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- Comment on DVDs are dying right as streaming has made them appealing again 4 months ago:
It just looks like a DVD, with a slightly purple tint. All Blu-Rays are is DVDs with denser data encoding.
You probably have had one or two and not known about it, most games consoles use blu-rays now as well.
- Comment on Valve has little to worry about as new Steam Deck rival arrives 5 months ago:
See I’m really split on Epic.
The corporate side is absolute trash, but UE5 is genuinely one of the most advanced game engines currently in existence and will massively push the industry forward in terms of standards as everyone rushes to compete (except for Unity who are sticking with their old strategy of doing nothing at all).
- Comment on Valve has little to worry about as new Steam Deck rival arrives 5 months ago:
It’s really low res as well. Weird.
- Comment on Romance author gets locked out of Google Docs for “inappropriate” content 6 months ago:
How on Earth were people editing your calendar without permission?
- Comment on It's Time to Bring Back the Steam Machine 6 months ago:
I have no idea if this works iPhones because Apple pretty restrictive (Do they allow anyone to use anything other than Safari or are they still on that anti-consumer kick), but on Android you can set the browser engine the in-app browsers use. So you can set it to Firefox and then have plugins.
I’m using that now.
Or you can just turn in-app browsers off.
- Comment on It's Time to Bring Back the Steam Machine 6 months ago:
So a PC in a cool case?
The problem with going proprietary is that then, well, it’s proprietary. So either they use off the shelf components in which case it’s basically a PC, or they use custom stuff which might improve performance depending on what they do, but will make it difficult to repair and upgrade. Then you rely on Valve producing hardware components, and they’re not really a hardware company, although in fairness they’re also not doing badly at it.
- Comment on It's Time to Bring Back the Steam Machine 6 months ago:
Using an ad blocker is basically requirement of browsing the internet at the moment.
- Comment on Bureau Of Prisons Seeking To Criminalize Social Media Access By Inmates 7 months ago:
If you’re going to insult someone they actually have to understand the insult these internal references don’t make sense to anyone who isn’t in your little social circle of want to be fascists.
If you want to die death by cop be my guest, but don’t risk anyone else’s life in the process.
- Comment on Bureau Of Prisons Seeking To Criminalize Social Media Access By Inmates 7 months ago:
So you want to be a terrorist and / or serial killer?
Should we be reporting you to someone?
- Comment on The Sims movie in the works from Barbie’s Margot Robbie and director of Loki and The Last of Us Season 2 7 months ago:
I don’t know maybe they become self-aware and protest all of the drowning victims that have suffered as a result of the removal of the pool stairs.
- Comment on Trump Tells Hannity He'll Be a "Dictator" if He Wins, but Only on "Day One": A Closer Look with Seth Meyers [10:52] 11 months ago:
Possessed?
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 1 11 months ago:
I’m just concerned that they’re going to go all in on GTA online 2.
They either need to make sure they put a huge amount of effort into the single player or they need to completely rework online play.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 1 11 months ago:
I just wonder if they can actually figure out a way to make GTA online actually fun. Because It really isn’t a good game mode.
All of the online modes that are actually fun are all modded servers. The mental service are awful you spawn in and get blown up instantly, how’s that fun?
- Comment on What is the thing that resembles a camera shoe under the handset holder found on telephones with a handset used for? 11 months ago:
Lots of people in this thread answering the question but they’re kind of just guessing what you’re talking about.
Perhaps you could circle the bit in question because it’s either a holder for the headset or a way to mount the entire device onto a wall or something else depending on if we’ve interpreted your words correctly.
- Comment on What is the thing that resembles a camera shoe under the handset holder found on telephones with a handset used for? 11 months ago:
Right but there isn’t anything that resembles that in the image
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 1 11 months ago:
Next gen consoles are years out. You’re looking at 2029 at the earliest for the next generation of consoles.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 1 11 months ago:
Good that means no micro transactions
- Comment on Peter Griffin and Solid Snake are coming to Fortnite Chapter 5 amid leaks 11 months ago:
I remember when it was a wave defence game. It was a good game I wish they’d make that as well
- Comment on Paramount+ unskipabble ads 11 months ago:
What country are you in because I just turned it on and tried to play an episode of lower decks, and I don’t get any ads, so I’m wondering if it’s only in some parts of the world.
