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Re: On Hogwarts Legacy's Massive Launch
Feb 24, 2023, 10:34
Rilcon
 
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Re: On Hogwarts Legacy's Massive Launch Feb 24, 2023, 10:34
Feb 24, 2023, 10:34
 Rilcon
 
Beamer wrote on Feb 24, 2023, 07:15:
Rilcon wrote on Feb 24, 2023, 03:10:
Between cloutchasers on Twitter and clickbait sites like Kotaku, the controversy has only served to give this game a shitload of free press. Kotaku in particular is pretty amusing over how they cannot stop pushing out massive-ass articles with the most inane non-criticisms of the actual game; all they criticize is "JKR is a turd" or "game mechanics break the immersion of magic not being real". They could go over the technical issues (poor performance in the game's namesake area), low quality filler content, or by-the-numbers simple combat, but instead manage make the game sound amazing and keep giving it free advertising.

Sounds like this has had you reading a lot of Kotaku.
I scan through most major gaming sites as part of my job, but thanks for the weak attempt at a zinger.
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Re: Baldur's Gate 3 in August
Feb 24, 2023, 03:36
Rilcon
 
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Re: Baldur's Gate 3 in August Feb 24, 2023, 03:36
Feb 24, 2023, 03:36
 Rilcon
 
Played through what was available way back when it came to early access ages ago and felt I got my money's worth from just that. Will be a good late year, at least on the game side of things.
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Re: On Hogwarts Legacy's Massive Launch
Feb 24, 2023, 03:10
Rilcon
 
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Re: On Hogwarts Legacy's Massive Launch Feb 24, 2023, 03:10
Feb 24, 2023, 03:10
 Rilcon
 
Between cloutchasers on Twitter and clickbait sites like Kotaku, the controversy has only served to give this game a shitload of free press. Kotaku in particular is pretty amusing over how they cannot stop pushing out massive-ass articles with the most inane non-criticisms of the actual game; all they criticize is "JKR is a turd" or "game mechanics break the immersion of magic not being real". They could go over the technical issues (poor performance in the game's namesake area), low quality filler content, or by-the-numbers simple combat, but instead manage make the game sound amazing and keep giving it free advertising.
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Re: Ukraine's Atomic Heart Attack
Feb 23, 2023, 10:25
Rilcon
 
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Re: Ukraine's Atomic Heart Attack Feb 23, 2023, 10:25
Feb 23, 2023, 10:25
 Rilcon
 
Quinn wrote on Feb 23, 2023, 10:03:
How does Game Pass work exactly? Does the fact that I paid the monthly fee this month mean the damage is done, or do I need to actually install/play the game?
AFAIK studios get a base amount just for being on the platform, and then more based on "performance".
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Re: Atomic Heart Reviews
Feb 21, 2023, 10:52
Rilcon
 
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Re: Atomic Heart Reviews Feb 21, 2023, 10:52
Feb 21, 2023, 10:52
 Rilcon
 
Jim wrote on Feb 21, 2023, 10:13:
I'd rather people die in Russia trying to overthrow a corrupt government vs people dying in Ukraine for no fucking reason at all.
I mean, sure, but people aren't going to volunteer to die in the streets, not until shit gets so bad there's no other choice; just human nature. To the average Russian the war is a remote thing, the people on TV say it's going great, and nearly all the soldiers dying are from remote (mostly "not real Russians") regions. We are very far from things getting bad enough "at home" to expect actual discontent.

Timmeh wrote on Feb 21, 2023, 10:34:
What is really amazing is watching all the supposed liberals, democrats and lefties be all pro war now and fall in line hating Russia even though we have been the aggressor through nato advances and energy policy.
You never fail to say the dumbest and most worthless thing possible for the given situation.
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Re: Atomic Heart Reviews
Feb 21, 2023, 09:07
Rilcon
 
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Re: Atomic Heart Reviews Feb 21, 2023, 09:07
Feb 21, 2023, 09:07
 Rilcon
 
Xero wrote on Feb 21, 2023, 08:56:
The problem with the "ordinary citizens" in Russia is that they're divided. You have those that do understand wtf is going on and guess what? Most of them have left or fled the country. Then you have the ones that remain who are probably as delusional or accepting of every word coming out of their propaganda machine.
There are plenty of sane people left inside Russia, mostly younger people (I know plenty). But as was mentioned previously in this thread, speaking up does carry a serious risk of prison. Russian prison. And by speaking up, I don't mean showing up to a protest in person, just posting somewhere online is enough to fuck you over.

