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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Having Ciri as The Witcher 4 lead will help the game explore the Witcher world's sexism, say CD Projekt⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the best things as playing as a woman in RPGs is seeing how normal that shit is. Like, it’s really normal, and even in a game what I have heard second hand sounds MUCH different when it’s directed at you. Cyberpunk did exceptionally well with it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Witcher IV revealed with Ciri as the protagonist⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  She a boring normal protagonist? “So WOKE! No point in even making it a woman!!!”

  If she is some badass with special abilities? “So WOKE! Can’t even be a normal woman!”

  Women really can’t win with conservatives. (I know you’re being sarcastic)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Handheld consoles are the industry's next battleground | Opinion⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Right? The only ones who can muscle in on the deck are Microsoft and Sony, and that’s only because they have their fan base and users who purchased their games digitally from their stores. Even then, they’re way behind on the Deck.

  PC gamers Deck won hands down. I’m happy to see competition, but the Deck won. Everything else right now are the android Honeycomb tablets following the iPad. I’m sure they work fine, but there’s already a winner.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk says too many game studios are owned by giant corporations so his giant corporation is going to start a studio to 'make games great again'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Phew thank god. It wasn’t the insanely thin budgets or the lack of risk taking, it was all that damn wokeness! Finally we can get back to real gaming!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Lutris only managed through desktop mode?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Afaik yes, Lutris is a desktop only app. I’m not aware of any plugins. I use it both on my linux desktop, HTPC for gaming, and deck.

  I would recommend setting your games up and then trying to start them a couple times from Lutris. Once you’re happy, then add the shortcut to Steam and pretend like Lutris doesn’t exist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Deck OLED wins Best Gaming Hardware in the Golden Joystick Awards 2024⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Steam deck, satisfactory, you can tell when awards are given by the people instead of the gaming industry.

  Shocking that companies that make solid products, support them and their users, who don’t lie or oversell to make cheap sales are winning right now

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How's the battery life after you've had one for a while?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Had mine since first release. Depends on the game of course, no change since first playing to now that I’ve noticed. I can get about 2 hours of gta4 in before it shows the low battery warning

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam tighten up rules for games with season pass DLC: "you have to commit to completing that content on time"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Valve doing the regulation our governments should be doing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 uses machine learning AI, and how much of your data it might need⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How much of your bandwidth it might need, not your data. Misleading headline is misleading

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dragon Age: The Veilguard's impressive tresses feature '50,000 individual strands per character for over 100 hairstyles'⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey lol very valid! I’ve been waiting for this for 10 years!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dragon Age: The Veilguard's impressive tresses feature '50,000 individual strands per character for over 100 hairstyles'⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  SECOND?! ALREADY?!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony say their PSN account requirement on PC is so you can enjoy their games 'safely'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow I feel so safe now. Like Sony wrapped me up in their arms and swaddled me. Thank you papa sony

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deck to LG TV⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That is weird, so you’ve tried the exact same setup with a different TV and it worked?

  I wonder if it’s the resolution, or maybe HDR settings? What is different about the other TV if it works there? 1080p only? I’m just spitballing trying to get gears moving

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dragon Age: The Veilguard won't get expansions, reports say, as BioWare move to the next Mass Effect⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Conservatives have their panties in a twist because they have the gall to have lgbtq characters, apparently forgetting that we had Krem in inquisition and that we’ve had several gay and lesbian characters already. I’m having fun personally, I will say everyone’s just a bit too cheerful for my taste, but that’s my only gripe so far

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft closing Arkane Austin was “stupid”, says founder: recreating “a very special group” like that would be “impossible”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I am just love watching these companies seeing the downfall of it. Google did short term profits instead of quality for search and now people are looking for competitors and profits are dropping. People don’t watch new Netflix shows because they know they’ll be cancelled. So many more. It’s delicious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft closing Arkane Austin was “stupid”, says founder: recreating “a very special group” like that would be “impossible”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Microsoft really doesn’t understand how well teams can work together. They notoriously hire contractors to avoid needing to pay benefits, rotating them out every 18 months. For them to create team dynamic ideas like “forming storming norming performing”, they really don’t follow any of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why play a fascist? Unpacking the hideousness of the Space Marine⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Almost like they wanted it that way, to get you to think about it. (Sarcasm to the author, not to you).

  It’s like they felt guilty about it and decided to write a whole article about how they made them feel bad - and rather than taking the point that you’re supposed to feel bad doing it, and thinking on that they thought “Hey games should make me feel things like this”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why play a fascist? Unpacking the hideousness of the Space Marine⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  But teaching people to favour the consistency of imaginary worlds may also teach them to vilify disagreement and the entire practice of interpretation. At its nastiest, this mentality both facilitates and camouflages bigotry.

