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- Comment on Larian publishing chief says "there aren't currently any plans for a new Divinity Original Sin 3 game" as trademarks matching The Game Awards tease point to Divinity revival 22 hours ago:
sequel to ego draconis
- Comment on After Black Ops 7's weaker launch, Call of Duty will no longer do back-to-back releases in the same series 1 day ago:
This year competition excuted well in the same launch window. Arc Raiders and Battlefield, I have played neither, people seem happy with. Looking at Steam charts, Delta Force looks popular too and CS is always popular. It’s taken like 15 years but the not Call of Duty and not sort of weird gunplay in modern times/military shooters compared to Counter Strike (I play counter strike and I know it’s gunplay and movement are weird and harsh for newcomers) are hitting their strides. Call of Duty is facing the best most suitable amount of competition since the first modern warfare
- Comment on Microsoft has a problem: nobody wants to buy or use its shoddy AI products — as Google's AI growth begins to outpace Copilot products 2 days ago:
It’s internet explorer vs Netscape navigator. Even Safari. Gemini gets pushed by Android phones. MS lost the smartphone OS war. Also lost TVs. Also lost home assistant speaker/mics. Microsoft and every other company without a major mobile OS under their unbrella is fighting a battle with a major handicap against Google
- Comment on Paradox Takes the Blame for Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 Sales Flop, Announces $37 Million Write-Down 1 week ago:
Paradox has lately been really good at admitting fault and then mismanaging the next big game outside of their bread and butter grand strategy games. They need to shake up their management because it’s becoming clear they’re giving unrealistic timelines/budgets/demands for these games
- Comment on Gaming PC with Chinese-made x86 CPU and Nvidia graphics goes on sale, but you probably wouldn't want to buy it even if you could 1 week ago:
It’s the easiest path to gaming compatibility. Don’t know about loongarch. For RISC-V box86/64 supports it but it’s probably far from great and there’s a lack of RVA23 chips to test and develop for currently. These companies could employ people to work on it but most hardware companies really minimum needed effort software until it bites them in the wallet like Nvidia vs AMD/Intel. Qualcomm hyping up day one Linux support for X Elite ARM laptop chips and then over a year later it’s still medicore. Mobile graphics drivers for Mali, Adreno, and PowerVR all being different levels of mediocre. Every car company vs Android auto and Carplay
- Comment on The State of Switch Emulation right now is objectively hilarious 1 month ago:
I always just used the last Ryujinx build for desktop. Android, I won’t bother with any for another year. Something will show itself as the legitimate successor to Yuzu on Android someday and hopefully development resources consolidate rather than a bunch of forks of hard to understand how any of them differentiate much at all. PC gaming emulation is more interesting on Android than Switch currently
- Comment on 1 month ago:
1080p to 4k was a big improvement in my opinion. I still have a mix of 1080p and 4k equipment. 4k to 8k is real minor to me because 4k TVs are varying degrees of HDR now. Brightness range per zone/pixel and wider color gamut. 8K someday because someday the only TVs you should be buying for the price will be 4k but content picture quality, 4k with quality HDR brightness, contrast, color gamut - minor difference. Just need high quality sources. When I encode something, I use fairly high bitrate AV1. Another 5-7 years and I expect to be encoding everything new at AV2
- Comment on TheGamer website suffers widespread editorial layoffs 1 month ago:
They’ve been around so long but I don’t associate it with any major investigative article or any writer that made their name writing for them. It’s the most faceless notable gaming website and it’s notability to me seems entirely based around SEO and spamming social media with their blogspam articles
- Comment on TheGamer website suffers widespread editorial layoffs 1 month ago:
That website has so much ragebait. Once I noticed I stopped. Like 15-18 years ago I would read Kotaku but at some point it became click bait and weirdly gooner bait for a while so I stopped with that site 15-18 years ago. Like the site started good but then became the worst kind of geekdom pandering. Like Perez Hilton for fictional characters
It happens to every gaming site. Some worse than others. Gamespot post-Kane and Lynch and IGN at some point became a shameless industry advertising site. Polygon started real good and quickly devolved into a terrible ratio of clickbait to occasional good article. At this point the only games media I care for are official communications and gameplay videos from randoms on YouTube or twitch where the only narration I care to hear is about bugs and performance. Gameplay can show itself in video. I can judge writing myself
- Comment on TheGamer website suffers widespread editorial layoffs 1 month ago:
That is one of the websites where I never click on a link. I associate it with click/ragebait
- Comment on Digimon Story Time Stranger Physical Editions Sell Out In Japan; Steam Hits 60K Concurrent Players 2 months ago:
Grow up and learn basing your personality around what you don’t like makes you unlikable. Don’t spend eternity in teenage angst
- Comment on Digimon Story Time Stranger Physical Editions Sell Out In Japan; Steam Hits 60K Concurrent Players 2 months ago:
Do you enjoy anything?
