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Witcher 2. The game. Assasins of kings. Letho captures Triss at the end of act 1 to get away and Geralt can recue her on act 3. Yennefer is only ever mentioned in name. Please look things up before condescending


W2 was spent looking for her the entire game

Witcher 2 was spent looking for Triss not Yennefer.

The books are canon for the games, yes

And I said maybe they shouldn’t be because warping the game story to fit the books is what I’m complaining about in the first place.

If you were fine with how w3 handled Yen before reading the books good for you. But it was not at all clear for me and that’s all I said. Sorry for being brash but it is obnoxious to then get comments preaching about how Yennefer is objectively right for Geralt and Triss is just fan service and the game itself favoring Yen would make sense if only I were to read the books


As far as I understand the games aren’t book cannon right? Then let the books not be game cannon. It is unreasonable for the books to be required reading between witcher 2 and 3 or even to expect the audience to know to read them.

A never before seen character from the books showing up in the game doesn’t bother me because they’re new and they’re explored as if they’re new characters. Yen bugs me because she’s a new character to me but as soon as they meet in Skelliga, her and Geralt get back together as if nothing has changed since the books. On the other hand Triss is an established character who has a history with Geralt that I know of, but now both are giving each other the cold shoulder without explanation.

In terms of Triss and Yen the books don’t give context to the status quo. They become the status quo.


I really don’t care about the book. If anything his relationship with Yen feels like pondering to the book audience without much of a setup or explanation in-game


Oof I forgot that she was drunk in the party


Didn’t play that one yet but I did read that in w3 if you try both you fail both but I already failed Triss so…


For me Yennefer seemingly popped into existence at the end of the last game but even then it wasn’t clear what she was to Geralt. I guess that’s a way to interpret the “took advantage of” line but to me it sounded more like it was about how seemingly half the women in this world is trying to seduce Geralt and Triss succeeded… She didn’t strike as particularly obsessive neither. If that’s why Geralt is upset at her I don’t see why he’s not also upset at his other friends who turned a blind eye and didn’t mention Yennefer.

Anyways I’m more upset about the game seemingly overriding my choice with Triss than ultimately ending up with Yen. I’m not sure how to to roleplay a Geralt who up until this point didn’t care for Yen but suddenly divined that he fucked it up with Triss so she’s the only option left…

And I don’t know if I’ll ever fully replay this game, it’s simply too long


I would like to experience the different paths the game has to offer but I don’t think life’s long eough to play a 300 hr game twice when i could play 10 others I’ve never experienced before


Useless rant about Witcher 3 romance
I've been on and off playing witcher 3 the last couple months. Just got to the skelliga main quest where Yennefer tells Geralt to get out of his armor and wear something nice to some social event (which btw doesn't make sense, my armor is way better looking than the tunic options). It reminded me of the quest where Triss asked the same thing so I decided to check online if doing so would ruin my Triss romance. Only to learn that I had already failed the Triss romance because I picked "We can try again" instead of "I love you" when she was at the harbor. Up until that point the vibes between Geralt and Triss has been "we had a thing in the past but it's no more" so I thought that option was right for getting them together again. I had assumed that had no immediate effect but was just one of many dialogues that eventually lead to romancing Triss but nope, that was it apparently. Much discourse online about how there used to be a bug that let you romance with "We can try again" but nobody's talking about how that's the more reasonable option. And also I'm just now realizing that Novigrad was the Triss area and Skelliga is the Yennefer area and there will be many quests there to get to know Yen, which makes me think did I do Now or Never too early? But like, once you go to the party with Triss the city is just in chaos so I felt obligated to follow that questline to the end. Also there's the relative low levels of those quests and the way Geralt seemingly gets stranded in Skelliga when he travels there that made me think everything that's not a red skull on novigrad comes before Skelliga story-wise. When I first heard that you need to choose between Triss and Yennefer in this game choosing Triss felt like a no brainer since she's been around the last 2 games and declares she'll never leave Geralt's side in the last one. And it rubs me the wrong way how Geralt acts all hot around Yennefer unprompted but doesn't act warm around Triss even if you try to. I get that Yennefer was his wife or whatever in the books but like the last 2 games still happened and in the beginning even Yennefer says Geralt and Triss had a nice thing going. So do I go back to end of now or never and change the answer? Do I go back further and leave novigrad when it was in chaos? Even further before the questline began? But also also while looking up how to not fuck up romance I read that apparently Yennefer's endgame quest is amazing and Triss's is an afterthought.. and I do want to play the good quest instead of the bad one..
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Nope, it does have wide color gamut and high-ish brightness, wouldn’t buy unless reviews said it was ok. But it does some fuckery to the image I can only imagine could be to make non-hdr content pop on windows but ends up messing up the image coming from kde. I can set it up to look alright in either in a light or dark environment but the problem is I can’t quickly switch between them without fiddling with all the settings again.

