UnfortunateShort

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a little torn on your comment, because om the one hand you are right and on the other these lawsuits have nothing to do with the designs or art style at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CD Projekt exec says "the right thing to do" is release a real Nintendo Switch 2 cartridge for Cyberpunk 2077, not a game-key card, in message to other studios: "Do not underestimate the physical edit⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s funny, I would point put the amazing gameplay in particular as their no. 1 selling point, if I had to choose anything. But the discussion what’s good and what’s bad aside, they just didn’t deliver on their promises.

  I was fed the story of a GTA contender. A life-sim where your choices matter, starting with your origin story, which was supposed to already have great impact. And what does reality look like? Well, your origin story gets you a different tutorial mission and you get a few extra dialog options that do nothing. Your character always behaves exactly the same outside of that and it changes nothing about the story. It’s hardly even referenced by other characters at all, something Mass Effect and Dragon Age did better forever ago. The one big difference I noticed is that Jackie matters even less to you as corpo, which makes all the emotional stuff feel even more out of place and awkward, since you lose the offrenda mission. Hurray.

  As for life-sim aspects, you can eat in some select few cut scenes, otherwise eating is useless and doesn’t even come with generic animations. You cannot even eat your useless food at a stall in the city or have a drink at the countless bars in the game just for fun. Except for cutscenes and in your, save for the wardrobe, useless apartment of course. You can also take a useless shower, or wait in bed instead of literally anywhere else. Wow.

  You can randomly date a select few characters out of nowhere by choosing a random dialogue option. At least this yields you an almost sex-scene and a bonus quest… Followed by optional, awkward staring in your apartment and no further impact at all. Funnily enough your gender has a greater impact on the game than your backstory that way.

  NPCs are generally dumb and you can’t really interact much with them at all. Police is dumb and easily outsmarted as well, but also always punishes you by death for anything. MaxTac is really tough actually and beating them yields you… Nothing! Nothing at all.

  You do get a couple of choices throughout the story, but do they really change all that much? I would argue no, they don’t. Most of the time they cause some characters you barely know to live or die. Not the really important ones of course! We need those and there aren’t that many. I think one of the most interesting interactions in the entire game is the one with the ranom Natwatch guy, because you can’t really forsee the consequences for once.

  Then there are a couple of different endings, some of which are actually hard to find. I think in retrospective, they are the main thing, besides the very varied gameplay, offering replay-value. The thing is, you don’t need to replay the game to see them all.

  Is Cyberpunk trash? No, of course not, I’ve had my fair share of fun. I’m actually in my third playthrough to do liberty city, because everyone says it’s amazing. As for the main game only, I can’t help but be disappointed by the countless things this game doesn’t do. Including many low hanging fruits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CD Projekt exec says "the right thing to do" is release a real Nintendo Switch 2 cartridge for Cyberpunk 2077, not a game-key card, in message to other studios: "Do not underestimate the physical edit⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They arguably did worse, because NMS didn’t just polish the game, they retroactively added most of the content + didn’t release a DLC. Cyberpunk falls short of what has been promised to this day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Choose a number, 1-5!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  All but 5 look like cheap crap and I don’t like 5 for forks sake

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's not time for your point release yet.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Being “up to date” is a lie big Debian tells people to make them feel comfortable about being behind on patches. Wake up people!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG seems to be considering paid membership option⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  1/3 of the Steam + Linux market, that accounted for an incredible 1.45% of Steam installs in February. This means there were roughly 67 Windows gamers for every Linux gamer (using Steam) that month.

  So even if Linux gamers are 10 times more likely to care (and pay for) for game preservation, you are not even approaching the number of Windows users that might. Suppose 90% of Linux gamers care, while only 9% on Windows do, you still have roughly 6 Windows users for every Linux one. And this is a very generous assumption to make.

  Maybe, eventually, at some point, this makes sense financially. But if your goal is to be profitable, you grab the low hanging fruits first, not invest in maybe 10% more potential users.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG seems to be considering paid membership option⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What if I told you that the intersection between people who care and the 5% of their potential audience that are Linux users is very small either way?

