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- Comment on MOUSE: P.I. For Hire releases on Steam 3 days ago:
Hello, i put so far 10 hours into the game and i like it a lot. But you are correct. The style and setting is immaculate. But the gameplay just isnt. It has tons of little issues because they crammed to many mechanics into the game while none of them truly shine. Its alright. But it isnt deep or needs a lot of skill. I’m more than happy with a vibes based game where the gameplay stimulates me just enough while looking forward to progess the story further. But your assessment is just correct. If i leave out the artstyle, setting and story out of the equation its a 6/10 game. Maybe 7/10 at best because you could argue it still feels better than the sum of its parts.
- Comment on Forza Horizon 6's Japan map is the series' best yet 2 weeks ago:
I know i’m just a bitter old man and this isnt a rant worth reading about. I just need to get it out of my system. Feel free not to read it or downvote it after you read it anyway while you realize it truly wasnt worth it.
Its going to be the best racing game of the year probably. Its going to be the choice for most people who just want a fun AAA Simcade Racer.
But i just watched a preview and it still hasnt improved on anything i was critical of in FH3 10 years ago. Which also means if you unlike me like Horizon you wont be dissappointed. Yay(unironic).
But personally as a bitter old man really dont know why i should pay for the same game 4th time in a row. I’m so whelmed. Also i’m a bit annoyed how the marketing team in the announcement purposefully pushed my buttons as a racing enthusiast and long time Forza fan. They didnt lie. But i still feel a bit cheated after seeing whats what with independent reporting on the preview.
And yeah my comment is as vague as it gets. But i dont feel like writing a 10k word essay about my feelings on the franchise. I just need to vent a bit because i would be so happy about a new title i could be excited about in this almost dead genre.
Also, just fuck Microsoft. Also fuck TAA which is visible through YT compression.
Wah, wah, wah, etc.
Alright, thats it. I hope you guys/gals gonna have a more pleasant day i had today.
- Comment on It's important to remember that real art comes from people, not AI. 3 weeks ago:
wrong. real art comes from brazilian money
- Comment on I'm new around here, and learning about all the different instances and the culture/history behind them has been fun but overwhelming. Is there somewhere I could go for a crash-course? 3 weeks ago:
idk where to find a crashcourse but here are my opinions(!) on top of my head after nearly 3 years on different instances:
- hexbear and lemmygrad are to be avoided by all costs. weird tankies. they are blocked by most instances either way.
- .ml(stands for marxist leninist) is the instance of the lemmy devs(i think?) and is still populated by a lot of non-lunatics. But i blocked the whole instance either way.
- idk what the deal is with quokk.au(?) users but i noticed over the years that they tend to post weird shit/takes.
- kbin was a fediverse alternative to lemmy. kinda fell apart a few years backs. a few instances are still around. they are alright.
- mbin is the successor/a fork of kbin. if you want to try a different ux to lemmy its worth a look.
- beehaw was already a pretty tightly knit community before the reddit api debacle a few years back. they have self proclaimed higher posting standards.
- db0 is an anarchist instance. good for piracy topics. otherwise i dont care or have an opinion on them. tend to be a bit more ai tolerant i believe.
- lemmy.world was/is the biggest instance. they get/got a lot flack for some reasons and others. most of the drama was imho pretty overblown.
- feddit.org is an european instance. most of its users are german.
- piefed is yet another fediverse alternative. i like it.
otherwise there is stuff like lemdroid with a focus on android or instances with a focus on anime. but tbh just start using lemmy and make your own experiences and feel free to block all the weird shit you dont want to see.
- Comment on Confirmed: PS5 console prices are being raised by $100 | VGC 3 weeks ago:
This comment. But now imagine not beeing computer literate. While consoles lost a bit of their appeal in ease of use the last two generation they’re still a nice little walled garden where most of the stuff is just working for you in the background.
I havent bought a current-gen console since the 360 for various reasons. But i get why somebody just wants a playstation and not a gaming pc.
- Comment on Dumb bitch 4 weeks ago:
Yup, bashing on arbitrary “generations” is stupid. The whole “okay, boomer” meme manifested after thousands of ridiculous articles about blaming the youth for buying less diamond rings or whatever. It just turned around the absurdity. That was the funny part. Just seriously blaming our elderly is stupid the same way.
- Comment on Zapp "Matthew" Brannigan, 26:41 4 weeks ago:
Now i want to see those other 4 sources
- Comment on woops 4 weeks ago:
its been 10 years
- Comment on Motorcycle parts 4 weeks ago:
thats a common mistake people make. its not carburetor.
its a motorcycleburetor
- Comment on Posting slop 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on EXODUS Gameplay Clips Showcase Combat, Traversal, And Exploration 4 weeks ago:
I mean yeah. But i’ve seen enough trailers and played enough games in the last 25 years. This just doesnt look like something i like to give the benefit of doubt. I might be wrong. We will see if/when it gets released.
