AI can now do with a ton of processing power what kids with Photoshop could do do for decades. Yeah, I'm so not ready for this... /s

The voice of Bayonetta! 😱

RIP

As if this poor franchise hasn't suffered enough between Borderlands 3, the Pre-Sequel and the movie. :'(

So the saying goes fool me once / fool me twice. Since this is Molyneux, what is "fool me for the fourteenth time"?!

That's a surprisingly large amount of changes for Heroes of the Storm. Did not expect that for the game at this late stage. I wonder whether this is a ripple effect of whatever also affects other areas of Blizzard? What with them trying to sensible setups again for Overwatch 2.

As much as I would have loved this to be good, right now it just shows me how even after all these years, I could stand to play some more Starcraft II.

This is truly "We Got SC2 At Home"-material. And sure, early access, but after now having had a Kickstarter and a paid Early Access, they're also taking Geforce NOW money and are planning to be F2P. They could only monetize much more if they add gacha mechanics and mobile-style wait-or-pay systems. Sadly exactly zero hopes for this game, in particular with how incredibly rough it is.

But hey, not totally writing this off yet either. There's some good ideas in there, even if I feel the devs bit off entirely too much.

Reddit unhappy some users still think positively of the site. 💡

Should make an AAAAA game, tbh. We already know that the quality ladder goes something like, so there's room at the top!

AAA > AA > A > Budget > Shovelware > AAAA > Vaporware > NFT games

Jokes aside, it's cool that they're trying to avoid the hype culture with rapid overspending after surprise success. Here's to hoping they can successfully stick to their goals! 🍻

That's insanely beautiful with those thousands and thousands and thousands of bats. Wow. Thanks for sharing that link! 🥰

Prez wrote on Aug 1, 2024, 16:22:
Yay! While not nearly as terrible as people have said, Homeworld 3 would have to be classified as a MAJOR disappointment. This is my new last hope. I love the original but for accessibility reasons it's basically unplayable and that makes me cry.

Interesting, IMO SoaSE2 is so aggressively mediocre that it retroactively exhonorates HW3 for me.

That is, at least HW3 tried something. Anything. SoaSE2 happily is just a graphics overhaul that staples a few new unnecessary bits on while not in the least bit working on fixing the existing issues, cutting existing cruft or even better replacing it with sensible bits. It intentionally does not integrates elements that only exist due to having to be added later, which is incredibly bewilding considering they're doing a new game, this would have been the chance to overhaul, integrate, expand and rebalance.

Maybe HW3 wasn't that bad. At least, in comparison it seems surprisingly decent. :<

Eh, ever since the shoddy quality and then abandonment of Three Kingdoms, I'm finally off the Total War hype train.

It's a nice game franchise. In my memories. It fell so far, playing it now is just going through the motions in a sad way. Even Warhammer could barely help this, being more inventive owing to its license but still utterly flailing in every part not directly influence by the license.

Still super meh on this.

Between their semi-shady hype influencer marketing, the F2P nature and how this still feels like it has 0 identity except "We have Starcraft II at home", this just doesn't feel great.

Oh now even Musk is finally anti-imperial-units? Wow!

Chinese avatars of dead relatives, right after playing the final zone in the new FFXIV expansion. Daaaang.

> Heritage Foundation insists ‘gay furry hackers’ did not breach its systems

That's exactly what someone hacked by gay furry hackers would say!

Beamer wrote on Jul 11, 2024, 20:38:
First, he dared advertisers to leave.

Then, he's saying he's so entitled to their money that he can sue them for not using his services.

We all know good companies hold their clients hostage through legal action

Yeah this is the funniest part, he is the one who told them to leave if they don't like it. They did.

Simon Says wrote on Jul 2, 2024, 14:59:
Everyone who's old enough to have typed in the 80's and early 90's knows what it feels like to type on a clicky mechanical IBM keyboard.
I can't say I miss the ruckus, nor the pressure you had to exert when I now cheerfully type on much more quieter linear switches.

Yeah but my point was kinda that the author clearly has never stepped outside of the cherry realm - they even show them on their images. Which is a bit of a problem, because that means they only know the wobbly binding mess that is cherry reds or blacks.

Of course, whether someone wants the clicky ruckus or just quiet tactility is a wholly different beast. For typing in general I would from decades of experience outfitting people at work say that gentle tactility beats linear for professional typists while being just as gentle to operate. Stiffer tactility and stiff clickies are... an acquired taste, yeah. Difficult to argue that they're only good if you live alone, too. 😅 But linears are good whenever you need the lack of defined contact point:

* You intend to bottom out every stroke anyways (held buttons during gaming).
* You mount analogue switches (which is chefs-kiss for gaming, definitely).
* You are a typist, but you bottom out regardless (I would change my habit, this is so not good for your hands...).

Damn, how to tell the world you've never used non-Cherry switches without telling them you actually never have. Thinking linears are superior for typing.

(Though I will give that for gaming, analog switches are an amazing invention and naturally will be linear - but for typing, my current favorite is Khail Box White V2, prefer them to Jades even)

The most fascinating part of this was how smooth the launch was so far, and how there's virtually no queues, even in the evening.

And not for "ded gaem"-reasons: Steam supports a player count just about the same as Endwalker. And while Steam is only a portion of the players, we can assume that percentage to be comparable to last time, too.

Seems that finally moving to cloud-based login servers has largely fixed Square's problems.

This looked vaguely interesting until I saw it in motion, and then noticed it's by The Chinese Room.

Mad props for sticking to their guns the way they do, but their games are absolutely not my thing, sadly.