RedEye9 wrote on Aug 30, 2021, 11:01:
MSG paywall free http://archive.today/AOTN4
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This headstone says it all.
The epitaph says "beloved son, brother, and uncle," over the dates of birth and death and an engraved portrait of Kyle. Near the bottom, chiseled in the same formal font as everything else, is a blunt message for the public, and for posterity: F--K COVID-19.
Actual stone had uc in place of --.

Thank you, sir!

Upheaval in the company due to the recent media blitz, or just the simple fact that they can't find a way to make this mobile game actually good?

Mr. Tact wrote on Aug 2, 2021, 13:25:

RedEye9 wrote on Aug 2, 2021, 12:31:
More on that red dress https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-58047513

Uh, odd singing.

She's like a bucket with a hole: Can't carry a tune, can't hold a note. The original is just as bad. I'm not sure this is anything other than an experiment to see how famous one can become by being the worst at something.

Y'all act like this is something happened overnight or just in the last year. These people are claiming DECADES of mistreatment. If you're dumb enough to work at a place you hate for a decade...

If you are one of those people who can't accept others because they don't fit your worldview

...goes on to be one of those people who won't accept others because they don't fit his worldview.

I wish they'd just issue an HONEST letter.

Dear Employees,

STFU and go back to work. All the noise you were making, you think you'd have all quit your jobs in protest at all the horrible transgressions you've witnessed. Instead you're still here, drawing a salary. Clearly you didn't think it was all that bad until you saw a chance for financial gain. If you'd like to keep drawing that salary, get back to work! Otherwise, there's the door and you'll be replaced before it hits you in the ass.

jdreyer wrote on Jul 23, 2021, 12:55:

RedEye9 wrote on Jul 23, 2021, 12:51:

jdreyer wrote on Jul 23, 2021, 12:47:
The Grizzly Bear Had Hunted Him For Days. He Was Tired And Almost Out Of Ammo. Then...A Miracle.

Five people have been killed by bears so far in 2021, up from four in 2020.

Only three people have been killed by the vaccine. Yet it's considered more frightening.

Look at JDreyer coming out of the gate with both guns blazing.👍

But seriously, who goes into the outback without enough ammo. 👀 Dude wasn’t worth rescuing in my book.

Who tries to take out a grizzly with a pistol? 😨

Many, many people. Most people carrying in Alaska for bear defense are carrying a pistol, since lugging around a shotgun or a rifle at all times is a chore. 10mm, 44 Magnum, 500S&W Magnum, all proven Grizzly killers. Hell, there's documented cases of 9mm killing Grizzlys, but I sure wouldn't chance it.

Another "Tom Clancy" game I won't even remember because it won't be on STEAM. These geniuses act like limiting their platforms somehow helps them gain players.

El Pit wrote on Jun 22, 2021, 01:38:
In dEAd space, no one can hear you scream "SHAME ON YOU FOR DEAD SPACE 3!"

I agree. Totally different tone. Never finished. Just recently got the whole trilogy on STEAM to try again.

WHAT!?!?! You can't half-ass a BR game and expect to keep a player base? NOOOOO!

This time we really, really, really, really, really mean it!

Hey MS, remember when you took a bunch of PC games and made them exclusive to XBOX and then let PC gamers have SOME of those games YEARS later? (Halo) Or started a bunch of series on both PC and then XBOX but then fucked over PC gamers by only putting certain entries on XBOX? (Fable, Gears of War) Or "committed" to PC gaming by doing a lazy port of an XBOX interface and jamming it into Windows?

Yeah, you can go blow goats, Phil.

HoSpanky wrote on May 26, 2021, 10:38:
Up until this info leaked, Gabe's "console announcement" was assumed to be HL:Alyx for PSVR2. Now it's likely...well, both Alyx AND this handheld.

BTW, for everyone complaining that they stopped making games, may I point to Alyx and remind you that they did, in fact, make a game quite recently. It's so good that when people try my VR kit for the first time, I don't let them play Alyx first. It puts expectations in place that aren't realistic currently. It looks SO DAMN GOOD that everything else just looks lazy by comparison. Sure, it's a very linear game, but so were HL1 and 2.

Agreed. It's so good it kind of made me stop playing anything else on VR because nothing else compares, lol. I mean, Skyrim VR is great, Boneworks was good and Alyx is the pinnacle of VR gaming....and then Medal of Honor was a soul crushing disappointment. Which is kind of why I think Sniper Elite VR has gone quiet, as they realized Alyx raised the bar and they were not going to make it over.

Every other STEAM hardware release though. Steam Link was such a fail. The controller, ugh. Steam Box needed to be a an actual, made for Valve console but it was instead just mostly a marketing term. Now they want to make a Switch. Uh...I'm struggling to think of why I would want to play my PC games on a tiny screen. Yay, Among Us portable! Oh wait, that's on phones. As is COD, PUBG, Fortnite, etc.