Of course, they're still a minority compared to the overwhelming amount of people that "just want to grill" and sort of believe the propaganda (since it's all there is, 24/7). Z-tards are a minority... but, we've seen how this played out in a different country some 90 years ago...
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Re: Atomic Heart Reviews
Feb 21, 2023, 07:10
Rilcon
 
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Re: Atomic Heart Reviews Feb 21, 2023, 07:10
Feb 21, 2023, 07:10
 Rilcon
 
eRe4s3r wrote on Feb 21, 2023, 06:31:
Their cyprus adress is a tax evasion or sanction evasion attempt
I assume they do have offices there; makes it much easier to hire people from the EU, and much more attractive for new hires than Russia even before the war (except maybe St. Petersburg).

Being funded by Gazprom and the Russian (state operated) version of facebook is already enough of a "no thank you", anyway.

As for the FSB stuff... likely some level of truth to it. Years ago I worked on an online freemium project that wanted to release "officially"(with proper payment processors and all that) in Russia, and one of the requirements for doing so was handing over all the game's technical docs, access to the code on-demand, and info on all the studio's employees. I can't imagine things have gotten any better the last several years.

(the project died before going that far)
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Re: Atomic Heart Reviews
Feb 21, 2023, 06:18
Rilcon
 
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Re: Atomic Heart Reviews Feb 21, 2023, 06:18
Feb 21, 2023, 06:18
 Rilcon
 
VaranDragon wrote on Feb 21, 2023, 03:20:
The developers of this game can declare neutrality, at best, since that is the most critical that they can be without being thrown in jail.
The developers of this game are in Cyprus. Unless I missed some major news, Russia can't arrest people in EU countries (yet).
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Re: Sunday Legal Briefs
Aug 8, 2022, 00:54
Rilcon
 
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Re: Sunday Legal Briefs Aug 8, 2022, 00:54
Aug 8, 2022, 00:54
 Rilcon
 
G.oZ wrote on Aug 8, 2022, 00:39:
He has the intelligence to both understand and passionately talk about rocket science & particularly rocket engineering - there are multiple videos of him talking about it, including giving tours of SpaceX facilities - a company he founded - and answering many technical questions. To accuse him of being essentially a spokesperson regurgitating "bullet points" on "the technical bits" shows you really haven't actually listened to him talk about these things.
I have watched those videos, and heard him talk about all those things! And here's the really funny thing: I, a complete potato of a person, definitely not in any "top percentile", understood all of it, and knew about most of it before he made a public spectacle of the whole thing.
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Re: Sunday Legal Briefs
Aug 7, 2022, 23:52
Rilcon
 
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Re: Sunday Legal Briefs Aug 7, 2022, 23:52
Aug 7, 2022, 23:52
 Rilcon
 
The Half Elf wrote on Aug 7, 2022, 23:22:
Rilcon wrote on Aug 7, 2022, 23:07:
G.oZ wrote on Aug 7, 2022, 22:54:
Scottish Martial Arts wrote on Aug 7, 2022, 22:33:
The Half Elf wrote on Aug 7, 2022, 20:42:
Love or hate Musk, he's a pretty smart guy

On what evidence do you base this? He's clearly rich and he's clearly famous and he's clearly thin-skinned, but if he's ever said anything intelligent, he's good at hiding it.

If you ever listen to Musk talk about his actual companies and the tech behind the work, it is quite clear he's both intelligent and passionate about it. I am a huge fan of SpaceX. He has a pretty darn good understanding of rocket science (even if he might not technically be a rocket scientist) - and loves "geeking out" talking about it.