Compared to my cooler master a grayscale gradient on it has a much sharper transition from crushed bright to gray but then gets darker much slower as well, to a point where unless a color is black it appears darker on the cm despite it having an ips screen. Said gray also shows up as huge and very noticable red green and blue bands on it, again unlike the cm which also has banding but at least the tones of gray are similiar.

Also unrelated but just noticed while testing the monitors, max sdr brightness slider of kde seems to have changed again. Hdr content gets darker on the last 200 nits while sdr gets brighter. Does anyone know anything about that? I don’t think that’s how it’s supposed to work


I got a samsung monitor last year too (it was the cheapest hdr option and I keep seeing reddit praise them) and it has such a terrible hdr experience. When hdr is on either dark colors are light grayish, brights are too dark, darks are crushed, everything’s too bright or colors are over saturated. I’ve tried every combination of adjusting brightness / gamma from the screen and/or from kde but couldn’t figure out a simple way to easily turn down the brightness at night without some sort of image issue popping up. So recently I gave up and turned hdr off. Still can’t use the kde brightness slider without fucking up the image but at least the monitor’s brightness slider works now.

Also if there are very few bright areas on the screen it further decreases its overall screen brightness, which also affects color saturation bcz of course.

Also also just discovered freesync and vrr are two different toggles in two different menus for some fucking reason and if you only enable freesync like I did you get a flickering screen

I really wish there was a ‘no smart image fuckery’ toggle in the settings.


I think the combos were easier on mouse and keyboard but the controller controls were fine too. I don’t remember it super well but wasn’t the secondary attack completely different for some weapons? I don’t think holding primary for secondary attack would work.

the victory lap you asked for is in there.

Oh right, that was a thing


I played it like a year ago on insane difficulty. Never played the original nor the new doom.

I really liked the first level where combat is mostly melee and lots of story is happening. Left a very strong first impression. Expected the same pace from the rest so it was disappointing that most of the levels were “We need to reach x location for plot to happen but we telepoted / car broke down too far away so we’ll walk for a couple levels”. Level structure also got stale, there doesn’t need to be an encounter in every room. It would be a much better game if the levels had 1/3rd the encounter count or some levels were merged. I also wish there was a ‘victory lap’ level between the two final bosses so you could use the magical katana you finally obtained.

I really liked the characters and world building. Business ninja is always a good aesthetic. The banter was nice. Liked Wang being an unapologetic video game protagonist. Magical stuff was fine

The combat was mixed. Weapon variety was pretty good but the weapons didn’t feel ‘tight’ to use like in half life 2. I switched to controller halfway through and it fit the gunplay better. Kinda wish there was more emphasis on movement and melee but I was satisfied with what was there.

I didn’t like encounter / enemy design though. The difficulty curve was way too smooth. There are very few enemy types so most encounters are just the same group of enemies you fought 15 minutes ago but with 1 extra foot demon added. And after a while normal encounters start including minibosses too so you need to spend minutes slowly dealing damage to them. There were some encounters that were genuinely challenging and memorable but the vast majority was just walking the marathon and trying not to die in a stupid way. I think it’s fair to describe this as a ‘low skill ceiling’, once you figure out how not to die against each enemy type your progress (at least on insane) is mostly bottlenecked by the dps of your weapons.

Bosses are a different story. They were insanely difficult on insane (first two took me hours each). Beating them was pretty rewarding.

When I bought the game on steam it came with viscera cleanup simulator shadow warrior edition, which I played immediately after beating the game. It was a nice change of pace and made me wish the game itself also had more gameplay variety. I would’ve loved more human characters too.

Don’t really have thoughts on graphics, they were fine maybe a bit too much bloom.

