Veraxus

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mickey Mouse's 'Steamboat Willie' will become public domain in 2024, along with Minnie and Tigger⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It is unwatchable. Down there with Rob Zombie’s Munsters movie. Don’t do it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Entertainment Sector Unites to Oppose European Law That Would Ban Geo-Blocking⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Cope harder, Hollywood. Your business models are parasitic and predatory, and it’s nice that at least one governing body on this planet is looking out for consumers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Box Office: ‘The Marvels’ Gets Grounded With MCU’s Second-Lowest Opening Day Ever⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I keep hearing that it’s legitimately good… but I still have no idea what it’s about, other than it includes some very characters who haven’t even been given enough background so far for me to care.

  This seems like a John Carter of Mars level of marketing bed-soiling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome To Aftermath - Worker-owned video game journalism⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow, that was fast... but I am IN!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome To Aftermath - Worker-owned video game journalism⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This. This. This.

  100% this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Cancel. They don't deserve your business. They keep making worse and worse decisions that are more and more anti-consumer. Don't give them your money. Don't reward this behavior.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox users call out Activision and Microsoft for "vomit inducing" full-screen Modern Warfare 3 ad⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This kind of thing is the reason I've started moving completely away from Microsoft products, including Windows. Microsoft is getting more and more invasive and aggressive pushing advertising onto people in their own private spaces, and that is unacceptable.

  Thankfully, with Valve continuing to rapidly improve Proton, just about any Windows game runs on Linux now with very little elbow grease.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sikh 'barred from Birmingham jury service' for religious sword⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  So you don't know what the kirpan is for or what it symbolizes.

  Way to advertise your ignorance like some maga chud screaming "woke".

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I hope to the gaming gods that Squadron 42 can recapture the feelings that the old Freespace games did. The desperation, the feeling like you are part of something... nobody else has even TRIED to do anything like that since.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Hello, fellow person of fine taste!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I don't think I can rank things that way any more. I think of my "best games of all time" category as "absolute masterpieces". So here they are in the order in which they come to mind, which is as good an indicator as any.

  • Daggerfall
  • Fallout 1 & 2
  • Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines
  • Sekiro
  • Bloodborne
  • Alpha Centauri
  • Disco Elysium
  • The Longest Journey
  • The Journeyman Project 2
  • Asheron's Call (the original)
  • The Witcher 3
  • Horizon: Zero Dawn
  • Close Combat series
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Destiny 2 Still Worth Playing in 2023? - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Never was.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deep Rock Galactic: Rogue Core - Teaser Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Give me an R! Give me an S! Give me a rock. And. Stone!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unity rushes to clarify price increase plan, as game developers fume⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There is nothing to "clarify" - Unity is a toxic, predatory company with toxic, predatory leadership and developers and investors need to get out as quickly as possible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[MEGATHREAD] Starfield - Your experiences!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh yeah! I was all-in on the Wasteland 2 Kickstarter and bagged the CE of Wasteland 3. Those do scratch the itch a bit, but Fallout's universe is so much more interesting and weird. Wasteland is a lot more straight-laced, comparatively.

  I'm fine with the visual presentation of Bethesda's Fallout games, but I hate the gameplay. Fallout was the ultimate exercise in player agency and consequences... so many different ways to approach situations with so many possible outcomes. It's not just shooting things. While New Vegas flirts with those principles, BG3 is the first game in 20 years to REALLY recapture that magic for me. That's the kind of game I want more of, and that's the kind of game I want Fallout to be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[MEGATHREAD] Starfield - Your experiences!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  New Vegas is the only post-Interplay Fallout game that actually feels like Fallout. It would be nice to get a remaster, though... it's not aging well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[MEGATHREAD] Starfield - Your experiences!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  How did you get it working on the Deck? I can load into the menus, but when I try to start a game it crashes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[MEGATHREAD] Starfield - Your experiences!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You shoot pirates, scan animals, and mine things... repeat. It really does feel a lot like "Shitty No Mans Sky" so far (about 4h in so far).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[MEGATHREAD] Starfield - Your experiences!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Your ship is basically a TARDIS. You pick a destination from your star map and then your ship magically disappears from one place and appears at another. There is "space" but it feels completely fake, like they tacked it on at the end. Really, so many of the games mechanics feel fake and the effort it takes to suspend disbelief is really high.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[MEGATHREAD] Starfield - Your experiences!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Spent a few hours trying to fix the broken ultrawide support. Eventually, the good old hex edit fix for aspect ratios on the EXE did the trick. After that, the FOV was messed up, but the game doesn't have an FOV slider (or HDR, or DLSS)... so eventually I managed to fix that with a custom ini.

