bassomitron
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- Comment on What a fantastic deal 1 day ago:
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- Comment on Last Epoch developer Eleventh Hour Games gets acquired by KRAFTON 3 days ago:
Narrator: It didn’t.
- Comment on Itch.io apologise for "frustration and confusion" after delisting thousands of NSFW projects 4 days ago:
Edit: and yes, the Vice article was removed because Vice’s ownership bitched out over covering Collective Shout.
Wow, holy shit. How fucking far Vice has fallen. There was a time they would go the extra mile to cover wild shit that no one else was doing. Greed and the wealthy’s critical need to have control over the media ruins everything.
- Comment on The respiratory system uses osmosis to interlace caffeine in the digestive system through your midi-chlorines 1 week ago:
An ounce per day?? That’s insane on multiple levels, but just the cost alone… unless they’re growing their own, that’s an extremely expensive habit.
- Comment on YouTuber Faces Possible Jail Time for Reviewing Gaming Handhelds 1 week ago:
That really sucks, man. I fully empathize with getting fucked by a greedy government that protects the wealthy while abusing the working class. The world needs to unite against the elites destroying it.
- Comment on You thought it would change your life and you would be so happy 3 weeks ago:
I think the begging for the job is more, “I need this to keep a roof over my head and put food on my table,” than any real desire to work at a soulless job.
- Comment on Guess I'm banned by Know Your Meme now. [yippee.wav] 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, banning by IP from such a big website is pretty silly on the site admin’s part. Tons and tons of places share 1 to a small handful of IPs (e.g. apartment complexes, school dorms, etc).
- Comment on 'Death Stranding 2' proves more video games need to get weird, experts say 4 weeks ago:
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was the most creative game I’ve played in years and years. Amazing story, amazing characters, amazing art and world design, all topped off with a beautiful soundtrack. The gameplay was of course good-- not perfect–but, very satisfying when it hit its stride.
- Comment on One gamer got so tired of waiting for Valve, he made his own 'Steam Controller 2' out of Steam Deck parts, and it even splits in half like Switch Joy-Cons 5 weeks ago:
All fair points. I can definitely see the appeal of wanting the same functionality that the Deck controller brings, as I myself really enjoy the extra flexibility the trackpads and back buttons provide. But the ergonomics in this example just looks awful and feels really reminiscent of the original Xbox controller.
- Comment on One gamer got so tired of waiting for Valve, he made his own 'Steam Controller 2' out of Steam Deck parts, and it even splits in half like Switch Joy-Cons 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, this looks awful to use. It’s okay on the Deck because that’s a mobile device and has a lot of functions it needs to satisfy on the go. For a dedicated controller? Why the hell would you prefer this over the better ergonomically designed SC 1 or literally any other console controller?
- Comment on Even in android Microsoft is still trying to get you to use edge 5 weeks ago:
It’s not any worse than Chrome, which isn’t saying much. Firefox is still the best user friendly browser, IMO.
- Comment on Persona 4 Revival and Stranger Than Heaven will both release in FY2027 or beyond (after April 2026), according to SEGA fiscal report 5 weeks ago:
Atlus has zero shame with milking the hell out of the Persona IP. I truly don’t get it.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
This is amazing, hahah
- Comment on Did YouTube just disable video playback for people using adblockers or is it just me? 1 month ago:
Try using the extension that can spoof what browser you’re using. Last year, Firefox was being hindered by YouTube until I downloaded that and made it think I was using a Chrome browser.
- Comment on If no government shall bare arms against its own citizens. Then what is happening in LA? 1 month ago:
Ahh, good to know. It’s hard to keep up with their constitutional crises blitzkrieg.
- Comment on If no government shall bare arms against its own citizens. Then what is happening in LA? 1 month ago:
Not to mention that both the SCOTUS and other courts have ordered this administration to cease deporting people without due process, which they’ve unsurprisingly have gone on to ignore.
- Comment on If no government shall bare arms against its own citizens. Then what is happening in LA? 1 month ago:
Especially when both that city’s mayor and state governor explicitly do not want those troops there.
- Comment on Tango Gameworks is back with a new look... and a new website! 1 month ago:
Oh for sure, and I did enjoy some of the side content and thought some of the optional quest stories were good. When I say smaller scale, I think a game like Expedition 33 nailed the balance of having plenty of side/extra content that’s fun to do while also ensuring that completionists don’t go mad from trying to hunt down everything.
Regardless, I agree with you on everything you said; it all boils down to preferences :)
- Comment on Tango Gameworks is back with a new look... and a new website! 1 month ago:
I thought the core of GW: Tokyo was pretty good, but it suffered from far too much open world bloat. I’d love to see them revisit that world, but it’d be great if they made it focused on a smaller scale. Just my two cents, anyway.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Or, like my old, late cat (RIP buddy 😞), they hate most humans and other animals. Once he warmed up to you, he would absolutely get lonely without his favorites around. Didn’t care if our dog was around or not, despite our dog being sad for awhile after he died.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Just to clarify, properly trained and handled drug and bomb sniffing dogs do actually have quite a high accuracy rate. However, in the hands of shitty police officers… sigh.
