CMLVI

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Pokémon Go is giving delivery robots an inch-perfect view of the world⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh cool. So now they will offer a service for customers (e.g. Palantir, US Govt, whatever ABC agency) to accurately pinpoint locations of people based off of images. Luckily our phones don’t have backdoors into them and surely won’t have a way for Face Unlock images to be seen, and functional real-time updates on any given person’s location? And with how much these phones are used for communication, surely they won’t also have evidence of perceived dissent, all in a nice little rectangle package.

  I understand that Apple and, I guess sorta, Google aren’t necessarily willing to allow this, and it might not be legal, or any number of other hurdles, but it’s just one step easier for actors who want to and have the means to do so. Good lord this place sucks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve says 5,863 titles earned over $100,000 on Steam in 2025⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  True. Gaming landscape feels weird rn, looking at it from current standing. Tough sledding for aspiring devs. I’m also right about that age where nostalgia tends to make everything new look a bit less shiny, so I may be choosing not to see the best current offerings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve says 5,863 titles earned over $100,000 on Steam in 2025⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like you’d have to control for the obvious asset flips or just random, I guess, spam games thrown out on a daily basis. I don’t think it’d move the needle that much tho

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, saw the previous post. I’d argue that is a pretty good use-case for AI. Throw together a quick reference, see how you feel about it before putting 2 dozen hours into making the image yourself, just to find out the concept doesn’t work. Just make sure you do the work yourself at some point lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox as a platform is officially dead⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If I can get my Xbox game library and saved progress onto the PC, great. Sucks I’ve double bought some titles but whatever I guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games with friends⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We have been playing Fall Guys and Party Animals a bit, but we’re kinda mixed between console and PC right now, so we’re limited. We were also playing Kart Rider: Drift, but I think it got taken off Steam and is now on another Storefront? Idk. It’s a fun little Mario Kart clone. Chained Together is a blast for a little while, if not just to rag on whoever sucks the most. Left 4 Dead but modded always looks fun, Golf with your Friends is a favorite of mine. Ultimate Chicken Horse looks like it’d be a good time as well (or any of those short form building course building games). RV There Yet is a PEAK style game (or whatever you’d call it) that I’d say looks a little more varied in activities that looks like a blast as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MMO Ashes of Creation spirals into a legal dumpster fire, as investor claims creative director Steven Sharif siphoned millions away from the company while it was drowning in debt⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I know he put out a bunch of stuff initially to support his side, but that hasn’t really stood up to scrutiny

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MMO Ashes of Creation spirals into a legal dumpster fire, as investor claims creative director Steven Sharif siphoned millions away from the company while it was drowning in debt⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d be surprised if it were, but I still have some friends from other MMOs who bought in and are in denial. Sharif has some master plan and corporate shills derailed it or something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MMO Ashes of Creation spirals into a legal dumpster fire, as investor claims creative director Steven Sharif siphoned millions away from the company while it was drowning in debt⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are still people defending Sharif around the internet too. Less than before but I remember right when news broke, people fully believed it was the boards fault, completely ignoring that there was no board.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The developers of PEAK, explaining how they decided on pricing for their game. ⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Finally, someone who thinks like me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stardew Valley Creator Shuts Down Rumors Haunted Chocolatier 'Will Be Abandoned,' Insisting: 'It Will Come Out When It’s Ready' - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Idk what it is about players now, but if there is an announcement, they want the game out immediately. Another game I follow is being made by a small dev team, and they give somewhat regular updates. Multiple a year, generally timed to monthly, but like Dec got skipped for holidays. It’s almost daily someone is claiming the game isn’t coming out, it’s a scam, the game doesn’t exist, etc. And this wouldn’t have anywhere near the fan base ConcernedApe is dealing with. Just shut up and let people make the game…they don’t owe you a game, or updates about the game.

