magikmw
@magikmw@piefed.social
- Comment on Day 763 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 14 hours ago:
Oh, well. I finished and got almost all achievements because I’m like that, can’t let up.
I wanted to do a permadeath or some other hardcore run but by the point I finished the main story I was kinda checked out.
Tried the roguelite mode, it seems interesting, but nearly totally separate and see above.
I’d like to revisit, but dunno if I will.
- Comment on Day 763 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 16 hours ago:
Yeah. I knew I was getting bored with pacific drive once
Tap for spoiler
The Tourists stopped bothering me.
Control IP needs a game like Cultist Simulator.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
This, no amount of contractual deniability can absolve from responsibility for subcontractors action.
- Comment on More People Are Pre-ordering The $100 Edition Of GTA 6 1 week ago:
Yeah sounds pretty close, especially for Vice City, San Andreas and IV.
I think they also shared some cultural similiarities with Idiocracy and it’s vibes. No to the same extend, but in many ways pointing out casual things and saying “this is what it’s actually like, if you think about it”.
I think I don’t like V as much because it’s become too realistic and detached from the comic book slapstick I’ve known GTA for since 1998. And the themes lost the self-deprecating irony, becoming bland.
I guess they just optimized for the lowest denominator, always the way to grab the most of the market.
The themes are somewhat preserved in RDR2 (Didn’t play 1) - it’s very serious in general, but there’s this simmer of “ain’t this ridiculous” under the obvious drama. Worked for me much better than V ever did.
- Comment on More People Are Pre-ordering The $100 Edition Of GTA 6 1 week ago:
I played every game since original top-down 2D, including GTA V, that last one for maybe 10 hours. I did 100% San Andreas and IV, but didn’t really get into DLCs.
I like it for absurdist writing that makes the world look like hyperrealistic USA. I like it for the tunes. The missions were fun when I was more ok with railroad experiences. Secrets, references, sometimes hilarious dialogue.
I didn’t like GTA V much though. Maybe it was just more of the same or maybe it got worse in some way I didn’t quite notice. Or maybe I just like other things in video games after 20 years.
I think V especially has a huge following thanks to multiplayer, including RP servers. I never really cared for either.
Hope that helps.
- Comment on I just released my first fully free Android game: Wandering Alchemist (GPS walking game) 2 weeks ago:
Oh right, forgot the GPS, welp.
- Comment on I just released my first fully free Android game: Wandering Alchemist (GPS walking game) 2 weeks ago:
You can probably emulate iOS in xcode but you are unlikely to build anything for it without MacOS and xcode. Yeah, lovely environment.
- Comment on As Xbox and PlayStation flounder, Steam is reportedly having another record year 5 weeks ago:
Ok dude.
- Comment on As Xbox and PlayStation flounder, Steam is reportedly having another record year 5 weeks ago:
You can. Many of steam games you can just archive or copy over somewhere else and they’ll still work just fine.
- Comment on As Xbox and PlayStation flounder, Steam is reportedly having another record year 5 weeks ago:
Not by my definition. Not in the same way as denuvo or dvd movie drm is.
- Comment on As Xbox and PlayStation flounder, Steam is reportedly having another record year 5 weeks ago:
Yes, and Steam doesn’t force it on a publisher. They can opt out.
- Comment on As Xbox and PlayStation flounder, Steam is reportedly having another record year 5 weeks ago:
DRM is up to publishers, not Steam. Valve doesn’t enforce or require it, and it’s unlikely publishers would lift DRM from their games because Valve asked.
- Comment on Nekome: Nazi Hunter 5 weeks ago:
I was thinking Dishonored style, but maybe.
- Comment on Steam removes horror game after malware steals player data 2 months ago:
Selinux should help with this, but by default all ’non-server’ apps can just access anything across the user’s home. Maybe I should look into this. Hmmmm.
- Comment on External GPUs were always second best. CopprLink may change that 3 months ago:
Oh. I didn’t get that from a cursory look. I thought this is a final product. If it fits in smaller form factors that’s great.
- Comment on Three years after its release, Star Trek: Resurgence is about to be delisted for good 4 months ago:
Star Trek copyright holders being idiots.
- Comment on External GPUs were always second best. CopprLink may change that 4 months ago:
Is that a pci card that has an external connector? I mean, sounds like a raiser with a cable.
I thought the idea for egpus was to take a failry beefy ultrabooks and add a decent dedicated gpu to it.
What am I missing here?
- Comment on Day 629 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 4 months ago:
WDYM younger? Didn’t that game just… Oh 6 years? Ok.
- Comment on Steam On Linux Use Skyrocketed In March - More Than Double The macOS Gaming Marketshare 4 months ago:
It’s issues with data gathering.
- Comment on Why are steam games a rip off in EUR or GBP? 4 months ago:
It doesn’t really matter how strong the currency is, it’s about spending power. And Poland for the most part doesn’t have the spending power rivalling Switzerland or western/northern EU.
- Comment on Why are steam games a rip off in EUR or GBP? 4 months ago:
Don’t get me started at default pricing in PLN.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 5 months ago:
Worth mentioning that the user that started the issue jumps around projects and creates inflammatory issues to the same effect. I’m not surprised lutris’ maintainer went off like they did, the issue is not made with good faith.
- Comment on Absolute disaster, RAT backdoored through WINE. Assistance with Docker 6 months ago:
You either do backups or you wish you did.
- Comment on Regulating AI hastens the Antichrist, says Palantir’s Peter Thiel 10 months ago:
This right here. Look beyond the ridiculous statements.
- Comment on If there's a sort of "apocalyptic" event but there are still surviving communities, will people be able to make eyeglasses again, or are people with vision issues gonna be fucked? 11 months ago:
But I'll thrive with my untreated ADHD (unlikely)!
- Comment on If I stood on a precision scale and farted, would I get lighter or heavier? 11 months ago:
I feel like like I get denser everyday no matter I do.
- Comment on They made his car "cease & desist" 1 year ago:
Cannot come quick enough.