- Comment on Digimon Story Time Stranger Physical Editions Sell Out In Japan; Steam Hits 60K Concurrent Players 2 months ago:
Nice to see the digimon comeback. This game is already a major stepup in production quality for digimon, the next is going to push towards persona quality I bet
- Comment on Microsoft Appears to Have Quietly Ditched the 10% Xbox Game Pass DLC Discount — Including for COD Points 2 months ago:
The next Xbox if it exists will certainly sell worse than the X/S and with it will see the decline of gamepass subscribers
- Comment on Xbox consoles are getting a price bump. Again. 2 months ago:
Those rumors about a new Xbox console next year, no way anymore. Too expensive. Series X is $650 and something more powerful than a PS5 pro would be a pre-buiod gaming desktop at Best Buy price level. If they’re trying to have their own Wii U level of sales failure, they’ll push out an $800 console and bomb out
- Comment on Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter, a JRPG, just got released on Steam—and this is a big deal because this game is to PC what Final Fantasy VII was to PlayStation. 2 months ago:
Tried the first hour and it’s pretty nice. I did skip all the way to trails of cold steel the first go at the series and so far I like the gameplay differences. With this now I can just play the series in order as they already said they’re working on the second game
- Comment on A demo for Digimon Story: Time Stranger is now available for PC, PlayStation, and Xbox – Digitally Downloaded 2 months ago:
That’s the kind of nonsense patent that when it’s finally challenged in court by someone that can afford to afford standing up in court, it’ll get struck down
- Comment on A demo for Digimon Story: Time Stranger is now available for PC, PlayStation, and Xbox – Digitally Downloaded 2 months ago:
The game I’m most looking forward to
- Comment on Far Cry series will push multiplayer "more predominantly" going forwards, according to Ubisoft boss 2 months ago:
Ubisoft continues being the worst major publisher in the world for like 15 years now
- Comment on Why China has a tech manufacturing advantage over the U.S. 3 months ago:
Manufacturing specifically, cheaper overseas is the basic answer but I think there’s one more in additional. The west, particularly former colonial powers and their beneficiaries, which is most of Europe, US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, etc - socially all treat manual labor that isn’t at least art-adjacent with a level of dissaproval and it seems worse the younger you go.
