lath
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- Comment on This generation of gamers are spoiled(?) 20 hours ago:
You make do because it’s something you want or need and something is better than nothing. Same as with most things in life.
- Comment on This generation of gamers are spoiled(?) 20 hours ago:
Hmm… Yeah, you’re right.
- Comment on This generation of gamers are spoiled(?) 1 day ago:
Yes we are. Because we have options and they’re not good enough.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of October 18th 2 days ago:
Atomic Heart through a share. They dropped the drm and there was an opportunity, so I took it. 160gb, part shooter, part puzzle platformer.
Game numbers can be edited directly and i did. Doubled weapon damage to reduce the grind and I’m ok with it. Bosses still boss and minions aren’t a pain.
Npcs seem to be made annoying intentionally. It’s a story feature and you’ll probably end up disliking almost everyone, including the protagonist. The only real exception might be the built-in assistant, but because the plot quickly becomes apparent, that may vary.
Do I recommend it though? Hmm… Well, i wouldn’t buy it myself, but it looks decently done to me. I will finish the main story (no dlcs), eventually. Relatively big maps and walkabouts.
- Comment on AI Company Lets Cops Pinpoint Specific Houses Based on a Single Interior Photo - 404 Media 1 week ago:
Wasn’t there an article about the wifi being used as an echolocation device, providing realtime mapping and positioning? Or did I wander in too deep into the tinfoil area?
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of October 11th 1 week ago:
Gave up on Aion 2 (my search for MY perfect MMO remains) and finished Dead Island 2 (main story. I don’t wanna go through the sewers and metro maps again, nor do I have the patience for ng+).
I installed Wayfinder instead. The devs were well grounded and recognized the game would fail.. their hopes and dreams. They salvaged it pretty well, but it’s not drawing me in. I like it enough that I will likely try to reach the end, but I can’t say for sure. They do present mods as an option for those who want more or different. It requires switching to the modded client, downloading the engine’s modding kit from epic if so inclined and/or using mods.io platform. Decent arpg overall.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Can’t say for certain, but I think voice acting contracts with famed actors were already announced. So the money has likely already been sent out and something will be released, one way or another.
- Comment on To win over locals, data centers pump $340M into rural Texas projects 2 weeks ago:
Tax money at work.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of September 27th 3 weeks ago:
The Outer Worlds. I mistakenly pushed on a main quest and it cancelled some side ones or alternative routes without me realizing it would do that. I’m not really upset as my inventory is full of weapons I barely use and I’m slowly but surely plowing through towards the end. Got one more companion quest to run and the Gorgon dlc, but I think I’m near the end, or at least 3 quarters in.
I was surprised at the lack of romance, though I did play matchmaker, and it feels like guiding others to a treasure i cannot possess.
Some weapons are fun, others are useless. And the ammo loot is set for harder, spongier enemies as i seem to have gathered almost 10k of each. Durability loss can creep up on you though, so be wary and cycle through them.
- Comment on Bandai Namco’s Synduality: Echo of Ada is shutting down online services, but players are oddly happy about it thanks to promised “PvP-free” offline mode 3 weeks ago:
Nobody really bought it for full price. PvP was mostly nonexistent, depending on region, and most players I met were chill. But the grind is real, like really real and the game itself wasn’t that well optimized.
It can be fun and I enjoyed it for a while, but it’s just one big map and grind, grind, grind.
Do i recommend it at full price? No way. Do i recommend it to have at a very nice sale? Just past the limit, yes.
There is a story and there is lore beyond the game, but it requires more patience than any random player has. Crafting also isn’t instant. Online, you could spend currency to speed it up. Not sure if that will change offline. For me it seemed the online model had you working at a loss. Basically, without the best mechs and guns, you weren’t gaining enough to see the worth of a run and it felt like that p2w model where only those who keep throwing money at it advance meaningfully. Or you just grind, grind, grind.
Eventually i got dunno, tired of it and kept dying dumb deaths like falling into water or getting one shot by high rank enemies i didn’t notice (or spawned behind me because someone else had killed them earlier) and i gave up because the materials I needed to keep upgrading the base kept becoming rarer and rarer. Then when I finally got a very rare drop and i was in an expensive mech, I just died randomly and that was it.
Also, there’s a fan service bathing scene for your android companion, which can show up as a quest. (Keep ‘em clean, you dirty, dirty pervert!)