Quinn wrote on Apr 15, 2021, 20:18:
Just got the news this game comes to PC. Watched this trailer. Almost shocked at how ugly this looks. I recommend everyone to watch the video again, fullscreen mode, and have their expectations lowered. This will maybe, probably kinda suck.

I encourage you to either A) Get your eyes checked or B) Stop watching 4K trailers on a crap monitor.

WannaLogAlready wrote on Apr 12, 2021, 18:26:

RedEye9 wrote on Apr 12, 2021, 10:13:

WannaLogAlready wrote on Apr 12, 2021, 07:04:

theyarecomingforyou wrote on Apr 12, 2021, 05:22:

WannaLogAlready wrote on Apr 11, 2021, 21:04:
... They feel threatened and mistreated in a over dramatic way.
...

You mean Quinn is blindly radicalised just because he's posting about dying in a fictional onslaught of Muslims and prophesising the end of Western civilization? Please say it ain't so!

Hi theyarecomingforyou !,

Not directed to anyone in particular but to the recognizable type of the perennially agitated

Seems like they crave and search for things to be afraid of, or outraged over, and if there aren't, they'll make up new ones presto

The populist movement and the likes of the Republican party could not survive without feeding, nurturing and welcoming those types of people. Combined with the fear and ignorance they absorb from the bobbleheads on Fox it makes for a toxic mindset.

Yep.
World over classic populist/demagogic/fascist tool:
Blatantly fabricating enemies and demonizing outsiders.
Rounds up the gulible and hard to inform, giving them that ol' sweet righteous belonging feeling.

You do realize that is BOTH major political parties in the US, correct?

theyarecomingforyou wrote on Apr 8, 2021, 16:49:

Cutter wrote on Apr 8, 2021, 14:28:
As for the Iraq War, that was justified by a little event known as 9/11

So if a Canadian terrorist committed a terrorist attack against China it would be "justified" for China to carpet bomb the United States and murder innocent civilians? You're known for spouting a lot of nonsense but you've outdone yourself today.

Yeah, what? AFGHANISTAN - that's where the attacks originated. Bush simply wanted to finish what his father started by ousting Saddam (Who was put there by the CIA in the first place.) so he lied like a mofo and screamed WMDS! and away we went.

Really, if we wanted to stop Al qaeda we should have invaded Saudi Arabia, since that's where all the funding was coming from. Talk about a terrible country.


Oh, and in case we've all forgotten, ISIS loves to steal code and make games that are all about killing Westerners and Jews.

RedEye9 wrote on Apr 8, 2021, 14:00:

Saboth wrote on Apr 8, 2021, 12:43:
but to claim a video game is going to kill millions of people is ridiculous.

That claim was not made in the press release from The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
Do you have a source for that?

https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/

https://theintercept.com/2018/11/19/civilian-casualties-us-war-on-terror/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_casualties_in_the_war_in_Afghanistan_(2001–present)

Fallujah is in Iraq, not Afghanistan.

Right, just like the mass amount of people that started slaughtering Germans the world over because of WWII shooters.

Rooster with blade kills man during cockfight in Telangana.

Someone should have told him not to let the cock fight become...*puts on sunglasses* personal. YEEEEEEEEEEAH!

Looks like your cock fought...*puts on sunglasses* and lost. YEEEEEEEEEEAH!

I mean, the jokes just write themselves with this one.

MoreLuckThanSkill wrote on Jan 27, 2021, 14:02:
I'd say these patent trolls have no chance, but the article mentions that Microsoft already opted to license the patent from Ironburg. It's a shame Microsoft caved, because it'll be an uphill battle for Valve now.

Of course, "Ironburg/SCUF" doesn't actually make any fucking products, but what are you going to do when they've already won one case against Microsoft?

Incidentally, they stopped selling the Steam controllers? I still use mine occasionally, best PC controller I've had.

2 seconds of Google would tell you they do, in fact, make high end controllers. https://scufgaming.com/

The Half Elf wrote on Jan 13, 2021, 13:17:

MoreLuckThanSkill wrote on Jan 13, 2021, 13:11:

NKD wrote on Jan 13, 2021, 12:20:
Sigh. Time to chalk up my hands and prepare to climb some towers.

Haha! I was too late to make this exact comment.

That said, I've gotten a lot of hours out of the Ubisoft formula games, so I'm cautiously interested.

Massive Games didn't have towers....

Dude, far Cry 3 and AC: Revelations. Massive has so done towers.

These guys are now working on an Avatar (The blue aliens, not the air benders) game and a Star Wars game. Hopefully they won't muck it up.