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- Comment on Couple spends close to $1,000,000 making their Texas family home 'optimized for LAN parties' and the result is pretty staggering 9 hours ago:
Nope, 22… Article says that’s 75k.
And each one is in custom “hideaway” cabinets that they said cost as much.
They didn’t do anything cheap, and once you get to a certain level, everything becomes crazy expensive.
This is the type of shit you do when you’re the problem and money is an afterthought.
I don’t know why anyone would celebrate it.
- Comment on Black Ops 6 devs still looking into unfair spawning system - "yes, we saw ourselves in a Killcam before selecting a Loadout too" 2 weeks ago:
That’s spawn camping
This is as soon as you join the game spawns a player character that just stands there while you load in and pick your first load out.
The fix is just having it not spawn a model till the player has loaded the level and selects a load out.
What’s bad is they’re tweeting about it instead of just fixing it.
- Comment on Paradox respond to the accusation that they fix games with paid DLC - "we try to find a middle ground" 5 weeks ago:
They make a good point about this method keeping a game going a decade, but if ore how this limits people who want to get into the game 5 years in.
Base game might only be $25, but so are the 5 DLCs since.
For someone who plays that game often and buys as they come out. It’s not that bad
But for more casual or new players, they might not want to invest in the base game if they’re not sure about the mods. It feels like you’re paying for half a product.
I think they can easily get away with selling a new game in a series every 2-3 and retain more features.
- Comment on Just 5,000 people use the Rabbit R1 every day 1 month ago:
There’s a lot of variation in human intelligence…
So no matter how shit an “ai” is, there’s some amount of people who feel like it’s impressively smart.
- Comment on 12 things to do while you're a meatshield in Black Ops 6 2 months ago:
- Explain to your captor that they have blundered right into your trap. How could they have fallen for such an obvious ruse? Truly, it would be laughable if it weren’t so pathetic.
It would completely break the mechanic, but would be so satisfying if you could pull the pin on your own grenade when it happens.
I don’t know if omnimovement will stick around tho. It might get better when people are used to it, but from beta it just made people really easy to shoot. Everyone just immediately dived in a random direction and froze. Compared to sliding and bunny hopping, omnimovement seemed to slow stuff down more than anything.
Plus I accidentally dove off buildings sideways/backwards more times then I’d like to admit when I just wanted to lay down
- Comment on Starlink says it will block X in Brazil 2 months ago:
and they seemingly cut off Starlink accounts just because he’s associated.
There was a WhatsApp message (only way they managed to communicate) where someone on behalf of Starlink said something that cleared Brazil to treat them as operating under the same entity.
Like, everything that is happening is because Musk just keeps making unforced errors.
It doesn’t seem like any legal counsel has been involved at all, and he’s just keeps randomly saying the worst possible thing he can at any moment.
- Comment on Starlink says it will block X in Brazil 2 months ago:
They’re doing it to get Starlink accounts unfrozen, but there’s a good chance it won’t be unfrozen till Musk pays twitter’s fines.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 publishing director says "almost all games should cost more at a base level" because they cost so much to make 2 months ago:
One or the other.
BG3 is a huge game with no dlc or extra purchases.
I’m fine with games like that being more, but if they’d have went like most games these days and done 2-3 dlcs, then the base game should be cheaper.
Like, buying bg3 was basically buying the “game of year” edition because the game had so much content
- Comment on Samsung TVs will get 7 years of updates, starting with 2023 models 2 months ago:
I mean, my TV got VRR thru an update…
Would have been great if it shipped with it, but being able to get the update is better than getting mailed a usb to do it manually.
- Comment on Samsung TVs will get 7 years of updates, starting with 2023 models 2 months ago:
Because most media is still 1080p, 4k TVs (especially big screens) need to basically have a mini PC inside to handle the upscaling, or you might as well stay with a 1080p TV. So thing very few people seem willing to do these days
At that point the “smart features” don’t need anything else, so it wouldn’t make sense to leave them out.
When media is mostly 4k, we won’t need upscaling and “dumb TV’s” will make a comeback like back in the day when people would buy cheap TVs that were just as good as the expensive ones.
Since most modern media is streaming tho. And streaming companies keep charging extra for 4k streaming, it’ll be a while.
- Comment on Future Fords might detect speeding and report you to the cops 3 months ago:
Eh, they patent everything they can think of these days.
Doesn’t mean they’re gonna use it, they just want paid if anyone else wants to use it.
- Comment on CD Project devs want to "call out" big problems like homelessness and the wealth gap in Cyberpunk 2077 sequel 4 months ago:
TLDR:
The dystopian hellscape set in the future isn’t as dystopian as current reality…
- Comment on Payday 3's latest update adds "solo mode", but it still requires an initial internet connection 4 months ago:
That Rockay City game scratches the itch and has decent bots and a rouglite you can play solo.
It was free on PlayStation and all the dlc may still be free too
- Comment on There’s no new FIFA game, so of course they’re hosting a World Cup in Rocket League instead 4 months ago:
I don’t know why leagues still want these agreements.
I can’t imagine a non-exclusive license would be a 50% discount or that there would be fewer than 2 studios who want it.
We need competition back so these genres actually improve.
- Comment on Israel Opposes Rebuilding Gaza’s Internet Access Because Terrorists Could Go Online 4 months ago:
What kind of argument is that?
A bullshit one
- Comment on Don’t expect Fallout 1 and 2 remakes from Bethesda any time soon - Todd wouldn’t want to “paste over” their charm 5 months ago:
You called me an asshole, then accused me of making personal attacks?
How are you the good guy in your head?
