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- Comment on Control Resonant - Gameplay Reveal 1 day ago:
Here’s hoping this game gets out the door before he can do too much damage.
- Comment on Artsy darling Remedy Entertainment has a new CEO - a former EA exec and sports betting platform president - who is there to "accelerate growth" 4 days ago:
Fucking dammit. One of the few big-ish studios out there worth following.
- Comment on Legal action over 'unfair' Steam game store prices given go ahead 2 weeks ago:
Itch is exclusively indie devs, afaik, but since Steam started their Greenlight initiative, the number of games released per year has rocketed up. 2012, the year Greenlight started, only 441 games were released on steam. Two years later in 2014, almost 1500 games were released. 2017 released 5600. 2021 released 10,200. And last year had over 21k. How much of that do we think is really DRM’d, AAA published software?
- Comment on Legal action over 'unfair' Steam game store prices given go ahead 2 weeks ago:
In terms of straight numbers, isn’t Steam’s large “advantage” there it’s offering of independent, mostly unregulated games from small time devs? Are those really using drm? Even if there are, I don’t really think most users are choosing Steam over GOG for access to “Asset Flip #57354”.
- Comment on Legal action over 'unfair' Steam game store prices given go ahead 2 weeks ago:
unessisaryunecessaryJust a little correction.
- Comment on Legal action over 'unfair' Steam game store prices given go ahead 2 weeks ago:
Just to be clear, distributing on Steam adds nothing functional to a game’s playability on the Steam Deck (afaik). A game from GOG can be played in a Deck just as well as one from Steam, albeit with slightly more effort.
That said, I know customers will flow toward the path of least resistance, so even a little more effort will push them towards a different source.
- Comment on Fable - Gameplay Teaser 3 weeks ago:
Oh, sick. I guess this is just PS5 cause it’s a Sony vid. Thanks!
- Comment on Fable - Gameplay Teaser 3 weeks ago:
PS5 exclusive? Uggghhh.
- Comment on PC game recommendation for my partner and I 3 weeks ago:
Terraria’s also getting it’s next major update in a week, so it’s a great time to get into it.
- Comment on Bethesda announces a new Fallout... reality show 4 weeks ago:
Didn’t they, though? fallout.wiki/wiki/Vault_11
- Comment on Dæmon core? What did I say about murdering people? 4 weeks ago:
Worse, the fool knew the risks and had a much safer alternative, but did it that way anyhow just to flex. Extra dumb since his longtime colleague had died just 6 months earlier from the very same core.
- Comment on no eggs were harmed in the making of this video 4 weeks ago:
Trucks are loud, and if they don’t hear scraping, they’re not going to hear shouting.
To be clear, I’m not trying to defend bad autonomous vehicles here - just pointing out that the dangers exist with any large vehicle. This is something that happens with trucks, so people should be aware.
- Comment on no eggs were harmed in the making of this video 4 weeks ago:
The “vehicle stuck under a big truck” thing happens with human drivers, too. If it’s in the driver’s blind spot, it’s gonna be there a while.
- Comment on Pet Peeves with Games? 5 weeks ago:
That’s a quirk of the medium I’ve learned to accept. Some games do it well by having chunks of “on-rails” bits and others of “free-roam” based on what’s happening in the story so that it makes more sense.
- Comment on Pet Peeves with Games? 5 weeks ago:
Biggest pet peeve of modern games is when the game repeatedly nags the player to go to the next mission or solve a puzzle. I like to explore games, to take the time to appreciate well made environments and lore, but when npcs or even the pc keep chiming in every minute with “[x] is waiting for me at the lab” or “I think I should [y]”, it starts to piss me off. Games are more than just sprinting from one objective to another. Can’t even take the time to fully look over a puzzle before the game starts telling you what to do next.
- Comment on Pet Peeves with Games? 5 weeks ago:
Games that offer stealth as an option over combat, but have mandatory combat bosses.
