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- Comment on What’s your favorite video game that most people didn’t like ?? 1 day ago:
still sorta developing what would become their open world formula
The formula was already fully developed when AC2 was released in 2009. You didn’t have to literally climb radio towers, but WD2 was still the same map marker collect-a-thon with a slightly different, slightly gay coat of paint.
- Comment on What’s your favorite video game that most people didn’t like ?? 2 days ago:
I liked Watch Dogs 1 mainly because I didn’t consume any pre-release media about it. The game and its story are about as Ubisoft as they come (and I don’t mean that in a particularly good way), but it was great for fucking around.
I also liked Cyberpunk 2077’s launch version, but at the same time, I think the people who are trying to memory hole the objectively dogshit launch state of both 2077 and The Witcher 3 are perpetuating the problem.
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- Comment on Unknown Worlds Earns $250M Performance Bonus After Stellar Subnautica 2 Launch 5 days ago:
The acquisition was finalised in late 2021. No, Kim was stupid entirely on his own.
- Comment on Unknown Worlds Earns $250M Performance Bonus After Stellar Subnautica 2 Launch 5 days ago:
That entire situation was ridiculous. The major points:
- Yes, that contract was stupidly favorable to Unknown Worlds. It was negotiated by none other than Chang-ham Kim, CEO of Krafton.
- Kim later realized that and wanted to back out of the contract because it would’ve made him look like a pushover. He employed the help of ChatGPT, which told him that it was a stupid fucking idea.
- He went ahead with the plan anyway. He fired Unknown Worlds’ three co-founders for made-up reasons and appointed Steve Papoutsis as the CEO
- He tried to sabotage the game’s development by disrupting communication between Unknown Worlds and other departments, to push the early access launch beyond the window where the 250M could be earned.
- Obviously it went to court. Krafton tried to change the story about the reason the co-founders were fired based on information that they discovered afterwards, but the judge was having none of that chicanery.
- During discovery, the ChatGPT logs and some conversations were revealed that implicated Krafton.
- The court ruled in Unknown Worlds’ favour. The judge ordered the Ted Gill to be reinstated as CEO (the other two co-founders chose not to return) and the bonus window to be extended by several months to account for the time that they didn’t have conrol of the company.
- As a last fuck-you, Papoutsis prematurely announced Subnautica 2’s early access launch. Gill had no idea about the state of development.
- Subnautica 2 then went on to be a massive success, Krafton is in the doghouse, and Chang-ham Kim is now known to be both a pushover and a fucking idiot.
- Comment on Anon mishears a coworker 1 week ago:
When the small intestine has to be temporarily removed during surgery, surgeons use a tool similar to a coat rack to hang it. Afterwards, they just shove it back into the gut and let it wriggle itself back into shape.
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 1 week ago:
Satisfactory is rainbow sprinkles compared to Factorio’s crack cocaine.
- Comment on Destiny 2: Every End is a New Beginning 1 week ago:
Games the size of Destiny just don’t last this long.
Warframe is still going strong. Much of that is the result of competent developers and managers who don’t absolutely suck dog eggs.
- Comment on An 82-year-old YouTuber grandma was raided by police and SWATs during her live stream last night where she plays Minecraft to raise money for her grandsons cancer. Authorities brought 20 police cars 2 weeks ago:
There is an enormous difference between the conduct of police officers between the US and Europe. Again, it mostly comes down to the public’s access to firearms, but the quality of training and institutionalized prejudices are also a factor.
- Comment on An 82-year-old YouTuber grandma was raided by police and SWATs during her live stream last night where she plays Minecraft to raise money for her grandsons cancer. Authorities brought 20 police cars 2 weeks ago:
You know that shooters have the ability to stay quiet, right? A calm atmosphere doesn’t mean there isn’t someone who is in imminent danger. Back to the thought exercise: you’re a hostage, you call 911, police arrive. Then they wait five minutes and fuck off because nobody’s firing at them or shouting threats. Do you think that’s reasonable?
- Comment on An 82-year-old YouTuber grandma was raided by police and SWATs during her live stream last night where she plays Minecraft to raise money for her grandsons cancer. Authorities brought 20 police cars 2 weeks ago:
someone called the swat team on her?
some anonymous tip
That’s not what happened. Someone called 911 and described a situation that involved a shooter who has already shot someone. The 911 operator then had to relay that to the responders (in this case, LE). The responding officers might have only received an address, that there was a barricaded active shooter, and that there was at least one shooting victim.
It’s not up to the police to debate the veracity of a report. Imagine being in a hostage situation, you manage to call 911, and they respond with “sounds fake, not coming”.
- Comment on An 82-year-old YouTuber grandma was raided by police and SWATs during her live stream last night where she plays Minecraft to raise money for her grandsons cancer. Authorities brought 20 police cars 2 weeks ago:
Since guns are handed out in America like chocolate at a Willy Wonka publicity and outreach campaign, every law enforcement agency has to be kitted out to potentially combat a barricaded suspect who can rain a small militia’s worth of lead on them and their surroundings. That’s why the response team often includes armored vehicles, snipers, and crayon munchers armed to the tits. And because abusing emergency services doesn’t cut into the profit of any big corporation, there are no effective means to seek justice from the offenders.
