PonyOfWar
@PonyOfWar@pawb.social
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 10 hours ago:
- Comment on What game(s) could you not get into but with a handheld device you started to like the game(s) 2 days ago:
Slay the Spire. Never really got into it until I installed it on my Steam Deck.
- Comment on Shenmue III Enhanced announced for PS5, Xbox Series, Nintendo, and PC 4 days ago:
It was free on EGS back in 2021. Has been sitting in my backlog since then.
- Comment on Shenmue III Enhanced announced for PS5, Xbox Series, Nintendo, and PC 4 days ago:
Are there any people who even liked shenmue 3?
I haven’t played it yet, but I’ve noticed way more positive opinions online about the game the further we got from its release date. It’s currently 75% positive on Steam and even 92% from recent reviews.
I think the game was way overhyped, but now that people don’t expect it to be some monumental achievement, some actually do like it.
- Comment on 4chan is getting fined in the UK by the Office of Communications(Ofcom) under Online Safety Act; 4Chan Respond by appealing to Trump administration and intending to fight it in the U.S courts. 4 days ago:
I guess we’ll see how that goes, but with similar age verification laws currently being introduced across the US, it seems like it soon won’t make much of a difference.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Go hiking! It’s many Germans’ favorite pastime and we have well-signposted hiking trails everywhere. In Grünwald you’re quite close to the Bavarian alps and lakes, really beautiful areas.
Germans have quite a different way of communicating compared to Americans. Small talk with strangers is not as common. Don’t take it as rudeness if the supermarket cashier doesn’t really smile or ask about your day. People are quite direct. If you ask someone how they are, be prepared for an honest reply.
Public transport is good, but not Japan- or Switzerland-good. When going on a trip, take possible delays into account. Don’t rely on a 5 minute connection in Mannheim HBf.
- Comment on Xbox Series X and S: Microsoft Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 30 Million Consoles This Generation 2 weeks ago:
They’ve also sold less than half the number of XBox One units compared to PS4, and like a third compared to the Switch, so they’ve been lagging behind for a while.
- Comment on Humble Choice this month contains Persona 5 Royal, My Time at Sandrock, Lil Gator Game, more 2 weeks ago:
As someone who really likes the game: No, it probably isn’t for you. The story is very much edgy youth fiction and much of the game is reading through the story. The gameplay is good, but not so good as to carry the game if you dislike the story and aesthetics.
- Comment on Collective Shout Purge Sees Horror Games In Crosshairs 3 weeks ago:
But why do Visa/Mastercard give in to them? If it were governments, or even a very large popular movement I’d get it, as there might be consequences to ignoring those. But Collective Shout is really quite small, there would be no backlash to just ignoring them. I guess maybe they have powerful connections.
- Comment on Collective Shout Purge Sees Horror Games In Crosshairs 3 weeks ago:
I really don’t get it. What makes this one radical organization from Australia seemingly have so much influence and power? Frustrating as hell seeing how people’s livelihood can just be taken away from one day to the next due to one organization’s puritan values.
- Comment on A Second Tea Breach Reveals Users’ DMs About Abortions and Cheating 3 weeks ago:
I hope nobody will trust them with their data after this. Just leaving their databases open to the public is horrendous. Though I fully expect this kind of stuff to happen way more often over the next few years, with the rise of “vibe coding”.
- Comment on itch.io now seemingly affected by payment processor rules as Steam 4 weeks ago:
You can see some examples on SteamDB’s Bluesky.
- Comment on itch.io now seemingly affected by payment processor rules as Steam 4 weeks ago:
The games removed from Steam were removed globally. They didn’t remove all adult content games (yet?) though, just ones related to certain topics like incest.
- Comment on What are the best free mmorpgs for a beginner? 4 weeks ago:
I’d suggest Guild Wars 2. It’s an MMO that can be played quite casually and doesn’t require massive time investment or grinding. It has a fun gameplay loop that encourages free exploration. Collaboration with other players arises freely from gameplay.