- Comment on The Coffin of Andy and Leyley Developer Sells Title 11 months ago:
It wasn’t gamers who would have had a problem. They’ll have just shrugged and not cared about the game.
- Comment on The Coffin of Andy and Leyley Developer Sells Title 11 months ago:
Well not really. One of them was violent sure that violent didn’t exactly kink it’s just fun.
- Comment on Star Citizen Just Had its Biggest Crowdfunding Day Ever With $3.5 Million in 24 Hours 11 months ago:
Drama how you’re supposed to play EVE Online
- Comment on Star Citizen Just Had its Biggest Crowdfunding Day Ever With $3.5 Million in 24 Hours 11 months ago:
No it entered into alpha about 10 years ago. Not even beta, it’s alpha, there is barely any gameplay to it.
I’ve seen grey box proof of games with more functionality
- Comment on Star Citizen Just Had its Biggest Crowdfunding Day Ever With $3.5 Million in 24 Hours 11 months ago:
It’s depressing to know that it’s actually apparently more profitable to never really release a game than to release one and it be moderately popular
- Comment on The Coffin of Andy and Leyley Developer Sells Title 11 months ago:
Postal was made to rile particular kind of people up. This game on the other hand seems to be actually aimed at a, em, particular demographic
- Comment on Shortage of EV charging points make Sunak's green goals impossible, say businesses 11 months ago:
The problem is that the closest one to me is in a motorway service station. So what am I supposed to do charge up and then just sort of wander around in WHSmith for an hour while it charges up?
- Comment on Shortage of EV charging points make Sunak's green goals impossible, say businesses 11 months ago:
Is goal is to scrap them as quickly as possible while at the same time claiming to have some kind of environmental policies.
When they didn’t get completely rolled over in that by-election they convince themselves that means that people don’t care about the environment then they realize that actually that’s not true and that they are bad at interpreting data.
- Comment on Pokemon Go at home vs POKÉMON GO 11 months ago:
I did think that was going to be the original idea. To encourage you to actually explore your environment and to actually go outside the city.
Doing that would require some fairly robust and sophisticated trading mechanics though so I actually could get a sand type even if I didn’t live near a desert, in exchange they could have a grass type that I had captured on open more land in Northern England.
It would have been cool if they’ve managed to get the market density required to pull it off
- Comment on Bethesda Is Responding to Negative Reviews of Starfield on Steam 11 months ago:
Yeah they should 100% have a flat planet somewhere. Held up by a turtle.
- Comment on Bethesda Is Responding to Negative Reviews of Starfield on Steam 11 months ago:
There’s lots of actual stuff in interplanetary space that you can pull on for inspiration on how to make an interesting game.
You can have counters with shady trader types that are only in the vast gulf between the systems, there could be rogue planets with billion year old abandoned cities to explore filled with automated defences for you to fight and interesting loot at the end. Distant ancient asteroids that contain the seeds of the first life in the universe that when you interact with temporarily give you status change that you can only get from asteroids and temporarily gives you super strength or something, allowing you to complete missions in a way you otherwise would not necessarily have done.
The way these kind of side quests are supposed to work is the player is plodding along trying to get from point A to point B and on the way they get sidetracked by this side quest (the clue is in the name Bethesda). Maybe it changes their priorities or how they’re going to tackle and upcoming mission. Side quests are not supposed to be independent standalone things, they’re supposed to integrate with the main story. They’re not supposed to be something you find easily there’s supposed to be something you come across on your own as you’re exploring the environment, but you can only do that if the developers bothered to provided environment for you to explore. If they just teleport you to your destination then there’s no opportunity for this kind of emergent gameplay.
Loads of stuff you can put between the star systems.