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- Comment on PlayStation Walks Back Helldivers 2 Changes, PSN Account Linking No Longer Required 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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
- Comment on The Fallout TV show might have answered a decades-old question in the video games 4 weeks ago:
Tldr:
Article says Vault tec saying they would drop bombs first means they did.
Which doesn’t make sense. Because the people in that meeting weren’t prepared to launch first.
The guy who created fallout has said since the first game that China launched first. Everything still points to China launching first despite Vault tec being willing to because they thought China wouldn’t.
Maybe China just did it out of the blue, maybe China heard Vault tec was doing it.
- Comment on Fallout TV creators saved “iconic elements” for season 2 so it doesn’t feel like they just skimmed Wikipedia 4 weeks ago:
That’s what I mean.
Like she sees a squad of badass BOS, then a death claw comes out of nowhere and one hits all of them.
I get in games the players can eventually handle them. But in the show I want them to be the literal perfectly engineered killing machine they’re supposed to be. If you see a death claw the only valid option should be running.
- Comment on Fallout TV creators saved “iconic elements” for season 2 so it doesn’t feel like they just skimmed Wikipedia 4 weeks ago:
I’d certainly rather things be paced than crammed in. Presumably you also want to give the party time to level up and loot better gear so they don’t end up reloading saves over and over getting torn to pieces while failing to sneak through Quarry Junction.
One of the most memorable the NGS about Fallout is walking in the wrong direction and getting smoked because there’s no warning you’re going into a high level area…
I agree on waiting for deathclaws, but it would be hilarious to have Lucy start walking into shit way over her head and moving out
Like, show a Deatclaw winning against 3-4 knights in power armor so she just turns around and goes the opposite direction.
Would show how strong they are without Lucy somehow being able to take one out already
- Comment on Baldur’s Gate 3 studio will likely bring their next game to early access again, but admit it’s not for every dev 5 weeks ago:
Larian can do this because they make huge games.
Act 1 wasnt to far off from a full game from some studios. And especially that genre where people normally restart over and over.
They got a huge amount of beta testers, not only for free, we happily paid for it.
Theres no reason to stop, it’s a great system
- Comment on Batman game that became Shadow of Mordor footage surfaces online 5 weeks ago:
It took 6 years to get it approved, but lots of stupider patents still stand.
You can’t count on common sense for stuff like this.
- Comment on Batman game that became Shadow of Mordor footage surfaces online 5 weeks ago:
WB owning the patent for the Nemesis system really sucks.
Those games were amazing because of the system, but because WB is a shit show, they won’t use it again and no one else can do anything similar
- Comment on FTX fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison 1 month ago:
The only reason he’s getting this much is he fucked over investment firms.
If he had just fucked over regular people, he’d maybe do a tenth of this time.
- Comment on Reddit faces new reality after cashing in on its IPO 1 month ago:
IPO price, around $30, so it’s up 50%.
Normal IPO, you have to hold like 6 months then sell. It artificially increases scarcity and keeps price up.
The reddit users can sell right now though, and if enough do it at once, it can scare off new buyers and make those who already bought after IPO sell.
It could waterfall and leave the traditional IPO buyers who can’t sell get stuck holding the bag.
- Comment on Reddit faces new reality after cashing in on its IPO 1 month ago:
About 15 years ago.
When they first got popular and had to ban all the pedo subs because people were pissed
- Comment on Ubisoft revealed an AI NPC prototype at GDC and everyone online made fun of it 1 month ago:
They can’t, but they still shouldn’t
- Comment on Ubisoft revealed an AI NPC prototype at GDC and everyone online made fun of it 1 month ago:
You forgot about 20
I’m sorry, can you repeat that?
Before eventually resorting to button prompts
- Comment on Ubisoft revealed an AI NPC prototype at GDC and everyone online made fun of it 1 month ago:
“Have you ever dreamed of having a real conversation with an NPC in a video game?”, asks Ubi’s official post about it. And what all people who make this fail to understand that the answer most normal people give if they think about it is “Erm, probably no, actually?”
So, you have to type random questions and the AI gives random answers like any other chatbots?
That seems incredibly pointless because the NPC will just make up responses that may or not be accurate in the game world.
Like, ask it how to complete a mission or for advice, and it might give random shit that doesn’t work in the game.
