TacticsConsort
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- Comment on HELLDIVERS 2 sees over 130K bad reviews on Steam as Sony double down 2 weeks ago:
Requiring all players make a PSN account to keep playing.
PSN is notorious for two things:
A) Leaking your data
B) SELLING your data
It’s an account that has absolutely no benefits to own (apart from making a company line go up), is about as anti-privacy as it gets, and also makes the game straight up unplayable if you’re from a region of the world that doesn’t have PSN.
- Comment on As a long-time user hearing YouTube wants to play ads when I pause a video 3 weeks ago:
Adblock is a godsend.
Although I actually use Invidious for most videos these days. The only things Youtube has going for it are a decent autoplay function and a professional maintenance team. Invidious has things like ‘not aggressively selling my preferences to every algorithm under the fucking sun’ and ‘a functioning search bar’ and ‘not actively fighting against adblockers’
- Comment on Theoretical Physics 3 weeks ago:
Tbh as far as I know, the universe being a mystery IS one of the bigger problems for physics lads
- Comment on Life was better in the nineties and noughties, say most Britons 4 weeks ago:
They’re £1 a piece over where I am, me and my brother literally always joke that they’re the number one indicator that the economy is in shambles
- Comment on Life was better in the nineties and noughties, say most Britons 5 weeks ago:
I don’t think the immigrants are to blame. They make a really easy target for politicians to blame, but… I mean, we both saw Boris Johnson campaigning for his fucking life on ‘SAVE THE NHS SAVE THE NHS, JUST LET ME BAN ALL IMMIGRANTS AND RESTRICT HEALTHCARE SO I CAN SAVE THE NHS’ and then he didn’t give the NHS any money or support or investment, he just slipped a an absolutely fat bonus to all his tory friends and big businesses.
We should have invested in ourselves, yes. Just, please don’t be fooled into thinking we invested into immigrants. ‘We’ (the Tories) invested into the offshore bank accounts of the 0.1%.
- Comment on Life was better in the nineties and noughties, say most Britons 5 weeks ago:
I mean, I was pretty young at the time, but good god even I can see how we’ve been obliterated by inflation. There’s a specific chocolate here in the UK, a tiny little one for children called Freddo the Frog. Just a little cartoon chocolate frog, nothing fancy.
Their price has multiplied by a factor of TWENTY in the past 20 years. And I know pretty damn well that the amount everyone is getting paid has not increased by a factor of 20. Sure this is just a small irrelevant little chocolate bar and other things have inflated less, but like. It’s probably the easiest thing to notice.
But yeah also playing in the street or taking a bike ride around town with your friends was a thing when I was a kid. Sure we were all probably a nuisance, but these days… I don’t think I’ve seen anyone playing outside in ten years. The places we’d ride bikes got bought up and removed. And even the idea of allowing children to play outside feels… socially unacceptable.
Also early Youtube and Facebook were COMPLETELY different beasts that just didn’t have the millions of hours of design work put into them to suck people in and keep them there. Oh, and flash games were a really big thing too if you wanted to play on the computer. They were amazing. And big-name games were in a really good spot, paid DLC and the pay-to-win blight hadn’t really started, and stuff like World of Warcraft, LAN Halo, and other games you could play over at a friend’s house were at their peaks from a social point of view.
…I know nostalgia is a trap, but god, it really isn’t hard to think of things to be nostalgic for from that time, and I was only born in the very late 90s. At least I’ve got plenty of friends online these days though.
- Comment on Disturbingly accurate 2 months ago:
MASSIVE Dwarven energy. This image is the closest you’re going to get to seeing a bunch of children of the mountain sitting in their tavern, discussing their metalworking (hobby cars and bikes) and drinking brews that could atomize a human liver with a single sip.
Anyways I think these guys are cool
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 ended up making me regret playing. 8 months ago:
Yes, but I was under the entirely reasonable expectation that I would indeed get my niche thing (that being three or four lines of dialog), given the game’s overall setup, mechanics, advertising and franchise. It wasn’t just not included, it was actively averted as hard as possible.
Would you not be disappointed in the same circumstances?
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 ended up making me regret playing. 8 months ago:
Boy he literally murdered his closest, oldest, and most well-intentioned friend in cold blood, threw the body in a dungeon, and let their soul find no rest for several centuries.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 ended up making me regret playing. 8 months ago:
But am I wrong? Making an unreasonable complaint?
I know that most people don’t like dragons as much as I do, but… is it really that weird to want them not to get screwed to the Nth degree?
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 ended up making me regret playing. 8 months ago:
If this becoming a copypasta is what it takes to get me some dragons who have happy endings, then Holy my Hell.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 ended up making me regret playing. 8 months ago:
Thank you kindly. But I know that it’s just not a realistic expectation.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 ended up making me regret playing. 8 months ago:
I feel you. I REALLY feel you. I’d say more to commiserate, but everything I’ve got to say on the matter is already up there, and while I’m upset, I don’t want to rant everyone else into being frustrated. Best of luck to you finding someone you can save in your games?
I could, but after getting burned so badly in BG3, I’m very much feeling cautious about touching anything else this studio’s made.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 ended up making me regret playing. 8 months ago:
Probably the only thing that could convince me to head back and finish the game tbh.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 ended up making me regret playing. 8 months ago:
I wish, oh I wish.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 ended up making me regret playing. 8 months ago:
Seduction would have been like winning the Euromillions. Extremely nice, but totally unrealistic and I know it. I just wanted a nice chat and some pocket money after trekking all this way.
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