  Maybe it’s cause GTA6 and TES6 are in dev hell and it’s become a meme that they aren’t releasing, but still. It’s top-shelf annoying behavior.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s insanity lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Brother it’s so bad. I’ve been trying to help a friend do one recently, or at least plan it, and I’ve watched my previously $85 2x16 sticks of GSkill DDR5 (like the cheapest option I had) shoot up to like $260 in under a month has been insane. It’s not even good ram…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Helldivers 2 Coming to Xbox - Crossplay Will Unite Players From All Platforms⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s about what I do. Jump on for a few rounds every few weeks just to do it, but the gameplay loop doesn’t keep me long term. I just don’t care to level/unlock stuff like that anymore really, not without a greater purpose. But it’s fun when I play, and I’ll absolutely help some Xbox homies kill some bots.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Helldivers 2 Coming to Xbox - Crossplay Will Unite Players From All Platforms⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is big. I think they teased this with the destruction and current remaking of the Helldivers Training Facility. It’ll come on line when Xbox is released (don’t quote me, I haven’t checked timeliness at all. Just my thoughts from way outside!)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨89 million Steam account details just got leaked, so now's a good time to change your password⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Brother I’m not saying I enjoy Papa John’s more. I’m saying I’m not bringing finely aged wine to drink in the garage while I listen to Creed. This is the guy that brings 4 of the most disgustingly conceived IPAs to a party, drinks one of them, and then wants Coors Lite from the cooler on someone else’s dime. Dude bringing a 4" personal pan pizza from Napolitano Italiano and wants to split it across 5 friends, only $15/ea for the pizza, and you get 2 bites of it. Dude wants the most memorable part of the night to be a slice of pizza and not hanging out with his friends.

  This gotta be the dumbest bait ever. “You don’t eat expensive enough pizza”, what am I even doing with my time anymore lol. Waited a month to respond and comes back just to annoy me lmao. Lemme know what stupid little JRPG you’re playing so you can tell me why I’m enjoying bad video games too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨89 million Steam account details just got leaked, so now's a good time to change your password⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lmao I enjoy it plenty enough. I just don’t enjoy it the way they insist I enjoy it. If I hated the food, I wouldn’t buy it? But if I’m grabbing a pizza or 2 for the boys to drink in the garage, I don’t need to spend $45 on the local place when Papa J is half the cost. I don’t get twice the enjoyment it if it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MMO Hype Train: Dune Awakening stumbles, trips, and sometimes sprints in its early experience⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How would you have a multiplayer online game without forced online play? It’s a requirement of multiplayer (I guess barring LAN, but what is the likelihood of anything being “massive” multiplayer while on LAN) and online. That’s like 2/3 of the name

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As The Outer Worlds 2 hits $80, director says "we don't set the prices for our games" and wishes "everybody could play" Obsidian's new RPG⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I made it maybe 20 min before I un-installed. I don’t vibe with Fallout in general (but I’ll suffer through them) and with the writing style, just wasn’t my thing. Maybe the 2nd one is a bit more polished and I can get into it cause I heard good things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After a lengthy legal battle and billion-dollar loss, 'Fortnite' is back on iOS⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It helps that it’s trending towards being a pre-built PC more and more, and I do think that will help in some regard. If the PC and Xbox versions are able to be the same, then dev costs go down, and you get a pretty solid idea of what a good lower-to-mid tier spec PC can do and optimize for that. It also would hopefully mean that more and more catalog becomes playable on PC, but who knows how far back that would go. Maybe Microsoft would make an emulator that you log-in to for access to 360-onward games? May be extreme wishful thinking there tho lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Awooo⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is fucking killing me right now. Same with “we get to say the F slur again” like…you were never not allowed to say it. The only repercussion was some people fucked with you less, and that’s still the case. Y’all just use it as a battle cry now.

