Saboth wrote on Oct 21, 2023, 12:25:
I don't have any problem with reaction videos if they actually add something hilarious to it...like MST3K.

This is an awesome breakdown of the issue and legal consequences of it: https://youtu.be/um9aGTAU0lg?si=549De6tXeRSGf_u5

I enjoy reaction videos but only if the reactor has some additional insight (lawyer, doctor, etc) that they can add to the content they are watching. Some content creators though abuse this concept and just see it as a way to generate a quick buck without actually adding anything of value.

Loved the story, especially some of the pivotal cut scenes, but by the time Season 1 came out I was completely bored of grinding for unique items to buildcraft with. The hearts were neat but once you get to just farming for gear to farm better I completely lose interest in Diablo. Will probably just ignore it till they have a major story expansion hit.

I have a 3rd play through of Baldur’s Gate to finish and then Phantom Liberty hits.

Nonsense. Completely possible to do, but completely impractical for any game programmer to code critters (generally a client side only entity for games like Diablo) to know not only the direction of champion packs but also their loot drop before they are killed. Simply a case of the human mind trying to bring order to randomness.

Apophenia is the general term for the human tendency to see patterns in meaningless data that may involve visual, auditory, or other senses

As someone who works in a collaborative team environment , I greatly appreciate working in an office free from home distractions and able to just pull a teammate over for a quick review or brainstorm. Yes, you can do all this virtually, but only working with a team remotely does have measurable impacts on productivity so I can understand the urge to make policy like this.

Do I think you are going to lose a lot of employees by doing this and cause resentment in those that stay but prefer to work from home? Hell, yes. This really should be a personal or team level decision at most.

I haven’t played Halo Infinite since the multiplayer launched. Lasted about a week. Was impressed how they took the old Halo I remembered and added a few tweaks to make it feel better. Then I got bored because I played a ton of old Halo and this was more nostalgia than anything else.

That being said, I don’t think the engine was the problem. Poor writing. Poor character design. Weak open world concept. Poor live service support. Co-op. Horrible monetization (although kudos for being able to save Battle Passes). Those are where this game failed.

Maybe some of that is rooted in an aging engine they have to spend too much time maintaining, but a lot of that is bad by design.

I guess it makes some sense if they are going to gut the studio and start fresh, might as well start with a fresh engine as well so you don’t have to train people up on the old one and that gutting probably lost a lot of the knowledge on how to get that old tech to perform.

WannaLogAlready wrote on Dec 29, 2022, 16:05:
Not that simple, take away China, and the world's economy will suffer badly.

This is the modern flaw in jingoistic/isolationist thinking. Our economies are so intertwined that one nation’s failure impacts the global markets. US, EU, China. Any one of these economies fail and we all feel it.

The EU in particular is even being hit hard by sanctions leveled against Russia. Catch-22 there because you can’t tolerate Russia’s actions, but punishing them also punishes the global markets and those that rely on Russia’s exports in particular.

We’ve built a tangled financial web and simplistic thinking no longer can be applied.

Braden wrote on Dec 19, 2022, 20:31:
Since I'm not a console gamer, I've not played any of the games yet. I have no idea how faithful the show will be, so I'm unclear at this stage if it will be full of spoilers for the upcoming PC port.

Everything I’ve seen So far looks pretty faithful to the game which, if I’m honest, plays like a tv show/movie to begin with. The ending is also iconic to the characters and overall arc so I don’t see them changing that unless they just was to stoke controversy for free publicity.

I cannot imagine a more livid fan base that would react to an alteration to the ending. We were only spared Armageddon with the Game of Thrones ending because Martin didn’t finish the books series before D&D drove the show into the ground.

Messaging around crunch should be limited to some form of “I am sorry for this and am horrible at planning ahead” immediately followed by “these are the measures we are taking to prevent this in the future.”

Cutter wrote on Jul 18, 2022, 19:47:
Yeah, that accounts for less than 1% of people. So stop trying to make it out like every third person is gay, bi, etc. No one would fucking care if assholes like EA weren't shoving an agenda in everyone's faces 24/7. So yeah, it should be a toggle. Not wanting that doesn't make you the next Hitler.

Try an estimated 5.6% in the US as of a 2020 Gallup poll. Which, as with most polling on topics where people fear discrimination, is most likely undercounting the real population.

Not only that, currently all Sims are effectively bisexual by default. Asking to have this system turned off is just ignorance of what the system does and how sexuality currently works in the Sims. Why would you ask to disable a system that allows you to have more choices?

Kosumo wrote on Jun 20, 2022, 02:07:
Are you saying that they are promoting shooting up a night club?

I think the accusation is more the are trying to capitalize on the anniversary of a tragic event which at best is a morally grey area. It is a SWAT game though so technically you are trying to prevent a tragedy. Could just be bad timing on the developers part though. Mass shootings are so common in the US that almost every day is the anniversary of one.

Teddy wrote on Jun 18, 2022, 23:29:

SimplyMonk wrote on Jun 18, 2022, 16:38:

Cutter wrote on Jun 18, 2022, 14:04:
Is it just me or does it really sound like these bottom feeders staged this for the free publicity? Those assholes seriously need to die in a fire.