- Comment on Anon tries watching nu-Trek 2 weeks ago:
She was trying to force Worf to live as a paraplegic. It might be acceptable for a human, but for a klingon, that kind of existence is psychological torture. She disregarded Worf’s wellbeing and rejected his decision and bodily autonomy because she couldn’t reconcile her feelings, and when another option was presented for a full recovery, she tried to intervene because she unilaterally decided that the risk of death was worse.
Then she had the fucking gall to give that “you scare me, doctor” speech.
I’ve seen it half a dozen times and it still boils my fucking blood.
- Comment on Anon tries watching nu-Trek 2 weeks ago:
She is a member of a nonhuman species that evolved on a planet with low gravity. They evolved in a way that makes then physiologically incompatible with the gravity that most other species experience. It’s an example of how a person’s level of physical ability and required accommodation often depend on the environment. It also challenges the viewer to reconsider whether she should be treated like a disabled person.
- Comment on Anon tries watching nu-Trek 2 weeks ago:
That was the episode that really made me fucking hate Crusher, both for her conduct and her attitude afterwards.
- Comment on Anon tries watching nu-Trek 2 weeks ago:
The barrel incident.
- Comment on My quest to get a steam controller has failed 4 weeks ago:
They were shipped into the US from Hong Kong, so probably manufactured (or at least assembled) in East Asia.
- Comment on My quest to get a steam controller has failed 4 weeks ago:
Oof. That’s rough. But given how insanely profitable these ~90 minutes must have been for Valve, I’m sure they’ll be back in stock in a few weeks since none of the components seem to have supply issues.
I managed to get one by just spam-clicking the continue button for about two minutes. I know, I’m part of the problem.
- Comment on Resident Evil Starting Point? 5 weeks ago:
The best entry point is Resident Evil 2 (2019), then play in sequence. RE1 introduces some characters and concepts, but they get better introductions in subsequent titles, and the game is… best experienced as a written summary, or while high.
You can also start with RE 7 if you want less action and more horror, it only intersects with the main storyline at literally the last moment, then move on to RE 8 before going back to 2.
- Comment on [PlayStation] [DRM] Licenses now requires an online check-in every 30 days. 5 weeks ago:
Sony made a fucking Xbox One.
- Comment on Steam On Linux Use Skyrocketed In March - More Than Double The macOS Gaming Marketshare 1 month ago:
The survey is always offered only to a random subset of Steam users. The results only ever represent the fractions of users who took the survey, and are not representative of the entire Steam ecosystem as a whole. Unfortunately, this means that the increase/decrease in Linux usage is probably within the margin of error and is not a reliable statistic.
- Comment on Anon watches Lost 2 months ago:
I literally thought that was Steve from Gamers Nexus.
- Comment on Asset reuse in videogames is essential, and we need to embrace it, says Assassin's Creed and Far Cry director: 'We redo too much stuff' 2 months ago:
Wildlight is a game development studio made up of former Respawn developers who (allegedly) worked on the Titanfall and Apex Legends games. Highguard was their first game: a pointless, live service, content incomplete multiplayer shooter. It was revealed in late 2025 as the final showcase of The Game Awards, which resulted in a collective sigh of frustration from the audience. The game was released on the 26th of January to a decent peak player count of over 100k (97k players on Steam). It was immediately clear that the game was in a terrible state and it couldn’t retain the players. Two weeks after launch, Wildlight fired most of its staff because Tencent, which had been secretly funding the development, had pulled out. It was later announced that servers would shut down on the 12th of March, 45 days after launch.
Even before launch, it was mockingly compared to Concord, another pointless. live service, content incomplete, competitive multiplayer shooter that only lived for two weeks.
- Comment on Asset reuse in videogames is essential, and we need to embrace it, says Assassin's Creed and Far Cry director: 'We redo too much stuff' 2 months ago:
This is the main reason Concord’s entirely avoidable failure pissed me off so much. Wildlight’s designers and artists spent years creating an entire game’s worth of assets (they lacked style and identity, but they weren’t bad) and now the game is dead, the studio is dead, and nobody will ever see or use those assets for something better.
- Comment on Arc Raiders Has Started Replacing AI Voices With Human Ones 2 months ago:
I don’t understand how having AI voices, with transparency and the voice actors’ affirmative consent, would make the game “unfinished”.
- Comment on Xbox just revealed Gaming Copilot is coming to "current-generation consoles" later this year 2 months ago:
There’s one person. He is bald and has a very chokeable trachea.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Denuvo adds an obscene amount of checks to the executable, which manifests as an increased CPU load (compare Assassin’s Creed Origins with and without it) and poorer performance. It also restricts the game’s availability to legitimate paying customers if there’s any issue with the “is this a new installation” detector.
- Comment on Video game PEGI age-ratings are changing in Europe from June. Four new categories added to tackle elements of addictive design, unmonitored online communication and loot boxes 2 months ago:
Original article by PEGI: pegi.info/…/pegi-expands-age-rating-criteria-inte…
- Comment on Steam :: About the New York Attorney General lawsuit against Valve 2 months ago:
It shouldn’t go away. It should extend to all of the big players using gambling and addictive conditioning in video games starting with EA and Microsoft.
- Comment on Anon didn't like the loot 2 months ago:
What nobody really talks about is that if you use the dogshit during the jabberwock fight exactly when it is bryllyg, it will apply the slithy status effect, which causes it to fail to gyre and gimble (you know the one), it rewards you with two lines of secret dialogue that completely recontextualizes the entire borogove arc.