Deus Ex: Human Revolution was a great game, but this was a serious issue. The game has a (notoriously buggy) achievement for finishing the game without killing anyone, but every boss requires a loadout of lethal weapons to take down, leaving a minimum of slots for non-lethal alternatives. Very annoying.
- Comment on Someone, I'm thinking with multiple accounts, is downvoting EVERY comment I make. Mildly aggravating, mostly sad for someone like that. Can I find out who and just block them? 5 weeks ago:
Blocking a user only stops you from seeing them, not the other way around. They can still interact with your posts.
- Comment on Github Banned a Ton of Adult Game Developers and Won’t Explain Why 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Rockstar still hasn’t dropped a solid explanation for cutting loose 30+ GTA 6 devs. 5 weeks ago:
It’s gotten a lot better at big bold text. Look at the stuff in the box, though, and the newspaper print. Also, a lot of the figures are in nearly identical poses. That’s something image gen does a lot.
- Comment on Rockstar still hasn’t dropped a solid explanation for cutting loose 30+ GTA 6 devs. 5 weeks ago:
Making slop in “support” of artists. Oof.
- Comment on Clues by Sam 5 weeks ago:
So how did you decide there were only 2 guilties in column b?
So at the point just before your screenshot, the two clues that get highlighted for me are D3 and B2, which are the one’s I mentioned.
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D3 is the clue that tells us there is only one innocent left to reveal around C4, meaning there is one innocent and one criminal between B4 and B5, though we don’t know which is which yet. And with B2 already being a criminal, B1 being criminal would give use three in the column.
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B2 tells us column A is the only one with three criminals, so to fit all the clues, B1 has to be innocent.
I tried to indicate 1&2 in column d and it said I didn’t have enough evidence. That seems like a big problem in the intended logic.
For D1 and D2, we don’t have enough information before B1 is revealed because the options of them both being criminals or both innocent each fit the clues up to that point, making the choice a guess. After B1’s clue, the choice is clear.
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- Comment on No more Jackie 5 weeks ago:
Really gives little hope of improvement in the sequel 😕
- Comment on Clues by Sam 5 weeks ago:
D3 - Tom has 5 innocent neighbors.
4 are revealed, leaving one left between Sofia and Wanda, and the other must be a criminal.
- Comment on Clues by Sam 5 weeks ago:
Since I’ve gotten the hang of it, I’ve not encountered a puzzle where any choice was a guess. It certainly felt that way at times when I first started, though.
- Comment on Clues by Sam 5 weeks ago:
Spoilers
With the given clues, it’s known that there is a single criminal between Sofia and Wanda (b4 & b5). We also know the column can’t have 3 criminals, and it already had one revealed. QED, Bruce has to be innocent.
- Comment on If I go crazy will you still call me Superman? 5 weeks ago:
It’s really bugging me that the title is missing a word. It doesn’t track with the music.
- Comment on Admin of discuss.online is mass banning for people using their vote in a way he doesn't like. Recommend defederation for bad faith participation in the fediverse. 5 weeks ago:
They’re the ones manipulating votes.
- Comment on How is Donald Trump able to get away with being part of a child trafficking ring but I get 20 years in jail for littering? 1 month ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
While I agree that the idea of dramatic, instant societal collapse is unrealistic, this person’s idea of a fulfilling life is clearly pretty toxic. Since when is “hanging onto clothing” a major problem? Or a group/country/society working together? And why is their sole concern “the American man”? All sounds too similar to those that claim pointing out problems in a society is communist/“reverse racist”/misandrist.
- Comment on Stardew Valley Creator Says 1.7 Update Will Contain 'More Character/Social Stuff' and a New Farm Type 1 month ago:
Nah. I’m sure SD had a similar development time, we’re just aware of it at this point, so it feels “delayed”.
It’ll be done when it’s done. Declaring it a lost cause just because the solo Dev hasn’t whipped it up in a year it two is misguided, to say the least.