And that’s a rhetorical question, I’m never going to see the answer
- Comment on Don’t expect Fallout 1 and 2 remakes from Bethesda any time soon - Todd wouldn’t want to “paste over” their charm 5 months ago:
With a profile like that, I wouldn’t be telling people to check profiles.
- Comment on Don’t expect Fallout 1 and 2 remakes from Bethesda any time soon - Todd wouldn’t want to “paste over” their charm 5 months ago:
It can be about accessibility, quality of life changes, adjustments and new content.
But you can’t name anything specific…
Go argue with Todd if you got an idea, that might accomplish something.
- Comment on Don’t expect Fallout 1 and 2 remakes from Bethesda any time soon - Todd wouldn’t want to “paste over” their charm 5 months ago:
with updated controls
They were point and click games…
I’m pretty sure there’s been mods for controller support for a while now. But there’s nothing you can add to the game to significantly improve it, that wouldn’t significantly change it
Unless you’re talking about whatever it is Square Enix is doing with FF7.
I mean, I’d probably buy it if it was for fo2, but I’d be pretty grumpy about it and wouldn’t call it a remake.
- Comment on Don’t expect Fallout 1 and 2 remakes from Bethesda any time soon - Todd wouldn’t want to “paste over” their charm 5 months ago:
Is anyone even asking for that?
3d isometric RPGs don’t really need mind-blowing graphics.
That’s pretty much the reason early games were 3d isometric RPGs…
- Comment on Israel Secretly Targets U.S. Lawmakers With Influence Campaign on Gaza War 5 months ago:
I mean, all the
bribesdonations are doing the real work.All these chatbot social media comments is so the politicians have plausible deniability for why they’re doing it.
Who thinks the people shitty enough to support a genocide care what their voters think?
- Comment on Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Will Launch Day One On Game Pass 5 months ago:
I played the last one after like a decade long absense from the series…
It’s definitely became something that they make money off skins instead of games sold. Kids drop $20 on every new skin/bundle that comes out.
Hell, their main focus is on the free mode because they make the most off people playing that and buying skins.
If you buy it for multiplayer, you’re paying $70 to get backseat treatment from the devs.
- Comment on Harris announces plans to help 80% of Africa gain access to the internet, up from 40% now 5 months ago:
Didn’t we just cut programs for all but one battleground state for this?
I remember because they were tone deaf to brag one state got to keep it.
- Comment on PlayStation Walks Back Helldivers 2 Changes, PSN Account Linking No Longer Required 6 months ago:
At a large corporation like Sony, the people making decisions about video games rarely know anything about video games
At a certain point your career is “executive” and it doesn’t matter what product you manage.
PlayStation isn’t a huge deal to Sony compared to all the other shit they do. It’s like 1/4 of revenue.
So, it’s significant, but the people calling the shots aren’t video game people, they’re “executives” who assumed gamers wouldn’t mind signing up. They don’t understand how fickle their username and how early it still was to start money/data grabbing.
- Comment on Logitech Launches An “AI” Mouse That’s Just A 2022 Mouse With A Mappable Button 6 months ago:
From the Ars article it references:
I was disappointed to learn that the most distinct feature of the Logitech Signature AI Edition M750 is a button located south of the scroll wheel. This button is preprogrammed to launch the ChatGPT prompt builder, which Logitech recently added to its peripherals configuration app Options+.
That’s pretty much it. Just a shortcut to an AI tool, so being mappable is a huge positive so people can actually use the button.
Definitely a gimmick.
But I remember there being a mouse/gamepad that really did us AI to fine tune aim in first person shooters. I think Ars did an article on those too. Not sure if it was commercially available or just someone filing a patent tho.
- Comment on PlayStation Walks Back Helldivers 2 Changes, PSN Account Linking No Longer Required 6 months ago:
Sony really fucked this one up.
They could have just offered some bonus for linking and most would have done it.
It’s what’s Ubisoft does.
But this move really set back PlayStation’s entry into PC gaming.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 patch makes life hellish indeed for smaller parties, but also makes maps more fun to explore 6 months ago:
Yeah, the issue wasn’t one Quaser being OP, it was a full squad of four using it, and having more than one a second. That’s ridiculously OP. I’ve spawned in sight of shrieker nests and the whole squad clears them in under a minute.
They’re balancing stuff for a squad of 4 that’s competent and coordinating…
Which just isn’t the reality for people joining random missions.
I went to Quaser when Railgun got nerfed, not sure what I’m going to use now. But they need to start buffing the stuff no one uses, not nerfing what everyone uses because it’s the only feasible option in level 9
- Comment on Helldivers 2 patch makes life hellish indeed for smaller parties, but also makes maps more fun to explore 6 months ago:
Elsewhere, there are lots of weapons balance changes, among which the beloved Quasar Cannon has had its recharge time increased by five seconds. That’s a whole lot of seconds, rendering it a lot less spammable and, probably, more of the weapon it should’ve been in the first place.
That’s a hell of a nerf to not get it’s own headline…
Like, what was it before? 5 seconds and now it’s doubled?
- Comment on The Fallout TV show might have answered a decades-old question in the video games 7 months ago:
Eh, you don’t put 100s of people in cryo overnight.
Like, wasn’t that F4? Some people had went into cyro early to be safe, but the PC has to sprint last second to make it in?
Even among the general population, people seemed to know it was coming soon, just not that day.
- Comment on The Fallout TV show might have answered a decades-old question in the video games 7 months ago:
It’s not just her.
Almost all the people in that room were important in one game or another. They all knew it was going to happen eventually, even “soon”. But not a single one was prepared when the bombs dropped.
It makes sense someone beat them to the punch, and that someone has to be China. Unless some rouge vault like 4 that was already in place did something to start it to ensure their vault would “win”.
All they’d have to do is give China a heads up, they wouldn’t have to launch any nukes themselves