Jim wrote on Nov 16, 2024, 14:04:

ZeroPike1 wrote on Nov 16, 2024, 11:59:
You know a game can just be a game, for the sake of finishing a trilogy or capping off a fitting end to a story. It does not always require a innovating mechanic that needs to stand out.

Its not the 00's anymore, I gave up worrying about how the Half Life story ends. If he puts something out fine, but if not, I'm no longer concerned.

gamers today tend to be toxic as hell when it comes to sequels. It doesn't matter what they do in a sequel, people will complain either about how they did not carry enough over from the previous game or how it is too much like the previous game.
Then the non-gamers will chime in about wokeness or other BS.
Its a struggle, like "this story kind of sucks".. .back to get rewritten. Repeat multiple times. But eventually they have to come up with something else they go broke.

Aye, but back then when we were all waiting on 'what happens next' to the cliffhanger of an ending. Sure maybe if they released the sequel a couple or so years later maybe it would have hurt it a bit. But it would have more then likely scored high enough with gamers to give the game a break and not review bomb it I feel.

JTW wrote on Nov 16, 2024, 14:22:
Hey, Gabe!

Getting us invested in the story was also and 'obligation to gamers.' In order to avoid failing one obligation, you failed in two.

And innovation for the sake of innovation has always been a bane of gaming. There's such a thing as innovating, then polishing, then innovating. It's fine to say, "What we have is great, let's make the best thing we can with this, meet our other obligation, and then innovate for the next one."

Of course, getting stuck at "make what we can with this" for too long is how you get Bethesda games.

Sure for repeated sequels I agree, such as with the Elder Scrolls series. But for the Half Life series, just the final episode. Even if it was stale or offered only one or two new mechanics to the gameplay, is that not enough to push out the Grande Finale?

The only worthwhile obligation he has to gamers anymore is to not shut down Steam, and thus remove a massive chunk of my gaming collection.

"You can't get lazy and say, 'Oh, we're moving the story forward,'" said Newell. "That's copping out of your obligation to gamers. Yes, of course they love the story. They love many, many aspects of it. But saying that your reason to do it is because people want to know what happens next, you know—we could've shipped it, it wouldn't have been that hard. The failure, my personal failure was being stumped. I couldn't figure out why doing Episode 3 was pushing anything forward."

You know a game can just be a game, for the sake of finishing a trilogy or capping off a fitting end to a story. It does not always require a innovating mechanic that needs to stand out.

Its not the 00's anymore, I gave up worrying about how the Half Life story ends. If he puts something out fine, but if not, I'm no longer concerned.

The lawsuit alleges that since 2022, Keighin streamed “at least 10 of Nintendo’s leaked games” before they were released, “more than 50 times in total”, the most recent being Mario & Luigi: Brothership.

Talk about Poking the Bear. Geez this guy couldn't paint a big enough target on himself could he?

This is Fortnite. This is how they will attempt to take on Fortnite, by using IP skins as a source of income.

Fortnite has Eminem, Cod has Gundam.

Peek Capitalism.

Johnny Somali, who built an online following by deliberately antagonizing people and streaming the results, now faces up to 5 years in prison.

I uhh... have no problem with this. Toss his ass in jail and keep him there.

A weaponised FCC? You know they will.

And since we are rolling out the red carpet complete with nazi symbology for the incoming admin. Sure, best expect the worse and then be ready for even worse after that.

Bill Borre wrote on Nov 10, 2024, 13:02:
If Xi does invade I think the American response is more likely to look like an evacuation of essential personnel rather than a defense.

They will claim China will foot the bill for the evacuation too…

Worst timeline.

Rectal Prolapse wrote on Nov 8, 2024, 14:48:
A PC from 2018 will still run today's (and future) games fine, from what I can see. Yes, I have an old PC. So don't worry about it too much, from a gamer's perspective.

We are coming up on the year 2025, that would make a PC built in 2018 over 6 years old. And you really think it will be fine for the next at minimum 4 years until the tariffs are gone, if ever? Man talk about copium.

MeanJim wrote on Nov 7, 2024, 22:22:

ZeroPike1 wrote on Nov 7, 2024, 20:03:
Get ready for the dumbest shits to ever stupid being put in charge of things that directly affect you. It’s the new normal.

If you haven't already heard, Trump has promised RFK Jr., an Anti-vaxer and conspiracy theorist, control of the CDC, FDA and other health services. Trump literally said he will let RFK Jr. go wild on public health. I'm sure Elon has bought himself a place at the head of NASA.

