sugar_in_your_tea
@sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 day ago:
Link’s Awakening Remake is super rad, and my second favorite Zelda on Switch (after Skyward Sword).
- Comment on Player Spends $32,000 on NBA 2K25 in Just Five Months 3 days ago:
Or more likely, some Karen somewhere saw face cards and complained, and lawmakers/regulators didn’t bother doing any actual research.
- Comment on Player Spends $32,000 on NBA 2K25 in Just Five Months 3 days ago:
Yup. I watch MtG Arena draft videos, and they throw hundreds with worth of resources sometimes in a single video, but they’re also making ad revenue and whatnot, so it works out. And viewer numbers are peanuts compared to more mainstream games.
- Comment on Begun the kernel wars have 3 days ago:
I refuse to play them. If they want kernel level anticheat, they can submit the source under the GPL to the Linux kernel devs for consideration, because that’s the only way I’d consider using it. No game is worth compromising my system’s security.
- Comment on Begun the kernel wars have 3 days ago:
I doubt the revenue from sales to cheaters is that significant compared to the risk of losing players. I think the simplest explanation is that catching cheaters is hard (read: expensive), so they’re happy with catching the most obvious cheaters with off the shelf solutions (i.e. the Pareto principle).
- Comment on Begun the kernel wars have 3 days ago:
It needs it to accomplish its goals. Whether its goals are worth accomplishing is a separate discussion entirely.
- Comment on Player Spends $32,000 on NBA 2K25 in Just Five Months 3 days ago:
Yup. Sometimes larger studios make a good game, but most of the games I play are from indies or smaller AA studios.
- Comment on Begun the kernel wars have 3 days ago:
And anti-cheat needs a lot of access (e.g. read app memory) and sees a lot of churn to evolve with cheat engines. More churn means less thorough testing, which means higher likelihood of an exploit.
- Comment on Begun the kernel wars have 3 days ago:
It needs to be a mix. Have your clientside anti-cheat look for obvious attack vectors, have your seeks serverside anti-cheat look for suspicious play, and let users report others. Then have humans review suspected cheaters and make the final call.
But that’s expensive, and off-the-shelf anti-cheat gives them someone else to blame.
- Comment on what are in you're top 3 favourite games of all time? 4 days ago:
So Silksong is going to be a trilogy? Rock on!
- Comment on what are in you're top 3 favourite games of all time? 6 days ago:
- Europa Universalis IV
- The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
- Lords of the Realm II
EUIV will probably be replaced by EUV when it comes out.
- Comment on Anon goes on a diet 1 week ago:
Some people can quit cold turkey, most can’t. Assume you’re part of the majority and take away whatever emotional or social attachment you have to your addiction and gradually reduce whatever it is until it’s completely under control.
- Comment on Anon crunches some numbers 1 week ago:
They lost it behind all the abacuses.
- Comment on Anon crunches some numbers 1 week ago:
They did the math.
- Comment on Anon crunches some numbers 1 week ago:
Yup, it turns out it’s a lot easier to build on something than create something from scratch.
- Comment on Steam Survey for July 2025 shows Linux approaching 3% 1 week ago:
Which is perfect for Linux. If it lives in userspace, it can be made compatible.
- Comment on The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made 1 week ago:
Yeah, I intentionally picked a diverse set of examples. My point here is that “best RPG” doesn’t make much sense without qualifiers, like a year or sub-genre.
- Comment on What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you? 1 week ago:
I replay it every couple years because it has so much nostagia for me, and it runs perfectly on Steam on Linux (and I assume GOG). They even fixed the incredibly annoying mouse issue that I dealt with for years where it wouldn’t scroll down or to the right.
- Comment on Outer Worlds 2 cut to $70 after backlash 1 week ago:
Of course it’s inflation. Currency is worth less, so prices need to go up to get the same value.
- Comment on Outer Worlds 2 cut to $70 after backlash 1 week ago:
The closest for me is about 5% off at Costco for a Nintendo new release that I was looking forward to. Nintendo games don’t drop much, so that was probably the best deal on new I’d probably get until the next console release.
