TowardsTheFuture
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- Comment on Shit solutions for shitty problems 2 days ago:
Props to Cairn its such a sick game for something most people would be very much so not interested in.
- Comment on Shit solutions for shitty problems 3 days ago:
- Comment on When it comes to total water use, AI data centers are a drop in the bucket 1 week ago:
“If you just compare one single business in an industry to entire industries that people have complained about wasting water, this one is nothing!”
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Highly suggest it. No need to rush into purchase. Try out the base game, explore, enjoy it. Endgame all classes can do basically everything, so finding one that clicks for you is more important than wanting to play “a healer” or etc. Unless you are trying to do the ultra sweaty Legendary Challenge Mode raid bosses you can complete everything using mostly whatever so meta isn’t a big deal. (Maybe high end fractal CMs and PvP/WvW things matter a bit idk.)
If you’re into story, there is a LOT behind the living season stuff, which was free if you played while it released but otherwise I think they bundle it all (and pretty sure like EVERYTHING is on sale, its $50 for the 1st 3 expacs and the living story stuff on their site, I think thats $5 cheaper than on steam.)
Do note: If you buy on steam, you’ve gotta buy all the stuff through steam. If you buy through arenanet’s website, you can’t purchase upgrade through steam. (If you’re on linux/steamdeck you can download and run it through steam with a startup command to use anet’s launcher to sign in normally if you go through anet instead of steam so either way it works.)
- Comment on 1 week ago:
It’s kinda funny, what stuck out to me in gw2 was that it was an MMO where (at launch) the story wasn’t just about you. There was an entire army (I mean duh it’s an MMO) and while you were the commander and thus still important, there were still things happening that you didn’t see. People dying in the war, even if you try and help, and overall just felt refreshing. Well I guess most people hated that so it ended up going a different direction after that but, I really enjoyed it.
I get liking the 4 player instanced content stuff, I loved PSO and others with a similar setup I just wouldn’t really call that an MMO, but they’re good games too. GW2 is much more social, and stuck out to me as an MMO where you don’t hate to run into people for once. No fighting over mob kill credit, no waiting in queue to kill a unique for a quest, no rushing to get a resource node before someone, etc. so even if it wasn’t all instanced, it was good to see other players, and they were more often than not extremely helpful.
It’s for sure a very different game than gw1, and I’m sure it will be different than gw3 as they plan to keep supporting and releasing content for all 3.
Also, if you didn’t see, they recently did a pretty big update to gw1 to make it more modern, and releasing on mobile later this month (you can sign in to same old gw1 account to play on mobile) and they did just say in their video post yesterday that they are adding a new type of content to it soon.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
As someone who played gw2 but never got into gw1, what exactly made it special? With reforged I’ve decided to finally get around to it and I played for maybe an hour so haven’t really been able to get to builds or heroes or etc yet so curious what people loved about it so much that isn’t in gw2.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I mean to be fair those are 5+ years old mid/low tier stuff, for a game that’s coming out in 2 years. It’s not like it’s asking for a 5080 and a 9800x3d.
It’s targeting ps5, so controls will be okay but yeah thats a bit higher than a steamdeck.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Come a long way since launch (which like technically could’ve had those builds but no real need since dungeons didn’t have much use for them cuz 5 DPS just blew stuff up before you die) and now raids and fractals have use for roles for either DPS or boon support which comes in DPS, heals, and tank flavors. Every class can do pretty much every role now, which I find nice to be able to find something that clicks with you and not have to switch off that class.
Some classes still have niches, it’s not all mush or anything, but it’s nice.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I mean, gw2 kinda sounds like what you want? Like it’s pretty chill, no need to continuously grind, hit max level and that’s it. Anything new added is account progression, and even then most of it isn’t important outside of that expansion’s story or to get better rewards from the maps for that expac or etc, save for a few masteries needed for a few specific raid encounters, and some that get double introduced (like mounts that are introduced in one expac and featured heavily in another) give a bonus if you have both which is cool but not necessary. Like 14 years of content so there is plenty to do, and today they said they’re commited to 15 more years, and while they’re pausing the next expansion for gw3 to get released, they are going back to base game to fix up a lot of stuff to make it better (and even adding physics based rendering)
It’s a game I can stop playing for months, come back and keep enjoying without needing to learn something new (unless a balance patch really fucked you up) or unlock new stuff or get new gear just to be able to play.
