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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubi, it's $70 and people are vary of your mile wide puddles that drop 75% in price after half a year⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Hardly ruin, you have to purposefully go find them gloating over Steam charts. But it’s too funny that people really have choice enough now in the good graphics segment that Ubisoft is sinking. It’s my fault, I cursed them when they left Steam for their 4-UAC-prompts-whenever-you-start PoS. They showed total contempt for their users with Breakpoint, tried an nft grift on the side, evolved all cosmetics to clown shoes level and totally failed to offer anything new. Where’s Reflextions? Stuff like Grow Up / Home, metroidvanias on UbiArt Framework? They have great 3D engines and can’t keep a team happy or unfired enough to have people that know how to use it and optimize a game and are able to take some risks with game design. It’s all either heavily monetized multiplayer dreck or incremental QoL features in ever larger and shallower sandboxes in one of few large franchise flavors. There’s not that much to discuss, woo bamboo cutting tech, a new coat of paint and some gimmicks. People claiming it’s failing because it’s either woke or culture appropriating are ascribing cultural import to a happy meal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubi, it's $70 and people are vary of your mile wide puddles that drop 75% in price after half a year⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I was misinformed by an Azerbaijani home electronics swap meet board

• Ubi, it's $70 and people are vary of your mile wide puddles that drop 75% in price after half a yearlemmy.world ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dichen Lachman on ‘Severance’ Season 2 Finale’s ‘Very Emotional’ Scene : ‘It Started to Just Feel So Real in That Moment’⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No it didn’t, it continued to feel uninspired and maybe felt a little rushed. I am very sad their script turned out to be such pocket spaghetti

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨rule⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a programmer who only learns the functions xe needs

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Simple Act of Buying a Graphics Card Is the Defining Misery of PC Gaming in 2025⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s pretty okay if you’re like me, i.e. have no needs above full hd res and can either take or leave rtx

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨uhh… my ex girlfriend and long-time friend is now cishet, very christian, and makes those “i identify as” jokes regarding trans people. would it end up bad for me if i continued to be her friend?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  not everyone is able to nor should become an ambassador for their “group”.

  it’s also not everyone’s responsibility

  I’m not talking about moral duty or responsibility, I’m just saying the outcomes are better for the person doing the choosing if they engage with the world around them instead of shut it out.

  you might find yourself laughing along with hurtful jokes when you don’t want to. Especially when it’s an old friend.

  If it’s an old friend, then you especially need to make some effort, for your own sake if not theirs. People are using “nazi” and “bigot” as thought-terminating cliches, but in many cases you can have a normal conversation the person you’d call a nazi for their online output about things not related to your or their identity or politics. You can learn woodworking from a nazi and go on to make furniture hammer&sickle instead of a swastika. It’s an extreme example, perhaps, but in my view it’s also really extreme to peddle this extreme misanthropy as advice to people on the internet you don’t know about their friends you also don’t know. “Engage with them and try” seems to me like less of an error these days if we’re talking generalizations then “cut them off”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨uhh… my ex girlfriend and long-time friend is now cishet, very christian, and makes those “i identify as” jokes regarding trans people. would it end up bad for me if i continued to be her friend?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  cutting contact will help your mental health

  I keep seeing this as self-help advice and it’s completely wrong in my opinion, both for a person in question and for all trans people around them. On societal level, if nobody engages one another things will just slide even worse. And on a personal level, you don’t always get to choose open-minded friends. If you just push everyone away waiting for more compatible people, you’ll be alone. Poptimism really oversells a strong individual standing alone in a world of bigots.

  it also might teach your friend that those jokes hurt, and that her new choices have consequences.

  A better way is to not cut the person out but explain it to them, over and over. You cut them out, the lesson they’ll probably learn is that they lost a friend to a biblical plague of gayness or something. Engaging is hard, but unless you try, you’re doing nothing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Avowed is the most fun I’ve have had since Skyrim!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you like RPGs, I highly recommend giving it a try.

  At 15€ or less certainly, they can get fucked with 70€.

  there’s no reason not to check it out!

