EncryptKeeper
@EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world
- Comment on Screenshot of my current game! Lies of P 1 day ago:
I feel like I should give this game a try but the awful name “Lied of P” is so bad it turns me off the game so hard lol.
- Comment on DOOM: The Dark Ages Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 1 Million Copies 3 days ago:
It’s also the game they’re giving away with purchases of the 50 series Nvidia cards.
- Comment on $80 for Borderlands 4 too costly? Randy Pitchford says, "If you're a real fan, you'll find a way to make it happen" 1 week ago:
It didn’t used to be like that and they actually mentioned in the deep dive that they’re getting back to the way it was before. Like the point of the game is loot goblining, but they’ve promised not to inundate the player with legendary weapons every twelve seconds so that you actually have time to savor the weapons you get between good drops.
- Comment on Burned Loss 1 week ago:
Lmao “relentlessly bullied”.
- Comment on Burned Loss 1 week ago:
Whoever he was 17 years ago is very likely not who he is today.
Surely whatever he learned from that experience has been learned, and we can move on.
Ok well you keep all that learning and growing in mind while you take a look at this comic that the artist uploaded to his site a few years ago on one of the anniversaries of the original comic.
- Comment on Burned Loss 1 week ago:
You are giving the author a whole lot of benefit of the doubt that he hasn’t earned. You’re looking at this through the lens of a guy using his art to express his feelings of grief. Thats certain what he wants you to think, and if that’s what it was, it wouldn’t be so bad. But that’s not what it is. I mean for gods sake a couple comics later the female character crying on the hospital bed in the fourth panel apologizes to his self-insert for having the miscarriage. If that’s the type of guy to empathize with I don’t know what to tell you other than YIKES pal.
This is just a comic made by a notorious and blatant narcissist who dug up the traumatic experience of someone else from his past in an effort to be taken more seriously because his comics were regularly mocked as a poorly made ripoff of another popular comic at the time. If bullying a bad person is immoral then hey maybe you’re right. I’m not really prepared to have that philosophical debate at this time lol.
- Comment on Burned Loss 1 week ago:
A genuine expression of how he felt about an event that had happened years prior? I guess that’s possibly, although an odd choice.
As for his tools, his tools were his ability to draw. He probably could have drawn something to express his feelings that didn’t involve his funny haha web comic characters.
- Comment on Burned Loss 1 week ago:
Well, it was more like putting his college girlfriend’s life experience into his work, and then making the work about him. You’ll notice he’s in 3 of the four panels and she’s in one. Where he appears as the empathetic and caring boyfriend, while she is the one grieving.
- Comment on Burned Loss 1 week ago:
Taking a traumatic, devastating, and most of all very personal health event like a miscarriage that your girlfriend went through and hand drawing it in a cartoon style to post on your public “Funny haha” gamer douche web comic is generally considered a dick move.
Some further context is that the author Tim Buckley was generally pretty despised at the time and considered a huge dick. The comic itself IIRC was full of that turn of the century gamer douche “haha women bad” type comedy. So the posting of that comic was not only like a comically huge tonal shift but almost felt like him trying to somehow appear more sensitive and likeable.
- Comment on WoW's Leeroy Jenkins, one of the internet's oldest memes, turns 20 years old—and after looking back on what we wrote in 2005, I feel like we've failed Leeroys everywhere 2 weeks ago:
There’s an app called Active911 used by first responders like EMS and firemen to receive dispatch pages in lieu of a physical digital pager, and as far back as I can remember one of the selectable alert tones alongside various beep patterns, horns, and klaxons, was a recording of Leeroy Jenkins’ famous yell lmao
- Comment on Giant Bomb, a web site about video games, has been purchased from Fandom 2 weeks ago:
I mean sure but we could all just do that with everything and we wouldn’t need Lemmy at all lmao
- Comment on Medal of honor on the PS1 2 weeks ago:
Naw, this and the PC were different.
- Comment on Medal of honor on the PS1 2 weeks ago:
Does the Steam deck have a PS1 emulator?
- Comment on Medal of honor on the PS1 2 weeks ago:
No, you’re thinking of Medal of Honor Allied Assault.
This is the PS1 game.
- Comment on Day 297 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing 2 weeks ago:
It’s either my guy.
