zikzak025
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- Comment on Hideo Kojima's PHYSINT Game Moves to Xbox From PlayStation 23 hours ago:
Probably a few could in Japan, but I don’t know of any other western publishers of that scale besides Microsoft.
- Comment on RIP a gawd 1 day ago:
Filthy Frank. He was a YouTuber who made some popular, semi-edgelord sorts of videos (and also the originator of the thankfully short lived Harlem Shake meme).
On the side, he started going into music production, and decided that the YouTube gig was starting to become too one-note and preventing him from doing as much with music, so he decided to retire the character (and sub-persona Pink Guy, pictured above) to focus on music full time.
Fans at the time were bummed because he was basically stepping away at the peak of his popularity as a YouTuber, but I think it was appropriate recognition that he had just passed that peak and there wasn’t really a way to sustain the persona long term.
- Comment on Hideo Kojima's PHYSINT Game Moves to Xbox From PlayStation 1 day ago:
Publisher. Someone to fund the project in exchange for a share in the profits.
Though with Sony, they also had access to the Decima Engine that was used for Death Stranding, so I’d guess that they’re probably cut off from that as well. But it looks like their other game OD is using Unreal Engine, so it looks like they’ve already started transitioning away from that.
- Comment on Complicated 1 day ago:
But what if you accidentally leave some pizza in the incision site when you sew it up?
- Comment on Fuck Yeah! Earth Still Number One! 4 days ago:
If it is accurate up to 2026, Wikipedia states that Earth has won a total of 21,675 medals in the modern Olympic games.
- Comment on Bunnies are metal 5 days ago:
Just to add context, there is a good book called All Yesterdays about how earlier assumptions of dinosaur appearances based on fossil records have been challenged over time by new evidence. A lot of the artists who develop visual recreations of dinosaurs are often (knowingly or unknowingly) working under trends of what they believe dinosaurs are supposed to look like. But the bones alone aren’t always the best reference to use to base appearance off of, because very little trace of soft tissue exists in the fossil record, and that can often contain the most iconic aspects of a species.
So just to riff on that idea, the book contains a section called “All Todays” in which artists take modern animal skeletons we are familiar with and recreate them as if they were dinosaurs. So you end up with these gaunt creatures that are missing distinct features like ears, noses, fur/features, and coloration.
- Comment on Looks like Valve themselves added their own charts to the beta client. 5 days ago:
I’m pretty sure you even needed an account back when it was TESSource.
- Comment on White House Launches Arcade.Gov, a Minigame Site Where You Catch Immigrants, Build a Tetris Border Wall, and 'Fill Your Kids' Trump Accounts' With Bitcoin 6 days ago:
Same. I feel like I need something else to look forward to just to keep me going. And it unfortunately ain’t Kingdom Hearts 4.
- Comment on Just trying to reDean myself after the last one 1 week ago:
There was also a previous trend of posting jeans in response to beans, so this current trend is riding the -eans train.
- Comment on Take the pledge! 1 week ago:
Where’s that post from the guy who was asking how to avoid shitting for days?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
If you were lucky. That game was barely playable on the Xbox 360.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
That’s ridiculous. Especially with the cost of consoles nowadays, and the fact that we’re about to be locked into a no-disc ecosystem. And on top of that, that new consoles are going to be announced in a year or two anyways.
Rockstar is using the same strategy as GTA5. Push the financially irresponsible to buy a console for 1 game. Then push the even more irresponsible to upgrade to a next-gen console for a better port of 1 game. Then release the PC version last, hoping that anyone running on the treadmill for best experience will end up triple dipping.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
It would. I initially had this post pointing to a Streamable link during the exclusivity window, but it was removed for Rule 6. Not sure how that rule interacts with alternate YouTube frontends like Invidious, but I’m not going to press my luck.
If anyone wants an unauthorized stream that skips YouTube, they’re not hard to find with a simple web search. If that’s too much effort, you’re not missing much anyways.
- Comment on Wisdom 1 week ago:
mrow eht yenom drib ylrae ehT
- Comment on Luanti (aka Minetest) removed from Google Play due to baseless AI copyright notice 2 weeks ago:
Probably because none of those “malware in disguise” listings are popular enough to be a threat to their bottom line.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I guess in that game’s case, it was developed at a satellite studio who thought their spaghetti western game needed spaghetti code to match.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
The patient gamer strategy has always paid off for me, and I have to recommend it to everyone else.
One of the games I finished most recently was Cyberpunk 2077. Great game worth playing today, not so great at launch. And on the CD Projekt topic, The Witcher 3 has also been on my to-do list for ages, and guess what’s getting a remaster in a few more weeks?
There are too many games out there to play in one lifetime. When most games seem to be in their worst state at launch, why rush to buy when there’s so much else out there to try while you wait?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
For a console game, I’m there with you. But sadly we lost that war long ago on PC.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I will still recommend people wait. Wait for reviews, wait for initial audience impressions, and wait to play it on your platform of choice.
What I see is a game that has a lot of detail and some big cinematic moments that make for a good trailer. But whether all that detail translates into a genuinely fun experience remains to be seen.
For all we know, the rest of the game outside of the trailers could be nothing but ET trying to jump out of holes.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I mean, what else is this community for, really?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Quite possibly. The other side of the coin though is that I’m sure Netflix wanted the deal to pull in new subscribers, so if options to watch it elsewhere prevent that from happening, that could still be a win.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Maybe the game itself is the parody. Like when Jeremy Strong’s character in Succession thinks he’s gangster because he listens to rap music and does drugs sometimes.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Sounds good, but what do you plan on doing in the game?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t even say alleged, it was very blatant. An employment tribunal has already ruled against them and the case goes to full trial next month.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Modern Republicans love Johnson’s failure, though. His hands-off softball approach to the former Confederate states allowed the Confederacy to rise again in all but name.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
The game won’t run without an armed agent with a gun pointed at your head who will pull the trigger if you ever start enjoying it the wrong way.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Cute thinking you’ll get to retire in 20 years when you sink all your savings on hardware.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Guess Panam in Cyberpunk wasn’t enough.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
GTA5 lost me in the campaign, and I can’t imagine GTA6 will be any better in that regard. Never bothered with the online features. I’m not even disappointed they aren’t doing a PC release and doubt I’ll buy it even if they do.
I mean, just the idea that a purchase of the game amounts to tacit support of their union busting bullshit is reason enough not to buy it. Their games sell the gangster fantasy, but GTA6 as a product is basically the antithesis of rebellion.
- Comment on I love family camping, staring into the fire. 2 weeks ago:
MFs out here singing punitive renditions of the Kier hymn.