  I wouldn’t pay Microsoft for a subscription if it was the last way to play games left.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mass Effect 5: BioWare Doesn't 'Require Support From the Full Studio', EA Moves Some Staff to Other Teams⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Two was horrible, the end boss skeleton is the stupidest shit. I liked the first, endured the second to the end and never touched the third or Andromeda

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is it when I watch a movie at home? It seems like I have to go deaf just this way. I can hear the audio of somebody speaking compared to the explosions and other special effect sounds?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Emmerich and Zemeckis

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After shutting down several popular emulators, Nintendo admits emulation is legal⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not even Lionel Richie.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After shutting down several popular emulators, Nintendo admits emulation is legal⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Did you just all-black-people-look-the-same yourself

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is combining “the best of Xbox and Windows together” for handhelds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was hoping I’d fly under the radar will they have their heads deep in llm ass, but Gaben basically mortally wounded Windows and it’s bleeding out

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Talos Principle gets "radically overhauled reawakening" in new definitive edition⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  UE5

  Fuck, I was hoping they’re working on their own engine still.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indiana Jones and the Great Circle - Review Thread⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  More power to them, I’ll stick to my hobby of schadenfreude while AAA burns.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indiana Jones and the Great Circle - Review Thread⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the first thing that came to mind when I saw the scores, I’m not reading reviews of Bethesda’s games other than players’ reviews on Steam.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indiana Jones and the Great Circle - Review Thread⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought it was going to be mediocre at best.

  I fully expect it to be a mediocre shooter with some good environmental puzzles and nice graphics, Starfield had 85+/100 reviews before coming out. We’ll find out once it actually releases, in two years with all of the hypothetical DLC included for 15€. Bethesda can fuck right off with their 50€ offerings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Technical ambition, optimism, and timeframes: what we learned about The Witcher 4 from speaking to CD Projekt Red⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Eurogamer has scraped the barrel

  Quelle putaclique

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bloomberg: Sony Interactive Entertainment working on portable PS5⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They also don’t have enough games for their last generation to justify a new console, it’s a lot of work populating a library and their ex-exclusives are now playable on Deck. Which, even if it didn’t have thousands of games out of the gate, would actually be a cool mobile PC with guaranteed Linux drivers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bloomberg: Sony Interactive Entertainment working on portable PS5⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Those who don’t understand Steam Deck are doomed to reinvent it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I know and don’t mind the jokes, you folks are doing a good job on lemmy.world communities that I follow. I started “teachers” and “education” subreddits a lifetime ago with a free-speech-absolutist mindset and quickly realized that they become a cesspool without someone grinding through reports 24/7.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Still kinda related”

  Please, Lord, let me never become a moderator, keep my reasoning intact.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Veilguard Isn’t the First Dragon Age Game to Face ‘Woke’ Criticism⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Take my lemmy gold kind stranger

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Veilguard Isn’t the First Dragon Age Game to Face ‘Woke’ Criticism⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Its problem is not that it’s woke, but that it’s shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why doesn't Lemmy have a system like Reddit's Karma?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because it’s shit made to drive engagement, not worth anything. Unlike reddit which views you as assets to make it money and incentivises use, lemmy owners pay for the bandwidth, don’t get anything from out shitposts and if anything it would be in their interest to disincentivise use.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dragon Age: The Veilguard Reviews Are In — Is BioWare’s Back in a Big Way?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Never seen mortismal and I’ve only seen SkillUp a few times. I don’t really follow or need any review at release time, I’m not touching any game that’s 50€ or more until two years have passed and it’s in the vicinity of 75% off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dragon Age: The Veilguard Reviews Are In — Is BioWare’s Back in a Big Way?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Can someone give me a rundown on why there‘s so much negativity revolving around this?

  First five minutes of SkillUp’s review is a good rundown. It seems like a mindless action clickathon with imitation of gameplay seen in better games, a safe sterile story and a large chunk of world design repurposed leftovers from someone’s abandoned Overwatch-but-DA ambitions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Worker Slams Boss For Telling Colleague With Dying Mom To 'Man Up': 'Now His Mom Is Sick And He's Falling Apart'⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was kind of hoping that shithole will die in a bot excrement ingestion spiral, not become primary sources.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown Team Disbanded After Critically Lauded Platformer Fails to Meet Expectations - Report⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck you, Ubi. Apart from all your shitty practices, it’s a 16-hour long game that’s 40€ with a 50€ complete edition and cosmetics bullshit. That shit won’t fly anymore. I might get it in two years when it’s 10€, but only if your kill your launcher as a requirement.