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- Comment on 'Huge respect to the folks at Obsidian': Todd Howard invited Obsidian devs onto Fallout season 2's set so they could see New Vegas in the flesh 3 days ago:
That's the point, it doesn't matter. Enjoy any you want.
Todd just wants "his" Fallout games to be the most liked, to stroke his ego.
Also side note, sales never works as a metric because the gaming industry is constantly growing, any game released now sells much more than it ever would have 5, 10, 15, 20.. years ago. Regardless of quality.
- Comment on 'Huge respect to the folks at Obsidian': Todd Howard invited Obsidian devs onto Fallout season 2's set so they could see New Vegas in the flesh 3 days ago:
I mean the set has missed the mark, from that image in the article. So I'd be pretty disappointed if I was a dev.
- Comment on 'Huge respect to the folks at Obsidian': Todd Howard invited Obsidian devs onto Fallout season 2's set so they could see New Vegas in the flesh 3 days ago:
The fact of the matter is it doesn't matter. It doesn't mean it was a good game or something was done better (which is what Todd is looking for, validation), because some people liked it.
- Comment on [Android] How is Florisboard not popular? 1 week ago:
I also use FlorisBoard, it's the best one I've tried. I don't use spell checking or suggestions so lack of that didn't bother me, the general functionality and design was just better than other options.
Development has recently started on it again, so these missing features will probably be implemented soon, which will probably help it's adoption!
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 1 week ago:
I like to think I hold myself to a higher standard or at least just a standard. General consumption, I'm not sure, but for video games, people standards have dropped significantly, the masses accept a lot of bullshit and even defend it.
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 1 week ago:
It's very much consumer these days, people buy literally anything marketed to them.
- Comment on Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing the economy 1 week ago:
What is to upgrade? Smartphones/phablets were always going to reach a peak, where the innovations that can be made are small. Screens look amazing, cameras are incredible, it's all at a point where phones do everything we want them to really well. Upgrades now are just iterative, battery improvements are welcome, improved camera sensors would be cool, but we dont need any of it, even faster SoCs, brighter or higher resolution screens are pointless now.
They can't really do much more, we dont need thinner, they are worse. Folding could be a potential avenue, but it's not there yet, they are far too fragile. There's going to have to be some new breakthrough tech to make a lot of people buy new phones, until then, they will have to keep trying to sell AI and some other bullshit features.
- Comment on Want to play the latest multiplayer games? Just go into your bios settings or upgrade your PC if it doesn't have TPM chip. 3 weeks ago:
You are downvoted for your first part. Nobody is dog piling or being cultish, the person is just being a moron.
We know why they might be used, we just dont want video games demanding shit we dont actually need.
- Comment on Want to play the latest multiplayer games? Just go into your bios settings or upgrade your PC if it doesn't have TPM chip. 3 weeks ago:
Not at all. PCs do and have functioned without, forever.
- Comment on Want to play the latest multiplayer games? Just go into your bios settings or upgrade your PC if it doesn't have TPM chip. 3 weeks ago:
They certainly leave a lot to be desired, but AAA is just "had way too much fucking money to make/market this".
- Comment on Want to play the latest multiplayer games? Just go into your bios settings or upgrade your PC if it doesn't have TPM chip. 3 weeks ago:
Basically any multiplayer AAA slop recently.
- Comment on Want to play the latest multiplayer games? Just go into your bios settings or upgrade your PC if it doesn't have TPM chip. 3 weeks ago:
You are missing the point entirely. This shit should not be required to play a fucking video game.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 3 weeks ago:
This is so fucking good for linux gaming
- Comment on The heat... I mean the cold... well, it’s palpable! 3 weeks ago:
Farenheit isnt a vibe temperature, its just a bullshit unit of measurment that stuck around in the US.
If you wanted a vibe temperature, why not have 0 be comfortable room temperature and then negatives be colder and positives be warmer?
Or just use Celsius like the rest of the world.
- Comment on The heat... I mean the cold... well, it’s palpable! 3 weeks ago:
I'm coping, Celsius is just as accurate as Kelvin, because it based on it.