I don’t remember the time before that, since it has probably been a decade or more.
- Comment on Outer Worlds 2 cut to $70 after backlash 1 week ago:
I’m in the same camp. Paying more feels bad, but it’s justified by currencies being less valuable.
- Comment on The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made 1 week ago:
Sure, but being different doesn’t automatically win you “best RPG.”
- Comment on Anon did philosophy 1 week ago:
Yup, three breasts is too many.
- Comment on Anon did philosophy 1 week ago:
I’ve seen plenty. Go to the beach or lake and you’ll see a variety of sizes, and sometimes the bikini just doesn’t have anything to hold.
- Comment on Anon did philosophy 1 week ago:
Nah, without your breasts, you have value. Don’t let cancer destroy your self-image.
- Comment on What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you? 1 week ago:
Lords of the Realm III
1 was great, though the economy was overly complicated. 2 fixed all the issues of 1 and made combat more fun. 3 removed everything I liked and replaced it w/ a weird realtime RTS system.
- Comment on What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you? 1 week ago:
Man, GTA IV is my favorite, and GTA V is my least favorite, and largely for the same reason: the main characters.
In IV, I really liked Niko and wanted him to succeed. I really didn’t like Roman, but I could relate since everyone has that annoying cousin. I just really wanted Niko to succeed at having a second chance in LC.
In V, I hated Michael, Trevor felt shallow (more backstory could’ve helped), and Franklin was a disappointment (what happened to his dream of owning a business?). Maybe they’re fleshed out more in GTA Online, but I never played it. Honestly, I was fine with them all dying since they all seemed like a waste of space, yet I had to play as them. Franklin was the least disappointing, but I really wanted him to have some interesting side content instead of an attempt of a story w/ his friend that ultimately went nowhere.
GTA SA is mu favorite because CJ’s arc is just so good.
- Comment on The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made 1 week ago:
Not OP, but:
- Chrono Trigger
- Morrowind (or maybe Skyrim)
- Final Fantasy (esp. 6 and 7)
- Baldur’s Gate (esp. 3)
- Pillars of Eternity
- Fallout (esp. New Vegas)
- The Witcher (esp. 3)
- World of Warcraft (not my jam, but it’s insanely popular)
There are a ton more, especially if you broaden the definition to sub-genres to include Diablo 2, TLoZ games (esp. Ocarina of Time and Breath of the Wild), and Dark Souls.
There are just so many bangers.
- Comment on The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made 1 week ago:
But “best RPG” though? There are tons of RPGs that won “Game of the Year”, and when people talk about iconic RPGs, Disco Elysium is rarely the one mentioned. Most people will claim Chrono Trigger, Morrowind (or Skyrim I guess), or one of the Final Fantasies (usually 6, 7, or 8). Look up any list of top RPGs and it probably won’t crack the top 10.
That doesn’t mean it’s a bad game, but “best RPG” is a pretty crowded field that rarely includes Disco Elysium.
- Comment on Epic Games just won its antitrust lawsuit against Google again 1 week ago:
How can it not be 100% their decision if it’s their decision?
It’s very hard to break a contract like that. So an exclusivity contract is strictly worse for consumers than a dev choosing to only list with one platform since it removes the possibility of listing elsewhere.
Not if it’s done by an underdog
Anticompetitiveness is bad regardless of market position. They may not get hit with antitrust until they get a dominant position, but it’s not great for consumers.
The reason the Epic store was created
No, it was created so they could keep all the money from Fortnite. It’s the same reason they sued Apple and Google. They don’t seem interested in actually having a competitive platform, they just want people to buy their MTX.
still keeps their software open
Yet their store still doesn’t support Linux, and Fortnite doesn’t work on Linux either, despite their anti-cheat technically being compatible.
So don’t tell me they’re doing open, they merely want their game engine and anti-cheat to sell.