EncryptKeeper
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- Comment on FromSoftware didn’t want Sony to publish Dark Souls as it was ‘disappointed’ by how Demon’s Souls was treated 1 day ago:
Sony doesn’t really do that, not in the way that we’ve seen Microsoft do it at least. And most PlayStation exclusives are on PC now or are planned for PC.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto VI and Grand Theft Auto Online Could Be Sold Separately; Rockstar Is Targeting Solid 30 FPS on Consoles, According to Former Animator 2 weeks ago:
RDR2
- Comment on Marvel Snap is banned, just like TikTok 4 weeks ago:
Certified classic
- Comment on Microsoft lays off employees in security, experiences and devices, sales, and gaming — separate from performance cuts 4 weeks ago:
We also use Linux
- Comment on Microsoft lays off employees in security, experiences and devices, sales, and gaming — separate from performance cuts 4 weeks ago:
In the last few years we used to do windows updates quarterly on our production servers as required by PCI DSS. In the last year though, we’ve had to do updates every single month due to critical CVEs needing to be patched. It’s becoming ludicrous actually, yet they’re cutting security folk.
- Comment on Par for the course 5 weeks ago:
It’s also very likely the divorce was the reason for the behavior. Getting lost in the sauce of that nonsense is a tragic but not unreasonable reaction to the trauma of divorce, or just being hurt by a woman. That ideology and the people who make money from it prey on weak, lost men for a reason. Thats what its designed to do.
- Comment on Anon buys a TV without researching 1 month ago:
The Nvidia shield ships with the exact same OS as many of these smart TVs
- Comment on *cough cough* GOLLUM *cough cough* 1 month ago:
Supported genocide. Palestinian specifically. And not like “Supports Israel”. But very unapologetically thinks the Palestinians should die.
- Comment on Best City Builder 2024: Manor Lords [as per PCGamer] 1 month ago:
Ah yeah that’s a good catch. It is a solid game and should have won.
- Comment on Best City Builder 2024: Manor Lords [as per PCGamer] 1 month ago:
I can’t think of a single city builder released this year that isn’t in EA.
- Comment on Best City Builder 2024: Manor Lords [as per PCGamer] 1 month ago:
Were there any city builders fully released in 2024? Is this a matter of an EA title being chosen because there are no non-SA titles?
- Comment on What do You think about level scaling in cRPGs? 2 months ago:
The distinction is very much universally accepted. The reason CRPG is used synonymously with RPG in that article is because CRPGs were at the time of their inception what an RPG was. You can tell by reading the introductory description and the characteristics section that what is being described and named are tabletop-like CRPGs specifically.
You’ll notice that in the section that defines ARPGs that they’re referred to as a hybrid genre. They are related to CRPGs, as they borrow elements from CRPGs but they are their own genre that by that hybridization are distinct from the CRPG.
This is reinforced by the Wiki link I sent you which is a more cut and dried succinct list of game genres, where it lists ARPGs and CRPGs as two distinct genres.
- Comment on What do You think about level scaling in cRPGs? 2 months ago:
A CRPG is the video game sister-genre of the table top role playing game.
“Computer Role Playing Game” doesn’t mean “A Role Playing Game that’s on the Computer”, the word computer is used specifically to distinguish it from tabletop, meaning it’s intrinsically tied to tabletop RPGs.
So if a game plays with very similar mechanics to a tabletop rpg (Turn based, tile or distance based movement, top down or isometric views, unique player-created characters, plus the other hallmarks of the greater RPG genre), then you can call it a CRPG. Games like XCom are closer to being CRPGs than the likes of Skyrim, though it wouldn’t itself qualify because it’s not an RPG.
Games like Skyrim are well established in the “Action RPG” genre and the burden of supportive evidence and reasoning would really be on you to try and make the claim that Skyrim is a CRPG.
- Comment on What do You think about level scaling in cRPGs? 2 months ago:
Something that’s being heavily overlooked in this thread is the difference between a CRPG and an RPG/ARPG. I’m not sure which one OP is referring to, but if you want an easy guide, Fallout 1-2 are CRPGs, Fallouts 3-4 are not. Skyrim, the Witcher, latter Assassin’s Creed games, Elden Ring, etc are not CRPGS. Games like Divinity Original Sin 1-2, Baldurs Gate 3, Pillars of Eternity, Pathfinder, etc are CRPGS
- Comment on As the Canada "tax holiday" starts, Walmart increased the price of an item by the amount I would have saved 2 months ago:
This is exactly what the “Taxation is theft” morons don’t understand. They think if the government no longer takes their cut, everybody will just have X amount of money more, and the market won’t just swallow that up without giving you a single thing in return.
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2077 - Update 2.2 is live! 2 months ago:
No not at all.
- Comment on What are your favourite trailers? 2 months ago:
The absolute top spot has to go to the Battlefield 1 trailer, which stands at 74m views over the last 8 years.
The Halo 3 Believe trailer is up there as well.
A personal favorite of mine is the God of War: Ascension Super Bowl Ad
Honorable mention goes to a really solid recent trailer as well is the one for the long-awaited release of Satisfactory 1.0
- Comment on *Everyone liked that* 2 months ago:
This fella shot the CEO of UnitedHealthcare (An American health insurance company) dead in the street in NYC yesterday.
- Comment on Update on ConcernedApe's Haunted Chocolatier 2 months ago:
I can’t think of a more acceptable reason for a development delay for a consumer than “I was busy making free content updates to my existing game”.
- Comment on Anyone else bounce around from game to game with no clue what to play? 2 months ago:
If we’re being real, there’s a chance you’re just depressed. It’s also worth noting that you don’t actually have to play video games. Sometimes I just find myself without anything good to play. It’s ok to do something else for fun for awhile.
- Comment on Derail Valley just got a MASSIVE update! 2 months ago:
Derail Valley is the best non-branded train simulator out there, and the early access updates have all been significant. Phenomenal product
- Comment on Nuclear Demonology 3 months ago:
The punchline of your joke is that the answer is Oppenheimer, but it isn’t. Your joke just doesn’t make sense lol
- Comment on Nuclear Demonology 3 months ago:
Are they though? X-rays are emitted by electrons, not nuclei.
- Comment on Nuclear Demonology 3 months ago:
Either Rutherford or Fermi are who you’d probably credit for that given moment.
- Comment on Nuclear Demonology 3 months ago:
Oh well sure lol.
But if you want to isolate “The moment nuclear technology became known to man”, the splitting of the atom or the reactor that was built before the atom bomb are probably what you’re going to go with.
- Comment on Nuclear Demonology 3 months ago:
I’m not defending Tucker here but no it was not Marie Curie.
- Comment on Nuclear Demonology 3 months ago:
The splitting of the atom was only referenced in a single line in that movie and it wasn’t Oppenheimer who did it. Oppenheimer developed the nuclear bomb specifically.
- Comment on Veilguard Isn’t the First Dragon Age Game to Face ‘Woke’ Criticism 3 months ago:
Are you sure? I’ve seen generally favorable responses to the game from critics and players alike. Literally the only criticisms I’ve seen levied against the game so far are that it’s woke.
- Comment on Are any games using neural networks for better hard AI that doesn't cheat? 3 months ago:
Hard bots have actually been so much trouble, that literally the only way to make them hard at all is to make them cheat by allowing them to operate outside of the ruleset the player is bound by. It’s a humongous issue with every strategy game on the market.
- Comment on I'd have to hear her argument, but... 3 months ago:
I think he’s talking about vidya