Kelvin - 273.15 = Celsius
- Comment on The heat... I mean the cold... well, it’s palpable! 3 weeks ago:
Hello decimals.
- Comment on Mocked-up images of a new Steam Controller appear, as speculation rises around Valve revealing new gaming hardware this week [Eurogamer] 3 weeks ago:
Valve taking on consoles would be incredible for the space as a whole, but also Linux. Other storefronts would finally have to properly support it too.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
I'll just say it because you want me to.
You are very confused. My point is very simple and understandable, yet you will purposefully misinterpret everything I say, just to fit your agenda for the sake of argument.
I already said, if you want to buy skins, go for it. It's your money. You dont need to get so defensive over that. It's okay.
Because you are so hellbent on going in circles as an argument strategy, I wont discuss further. Good luck out there.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
I'm sorry you feel that way.
This might have been a bad time for you to ask, because I just finished Outer Wilds.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
It's bland. That's my opinion. If you don't think so that's fine, but that is literally what an opinion is. The style is very similar to their old Frostbite games. You can see the EA Star Wars Battlefront in it.
The drones just being physics based isnt all that impressive that it makes the game for me, it's not exactly revolutionary, similar things have existed before anyway. The gameplay is like you see in a lot of other games, that's why I think it's bland. It's your run-of-the-mill 3rd person shooter, with some basic extraction shooter elements added.
If you enjoy it, fantastic go have fun, doesn't mean I have to like it and you don't have to defend the game or your position at all.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
No, not at all. Extraction shooters require you to take in gear, which you can lose. Find loot or better gear and extract with it. If you die during the mission you lose pretty much everything, high stakes are required. DRG has no stakes, you just go and complete a mission for some progression.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
That is unironically the mean reason why it's third person.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
I said the situation is crazy, not a specific person. I dont blame any individual, the strategies used over the years by these companies to sell skins and make consumers complacent are all very manipulative and effective. The people designing the systems and the ones doing the marketing have done a very, very good job.
You seem stuck on artists all being freelance, getting paid on some sort of commission. They are almost always salaried employees like anyone else at the development company.
Weird analogy, paying for a game, something usually worked on for years, is a lot different than paying for a cosmetic change to something. It's like going to the movies and paying the price of the ticket again to sit in a green chair instead of a red one and being told that's completely normal and something you should do.
I agree, if skins were sold for $0.50, $1.00, max $5, then I would have less issue with them. I'd still have issue with the predatory practices used to sell them though. Some people are more susceptible to this than others, so I would rather it didnt exist at all.
You buy a game once, have all the content and are not pressured again to spend anything, that's the ideal scenario, why would I compromise on that?
Games should be a sustainable art form, not gross corporate projects to extract as much money as possible from consumers.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
No need to start throwing insults. It takes away from your argument. If you want to pay for cosmetics, sure go for it, but that's how we got in this mess.
Artists get paid either way, they are not paid on commission of skin sales. Any extra profit goes to the executives anyway, not to the artists. So that entire point is null.
Games existed before with no paid cosmetics, they would exist again without them. This used to be the free-to-play model, but now they realise they can charge you for the game and then again and again for skins. These types of games are designed to extract as much money from you as possible, that's their entire purpose. They are not giving you extra skins to be nice and then paying the artists more from it. A skin is made one time and sold a potentially infinite amount of times for ridiculous prices.
As I said:
It's so ingrained it's actually crazy.
Why would you ever want to advocate for a worse experience? It blows my mind, but that's the situation we got ourselves into.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
The core gameplay loop hasn't changed between any of the "beta" tests and release.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
It's so ingrained it's actually crazy. All cosmetics should be free.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
I tried it. It's pretty bland, I already said that. You are allowed to enjoy it, that was just my opinion. No need to get defensive.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
(They forgot we used to change what our character looks like for free)
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
One look at the menus says otherwise, but I'd rather not continue the conversation anyway.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Exactly! A good example of consumer complacency!