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- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 3 hours ago:
For trivial software features like these, definitely not. I think patents start to make sense in the area of really advanced algorithms, like SAT solvers, ML, and so on. So conditional on patents in general making sense, those kinds of patents seem legit to me.
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 4 hours ago:
I don’t believe those indie developers have any patents.
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 5 hours ago:
Patents should last 10 years instead of 20, and digital patents even less.
- Comment on Must secure the castle 2 days ago:
and moms
- Comment on Marvel Officially Retitles Thunderbolts as The New Avengers 2 days ago:
Odd. I think an asterisk in a movie title is pretty eye-catching.
- Comment on What are some good examples of "Where the fuck do you go" kind of games? 3 days ago:
Any metroid game.
- Comment on Wolf Reboot 3 days ago:
2065: the entire population of Montana is wolves.
spoiler
Don’t ask about Idaho or Wyoming.
- Comment on Does the average person have no critical thinking? 3 days ago:
Well I didn’t say the sky isn’t also down.
- Comment on Spotify 30 minutes of uninterrupted... Just kidding 4 days ago:
Amateur. 120 gb myself.
(Seriously though, that’s awesome 👍 )
- Comment on Spotify 30 minutes of uninterrupted... Just kidding 4 days ago:
Because I have never habituated the use of Spotify, I don’t think about not having it.
- Comment on Does the average person have no critical thinking? 4 days ago:
eat the same foods as you grew up with
That’s unfair. Food has a subjective component, so naturally most people who enjoyed their childhoods will rate the foods of their youth higher than others might.
- Comment on Does the average person have no critical thinking? 4 days ago:
I’m wondering how you are measuring “common sense” that arrives at “usually false.” Are you ignoring obviously common sense things, like “the sky is up” – since that’s just common sense?
- Comment on Does the average person have no critical thinking? 4 days ago:
A lot of people don’t think. But a lot of people do think critically, and they just think differently from you or me.
If we believe nobody thinks critically, how can we even begin to effect change?
- Comment on Does the average person have no critical thinking? 4 days ago:
I encounter a lot of assholes who think that way.
- Comment on Just a pic of two besties 5 days ago:
What is that?
- Comment on A test on how online you are 5 days ago:
Is this donkey-kong…?
- Comment on Looking for a local co-op game to play with my SO (Steam Deck) 6 days ago:
On the notion of “one person at a time driving,” I played Outer Wilds with my partner. 10/10. Just make sure that when there is text, both people can read it before you move on.
- Comment on Netflix now offers dialogue-only subtitles 1 week ago:
Great idea! Now everyone else copy.
- Comment on Discord CEO steps down, replaced with former Activision Blizzard CSO as they work towards being a public company 1 week ago:
basically foss e2e encrypted discord. element.io
- Comment on Discord CEO steps down, replaced with former Activision Blizzard CSO as they work towards being a public company 1 week ago:
element isn’t bad tbh. I’ve been using it lately, and it’s actually caught up a lot.
- Comment on What is this called? 2 weeks ago:
beautiful
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Was Denied 2-Hour Finale Movie, Says Sonequa Martin-Green 2 weeks ago:
Everything deserves a finale, rather than to be cancelled. Discovery was not worth it though.
- Comment on I'm a 6'1" man with size 3 feet which means every they measure my feet at a shoe store, the Brannock device gatekeeps my gender 2 weeks ago:
so do mine, but i’m a woman who’s shorter than you with size 20 billion feet
- Comment on Jennifer Lawrence was quoted implying that The Hunger Games was the first female-led action movie ... today I want to introduce you to one of my favorite exceptions: The Long Kiss Goodnight. 2 weeks ago:
scroll down for good movies
- Comment on Jennifer Lawrence was quoted implying that The Hunger Games was the first female-led action movie ... today I want to introduce you to one of my favorite exceptions: The Long Kiss Goodnight. 2 weeks ago:
aliens
- Comment on Happy Easter from the POTUS 2 weeks ago:
Could not tell if this is fake or not. Saying they’re bigger than Jesus is something famous popular people do all the time.
- Comment on Doom (2016) now DRM free on GOG 2 weeks ago:
Right, it’s the fact that melee does no damage in Doom Eternal which I find aggravating. It worked just fine in 2016 as a last resort. They clearly removed its ability to deal any damage in order to force the player to engage with the flamethrower mechanic, which provides ammo (and also does no damage). It seems to me like clumsy design – it achieves the desired gameplay loop, but in the most heavy-handed way imaginable. Fun gameplay loop sure, but zero effort to justify it with what’s happening visually on screen.
I did enjoy the combat ballet though; in particular, it was fun to be always switching weapons. I just found myself often shaking my head because it’s so contrived how it’s implemented specifically. I’m sure most people didn’t care, but it did pull me out of it.
Also, I couldn’t understand the plot in Eternal whatsoever. Am I supposed to be saving Earth? It sure doesn’t feel like Doom Guy gives a damn. He’s just there to do some kind of prophecy I didn’t really find myself pulled into. In contrast, 2016 is punctuated sporadically by plot points I at least understood and felt some amount of motivation for. Take, for instance, the scene where Mr. Glados says “don’t dismantle the power generator things! They’re really expensive!” And Doom Guy is like: “IDGAF. Demons bad.” Best scene in the whole franchise if you ask me. (I’ll admit, some of the dialogue moments that lock you into a room are way too long though.)
- Comment on Doom (2016) now DRM free on GOG 2 weeks ago:
It’s been a while since I’ve played it, but as I recall, melee combat worked very differently and much more intuitively in 2016. It’s always there in case you run out of ammo.
- Comment on Doom (2016) now DRM free on GOG 2 weeks ago:
Agreed about the story. What I didn’t like in DE was the transparently arbitrary gameplay loop. You can’t punch enemies to death anymore, and your flamethrower instead of doing damage causes… items to appear. All are obviously in service of a gameplay loop, but they are terribly contrived. I wouldn’t say I go into Doom for immersion, but c’mon.
- Comment on Doom (2016) now DRM free on GOG 2 weeks ago:
I liked this game better than Doom Eternal