rtxn
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I take my shitposts very seriously.
- Comment on Arc Raiders Has Started Replacing AI Voices With Human Ones 4 hours 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 14 hours ago:
There’s one person. He is bald and has a very chokeable trachea.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day 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 days 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 days 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 3 days 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.
- Comment on "Life of Black Tiger", a hilariously bad looking game that somehow managed to get a gameplay preview shared by the official PlayStation YouTube account in 2017 1 week ago:
That game has been alive for at least 238.6 Concords, or 74.2 Highguards. Impressive.
- Comment on Microsoft Confirms 'Project Helix,' a Next-Gen Xbox That Can Run PC Games 1 week ago:
This is where the RTFM mindset is important. If you encounter an issue, there’s multiple decades’ worth of information on the internet that will most likely immediately provide an answer.
The location of installed files is determined by long-standing conventions that were in effect even before Linux was released… but I won’t go into it. You can read about it yourself: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_filesystem
This is my point: do you need to know this? Nine out of ten cases, this is not useful knowledge. I’m a sysadmin and even I don’t need to know where each program’s files are located. You should not be interacting with these files at all. Let a package manager do that.
- Comment on Highguard will permanently shut down on March 12th. 1 week ago:
Not as glamorous if you consider that Liz Truss lasted 3.5 Concords in office, and a rotting head of lettuce exceeded even that.
- Comment on Ubisoft Finally Confirms Assassin's Creed: Black Flag Resynced, the Remake We All Knew Was Coming 1 week ago:
“Please, guys, we really need the money!”
- Comment on Sony Pulls Back From PlayStation Games on PC 1 week ago:
Destiny is on life support, Marathon is bleak, Concord was Concord, and the one studio that could’ve printed them easy money is dead because Sony leadership is a fucking circus. Gee, I wonder why sales are low.
- Comment on Highguard will permanently shut down on March 12th. 1 week ago:
I agree completely. There’s only one chance to make a first impression. The final ad slot of TGA needs a worthy game that the audience can be excited about, and putting the most generic, most corporate-looking game there felt like an insult. Kind of like this absolute flop.
- Comment on Highguard will permanently shut down on March 12th. 1 week ago:
Not a lot, just enough to get the feel of the game, but also to realize that I’m not the target audience. In some ways, it’s similar to Counter-Strike 1.6 twenty years ago: if I have a group of friends and an hour of free time, then sure, I might hop on. But I won’t be investing the time and long-term effort that an extraction shooter expects of me.
The moment to moment experience is good. Bungie haven’t forgotten how to create a tight FPS experience. But the game needs longevity and that’s what concerns me.
- Comment on Highguard will permanently shut down on March 12th. 1 week ago:
I don’t see how this would be a grift. Tencent’s funding seems to have been contingent on some kind of metric, and they pulled out because Highguard fell short.
- Comment on Highguard will permanently shut down on March 12th. 1 week ago:
Marathon is probably life or death for Bungie. Sony can’t exactly afford to put out a mid game after spending so much on the studio… and “mid” is exactly what Marathon felt like. Just like so many copycats during the battle royale boom.
- Comment on Highguard will permanently shut down on March 12th. 1 week ago:
By “dev team”, I’m guessing you mean the artists, designers, programmers, and testers; the people who spent the last five or so years actually creating the game. Yes, it sucks for them. Their years of work have effectively been thrown in the trash because of Wildlight’s management. I hope they find better work soon, and I hope the management become personae non gratae in the industry.
- Comment on Highguard will permanently shut down on March 12th. 1 week ago:
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- Comment on 1 week ago:
Mongolian folk music is criminally underutilized.
- Comment on Talking to new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma and CCO Matt Booty — "This team has brought it back before, and I'm here to help us do it again." 2 weeks ago:
Is this what they call “absolutely unemployed behaviour”?
- Comment on Anon lives in the past 2 weeks ago:
How does Doom 2016 run on the same rig? Id Tech 6’s performance is genuinely incredible for the level of visual fidelity.
- Comment on Anon lives in the past 2 weeks ago:
Thinking about what games Cueball might be playing today is giving me depression.
- Comment on What do you think of this "change your profile photo to Clippy to protest anti-consumer practices" thing, and would you say that organizing and collective action would be a lot better and such? 2 weeks ago:
The same as the pink ribbon for breast cancer: awareness. “Why is everyone praising Clippy?” becomes “Who the hell is Louis Rossman?” becomes “Why is Rossman so angry at tech?”.
But beyond a certain point, I think it just adds noise. Rossman’s original intention is to educate people about anti-consumer practices, and more importantly, to call people to action. Many people will stop at Clippy because it feels like they did something without any real effect. It becomes a feel-good pretend non-activism, like Kony 2012, or that one time David Guetta ended racism.
- Comment on Xbox chief Phil Spencer is leaving Microsoft 3 weeks ago:
His name was Ozymandias, King of Kings.
- Comment on Anon is a PC gamer 3 weeks ago:
When the COVID recession started, dairy farmers were seen dumping surplus milk rather than sell it at a lower price. I foresee a version of this where companies start destroying silicon to keep the supply low rather than let the prices drop to sane levels.
- Comment on Bloober Team's big reveal is Layers of Fear 3 3 weeks ago:
The player is shown a lot of disturbing imagery, but there is zero tension and no threat. It’s similar to early Chinese Room titles: a pretentious and superficial experience comparable to A Machine For Pigs, without the pigs. Evaluated as a horror game, its horror is ruined by the game. 4/10, the experience isn’t worth the time. Just watch someone else play it.
- Comment on ‘This shouldn’t be normal’: developers speak out about bigotry on Steam, the world’s biggest PC gaming storefront 3 weeks ago:
Depends on where the curator draws the line, and you can’t apply sane criteria to what they consider “too woke”. Sometimes a game is put on a woke list because it has a female lead, or a physically strong female character, or non-heteronormative character dynamics, or people of color are present in it… I’ve seen one that was marked as woke because it referenced climate change. I think it was some popular shooter or something.
- Comment on ‘This shouldn’t be normal’: developers speak out about bigotry on Steam, the world’s biggest PC gaming storefront 3 weeks ago:
That is literally how I discovered Signalis.
- Comment on Annon punches a Nazi 3 weeks ago:
As someone who was bullied and assaulted several times in school, I have to chime in: don’t do that. A huge, arcing punch like that is flashy and spectacular, but it is easy to dodge or deflect (massive moment arm), and you’ll be thrown off-balance. Instead, if you can get in close, aim for the gut, just below the sternum. Keep the fist low and close to your body, and twist your torso as you punch. Hitting the soft tissue below the ribcage and above the stomach is fucking painful and will leave the rubber sole sommelier struggling to breathe.
- Comment on Games you fell out of love with. 4 weeks ago:
FFXIV. I was playing it for the story… then Dawntrail happened.
