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- Comment on average physics student vs POTUS 47 1 week ago:
That’s fine but it would be better if a partially submerged device also functioned partially. And I said material specifically because it’s lame if it needs power.
- Comment on average physics student vs POTUS 47 1 week ago:
I wonder if we could engineer some material that does fulfill his spec. Magnetic in air, loses magnetic properties underwater, regains them when out of the water…
- Comment on Why are American men leaving the workforce at historic rates? 1 week ago:
A is the actual reason.
The other 3 are excuses.
- Comment on Soulframe: Preludes - Official Gameplay Trailer 2 weeks ago:
I think its the best of the three, and perhaps second only to Elden Ring (though I haven’t played Sekiro or Bloodborne to compare), but it could use more polish…
- Comment on Why exactly are nursing aids paid so poorly? 2 weeks ago:
I think it’s probably not that simple. If it was, someone could come in and massively undercut the entire market…
But hey, maybe it is ! And if it is so, then we can try and organise some non-profit nursing homes that charge exactly what it costs to actually run the place and pay the employees decently, and even slightly less than that thanks to donations !
- Comment on Stellar Blade: BLOOD RAIN | Official Reveal Trailer 2 weeks ago:
I hope they make the protagonist less bland this time. I don’t mind a sexy main character if it fits their personality (eg Bayonetta) !
- Comment on Soulframe: Preludes - Official Gameplay Trailer 2 weeks ago:
For a second I thought that was Majula 😭
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 3 weeks ago:
Counter Strike.
Nothing interesting ever fucking happens, it’s just shooting guys in corridors and around corners, first who gets an accidental headshot thanks to random spread wins…
The time-to-kill and the rounds are just too short for any sort of interesting macro-game to arise, it’s all micro all the time.
- Comment on Lastest Riot Vanguard Update Can Brick Your Hardware (If You're a Cheater) 4 weeks ago:
I would rather have cheaters in my games personally x)
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 4 weeks ago:
The Sims 4.
I mean, The Sims 3 and The Sims 2 are right there ! Both much, much better games, with the same premise but both with much better and clearer direction. Both quite different from each other and interesting in their own right…
Meanwhile The Sims 4 is a buggy mess with over 1000€ of DLC, I cannot fathom why anyone would choose it over its predecessors…
- Comment on PlayStation boss says single-player games won’t come to PC going forward | VGC 4 weeks ago:
It sucks, but it makes sense.
- Comment on Playnix: Boutique Linux PC released with better gaming performance than Valve Steam Machine 2 months ago:
It is impossible to have better performance than the Steam Machine, because the Steam Machine doesn’t even exist yet !
- Comment on Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 Director Says It Did Gay Romance "Right" By Not Going "Woke" 2 months ago:
That’s a shame. I was thinking of buying the KCD games soon, now I won’t.
- Comment on The Case Against Gameplay Loops 2 months ago:
I get the feeling, but from a completely different perspective : I want infinite games, at least most of the time.
I’m usually not looking for a good mechanic or two to repeat over and over again. Either a game has to be a focused story that carries me through, or (and that’s what I prefer) : a sandbox.
A world I can inhabit, where I can combine mechanics, set my own goals, exist within… The best game for this is of course Minecraft, but others do come close for me :
- Project Zomboid
- Zelda BoTW and ToTk
- No Man’s Sky
- The Sims 3
So when a game focuses on developing one mechanic as far as possible… That’s nice, I might play a few hours, but I’m very unlikely to finish the game.
- Comment on Indie Pass, a Subscription Service for Indie Games, Launches on PC - IGN 2 months ago:
No thanks ! Terrible idea.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 2 months ago:
AFAIK, historical documents show the Japanese government were ready to surrender, if they had been sure the monarchy would be preserved.
The bomb could have been replaced with properly worded surrender terms.
- Comment on Does the engine a game uses factor into your decision to buy it or not? 2 months ago:
Yes, sort of. I absolutely hate the visual artifacts from TAA and from upscaling, which are both much more commonly used in UE5 games.
I’m also much more likely to try custom-engine games, just because I think people making their own engines is pretty cool ! I have only implemented very basic stuff myself, but it was very interesting to do !
- Comment on Shame. 2 months ago:
Glad to report my college has ethics as a required class in the CS curriculum indeed ! Though I think the class is sub-par, but it’s brand new for this year, so it should improve progressively…
- Comment on PlayStation Studios Removes Nearly All PC References From Websites 2 months ago:
6-people on the Animal Crossing game is peak gaming (two on the gamepad) 😯
- Comment on PlayStation Studios Removes Nearly All PC References From Websites 2 months ago:
It works pretty well on Linux for me, but I’m really waiting for the Steam Controller because that trackpad is just kinda trash compared to what Valve makes x) also I need more back buttons, the DualSense Edge has only two and the placement isn’t great
- Comment on PlayStation Studios Removes Nearly All PC References From Websites 2 months ago:
Can you tell me which games so I can try them ? ☺️
- Comment on A Game Pass for indie games: meet Indie Pass, a $6.99-a-month subscription launching with 70 titles 2 months ago:
Making the bait more appealing doesn’t make this any less of a trap than Xbox game pass.
Say no to subscriptions !
- Comment on PlayStation Studios Removes Nearly All PC References From Websites 2 months ago:
If I can’t buy the games on PC I’m not gonna buy them at all. The PS5’s controller is cool I guess, except the only game using it correctly are Astro’s Playroom and Astro Bot… (which gives me flashbacks to Nintendo Land all over again)
- Comment on big facts 2 months ago:
Crystals do fix negative energy in a very simple way ! Feeling negative ? Just look at a crystal, crystals are pretty. Now you feel less negative, ta-dah !
I have multiple salt lamps for this reason. The magic of being a very pretty glowing crystal works wonders on me when I feel down x)
- Comment on big facts 2 months ago:
WiFi uses all three. (Yes, even vibration, AFAIK the clocks inside both computers use piezoelectric quartz crystals)
- Comment on Just one more square bro 2 months ago:
I can’t believe someone made this waffle iron and didn’t make a YouTube video about making it. It has to be a Photoshop x)
- Comment on Fewer People Playing Fortnite Is Just One of Epic's Many Problems, Analysts Say 2 months ago:
I checked out of Fortnite when the brand partnerships started. I really liked the first few seasons though…
It felt like the game had a strong identity that was challenging PUBG’s nonsense. No complicated inventory, just 5 slots. 1 or 2 weapons per category with very well defined playstyles, no incomprehensibly complicated weapon mod system on top. Building is very cool and raises the skill ceiling so high too !
And the style was cartoony and silly : you don’t get cars, you get shopping carts ! Characters have no voices, the “laugh” is a donkey sound !
But when the brand deals started coming, they started wilfully throwing away their identity to replace it with recognizable IP. So I quit.
- Comment on PlayStation Store Dynamic Pricing Is Real 2 months ago:
I buy my games used at the store ! Sometimes that’s even better value than Steam sales !
- Comment on We Spoke To Game Devs And All Of Them Hate DLSS 5: 'What The F***, Nvidia?' 2 months ago:
The result looks more like a photograph than the input, that’s all I’m saying. I absolutely agree that every important aspect of the image is getting destroyed !
- Comment on Google's Gemini will make its way into Dragon Quest X to power a "Chatty Slimey" AI companion, Square Enix has announced 2 months ago:
What a creative new form of DRM !