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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Next Fest is back for October 2025. What good demos have you found?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The game is somewhere between Stalker and Tarkov but I’d say it’s more Tarkov than Stalker. Stalker is more focused around mutants, anomalies and artifacts, none of which are in this game. The only things that separate this game from Tarkov is the lack of online component and no map timer. Tarkov is also moving towards a zoned open-world so I think the comparison with Tarkov is perfectly fine.

  And the developer has mentioned both as inspiration:

  In terms of other games, Road to Vostok takes inspiration from titles Stalker Anomaly, DayZ, Project Zomboid and Escape from Tarkov.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the most overrated game gamers hype up?⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember finishing the story and going “That’s it?”. Even now when I try to remember what the actual plot was I have no fucking idea. And I didn’t really get into GTA Online because by the time I got around to it sharkcards were already ruining online and I just didn’t want anything to do with that.

  But I have a hard time saying it’s overrated. There’s just nothing else like it in the world. Every other game that has tried to copy GTA has ended up being noticeably inferior to GTA.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Next Fest is back for October 2025. What good demos have you found?⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t tried the Next Fest demo yet but I’m going to shout out Road to Vostok. It’s kind of like a single player version of Escape From Tarkov. You have a hideout/shelter, you go out to looting and then you get to come back and improve your hideout. The hideout customization is excellent. Outside you have to deal with enemies, environment, food, hydration, energy etc. and if you die outside you lose what you had on you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AMD and Sony’s PS6 chipset aims to rethink the current graphics pipeline⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think calculating the rays in a different way does constitute as rethinking the pipeline, especially when we consider that path tracing is one of the most computationally heavy processes in computer graphics. In fact path tracing is so heavy we don’t even do full path tracing (as in we don’t calculate all the possible rays), we essentially cheat by calculating a handful of rays and then sending it through a denoiser (which is why it takes a second to calculate the shadow of your character). There’s a lot of performance to be found in raytracing and if they’ve found some then that’s a pretty big deal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who's your favorite female protagonist in a video game? (Add pic of character in response)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My issue with Aloy is that she was such a Mary Sue in the first game. I can give some benefit of doubt to her on the account of the spoilers, but my god literally the only time she failed was at the beginning of the game during the trial and even then it was more a force majeure than anything she did wrong. She could thrust herself into any situation and come out on top with nothing dragging her down.

  I’m found her more relatable in the second game because in the second get we at least get some hints of her mission being a burden on her and when she is caught off guard by a superior opponent she doesn’t magically beat them. But even in the second game she doesn’t have a lot of depth. There’s so much more depth Aloy could have but the writers never gave her the depth she deserves. And I don’t want people to think I’m dunking on Aloy, I think she could be a very interesting character if she had been properly fleshed out as a person. It’s an issue all Horizon series characters suffer, they all lack depth. Some of them are flatter than the Bonneville Salt Flats.

  And I completely agree with Lae’zel. She’s my favorite characters from the BG3 party of character. She’s literally how you described Aloy: determined, stubborn and intelligent. If we ignore the zealotry (which stems from her upbringing) Lae’zel is very similar to Aloy because she thinks she exists solely for the sake of her mission, she is indominably determined to fulfill her mission and she will step on anyone who gets between her and her mission. I find it pretty weird how Aloy is almost universally liked while Lae’zel is one of the least liked companions. I guess it’s the difference of seeing the world through the eyes of the person vs seeing the person as they are within the world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More Online CO-OP Games should have option to pause⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There are levels to coop. Of course in something like Chained together you have to wait because your character is literally chained to the other character. But I think most people would agree that Valheim is designed with coop in mind. If someone goes to the toilet others can still collect wood, expand the base etc. The more open-ended the game is the less it becomes a requirement to stop the game for everyone else.

  That is of course if you’re not some kind of a coop purist. If you are then there’s no room for nuance here and this discussion is irrelevant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do companies always need to grow?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  All I see here is whining about “uh, guys, no one did it perfectly right 100% the first time, so it doesnt count.” Like what a child says when playing a game.

