VindictiveJudge
@VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world
- Comment on A cool feature/mechanic you want to see in games again 2 days ago:
I would love if Civilization or Crusader Kings implemented this.
- Comment on A cool feature/mechanic you want to see in games again 2 days ago:
Final Fantasy 9 had you learn skills from equipment.
- Comment on After Apple originally announced the first version of Halo in 1999, Xbox apparently called Bungie and said "'Steve Jobs can't have that. We're going to buy you.'" 2 days ago:
If you’re only interested in multiplayer then those are solid options. If you like campaign then you should definitely check out 2, ODST, and Reach.
- Comment on Valve Addresses Steam Machine Anti-Cheat Concerns, Says It's Working Towards Support 3 days ago:
And I’m hoping for them to be flatpacks so they still run five years later. I’ve had to resort to running Windows builds via Proton for games that have native Linux builds because they don’t work anymore.
- Comment on Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games) 4 days ago:
And x-axis, just to be thorough. Especially for third person games since they still can’t all agree on what the default should be.
- Comment on Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games) 4 days ago:
Relatedly, I’ve noticed ports of console games, particularly by Japanese devs, and especially Sqeenix, not actually having an option to quit to desktop. Sometimes hitting Esc will pop a plain system theme window with an option to close the program, but I’ve seen ones that didn’t even have that and had to be killed externally. It’s not as bad as it used to be, but even exiting DragonQuest 11 is a pain.
- Comment on Seriously, Bert! 1 week ago:
Technically, Thanksgiving actually celebrates the brief period before the genociding began.
- Comment on Anon lives in 2056 1 week ago:
Or when Lincoln was assassinated, since his VP was a Confederate sympathizer and immediately set about undoing his work.
- Comment on apparently, the T button dosent exist for some people 1 week ago:
It won’t work. LLMs work on probability. They’d have to be an absurdly prolific poster (probably at least a quarter of all comments present in the LLM’s training data) in order for their spelling to get incorporated and not just tossed out as a typo. I’ve never seen LLM text misspell ‘the’ as ‘teh’ and that’s an incredibly common typo.
- Comment on Years later, Arkane’s Dishonored is still a modern stealth classic 2 weeks ago:
Playing as Emily in 2 is really fun. You have the option to ignore stealth, go all out with your powers, and still not kill anyone.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 2 weeks ago:
PlayStation is probably going to still have exclusives, or at least timed exclusives, driving some sales. But this announcement may be the final nail in Xbox’s coffin.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 2 weeks ago:
I have carpal tunnel syndrome and mouse heavy games hurt, but playing with a controller is great. If this can easily replace a mouse and keyboard setup then I’ll be playing with it a lot, and those track pads are a big reason why.
- Comment on Assassin's Creed is a "forever brand" because Ubisoft supported huge risks with it, ex director says: "Whereas, say, EA, you get these awful execs and they never made games and they came from toothpaste companies" 3 weeks ago:
Gameplay-wise, Rogue is even better than Black Flag. Narratively, Rogue is a disaster fueled by Shay being painfully stupid.
- Comment on Why don't cars have a way to contact nearby cars like fictional spaceships do? 4 weeks ago:
I once had someone flip me off because I put my turn signal on. We were in the right lane, I was turning right, and the left lane was completely empty.
- Comment on Smells Great 5 weeks ago:
I hurt my knee; can I remain seated?
- Comment on one bright second 1 month ago:
Unless, of course, that onion knight has a lot of experience in other professions, in which case they can easily punch gods to death.
- Comment on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | Official Trailer | Paramount+ (NYCC 2025) 1 month ago:
The first and third for sure, don’t think the second will be a significant factor.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Dipping sauces?
- Comment on 1 month ago:
The 360 had far less RAM than the average PC of 2010, and the engine has had a memory leak since Morrowind. I never finished New Vegas due to that, even on PC.
- Comment on At 1% 1 month ago:
The monitor has to send some data to the computer to tell it what screen resolutions it accepts. VGA, HDMI, and DisplayPort will all do that for sure. Less certain about component, composite, and S-Video.
- Comment on Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year 1 month ago:
Fuck yes. A slave that takes on the slave owning Templar? Sign me up all day, I want to run into a confederate camp and crush them.
Freedom Cry, the standalone expansion for Black Flag, was essentially this concept in the Carribean. You play as Adewale, a slave turned pirate turned Assassin, and liberate plantations.
- Comment on BREAKING NEWS: We did it, guys! 20 poptarts! 2 months ago:
At what point does it become a grass roots movement?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
en.wikipedia.org/…/Advice_to_a_Friend_on_Choosing…
More seriously, some people just like older people better. Their interests or personality may make it harder to jibe with people in their own age group, but mesh well with people in another age group. Sometimes they’re ahead of the curve on mental maturity and their peers won’t catch up for a few more years, sometimes they just think they’re more mature than they really are, and sometimes they really would have fit in better if they had been born a couple decades earlier.
Personally, when I was younger, I had a hard time relating to anyone around my age and generally fit in better in conversations with people my parents’ age. As a preteen in the early 2000s, I was reading things like Dune, watching things like Blade Runner, and my music tastes included the Rat Pack. The things the adults talked about were just more my speed. This got to be less and less of a problem as I got older and my current friend group is actually a few years younger than me on average, though I do still have the occasional ‘faux old man’ moments with them.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
I love VTMB, but the gameplay was never the highlight, it was always the writing. If the story and characters are well written and it ties into VTMB1 somehow, I’ll consider the title justified. The writing is a pretty high bar, though.
- Comment on Is there or has there ever been information illegal to possess or have? 2 months ago:
Beginning of internet memes? Maybe. I’d have to look up when that happened. Beginning of memes as a whole? That would be off by several thousand years at a minimum, just going by ones archaeologists have already found.
- Comment on 'My Advice to Users Is to Accept Reality and Tune, or to Not Play' — Randy Pitchford Is at the 'Get a Refund From Steam' Stage of the Borderlands 4 PC Performance Backlash 2 months ago:
I could be wrong, but doesn’t he own the company?
- Comment on What D&D alignment would my character(s) be? 2 months ago:
Really, the problem is labeling that axis law-chaos in the first place when it’s really order-chaos. We’re pretty much stuck with it now, though.
- Comment on Who plays like that x_x 2 months ago:
2 and 3 do the same diagnostic routine, and Reach asks you to look at a building in the distance.
- Comment on Amid Palworld Lawsuit, Nintendo Patents a System for Summoning a Character 2 months ago:
You made a comment that is typically meant with complete seriousness without any indication you were joking. PETA, for example, has an entire anti-Pokemon campaign built on the premise that Pokemon is animal cruelty.
- Comment on Amid Palworld Lawsuit, Nintendo Patents a System for Summoning a Character 2 months ago:
Microsoft, Sony, EA, Activision, or Square Enix would be my guess.