TORFdot0
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- Comment on Anon goes to therapy 44 minutes ago:
Fake- anon talks to another person Gay- anon goes to therapy
- Comment on 3 days ago:
Yet again, pirates get the better experience than the paying customer
- Comment on Ubisoft target audience when they play a good game 3 days ago:
I have yet to play half life 2 (waiting on my son to get the motivation to help me beat decay, I’ve beat the other expansions)
But I can’t imagine that half life 2 doesn’t hold up when the first game is a masterpiece that holds up better than pretty much any FPS released after it
- Comment on If you're a parent, how do you prevent your kid from watching AI slop? 1 week ago:
I agree that if you completely take away their agency that it only makes the slop look more attractive but I also disagree that sentiment that “you can’t”. Technically it’s true. But that doesn’t mean we ought to give in to slop as parents. Low effort slop has been around since before AI. Find ways to teach the importance of genuine creative content and cultivate a preference for the real creative works with your children.
- Comment on As Fortnite Enables Third-Party Microtransactions, Steal the Brainrot's Developer is Slammed By Fans For Immediately Adding $45 Premium Bundles and Gambling-Style Mechanics 1 week ago:
I can understand your viewpoint and agree with it even that Fortnite is overly engineered to sell overpriced cosmetic items to children.
I think where we differ is that one wrong (regular Fortnite skins), doesn’t excuse another, worse wrong (brainrot lootboxes and expensive mtx that can be lost)
The whole operation should be shut down, I think we agree there. Fortnite is actually the majority profiteer in this case, the “experience dev” only gets 34% of the revenue from the sale. Infuriating how hypocritical epic is after fighting apple and google over these practices only to do the same thing.
At least Apple and Google try to protect their users from this kind of thing
- Comment on If you're a parent, how do you prevent your kid from watching AI slop? 1 week ago:
We had to use a family computer in a shared space. Not a tablet or phone that could be used unmonitored. Just because it wasn’t a technical measure doing the monitoring doesn’t mean we were unmonitored.
- Comment on If you're a parent, how do you prevent your kid from watching AI slop? 1 week ago:
Only whitelist content or creators you personally have vetted with apps like YouTube kids, jellyfin, etc until you can trust their own decision making. Then share an account so that you can see watch history (and hopefully your good media choices influenced their tastes as you would share an algorithm)
- Comment on As Fortnite Enables Third-Party Microtransactions, Steal the Brainrot's Developer is Slammed By Fans For Immediately Adding $45 Premium Bundles and Gambling-Style Mechanics 1 week ago:
Exploiting children isn’t funny. Stealing from fools is not ok. Having it be legal is not good for the health of society.
Normalizing antisocial behavior is not a good thing
- Comment on As Fortnite Enables Third-Party Microtransactions, Steal the Brainrot's Developer is Slammed By Fans For Immediately Adding $45 Premium Bundles and Gambling-Style Mechanics 1 week ago:
Pretty obvious what was going to happen when they decided to go the Roblox route. Fortnite and Roblox are both predatory slop. Quite frankly the developers (even if they are kids) releasing paid “experiences” (aka slop) are just as immoral and predatory.
Talk to your kids about not falling for scams like f2p monetization schemes.
- Comment on Parents... Huh... 1 week ago:
I mean if your plans were to have a simple life to do whatever you want devoid of responsibility then they definitely ruin those plans.
For the right people, plans are ok being ruined
- Comment on ARC Raiders - anyone else looting in their sleep? 2 weeks ago:
The real end game is that you get bored and stop playing. The game doesn’t really drop much story, just vague hints and tasks to guide you somewhat towards it.
You make what you make of it and move on
- Comment on ARC Raiders - anyone else looting in their sleep? 2 weeks ago:
ARC Raiders is an incredibly fun game. Really exposes both the best and worst of human experiences.
When ending the night after getting gunned down by a rat camping extract I can lay awake stewing over it for seemingly half the night. When the opposite happens, and I finish on a really good raid with some high level loot, I bask in the glow for the other half of the night.
- Comment on The 2025 Steam Awards Winners 2 weeks ago:
It’s innovated in that it’s an extraction shooter that has mass appeal and isn’t a total drag to play but it’s not exactly game breaking mechanics-wise.