  You’re playing a disingenuous game from the start. You talked shit about Marx without knowing anything about Marx. Now you’re talking shit about Socialism in the context of it not working once when you have examples of capitalism not working either. The US is currently bailing out Argentina after their capitalist endeavors failed. I don’t see you calling capitalism a failure.

  Like how all y’all didn’t vote for the nice Black lady because of not being perfect enough to your peivledged liking on Gaza, then seem to not able to connect your actions to the repercussions which are what that one douche is enabling in Gaza.

  First of all this is going to come to you as a shocker but not everyone is American. And as a non-American I told Americans they should still vote for Kamala and then focus on fixing their political landscape (including telling Israel to fuck off) because if Trump gets re-elected there won’t be anything left to fix.

  Sorry, but it’s just a bunch of tankie apologist BS, and a perfect example of why no one takes full communism or socialism seriously in any country that isn’t already a single party state, corrupt to the maximal extent possible and unable to waiver from the party line.

  I’m not a tankie you moron. I’m well aware of the issues socialism has ran into in the past and I’m not going to defend that. Yet I’m still a socialist because you’d need to have your head pretty far up your ass to not see how capitalism has ran its course.

  Which also does a huge disservice to anyone pushing for a blended system that is known to work well in limited circumstances.

  You’re doing a disservice by defending capitalism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do companies always need to grow?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You said Marx’s ideas have been tested and I asked for those ideas, not about which countries tried to adopt a certain style of socialism.

  Yugoslavia paved its own way with Titoism which Leninists would probably go as far as to not even call socialism. If you’re going to call it an example of Marxism failing you need to be more specific on which Marxist idea failed because Tito also rejected quite a lot of Marxists ideas.

  As for Albania and Bulgaria both of them followed Leninism, Albania in particular went so deep with Leninism they started calling Krushchev a revisionist. Leninism does takes ideas from Marxism but the vanguard party idea makes it also very different from what Marx had talked about. I personally view Leninism as something not representative of Marx’s vision of the future and instead a derivation of Marxists ideas. So once again, you need to more specific on what Marx’s ideas failed.

  If I’m going to make the arguments for you then you could say central planning is a failed idea because the USSR showed how easy it is to misallocate resources and the top-down bureaucracy leads to an inflexible economy. And in case it’s not clear I would 100% agree that a planned economy is not a good idea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do companies always need to grow?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course we not going to agree. The only way we could ever come to an agreement is if you acknowledge that you’re talking out of your ass and considering you haven’t gotten that memo yet I doubt you’ll ever get it.

  I will say that Marx’s ideas have been tried and tested and have never held up to real world application.

  Oh really, what ideas exactly?

  Bemoan capitalism all you like, then explain how the Holodomor happened.

  I’ll bemoan capitalism all I like and I don’t need to explain how Holodomor happened because I’ll happily bemoan Holodomor as well. Just because the soviets were pieces of shit doesn’t mean I have to be team capitalism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do companies always need to grow?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Right. There’s so much wrong here that I won’t even bother correcting you on everything. You start off not by addressing his points but by trying to character assassinate so you wouldn’t have to address his points. Absolutely disingenuous.

  Then between your ramblings you make statements that Marx would disagree with (like land alone being enough to be the means of production) or you try to disprove Marx by stating something Marx himself used as a foundation for the criticism of capitalism (like everything and everyone being a part of the means of production of something else). And finally you make apparently clear you have not read even a summary of his biggest works, Das Kapital, because you say stupid shit like this:

  There are no gaps and no bourgeoisie locking up every critical aspect of the social whole, and small businesses as the largest employer in the US mean that Marx’s theory doesn’t stand up to reality anymore.

  Das Kapital goes into great lengths specifically to prove those “non-existent” gaps exist. They existed 2 centuries ago and they still exist. And the fact that you think his criticism does not apply to small businesses is just another example of how little you actually understand what Marx wrote.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do companies always need to grow?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Bro what?

  1) Because you’re leaning on Marx for definitions, who was famously out of touch with reality as well,

  Are we just supposed to believe what you’re saying? Because I have easy counter-argument. You’re out of touch with what Marx wrote and if say-so if enough proof then this statement is proven and you’re wrong. Now, unless you can actually prove this statement we can argue this point.

