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- Comment on Anon blames millennials 3 days ago:
- Hollow Knight
- Stardew Valley
- Factorio
- Outer Wilds
- Baldur’s Gate 3
- Clair Obscur
Gaming is fucking phenomenal right now, OP is looking in the wrong direction.
- Comment on Anon gets investigated 3 days ago:
I used to listen to a podcast titled Small Town Dicks (unfortunate title without context). It’s about the forensic procedural work that goes on behind law enforcement. One of the details that stuck with me was the effort that goes into a CP investigation and criminal trial.
When evidence is uncovered, like a hard drive full of CP, the goal is to present the worst of it to the jury. One of the hosts, a retired detective specializing in child abuse cases, had to go through a disk full of the most degenerate shit with victims in the single digit age, rank them, and also run facial recognition to figure out if other perpetrators may have been involved in a different case concerning the same victim.
- Comment on Anon plays ff14 6 days ago:
You meet the Mandervilles once, next thing you know, you’re oiling up Gerolt’s abs.
- Comment on Epic reduce their cut to 0% for the first $1 million in revenue for devs on the Epic Games Store 6 days ago:
Physical media died when games expanded beyond their capacity. Optical discs are physically fragile, they have a limited shelf life, they have to be reproduced by specialized equipment (not considering piracy here), they have to be physically transported to the customer, some regions are financially unviable (imagine the Helldivers 2 situation but with every game), and production has to end at some point. Having to set up a physical supplier also severely limits the ability of indie or solo developers to have any kind of success or even presence.
Physical media is obsolete, and people clamoring for its return are nostalgic for a world that doesn’t exist anymore.
- Comment on World of Goo 2 is out now on Steam and a great pick for puzzle game fans 1 week ago:
It’s also available directly and DRM-free on the developer’s website: worldofgoo2.com
- Comment on Cities Skylines 2, Kerbal Space 2, Planet Coaster 2, Frostpunk 2... What Went Wrong? 1 week ago:
I was there with KSP from the early days. Squad was not in the video game business, they were a billboard advertisement company. The lead dev HarvesteR started it as a passion project. It found success with the alpha and full release in 2015.
Then in 2017 Take-Two bought the rights to the game. Squad kept working on the original, but development of the sequel was handed off to Star Theory with Private Division publishing. The game was delayed, then development was moved to a new studio, Intercept Games, which was owned by Take-Two. They also poached a third of Star Theory’s personnel, which resulted in the studio’s death. They fucked around for a few years, released the early access version, then sold Private Division, closed Intercept Games, and abandoned the game.
In short: corporate interests.
- Comment on Religions have some of the wackiest rules 1 week ago:
Rabbits, beavers, and hippos are fish, you see.
- Comment on Woah, there's a cool little spider on my wall. I wonder what it's called? 3 weeks ago:
Did somebody let an ornithologist into the entomology enclosure?
- Comment on What's with "*checks notes*" everywhere? 3 weeks ago:
For dramatization, when some event is so stupidly, unexpectedly bizarre that you have to check your figurative notes to make sure you’re not just remembering a fever dream. Example:
America is rolling back renewable energy development to promote the use of beautiful, clean… (checks notes…) coal, of all fucking things.
- Comment on Even his doctors are full of it 3 weeks ago:
Those are two different measurements.
He’s six foot.
And he’s three inches.
- Comment on IYKYK 3 weeks ago:
Why not just go through Sloan? Seems so much easier.
- Comment on Anon is a statistic 3 weeks ago:
There’s also the matter of guns not being tossed around like candy at a Willy Wonka publicity tour in most of Europe.
- Comment on Anon is a statistic 3 weeks ago:
I remembered a different source. The one I linked uses a different definition for “mass shooting”: it counts events where at least four victims are dead or wounded, and includes cases of domestic violence.
- Comment on Anon is a statistic 3 weeks ago:
In 2022 or 2023 there was one mass shooting for every day of the year
- Comment on Anon is a history buff 3 weeks ago:
We fought for our rights! Our rights to be racist!
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 4 weeks ago:
I would question their omniscience if they did.
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 4 weeks ago:
Praying every day to gods I don’t even believe in.
- Comment on community work is revolutionary 4 weeks ago:
Because one hog ain’t enough, and two’s too low, it is I, Thirty-To-Fifty-Hogg!