Numerically I think it’s a 6/10


I have no idea who that guy is and I dont feel like I’m missing out


While I sympathize with not knowing every random english word, the one next to it being ‘rape’ should’ve been enough clue


I can’t speak to factorio since every time that dev has ever opened his mouth it has just been horrific hateful bullshit.

Is nothing sacred 😢🤮🤧



The thread also mentions hostile fauna hitting through cave walls and the worst I remember is the dash attack of the dog sentinel damaging you even if it was nowhere close to you




It’s been a long time since I last played, did they fix the player hitbox?


Hopium take 1:
There’s no reason they’d reveal their plans to bring it to steam early and cannibalize on the epic store sales

Hopium take 2:
Even if they don’t have plans right now if they ever want some quick money to meet targets or something it’s the prime candidate

Hopium take 3:
When or if remedy starts making money (like from control 2) they might buy the publishing rights back

Hopium take 4:
It’ll run better anyways when Alan wake 2 remastered comes out in 10 years




Yeah silly me getting wildly enraged by… posting a comment on lemmy.

I’m just sick of fan service it be for gooners, by gooners or making fun of gooners.


I don’t mean the undead part. I mean the celebrating whatever by adding more boobs part



Venom moves slower when wall running, Magik’s dash is shorter, Doctor Strange has less horizontal movement, and Star Lord does slightly less damage. When I tested these differences out, I found that anything over 60 FPS doesn’t make a difference to damage or movement range.



It runs at 1080p 100 fps on a 1060. Are you still gaming on the core duo igpu?


Seeing how many devs ignore suggested regional pricing unless steam autofills it for them, nobody would enable this on their own, and you can’t make this sort of thing opt out.


Shamelessly copying my comment:

In order,

Chorus - AA paranormal 3d spaceship combat game
Cyber Hook - First person grapple hook platform racer
Tangle Tower - Charming point and click detective game
Patch Quest - Bullet hell roguelike
Subsurface Circular - Robot murder mystery visual novel
Yes Your Grace - Addictive story driven king resource management game
They Bleed Pixels - Brutal 2d action platformer
Devil Daggers - Single arena fps where you try to survive 500 seconds (and fail)
Loop Hero Soundtrack - The game is pretty well known, but its soundtrack is amazing enough to buy or pirate even if you don’t want to play it



I like this better. Less fomo


In order,

Chorus - AA paranormal 3d spaceship combat game
Cyber Hook - First person grapple hook platform racer
Tangle Tower - Charming point and click detective game
Patch Quest - Bullet hell roguelike
Subsurface Circular - Robot murder mystery visual novel
Yes Your Grace - Addictive story driven king resource management game
They Bleed Pixels - Brutal 2d action platformer
Devil Daggers - Single arena fps where you try to survive 500 seconds (and fail)
Loop Hero Soundtrack - Cheating here because the game is pretty well known, but its soundtrack is amazing enough to buy or pirate even if you don’t want to play it


Wasn’t the previous seasonal sale just a couple weeks ago?




Source? Very skeptical that what you said can work without running anything on the system, which would be detectable on its own.


Does anyone know why “Shell”, “MTP Host” and “External Storage” show up as apps I can deny all files access permission to? (Samsung)
I checked, they are system apps. Apparently I denied it to mtp at some point but it still works? Didn't try the other two. What purpose does listing these in the permission list serve other than cluttering it? I don't think these core system apps used to show up there, anyone?
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Dark Souls Remastered Pegi Review
I've been playing dark souls lately and wanted to see what pegi wrote about it. It's mildly amusing
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Does wb get any money from sales of adult swim published games on steam?
I have an urge to buy some of them on steam before they get delisted but don't want to give any money to wb in the process. The way that apparently devs could just leave or sell/give away the game on other platforms made me think maybe wb doesn't get a cut of every sale. Does anyone know that for certain?
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How are security updates applied?
They seem too small and consistent in size to just be bundles of system apps that got security fixes the past month. Are they like differential patches or something? How are they applied? And what happens while the 'finishing system update' notification is shown? (as far as I can tell the phone remains unlocked while updating, so why do they need it to be booted to finish the update? Is it just to turn on the phone faster?) Web search returns 'what is an update' articles so I'm asking here.
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