Plus WvW (bigass siege style PvP) is a pretty cool game mode and they’re developing a new map for that finally which can be a pretty chill PvP mode.
I guess my point is also why I am stoked for GW3, Anet has learned a lot and I don’t think I could be bothered to play an MMO not made by them at this point.
- Comment on After a landmark international court case backed workers’ right to strike, here’s what could change 3 weeks ago:
Not ratified by the US, as always.
- Comment on Aussies are a strange beautiful people with ways that are alien to me... 4 weeks ago:
It never ceases to amaze me that of all the fucked up bullshit to come out of Australia… this is what we make fun of?
- Comment on Hexbear is incapable of understanding hypocrisy 5 weeks ago:
Okay but this is funny.
- Comment on What gaming console you owned disappointed you the most and why ? 5 weeks ago:
Yup came here to say this. Had Mario tennis and I’m sure some other game but yeah not a lot of games. However it did cause a lot of headaches.
But otherwise I mean, I’ve not bought anything I would say is disappointing but also I haven’t bought any current gen bullshit.
WiiU was maybe a little closer to a disappointment? But more so because it wasn’t as popular. I absolutely loved the 2nd screen for shit like shoving the UI for MH3U on there so I could look at it while keeping the main screen clear.
- Comment on You know, you look like your head fell in the cheese dip back in 1957 5 weeks ago:
I mean either way… yes? It’s half. Which is a fraction of integers thus a rational number. Or you could argue the entire thing is left panels, in which case it’s 1. So… yes.
- Comment on Your Truck is Stupid Big 1 month ago:
Literally poking out into where traffic is supposed to be? Gets in the way? Wastes more gas just cuz big=“cool” (big != cool). Has same size truck bed/towing capacity as Japanese trucks literally half the size
- Comment on And toxic in large amounts! 1 month ago:
This is cassia bark (what most sell as cinnamon) but not Ceylon (has 250x less) so if you have “true” cinnamon then you’re fine
- Comment on Wake up sheeple 2 months ago:
What… are they even trying to imply?
- Comment on What are the most confusing false friends from your language to another that are spelt exactly the same? 2 months ago:
English/german has Gift and Die.
Probably others but idk.
- Comment on Is this accurate, Canadians? 3 months ago:
Right? It was just… in the same place…. Horizontal through the middle… it was so stupid.
- Comment on Is this accurate, Canadians? 3 months ago:
I’ve seen a snowbird with a thin blue line Canadian flag sticker on their truck…. And salt life. Lol.
So… maybe some of those are actually Canadians….
- Comment on Arc Raiders was accidentally recording Discord conversations into an unencrypted local game file 3 months ago:
Why commet and not element?
- Comment on Website 4 months ago:
Fuck man, I was talking about this exact shit today.
- Comment on Vimeo Lays Off 'Most' of Its Staff, Allegedly Includes 'the Entire Video Team' 4 months ago:
lol I came here to be like “oh man this is bad news for dropout”
- Comment on How long until we can start shorting years to 2 numbers again? 5 months ago:
Boy do I have bad news
- Comment on Steam winter sale is now live 5 months ago:
It’s fairly solid. You get to divine status so you can be a swarm, necromancer, or demon as far as evil goes (technically there’s also devil but that one’s… weirder to get to) and I guess Archon kinda comes off “evil” in that it doesn’t give a shit about anything other than “law”
- Comment on Me logging in today. 6 months ago:
Nacho libre?
- Comment on Feeling that groove 6 months ago:
Yeah, waves add. Which, well they add from the center which looks weird and bumpy. What’s more amazing is how good our ears are at picking out differences (it’s like 100x more sensitive to differences than other senses) so it can tell what all those individual waves would be so we can still hear the guitar vs drums vs bass vs vocals when it’s all one wave combined.
- Comment on Me when Valve releases a phone 7 months ago:
I mean Arm is big on mobile, so my thought with this was to be honest their work here COULD open up the possibility of a Linux based steam phone.
- Comment on What's the main device to hammer in a nail? 7 months ago:
Sure same thing.
- Comment on What's the main device to hammer in a nail? 7 months ago:
There is simply no solution. If you choose an answer as “correct” it is shown to be not correct, (not a 25% chance to choose 25%, not a 50% chance to choose 50%, not a 0% chance to choose 0%) showing there is no correct answer.