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- Comment on Riot Games lays off roughly 80 employees from 2XKO team 16 hours ago:
I do prefer 2D fighters, but I personally don’t like how 2XKO looks. I don’t know how to put it. Floaty? That said if I wanted to go into a tag fighter, it’d probably be Skullgirls; yeah the game is super dead but the game is snappy, has fun characters and still like good because of its style.
All that said I’d give the game an honest try if I could because that’s only fair before talking smack. But I can’t
- Comment on Riot Games lays off roughly 80 employees from 2XKO team 16 hours ago:
Wacky characters aren’t really out of place for Fatal Fury, or fighting games in general. Duck King for example never was too serious either, and Mai is a joke / comic relief character as well. In fact I’d say fighting games weren’t 100% serious since World Warrior.
Regarding Ronaldo, I agree with the point, though I think the fact that he is in the game is the Saudis, and SNK managed to get a pretty good fighting game character designed around that. The fact that they had to include him specifically and not generic soccer dude shows how out of touch the Saudis are with the audience. But I guess they don’t have a problem with rapists in the first place.
I won’t stand any slander against Ganacci though, he seemed really happy to be included in the game, played it and even visited tournaments.
- Comment on Riot Games lays off roughly 80 employees from 2XKO team 1 day ago:
But doesn’t it speak volumes about the genre of the eighth best selling game of 2023 can’t support three years of service (as in meaningful content updates)?
While there weren’t any Fatal Fury entries, the characters did have presence over the years via King of Fighters, and Mai and Terry were even in SF6.
SF6, arguably the biggest game in the genre, is currently in 60th place in the steam 24 hour charts. You might argue consoles have a higher share for the genre than games you find on steam, but still, that’s not totally mainstream.
- Comment on Riot Games lays off roughly 80 employees from 2XKO team 1 day ago:
While I do like the genre, fighting games are a niche nowadays, and you’re always going up against Street Fighter, Tekken or Smash. I don’t know what Riot expected. It has similar vibes to the Saudis investing millions into a single marketing event for CotW.
Even Mortal Kombat 1, while it was initially a commercial success, is basically no longer supported as far as I know. And that game isn’t old either.
The visible audience (Twitter) is very picky and vocal; they’ll tell you they want thing X, they get thing X, they’ll tell you it’s bad because Y. There is very little nuance it seems sometimes.
Remember when everyone complained there were no defensive options and everything was getting too easy? Them CotW came and nobody plays it because the menu sucks. Or they don’t like the character that they don’t have to pick.
I at least have a legitimate reason not to play 2XKO (kernel level anti cheat that won’t work on Linux), but you don’t see me complaining about that.
Anyhow, if you want to make a game that sells big numbers, don’t make it a fighting game, because your audience will be comparably small and hate you.
- Comment on Breaking Bitlocker - Bypassing the Windows Disk Encryption 2 weeks ago:
It is (was?) actually worse
- Comment on Anon scares the neighbors 3 weeks ago:
If you’re so concerned with such a scenario, I’d rather suggest you get something to detect intruders earlier so that 3 seconds don’t matter.
Also as others have pointed out, you’re replacing one risk with another way more likely one. But you do you.
- Comment on Anon scares the neighbors 3 weeks ago:
Unlocking and cocking take less than three seconds and add a lot of safety, I see no reason to ever put a gun out of my hand in such a dangerous state
- Comment on Anon scares the neighbors 3 weeks ago:
- ammo loaded
- cocked
- not locked
That’s not how I’d store a gun…
- Comment on FFFFFUUUU 4 weeks ago:
Which trolling is
- Comment on 64$ the ticket, 1040$ surcharge. 1 month ago:
Then why do they vary by hotel?
- Comment on 64$ the ticket, 1040$ surcharge. 1 month ago:
This is just silly. I recently saw Las Vegas hotels doing something similar though to a much lesser extent where it’s called “resort fees”. Should be illegal but it doesn’t affect me since I’m not traveling to the US
- Comment on Anon is a fan of GabeN 2 months ago:
Didn’t spot that, thanks
- Comment on Anon is a fan of GabeN 2 months ago:
Not explicitly, but 2011/83/EC does state that it applies to everything but “financial services, gambling, healthcare by regulated professionals, package travel, property transactions, social services, timeshare and most aspects of passenger transport” and reservers. And steam’s refund policy is most likely a reaction to this. See eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX…, which mentions the 14 days basically everywhere as a default withdrawal period.
- Comment on Anon is a fan of GabeN 2 months ago:
I think this is factually wrong, Steam only introduced refunds because they were forced to for the European market
- Comment on Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos 2 months ago:
On the other hand, why they actually enjoy this, regardless of the reasons, why would they stop?
Sony could just have ignored this
- Comment on where the cuties 3 months ago:
It’s us millennials coping haha
- Comment on where the cuties 3 months ago:
It’s not a phase!