Ohh, ohh I’m well aware of the incoming dumpster fire this con artist will bring. The American public at large is too dumb to stop it.

Man I cannot wait to see those tariffs in effect! It will 100% make it so America is the leader in Laptops, smartphones and computer chips production!

Ohh wait it won’t actually do any of that? It will instead raise prices of products for the normal consumer? But… but Trump promised it wouldn’t!

Get ready for the dumbest shits to ever stupid being put in charge of things that directly affect you. It’s the new normal.

The finger pointing is useless. Ya‘all best get ready for the incoming shit show.

And arguing with fascist fans will not get you anywhere. They love a good boot on their neck as long as it has a US flag on it while it strangles them.

Mr. Tact wrote on Nov 6, 2024, 09:06:

DarkCntry wrote on Nov 6, 2024, 09:00:
Again, I've got a vested interest in this election cycle because of being recently diagnosed with stage 4 cancer and the very possible loss of everything up to and including my life because people want to 'stick it to the libs'.

Sorry to hear about your diagnosis -- good luck and best wishes on your battle. I'm assuming you feel your health care options were/are limited because of that?

Of course, pre-exsisting conditions with the ACA gutted or outright thrown out and replaced with „The best healthcare plan ever“ forever announcing two weeks from now. There are plenty of reasons to be scared.

Beamer wrote on Nov 6, 2024, 08:57:

ZeroPike1 wrote on Nov 6, 2024, 08:47:

Mashiki Amiketo wrote on Nov 6, 2024, 08:28:

ZeroPike1 wrote on Nov 6, 2024, 06:09:
Hope you all are ready to get project 2025‘d. This is just the beginning.

Happy I got lucky and got out of there. Even if dipshit pulls out of nato the EU can probably hold its own against a now shell of its former self Russia.

And enjoy the rising cost of living when those tariffs kick in. You asked for this.

I'm surprised that people still repeat the first one as, that was made by people who hate Trump.

I'm surprised that you haven't been paying attention to that issue and it was making everyone pay their fair share. Something that Trudeau is likely going to get Canada kicked out of NATO over.

I'm amazed that you don't understand that you can't have a strong middle class without blue collar jobs, and those jobs will come directly from those tariffs. The second benefit is it will kick China while it's screaming downhill and entering a massive deflationary crash worse than Japan in the 1980s.

I’m amazed anyone is dumb enough to believe tariffs alone will bring back jobs to the shit hole places in the US. There needs to be a comprehensive plan in place. You know by learned economists and people with actual skilled knowledge in job creation, not „capt‘ dur-tariffs“

Ohh well not my problem enjoy your melting economy. I’ll be fine.

It's people that have never worked in manufacturing and don't understand how long it will take.

We don't have the infrastructure, as in factories, that cost billions to build.
We don't have the infrastructure, as in employees, that know how to do this. Sure, entry level is entry level, but we don't have the actual management skills because we've had several generations of employment where these jobs didn't exist so no one learned how to do them right in order to manage them correctly.
We don't have the infrastructure, as in other factories. When I was in China, the biggest bragging right factory owners had was simply total scale. As in, if a machine broke, or a wrong part was delivered, or God knows what happens, you're surrounded by so many other factories that someone can walk down the street and find another factory with capacity and capability to start manufacturing that part almost immediately, whereas in other nations it could cause a set back of days to weeks.

It will take a very long time to fix this. In the meantime, we'd be more like Brazil in the 2010s, who has very high tariffs on anything not made domestically. A decade of PlayStations costing 3x what they do in the US really caused them to relax much of that. No one was ever going to produce a game console domestically. Just like Nvidia isn't going to move significant manufacturing to the US. Why raise costs in every other nation?

You and I both know why, it’s because it’s complicated and requires more then a passing thought. Both of these things cause a Trump supporters brain to melt. They are simple folks who need only simple answers that require zero thought. What’s more zero thought then one of the now oldest presidents to ever take office promising them the world they want? Even when the world they want will never come even if he is a dictator for the rest of his short remaining life. I mean it’s not going to happen, they are being sold a bill of imaginary goods. And everyone is going to have to pay.

Mashiki Amiketo wrote on Nov 6, 2024, 08:28:

ZeroPike1 wrote on Nov 6, 2024, 06:09:
Hope you all are ready to get project 2025‘d. This is just the beginning.

