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- Comment on Epic Games unveils Launcher V2 in re-attempt to topple Steam, says redesigned storefront is up to 6.5x faster — promises player profiles, user reviews, universal controller support, and much more 12 hours ago:
That’s why I said DRM free, because I don’t trust them, so I would only buy something if I could take it and use it away from their store forever.
- Comment on Epic Games unveils Launcher V2 in re-attempt to topple Steam, says redesigned storefront is up to 6.5x faster — promises player profiles, user reviews, universal controller support, and much more 12 hours ago:
It was never about any of that. It’s that Valve is a trustworthy company so far and epic is not. The only way at this point I would buy from epic store is if they offered DRM free copies.
- Comment on Star Trek Picard's Most Underrated Character Is Returning For New Series: Everything Known So Far 2 days ago:
Not quite all our dreams, seeing how we were asking for a show…
- Comment on Nvidia CEO: Society has no choice but to change. I used to play in the streets. When cars came along, you obviously can’t play in the streets now 3 days ago:
Yeah this dude is clearly detached from the conversation, because people have been realizing that car superiority was a massive mistake and we should be correcting it. Like unfettered AI expansion
- Comment on Karma Just Hit Adobe. Hard. 5 days ago:
Thanks. I don’t think that’s quite karma hitting them like the thumbnail suggested
- Comment on Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on Xbox: ‘We have to turn this into a sustainable business’ 5 days ago:
Its like they think we don’t see all of this. Why would we trust Microsoft at all? I’m saying this as a long-time Xbox fanboy, I was on board, I have shirts, I bought all the Xboxes, I defended them during the xbone era, and they still burned me. Your list is exactly right.
- They are incapable of making quality games internally.
- they refuse to let writers do what they do best and instead meddle and water down stories
- they set wildy unrealistic expectations on games and studios and then like you said if it’s not literally the best game ever made of all time (on the shoestring budget and timeline they set) they blame the studio and close them
Why would I ever trust anything they made?
My spouse is playing Outer Worlds 2. They enjoyed the first, so playing the second. It is a fun game. It’s not amazing or groundbreaking, but fun. A solid sequel. Not everyone will like it but there’s a good following. How did Microsoft respond? They raised the price before it released to 80 fucking dollars (for what is solidly a 40 dollar game), they then backtracked to 60, still people refused to buy it at that price, they blamed the studio (obsidian) for lack of sales, and now told them they won’t make a third one because they just don’t see the demand.
- Comment on Karma Just Hit Adobe. Hard. 6 days ago:
Can anyone say that this clickbait titled video is worth watching?
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- Comment on Love/hate relationship with Bethesda Game Studio 1 week ago:
Starfield is where the studio died for me, and it’s not because it was a bad game. It’s actually nothing to do with Starfield directly, but more that I realized they just don’t know how to make any other type of game, and the world has left them behind.
Skyrim came and went, and then Fallout 4, which was great, but then you got the Witcher 3, and Red Dead 2, and the bar has been raised for open world RPGs. It’s not that Bethesda is bad, it’s that they haven’t modernized their gameplay or engines.
Starfield had a great idea, but they couldn’t execute on it. 16 loading screens to jump between planets, annoying clunky animations, the game felt like it came out in 2013, not 2023. Even if ES6 came out next year I wouldn’t trust it simply because I don’t think they know how to make a modern RPG anymore.
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- Comment on Xbox Plans Significant Layoffs as It Transforms Under New CEO 1 week ago:
I feel you, I had a similar case. At the end of the day you’re a line in a spreadsheet. Taught myself early that no matter how connected you are with a company, it doesn’t matter at all. Family, friends, they matter. Work to live, because work will throw you away tomorrow if they want to. Your family will always be there.
- Comment on Xbox Plans Significant Layoffs as It Transforms Under New CEO 1 week ago:
Always remember when there is a massive leadership shakeup - you are not safe. They have their own people, they are there because the last person fucked up (in their eyes). Never believe anything they say, you are not safe in your position.
They won’t do it immediately. The first 90 days is them only observing, then at 6 months they have a plan. 6-12 months they’ll be implementing their new plans. Never feel safe because “they’ve been here a couple of months and it’s fine”.
