Coelacanth
@Coelacanth@feddit.nu
- Comment on [deleted] 22 hours ago:
Sid Meier’s Pirates! was remade twice - once in '93 and once in '04. Probably the first title that springs to mind for me. I have unfortunately only played the 2004 version, although I know the older ones are considered all time classics. Maybe one day.
- Comment on Rate My New Gaming Chair 4 days ago:
Beautiful.
- Comment on Key Givaway: Grime Deluxe Edition 1 week ago:
I already own it, still haven’t finished it though. If you love parrying and Soulslike Metroidvanias and don’t hate backtracking and platforming this is for you. Really cool graphics and art direction, too. World building is interesting. It’s a good game. Maybe one day I’ll finish it.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I don’t like that one bit tbh.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Getting upset because of the transitive property from a single mod’s user handle on anarchist.nexus is not db0 “systematically sending death threats”, though. Extraordinary accusations require extraordinary evidence.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I didn’t know about the silent bans/modlog circumvention in Piefed. That’s like, really really bad.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Yeah that sounds like moving alright, hah. Hope things settle down and quieten for you soon.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Perchance was indeed filtered out, as was “goofed” and “🥺👉👈”.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I would hardly call you a deranged lunatic. In fact, I would probably call you “feminist sex history expert”, because that’s what I’ve tagged you as hahaha (possibly unnecessary clarification: it’s a compliment).
As for the Tesseract mess, while I do of course agree that doxxing, death threats and hounding in the DMs is bad and should never happen to anyone, I feel like at this point I can’t take these accusations from him at face value. He has already argued in bad faith before and come up short on receipts.
And yeah I agree that the biggest tragedy is that there is a place for a curated experience like what he was trying to create. It was just gone about in such a bad faith way, maliciously implemented and had a block list made by someone with deranged and probably outright homo- and transphobic views on what’s acceptable.
And also, hijacking other people’s PC’s to DDOS db0 on the way out is like, an actual crime in quite a few places.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I thought it was a little quiet around here lately! I hope the move is going well!
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Like the other commenter said: while being emphatic as a default mindset is generally good, there comes a point where you need to look at the body of evidence.
Yes, nobody should be getting death threats. But - much like the supposed “toxicity” of some subs he blocked such as the apparently horrible WholesomeYuri - there comes a point where he is required to show some receipts. Because several of his accusers do have them.
Also: purposefully DDOSing a server as some kind of petty revenge is just disgraceful.
It’s not disgraceful. It’s criminal, at least in a substantial amount of places. It’s not a petty lashing out, he did a crime here. Let’s call it what it is.
- Comment on Why does Australia tend to ban or censor video games? 2 weeks ago:
You’re definitely right, although I grew up in Sweden and not Australia. But the same general cultural and societal trends applied. Growing up in the 90s/early 00s video games were still absolutely stigmatised and associated with nerds and social pariahs. It’s not that there weren’t games or gamers, but they were not really socially acceptable outside of the nerd subcultures and subgroups.
It wasn’t anything at all like how it is today, where everyone and their aunt is playing games and every kid from every social strata is playing some kind of video game.
- Comment on Can a Noob Beat Factorio Without Any Help? 2 weeks ago:
I have never played Factorio but I can already tell this is going to be great after the intro.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I doubt there is enough revolutionary fervor in the US for a civil war.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
This was already posted 9h ago. Great video, though.
- Comment on Weiners 3 weeks ago:
Maybe there is still some good on the internet, you know. This was an unexpectedly great video.
“Haha dick joke” truly is the one thing that could unify all mankind across all ages and civilisations.
- Comment on Day 735 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 weeks ago:
Hum, not sure that rings a bell. It’s possible I played it before the DLCs were out, then. Sounds like maybe that was for the best!
- Comment on Xbox Backward Compatibility on PC 3 weeks ago:
If it works the same way as Backwards Compatibility on the Xbox consoles it will also often have support for higher resolutions, higher frame rates and HDR. And I’m hoping the official support from Microsoft will mean better performance and fewer bugs.
- Comment on Xbox Backward Compatibility on PC 3 weeks ago:
This is absolutely huge. Ninja Gaiden Black and Ninja Gaiden 2 are finally released from the Xbox prison? It’s enough to make a grown man weep. I know emulation exists but it has been very spotty for Xbox titles and marred with bugs and performance issues.
- Comment on Day 735 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 weeks ago:
Will be interesting to hear about the DLCs, I actually can’t remember playing them. I wonder if a long-repressed memory will emerge or I actually never ended up playing them back in the day.
- Comment on What is the smartest non boss enemy in a video game 3 weeks ago:
It was mentioned elsewhere but the S.T.A.L.KE.R. original trilogy and S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Anomaly has pretty good AI. I guess Clear Sky has a little too much grenade spam but Shadow of Chernobyl and Call of Pripyat both have good AI, though I haven’t sat down and made exact A-B testing with F.E.A.R… Anomaly has a bunch of mods too that make the AI even better.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
You should spoiler tag that for H&S.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
I would argue the other way around. Blood and Wine is fun and nice as a capstone to Geralt and has a lot of content if you just want to ride around and play Gwent and do the Wine Wars and play house with your vineyard or whatever. It’s a fun expansion with a lot of value for your money if that’s what you’re after.
Hearts of Stone though is the most focused, well written, cinematic and concise story and content they ever made for Witcher. Has great characters, mystery, tension, levels, cutscenes, atmosphere… For me it was by far the more impactful of the two DLCs. If anything B&W is too long, I was already burned out by the end of it.
- Comment on What is the smartest non boss enemy in a video game 3 weeks ago:
Yes of course, I’m not suggesting any video game has any sentient actual intelligence. I’m just using the old terminology where “AI” means “whatever controls enemy and NPC behaviour in the game”.
My point is that even F.E.A.R.'s “Goal Oriented Action Planning” is much less sophisticated and complex than it first appears, thanks to excellent design and clever illusions.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Hearts of Stone is the best Witcher content they ever produced in my opinion. Highly recommend checking it out.
- Comment on What is the smartest non boss enemy in a video game 3 weeks ago:
F.E.A.R. enemies are very good for their time period, but there’s also quite a lot of smoke and mirrors involved that make them appear much smarter than they actually are. The voice lines are a great example, making you think they’re actually much more coordinated and intelligent than they are. The combat arenas are also very deliberately designed in tandem with the AI, both to maximise the efficiency of the AI that exists, but also to give them a bunch of opportunities to do manoeuvres that were unusual for the time - again to further the illusion. Good examples are ledges they can jump over and windows they can smash. It’s a much less smart and dynamic AI than it appears, but these small interactions give the impression of a highly intelligent enemy that interacts with the environment a lot.
They still do do some cool things sometimes though, like retreat and close the door behind them and wait in ambush.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Weird nonsense and shoulder belts? I can smell Nomura in the kitchen on this one grinning over the cauldron, I’m inclined to believe it’s real based off that alone.
- Comment on Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas remasters are officially in the works 4 weeks ago:
It’s a shame to me because it divides the modding scene, and plenty old but stable mods will never be updated to work with the remaster. But it is what it is. I guess it will be nice for console players as F:NV is practically unplayably broken without mods.
- Comment on Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas remasters are officially in the works 4 weeks ago:
Just don’t break mods, please.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I will echo the other comment: this is actually a great video that’s kind of ruined by the clickbait title. This is, more than anything, a video about the value of space in football.
Production and editing is fantastic, narration is good and it has lots of and varied clips. On top of that it actually goes through a lot of actual good analysis and uses player tracking and a surprising amount of appropriate metrics like pitch control and Expected Threat.