Happy I got lucky and got out of there. Even if dipshit pulls out of nato the EU can probably hold its own against a now shell of its former self Russia.

And enjoy the rising cost of living when those tariffs kick in. You asked for this.

I'm surprised that people still repeat the first one as, that was made by people who hate Trump.

I'm surprised that you haven't been paying attention to that issue and it was making everyone pay their fair share. Something that Trudeau is likely going to get Canada kicked out of NATO over.

I'm amazed that you don't understand that you can't have a strong middle class without blue collar jobs, and those jobs will come directly from those tariffs. The second benefit is it will kick China while it's screaming downhill and entering a massive deflationary crash worse than Japan in the 1980s.

I’m amazed anyone is dumb enough to believe tariffs alone will bring back jobs to the shit hole places in the US. There needs to be a comprehensive plan in place. You know by learned economists and people with actual skilled knowledge in job creation, not „capt‘ dur-tariffs“

Ohh well not my problem enjoy your melting economy. I’ll be fine.

VaranDragon wrote on Nov 6, 2024, 06:59:
As someone who is definitely on the outside looking in. Good luck to you in the States. With that said, I don't really think much will change. The powers that be will not let the trajectory change too much from what it's been on for the last couple of decades (at least). Trump is a symptom of a much deeper root problem. I feel bad for the people who believe that he is part of a solution, I believe (although I sincerely hope that I'm wrong) that Trump has pretty much hoodwinked his voter base and will simply increase the divide that exists in the states. I also think that he is not going to be much worse than Harris, the dem politics of keeping the status-quo will not be disrupted too much. It's all a game show, and the game was rigged from the beginning.

Normally one could agree with you, however I think this time the long game being played by the far right has come to fruition. The plan was all laid out in project2025. Even if goober said he doesn’t know it his cabinet he will bring in does.

And this little beauty will change the US fundamentally. I think that part about weighted voting based on how many kids you have is a fun tidbit.

And today they were handed the keys to implement all the trash that comes with it. Since Don is a useful idiot that will happily sign it into law, it’s already done.

Hope you all are ready to get project 2025‘d. This is just the beginning.

Happy I got lucky and got out of there. Even if dipshit pulls out of nato the EU can probably hold its own against a now shell of its former self Russia.

And enjoy the rising cost of living when those tariffs kick in. You asked for this.

I remember when I got jury duty summons a couple years after I moved out of the US. My mother called the jury duty office up and told them I had moved. I doubt the jury duty person believed her but I recall my mother saying her reply was „well that is certainly far away“

The other time I ducked jury duty is because I openly stated that I cannot trust a police officer to tell the truth. Judge actually thanked me for my honesty and used that to speak to the rest of the potential jurors that they needed to be honest about how or what could sway their opinions. Which is kind of weird, you would want skeptics on your jury, no? Nobody who blindly believes a cop automatically tells the truth just because of his profession?

It doesn’t matter, it was all ages ago now, well before the BLM movement.

So my two little jury duty stories.

Cutter wrote on Oct 31, 2024, 18:19:

ZeroPike1 wrote on Oct 31, 2024, 12:26:

VaranDragon wrote on Oct 31, 2024, 10:42:
Without clicking on the link, does the article mention how many thousands or tens of thousands of dollars the player wants to refund? When the really big whales are starting to turn against you, you are pretty much screwed. (Or so I hope)

Well the important bit.

When seeking advice from other Redditors (as well as planning on getting a free legal consultation on the matter), some replies pointed out that using an NDA before receiving a refund may be against UK law and EU law. Further, a look through the refunds FAQ and its terms of service don’t mention an NDA requirement.

FeralSquirrels did point out that he isn’t signing anything before seeking counsel and that he has until November 8th to respond to CIG, so it’s possible that news of this added obstacle may unfurl further in the next few days.

Yea an NDA outside of the US in this function might as well not even exist with how useless NDA's are in the world. Inside the US however, it should be noted that an NDA is null and void when a crime has/is being committed. So we will see where this ends up.

And it was established that CIG is committing a felony when exactly? I don't even understand why they would want him to sign one. It's not like one more guy on the dogpile ragging on CIG is going to make a lick of difference at this point. If anything, this just moves them even further into a worse light. How the fuck can such an incompetent group of people raise this sort of money? Boggles...the...mind.

I tend to think its more of a veiled threat. If they can keep one person quiet with an NDA it might stifle others from wanting a refund as well. I think they want to prevent this from snowballing into a mass refund situation. It would probably sink the company.