Agreed. I could understand just a adding a generic club scenario, but going so far as to copy the club to the point where copyright infringement is a concern and on the anniversary of the tragedy makes the act deplorable. Obvious vultures trying to capitalize on the massacre and appeal to a player base that was to fetishize the event.

Hey look, uninformed blind outrage. It's always fascinating to watch people get whipped up into a frenzy over something that DIDN'T happen.

Fair. I spent all of 30 seconds looking into the situation before posting words on the internet. As for the timing, it is also a fair point that almost every day is the anniversary of some mass shooting in the US. The developers might of just been unlucky there.

Cutter wrote on Jun 18, 2022, 14:04:
Is it just me or does it really sound like these bottom feeders staged this for the free publicity? Those assholes seriously need to die in a fire.

Agreed. I could understand just a adding a generic club scenario, but going so far as to copy the club to the point where copyright infringement is a concern and on the anniversary of the tragedy makes the act deplorable. Obvious vultures trying to capitalize on the massacre and appeal to a player base that was to fetishize the event.

Got to imagine with Sony owning Bungie now there has to be a Destiny series in the works.

sir wrote on May 11, 2022, 22:24:

Fantaz wrote on May 11, 2022, 17:06:
Interesting news how they wanted the Canadian developers Digital Extremes to develop DNF. They did the original Unreal with Epic so I think it could've been made really well by them

But the Duke style is just something from the 90's or early 2000s, I dont think new Duke games in the franchise would fly well by today's standards. R.I.P.

Perhaps not, the kidz use Duke audio on those tak tik videos

Serious Sam is still a thing and those are pretty much just Duke Nukem Lite. Same with Shadow Warrior being Duke Nukem: Hentai Edition.

Sigwolf wrote on May 7, 2022, 19:12:

theglaze wrote on May 7, 2022, 15:52:
I couldn't even finish Bebop, and I've rewatched the anime many times. The charm and fluidity of the original animation was not well translated to the live action.

Eh, I disagree. I enjoyed both, and would have been happy for a second season. I did have to do a double-take at the article headline, though, because I was sure we already knew this. Turns out we did six months ago.

Bebop is the definition of what I love in an anime. The live action tried to do something different, which I did find enjoyable, but it really needed to punch a lot harder than it did to live up to the anime and fight off people that were going to hate it for what it did different.

I would of been interested in a second season just to finish off its arcs, but I wasn’t surprised it was canceled.

RedEye9 wrote on Apr 21, 2022, 13:56:

jdreyer wrote on Apr 21, 2022, 13:54:

Burrito of Peace wrote on Apr 21, 2022, 13:37:
Snagged, naturally.

You win! 😀

Dang, i like to win.
Snagged
I like frictional games games.
Never heard of this one but it's downloading! https://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/amnesia-rebirth

I still say Amnesia: Dark Descent in the best of the series, but Rebirth is far better than Machine for Pigs. Some bits missed their mark with me personally, but it has a good storyline and some solid atmosphere and scares.

Cutter wrote on Mar 26, 2022, 14:15:
Amazon games has been around for 13 years? Wth hell have they been doing all that time?

Fire Phone Games (Ha!), then Lumberyard (Harder Ha!), then a bunch of failed games with Lumberyard, The Grand Tour Game (oof), Crucible (also oof), finally released New World (all right), then started publishing Lost Ark in the West (pretty good). They are getting there, but slowly. Having someone like Frazzini at the head might of been a passable idea when they wanted to make Fire Phone games, but he has been drowning since the Fire Phone died.

DarkCntry wrote on Mar 8, 2022, 15:42:
I have no actual clue why I am playing this as much as I am. The story isn't at all interesting to me and it really just feels like Diablo with fetch quests, random players, and time gates.

But for some reason I keep coming back to it and playing it for a few hours a day....

The combat and mechanics are really fun. Plus there is solid build diversity and the game is damn pretty with some interesting boss fights and dungeons.

For me the game falls apart at power progression. I can’t stand the honing system and potentially losing a days worth of playing on a 50/50 chance button click.

Yeah, I can grind some other currency to improve that chance. Yeah, I can spend money to get more items to level up gear with. But no. I don’t find that cycle fun or rewarding.

If the narrative or writing was anything but the bare minimum of a passable story, I might of continued to slog through it but with games like Destiny 2 and Elden Ring to play it has completely fallen off.

Cutter wrote on Feb 17, 2022, 20:18:

animal wrote on Feb 17, 2022, 18:22:
Sony, buy them already.

Too much for Sony but I could see someone like Google do it.

Amazon would be more likely, but even then I doubt it. Google is pretty much pulling out completely from the video game space except for developing Android and supporting games there. That and whatever they can turn Stadia into.

Mr. Tact wrote on Feb 7, 2022, 14:44:
Bodolza, explain to me how a url link in a blockchain is a digital asset, which is what many NFTs are.

It is a decentralized authority (the blockchain) saying you “own” that digital asset rather than a centralized authority (the artist) who may not keep an accurate record of sale or resale and is potentially corrupt.

Now, like most things that are made up (money), it requires people to respect that decentralized authority and define what it even means to “own” the asset it says you own. It is, however, an accurate ledger though saying you “own” it and how it has traded ownership to get to you.

That’s pretty much it.

The concept of ownership though and what powers that gives you is completely removed from the technology and is a social construct. That’s where the scam part comes in.