  I’m not saying Linux isn’t a chance for them, but it’s also an investment and very like not a profitable one for quite a while.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨frenly warnin⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Since you can set temporary, server-only nicknames, you don’t even need to edit the page source or Photoshop to stage that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I the only one?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty damn cool tech tho. Another step towards second heart cyberware

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Watch out for that 5G⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You think about it the wrong way. GPS is not passive, it is everywhere

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I would do this for just 1.99⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Jokes on you, I got mic and cam on a physical USB-switch. So unless I go in “conference mode”, your attack is futile

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am a meat crayon⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I said you can use a bidet. Or have a poopy butt and live in denial if you prefer

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am a meat crayon⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You should consider wet wipes. They are a total game changer, if a bidet is not an option. When you think the worst is gone, use one (1). Then dry with normal paper afterwards. It’s great.

  Don’t flush them before making absolutely, 100% shure they decompose tho! If you can’t easily tear them with your hands, no matter what the packaging says, they will fuck up your plumbing. This can get really expensive, so when in doubt, use a trash can.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We're in the endgame now⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I meam, this is true, but labeling all modern conservatives fans of monarchy is disingenuous. There are also fans of unregulated capitalism, racism, facism und probably many other -isms going around!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fuck Red, Fuck Blue. Fly the black flag.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  More like black and a dark grey tbh

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dad⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the English equivalent of random Chinese words printed on a shirt

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No beans, only dogs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or just plain Bratwurst im Brötchen. With ketchup and mustard typically applied by the customer, usually using these disgusting squeezy-bottle-thingies

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I didn't ask for any of this.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Time to become an astronaut then. Where’s your ambition?!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It really is like this⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As we all know, there has never been any chinese app trending in the US. This because people hate the Chinese and everything they touch /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feelin free⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You know, if you lived self-sufficient you’d still have to work for meeting basic needs. Even in pretty much any form of socialism you are expected to work. So yeah, I don’t know what you think you are saying, but I think you are saying a whole lot of nothing here

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My computer will remember for me, I'm just along for the ride.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, that’s a super green flag. I appreciate it a lot when people don’t blast some bs they think they have heard from whomever

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There was a time when everyone had common sense⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem are the shitty modern cars that are partly hard to repair so you have to pay for parts and service, partly because they want to sell you bs “features”, while they also break constantly, because they are made to be as cheap as possible. Brought to you by the generation that now makes fun about people stuck in the system they helped to create

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I never realized this⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Jokes on you, my dad took my mom’s name

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Broccoli, cheese, and MILFs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You wanted to fuck you friends meatloaf?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I would celebrate more too, but I wouldn't defend the crime⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it legally wrong? Yes. Should it be legally persecuted? Absolutely. Is it, in this specific instance, morally justifiable or even admirable? I would say you could definitely argue that.

  I’m not familiar enough with the dead guy to judge, but from what I have heard I’m leaning towards “yes and yes”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good to see AAFES looking out for my health⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you smoke, you better start vaping, if you vape, you better stop vaping, it’s that simple.

  If you can’t, at least don’t use throwaway and sketchy products for anything you plan to inhale.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rust⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The thing is, much of the new stuff is intended to replace old stuff. Modern C++ is a completely different experience than old C++ - actually a much better one imo. But then there are two problems which makes things messy:

  1. Lagacy code, where introducing new concepts without updating the older parts increases complexity.
  2. People who don’t know or don’t care and just copy-paste whatever, mixing styles and standards.

  In both cases, you end up needing to know how to do things the new way and the old way, while one of which would be sufficient.

  There are exceptions of course (try{ pun(); }catch(const NotFunnyException& err){ return NOT_INTENDED;}).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Humans... Just The Worst⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  THEY ARE DRAWING CLEARLY UNDERAGE GIRLS AND CLAIM THEY ARE 900, DAD! DAD? DAD WHAT IS THIS GREEN WEBSITE!? HOW DO YOU EVEN KNOW LAPTOPS?! OH GOD! I MEAN, YOU, I MEAN… MICHAEL! MICHAEL HELP!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drink the climate change away⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are alternatives tho, no reason to support them

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Average Steam User⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  c/unixsocks in a nutshell