ParlimentOfDoom
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- Comment on Sci-fi RTS ZeroSpace combines StarCraft with Mass Effect RPG choices and look, they've got a Homeworld guy doing the mechs 4 days ago:
Oh man, you weren’t kidding. They got that half-Tellurian (Garrus) looking dude, just a straight up Asari lady, and a Krogan analogue.
- Comment on Krafton have reportedly agreed to pay Subnautica 2's devs that $250 million bonus, following strong early sales 4 days ago:
Agreed to “stop trying to beach their contact”
- Comment on "It felt like we had needed couples therapy": Dishonored devs Arkane making Thief or Blade Runner games sounds ace, but might have sparked a creative director scrap 6 days ago:
Restating gibberish doesn’t make it less gibberish
- Comment on "It felt like we had needed couples therapy": Dishonored devs Arkane making Thief or Blade Runner games sounds ace, but might have sparked a creative director scrap 6 days ago:
What in the every loving fuck is this headline trying to say?
- Comment on Steam's NSFW and Mature tags ditched by Valve in favour of "more descriptive" ones like Sexual Content and Gore, as part of wider revamp 1 week ago:
My kid would love that
- Comment on New York's case that Steam lootboxes are "gambling" is a free speech violation that "will have an impermissible chilling effect on protected videogame design", argue Valve 1 week ago:
No one is forcing you to charge for that type of mechanic. What a stupid defense. It’s gambling. It’s advertised to children.
It doesn’t matter how much you like valve for other reasons. They are in the wrong here.
- Comment on ChatGPT Gave Out My Address and Phone Number 2 weeks ago:
While I agree AI shouldn’t be doing this. Address and phone numbers have never been private. We used to send whole books of exactly that information to EVERYONE’S house on a yearly basis.
- Comment on If you drop (or throw) your new Steam Controller it will scream at you 2 weeks ago:
They couldn’t have NOT done that and cut the cost a bit? What a stupid feature.
- Comment on Microsoft will reportedly invite 7% of their US workers to retire early, as the Xbox division talk up "strong cost discipline" 5 weeks ago:
folding laptop
Is that not… All of them?
- Comment on Valve look like they might be rolling out 30-day Steam price tracking for everyone, making it easier to spot when game discounts are at their discountiest 1 month ago:
So a less useful IsThereAnyDeal
- Comment on "I couldn't protect it" Pete Hines says he left Microsoft-owned Bethesda because he didn't want to watch it be "damaged and broken apart and frankly mistreated, abused" 1 month ago:
You do realize that they significantly modified that engine between each title. It’s not literally the same version as 30 years ago…
- Comment on What leaked “SteamGPT” files could mean for the PC gaming platform’s use of AI 1 month ago:
Bet they still won’t reimburse the victims of hacks “because it would be too confusing to the people who stole your shit if the items disappeared”.
- Comment on "There is a new narrative from haters," Off the Grid studio boss says of accusations Gunzilla haven't paid workers on time, claims full-timers' salaries "have never been delayed by more than a week" 1 month ago:
And yes, to not disrupt company operations, some payments may be scheduled in a way that works for the company’s cash flow — not always for everyone individually. That’s the reality of the world we live in.
So they have zero moat, and are one incident away from being unable to pay their staff at all. Sounds like the devs need to be sending out resumes pronto. That is not a stable employer.
- Comment on Firm quietly boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100,000 up to staggering $4.5 million 1 month ago:
No? He was arrested for securities fraud, not for increasing the price of medication.
That’s why you’re not seeing anyone bat an eye now they didn’t then either.
- Comment on Visualizing Game Genre Differences 1 month ago:
What is “girls’ video games”? As if that’s somehow a genre?
- Comment on Only a "skeletal crew" are left working on Fallout: London, and the massive mod's next DLC will miss a planned April release window 2 months ago:
It’s a mod. I’d honestly be surprised if it was ever more than a couple of people.
- Comment on 'Players' of an MMORPG for AI Agents Spontaneously Generated Their Own Religion 2 months ago:
No they didn’t. They were given directives to do this spout this shit. Clickbait “research” nonsense, meant to fraudulently advertise LLMs as being more capable than they are
- Comment on Future Sony PlayStation games will use AI to imagine new frames 2 months ago:
But…adding more frames slows the game down. If it could render more frames already…it would be doing that. It didn’t need an extra, very intensive process to analyze, interpret and then recreate the entire rendering from scratch (but not perfectly) completely separately from the actual render engine and then splice it into the game.
- Comment on LLMs can unmask pseudonymous users at scale with surprising accuracy 2 months ago:
The Unabomber was identified because his own brother recognized the way he misspoke a common idiom “can’t eat your cake and have it too”. Attributing that to an investigative technique is a bit of a stretch.
- Comment on [TheGamer] Firefly Animated Series Announced With All Surviving Original Cast Members 2 months ago:
Not gaming?
- Comment on "Valve does not cooperate with gambling sites" - Counter-Strike publishers issue rare public defence of lootbox mechanics, following New York lawsuit 2 months ago:
…you said a debit card is required. It’s not. My point: your wrong
- Comment on "Valve does not cooperate with gambling sites" - Counter-Strike publishers issue rare public defence of lootbox mechanics, following New York lawsuit 2 months ago:
Your credit card is already tracking and selling all the purchasing data you use it for on steam. Your identity is attached to that account
- Comment on "Valve does not cooperate with gambling sites" - Counter-Strike publishers issue rare public defence of lootbox mechanics, following New York lawsuit 2 months ago:
Steam gift cards are a thing.
- Comment on "Valve does not cooperate with gambling sites" - Counter-Strike publishers issue rare public defence of lootbox mechanics, following New York lawsuit 2 months ago:
Is it legal for children to be gambling in those places?
I bet they’re not paying the same taxes that those casinos are.
Regardless, this is a story about an American company bring
- Comment on "Valve does not cooperate with gambling sites" - Counter-Strike publishers issue rare public defence of lootbox mechanics, following New York lawsuit 2 months ago:
Probably, sorry if that hurts your nostalgia.
The one possible redeeming difference is that those cards are an integral part of playing the game.
A lot of these loot boxes are for worthless cosmetics that can then be sold for real money using the same company that sold the loot box as an intermediary.
Japan deals with the same issue with pachinko parlors. Gambling is illegal there, so they give out useless trinkets as prizes. And they all just happen to be located next to a shop (owned by the same company but legally distinct) which will buy those useless trinkets for a set amounts of money. A casino with extra steps. Sounds familiar?
- Comment on "Valve does not cooperate with gambling sites" - Counter-Strike publishers issue rare public defence of lootbox mechanics, following New York lawsuit 2 months ago:
No. Defending someone doing something illegal and profiting off of it because you hate someone else more is not how you get good results. All you’ve done is keep corporation in the system.
- Comment on "Valve does not cooperate with gambling sites" - Counter-Strike publishers issue rare public defence of lootbox mechanics, following New York lawsuit 2 months ago:
You ARE the gambling site. That’s the issue.
- Comment on [TheGamer] Pokemon Pokopia Players Playing After Work Are Being Forced To Wake Pokemon For Hard Labour 2 months ago:
They only have those weapons if you make them for them.
- Comment on Team turns DNA into a rewritable hard drive 2 months ago:
you weren’t home, so I gave the files to your mom
- Comment on New lawsuit wants Valve to repay "billions" earned from "illegal gambling" lootboxes in Counter-Strike, Dota 2 and Team Fortress 2 2 months ago:
gestures furiously at the mountain of gacha games built around this exact mechanic on mobile