It's just rather sad he has personality flaws/issues which turn him into a giant douche a lot of the time.
Or he just reads the weekly company newsletters and gets someone to collate some bullet points for him on the technical bits. Nothing I've heard from the guy points to him being any sort of genius, just rich and investing it in tech-related companies rather than just yachts and vineyards, and ensuring everyone knows about who's behind the checkbook so he can overshadow the actual researchers, engineers, and scientists that do the real work.

So which beloved pet did he run over?
Ah, very clever, make it out to be like I'm a little child personally offended by him. Very mature! Here's a reverse: how's his dick taste?
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Re: Sunday Legal Briefs
Aug 7, 2022, 23:07
Rilcon
 
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Re: Sunday Legal Briefs Aug 7, 2022, 23:07
Aug 7, 2022, 23:07
 Rilcon
 
G.oZ wrote on Aug 7, 2022, 22:54:
Scottish Martial Arts wrote on Aug 7, 2022, 22:33:
The Half Elf wrote on Aug 7, 2022, 20:42:
Love or hate Musk, he's a pretty smart guy

On what evidence do you base this? He's clearly rich and he's clearly famous and he's clearly thin-skinned, but if he's ever said anything intelligent, he's good at hiding it.

If you ever listen to Musk talk about his actual companies and the tech behind the work, it is quite clear he's both intelligent and passionate about it. I am a huge fan of SpaceX. He has a pretty darn good understanding of rocket science (even if he might not technically be a rocket scientist) - and loves "geeking out" talking about it.

It's just rather sad he has personality flaws/issues which turn him into a giant douche a lot of the time.
Or he just reads the weekly company newsletters and gets someone to collate some bullet points for him on the technical bits. Nothing I've heard from the guy points to him being any sort of genius, just rich and investing it in tech-related companies rather than just yachts and vineyards, and ensuring everyone knows about who's behind the checkbook so he can overshadow the actual researchers, engineers, and scientists that do the real work.
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Re: Sunday Legal Briefs
Aug 7, 2022, 20:56
Rilcon
 
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Re: Sunday Legal Briefs Aug 7, 2022, 20:56
Aug 7, 2022, 20:56
 Rilcon
 
The Half Elf wrote on Aug 7, 2022, 20:42:
Has anyone else noticed that instead of Twitter saying "Ok pay us the 1 billion for walking away from the deal", that they are wanting to force him to complete the purchase?
They are obligated to and would get sued by their shareholders if they didn't. This little ordeal, where Musk decided to waive his due diligence and just rush into the purchase when Twitter called his bluff, negatively affected the company's stock value to the point it's their responsibility to shareholders to pursue the completion of the sale.
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Re: Sunday Legal Briefs
Aug 7, 2022, 20:17
Rilcon
 
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Re: Sunday Legal Briefs Aug 7, 2022, 20:17
Aug 7, 2022, 20:17
 Rilcon
 
WebSoldier wrote on Aug 7, 2022, 20:01:
Give me a break, Twitter committed fraud! The twitter CEO definitely went into the sale with disclosing false facts and believing that the original price tag should be exist or lawsuit?!?! LOL HAHAHAHA! Have fun, your going to have a good lesson to learn! Be honest or don't bother trying to sell to Musk, never will happen!
I took psychic damage reading this.
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Re: Sunday Legal Briefs
Aug 7, 2022, 17:45
Rilcon
 
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Re: Sunday Legal Briefs Aug 7, 2022, 17:45
Aug 7, 2022, 17:45
 Rilcon
 
G.oZ wrote on Aug 7, 2022, 17:01:
Twitter should just play smart and ignore everything from Musk
This. Twitter has absolutely nothing to gain by paying any attention to Musk's desperate clownish ego-starved tweets. Let the child of slavers dig his own public grave.
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Re: Biz Buzz
Aug 6, 2022, 00:52
Rilcon
 
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Re: Biz Buzz Aug 6, 2022, 00:52
Aug 6, 2022, 00:52
 Rilcon
 