Like it’s not enough to work to live. You’re work also has to be an aesthetic choice. So you can have very exploitative industries like the various art/entertainment industries and regardless of how bad they are, any job where you can say you work in like film or fashion is a social plus. You can be broke working in a restaurant and for a fashion brand. You can work for those and be really abrasive, abusive, a destructive addict but as long as you’re in the socially acceptable professions, you’re socially adjacent to champagne socialist/wealthy liberals/whatever. Like you can in the same sentence complain about gentrification and cultural appropriation while living in a gentrified neighborhood and teaching yoga and selling healthy versions of ethnic foods and be socially preferable to a factory worker or plumber that’s a great person. City reputation, it’s the Paris and Portland hip social scene special
You can be an incredible person but if you’re dating profile says Amazon Warehouse or GE Appliances assembler, plumber, etc - that’s going to be rougher. And I think it’s worse the younger you go where people really want to be entertainers/influencers. It’s too socially looked down on to be a laborer. Too much is made about the values of a person from their occupation. The vast majority of people in social work organizations I’ve met got the job because they needed a job rather than a desire to help others. Same with nursing. They may have a higher likelihood of having humanist opinions but it’s definitely not certain and I’d say from my experience of those I’ve met, most of everyone treats it as work and nothing more. It’s not their identify and not representative of their beliefs. So manual laborers are diverse in all regards but get judged as if manual laborers equals chauvinist or bad with money or something. There’s not a clear path forward in the current generations to building a competitive manufacturing employee base. Attitudes are already well engrained and there’s little effort for future generations to remove the stigma from non-art/adjacent fields. It’s only a discussion like most social maladys people have identified the past decade
Well, a solution are immigrants. Immigrants are fine working labor as long as they can support themselves and their family. Immigrants are more keen to the belief of sacrificial generations. One generation suffers so their children can live well. Immigrants deal with racism, bullying of their children for being different, violence in poorer neighborhoods they can afford, live wherever work is built rather than the cities that are most trendy. Immigrants are the backbone of western society and culture. Culture because without the immigrants and their immediate children, all these artist/influencers would have to do the labor jobs that keep infrastructure and production going
The stuff about chasing out high ability foreign researchers. Same there. Science and engineering are social negative occupations. Only good for stable family life but not nightlife and adventure. That’s not true. Science and engineering is a diverse workforce in all regards but stereotypes have become socially acceptable. Prejudice is socially acceptable as long as you don’t say something overtly racist or something. Just call it preference or just being cautious or mental health. So the science and engineering fields are filled with immigrants and the immediate children of immigrants. Sacrifice social points for potential economic stability. We’re coming to a point where science and engineering is becoming far more competitive to keep up internationally and job requirements harder. Not guaranteed work anymore and social negative. For ones born in the west, may not be worth the risk to do worse socially and possibly crash out from the science/engineering world. Decline in interest towards science/engineering
A solution is immigration. Both children of immigrants and immigrant scientist/engineers are cornerstones of modern western science and engineering. But blanket anti-immigration is the hot thing currently. People don’t want to compete in quality with immigrants but want the wealth from quality that immigrants bring to the table in international trade competition. The reality I believe is that without immigrants, the quality of new products in the west tanks and western products become outdated. I’ve seen and heard opinions like, “anyone with family in China should not be able to get a security clearance.” Going as far as anyone with family in Asia is a security threat. People like that are basic veteran infantry mindset and/or have never worked in science and technology in the west. Anti-immigration would be a major detriment to every western military along with the countries manufacturing base
- Comment on Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot summoned to appear before French court in relation to harassment trial 3 months ago:
It blew my mind how quick video games media moves on from abuse scandals. Like the major video media orgs are staffed to the brim with leftist, hyper Twitter finger social justice types but they didn’t lay down continuous pressure on Ubisoft, Quantic Dream, Activision Blizzard. It was report then back to cordial relationship with these companies where pretty much no one faced punishment. At the very least constantly work to destroy their public images until they resign and divest
- Comment on China is about to launch SSDs so small you insert them like a SIM card 3 months ago:
Headline wasn’t so interesting. Actual details is exciting. Much faster than microsd express but much smaller than full size SD Express. For a phone it may still be preferable for a microsd sized device for space considerations, I miss you UFS cards, and sacrifice top speed. These being in the new GPD Win and I think it was OneXPlayer, solid use case for PC handhelds. Smaller than full sized SD but faster than microSD express, that’s amazing for cameras video and photo. My hope has now left UFS cards and SD Express and now shifted to wanting this being highly adopted
- Comment on Australia Completely Loses The Plot, Plans To Ban Kids From Watching YouTube 4 months ago:
i can see why from my personal experience. Even back in like 2014 I viewed YouTube as home to crackpot conspiracy theorists because of friend’s I’d seen go down YouTube rabbit holes and pretty much go crazy. Facebook and YouTube. Facebook was home to stupid image macros of stupid conspiracy theories. YouTube for crazy hyper edited conspiracy nut videos. YouTube where someone wants your email or number so they can send you a video you should watch and you learn the person you met is crazy
To this day other social media platforms have cycled in and out as conspiracy theorist and school shooters favorite platform. YouTube has never cycled out since it enabled anyone to upload video
Instagram has always been the self hate/image problems/terrible life planning thinking life after your 20s then a person gets to 30 and realize they actually want to have happy next 30 years too and they shouldn’t have spent all their money and time chasing dreams they made each day watching other people on Instagram. 6th graders with skin care routines and wanting to show off a lavish lifestyle at like 11 years old, that’s Instagram.