- Comment on New Mexico jury finds Facebook liable for over 43 million violations of consumer protection law—and Meta could owe over $200 billion in penalties 3 weeks ago:
I hear meta’s also funding a lot of the lobbying behind all the digital ID laws because all the LLM fakes are destroying its personal data revenue.
- Comment on ChatGPT Helped Tumbler Ridge Shooter Focus on Guns, Tactics, and Terror 3 weeks ago:
It’s for the greater good.
(Still sarcasm, if you didn’t catch on.)
- Comment on 'Project Hail Mary' Top Disc Seller in August; 'Avatar: Fire and Ash' Still No. 1 for 2026 - Media Play News 4 weeks ago:
Brand fans and naked blue sticks lovers.
- Comment on Exclusive: Clean tech startup Fluxnium found a way to tap 50,000 years' worth of nuclear fuel 4 weeks ago:
The reason it’s clean is because in case of failure it will clean out the human population on a larger scale, thus saving the planet.
lol
- Comment on South Korea gives 400 stalking victims app to track their stalkers in real time 5 weeks ago:
It’s their “Hallyu” business rolling out 5-min stars and cheap plastic surgery which encourage this kind of obsession for profit.
- Comment on Why are so many games in certain genres all so samey in the places they really should not be? 1 month ago:
I presume they all buy the same animation package and then barely bother to modify it.
- Comment on So are they like extinct or something? 1 month ago:
This person hasn’t done math past elementary.
- Comment on Snarkaeopteryx 1 month ago:
“Behold, over yonder, all the fucks that i give!”
- Comment on Battle.net's discord permissions 2 months ago:
Can you do all of those on a battle net account? I would, in good faith, presume the plan is for the battle net app to act as a pseudo discord app and let you control everything on your discord account through it.
PS: I searched very hard for that good faith.
- Comment on In Open Carry states, is it also allowed to openly carry bladed weapons like Swords? Bow and arrow? 2 months ago:
Far as I know, as someone not in the land of the dumbfucks, each state has its own limitations on what they allow. Some only allow specific calibers or length of blade.
Bows and arrows are usually classified as hunting utensils and may be fined as such if carried openly outside of permitted areas for hunting.
I can only assume it is required by the wearer to know the laws of their state in regards to this as the cops don’t give a fuck and would rather just shoot you down.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Guess Jaden could fit too, but I meant Will himself when he became rich from Prince of Bel Air. He did some silly things back then after gaining his independence (day) and almost lost it all.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
She’s an easily influenced influencer. Remember her licking doughnuts as a trend? She was with “friends” at the time.
Similar to Will Smith, she’s a rich kid with a ton of insecurities and lots of bad acquaintances. She’ll keep making mistakes because that kind of negativity leads your thoughts astray easily and you need something grounded to keep you going. I’m not sure she has that something to hold on to.
- Comment on Noob Question - Primsa Browser 2 months ago:
From your link, by the marketing verbiage, they can record and replay actions during a session. One can assume the surveillance is self-contained to the browser itself and any external service which affects it. However, screenshots or videos made during an abnormal event might reveal the environment beyond it.
Spying on other apps installed might be a separate option with its own price. Can’t say for sure.
- Comment on Noob Question - Primsa Browser 2 months ago:
Don’t use personal devices for corporate resources.
- Comment on I shouldn't have stopped being enveloped by the peat bog 2 months ago:
Wildfires having a giggle, blowing smoke over each other.
- Comment on Fallout 5 officially in pre-production, being built on Elder Scrolls VI engine 2 months ago:
Assuming this was decided after microslop decided to mass produce the Fallout IP faster and faster, I’d say they’re different games.
- Comment on Bethesda roadmap: more Fallout is coming, Starfield support continues, but Elder Scrolls VI is the main priority 2 months ago:
According to what I read, Obsidian took New Vegas 2. Bethesda is claiming Fallout 3 and New Vegas remasters are being made, so I can only assume it still technically retains ownership.
- Comment on Guess the game (#009) 2 months ago:
Yup. Never heard of it either.
- Comment on Not a single one 3 months ago:
Chernobyl. It’s so profitable, it keeps on giving even half a century later.
- Comment on Magical Girl ER is a Japanese horror medical sim where you triage and treat magical girls injured in kaiju attacks 3 months ago:
Not just. Also happened in Korea, Japan and possibly China, where being a top doctor was a matter of perception and showing off.