I think it’s the multiplayer game of the year. Wouldn’t call it the most innovative game of the year
- Comment on How Are You Guys Handling This? 2 weeks ago:
Play old games, I guess? Arc Raiders is one of the only new games I’ve played in a long time. Recently got an Xbox one to play the golden age cod games.
- Comment on Ars Technica’s Top 20 video games of 2025 3 weeks ago:
No Arc Raiders? Did the list stop around October 1st or something?
No Clair Obscur Expedition 33 either makes this an unserious list.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
I don’t think it’s that big of deal, doesn’t it just link the account to your steam/psn/xbox live? I don’t even remember making a password for the account. It’s not like you also have to log in to another worthless launcher like blizzard/ubisoft/ea games on steam. That’s where I draw the line.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Do they charge real money for worthless cosmetics in this game? You think they’d be able to afford to bring the original voice actors back in to re-record some lines for updates, if that’s the case.
Seems kind of ironic for a game that’s about capitalists fucking the earth and leaving to space while the rest of humanity is plagued by AI death machines for generations.
- Comment on After Black Ops 7's weaker launch, Call of Duty will no longer do back-to-back releases in the same series 1 month ago:
United Offensive. Expansion pack to the first CoD, exclusive to PC
- Comment on After Black Ops 7's weaker launch, Call of Duty will no longer do back-to-back releases in the same series 1 month ago:
The new MW3 was literally just an expansion pack for the new MW2 sold for full price.
Same as BO6/7. People are only willing to be milked so much. It’s why when people say what their favorite CoD is, the oldest game mentioned is Black Ops 2
- Comment on After Black Ops 7's weaker launch, Call of Duty will no longer do back-to-back releases in the same series 1 month ago:
Why not CoD:UO? (Please play with us, most unique CoD and servers still online!)
- Comment on Forever young 1 month ago:
The trick is too just play the 20 year old game online still instead of moving on to the newer shooters. Everyone still playing is 30+ and have diminished reaction time as well so you still have a shot lol.
- Comment on Rebecca Heineman, grandmother of modern gaming, has passed away 2 months ago:
RIP Burger Becky
- Comment on Pokmeon Pokopia's retail release will be a game-key card 2 months ago:
In 10 years piracy will be the only way to play this game
- Comment on Study concludes cybersecurity training doesn’t work 2 months ago:
I guess the point is that users who are taking training are not more likely to pass the phishing simulations but I think that’s missing point. In competently ran organizations the point of these trainings aren’t explicitly to teach people to not fall for tests but to be able to identify which users are your greatest risks and either give them more support or can them if they are to high of a risk that it outweighs their productivity.
Of course the people who are taking more training are failing tests. It’s because they lack the computer skills or cognitive ability to understand what they doing. But taking a five minute training that says “don’t click the link” isn’t going to magically make people not get phished, but it has usefulness in basic awareness (which is why we have the super basic cyber security awareness training as well)
The reality is that all human beings can be socially engineered if the attacker is motivated enough. You can’t stop it by training only by planning and being proactively prepared
- Comment on Be this guy. 2 months ago:
What’s the problem?
- Comment on Why would I buy this? 2 months ago:
Buy the Call of Duty Warchest for $30 and play CoDUO with us. The best part about PC games is that you can still play the classics online!
- Comment on GTA V was released on this day, 12 years ago 4 months ago:
Go away scammer
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 4 months ago:
Following up on this, I think the studio ghibli is a good example of where community adding accessibility in the form of mods or cheats (or fan subs or dubs in the case of ghibli)
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 4 months ago:
I agree with making accessible controllers with special layouts and allowing custom control bindings to accommodate those who are differently abled.
Those can be accommodated without meaningfully altering the game. Changing the gameplay is different however. Not that adding more difficulty options is a bad thing, I don’t mean to disparage anyone by calling it fake accessibility, just that I don’t think it’s the same as other options because it fundamentally changes the experience compared to other options that I considered “real”
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 4 months ago:
Is it not fair for the game developers’ artistic vision to not be accessible to all? Accessibility is nice, expands the potential audience, but if it compromises my artistic vision and I’m ok with giving up reach and money to preserve it, that doesn’t make my game bad or my vision invalid.
It would be ridiculous to call up the bar or the ama and complain to them that becoming a lawyer or a doctor is not accessible to all.
One last addition, adding control remapping, color options, and text to speech are true accessibility. Easy mode is fake accessibility