- Comment on Game Reveals kind of suck now .. 1 week ago:
I just can’t stand marketers, and that’s all these shows are now. I hate the artificial dialogue in the trailers, the fake views of the games, everything is “curated”, and it feels so fake. Then also what’s the point of getting hyped because a heavy double digit percentage will be minimum delayed, or even full-out cancelled (because hype is a metric now). I wait for game dev streams, at least sometimes you’ll get a real dev who isn’t “PR trained” talking about their game, and then you can get a realistic idea of how complete it actually is.
Satisfactory did it best in my opinion. True early access, they had minimum monthly videos showing the progress, they had a regular EA release cadence every 6 months, they actually engaged on Discord/Reddit/etc (You could literally @ them on the platforms and they’d respond, not just “join our discord” with a bunch of unanswered question with no actual company presence). Then when 1.0 actually released it was (I believe) CoffeeStains biggest and most anticipated release. It felt real, authentic, actual people making a game. Not a marketing team shilling.
- Comment on Halo: Campaign Evolved | New Missions Trailer 1 week ago:
- Comment on Scott Pelley on His Firing and the ‘Massacre’ at ‘60 Minutes’ 1 week ago:
No one should be trusting cbs or paramount now. It’s now an unofficial wing of the government
- Comment on Local news did an entire segment featuring a guy who's mad about having to drive more carefully. 1 week ago:
I literally do mean pedestrians, and it literally does mean being able to take a sharp corner. The hood design is deadly to pedestrians, and you’re so high up that you have massive blindspots. It is a machine that can and regularly does cause controversy, meaning running pedestrians and children over. I absolutely hate how the most unsafe hood design is considered normal, and have and will continually lobby for them to be removed from the roads.
I do not care how safe someone feels inside. To everyone outside the car they are massive liabilities.
[Learn up on them] (youtu.be/jN7mSXMruEo)
- Comment on Local news did an entire segment featuring a guy who's mad about having to drive more carefully. 1 week ago:
They designed that vehicle without regard for safety. Then it was rated poor for pedestrian safety and people still bought it. They made the street safe for the people Ford and the buyer ignored.
- Comment on Local news did an entire segment featuring a guy who's mad about having to drive more carefully. 1 week ago:
Great point, I didn’t see them talk to any pedestrians or cyclists!
- Comment on Local news did an entire segment featuring a guy who's mad about having to drive more carefully. 1 week ago:
If he can’t make that turn he both bought too large if a vehicle and also is a shit driver.
- Comment on DOGE cut 20% of APHIS the agency that protects U.S. agriculture and now the screwworm parasite that wipes out livestock has returned to the U.S 2 weeks ago:
That’s why I don’t necessarily blame one person here. George Carlin said it best. Selfish ignorant people vite for selfish ignorant leaders. If it wasn’t him it’d be someone else. The problem isn’t one person, it’s that such a massive amount of voters are selfish and willfully ignorant.
- Comment on DOGE cut 20% of APHIS the agency that protects U.S. agriculture and now the screwworm parasite that wipes out livestock has returned to the U.S 2 weeks ago:
Yeah well what’s the profits this quattwr? I don’t have time to think about next quarter!
- Comment on Online influencer Andrew Tate gets a warm welcome in Russia 2 weeks ago:
Great he can stay there
- Comment on Why Life in Louisiana has Become Impossible 2 weeks ago:
I’ve grown to loathe any thumbnail that says “its over”
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- Comment on A Witcher Expansion? In 2026? 3 weeks ago:
We don’t know anything about it. Maybe it takes place before blood and wine, or before the whole game? Maybe it’s only a ramp up to W4, can’t judge it there until we know more.
- Comment on Watch: Zuckerberg’s superyacht arrives in Seattle just as Meta cuts 1,400 local jobs (video in body) 3 weeks ago:
While I’m all against polluting, that would make a fine artificial reef at the bottom of the lake.
- Comment on A Witcher Expansion? In 2026? 3 weeks ago:
All the information we have is in the blurb above
- Comment on A Witcher Expansion? In 2026? 3 weeks ago:
I think that’s absolutely what is happening. The fires for the Witcher have calmed in the fans to a few hot coals, this will stoke them up so fans are frothing for Witcher 4
- Comment on A Witcher Expansion? In 2026? 3 weeks ago:
As we learned with Cyberpunk, it’s much better for them to take their time.
- Comment on A Witcher Expansion? In 2026? 3 weeks ago:
Please be good please be good dear god please be good