  Same mfs were mad that Bud Light made a few cans of gay beer haven’t let go either, but their rules say they get to hold the grudge but Dems can’t be mad at Chic Fil A.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨89 million Steam account details just got leaked, so now's a good time to change your password⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol you do you then. To you food is about enjoyment. I’ll happily let you buy the next one though!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨89 million Steam account details just got leaked, so now's a good time to change your password⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but when you can get 2 pizzas for the cost of 3/4 of the local place, sometimes I just want shitty pizza and garlic butter.

  Surprising deal, I know. 2 pizzas and bread sticks for a sporting event Sat and it cost me $22 + delivery. Kinda surprising cause usually they’re just as expensive as local place is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨89 million Steam account details just got leaked, so now's a good time to change your password⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maot lost account stories I come across now start with “I didn’t get around to 2FA yet”. At least for the important accounts, idk if I’m sweating 2FA on the Papa John’s App. I do got some Papa Dough tho…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will all these multiplayer games being released without support for LAN or hosting our own servers will no longer be playable with others when the company shuts down the servers?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Unlikely to care, realistically. I play multiplayer games with friends; I cannot think of the last time I wanted to play Gears of War 2, or Forza Motorsport 3, or any number of other games I’ve played with friends in the past that I own copies of.

  I get the sentiment behind this, and I do think there should be a backend set up for private lobbies through P2P connection for when the inevitable occurs. But on the scale of things I’m worried about daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly, this doesn’t register at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oblivion Remastered Impressions (and Discussion Thread)⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah performance is my absolute biggest issue rn. I’m getting like…70-80fps on med on a 2080ti. Other than that, I’m very happy with it, although I’m only about 4 hours in

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Quantum mechanics might have the solution to joystick drift⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I got a Gulikitt KK3 Max and have really liked it so far. I got one because I got tired of having to resynv my Elite 2 to the PC via Bluetooth (it NEVER saved it as a device, some kinda issue I imagine switching from Xbox connection to BT), and I wanted to try to get out of the Elite 2 swap every 7 months. No complaints so far, other than I can’t monitor battery level. I like the back paddles more too, they are more spaced than the Elite.

  Hall effect sticks, swappable ABXY mechanical buttons, and the triggers can be mechanical switch with the trigger stops engaged. Really nifty controller.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 228 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing until l forget to post Screenshots⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think a lot of it is that it’s direction was a bit different. Halo was built on basically immortal Master Chief. Reach had Spartan 3s, which weren’t as “Master Chief”-y, and we see every one of em die on screen as part of the story. That is a pretty stark contrast to Chief never dying. Additionally, if IIRC, the multiplayer was meh, and multiplayer was a huuuuge deal at that time. The story was great (even despite what people said about it at the time) but the multiplayer didn’t carry the game, so it was generally a “play the story, go back to Halo 3” kinda game.

  My perspective on it, tho.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSN Is Still Down After 14 Hours And No One Knows Why⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  No, but I didn’t want a controller for the headache of multiple peripherals, and when you’re 15, it’s hard to convince a parent to spring for more expensive options out of convenience lol. There were options, but even still, some games didn’t come with native controller support (I built my 1st PC in college in…2013? for ESO, and the controller support was through a mod, and it barely worked at the best of times).

  Theyve just gotten so similar in their function, it’s increasingly hard to justify a console anymore. Microsoft basically forgoing exclusives now only strengthens it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSN Is Still Down After 14 Hours And No One Knows Why⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It also helps that consoles are becoming more and more PC-esque and expensive. Consoles were a good alternative because they were cheaper, had exclusive titles, and had the ability to couch game, and usually were just “pop disc in and play”. They were also pretty stand-alone devices. My biggest issue with PC gaming prior to really this generation was I cannot stand M+KB, I like sitting back in a chair with a controller. But now, peripherals are more able to operate on multiple platforms, games do cross-platform releases, cross play is more prolific (and cross-saves as of late), and it’s easier to switch now and not “lose” your friends. Plus, the cost of consoles anymore are much closer to equivalent PCs now.

  Console positives are dwindling, or at least becoming neutral to PC.