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- Comment on Steam is recommending homophobic curators. 2 days ago:
“Very heterosexual person” plays every gay game they can find, looking for every gay experience they can do in the game
- Comment on Streets of Fortuna is a chaotic The Sims-like in an ambitious open-world city sandbox, made with the help of Dwarf Fortress creators 3 weeks ago:
Then why not “X, a chaotic new game inspired by The Sims, …”? Lol
- Comment on Streets of Fortuna is a chaotic The Sims-like in an ambitious open-world city sandbox, made with the help of Dwarf Fortress creators 3 weeks ago:
I’ve heard “Life Sim” before.
There are so many other ways to say it aside from trying to make a sentence like “It’s a The Sims-like”.
- Comment on Streets of Fortuna is a chaotic The Sims-like in an ambitious open-world city sandbox, made with the help of Dwarf Fortress creators 3 weeks ago:
I hate this meme. “[Game-like]” is not a noun/genre, with few exceptions.
- Comment on Lawsuit argues Call of Duty helped cause the Uvalde school shooting 5 weeks ago:
Damn, guess the cops should’ve played more COD
/s
- Comment on Final Fantasy Tactics-like Trash Of The Titans dares you to be the garbage guzzling disaster mammal you always knew you were 5 weeks ago:
I’m specifically referring to to X-like.
In the 90’s, we also had Street Fighter-clones!
But nowadays we know better. But gaming journalism seems to have gone backwards into calling everything [X]-like.
My guess is that it gets them more hits for people looking up games that aren’t actually related to the one they’re writing about
- Comment on Final Fantasy Tactics-like Trash Of The Titans dares you to be the garbage guzzling disaster mammal you always knew you were 5 weeks ago:
Do we not have genres anymore? Why are games being called X-like nowadays? Lol
- Comment on Mighty Marbles is an upcoming physics game that looks like a fusion of kids toys 1 month ago:
I remember loving Marble Drop as a kid. That was less physics and more Rube-Goldberg puzzles, though
- Comment on Fortnite will let you hide "confrontational" emotes, including the game's most popular 2 months ago:
I guess your feelings getting hurt is part of the metagame experience!
- Comment on Pokémon 'em up Cassette Beasts adds multiplayer on May 20th 3 months ago:
Pokemon popularized the genre (and heck, it arguably helped popularize JRPGs in general, at least in the west). My issue wasn’t with the word “Pokemon”, but with trying to use “'em up” as if it makes a game a genre.
Especially when we have “-like” already, as in “Roguelike”.
- Comment on Pokémon 'em up Cassette Beasts adds multiplayer on May 20th 3 months ago:
Cassette Beasts looks great, but that is the most stupid description I’ve ever heard.
- Comment on Capcom Releases Nearly 8 Minutes Of New Dragon's Dogma 2 Gameplay Narrated By Actor Ian McShane 3 months ago:
I’m a big proponent of shorter games being worth money, but 8 minutes is too short for a full-price game even for me.
- Comment on Suika Shapes adds co-op multiplayer and a polygonal twist to the viral Watermelon Game 3 months ago:
I had a lot of fun with the free trial of the fruit one. But I couldn’t get the final fruit!
- Comment on The first results from the world’s biggest basic income experiment in Kenya are in - Vox 6 months ago:
The researchers found no evidence that any of the payments discouraged work or increased purchases of alcohol
I’d say that this is a pretty important finding. This is a common talking point for people against UBI, so finding evidence to the contrary is promising
- Comment on Exposing the Color Blind Glasses Scam 6 months ago:
Shitty, but also really clever in terms of marketing. “Helping people with colour blindness more easily distinguish between certain colours whose wavelengths overlap (but are distinct to those without colour blindness)” is accurate, but not as exciting (or as easily understandable) as “FIXES COLOUR BLINDNESS”.
- Comment on What is the thing that resembles a camera shoe under the handset holder found on telephones with a handset used for? 6 months ago:
Ah, OP was just asking about the flash holder for landlines.
- Comment on Mario Kart 8 Deluxe 3.0.1. Patch Fixes Anti-Bagging Measures Accidentally Triggering 7 months ago:
I think lagging behind for OP items is less interesting than a skill-based race.
In a party environment, those OP items are great. Bullet Bills help the new player spice up the friendly environment. But if the pro is lagging behind specifically to get OP items, I think that makes it less fun and less interesting.
- Comment on Mario Kart 8 Deluxe 3.0.1. Patch Fixes Anti-Bagging Measures Accidentally Triggering 7 months ago:
I meant sub-optimally in terms of actually racing. Optimal speed would be getting the lowest time in the race. Bagging would be aiming to not get the fastest lap each time. I probably could’ve chosen a better word, my bad.
I’m not upset about anything. But isn’t this post about Nintendo removing/reducing bagging? So maybe some others are upset about that change. But it seems like a good thing to me.
- Comment on Mario Kart 8 Deluxe 3.0.1. Patch Fixes Anti-Bagging Measures Accidentally Triggering 7 months ago:
Interesting!
- Comment on Mario Kart 8 Deluxe 3.0.1. Patch Fixes Anti-Bagging Measures Accidentally Triggering 7 months ago:
Is it because of wind resistance? The one in front cuts through the wind for everyone else?
- Comment on Mario Kart 8 Deluxe 3.0.1. Patch Fixes Anti-Bagging Measures Accidentally Triggering 7 months ago:
When the Smash meta revolves around playing sub-optimally until the other player trips, let me know.
- Comment on Mario Kart 8 Deluxe 3.0.1. Patch Fixes Anti-Bagging Measures Accidentally Triggering 7 months ago:
Isn’t the competitive default online in Mario Kart to have items on?
- Comment on Mario Kart 8 Deluxe 3.0.1. Patch Fixes Anti-Bagging Measures Accidentally Triggering 7 months ago:
Knocking opponents off the stage is close enough to lowering their HP to 0.
Being slower than everyone else is the opposite of being faster than everyone else. It does seem like it’s cheesing the system that’s supposed to balance things out.
Even items in Smash Bros has a skill component in getting to the item first. And “rubber band” mechanics like bonus final smashes (and items in general) can be turned off.
- Comment on Earthbound Creator Says Nintendo Considered Mother 3 Translation, But It Was Complicated 7 months ago:
Yeah, the uh, “trans characters” almost definitely would’ve been cut or modified.
You’d offend people who think that stuff shouldn’t be in video games, and you’d also offend people who think they’re poor “representation”.
Even Fassad could be a little questionable from a cultural-sensitivity perspective.
Not saying I think these should be cut, but that was likely Nintendo’s justification. Combined with the fact that the GBA was on its way out even when the Japanese version was released.
I have a sliver of hope for a release on the NSO expansion bundle, though.
- Comment on Mario Kart 8 Deluxe 3.0.1. Patch Fixes Anti-Bagging Measures Accidentally Triggering 7 months ago:
It seems counter-intuitive to make a racing game’s optimal strategy to lag behind the rest of the other racers
- Comment on Is there something that helps digest a cheese pizza? 7 months ago:
Depends on which part you’re having trouble digesting.
Personally, I feel pretty darn good after eating a pizza.
- Comment on Is there a “proper“ way to say “6:05 AM”? 7 months ago:
And with numbers in general, I think you only say the “and” if it’s “and one”. 605 would be “six hundred five”, I think.