  The next few hours was spent shooting pirates like I was playing Far Cry in Space, and struggling with the game's horrifically designed UI, menus, and inventory. So far, I am feeling very angry about the game. Like we were flat-out lied to about what the game was. There is no exploration. There's barely even "space". You just teleport from map to map shooting pirates... with a little scanning creatures and mining rocks mixed in. I don't understand how anyone is okay with this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sea of Stars Review Thread | (95/100 OpenCritic)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh. Never heard of this before.

  But if I'm being honest, crappy indie pixel art games are a dime a dozen, so it takes a lot to overcome my general resistance to games like this. It can happen, though... Dave the Diver, Blasphemous... it's just a much steeper uphill battle for pixel art games than other styles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ARMORED CORE VI FIRES OF RUBICON — Launch Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re advertising that this has support for 120fps, ultrawide resolutions, and RTX. I am feeling cautiously optimistic that From Software actually nailed the PC support this time.

  Now if only they could backport those features to Elden Ring!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Forcing Workers Back to the Office Might Not Have Been a Good Idea After All⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The data was already there. Twenty years of it. They chose to ignore it because executive fee-fees are more important that data and facts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just deleted my reddit account, and it's long overdue.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Better late than never! Welcome to the fediverse, friend!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So many expensive homes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This is pretty basic math. Just think about Monopoly (yes, the board game).

  Housing is a finite resource. You can buy it or you can rent it. When you buy, you build equity. When you rent, it's pure expenditure.

  So what happens when nobody can buy? They are forced to rent. Demand for rentals rises, which allows landlords to raise their rents.

  So how does someone with very deep pockets turn this to their advantage?

  First, starting one metropolitan area at a time, you buy up everything you can. If you coordinate with other investors, all the better. The goal is to strangle supply for buyers and prevent anyone who can't pay cash upfront from making a purchase. When people are unable to buy, they are forced to rent. So supply is down for buyers but demand is up for renters. Renters also aren't building equity, when means it is perpetually more difficult for them to buy in the future as long as they kept away from the equity opportunity. So you now control the entire regional market on both the supply side and the demand side.

  But what if you have more rental property than people willing to pay your asking price? Do you lower your prices? First of all, that rarely happens - because as an investor, you target places that already have lower supply than natural demand. If you have to occasionally let a property go unoccupied for a few months, it's still no biggie... you keep those prices high and do not, under any circumstances, devalue the market (for your own sake as well as your investment cronies). To avoid accusations of collusion and price fixing, you farm out your rates to a third party service that all your cronies also use: RealPage. It's not collusion or price fixing if you use a middleman, right? So now you are making bank on rental rates that will see a full return on your (higher than the properties value) investment in 15 years or less.

  This has been going on for well over a decade, and these "investors" are now printing money on some of their earliest purchases, with no intention of EVER putting anything back on the market.

  TL;DR; Buy all the supply, force plebes to rent, control the prices, profit. Just like Monopoly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨god is dead⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, the right half just looks like a traditional Dutch breakfast.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So many expensive homes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  They are not being bought by regular people like you - they are being bought by investment companies, hedge funds, and filthy rich investors... all for the the sole purpose of turning them into rentals.

  By turning them into rentals, they keep supply low which increases prices... which also lets them charge exorbitant rental rates as well. They are gaming both sides of the system to ensure that us peasants can be milked dry over a fundamental human need.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Was Disney's Fox purchase a huge waste of money?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  They reacquired a significant amount of critical Marvel IP, they completed ownership of Star Wars (the first film was owned by Fox), they acquired a huge portfolio of lucrative IP (one of things you are complaining about), but most importantly they acquired Star… a huge media presence outside the US, especially in Asia.

  Also, don’t forget that the merger only completed in 2019, right before a particular major global event that we only just started coming out of… and which continues to impact the film industry in particular in some very wild ways.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spider-Man: No Way Home Director Confirms What We All Suspected About the Ending⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The phrasing is terrible. After reading the article, what they means is that the ending was a full reset that lets them start over.

  They consider the Tom Holland trilogy (so far) an “extended origin story”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨funny because true⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I'm like this with email. I do a quick visual scan about once per week... or fortnight... because it's almost all SPAM, and no matter how many blocks and filters I create, it does little to hold back the tide of trash.

  Everyone who matters knows the only way to reach me reliably is via text message.