Boiglenoight

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Metaphor: ReFantazio's success is further proof that politics are good in videogames, actually—no matter what reactionaries tell you⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This isn’t right either. Inserting politics into anything serves that that up for discourse, and getting people discussing and thinking critically about a topic is a fantastic achievement for any medium that delves into the subject.

  It’s when partisan messages about politics are inserted into a game that poses problems. Instead, video games should explore as many takes on an issue as capable in service to the story being told. Wow, it’s terrible that the horned people are aholes to the perfectly normal looking people, but how did that come to be? Is there any historical precedent where the shoe was on the other foot? I think of Jews and how 70 years ago they were facing extermination at the hands of Germans find themselves now in the position of the exterminator. How did that happen? That’s great material for exploring politics in games, to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Metaphor: ReFantazio's success is further proof that politics are good in videogames, actually—no matter what reactionaries tell you⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Games have a large male audience and many of those males are white. When new games focus on protagonists and issues that do not resonate with white males, this aggravates the audience and it only takes a few vocal few to whip the group into toxic online behavior.

  Metaphor is set in a fantasy world populated by Japanese. The characters may seem to be of a multiracial society, but it’s understood that this is not a western game but an eastern one through a western lens. It could have the most radical political discourse but as players we quietly accept that this is a foreign story and not one that reflects on western issues and prejudices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this what every election is like?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No. This is extremely abnormal. I grew up in the 80s and elections were boring. Something happened in 2000, where Al Gore should have won but Bush was favored in court. That was the start of a sense of wrongness with our political system, that has manifested into what we have today.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Realistically... How fucked is the US?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like the U.S. is becoming similar to Russia. For example, we are seeing an autocratic strongman holding the highest office and only vaguely behaving within the democratic system, with a clear intent to rule unilaterally with a congress and Supreme Court that are less checks and more support for maintaining the power base. And as generations continue to experience this way of life, America as a society will forget what it was like for the past 250 years where both parties respected the system with peaceful transfer of power.

  It’s sad, but fascinating in a kind of slow motion train crash to be alive for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 will NOT have Denuvo on PC⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If it’s worth playing, reward them by purchasing not pirating.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Lemmy an effective alternative to Reddit?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. It’s different, but good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Threads of Time - Official Announcement Trailer | TGS 2024⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  SHUT THE FUCK UP, DONNY

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why People Don’t Catch The Politics In Their Favorite Games⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think this person means non partisan, because Metal Gear Solid is filled with political intrigue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Tesla made the worst truck ever⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I saw one as well. It looks like the Matrix stopped loading polygons or shaders on that object.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Glenn Greenwald and Alan Dershowitz Debate Bombing Iran [01:51:12 | May 24 24 | ReasonTV]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t think of two people I’d rather hear from more than these two gentlemen. /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Streets of SimCity 27 Years Later: An LGR Retrospective⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Back then I felt like I’d played everything. Fun to learn about games that passed me by.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The wild successes of Helldivers 2 and Baldur's Gate 3 send a clear message: Let devs cook⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  🎵This how we do-it🎵

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't really know how to deal with coworkers who emotionally dump their issues on me⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Crazy people do this. It’s a gender neutral issue. I’m sorry you’re dealing with that. Best you can do is not respond anymore than necessary with hope they’ll move on to the next person.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beavis and Butt-Head - SNL⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed. Please Don’t Destroy is pretty good though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is there no true Progressive party in America right now?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The are progressive groups, but the best they get is a compromised Democratic Party beholden to corporations if they want to continue being elected. IMO.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam :: Introducing Steam Families⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve used GoG. It’s good. Never used Itch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam :: Introducing Steam Families⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Valve can be attributed with saving PC gaming. When people were terrified of buying “digital only” games on this fugly client called Steam—which only had Valve games and a few no name indies—the PC gaming shelves in places like Walmart and EB Games looked like a clearance section. Just a hodgepodge of games in no particular order, worn out looking boxes of new games picked up and put back down, meanwhile the PlayStation and Xbox walls flourished and even GameCube got more love from a merchandising standpoint.

  Now we trust Valve with our digital libraries the way we’d trust a bank with our money. They’ve earned that trust, and I can’t say the same for Sony or Nintendo which are happy to charge you repeatedly for the same game. Microsoft actually does a pretty good job of making your old games still playable in some form, so Kudos to them.

  So will we be surprised when Epic Games Store goes tits up? No. Will we care when we lose all our games? No, they were all free. Should we support Valve as long as they continue to be the champions of PC gaming? You better if you care about where it goes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are y'all buying on the steam sale?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Finishing doesn’t matter. I’ll play something for maybe a few hours and drive on. It fills fulfilling to me. Better than never playing it. 👍

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are y'all buying on the steam sale?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds good. Going to buy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are y'all buying on the steam sale?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I started playing each game in my library for about 10 min and then moving on. Some games catch me playing longer but otherwise I check them off as played. With recent Steam sales I’d buy 5-6 games, immediately install them all, and play each right away. Feels good man.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are y'all buying on the steam sale?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it worth playing on PC today? Or should one start with two.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This shouldn’t be normalised⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What about web hosting these days? Time was you’d get email as part of that deal, with your own custom domains. Have they farmed that out to services like Gmail etc?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This shouldn’t be normalised⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed. This is wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This shouldn’t be normalised⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The way I see it, they have us over a barrel. Unless there’s law on the books that says you can’t do that, your recourse is to pay for email or setup your own mail server. Good luck getting others to trust that though. I guess you could pay for a 3rd party cert.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This shouldn’t be normalised⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you pay for email? If so this is wrong. If not, it’s how you pay for email.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SAND LAND – Release Date Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I dig it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games that force you to make hard choices⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mani bet this plays fine on Steam Deck. I am going to fire this up today.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I stop hating children?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  THIS. Good parents are rare. I have one friend that has somehow raised 3 amazing kids. Don’t get me wrong, they occasionally act up, but on the whole I spend more time admiring how smart and thoughtful they are for 9, 13 and 15 year olds.

  I used to hate kids. I gradually got over it in the course of 40 odd years. I still hate parents and can’t control their kids, but I don’t blame the children.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨adios⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Saw a few episodes. Seemed witty but not for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This would be a nice temperature for Easter, not for Christmas Eve.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In 96 I visited LA. It was 70 degrees and snowflakes falling from the sky. A waitress in Johnny Rockets said the brush fires were normal as were the mild temps during that time of year.