much thought.
I’m still enjoying the game though.
- Comment on The RTS genre will never be mainstream unless you change it until it's 'no longer the kind of RTS that I want to play,' says Crate Entertainment CEO 3 days ago:
RTS games demand so much time and patience from the player to learn. What’s the proper build order? What’s the best unit composition? How many workers should get allocated for each resource? These things aren’t always obvious. And you don’t have time to read all descriptions because the time is ticking.
Not to mention good APM and battle tactics.
Shooters are much easier to understand: aim and shoot. You don’t need to follow YouTube guides to understand that.
- Comment on Euro bottles are so much better now 3 days ago:
It’s a new thing that they’re harder to rip off. Because of EU regulation.
- Comment on Just asking questions 6 days ago:
Not all things can easily be explained to the general public. Scientists have spent years of training to get where they are, and even then they’re only trained to communicate with peers in their field.
- Comment on Just asking questions 6 days ago:
All models are wrong, but some are useful.
- Comment on Soup 1 week ago:
Disney will soon announce the new movie Soup in an attempt to take over the top search results of “Disney Soup”.
- Comment on Sticks 1 week ago:
I’m not completely sure, but I guess it’s difficult to fit a flat earth model if you have three or more measurements.
- Comment on Choose your difficulty 1 week ago:
Tuberculosis is still world’s deadliest infectious disease. Mostly because the healthcare in developing countries lack access to the necessary treatment for it.
TB is a solved problem in developed countries such as US. Barely anyone gets it anymore, let alone die from it.
- Comment on Choose your difficulty 1 week ago:
At least US families can expect all their children not to die by tuberculosis or malaria or something.
And fuck Australian magpies.
- Comment on Sticks 1 week ago:
He was obviously employed by NASA. Don’t believe the round earth agenda!
- Comment on If you or somebody you know ever fell for a romance scam, how did you or the person fall for it? 2 weeks ago:
I engaged with one I matched on Tinder. We chatted for a few days. Once they started talking about helping me with cryptocurrency investments, I connected the dots and ended it there.
What made me take longer to realize is that we had a brief video call, where I could clearly see it was the same girl as the photos. But apparently this is a part of the scam.
So you’re not safe even after video chats anymore.
- Comment on Medieval Doomsday Weapon 2 weeks ago:
Good thing I’m always carrying a screwdriver
- Comment on Anon envies the AVGN's power 2 weeks ago:
Angry Video Game Nerd. He made internet videos pre YouTube days about him playing bad retro games. I don’t know what he’s doing nowadays, but one thing for sure is that he’s not going to watch a movie.
- Comment on No more 12345: devices with weak passwords to be banned in UK 2 weeks ago:
I guess people believe passwords that are awkward to type are somehow safer.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
It is said that Linux got the Penguin as a mascot because Linus got bitten by one at a zoo
- Comment on As a long-time user hearing YouTube wants to play ads when I pause a video 2 weeks ago:
Hosting a streaming service is incredibly expensive. Especially at the scale of YouTube. I can imagine YouTube is costing far more for Google than Search itself.
My guess is that YouTube has never really been profitable, which is why they’re pushing users to buy Premium.
- Comment on Brackeys is back, and will now make tutorials on Godot 3 weeks ago:
I just started thinking yesterday if I should start learning Godot. Maybe I should take this as a sign.
- Comment on It helps to set your preferred age range from 18-110 for full coverage 3 weeks ago:
I did all those things. Where fight?
- Comment on Whom? 3 weeks ago:
Not that it makes a difference
- Comment on No Rest for the Wicked - Official Steam Early Access Launch Trailer 4 weeks ago:
I like everything I’ve seen so far even if it’s a huge departure from the Ori games. Looking forward to it!
- Comment on Former Blizzard president wants to be able to leave a "tip" after completing $70 games: "I wish I could give these folks another $10 or $20" 4 weeks ago:
I buy the soundtrack on Bandcamp if I want to give them more money.
- Comment on rabbit hole 4 weeks ago:
And the reason why Columbus managed to get funding for his journey was because he used incorrect estimations of the earth’s circumference, which indicated a much shorter distance to India than previous (much more accurate) estimations.
- Comment on How disheartening for Snowden to do the right thing and be stranded in Russia. 4 weeks ago:
That whole Clinton email leak was the most pathetic nothingburger ever. It was so bad they had to come up with the stupid pizza gate conspiracy for it to have any substance.
- Comment on Anon watches LOTR 5 weeks ago:
Quarter of a century ago
- Comment on 400,000 species 5 weeks ago:
Hate is a strong word. I just prefer to listen to other stuff. I understand how they were culturally significant half a century ago, but that’s half a century ago.
- Comment on Let's discuss: Resident Evil 5 weeks ago:
The thing I remember most of my impression playing it was that I constantly had the thought: “that opening village fight was really fun, I wonder when they will pull that off again”, and then they never did. So that expectation left me a bit of a sour taste.
- Comment on Let's discuss: Resident Evil 5 weeks ago:
I’m probably in the minority, but I didn’t enjoy RE4 as much as others when I played it. Don’t get me wrong, I think it’s a great game. Just not to the standards people hyped it up to.
I think my main issue with it is that it has a masterful opening sequence, but then it never really builds on it after.
First fight in the village was truly ahead of its time. It gives not only the player lots of options, but the enemies have lots of options to counter you. It puts the player into many unpredictable situations. It’s a very dynamic fight and really sets a unique mood of the game.
Then the rest of the game turns more and more into a corridor shooter, especially after the village act. Still a good corridor shooter, but I hoped to see it build more on the open combat we saw in the opening section.