- Comment on 3 months ago:
Not as common as one would like
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 3 months ago:
Nowhere does it say you have to limit yourself to that
- Comment on Yacht Trouble? 7 Common Problems & Fixes 3 months ago:
I just always being a backup yacht with me
- Comment on Sony accuses Tencent of playing a 'shell game' with its Horizon-like survival game, seeks a preliminary injunction against it 3 months ago:
Ah, Capcom U.S.A. Inc. v. Data East Corp. 2: Electric Boogaloo?
- Comment on Xbox: "Price Increases Are Never Fun For Anybody" 4 months ago:
Lol yeah the naming was incredibly bad. But I’m pretty sure it was 360 -> one -> series. I only owned the original one (not the One one) and a 360 which luckily was unaffected by RRoD.
I think the 360 was really good all things considered, it was a good console at the time and MS actually helped getting smaller studios their stuff into the store with summer of arcade. It also captured a lot of interest from third party studios. All in all pretty solid. Damn shame that the RRoD tainted the console so much.
Segmenting the market after into S and X was a really dumb move in my opinion. The other one was trying to turn it into an entertainment machine instead of a game console (TV, TV, TV, sports…)
- Comment on Anon gets rid of drop box 4 months ago:
My personal take on that issue is that fighting the vendor is ultimately a losing battle and the later you switch, the more painful it is. If Microsoft wants people to make a Microsoft account for using Windows in non-enterprise environments, it will eventually be impossible not to.
- Comment on Anon gets rid of drop box 4 months ago:
First and foremost, I do think Windows is the better choice for most people to play games on, mostly due to vendor support.
However, I’d say that a lot of people have some sort of issue with Windows, albeit probably less than they would have with some Linux distributions. I just wanted to express that “without headaches” is a goal that is maybe higher than necessary.
- Comment on Anon gets rid of drop box 4 months ago:
Well, is Windows?
- Comment on Ibuprofen 4 months ago:
Do these generic painkillers even do a lot for migraines? I thought tryptamines were what helps most people
- Comment on Microsoft starts rolling out Gaming Copilot on Windows 11 PCs 4 months ago:
And they said AI wouldn’t boost business. Who’s laughing now, haters?
The whole thing is just embarrassing. Anyone with a bit of understanding knew that the technology comes with huge risks (after all, there is no understanding, just the imitation of it). Billions have been poured into a glorified autocomplete in one of the biggest corporate FOMOs I can remember. Nvidia is (as much as I hate them, rightfully) laughing all the way to the bank. Crypto and now this allow them to practically buy Intel - back when AMD bought Ati, people speculated it’d be Intel buying Nvidia! Granted, Intel did their part too, but Nvidia selling cards that will be completely outdated in two years in unthinkable amounts is wild. And the best part is, except for them, everyone else lost money, like not even OpenAI themselves are making any, and this is with Microsoft subsidizing them. Absolutely insane!
- Comment on Posting for the "Now guys he was MURDERED! Don't celebrate!" Crowd 4 months ago:
Yup because negative consequences weren’t a thing before the guy was shot
since hes now going to be a rallying cry for action against “the left”.
If you haven’t heard any before, you might want to check with your ENT physician.
In the famous of words of John Wick… “Consequences.”
Consequences indeed
- Comment on Posting for the "Now guys he was MURDERED! Don't celebrate!" Crowd 4 months ago:
When I hear Nazi I think of concentration camps and killing Jews. Kirk was a big supporter of Israel.
Well, Israel didn’t exist when the NSDAP did, so if you apply the literal meaning of each, a Nazi couldn’t support Israel. But fascism was also something that only applied to the party in power in Italy from 1922 to 1945. The terms have somewhat evolved since then; fascism generally meaning authoritarian, ultranationalistic and antiliberal. The same applies to nazism, but usually with some racist ideology with hatred for other religions.
- Comment on Posting for the "Now guys he was MURDERED! Don't celebrate!" Crowd 4 months ago:
Nah, it’s the same playbook every time. You have dangerous right wing rhetoric justifying violence (as seen in this thread, even by Kirk himself) that leads to political violence and the right is just “this is deserved” (see J6 or the attack on democratic lawmakers), but when it hits themselves, suddenly political violence is the worst and collective pearl-clutching starts. These people have created a dangerous atmosphere that they can’t control and it’s backfiring, there was never an attempt from them to defuse it.
People like Kevin Roberts who threaten revolutions with thinly veiled violence etc… btw my personal theory is that Kirk was shot by a right wing lunatic who was disappointed in Kirk’s 180 on the Epstein files which went from something like “this is the biggest conspiracy in history, never trust the government” to “I trust my friends in the government” over a weekend. They have created an atmosphere of “you need to fight those in power by any means necessary” and now they find themselves in an awkward spot.
Anyhow, everybody in the thread you replied to just did what Kirk ask them to. Not show empathy, not let the victims emotionally hijack the narrative. He made the world a worse place, I don’t know if it’s gonna be better without him but I have no reason to believe otherwise.