Kxmode wrote on Aug 5, 2022, 22:34:
We can go off the evidence. If Farm Heroes and Candy Crush were crushing it, Activision-Blizzard would have implemented a similar nickel-and-diming "reasonableness" in DI.
Not having actually played, I sort of assumed DI does have various systems that give you a tiny boost/prizes for "small" mtx, and that most of the hoopla is based around people trying to "100%" the game as fast as possible, combined with it being as big of an IP as Diablo.
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Re: Biz Buzz
Aug 5, 2022, 19:09
Rilcon
 
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Re: Biz Buzz Aug 5, 2022, 19:09
Aug 5, 2022, 19:09
 Rilcon
 
To note is that Activision bought King Games a whiles ago, and those simple little mobiles games have been engineered to be so addictive and easy to spend money on that they'd put Vegas casinos to shame (and probably be illegal).

Activision says that King titles like Candy Crush and Farm Heroes brought in over $680 million.

(that's 3/4ths of their mobile earnings)
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Re: Far Cry 6 Free Weekend Begins
Aug 4, 2022, 23:12
Rilcon
 
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Re: Far Cry 6 Free Weekend Begins Aug 4, 2022, 23:12
Aug 4, 2022, 23:12
 Rilcon
 
Far Cry is really weird in how each iteration seems to cut out something that was really fun in the previous ones. And it's worse with FC6 because it didn't even add anything new that was fun. Like, the whole base capture stuff I used to enjoy because of all the stealth gameplay, but in FC6 that's been seriously watered down and base capture is just a boring mechanical task to repeat on copy-pasted areas.

It also really doesn't help that there's vegetation everywhere and AI can see right through it and nail you while strafing all over the place, or that the city, the most interesting area, is awfully obnoxious to navigate...

FC series has had a lot of really fun and interesting stuff, but it's gotten to be two steps back for every step forward for a while now =/
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Re: OotB: 41 Years!
Aug 1, 2022, 20:45
Rilcon
 
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Re: OotB: 41 Years! Aug 1, 2022, 20:45
Aug 1, 2022, 20:45
 Rilcon
 
Not much that hasn't been said already, but...

Over the many years I've been online, I've been in a lot of sites/communities, big and small, that end up with a handful of prominent posters that, due to their "seniority" and overall prolific posting / high activity, seem to always be testing the limits and getting only a light slap on the wrist when they go to far. You don't after all, want to lose one of your most active members and longstanding members, right?

Others have already mentioned blocking/ignoring, and the problem with how doing so doesn't fix "the problem", just hides it a bit, and discussions and comment sections still go awry anyway.

More importantly, I think, is that the more prolific posters set the tone, in more than one way; new users that come by and see what/how they post and how it's "OK" might behave the same way, while existing users grow tired of the constant craziness or outright vileness and leave, and heated "arguments" become a constant and overtake actual discussions, even aside of any political/social issues.

I've always enjoyed this site because it was a straight forward news aggregator and the comments, while few, were generally pretty sane, insightful, and actually related to the topic at hand. A nice escape from the larger sites that over-editorialize the simplest bit of news and have comment sections full of inane diatribes and outright trolling and ragebaiting.

Anyway... y'all have a good night
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Re: Fanatical Quits Acquitted
Jul 31, 2022, 22:56
Rilcon
 
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Re: Fanatical Quits Acquitted Jul 31, 2022, 22:56
Jul 31, 2022, 22:56
 Rilcon
 
Cutter wrote on Jul 31, 2022, 18:31:
* REMOVED *
This is pretty much the point where if someone like this is allowed on the site and apparently constantly treated with kiddy gloves, I just gotta dip out. The randos coming and going with their hot takes, sure, happens everywhere, but some posters have a longstanding history of this crap and after a while the place just stinks.

This comment was edited on Jul 31, 2022, 23:22.
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Re: Fanatical Quits Acquitted
Jul 31, 2022, 15:16
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Re: Fanatical Quits Acquitted Jul 31, 2022, 15:16
Jul 31, 2022, 15:16
 Rilcon
 
WebSoldier wrote on Jul 31, 2022, 15:10:
okay child or is a man child still living with your parents? Go ahead and change history to your liking.
wut?
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