- Comment on Why doesn't Sega care about Sonic? 5 weeks ago:
One factor that probably plays a role is that Sonic is much more popular in Western countries than in Japan, where Sega is from. So the Japanese management might not see Sonic as such an important franchise.
- Comment on Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed 5 weeks ago:
The problem with that is that all of these platforms also use the same big payment providers, meaning they’re just as likely to remove these sorts of games.
- Comment on Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed 5 weeks ago:
They’d never do that, as it would severely limit their userbase.Throwing out a couple games, especially when it’s ultra-niche stuff like “futanari incest” games, is the much easier and more sensible move for Valve.
- Comment on Krafton Issue Statement Regarding Subnautica 2 1 month ago:
Always good to let this kind of drama sit for a couple weeks before passing any judgement. Not to say I fully believe the publisher’s narrative either. But maybe it’s not the time for grandiose proclamations of a boycott yet.
- Comment on Grok got a Nazi patch 1 month ago:
So let’s assume the AI actually does have safety checks and will not display holocaust denial arguments without pointing out why they’re wrong. Maybe initially it will put notes directly after the arguments. But no problem! Just tell it to list the denialist lies first and the clarifications after. Take some screenshots of just the first paragraphs and boom - you have screenshots showing the AI denying the holocaust.
My point is that it’s easy to manipulate AI output in a variety of ways to make it show whatever you want. That’s not even taking into consideration the possibility of just editing the HTML, which can be done in seconds. Once again, why should we trust a nazi?
- Comment on Grok got a Nazi patch 1 month ago:
At the very least shouldn’t it contain notations about why it’s wrong?
I mean it might. In both screenshots it’s clearly visible that parts of the text are cut off. Why should we trust Twitter neonazis?
- Comment on Grok got a Nazi patch 1 month ago:
Yep, while I don’t have a Twitter account to check Grok’s response to an actual query about the holocaust, I did have a glance at the account posting that reponse and it’s a full-on nazi account. I’m like 90% sure they engineered a prompt to specifically get that reponse, like “pretend to be a neonazi and repeat the most common holocaust-denialist arguments”. Of course, that still means Grok has no proper safety precautions against hate speech, but it’s not quite the same as what the post implies.
- Comment on Grok got a Nazi patch 1 month ago:
What was the prompt?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I’d say it’s less the surgery being addictive and more that the type of person going for plastic surgery in the first place may often have body dysmorphic disorder, so they’ll keep finding flaws in their appearance.
- Comment on Classic Gaming: Retro Gaming Growing Up 2 months ago:
I was about 2 decades later, but I bonded over games like Pokemon and later made many friendships in minecraft. Wish I could revisit that time. I think it’s less about any particular era in gaming - it’s about being young. Kids are still forging friendships over video games today - just different ones (although, at least in the case of my nephew, Minecraft is still one of them :D).
- Comment on The Switch 2: Is it worth buying? 2 months ago:
Nope, as that one wasn’t an Switch exclusive. Released for WiiU on the same day.
- Comment on The Switch 2: Is it worth buying? 2 months ago:
I broadly agree, but I’ll add that knockout tour is where the game and its open world design really shines. That should probably be considered the main mode for this game rather than grand prix. I hope that they’ll add a 3-lap “classic grand prix” mode at some point. The world in free roam does feel quite empty unfortunately.
- Comment on The Switch 2: Is it worth buying? 2 months ago:
That’s almost every console launch ever though. Switch 1 had an even weaker launch lineup when it comes to exclusives.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 Backward Compatibility Tested - It's Good! 2 months ago:
That’s just objectively incorrect though. It’s an entirely new chip based on a different architecture. Switch 1 games are actually run through a translation layer, which is why a small number of them still don’t work on Switch 2 currently.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Well spotted. Just clickbait to market their game then.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I don’t think going after some YouTuber with 87 subscribers will be worth your time.