  2) because ALL small business owners need inputs, and labor is only one of them, so inventing the vendor as now a farmer to attempt a workaround is disingenuous,

  This literally does not change the original argument. Do you think farmers do not need an input? What disqualifies a farmer from being a small business owner?

  3) you also had made the tomato vendor into a farmer in hopes of having a point that fits into a poorly crafted 19th century framework, and don’t know enough about how farms anywhere on earth to realize how blatantly wrong you are,

  Do you think they didn’t have food vendors in the 19th century? Do you think a tomato vendor is a 20th or 21st century concept that invalidates this supposed 19th century argument?

  4) your definition of capitalist is factually incorrect,

  I guess this is another “we just have to believe you” points. Just because you don’t understand Marx’s definition of capitalism doesn’t mean it’s wrong.

  5) read my edited comment above, which I edited while you wrote this,

  Why is this even a point?

  6) a farmer is no different, functionally in a minimalist sense, from a person making jam as a cottage industry, who buys fruit and processes it at home, making a farmer’s field not magic but simply a location where work is done,

  I’m not 100% sure what you’re even trying to say here but if you’re saying what I think you’re saying, Marx would agree with you here.

  7) I said tomato seller, which is someone that spends their labor time buying tomatoes from farms as a risk and selling them in the market. They own means of logistics, which for anyone not stuck in 1862, would consider essentially a means of production as well, as it takes an input and renders is viable to trade for a medium of exchange. Does a fisherman owning a boat mean she owns the means of production when it’s fish spawning grounds that make fish? It’s a stupid argument to cling to one you’ve already written your first PoliSci paper about it and get it.

  I guess you also don’t believe logistics existed before 1863. Also your logistics argument doesn’t contradict Marx. And a fisherman owning a fishing boat would mean they own the means of production because the boat is A TOOL to catch fish. The fish don’t magically jump into the fishermans hands. They need to be caught, which requires labor and to ease that labor tools are used. Fish existing doesn’t make a fisherman a fisherman, otherwise I’d be a lumberjack simply because there’s a forest near my home.

  I suggest you actually try to understand Marx before you start mindlessly criticizing something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Former BioWare lead writer reads the runes on EA-Saudi deal and speculates that 'guns and football' are in, 'gay stuff' is out, and the venerable RPG studio may be for the chop⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, Bioware has been on the chopping block for some time. I imagine even without going private EA would’ve gutted Bioware if Mass Effect 4 wasn’t a massive success. In my mind the possibility of Bioware getting shuttered has risen only marginally because that possibility was already high to begin with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brazil's president has signed a ban on selling loot boxes to minors as part of a larger online child safety law⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I had to translate the law but it does seem to define lootboxes as something you purchase. But legal texts are very specifically worded so I can’t be sure some nuance didn’t get lost in translation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Video-Game Industry Has a Problem: There Are Too Many Games⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely. I agree that royalties aren’t the solution here and I agree with what the problem is. Your previous comment just kinda came across (at least to me) like giving some praise to Gearbox for giving out royalties when IMO it doesn’t really deserve praise when those royalties don’t meet the expectations of the people actually doing the work. Especially when the owners get to set their own special deals with guaranteed payouts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Video-Game Industry Has a Problem: There Are Too Many Games⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s not toot Gearbox’s horn. While Borderlands 3 was their biggest success when it launched the people working on it got less royalties (per person) than they got for Borderlands 2. Meanwhile Pitchford bargained himself a 12 million bonus before the game was even released. Oh and when people complained about getting less royalties Pitchford said, like the asshole he is, they’re free to quit. Gearbox does royalty situation union-less (as I know 40% of the royalties are split between the employees), but that comes at the cost of having to put to with one the biggest assholes in the industry who will tell you to eat shit if you don’t like something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox invests big into indies, signs Game Pass deals with over 50 studios⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought there was some way but I guess I was mistaken.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox invests big into indies, signs Game Pass deals with over 50 studios⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate Game Pass. It’s a poisoned well. If it’s a continued success it won’t just turn games into subscription service content (meaning we’ll own our games even less. Anyone thinking MS will continue selling games separately I guarantee if Game Pass sticks around for the next decade there will be “only on Game Pass” games) but it will become a locking mechanism for whatever MS new gaming OS will be. MS will make sure Game Pass won’t work on Linux so MS could continue having OS dominance in the gaming space. And of course the service will eventually enshittify because $$$.

