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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA: There's a free Fallout 4 mod for that Fallout Show NCR power armour Bethesda are charging $30 for as DLC⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  $30 for a cosmetic DLC with like 4 items in it is crazy regardless. Especially for $40 game with a $13/month subscription.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plague Inc: Evolved gets a "vastly improved playing experience on Steam Deck"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s hard to say if there’s any new differences, as the FaQ listing them hasn’t been updated once in the last decade. But if the mobile version is getting new content like the steam version, I’d say they’re probably getting the same updates.

  The big changes are multiplayer (both a competitive mode and cooperative mode), all of the expansions come with the game for free, and general UI improvements. Plus you have access to a Steam Workshop full of custom scenarios. Most of which are low effort shit posts (see: “femboyitis"), but there are plenty of high quality ones in there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You'll no longer earn Steam points from community awards, as Valve try to kill off clownface-farming⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was very happy when I saw this change on Steam. So tired of looking at the comments of some game’s patch notes only to see blatant homophobia and transphobia with 500 clown awards as one of the top comments. I mean, people will probably still do it, because people are assholes. But at least they’re not getting rewarded for it anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New York City is being recreated at 1:1 scale inside Minecraft — project is 5 years in and contains over 50,000 buildings so far⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Further proof that humanity is incapable of learning from their mistakes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon's once-hailed fantasy MMO New World will vanish from servers in a year's time⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Rock and Stone! Games like DRG and Helldivers 2, with a heavy focus on cooperative PvE, have always appealed to me waaaay more than any of the more popular multiplayer games like CoD or something. I’d rather work with other players than fight them, 100% of the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ah yes, a Palworld card game is on the way, can't think of any other creature collector that has one of those⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe the protagonist and a couple friends could go traveling around the world with the goal of capturing all the different Pals, that’d be cool.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Minecraft's getting cuter baby animals whose single pixel eyes you can stare into as you nudge them into lava⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Cube chick is definitely the best of the bunch, though they’re all winners here. Better baby animals were long overdue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm brave enough to say it: Linux is good now, and if you want to feel like you actually own your PC, make 2026 the year of Linux on (your) desktop⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, Pinta is currently what I’m using as a replacement. It’s more or less what I need, but it’s not perfect and the UI is difficult to navigate and leaves a lot to be desired (though tbf that might be my paint.net muscle memory fighting me.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm brave enough to say it: Linux is good now, and if you want to feel like you actually own your PC, make 2026 the year of Linux on (your) desktop⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s been an unfortunately difficult problem for me to troubleshoot since it only happens occasionally. I appreciate the help though, I’ll give disabling it a shot (it was enabled.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm brave enough to say it: Linux is good now, and if you want to feel like you actually own your PC, make 2026 the year of Linux on (your) desktop⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been on Mint for about two months now. Took some getting used to and there was a pretty large chunk of stuff to learn, but I’ve got most things figured out now. AlternativetTo.net has been a lifesaver and has helped me find replacements for most programs I use regularly. Though I still desperately miss paint.net.

  Now I just need to figure out why my audio crackles sometimes when I’m playing games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Only 2% new releases for me. Literally just Peak and then a couple of trials for games like Trails in the Sky, all of which individually account for <1% of my total play time this year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With little fanfare, Helldivers 2's creative director shares that Arrowhead are prototyping a roguelite mode⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I would never call HD2 an extraction shooter. Extraction is a completely optional objective at the end of the mission, as you succeed with or without successfully extracting, and even still get all of your rewards aside from samples. It’s such a minor part of the game that the store page doesn’t even mention it once as a feature. So sure, while you do shoot things and try to extract, for the same reason HD2 isn’t an RTS just because you need to make strategic decisions in real time, HD2 is far removed from the extraction shooter genre and fits significantly better into the team horde shooter genre.

  And honestly, the rogue-like/lite distinction is a lost cause IMO. Even people into the genres will continue to call games like the Binding of Isaac a rogue-like until the end of time.

  I agree there’s no way to know how this will turn out with what we know. At the end of the day, it’s all speculation about something we have no info on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With little fanfare, Helldivers 2's creative director shares that Arrowhead are prototyping a roguelite mode⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Rogue-likes/lites and horde shooters are entirely unrelated genres with very minor overlaps, so I don’t see why you think that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Overwatch 2 with Season 20 has some very annoying crash-bugs on Linux / SteamOS⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Stadium is pretty fun. Once it came out, I played it exclusively from then on. I eventually uninstalled OW a few seasons ago, I just don’t have the self control needed to play that game as a Mercy main, lol. I’m a sucker for cosmetics, especially now that I could actually see the skins in 3rd person thanks to stadium.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Remember Postal? In the last 48 hours publisher Running With Scissors has announced a new game, insulted fans, apologized, canceled the game, the studio making it denied wrongdoing & shut down anyway⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New haptic display technology creates 3D graphics you can see and feel⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I like the way you think.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bartle taxonomy of player types - A look at the types of players in games⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  An interesting test, I guess. I got scored as 80% explorer, 40% achiever and socialite, and 17% killer. While the killer score being so low is pretty spot on, I can’t really agree with the rest. Many a time throughout the test, I had to pick between two options I would never do. For example, one of the questions was (paraphrasing):

  “Somebody PK’d you. Do you want to find out why and convince them not to do it again, or do you plan your revenge?”

