Duamerthrax
@Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
- Comment on The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact 19 hours ago:
Major game publishers aren’t known for their good ideas.
- Comment on The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact 19 hours ago:
I wouldn’t be surprised if the game industry isn’t also using bots to inflate the numbers to make people procrastinating not feel the need to contribute and make the petition look less valid.
- Comment on Founder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts sales 23 hours ago:
Hedon, Cultic, Zortch I think were all solo devs.
- Comment on How do I access lemmynsfw? 1 day ago:
Can confirm, this happened to me the other day.
- Comment on The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact 1 day ago:
We have had that exact model for decades. Hosting companies use to and probably still offer rack space for arena shooters. The main company managed the master server, which was just a listing of IP addresses, but there were only ever a few official game servers with defaults loaded.
- Comment on Statement on Stop Killing Games - VIDEOGAMES EUROPE 1 day ago:
Doom, Build Engine games, Marathon. I can still play those games, but even if Bungie faux-Marathon ever comes out, I wouldn’t be able to play it after a few years. One of the biggest turnoffs to these As-A-Service games is time limited events. I don’t want to feel nostalgic for something and not be able to replay it. Between the discussions on Hell Divers II events and the Sony fuckary, I’m glad I passed. Fuck, I remember my hype for Hawken dying when I saw it was going to be f2p.
- Comment on Statement on Stop Killing Games - VIDEOGAMES EUROPE 1 day ago:
protections we put in place to secure players’ data, remove illegal content, and combat unsafe community content would not exist Nanny State BS. If someone runs a private server, it’s their responsibility to moderate it.
and would leave rights holders liable. No it wouldn’t.
In addition, many titles are designed from the ground-up to be online-only Unreal Tournament games are online or multiplayer only games. Even though Epic shut down the master servers, you can modify the .ini file to redirect to a community server. “Online-only” translates to predatory monetization models.
- Comment on Grok got a Nazi patch 2 days ago:
So twitter is going to be banned in Germany, right?
- Comment on Thank you, Thor! 2 days ago:
Egotism often translates to charisma and confidence, but falls apart eventually.
Also, a reminder, the “Con” in con-artist is short for confidence.
- Comment on Thank you, Thor! 2 days ago:
But in short, PirateSoftware had a fall from grace for narcissism and with his previous opposition to the petition, became a “villain” to unite against.
- Comment on Microsoft has never been good at running game studios, which is a problem when it owns them all 2 days ago:
Shows how much I care about the output of either company.
- Comment on US Politicians praying inside the House of Representatives 2 days ago:
These people think all compassion and “wokeness” is preformative because everything in their lives is preformative.
- Comment on Microsoft has never been good at running game studios, which is a problem when it owns them all 2 days ago:
Well, the Gravemind is definitely not dead as it’s mind resides in either the Domain or an adjacent dimension. Hell, the Flood aren’t even sterilized from known infection locations. But like you said, the factions all have a clear purpose. Even the Flood in Halo 1, before the Gravemind was even introduced, were working towards a goal though consuming the minds of the species it encountered and fixing the Covenant ship. Hearing Cortana say that the Flood were fixing that ship was chilling. Zombies repairing an FLT capable spacecraft?!
A lot of my disappointment in 5 was how irrelevant and misleading the advertisement was. Nothing even remotely similar to this happens in the game. Hunt the Truth had so much better writing then 5 did. Let those people write a spinoff game.
- Comment on Thank you, Thor! 2 days ago:
That’s another debate, but if a company ever closed and no one claimed the IP, it could be released early.
- Comment on Microsoft has never been good at running game studios, which is a problem when it owns them all 2 days ago:
Halo 4 was mostly good, especially the story, but they listened too closely to the complainers and scrapped the story line. They haven’t been able to commit to villain. Didact? Killed off at the end of 4, and then resurrected and killed off in a comic. Jul 'Mdama? Introduced and explored in Spartan Ops and books/comics. Killed off in the beginning of Halo 5. Cortana? Resurrected/Introduced as a villain in Halo 5 and killed off between 5 and 6(Infinite). Atriox? Introduced in Halo Wars 2 “killed off” between the opening cutscene of Halo 6 and the first level. Escharum(Atriox lite), Introduced in 6 and killed off in 6. Harbinger? Introduced in 6 and killed off in 6. But wait, Atriox isn’t really dead and he’s totally going to come back in Halo 7 and be a long term villain. For real this time.
- Comment on Microsoft has never been good at running game studios, which is a problem when it owns them all 2 days ago:
I still kinda want Microsoft to by Activision Blizzard, but not for altruistic reasons.
- Comment on Thank you, Thor! 2 days ago:
You should only be granted copyright protections if you can guarantee the copyrighted material can become public domain after the time period ends. This would involve giving the government a copy of all source code and assets to preserve securely. This should be a flat policy for all copyrighted material, so 3rd party involvement wouldn’t complicate things.
- Comment on Bro literally ran out 3 days ago:
Could have been a case of two people having the same first name and the one person wanted to clarify.
- Comment on Thank you, Thor! 3 days ago:
Wings of Redemption makes it work… ok. He doesn’t make it work at all.
- Comment on Thumbs up to people dying. 3 days ago:
Doesn’t the coal industry control your government? And remind me where Rupert Murdoch came from.
If I vote for blue one term and they don’t perform I’ll vote red or green or independent next term.
uh, I’m pretty sure that’s a factor top how America got to the way it is.
- Comment on Dolph is prime human 4 days ago:
I mean, I got the info about other people being weird around Bill Nye from a fan who went to one of his talks. According to her, lot of people who asked questions were asking him questions they were hyper specific to their chosen field that Nye would have no way of knowing unless that was the field he was working in. His specific field is education and science commutation. Without preparation, he’s only going to be able to answer in depth questions in that field.
- Comment on Dolph is prime human 4 days ago:
I had to look up the sexual harassment stuff. That’s from 2019 and it was either cleared or never substantiated.
Even if Tyson is a bit of a lolcow on twitter, there are far worse things to be.
I’m just really suspicious of how popular it is to discredit science communicators while anti-intellectualism is so pervasive in society. It’s far easier to tear something down then it is to build something.
- Comment on Dolph is prime human 4 days ago:
I’ve also heard that he gets a lot of weird people who are overly attached to the idea of him getting their fantasies crushed when they meet him. Realize that a lot of those “I met him and he was rude” people might not be completely honest about their encounters. Think along the lines of Paris Syndrome, but for a person.
- Comment on Dolph is prime human 4 days ago:
citation needed
- Comment on The UK Stop Killing Games petition has reached 100.000 signatures 4 days ago:
Keep pushing. There are probably people using VPNs to sign the petition and those will get purged. Either from idiots who don’t know better or AAA studios trying to get people to stop now that it’s reached the goal. This is true for both the UK and EU petitions.
- Comment on We really don't want to talk about our problems 5 days ago:
Therapy just wants to back as a member of society. I don’t like society. It just sees be as a part of the economic machine. A stone and be squeezed for blood.
- Comment on Young men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman 1 week ago:
And the healthcare Congress provides.
- Comment on 'Death Stranding 2' proves more video games need to get weird, experts say 1 week ago:
It’s probably a reference to that article.
- Comment on 'Death Stranding 2' proves more video games need to get weird, experts say 1 week ago:
You need to find a reviewer who focuses on indie you jive with. They’re funnel points for these sorts of things.
I like boomershooters, so Civvie11 and MandaloreGaming are my gotos.
- Comment on Anon watches The Whale 1 week ago:
Also, Jesus.