  The future of Game Pass is a future nobody wants. Paying for an overpriced service to play a curated list of games you can’t own on a machine that will track everything you do and feed you ads every chance it gets.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨they really need to nerf this boss⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I used that for a while as well but eventually swapped to the reaper because I felt I got a more comfortable experience with the reaper. The moveset is slower but you get more range and the downward slash is similar to the wanderer. You also get better slots than the wanderer and your silk binding gets an added benefit getting extra silk when attacking. In theory wanderer is probably stronger in raw DPS but I with all the whiffing I did and not getting too greedy with my attacks I probably end up having the same DPS with the reaper.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨they really need to nerf this boss⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Small spoiler but there is a crest that makes the attacks like hollow knight attacks (though with less range it seems). It makes some pogo sections harder but as you get more movement abilities that becomes less of an issue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Early access periods should ideally be around six months, research suggests  - AUTOMATON WEST⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. IMO the research has taken a wrong metric and come to kind of a useless conclusion. If your goal is to have a lot of new players at launch then of course a short early access is better. Theoretically even better would be to skip early access and go straight to 1.0 because then you might have less people who picked up the game during early access.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of September 21st⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I finished my No Man’s Sky expedition. This is the first time the game had actually hooked me. I really don’t know if it’s the corvette building or something else but I really enjoyed the whole experience.

  And of course I was playing Silksong because still haven’t explored everything. But I will say, I’m not getting the same high I got from Hollow knight. I feel like the areas in Hollow knight had more sense of discovery. Most areas in Silksong feel like a different gradient of run down. It fits thematically but when you’re exploring I’m not getting the “I wonder what’s here” because I know there’s just more decay. I also don’t enjoy how hidden some places are. I don’t remember Hollow knight being like this but Silksong feels like I’m playing Wolfenstein 3D where I’m just hugging every wall to see if there’s a hidden wall. I don’t feel that rewarded for being perceptive because finding new areas comes down to swinging the nail at anything that looks remotely breakable or jumping at any place that looks passable. I also enjoy the charm system of Hollow knight more because it’s more flexible. Overall Silksong kinda makes me wish I was playing Hollow knight instead. It doesn’t mean it’s bad, it’s just not as good as Hollow knight.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft starts rolling out Gaming Copilot on Windows 11 PCs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  With the meta point I didn’t think AI would be the one figuring out the meta, I seriously doubt AI could be that intelligent.

  I imagined a scenario where the veteran/hard-core crowd of any game community figures out the meta but AI consumes the steps of how we end up in such a meta and then spits out that information to the average gamer so they could follow the steps into the meta. It would affect communities because there would be less of a reason for the average gamer to partake in a community but I doubt it would be some sort of a death knell for communities or game development.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft starts rolling out Gaming Copilot on Windows 11 PCs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m currently playing No Mans Sky and the game throws so many random items your way without any indication as to what it’s used for. I have containers upon containers full of things I’ve never used because I have no idea where or when to use them. I could google and end up in a fandom wiki where I’ll get wrong information because the page is missing information about the last X updates that have changed what the thing does. In that scenario I could absolutely see a use case for gaming AI where I don’t have to waste my time getting the wrong information as the AI can instantly tell me that wrong information.

  But more realistically I could also see AI being used to help people get from nothing to a meta build, because most games that have meta builds have guides only for what the meta build is and no explanation how to get to the meta build or what parts of the meta build are important. That’s why you see people blindly imitating meta builds and then getting absolutely obliterated because they have no idea why the meta is meta. AI could fill in those blanks while playing the game. I guess it could even be abstracted to just helping follow the meta meta. Like for instance in CS2 if you’re an average player and you have no idea how the rounds flow the AI could tell you “the opposing team has X economy, buy Y and be aware of Z”, which technically isn’t cheating as it’s just game knowledge, but IMO it’s borderline cheating.