YouTube and Instagram are the worst to me. Facebook used to be worse than Instagram and YouTube but YouTube and Instagram have gotten more important and worse while Facebook has become less important over time while probably being just as bad as before
- Comment on Steam Survey for July 2025 shows Linux approaching 3% 4 months ago:
I’ve been advocating for Linux for a long time. At least to people I know use nothing but the web browser. Gaming and art have been a slow grind. Gaming Steam Deck was the game changer for single player gamers.
Art, it’s people that never use software close to their fullest but feel like they have to use what their favorite YouTuber/social media personality uses. Professionals I never encourage a switch unless they’re paid too. Already stressed doing edits in the software they know to make a deadline let alone adding in learning new software
Hobbyist and aspiring indies, you don’t work with a team of a dozen editors, try Kdenlive. Solo music artist, try ardour especially if you don’t even plan to drop your day job for a full time pursuit of a music career. At least practically every hobbyist I’ve met that focuses on digital drawing/painting uses Krita
- Comment on Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors 4 months ago:
At least Germany, Spain, and Italy have resurgent far right political movements. I am not about to trust government payment systems to not eventually be abused as technology makes control and surveillance easier. A holy book can be replaced with whatever new age self-help, health movement, anti-<ethnicity/sexuality/religion> movement. All it takes is some instability and desperation and people will support whatever or turn a blind eye to whatever they may think is not their problem or they may potentially benefit from. Good for the EU to run their own payment systems. When a conservative wave takes a large enough majority in governance someday, it’ll be the same problem as Visa/Mastercard/etc
- Comment on Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors 4 months ago:
To me it’s an inevitability that if the EU weans itself off Mastercard/Visa, then EU based payment processors whether credit based or something like SEPA payments for a digital EURO would be censored. The EU would be happy to handle their own business and that may just end up no different than American companies and the American government. The European right can fight against porn while fighting for independent finance infrastructure
- Comment on Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors 4 months ago:
You’re a dick. Hope you get better
Practically the whole world has been having an authoritarian/conservative shift. I would not expect the EU and ECB to be a progressive force for sex work. The EU has been pushing to break encryption for a solid decade now. Visa and Mastercard process 90% of transactions outside of China. They’re huge. I don’t see why ECB leadership would be particularly less conservative and risk averse than Visa and Mastercard. Bankers are usually on the conservative side of politics
- Comment on Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors 4 months ago:
We already have the example of now itch and steam getting hit by payment processor restricted on content. YouTube and advertisers wanting to not be shown on categories of content and demonetized channels. I remember headlines about Pixiv and payment processors some time ago
Lose access to the major payment processors and they’ll lose far more than 7%. Until there’s a means of payment thats popular enough to replace centralized authority payment processing, it’s an easy choice for businesses to sacrifice their sex related sales to not sacrifice the larger portion of their sales that they’d lose without support of major payment processors.
The way things are going, there’s going to be the need for popular NSFW specific stores that don’t use Visa/Mastercard, private bank transfers, or national bank transfers. There’s a split in internet video where porn sites are separate from stuff like YouTube. This payment processor content moderation is in the same vein as advertisers on YouTube and other social media networks
- Comment on Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors 4 months ago:
The various groups trying to ban payments for NSFW products and whatever else they don’t like would just target the ECB and member states to restrict transactions they don’t like
- Comment on Ubisoft CEO responds to the Stop Killing Games petition, stating the publisher is 'working on' improving its approach to end-of-life support, but that 'nothing is eternal' 4 months ago:
Games from half a decade ago
Pretty sure Brood War and Counter Strike never stopped working. In the past on PC, developers released the files needed to host your own servers for online games. Ubisoft has been gleefully trying to kill offline single player games for over a decade though. The best we can hope for is that Ubisoft fades go irrelevance or even fully close shop so money can flow to better gaming companies