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Since the article fails to link it (and also reads like slop), here is the actual publication: …europa.eu/…/8af13e88-6540-436c-b137-9853e7fe866a…
- Comment on Was a TV show you like ever ruined by the addition of a particular character to the point that you had to quit, or nearly quit? 1 month ago:
Browder’s acting was fine. It’s the character I didn’t like. A third “charismatic, witty, sarcastic leader” archetype was just too much after O’Neill and Sheppard. His tragic background also feels tacked-on, rushed, and inconsequential, and doesn’t have the same impact as Cold Lazarus.
Claudia Black, I actually like, mainly because of her stellar performance in the Uncharted games. Vala showed promise early on as a sort of opportunist anti-hero who may help or hinder SG-1 depending on the circumstances, but her inclusion in the SGC’s personnel was too much, let alone putting her in SG-1. Teal’c proved his loyalty and reliability, Vala did the opposite.
On the whole, the SGC had turned into a parody of itself. Beau Bridges was fine, but I couldn’t take him seriously as a general. Dr. Lee, an obvious comic relief character, did not help. Without Hammond’s straight man to counter the shenanigans, I just couldn’t take it seriously anymore.
- Comment on Was a TV show you like ever ruined by the addition of a particular character to the point that you had to quit, or nearly quit? 1 month ago:
Stargate SG-1, Anubis. A very evil, evil-looking evil guy who is evil and did a bamboozle once. That’s all the character depth he has.
Also Cam Mitchell, who is just a non-brand replacement for O’Neill (no offense to the actor).
- Comment on Definitely didn't waste half an hour making this 1 month ago:
I’ve had the same mechanical pencil for ten years. It’s comfortable, reliable, easy to reload, but if I had to choose one for the rest of my life, I’d still go with the traditional wood/graphite pencil. It’s cheap, it’s everywhere, it’s durable, and not a great loss if you lose it.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong updated Steam page with 2025 copyrights and cloud gaming jnfo 1 month ago:
Tomorrow for sure!
- Comment on Hey, do americans just want to take a break from normal politics for a bit and focus all our efforts solely on the wild boar problem? 1 month ago:
But how will Americans justify their private arsenals if they don’t have 30-50 feral hogs running into their yards while their small kids play?
- Comment on Late 1900s 1 month ago:
Funny how time works.
- 1995 was ten years ago.
- 1997 was three years ago.
- Every year of the 80s was 20 years ago.
- 2010 was 10 years ago.
- 2016 was two years ago.
- 2018 was two years ago.
- 2019 was one year ago.
- 2020 lasted for six years, but ended three months into the year.
- 2021-2022 didn’t happen.
- 2023 ended just a few weeks ago.
- 2024 still hasn’t ended. We also invented time travel. Consequently:
- 2025 takes place in the 1960s, rapidly progressing towards the 1940s.
- Comment on Which game is it? 1 month ago:
Pretty good, and somehow getting better with time.
The game’s main premium currency is platinum. There’s no way to get it through in-game activities. You can buy it directly, it is included in most cash-only purchases, or you can trade it freely with other players. Most of the trading is organized on the third-party market board warframe.market, and the in-game trading chat… exists, I guess.
Most of the game’s items (weapons, warframes, companions, upgrades) can be farmed through regular gameplay from random drops, from specific missions or boss fights, crafted from gathered resources, or bought using in-game currencies. You can buy most of them for platinum, but don’t have to. The only payment-exclusive items are cosmetics (skins, helmets, color palettes), but not all of them, and inventory slots. There are also many late-game items that are impossible to buy and have to be earned. Some items are also sold in discounted packs. As of the latest major update (released literally a few hours ago), you get an additional discount for items of a pack that you already own.
The worst limiting factor for a new player is warframe and weapon slots. Your account can only hold a limited number of certain items, and slots are almost exclusively purchased with platinum (a small number can be earned through Nightwave, a free battle pass-like system). A new account starts with 50 non-tradable platinum – my recommendation is to buy 2 weapon slot packs (12p for two slots, 24p total) and a warframe slot (20p for one).
- Comment on Which game is it? 1 month ago:
I’ve had Friday evening sessions that were ended by the morning sun. I wasn’t kidding about the crack simile. Time is just a suggestion when you have an assembly line to complete.
- Comment on Which game is it? 1 month ago:
I have the most hours in Warframe, but Factorio is on a different level. If you’re anywhere on the spectrum, it is pure crack cocaine. The only reason I haven’t bought the DLC is because I know it’ll consume a month of my free time.
- Comment on Anon has no social skills 1 month ago:
Graveyard shifts get weird, okay?
- Comment on Poooweeeer!!! 1 month ago:
I always wonder how many people think the cooling towers are “chimneys” blowing “smoke”.