  I could come up with ideas how AI could be used by the average gamer, but all those ideas kinda expect AI to be actually useful and I’m not sold on AI being that useful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for a PC FPS with deep gunplay, where NPC enemies are humans⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you played the “offline” mode which doesn’t keep any progress. That is not the PvE mode. I haven’t played official PvE because I’ve jumped to Linux and the anticheat kinda kills the possibility of playing EFT. In PvE most maps are run locally so I could play most of the game in PVE but Streets of Tarkov still boots up a BSG server and I imagine anticheat kicks you out of the server which means I can’t play all of Tarkov. Also PvE cost extra money and I see no reason to pay when SPT is arguably the better PVE experience.

  That said I’ve heard good stuff about the official PvE. For many people it’s the de facto way to play Tarkov because no cheaters. But I swear on SPT because SPT mods let you customize Tarkov to your liking. Don’t like the AI? There’s SAIN to replace the AI logic. Want more realistic night vision? There’s a mod for that. Don’t like how some of the weapon sights are fucked up by BSG? There’s a mod to fix sights. Want to turn Tarkov into a rogue-lite? There’s a mod for that. Don’t like getting lucky with keys? There’s mod that puts more keys in traders or a mod that let’s you shoot locks on locked door. Don’t like having to nudge your character into weird positions just to get the crosshair in the right position to loot something? There’s a mod for that. If there’s anything you want Tarkov to be it’s very likely there’s a SPT mod for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for a PC FPS with deep gunplay, where NPC enemies are humans⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Tarkov now comes with PvE mode. But if you don’t feel like paying extra there’s SPT (single player Tarkov) with a wide range of mods. Fika is now used only to turn SPT into coop Tarkov (and Fika isn’t officially supported by SPT devs).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨9 months after its 1.0 launch flopped, an indie dev just learned that Steam never emailed the 130,000 people who wishlisted its game⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the other guy was being sarcastic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'My Advice to Users Is to Accept Reality and Tune, or to Not Play' — Randy Pitchford Is at the 'Get a Refund From Steam' Stage of the Borderlands 4 PC Performance Backlash⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And Silksong will also run like shit if I run an AI model in the background that's hogging all resources, but if I said Silksong ran like shit on a 4090 PC you'd say I'm full of shit. But with Borderlands 4 it would be okay to say that because it fits your biases?

  My point is you can't take such statements at face value. They need to be looked at critically because who knows what the person is doing with their machine or what kind of information they're omitting. Maybe the other person has a CPU bottleneck because they threw a 4090 together with a Ryzen 7 2700X? If you take them at face value you're just reflecting your own biases which means you call it bullshit if it doesn't fit your bias or you agree with it when it does fit your bias.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'My Advice to Users Is to Accept Reality and Tune, or to Not Play' — Randy Pitchford Is at the 'Get a Refund From Steam' Stage of the Borderlands 4 PC Performance Backlash⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  According to hardware unboxed 4090 at 1440 natively on the badass preset gets an average of 67 FPS. I'm not defending the poor performance of Borderlands 4, it's definitely ass, I just don't think we should take insane statements from randos at face value. Always verify performance with reputable sources instead of someone saying something on the web without giving the full picture. Who knows what they've done with their computer to get such poor performance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash: 'If you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor, you're going to be disappointed'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, in theory. In practice we're talking about 3k machines struggling to hit 60FPS (dropping as low as 30fps on occasions) on max settings with DLSS on. A 3k machine gets you high setting low 70 FPS with DLSS on. If a 3k machine is not a high end system what the fuck is a high end system? And the bigger issue is what exactly are we paying for here? Borderlands 4 doesn't even look significantly better than Borderlands 3. There's no reason for the game to be this performance heavy when it looks like a game from 2019.

  You have a point in some hypothetical scenario but in actuality this is a case of Randy being full of shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In a week dominated by Silksong and Borderlands, co-op roguelike Shape of Dreams still managed to launch on Steam as an instant top-seller⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I get what kind of a game it is. I don't get how that is so popular. We're talking about player counts that not even Destiny 2 could reach. The only rational conclusion I came come to is that those numbers have to be botted.