- Comment on Stardew Valley creator says he might make Stardew Valley 2 3 weeks ago:
Not sure where you’re coming from. Stardew Valley was completed years ago and the guy has actually kept releasing free content updates nobody even asked for. People are actually getting annoyed at him for continuing to update it since he’s supposed to be working on his next game.
- Comment on Chips aren’t improving like they used to, and it’s killing game console price cuts 3 weeks ago:
It’s never happened. No idea what that fella is smoking
- Comment on Ace Attorney became a hit IP only because Capcom pushed past the “failure” of first game, according to former dev 4 weeks ago:
Devastating
- Comment on Ace Attorney became a hit IP only because Capcom pushed past the “failure” of first game, according to former dev 4 weeks ago:
I can only guess you’re referring to the “Cornered” pursuit theme that plays when you’ve really starting catching out the current witness in all their lies. Everybody has their favorite version from whatever game but yo me, nothing surpasses the first one.
- Comment on Reminder if you're leaving Discord for this Revolt server ( Linux + Steam Deck devs / creators) 4 weeks ago:
Mobile app Revolt is nice, but doesn’t support custom servers yet last I tried.
- Comment on Ace Attorney became a hit IP only because Capcom pushed past the “failure” of first game, according to former dev 4 weeks ago:
Also the First Ace Attorney fucking slaps and has the best sound track by far. Their “Flop” was an incredible game.
- Comment on HELP! Im looking for a game like CIV 6 where the point is to go to war 1 month ago:
Hearts of Iron IV. It’s a grand strategy but War is the whole point.
- Comment on HELP! Im looking for a game like CIV 6 where the point is to go to war 1 month ago:
Civ 6 has two DLCs.
- Comment on How Ubisoft spent $2.1M on influencers to secure the launch of Assassin's Creed Shadows 1 month ago:
Generally speaking, algorithms on these sites don’t serve me a ton of videos with no views from creators with no followers, en masse.
- Comment on How Ubisoft spent $2.1M on influencers to secure the launch of Assassin's Creed Shadows 1 month ago:
This is true, but one thing I noticed with AC Shadows is that there were a LOT of no-name streamers posting reels with fake hype over the game. It was a little egregious and came off as more than a little desperate.
- Comment on What are some old games that are hard to revisit, because a more modern and superior version exists? 2 months ago:
I am an absolute die hard Hitman fan. I’ve played all of them. Replayed the whole series last year. Blood money was a better sandbox by far than the previous games. And it’s still a blast to go back and play just for the nostalgia and the vibes. But the people who insist today that it’s better than the World of Assassination trilogy are smoking crack. Not only that, but in some ways Blood Money was a big downgrade from the previous games. Hitman 3 in its current state today incorporates all the best things about Blood Money, the games that came before it, the game came after it, while cutting out the negatives.
- Comment on The specter of a GTA 6 delay haunts the games industry: 'Some companies are going to tank' if they guess wrong, says analyst 2 months ago:
A good observation. Hence why one of those games can afford to launch during a crowded window and the other, despite their confidence in their work, and the quality of their work, could not. You’re starting to get it now.
- Comment on The specter of a GTA 6 delay haunts the games industry: 'Some companies are going to tank' if they guess wrong, says analyst 2 months ago:
That’s just not how these things work.
Also if an (already established) company’s future is jeopardized by a single game not doing well, I’m sorry but it’s not well managed. Ask me how I know.
That’s not really here nor there. It also isn’t really true.
- Comment on The specter of a GTA 6 delay haunts the games industry: 'Some companies are going to tank' if they guess wrong, says analyst 2 months ago:
A good solo game might take a hit to its initial sales but should recover in the long run.
It won’t though. This feel-good theory that if a game is “good” then it’ll just make the same amount of money it always would have otherwise is not supported by any real world evidence. And even the most hypothetically high quality, ethical, game making company is still a company in the bed, and companies need to money to pay living wages and keep people employed making new games. And if the games they are putting out are high quality, they probably have competent leadership. And competent leadership isn’t going to gamble the future of their company and livelihoods of their employees on an unproven feel-good fantasy espoused only by people on Reddit and Lemmy who’ve never run a business before.
- Comment on The specter of a GTA 6 delay haunts the games industry: 'Some companies are going to tank' if they guess wrong, says analyst 2 months ago:
It’s the exact same thing actually. Their claim was:
Good games will sell regardless of what’s out
But that’s just not true, and game studios of all sizes know that. The risk aversion of these companies exist because of the reality of the situation.
