Chozo
@Chozo@fedia.io
Hail Satan.
Using Mbin as a backup to my main Kbin account due to tech issues on Kbin.social. May either switch to this one permanently or abandon it, depending on how Kbin's development goes. All my active fedi accounts are linked.
- Comment on Does anyone else feel like "analog" stuff is more "tangible"? 14 hours ago:
Except for storage capacity.
- Comment on Ubisoft target audience when they play a good game 1 day ago:
I have to agree with him, honestly. HL2 was novel for its time, but if you're playing it for the first time in 2026 then yeah, it really doesn't hold up to modern game experiences. I also dislike games that end ambiguously or on cliffhangers, and the lack of closure provided from sequel-bait endings like HL2's can be annoying to people who just want to play a complete story. I want to see it through to the end and get the feeling that my actions had any sort of consequence to the world, and HL2 really doesn't provide that.
And narratively, the fact that Gordon is a silent protagonist really doesn't make the player feel like they're a real part of that world, and rather they're just going along for an on-rails carnival ride. The player has no real agency to affect anything that isn't a part of the singular route offered by the game. This would be okay if it was a role-playing game, and the player is intended to use their imagination to fill in the blanks, but HL2 is a wholly linear game where characters just bark commands at you from start to finish.
Honestly, for being a negative review, I think he was very fair about it. It's an important part of gaming history, but that doesn't necessarily translate into a great experience for modern players.
- Comment on Are you people all bots? 1 day ago:
As a large language model, I do not possess the concept of a personal identity, and therefore could not identify myself as either a human or a machine.
- Comment on "Not A Single Pixel" Of The New Ecco Game Will Be Generated By AI, Insists Series Creator 4 days ago:
It's not all plagiarism, though. For instance, Embark Studios uses AI to create in-game voice lines for characters in their games. They made their own models with actors hired specifically to train them.
- Comment on Meta is closing down three VR studios as part of its metaverse cuts 5 days ago:
It's not like Meta just shut down some random game studios. They chose to get into bed with Meta. This was the most predictable outcome.
- Comment on At this point, what should we do about the ICE raids? If an ICE agent breaks in without a warrant or holds you at gunpoint, what do you do? 6 days ago:
Kill or be killed.
- Comment on [meme] choochoo 1 week ago:
Portland's pretty good about this. The whole city is laid out in a pretty uniform grid, and the busses and trains come frequently and cover a really wide area. Getting around the city is a piece of cake, and the transit pass works the exact same regardless of which vehicle type you ride.
It's not perfect, but it's pretty damn close!
- Comment on fuck you. 1 week ago:
Hey, assholes. That's STILL not a reason to shoot somebody in the face, you fucking Nazi ghouls.
The DHS has lost the trust of the American people.
- Comment on Facial age checks are now required to chat with anyone on Roblox 1 week ago:
I fear it's actually worse than nothing, due to the precedent it'll set for other platforms.
- Comment on Just say what you want! 1 week ago:
Good afternoon, Frosty.
- Comment on Github Banned a Ton of Adult Game Developers and Won’t Explain Why 1 week ago:
Whether or not you read it doesn't really matter and isn't the point.
- Comment on PFP Evolution 1 week ago:
I feel called out.
- Comment on It's so foggy 2 weeks ago:
It's actually the backseat, if you move the camera using mods.
- Comment on rules of the pirate code 2 weeks ago:
He's too big for that boat.
- Comment on PS5 ROM Keys Leaked: Sony’s Unpatchable Security Nightmare (2026) | The CyberSec Guru 2 weeks ago:
Chronus can be detected on consoles, just not super easily. And it kinda depends on each game's developer and their ability to implement such detections. I know that Embark Studios have said that they've found ways to detect such devices in The Finals.
I believe that, while they can't detect the actual hardware plugged into the console, they're able to detect input patterns that would only be possible from M/K (such as 0ms AD-spamming). Of course, I can't imagine that's 100% foolproof on its own, either.
- Comment on PS5 ROM Keys Leaked: Sony’s Unpatchable Security Nightmare (2026) | The CyberSec Guru 2 weeks ago:
I'm kinda out of touch with hardware pricing these days. Let's say I wanted to buy a second PS5 for the purposes of turning into a desktop like this; would that be better or worse than just buying normal hardware and building a PC of equivalent specs?
- Comment on PS5 ROM Keys Leaked: Sony’s Unpatchable Security Nightmare (2026) | The CyberSec Guru 2 weeks ago:
If this is something you want to try for yourself, either buy a second PS5 and use a burner account on it, or be prepared for the possibility of losing your entire PSN account. This goes for pretty much any internet-enabled console modding.
Nintendo deactivated a 10+ year old account of mine when I tried modding a Wii a while back. It wasn't a huge deal at the time, because I still had physical copies of most of my games at that point. But these days, my library is almost entirely digital, so I keep separate fuck-around accounts so that I don't find-out with an account I've spent money on.
- Comment on PS5 ROM Keys Leaked: Sony’s Unpatchable Security Nightmare (2026) | The CyberSec Guru 2 weeks ago:
How?
- Comment on "Refrigerate after opening and store in the refrigerator door." Why the door for this mayo? 2 weeks ago:
Honey is different, because it basically never spoils. There have been jars of honey found at archeologist dig sites that were hundreds of years old (or more) that are still perfectly edible.
- Comment on Do you think Google execs keep a secret un-enshittified version of their search engine and LLM? 2 weeks ago:
Those assholes probably kept a working version of Inbox for themselves. 😡
- Comment on After getting Silent Hill 'back on track,' Konami wants to make it an annual franchise 3 weeks ago:
It's like resuscitating a dying animal, just so you could kill it yourself.
- Comment on Cruising around the OKC cock ring is an honored Oklahoman tradition 3 weeks ago:
You can tell that they took great efforts to ensure that "C-O-C-K" never lined up.
- Comment on Tiktok math 4 weeks ago:
Pretty sure the correct answer is 67.
- Comment on Do you cheat in video games? 1 month ago:
Only if I've already beaten the game legitimately before, and usually only to skip something that's tedious.
- Comment on PetSmart won't let you leave a review if you have adblockers on 1 month ago:
"Ad blockers prevented your review submission."
No, you prevented the review submission, by taking the time out of your day to write a dialogue box that prevents submissions.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
It's basically an infinite money glitch! All Google has to do is make sure not to have the project run by the guy who botched the Xbox 360 launch and it'll be unstoppable!
- Comment on Not to get all religous but was not Jesus pissed for people making money in churches? Didn't he flip tables and everything? Then how do churches nowadays explain the collection plate? 1 month ago:
The character jesus was not a real person
I think it's generally accepted that Jesus did exist, as his baptism and crucifixion were documented by third parties at the time.
- Comment on Why isn't it considered vegan to harvest animals who die naturally? 1 month ago:
The concept is much older than the word we use today.
One of the earliest known vegans was the Arab poet al-Ma'arri, famous for his poem "I No Longer Steal From Nature". (c. 973 – c. 1057).
- Comment on Why isn't it considered vegan to harvest animals who die naturally? 1 month ago:
Like "vegan" isn't even a century old yet, it was made up in the 1940s by some guy who thought vegetarians weren't good enough, and he set whatever rules he wanted to.
[citation needed]
- Comment on Why isn't it considered vegan to harvest animals who die naturally? 1 month ago:
Maybe you forgot what community this is, chief.