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- Comment on The 2025 Steam Awards Winners 1 day ago:
It’s refreshing to see Expedition 33 winning a category it deserves, and only that category.
- Comment on Day 533 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 days ago:
you had no objectives.
So you could just stay on your ship forever.
Are you sure you haven’t inverted the cause/effect relationship here? ;)
- Submitted 4 days ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 9 comments
- Submitted 6 days ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 9 comments
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- Comment on Thank Goodness You're Here - most absurd & hilarious game what did I just play? 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on "The Cameras Tracking You Are A Security Nightmare" Benn Jordan 2 weeks ago:
There’s a lot more here than what the headline captures, about Flock, their lies, and how their systems’ widespread use affects communities. It’s worth a watch.
- Comment on The Cameras Tracking You = A Security Nightmare 2 weeks ago:
There’s a lot more here than what the headline captures, about Flock, their lies, and how their systems’ widespread use affects communities. It’s worth a watch.
- Comment on 2025 Game Awards Results Discussion 3 weeks ago:
Sad to see that so many FANTASTIC games ended up with nil, because E33 stole the show so hard, but it’s tough to argue that they didn’t deserve each one.
I’ll argue it.
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is a beautiful game. The music is amazing, the scenery is lovely, and the English voice acting surprisingly good.
But its gameplay is bog standard JRPG battles with a basic parry mechanic. Nothing original or otherwise interesting there.
I feel it deserved every award it received for being a work of art, but Game of the Year? No.
- Comment on Any games I missed in the last 21 months? 3 weeks ago:
Hi-Fi Rush was released shortly before that time, but it was Denuvo-encumbered until about a week ago.
- Comment on Hytale can now be pre-ordered 3 weeks ago:
Pre-ordering games encourages publishers to release buggy, unoptimized, incomplete, garbage.
And, since there’s no scarcity, the assurance you might get from pre-ordering physical goods doesn’t exist here.
Please don’t do it.
- Comment on Best "screwing around" Game Request 4 weeks ago:
I haven’t played it, but I’ve seen Garry’s Mod mentioned a lot.
- Comment on Day 505 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 4 weeks ago:
Thrower is a viable build in this game, and there is a source of rats in Act 2. :)
- Comment on Google is experimentally replacing news headlines with AI clickbait nonsense 4 weeks ago:
The best time to quit Google was 10 years ago. The second best time is now.
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 5 weeks ago:
“Calls to scrap” the disclosures make it sound like a societal movement, when in fact it’s just two people with obvious bias: Tim Sweeney and some guy who promotes Tim Sweeney’s products on youtube.
I hope this doesn’t seem overly rude, but I don’t give a flying frog what they think. When I allow someone to sell me something, I like to know what’s in it.
- Comment on Here’s a few music playlists I made for my FR campaign, which included places like Icewind Dale, Icespire Peak and the city of Waterdeep. 1 month ago:
For those of us who don’t Spotify:
- Comment on Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues 1 month ago:
Not only because it’s a single point of failure, but also because it’s a single point of surveillance.
Cloudflare can read even modify the communications everyone has with sites behind its HTTPS service. And it can monitor people’s browsing through its DNS-over-HTTP service. And it can fingerprint people’s browsers through any of its services that use JavaScript, such as its CAPTCHA-like thing.
- Comment on A massive Cloudflare outage brought down X, ChatGPT, and even Downdetector 1 month ago:
Cloudflare has become a privacy problem approaching that of Google. I would be happy to see the web collectively abandon its services, in favour of many smaller providers.
- Comment on ‘Clair Obscur’ Leads The Game Awards 2025 Nominees With 12 Nods; ‘Silent Hill f’ Has Four Nominations 1 month ago:
You’re not alone. The visuals are nice, the voice acting is good, and the music is gorgeous, but the gameplay is very repetitive JRPG combat with a minor twist.
As art, I could see it winning awards. As a game, I think others are more deserving.
- Comment on The Turbulent, Seven-Year Saga Behind Hit Game ‘Dispatch’ 1 month ago:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispatch_(video_game)
Critical Role fans will appreciate that a bunch of their favorite voice actors are involved in this game.
- Comment on Our first look at the Steam Machine, Valve’s ambitious new game console 1 month ago:
Sorry for being so wordy. ;)
- Comment on Our first look at the Steam Machine, Valve’s ambitious new game console 1 month ago:
Even if you could expand the RAM and storage,
You can.
everything else is just sitting there waiting to be obsolete in a couple years.
That’s what some people said about the Steam Deck. More than a couple of years later, it is still popular; clearly not obsolete.
I just don’t get who they’re trying to make this for. You can easily build a PC with a reasonable budget that could easily tackle things this cube probably couldn’t.
I think you’re overlooking the fact that most gamers have different skills and priorities than yours. Not everyone would find it easy to build a computer at all, let alone build a quiet and compact one with well-matched components, a tuned and convenient OS, and good support.
This device is probably not a good fit for you. It probably is a good fit for many people outside of gaming PC enthusiast circles. Especially now that Valve has established its hardware as a well-defined platform for game developers to support.
- Comment on Our first look at the Steam Machine, Valve’s ambitious new game console 1 month ago:
What’s the difference?
- Submitted 1 month ago to games@lemmy.world | 72 comments
- Comment on [Gamer's Nexus was] Contacted by the US Secret Service | The AI Surveillance Center Dystopia 1 month ago:
A lot of the time it fizzles out or doesn’t stand up to any kind of real scrutiny.
Which times, specifically?
- Comment on [Gamer's Nexus was] Contacted by the US Secret Service | The AI Surveillance Center Dystopia 1 month ago:
More importantly, it looks like Gamers Nexus (no apostrophe) is crowdfunding the deeper investigation that they want to do.
I’m inclined to think contributing to this journalism would be worthwhile.
- Comment on Gamepad for Linux Gaming? 1 month ago:
Sony’s DualShock 4 and DualSense controllers are plug & play on Linux. (IIRC, Sony contributed native drivers.) They work nicely over USB or Bluetooth. Their motion controls are great if you ever play certain console emulators or want to map them to mouse-like movement in Steam Input. (I use this for free look in flight sims.) The built-in touchpad is nice for navigating menus on PC games without having to reach for the mouse.
- Submitted 1 month ago to technology@beehaw.org | 9 comments
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 1 month ago:
My first attempt was Dark Souls 3. I went in expecting challenging but rewarding battles, and a mysterious world to explore. Unfortunately, I found myself bored within an hour every time I played, and gave up on it after maybe a dozen sessions.
I tried Elden Ring maybe a year or two later. I stuck with it for longer, but the experience was roughly the same. The combat felt tedious. The art and animation didn’t appeal to my tastes. The world seemed big, but desolate. The controls somehow made me feel awkwardly disconnected from my character. Nothing about the game made me care about it at all. The biggest challenge was in keeping my eyelids open.
I wonder if I would find soulslikes more appealing if I had grown up on console games. They’re clearly popular, but it seems they just aren’t for me.
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 1 month ago:
The game makers had no respect for players’ time.
I don’t know that game, but the importance of respecting the player’s time cannot be overstated.
I wish more game makers understood this and prioritized it accordingly.