Drewfro66

@Drewfro66@lemmygrad.ml

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starfield is a game people were "just not ready" for and it'll still come good at some point, reckons Fallout 4 composer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I really liked a lot of the mechanics of Starfield. I think some people can get a bit overly-critical and “throw the baby out with the bathwater”, even if the baby is a little ugly too and has 13 toes in this analogy.

  Ultimately I think it was a game killed mostly by poor writing and, consequently, a failure to tie that writing into interesting enemy variation.

  The different types of human enemies all felt the same, there wasn’t enough variation when it came to robots or aliens, and these were used in uninspired ways pretty much uniform. The randomly generated locations etc. definitely added onto this.

  I had a lot of fun with the ship and weapon customization, the core gameplay felt good to me. It is a game primed for a very fun and interesting New Vegas to its FO3, if they chose to go that route (which I doubt they will, alas).

  One of my biggest issues is that it feels like a game written entirely by Libertarian Atheist Redditors from 2013. It is so completely out of touch with the current culture and political landscape that I can only assume the issue is that Bethesda, or at least the people responsible for this messat Bethesda, are Libertarian Reddit Atheists who haven’t matured in their understanding of culture and politics for 15 years, like you took Hank Green, Niel deGrasse Tyson, and pre-2020 Elon Musk, threw them in a blender, and asked the resulting mush to write a sci-fi setting.

  The joinable factions are obviously supposed to be exaggerated stereotypes of Democrat and Republican politics as conceived by someone with a very shallow view of politics, but the thing about the Democrat and Republican parties is that 90% of the country fucking hates both of them. What’s your other option? Get a job? The pirates could have been fun but I’m not even going to get into how they were butchered. And the snake-worshipping religious zealots are the only major faction you can’t join, despite being the only mildly interesting one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hytale's first major update adds in dinosaurs, stops skeletons drowning and lets you have an early night⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And enemies clipping through walls and floors!

  The last Etho video with the maggot had me laughing with how many times it’s happened to me. “I guess he got away”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tinder tests letting users set a 'height preference'⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Tinder has let you filter by height for a while, haven’t they? Or is that just Bumble/Hinge?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A retro goodie rebuilt from 1994, Ironseed 25th Anniversary Edition recently added Linux support⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone was just talking about this on Hexbear earlier. I think I might give it a shot

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Supreme Court backs TikTok ban: App set to shut down Sunday⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The People’s Republic of China has never committed a genocide. Taiwan is part of China. China has one of the most peaceful foreign policies of any major power, and has only ever fought wars to defend it’s own borders or support it’s allies. It is more Democratic than any nation in the West, especially the United States.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨City builder Workers & Resources finally brings socialism to the USA and UK with latest DLC⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Estoniods are going to get so mad at this

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cities: Skylines latest DLC came out this week, 18 months after its "final" DLC came out last year⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The latest update improved performance a ton for me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hasbro CEO Says AI Will Become Core Part of Dungeons & Dragons⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow that sucks

  AI art is going to do the same thing to fantasy art that digital art did: completely destroy the immersive feeling for the benefit of rich assholes who want to pump out slop quicker and cheaper

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shadow Of The Erdtree’s mixed Steam reviews paint a different picture to the critical reception⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve also been getting very bad stuttering that makes the game functionally unplayable. I think I’d love the DLC, if I could actually play it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adobe comes after indie game emulator Delta for copying its logo⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly I think Adobe is in the right here. The trademarks are very similar and it’s not as if Adobe was trying to shut them down - just change their trademark.

  Trademark law is not as vicious as copyright law. If a consumer could be lead to believe that the Delta emulator was an Adobe product because the logos look too similar, that’s a problem, the exact problem trademark law is meant to prevent.