hzl
@hzl@piefed.blahaj.zone
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I feel like this argument held a lot more weight before polymarket.
- Comment on Single player, open world, fantasy, RPG games 1 week ago:
It’s pretty new and incredibly fun. YouTube and Twitch are bursting with streams and clips lately.
- Comment on UK Ranked Second-Worst Place in Western Europe for LGBTI+ Rights 1 week ago:
I personally greatly prefer queer. It seems to have gained a lot of traction in the past decade or so and it’s much more succinct than continually adding letters and thus syllables.
- Comment on Single player, open world, fantasy, RPG games 1 week ago:
We have whole ass multiplayer Skyrim roleplay with 500+ people on servers simultaneously in 2026. No NPCs, all people. The voice acting is impressive. I’ve met many people that feel exactly like running into a character in the game. I’ve also met a talking mudcrab that sold me mazte at a feast of St Veloth.
Public servers are predictably extremely goofy, but whitelist servers are really good. Right now the only English speaking server that’s currently up that I’m aware of is Keizaal, but Mereth will be launching their beta soon. Mereth seems to have cracked the NPC sync issue, so they should be able to fill the world with roaming creatures where Keizaal currently has spawn zones that trigger when you enter them (thus spawning NPCs in the same location for everyone), which then have a cooldown.
- Comment on From Yellow Cartridges to Steam: A Post-90s Gamer’s Chronicle of China 1 week ago:
Look at you with your fancy extra buttons and your whole ass keyboard!
- Comment on From Yellow Cartridges to Steam: A Post-90s Gamer’s Chronicle of China 1 week ago:
I dunno, sounds to be like blowing and hitting worked pretty good, if not for the reasons we thought.
- Comment on Single player, open world, fantasy, RPG games 1 week ago:
This isn’t what you’re asking for, but Skyrim rp has really breathed new life into the game. Running around with hundreds of other people in a simulated feudal bureaucracy in the middle of a civil war is wild. I constantly forget I’m actually playing Skyrim.
- Comment on From Yellow Cartridges to Steam: A Post-90s Gamer’s Chronicle of China 1 week ago:
We blew into Nintendo cartridges in the US too. It certainly did feel like it helped, but I imagine in reality the point of failure was the wobbly connection inside the console.
- Comment on When traffic comes to a standstill, drivers instantly shift left and right to create a Rettungsgasse, an emergency corridor right down the middle, so ambulances 2 weeks ago:
Americans would be too angry about the one or two cars or motorcycles that might occasionally take advantage to be able to do this. Even merging results in a lot of grumpy drivers trying to prevent “cutting”.
- Comment on Why are people trying to raid Scientology buildings around the world? 2 weeks ago:
Aww, poor babies. Can’t even manipulate people into giving you all their money and as many personal details as possible so you can control their lives via blackmail anymore!
- Comment on First Skywind progress video since 2024 3 weeks ago:
It would be so cool if this worked with SkyMP when it’s done. I want to rp in Morrowind.
- Comment on Why are Steam games priced unfairly in Euros indifferent to where one resides? 5 weeks ago:
It helps to realize that complaining is a hobby. People will always find something to complain about regardless of whether it’s constructive, reasonable, or anything else. There’s a whole world of other things people could be doing, but some people greatly prefer complaining to anything else. Not even complaining about anything significant, just anything they can.
Like, yesterday I was hanging out in two different voice chats with some friends who enjoy roleplay in video games. In one chat, we discussed our plans for an upcoming group and reminisced fondly about arcs from years past. In the other chat, everyone just wanted to complain about other people’s rp without really talking about anything they enjoyed at all. I heard them complaining about the same people 3 days earlier. This is literally years after the last time they interacted with them.
Personally, I find the former more engaging and try not to take part in the latter. But that’s me. If complaining endlessly is your hobby, the latter would probably feel more compelling.
Best just to leave them to it, imo.
