Flamekebab
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- Comment on Burnham to unveil £8.4bn nuclear submarine investment in major boost for UK defence 11 hours ago:
I really hate the whole “it’s gone over budget” thing. If the budget doesn’t mean anything then why even have it?
- Comment on Why don’t Gen Z buy rounds in the pub? 11 hours ago:
Perhaps Klarna need to be involved.
- Comment on Train drivers in Great Britain consider strike action over lack of toilets 2 days ago:
I thought the Pacers had all been retired?
- Comment on PSBLACKOUT (boycott of PlayStation) 3 days ago:
I’m in.
Admittedly I don’t own a PlayStation.
- Comment on Burnham to make some benefits conditional and ‘get serious’ about cutting welfare 3 days ago:
Take money from rich people, you dumb fucks. They’ve got more of it.
“Labour”, my fucking beard.
- Comment on Lawyers ‘Scared’ to Do Their Jobs After Charges Against Palestine Action Barrister 3 days ago:
Granted. Council, he is fined fifty pounds for turning up.
- Comment on What are your favourite PSP games? 1 week ago:
Gottlieb Pinball Classics was fantastic on the PSP. I quite enjoyed the Burnout games on it too.
- Comment on Fallout 5 officially in pre-production, being built on Elder Scrolls VI engine 1 week ago:
Perhaps Bethesda should. Might do them some good to know how far behind their tech is compared to their competitors.
I’m surprised that “I’d like games to not need mods to be good” is somehow controversial.
- Comment on Fallout 5 officially in pre-production, being built on Elder Scrolls VI engine 1 week ago:
I really don’t want to have to spend time figuring out which additional things I need to install to make their games good. I’d rather they were good out of the box.
- Comment on Fallout 5 officially in pre-production, being built on Elder Scrolls VI engine 1 week ago:
Then don’t say dumb bullshit that isn’t even consistent.
Take your own advice and get the fuck out of my mentions.
- Comment on Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas remasters are officially in the works 1 week ago:
That’d be amazing.
- Comment on Fallout 5 officially in pre-production, being built on Elder Scrolls VI engine 1 week ago:
For me it’s that I’ve played loads of games that use Bethesda’s tooling and it just ends up feeling pokey and samey to me. They’re hamstrung by their technical choices and after all these years I just don’t have it in me to get excited about their latest stab at making their wheezing toolchain cough out another needlessly sparse experience.
- Comment on Fallout 5 officially in pre-production, being built on Elder Scrolls VI engine 1 week ago:
Hooray.
- Comment on Fallout 5 officially in pre-production, being built on Elder Scrolls VI engine 1 week ago:
Your assumption is completely incorrect.
It isn’t that the engine is an iteration, it’s that it’s an iteration of an engine that is legendarily janky.
Now, when I say “engine” I’m using it as short-hand for “the way Bethesda uses the engine, its associated tooling, and media”. I’m aware that the GameBryo engine (or whatever they’re calling its latest descendant) can be used to make stuff that’s decent, but the open world RPGs that Bethesda uses it for are a terrible fit for it.
Their games succeed despite the engine, not because of it, and I’d love to see them build on something that I don’t pick up and immediately go “Yep, it’s another game using their technology”.
- Comment on Fallout 5 officially in pre-production, being built on Elder Scrolls VI engine 1 week ago:
I’m out of the loop - is that just another iteration of the engine Bethesda has been using forever or did someone finally punch whoever keeps making that call in the right body part to make it stop?
- Comment on Labour must stop just ‘writing a cheque’ for benefit claimants, top minister says 2 weeks ago:
called for a “whole system reset”
Our politicians are far too comfortable with the status quo.
- Comment on 500,000 households cancel TV licence putting BBC future in jeopardy 2 weeks ago:
I’d consider paying for a few months occasionally. I’m not paying for a year.
- Comment on Unbelievable that Assassin's Creed never won a Game of the Year award 2 weeks ago:
For me there’s a lot of video gamey ness to the AC series. I don’t find this breaks my immersion because the character I’m playing as is canonically in a simulation.
If the Animus wasn’t there as a framing device there’s a lot of stuff that I would find extremely hard to look past. I think it’s a great way to justify loads of stuff that would otherwise marr the experience.
The game character coming out of the Animus appears a lot up to AC3. There’s sections in AC 4 in the game dev’s offices, I’ve not played Unity, and there’s the stuff with Layla in Origins (incidentally, it’s only just occurred to me that I went to school with someone called Layla Hassan!).
There’s a lot more of it in the Desmond games, including part of AC3 where one gets to do assassin shit in modern times.
- Comment on Reform councillor claims protesters 'abused our flagpoles' by hanging Pride flags 2 weeks ago:
Flag shagger upset that there’s other flags?
- Comment on Unbelievable that Assassin's Creed never won a Game of the Year award 2 weeks ago:
Sounds like you’re talking about the Animus as sections where the player isn’t in the historical period rather than what I mean, which is that the historical experience takes place in an in-universe simulation.
- Comment on Unbelievable that Assassin's Creed never won a Game of the Year award 2 weeks ago:
It was an example to illustrate my point, not the entire line of reasoning.
- Comment on Unbelievable that Assassin's Creed never won a Game of the Year award 2 weeks ago:
Maybe they should just ditch the whole Animus plot.
I think if that was going to happen it would have happened after AC3.
Personally I’m glad the Animus is there, it makes it much easier for me to suspend disbelief about so many things in those games. I wish AC3 hadn’t messed up Desmond’s story though, I wanted a cool conclusion, rather than having Desmond get Poochie’d.
- Comment on Unbelievable that Assassin's Creed never won a Game of the Year award 2 weeks ago:
But for me, it was always the annoying immersion killing part.
I’m always exactly the opposite! For me it lets me forgive all the gamey-nonsense. Why can’t I leave the map? Because this ancestor never did so there’s no data for anywhere beyond here.
- Comment on Summer Games Done Quick 2026 has ended, raising US$2,408,701 for Doctors Without Borders 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I was expecting a race and got a Let’s Play and quickly lost interest. Nothing wrong with that, but it wasn’t what I was interested in watching.
- Comment on Summer Games Done Quick 2026 has ended, raising US$2,408,701 for Doctors Without Borders 2 weeks ago:
They listed it in the race category and declared a winner at the end too, which muddied the waters a bit more than I’d like.
Still, glad you enjoyed it!
- Comment on Summer Games Done Quick 2026 has ended, raising US$2,408,701 for Doctors Without Borders 2 weeks ago:
Runs I enjoyed:
- American Idol
- Grandma, No!
- Balatro
- Super Mario 64
Not as much stuff as I’d usually enjoy. I still need to watch a couple of runs but my biggest disappointment was the Super Mario Maker 2 troll “race”. Felt more like a Let’s Play. Normally Mario Maker is the highlight of the marathon for my wife and me, so perhaps our expectations were too high.
- Comment on Has there ever been a game whose name was intentionally suffixed with "2" despite no original game? lol 2 weeks ago:
Not originally.
- Comment on Vape packaging and flavouring face restrictions under UK plans to reduce appeal to children 2 weeks ago:
Tracing it back then, I don’t get the appeal of cigarettes either!
- Comment on Vape packaging and flavouring face restrictions under UK plans to reduce appeal to children 2 weeks ago:
I do feel like an alien walking around looking at so many people vaping. I cannot fathom the appeal at all.
- Comment on MPs urge Labour to ditch £330m Palantir software contract with NHS 3 weeks ago:
I’m reminded of the mockup of the government’s response to every petition.