- Comment on EXODUS Gameplay Clips Showcase Combat, Traversal, And Exploration 5 weeks ago:
This trailer looked so generic that i started to compare its animations to the standard unreal lyra stuff. It feels really assetflippy. That sprinting animation of that huge robot/mech just looks so off. Also the framrate dropping below 30 fps in the trailer is not a good look. especially while the game isnt even running at native 4k. There is some not so pretty TAA/upscaling going on.
Sorry, but i dont think its going to be anything but UE5 Slop.
- Comment on Somebody made a Cave Story Walkthrough Concept Album and its really fucking good 5 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Microsoft quietly retires 'This is an Xbox' marketing campaign 1 month ago:
Shit, now i dont own Xboxes(?) anymore. :’(
- Comment on Clankers 🔪🔪🔪 1 month ago:
Good, good, good! Film your faces while you violate those cute clankers. Gives me maybe a bit of time to react when Skynet becomes sentient and goes after them first.
- Comment on I gotcha, boss 1 month ago:
For anybody wondering:
Yes and Christie Mack.
Not so funfact: i believe her boyfriend was the guy who punched himself over tcp/ip. Not fun because he punched her too on a different occasion.
- Comment on American Foreign Policy 1 month ago:
This jiff lives rent-free in my head for 20(?) years in my head. its just perfect and got even perfecter over time.
- Comment on Is spreading. 1 month ago:
Sweet. Your experience is valid as mine!
- Comment on Is spreading. 1 month ago:
Happy to hear its working out for you without any issues. Your experience is valid as mine. But hearing that a normie distro like ubuntu has quality issues proofs my point. :D
- Comment on Is spreading. 1 month ago:
Nah, RDNA2.
- Comment on Is spreading. 1 month ago:
I dont think so. Maybe once? I dont remember all the distros i tried over the years. As i said it even happened with ubuntu on a thinkpad were i made it a point to do no funky shit at all.
Currently i’m running CachyOS and do lots of funky shit. Fair game. But only because i know i just can roll back if something breaks.
- Comment on Is spreading. 1 month ago:
Well, i made the final switch to linux myself last year and i’m pretty happy all things considered. But while a lot of things improved over the last 10 years some deal breakers are still around. In my case: just this week an update broke my desktop enviroment entirely for the SECOND time since august. I couldnt even log in. Yeah, i had automatic back ups and the issue was solved in 5 minutes.
But thats not my point. Every single linux install i had going since 2012 fucking died on it itself at some point because of an update. On three different thinkpads, three different tower PCs, running like 6 or 7 different distros. On some of these thinkpads i literally only used the browser to watch youtube and shitpost for months. Nothing else. Didnt touch the console once and never ran some random c&p command i didnt understand. Didnt install anything else. Also i used normie distros like ubuntu and the like. Still every single time at some point an update killed the entire GUI/OS. In the past i just switched back to Windows.
Now Windows is so bad that i learned to deal with this shit. Maybe i’m unlucky. Maybe i’m stupid. But this is just a constant for me in the linux experience. IDK how i could recommend Linux to my normie friends/family. I let massgrave run for them for LTSC or extended support stuff. Done, and i will probably never hear a thing about that OS/PC again. Linux? Nah, i’m good. I dont have the time to do first level support for them if something breaks.
- Comment on Nevermind the drink I'm holding 1 month ago:
trick question. thats a 8th gen pokemon. idk which one though.
- Comment on ‘I think the franchise is dead’: Saints Row design director says IP owner ‘ghosted’ his prequel pitch | VGC 1 month ago:
The first Saints Row was a gritty street-level crime drama and only escalated to its signature ridiculousness after the Boss took over in 2.
Statements like this give me always a sensible chuckle. Compared to the rest of the franchise the first one is pretty grounded. Thats true. But it still is such a goofy game with over the top comedy. The very first cutscene is so stupid already. As is everything else. It still is GTA parody. ‘gritty street-level crime drama’ lmao
- Comment on An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – More Things Have Happened 2 months ago:
More like Arsetechnica, am i right?
Uh, oh. Since this is on beehaw: Sad to see. While i havent read arstechnica regularly for quite a bit i still had them rated as a somewhat trusted publication in my mind. Not anymore, i guess. And yes, i single AI related “incident” is enough for me to be put in the “untrusted” category.
- Comment on Which is it?. 2 months ago:
I peel the shaft before i put it in my mouth
- Comment on Bro caught slippin 2 months ago:
True, but it was posted like 30 seconds before his translation. I’m not saying its about speed but my try was better than nothing which was the case for half a minute!
- Comment on Bro caught slippin 2 months ago:
my dealer overdosed/got sleepy off a 30mg(?) drug so he stole 15 pressed chemical drugs of the same kind but only with 10mg of ingridient and left.
- Comment on Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face 2 months ago:
I’m on discord for piracy and modding. Sure over the years i joined a few other channels. But most foss adjacent channels have matrix bridges. idgaf. if servers required my phone number i always just left the server. discord wont get shit.
