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- Comment on Is it me or does it seem like review bombing on Steam has become so much worse recently? 3 days ago:
They’ve also segregated reviews by language. So now when a single group starts review bombing (usually China, from the reports I’ve heard) the rest of us are unaffected.
- Comment on Once again, looking for PS2 game suggestions! 6 days ago:
en.wikipedia.org/…/List_of_best-selling_PlayStati…
I’d just start reading at the top and play some that look fun. Sales are a fair proxy for “good” games. I’m sure there are ratings lists too, if you feel so inclined.
(You can probably skip all the sports games, though.)
- Comment on Rock Band 4 to be delisted on tenth anniversary following the expiration of its licenses 1 week ago:
I can’t name any cases off the top of my head, but I don’t see a reasonable court equating hypothetical future earnings with present losses.
Like if it was “he stole my harvest of beans that I was going to sell at market” then yeah the harm is obvious, but when it’s “well I’m not selling the beans now, and I’m not planning on selling them in the future, but someday I might, therefore no one else should be able to appreciate beans in the meantime” that’s ridiculous. Especially since piracy is not theft; the number of beans has not changed.
- Comment on Rock Band 4 to be delisted on tenth anniversary following the expiration of its licenses 1 week ago:
It’s certainly ethical, if not legal.
You could make a good argument in court, too. Hard to show damages when there’s no possibility of profit because you’re not selling it.
- Comment on Rock Band 4 to be delisted on tenth anniversary following the expiration of its licenses 1 week ago:
The digital download isn’t going away either (yet).
- Comment on It's official: EA is going private. 1 week ago:
What do you mean “before”? This right now is the start of that.
- Comment on I've been playing 'Ruby's Rebalanced HALO: CE' mod and it is fantastic. 1 week ago:
bruh not even a link? steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=29…
- Comment on Lara Croft is a Sociopath 2 weeks ago:
Maybe. The bad guys show up with a lot of guns to take whatever they want. She shows up for archaeology first, and ends up having to stop the objectively bad guys.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Dev Gearbox Asks PC Gamers to Wait 15 Minutes for Shaders to Compile in the Background While Playing After Reports Indicate Recent Update Causes Stuttering - IGN 2 weeks ago:
old.reddit.com/r/unrealengine/…/lyzqq8n/
Found with a single search. Short answer they can, long answer it’s more complicated. In any case, runtime compilation should never a be a thing on console.
- Comment on Doug Bowser Retiring From Nintendo, Successor Announced 2 weeks ago:
Devon Pritchard will take on the role. She currently serves as the Executive Vice President of Revenue, Marketing and Consumer Experience.
Profitability. That’s not reassuring.
- Comment on Embracer is leveraging AI "in ethical and sustainable ways", says new CEO, insisting "human authorship is final" 2 weeks ago:
AI tools can be a “power multiplier” he said, though insisted this isn’t “corporate speak” but “words we’re hearing from studio heads and heads of production”.
So not from the people actually doing the work or buying the products.
I also don’t see any acknowledgement of the training source data, so I’m assuming that despite his assurances about authorship, it’s been trained on license violations.
- Comment on Today's featured article on Wikipedia: Myst V: End of Ages 3 weeks ago:
Obduction was okay, great world but really a slog to play. I got up to the end and couldn’t be bothered to actually finish it.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 boss tells players "please get a refund from Steam if you aren't happy" as Randy Pitchford continues his very public crashout over the FPS's performance woes 3 weeks ago:
Problem is, there’s no such thing as bad press. Here we are talking about it.
- 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' 3 weeks ago:
Is Borderlands really all that popular still? Like I remember seeing the first few games everywhere, and people talking about them, but that was years ago. I realize I’m biased but I would expect to hear something about them…
- Comment on This game is fantastic. 3 weeks ago:
Most of the quality is below even amateur level. Like middle school level writing.
- Comment on New moderator for this community! 4 weeks ago:
Should they be consolidated into one post then? It’s just bothersome to see a bunch of ads (because let’s be real, trailers are ad material) dumped in quick succession. The only ones I’d watch are for games I’m interested in playing, but for the ones I really want to play, I’d rather go in mostly blind so I won’t watch those either.
It’s not just one trailer, either, it’s announcement, release date, “now on steam”, cinematic trailer, gameplay trailer, release announcement trailer.
- Comment on New moderator for this community! 4 weeks ago:
Trailer dumping: useful content, or ad spam?
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
BoTW did pretty good. Prime 1 was relatively open world. In BoTW, you could get to a lot of places, but some were still semi-gated by damaging cold, damaging heat, inability to climb slippery walls. In Prime 1, you could get to a lot of places, but some were still semi-gated by damaging heat, damaging radiation, inability to climb spider ball tracks. But in both games, if you knew the tricks, you could get around those gates (though in BoTW this was intentional, in the Prime games it was not).
- Comment on Nintendo Wins $2 Million Lawsuit Against 'MiG Switch' Distributor 4 weeks ago:
You are in the extreme minority. The Switch 2 is already selling better than the original.
- Comment on Scary games. . ? 5 weeks ago:
Amnesia, obviously
- Comment on The number of mis-issued 1.1.1.1 certificates grows. Here’s the latest. 5 weeks ago:
Nah. A CA that issues fraudulent certificates will have its signing certs revoked by the root CA.
But that requires actual fraud. This sounds like someone used 1.1.1.1 for testing, when they should have used 192.0.2.0/24 or something. That subnet is specifically reserved.
- Comment on New Valve trademark for 'Steam Frame', looks like we're getting new hardware 5 weeks ago:
I was thinking TV, but there’s already Samsung’s The Frame™.
- Comment on Does a "SuperTuxKart Remastered" or similar exist? 5 weeks ago:
It’s open source, you’re welcome to do it. STK is GPL while Godot is MIT, so I don’t know if that would be easy.
But I doubt the STK project would be receptive to that. You’d be doing it on your own, and STK has a pretty small audience as it is.
Perhaps you should see if the STK project wants developers to improve the graphics quality (while still remaining performant on old devices).
- Comment on Suggest some games according to my laptop's hardware 1 month ago:
Solitaire, minesweeper, retro games, nethack, that pinball game from Windows 7
- Comment on Dead in Bermuda is Free on Steam until until Friday, August 29 at 12:00pm CT 1 month ago:
Doesn’t hurt to grab it anyway.
- Comment on I blew the whistle on workplace abuses at ZA/UM. In return, ZA/UM tried to defame me. 1 month ago:
I don’t think it stands for anything.
- Comment on I Hacked Monster Energy and You Won't Believe What They Think You Look Like: The Energy Drink Giant That Forgot to Lock Its Doors 1 month ago:
Some people do drink the kool-aid.
- Comment on I Hacked Monster Energy and You Won't Believe What They Think You Look Like: The Energy Drink Giant That Forgot to Lock Its Doors 1 month ago:
No, no one wants to go to Walmart’s meetings. But Walmart has a lot of weight to throw around in retail, so if you want them to stock your products you have to glaze them.
- Comment on How I Hacked McDonald's (Their Security Contact Was Harder to Find Than Their Secret Sauce Recipe) | bobdahacker 1 month ago:
This is all too common for a company of this size. Bigger doesn’t mean better.
- Comment on Nintendo Direct Announced for Tomorrow Focused on Kirby Air Riders 1 month ago:
MP4 is going to be on Switch, no need for a Switch 2.