A limited amount of pre written interactions would at least all be relevant to the game.
It seems like they just want to avoid paying writers to fill their empty open world games.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 Season 2 Launches Next Week With New 'Cutting Edge' Warbond 2 months ago:
They don’t expire either.
So even if you join late, you don’t miss out, just have to play catch-up
- Comment on Samsung is making it harder to know what type of OLED TV you’re getting 2 months ago:
You really need RTINGS reviews these days to break it all down.
I can’t imagine trying to buy an expensive TV just off what it says on store website, let alone a box at a store.
- Comment on Dakota Johnson on ‘Madame Web’ Blowback: “I’ll Never Do Anything Like It Again” 2 months ago:
I don’t know why studios keep meddling.
She said the script she signed up for was way better, and what got released is completely different
Like, I know some stuff will always change. But this comes up so often and it’s just producers fiddling with shit
- Comment on Zack Snyder says we're getting six hours of Rebel Moon director's cuts on the same day on Netflix 2 months ago:
I said the same for the black and white superman vs Batman movie tho, and only made it like 20 minutes tho.
But if the long version is boring, I’d rather switch to the short one than watch all the short one first.
- Comment on Zack Snyder says we're getting six hours of Rebel Moon director's cuts on the same day on Netflix 2 months ago:
Anyone else waiting to watch either?
I figured the Snyder cuts would be better, and didn’t see a point in watching a 50% summary that’s pg13.
- Comment on The case for 4K Blu-ray in a world of streaming 2 months ago:
Yeah, wired ethernet and a home server and bit rate isn’t an issue.
- Comment on President Joe Biden makes surprise appearance on 10th anniversary of 'Late Night with Seth Meyers' 2 months ago:
So you think Biden meant trump wants to take us back from now (it’s repealed) past what it was when Trump was president (abortion protected) and back even further (to before it was passed)?
That makes absolutely zero logical sense, and sounds like a Republican defending the crazy shit trump says.
Thanks for clarifying, but if that’s how you feel I’m never engaging with you again and will take the very easy step to ensure that.
- Comment on President Joe Biden makes surprise appearance on 10th anniversary of 'Late Night with Seth Meyers' 2 months ago:
So what do you think?
Did Biden say the opposite that he meant to?
Is this just another example of how if you point a camera at Joe Biden, you can’t trust anything he says as what he meant to say?
I don’t understand how either case makes you think he’s capable of holding the most important job in America.
Although I’m assuming you’ll either not reply or just insult me again for being honest about Biden’s capabilities
- Comment on President Joe Biden makes surprise appearance on 10th anniversary of 'Late Night with Seth Meyers' 2 months ago:
“It’s about how old your ideas are. Look, I mean, this is a guy who wants to take us back,” Biden added. “He wants to take us back on Roe v. Wade.”
Is he saying trump wants federal abortion protections reinstated?
Or did Biden forget we already lost Roe vs Wade during his presidency?
And wasn’t Biden literally just talking about how he wants to take politics back to when he and Strom Thurmond could still be great friends even though they’re in different parties?
- Comment on ‘Dune: Part Two’ First Reactions: Rave Reviews Topped By Critic Who Claims, “It’s The Definitive Sci-Fi Epic Of A Generation” 2 months ago:
Bella Thorne.
And it’s not even like she went crazy either tho. Just parties a lot and gets a lot of money for topless pictures to fund partying.
It’s not like I’m saying those child actors all grew up to be serial killers. It just doesn’t make sense to expect perfectly well adjusted adults out of them. Nothing about their childhoods were normal, and even if they weren’t abused, someone in their small peer group they were friends with did.
Gotta cut them some slack as long as they’re not hurting anyone.
- Comment on ‘Dune: Part Two’ First Reactions: Rave Reviews Topped By Critic Who Claims, “It’s The Definitive Sci-Fi Epic Of A Generation” 2 months ago:
Context man…
She was a Disney/Nick kid, she is incredibly normal for her peer group. If she wants to dress as a stereotypical female protagonist from a DND RPG video game while attending the premier or an iconic sci-fi adaptation she has a significant lead role in, I say go for it.
Even if she goes bat shit crazy tomorrow, she held it together better than most of the kids that went thru that meat grinder.
Like isn’t her first costar now a coked out only fans model?
Zendaya is killing it in comparison