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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gamers have you ever been in a game competition or something similar?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  To answer the question I think you are asking: No, I’ve never done any of the modern game competitions or leagues. I am not nearly good enough to compete against anyone who is remotely good enough to compete in gaming competitions. I’m also a completely different gamer these days and prefer to just play more meditative single player games that have bursts of action.

  To answer the question in a very literal way: Yes, back in the 80s I made it to the regional finals of the Nintendo World Championships (at the time when the Fred Savage movie The Wizard had just came out). I was up on stage in the central throne chair with the 100ft TV screen behind me projecting my game to 1000s of people in front of me cheering us on. I was roughly 10?? at the time, so I thought I was fucking amazing. I just barely missed out on making it to the next round in some other state because I screwed up placing a long piece in Tetris. I won a hat out of the thing.

  I also played in a Tetris tournament at a bar in LA about 15 years ago. I fucking crushed it and won $100.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony Sues Tencent Over Horizon Lookalike⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I went to the game’s website to see how they portrayed the game as opposed to taking whatever cherry-picked similarities Sony chose to use as their argument.

  Wow. It is fucking identical. Maybe the gameplay is different, but the art is indistinguishable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Battlefield 6 Trailer Drops, Teasing Chaos And Massive Firepower – Everything Else You Need to Know!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m personally offended you didn’t list BF1942 in your list of fun games. It was broken in so many hilariously fun ways. How much fun is it to be a sniper flying on the wing of a plane? Or suicide bomb a person in a plane only to eject and pop your parachute 1ft above the ground safely? Or to park your tank with the turret inside the door of a spawn point just blasting away?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox is cancelling Rare's 'Everwild' and ZeniMax's new MMORPG IP as part of broader cuts — with 'Perfect Dark' impacted as well⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the likely scenario. They are predicting an incredibly unpredictable consumer market in the next 4-8 years but a very predictable defense industry market in that time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘There Isn’t Much Sway Held by Past Success’: Baldur’s Gate 3 actors reveal it hasn’t boosted their careers⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I did two full playthroughs plus a lot of restarts mid-way to try different endings or different side things. The only voice I can clearly hear in my head is the mage, whose name I can’t even remember. I can’t even remember what my own character’s voice sounded like (the vampire).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Elden Ring’ Movie in the Works From ’Civil War’ Director Alex Garland, A24⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry, best we can do is having the audience dodge roll every scene.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WoW's Leeroy Jenkins, one of the internet's oldest memes, turns 20 years old—and after looking back on what we wrote in 2005, I feel like we've failed Leeroys everywhere⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A couple years ago my non-gamer girlfriend came home from work and asked if I had ever seen the Leroy Jenkins video since I used to play WoW. I was like, “yes, yes I know about that video.” She thought it was hilarious even though she had no idea what it meant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's a cancelled game you really miss?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The original team remade it as a VR game with a new name in roughly 2017. I played a demo of it at PAX and felt like it was 1996 all over again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remaster is real - Eurogamer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My favorite story was actually from my buddy’s playthrough. He duped the poison apple from the assassin’s guild quest using the arrow glitch. He then duped it 50 more times and put-pocketed one into everyone’s pockets in a specific town. When they all went to lunch they ate them and died. An entire town of dead people. It was hilarious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨StarCitizen skins worth it ?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm, a 30 minute old account with two posts about the same website that sells skins. Definitely not at all a shill.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Has Released on GOG!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you think a new player needs to play KCD1 before playing 2? I’ve never played either and am ready to start a new game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some old games that are hard to revisit, because a more modern and superior version exists?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I tried playing Baldur’s Gate 2 after a few full plays of BG3, and it was nearly unplayable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some old games that are hard to revisit, because a more modern and superior version exists?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I actually did. After waiting 10 years for a new TES game after Skyrim, I got bored and installed Morrowblivion. Played that all the way through. Then I played Oblivion with some visual mods. It was still quite fun, though I didn’t do a full play through. If I hadn’t already done a full play through, then Oblivion would still be an awesome game after playing Skyrim.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some old games that are hard to revisit, because a more modern and superior version exists?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have an NES and a PS5. I guess I’ll be on the old version.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"There comes a time when we all declare the war is over": Former PlayStation Studios boss Shawn Layden on the future of video game consoles⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I know there WERE Sony fans who would get upset that their exclusives would come out on other platforms. Back in the very early 2000s, fanboys would get irate at the smallest perceived slight to their preferred platform. But that hasn’t been more than a very niche thing for a decade. Almost nobody cares now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tony Hawk's™ Pro Skater™ 3 + 4 | Reveal Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know if any thing in that video looked even remotely realistic, except maybe the lame handstand ride.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elden Ring Nightreign releases May 30th⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My understanding from a video I watched is it’s a mix of shrinking world survival like PUBG and co-op Elden Ring with a boss at the end of each day when a shrinking happens.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looks like Horizon's unannounced MMO has been quietly cancelled⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can actually see Horizon working really well as an MMO. It’s already open world, fetch quest-centered with city quest hubs and such. Yeah, you won’t be that one main character, but you could be out there killing robot dinosaurs with friends.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looks like Horizon's unannounced MMO has been quietly cancelled⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Real question: after WoW had been around for a year or so, were you still unhappy about it? I never played any of the Warcraft games before WoW and had never played any MMOs before Wow, so I had no feeling either way about the announcement. I started playing WoW because two of my close friends and two of my coworkers were playing a bunch, so it was a good way to have more gaming friends than just my one gaming friend. Were most WC3 players unhappy about the announcement? It’s clear that millions of people ended up being pretty happy about it in the end.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elden Ring 2 Not Happening Any Time Soon, Says FromSoftware⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Good. They took their time to create a masterpiece this time, plus a pretty great expansion in short order. I would be upset if they said they were rushing to put out something just to cash in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intel Arc B580 'Battlemage' GPU announced - 1440p Ultra gaming for $249⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Read the text from the post, not the article. OP said it is releasing in 2044 instead of 2024.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What games have you put the most hours into?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh god, the PvP ranking bullshit grind. Yeah, you almost had to account share to get the top ranks. Back in Vanilla, two of my IRL buddies did the HWL grind. It was different from the Arena rankings grind, but still brutal. The last 3 weeks were nearly 24/7 to move up, and that’s only because we had an organized server that had a list of who was next in line to get HWL and enforced weekly caps to make sure someone didn’t grind 24/7 and miss a rank.

