Flamekebab
@Flamekebab@piefed.social
- Comment on New Reform UK Council Leader Calls Ukraine War 'A Distraction' 3 days ago:
It's needlessly letterboxed and there's a typo in the feckin' title, but here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoqlYGuZGVM
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto VI is Now Coming May 26, 2026 - Rockstar Games 1 week ago:
It'd be interesting to see a developer create a slightly prettier version of Vice City. I appreciate the visuals of the later GTA games but doing more with less seems like it'd make sense. The gap between these games is getting rather nuts.
Then again, "forever" games seem to print money, and that's more important than creative expression. As I get older I have a greater appreciation for games that don't try to outstay their welcome. GTA V seemed to struggle with this - on the one hand it was huge, on the other the story seemed to be about half the length it telegraphed itself as. What's the point in being able to level up the stats of heist crew if there's not enough for it to matter, etc..
(In my opinion, obviously) GTA IV was too long, San Andreas was a sprawling mess, but Vice City was the sweet spot.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto 6 release date has been announced, but the game has been delayed to 2026 | VGC 1 week ago:
I care about GTA but the online element of it is of zero interest to me, and it seems that's what it's become.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto 6 release date has been announced, but the game has been delayed to 2026 | VGC 1 week ago:
The world's relationship with Facebook has changed a smidge since 2013.
It's still ripe for parody, but the elements of relevance aren't the same as they were.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto 6 release date has been announced, but the game has been delayed to 2026 | VGC 1 week ago:
I wonder if the next one will take so long that the world it satirises is long gone. Facebook being parodied in GTA V no longer makes much sense, for example
- Comment on Fly-tippers’ vehicles to be crushed in bid to save England from ‘avalanche of rubbish’ 1 week ago:
There is something deeply wrong with people who litter.
- Comment on Day 279 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing 2 weeks ago:
The Mr. Freeze fight certainly turns the tables. Shame I don't play the Arkham games to be prey!
- Comment on Keir Starmer does not believe trans women are women, No 10 says 2 weeks ago:
I can't decide whether they're awful or just saying awful things to pander to the awful bits of the electorate. Both are terrible but they're different flavours of evil.
- Comment on Cheese rolling could be added to UK heritage list 3 weeks ago:
In all seriousness - why isn't it? It's definitely intangible cultural heritage.
- Comment on Atari 2600: The Atlantis of Game Consoles 3 weeks ago:
smothers it with a towel and stuffs it into an oven
- Comment on Atari 2600: The Atlantis of Game Consoles 3 weeks ago:
Or sitting in a cupboard off-gassing, oozing, and generally making the home a safer environment.
It does remind me of the Acts of Gord's use for an N64 - as a doorstop with a note saying "This is all I am good for."
- Comment on Atari 2600: The Atlantis of Game Consoles 3 weeks ago:
Oh! Ewaste! So kind of you...
- Comment on Atari 2600: The Atlantis of Game Consoles 4 weeks ago:
I've yet to encounter a single Atari 2600 game that was worth more than 30 seconds of my time.
- Comment on 'Oh god': There's a buried Steam help page that shows how much money you've ever spent on the platform, and you may not want to know 4 weeks ago:
Considering I have 827 games on Steam, the figure of $1620.26 doesn't seem too bad. Now I've probably bought a load more bundles bumping that up, but there's no convenient way to figure out how much that adds (let's round to $2000). I've had the account 18 years, 9 months.
So that's... $8.89 per month.
Yeah, that seems pretty reasonable.
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #10 4 weeks ago:
I've been playing (and loving) Fallout London. It turns out that the pokey little locations in their games are Bethesda's fault. The engine does still suck, but it doesn't have to suck as much as it does in their hands. London is huge!
- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 4 weeks ago:
I'm always perplexed when I see porn videos with titles that use the continuous present rather than the simple present. One would have thought that the simple present would be the basic stuff for English as a second language, rather than the much less useful continuous present.
- Comment on Monsters! 4 weeks ago:
Makes sense, I suppose. I've heard the term "book burners" but never "book banners". Not that it doesn't make sense but given that they're carrying flaming torches...
- Comment on Monsters! 4 weeks ago:
Banners?
- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 4 weeks ago:
There's a few I've noticed in the last seven years or so - lots of Americans can't seem to conjugate "run". It results in horrible sentences like "I used to ran this game" or "I have ran this event before". No idea why that's happening but squirt those people with a plant mister.
It's even worse than people who don't finish the words they're writing "suppose to" and the like. In the brine with thee!
- Comment on PS5 price to rise in Europe, Australia and New Zealand 4 weeks ago:
I guess I don't get to play either of their exclusive games.
- Comment on Simcity 3000 Retrospective/Mini Review & Screenshot Walkthrough 4 weeks ago:
I've been meaning to create a suitable control scheme to play on my Steam Deck as it's the apex of the series for me.
- Comment on Librarians in UK increasingly asked to remove books, as influence of US pressure groups spreads 4 weeks ago:
This is one of many reasons that I want the US to stop being respected internationally. Their culture has some horrible issues that they don't need to spread around. We've got plenty of home-grown awfulness, thanks all the same.
- Comment on Do you use your blinker in a car? 4 weeks ago:
I remember a driving instructor asking me who I was indicating for when we were practising in a suburb. I couldn't see any other cars but figured that if one appeared they'd want to know my intentions and it would mean it was one less thing to think about.
I fired that instructor.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of April 6th 4 weeks ago:
Fallout London currently has my attention. It's remarkable how it's possible to build a game that doesn't feel like a tiny playpark with the tech. London is BIG!
- Comment on Tax cut for Musk, Bezos and other tech billionaires on the table, Starmer confirms 4 weeks ago:
They already pay naff-all, how much more can we possibly cut?
- Comment on ‘An Overwhelmingly Negative And Demoralizing Force’: What It’s Like Working For A Company That’s Forcing AI On Its Developers 5 weeks ago:
I had a potential use case for an LLM. Built it. Doesn't reliably work. It sometimes works but anyone can do sometimes. I use a computer for the task because it's consistent in the face of boring tasks.
So far the only thing I've found LLMs are good for are tasks that have no value.
- Comment on An Endangered Galápagos Tortoise Is a First-Time Mother at 100 5 weeks ago:
Hussy!
- Comment on Dustland Delivery plays like a funny, tough, post-apocalyptic Oregon Trail 5 weeks ago:
I've bought a copy but the interface isn't very Steam Deck friendly so I've barely played it.
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #8 1 month ago:
Looks like your optimizer link didn't make it into the post. Good shout on Cemu, btw, as I'm wondering if I'd like BotW.
- Comment on I've been replaying Into The Breach lately and stumbled on what I think is an insane power squad. 1 month ago:
I gave the build a go and it was great fun!