- Comment on Anon makes a modern game 2 months ago:
You just equip em, if I recall correctly. I didn’t try it myself, but it definitely is possible:
- Comment on Anon makes a modern game 2 months ago:
Yeah, Avowed definitely has its flaws in other areas of the game, but its combat was a lot of fun, in my opinion. I really think it got way more hate than it deserved. I’m the same way when reviewing games: If it’s fun enough to make me look forward to playing it the next day and I forget about the real world a little bit while I’m playing, then I feel like it accomplished its purpose.
I started out as 2h hammer, but ultimately did shield and 1h axe. I’d probably do a magic centric run next if I ever do a replay, as the magic system did feel pretty good whenever I’d use it as my off-hand.
- Comment on Why does (human) organ trafficking exist? 2 months ago:
Because the waitlist is often very long. On top of a limited supply, there are other limiting factors, e.g. if you’re already really old and sick, the organ that becomes available will likely go to a candidate that’s more likely to have a successful transplant instead.
- Comment on Anon makes a modern game 2 months ago:
It’s been almost 20 years since I’ve played the original, so I may be misremembering its difficulty. I remember it being super easy to cheese everything, just like in the remaster. Really, I don’t have a high opinion of vanilla combat in any of the Elder Scrolls games. I think Avowed did an excellent job of showing how FPS RPG combat can be accomplished well.
- Comment on Anon makes a modern game 2 months ago:
This is a bit dishonest. You can clearly see in the screenshot that the sun is low in the sky, this the darker/somewhat washed out tones. When it’s high in the sky, the color really isn’t that much different than the original, albeit obviously not as vivid. Whether the vivid/bright color of the original Oblivion is better than the remaster or not is purely subjective; I happen to prefer the newer aesthetic a lot more.
- Comment on Square Enix considered ending Final Fantasy 11 in 2024, but player interest was high enough to keep it alive even after 20+ years 2 months ago:
I got into it for the first time back around this last December/January. I was amazed how active the community still is. I didn’t even play on the most populated English server, and chat was always active. Sidenote: There’s only a quasi-global chat thru Yelling while in cities, you have to join Linkshells for more consistent chatting (that game’s version of guilds, and yes you can have more than one linkshell at a time).
As for the gameplay itself: It’s a very clunky game, and it’s very slow. But, that’s part of the charm when compared to today’s MMOs where everything is designed for instant gratification. Fortunately, there are tons of add-ons the community has made to enable some Quality of Life features, such as updated HD textures, a minimap, auto-inventory manager and sorter, etc. I got to around level 70 after about 6sh weeks/120 hours of game time, until my annual MMO interest dried up. I might dive back into it again next year whenever the MMO itch hits again.
Supposedly Square was working on a remaster of the game back around 2018, but it got scrapped a couple of years into development. Which is a shame, because the game with some modern UI sensibilities and graphics would be really nice (as long as they didn’t change hardly anything of the core gameplay).
Overall, it was nice/kind of sad to see it still had a lot more depth than FF14, which I consider to be very watered down nowadays even compared to its 2.0 re-release. But again, for anyone considering trying it out: It is a slow game, and it has alllll the jank of a 2003-era MMO. Just getting it installed and your account setup is janky, so make sure you watch a video before even attempting it.
- Comment on I'm a console gamer so, Why the hate on the Epic Games Store? 2 months ago:
Their Guides feature didn’t come out until 2012sh, same with workshop. The only thing Steam had in 2010 that Epic doesn’t have right now is Community, which launched around 2007sh.
- Comment on I'm a console gamer so, Why the hate on the Epic Games Store? 2 months ago:
I don’t disagree that Epic could definitely be doing better with their storefront. They have made improvements, albeit at a glacial pace. They’ve added achievements and reviews, but it’s still a pale comparison to what Steam offers. That being said, no one seems to dig at GoG’s shitty storefront and app nearly to the same degree. Luckily, GOG allows third-party access, so you can at least replace their app with other alternatives.
Regardless, I’m not defending Epic, I was simply trying to avoid doing the mindless “fuck Epic” and offer some counterargument. Epic is a shitty company, but some competition is better than zero competition. Yes, GOG exists, but they hardly have any marketshare at all and if CDPR ever stops supporting it as much as they have been, their future likely isn’t looking so great. It’s like AMD vs Nvidia. Both companies aren’t great, but I’d rather both exist than only Nvidia and/or AMD; and of course, even more competition would be even better.
- Comment on I'm a console gamer so, Why the hate on the Epic Games Store? 2 months ago:
People are going to list all the features Steam has over Epic, ignoring that Steam has had ~22 years to get to where it is. The original Steam experience was garbage, and lots of us older gamers knew what would happen and hated that Steam would be the primary catalyst to killing off physical media for PC games back in the mid-2000s, especially as broadband internet access was becoming far more accessible.
Don’t get me wrong, Valve has done alright so far in terms of game ownership, but once Gabe dies/retires, it’s only a matter of time before some greedy fucks force Valve to go public and the pure enshittification process begins.