- Comment on Steam is basically a PC gaming monopoly, so why isn’t anyone mad? 1 month ago:
Are they a monopoly? They’re definitely huge, but a lot of the games on Steam are non-exclusive, and they don’t actually control the rights to the games. Like, they don’t own the IP, they don’t restrict content to their platform, and they have some pretty functional if smaller competitors like GOG and Epic. They also make their platform compatible with game keys that weren’t actually sold on their platform.
They’re definitely something with substantial market dominance as a platform, not I’m not sure monopoly is really the word.
- Comment on Please just stop 1 month ago:
You have trapped yourself in a cycle of craving and suffering.
- Comment on Just sayin’ 1 month ago:
So Helldivers primes idiots to accept fascism and xenophobia? Maybe we should stop romanticizing authoritarianism in our entertainment.
- Comment on Waitrose employee sacked after stopping shoplifter from taking Easter eggs 1 month ago:
Well that’s less neat.
We have a place like that locally that’s pretty terrible to its employees.
- Comment on Waitrose employee sacked after stopping shoplifter from taking Easter eggs 1 month ago:
Well that’s neat.
- Comment on Waitrose employee sacked after stopping shoplifter from taking Easter eggs 1 month ago:
The lesson here is that there’s literally no reason to care at all about theft from a corporation, because they do not care about you.
- Comment on Curious 🤔 1 month ago:
Because “say” is less repetitive and we’re more inclined to decide that arbitrary combinations of consonants and vowels that babies babble are one of the many variations on names for parents. Babies are pretty likely to stumble across vocalizations like “mama” or “dada” just by babbling. It doesn’t make it any less of a useful way to start learning language, given how much they tend to be positively reinforced for those vocalizations, but it’s not like they really know that’s what they’re doing at first.
“Say” requires a lot more intention or luck.
- Comment on A Game Pass for indie games: meet Indie Pass, a $6.99-a-month subscription launching with 70 titles 1 month ago:
No.
- Comment on https://kotaku.com/marathon-content-farm-discord-reddit-posts-bungie-fake-2000682208 2 months ago:
Hilarious that OP and the author are dismissing this as a conspiracy when the article even explicitly says that the author was able to join the discord in question and found exactly what it was described as, an astroturfing platform. Totally impossible that an announcement could have been deleted after it was leaked.
- Comment on Centrist Eye Exam 2 months ago:
Yeah, I mean there are definitely some useful idiots who are completely detached from reality involved, but I don’t buy for a second that it’s organic in its inception.
- Comment on Centrist Eye Exam 2 months ago:
Also applies to a lot of lemmites that claim to be leftists.
- Comment on Xbox’s leadership shift proves it: the gamer era is over, AI runs the show now 2 months ago:
I’m just going to stop looking at articles with remotely sensational headlines.
- Comment on Fighting games have a product design problem 3 months ago:
Updates suck. Gaming was better when they didn’t exist.
- Comment on Fighting games have a product design problem 3 months ago:
The idea of buying characters is itself wild. Games as a service has really screwed up player expectations.
- Comment on Fighting games have a product design problem 3 months ago:
This is legit. I remember playing Soul Calibur 3 I think on PS2 pretty regularly with a couple of friends. One of them owned the game and would stomp us until I asked to borrow it for a while so the other two of us could get good. A few weeks later I was doing bomb and air grab loops with Takin and we were pretty evenly matched, while other friends who would play occasionally were pretty easy to beat. There was no big competitive online play, we got better by figuring out how to counter each other because we had similar amounts of experience with the game.
I’m not sure how you replicate that experience with randos.
- Comment on Young gamers in Japan may not be forming the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest because modern dev cycles are as long as their childhood, users theorize - AUTOMATON WEST 3 months ago:
It’s much easier to build momentum around a franchise when you release 7 games in 10 years than 2 games in 7 years.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
Same. It’s a bit silly.
- Comment on Retro Gaming is a Playground for Billionaires and Nazis 3 months ago:
So is the ISP you’re using a scam? Your electric company? Your own job? The place where you get your food? Your doctor is a scammer? The people who maintain the roads?