  I stopped at Centurion, because fuck all that. I also wasn’t good at PvP.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What games have you put the most hours into?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hang on. WoW came out in 2004. So in 6 years you played 3 years in-game? 12 hours a day, every single day for 6 solid years? Were you on disability? Because after sleeping, that doesn’t leave much time for work or school.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Remembering the Corrupted Blood incident: That time WoW was overrun by a virtual plague now referenced by Covid-19 researchers⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to get so mad at movies that had unrealistic portrayals of how people would act in a crisis situation.

  After COVID, I no longer question the unbelievable stupidity of humans, nor the amount of hatred humans have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First Ever REBIRTH in NES Tetris⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Watching the earlier levels I can hear the thumps on the controller indicating he is doing a bump/rolling control method.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First Ever REBIRTH in NES Tetris⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Did he use an original NES controller with the ROM or a modern controller? I know I have a hard time getting the 40 year old controllers to respond fast enough at higher levels, though I haven’t tried the bump control method.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨God of War Ragnarok Mod Removes PSN Requirement and Creator Vows to Maintain It⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I couldn’t find that option when I bought this game on PS5 last year or whenever it came out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨God of War Ragnarok Mod Removes PSN Requirement and Creator Vows to Maintain It⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem is that the requirement to have an account is in fine print most people would never read. Therefore you might accidentally buy a game without knowing you need it and can’t just “not buy the game and move on.” I’m fucking sick of having to create an account with every goddamn game company out there to play single player games on a PS5 or on Steam.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dragon's Dogma 2 patch introduces a casual mode, which stops your sick pawns from blowing everyone in a town up, among other things⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree. As long as I can get the same items in-game relatively easily, then I’m fine with someone else spending money to make their game more enjoyable. I have more than enough wake stones and port crystals or whatever to make my game enjoyable without having to grind to get them, so I don’t care if someone else skips the minor steps I put in for them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your favorite racing games?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The same team made Dangerous Driving and Danger Zone 1&2. The first is like the race mode of B3, and the second is like the crash simulator mode. Unfortunately, they are separate games, and neither are as polished nor do they have the good sound track.