  I mean… it’s a game. The RP in RPG is role playing. Isn’t part of the fun playing someone or something you’re not? I play the other gender in games because I’m not that gender. In Mass Effect I love playing renegade - punching reporters in the face even though I’m not like that in real life. This is the same stupid argument I’ve heard all the time. “Grand Theft Auto encourages violence”. No. It’s fun because we get to play this character who is so unlike ourselves.

  In Halo I played a bioengineered soldier who was ripped away from his family to put down violent uprisings. Does that mean I think that’s okay in real life? Or was I playing a game that set that as a premise?

  Do we apply the same scrutiny to movies? To theater? Just because we empathize or maybe even we admit that there is a part of us who want to speed through downtown Los Santos just for fun doesn’t mean that’s who we actually are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[DF] Bazzite - 'SteamOS' For Windows PC Handhelds - Is It A Game-Changer?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I use it on my HTPC. It’s pretty nice, but there are definitely some bugs and quirks. It’s basically the handheld steam version, but with some better support. Agree that “Game-Changer” is clickbait.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SteamOS 3.6 Is Now Released With Performance Improvements, Mura Compensation, and Much More - Steam Deck HQ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Nope, even then, think of how much QA would go into something like this. They probably have 6-8 months of features that were built on this kernel. Upgrading the kernel before would mean needing to redo everything - all of the QA, UAT, months of prep work. Companies who hold up these big releases for us aren’t like us just clicking perform upgrade, it’s a massive process that needs signoffs and confirmations. That’s why I say they probably just drew a line in the sand and said “We can’t risk destabilizing it just to perform an upgrade” - or for all we know they did do the upgrade, realized it broke something critical, and decided against it.

  We all know if they rolled out a broken release everyone would be on every forum with pitchforks calling Valve the devil. They weren’t just being idiots by not upgrading.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SteamOS 3.6 Is Now Released With Performance Improvements, Mura Compensation, and Much More - Steam Deck HQ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  At some point you have to draw the line in the sand and say this is what we’re updating to for this release, we’ll update again for the next one. I compare it to Star citizen, who kept updating to the latest and greatest and never delivered a product. I don’t care that you upgraded to the latest engine update, finish the product.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix's "Team Blue" of Halo, Overwatch and God Of War vets close without a single game to their name⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Stocking. I’m the world if short term profits Netflix didn’t want to stick it out for several years of game development

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Players are now less "accepting" that games will be fixed, say Paradox, after "underestimating" the reaction to Cities: Skylines 2's performance woes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We’re coming up on a year from launch now. For me the game is fine, but it’s lacking a lot of stuff to make it a CS1 replacement, and them having to go back and fix performance issues means they’re putting off actual feature development.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Halo's future as an Unreal Engine game looks both handsome and boring, going by these "Project Foundry" videos⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So same as Halo Infinite

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GTA IV footage generated with AI shows the power of AI for future PC game remasters⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, that’s what they did with san andreas

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CD Projekt Red Still Seeking To Win Players Back After Cyberpunk 2077 Disastrous Launch⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What? They already did with phantom liberty. What is this garbage article, just gotta mention it to bring in clicks?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft Director Claims "Non-Decent Humans" Are Wishing For Company's Demise⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How he’s trying to say that we’re just trying to hurt his poor innocent workers. No way, we’ve all been very clear - fuck Ubisoft. Fuck their executives, their board, their directors, everyone who has pushed for these bland, useless “games” that are missing any story elements, adverse to any risk taking, and have no soul.

  I staunchly defend the low devs, artists, writers, and everyone who are just trying to get by. I feel for every dev who pitched an idea who had it cast aside by some weasel exec who thought that it would be too risky to add to the game. I feel for the hundreds laid off by the greedy execs because they need more profit.

  Fuck their company. I feel for the people working, but the executives caused everything that’s happening. Not us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you prefer for audio? Earphones, headphones, speakers?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Speakers at home. Nothing compared to dynamic range there.

  Over the ear headphones on planes. More comfortable for longer wears, good sound quality, and they block out the crying baby if you get active noise cancelling

  Ear buds for short rides on the bus/train. Pop em in and go

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic Games reduce their cut for Unreal Engine games for same-day Epic Store launches⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s called vertical integration, Lemon

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft investors push for company sale as shares hit decade-low⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “The game received an unusual number of user reviews with a clear negative bias (including a large percentage of “zero” reviews), despite seeing acceptable review scores from reputable review sites,” Wedbush analysts Michael Pachter, Alicia Reese and Kade Bar wrote in a note last week. “This is a case of a rare incel victory that led to Ubisoft having to take down its numbers,” they added.

  Oh kindly fuck the hell off. Whenever people have legitimate criticisms of something like this they always downplay it as trolls, or review bombing. NO. It’s a boring game, that’s it. Ubisoft tries to make games for “everybody” and so they take zero risks, and because of that their games are boring.