  My answer would have been neither. I got killed in a game with PVP, that happens, I’ll just move on. But I had to pick the top option, despite the how ridiculous the idea of finding out why a PKer just PK’d me is. Which I imagine pushes me further into the socialite category, despite quite literally never socializing with random people in games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mojang is simplifying the Minecraft version numbering system on Bedrock, Java, and snapshots⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think they would try to kill java edition. It’s not like the past decade of mods are going anywhere, and java players aren’t exactly known for being afraid to play on older versions. The most popular modpack is for 1.12.2. Hell, I recently found out most modern features have been back-ported via mods to at least 1.7.10 with older version inspired retextures and all. I don’t see why that wouldn’t continue to happen, even if Microsoft stopped officially updating this version of the game.

  And I doubt most of the people still playing on Java have any interest whatsoever in the bedrock marketplace. So they’d lose all of their goodwill with a massive chunk of the community, and for what?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EA says 98% of Battlefield 6 matches have been cheater free thanks to tough security⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What was the purpose in putting gamers in quotations?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Valve creates an "entry point" for living room PCs, the console-beating Steam Machines will follow, argues Baldur's Gate 3's publishing director⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Does Overwatch not have crossplay?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Friendly Marvel Rivals meet-ups at Dr Strange's place have moved Nexon to release a 100 player non-combat Times Square map⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When I say “inspired them to release”, I should caveat that they’ve probably been planning this for a million years, and are merely framing it as a piece of direct fan service. Netease aren’t some jovial uncle, magnanimously handing you another cookie in the face of steady mithering. They are a massive corporation with growth forecasts and other financial flimstackery that defies my comprehension.

  I appreciate the article mentioning this, even if its obvious enough once you think about it for a moment.

  Anyway, this is really cool news. I haven’t actually played Rivals since the first season ended, so I don’t know how much better they’ve gotten at this since, but I was always disappointed by the lack of social interactions available between players. Something like overwatch has a multitude of emotes, sprays, and voice lines that you can fuck around with before or during a match and make temporary friends. Rivals on the other hand had just about nothing of the sort when I played it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Elder Scrolls 6 is "still a long way off", but that's not stopping Todd Howard teasing an Oblivion Remastered-style shadow drop⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought Oblivion Remastered was pretty good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft bets on influencers like Alix Earle to close the gap with ChatGPT⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  From what I gathered via reading the first sentence on her wikipedia page, she’s popular on tiktok. So at least some of the youth probably do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sir Tim Berners-Lee doesn’t think AI will destroy the web⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They never said it deteriorated so much that we’re back to square one. Would you still refuse if you were instead offered the internet of 6 years ago? I don’t think I would.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With Skigill, the classic RPG skill tree becomes a crowded battlefield⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I do always like when people take a genre and spin some sort of unique setting on it like this. But almost the entire game seems to be one color, with no shading or anything, and I fear that will make it pretty hard to keep track of what’s happening.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft reportedly estimated that Game Pass led to $300 million in lost sales of Black Ops 6, with 82% of copies sold being on the Game Pass-less PlayStation 5⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not a very helpful metric outside of showing how popular game pass is. How many people bought/kept game pass just for cod? Seemingly a lot, according to record high game pass subscriptions during cod’s launch. In just four months, the old standard game pass cost nearly as much as cod would.

  Which just goes to show why they increased its price and removed cod from all but the most expensive tiers. Now Game Pass Ultimate, the only tier on Xbox that now comes with cod, costs nearly as much as the entire game after just a two month membership. I’m sure they’re making boat loads more through game pass than individual sales.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony trying to warn the player they're settling for a lesser horse⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ghost of Tsushima, I believe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PlayStation 5 Digital Edition with 1TB SSD downgraded to 825GB listed at the same price — CFI-2116 revision emerges overseas on Amazon⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You could argue that 200GB isn’t a lot, and that’s true in a way since some AAA titles — specifically, Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War — are pushing over 300GB of installed size..

  That just makes 200GB sound even bigger to me. The loss of 200GB isn’t as important when you go from being able to install 25 games down to 20. You really don’t need that many installed so you can cope. But when your available space drops from 5 games to 4? That’s a much bigger deal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Destiny-style social hub is "on the feature list" for Helldivers 3, says Arrowhead CEO⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh yeah, same here. I love gear with massive drawbacks you need to work around, so the double edged sickle was right up my alley and quickly became my favorite primary. Not just a heavy pen primary, but a heavy pen assault rifle with infinite ammo and near perfect accuracy. The constant screams of freedom coming out of my character as I burn with passion is an added bonus. Fortunately for me I've always liked fire-based weapons in helldivers (freedom's flame was even my first warbond) so I already had the salamander armor by the time I needed it.

  If you can get a friend to carry the stim pistol around for you it's even more crazy fun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Destiny-style social hub is "on the feature list" for Helldivers 3, says Arrowhead CEO⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I felt the same with the smart pistol they have in there. It's really not even that good compared to my old reliable talon, but damn do I find it fun. The salamander armor (heavy inflammable) allowing the double-edged sickle to overperform is another one that saddened me, though that one isn't entirely their fault since the DE sickle came out later.