“see what these people made us do”

Let’s ignore the fact that these protestors’ entire credo is: “The shitty thing you’re watching me physically do right now? it’s not my fault! Blame the corporations / capitalism / etc!”

Yes, you have our attention. But like when the dog finally catches the car it’s chasing… now what? Or did they never think past the step of doing destructive / self-destructive shit to piss people off?

The only footage is of the aftermath. But if you want to disregard the eyewitness reports, then I guess you can be you.

Here’s a CNN report (you have to watch the video) where two eyewitnesses say the protestor tried to punch out the glass. I mean… I’m not accusing the person of being smart, trying to break bulletproof glass with their fists.

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/mona-lisa-louvre-cake-attack/index.html

And I guess there’s always a chance this guy is from that other climate activist group that goes around vandalizing high-profile art, and then raving about how we’re killing the planet.

Oh, and the fun part. I 100% think we should reduce fossil fuel emissions.

Unfortunately, the Just Stop Oil geniuses are so hellbent on being attention-seeking tools that they destroy all of the credibility behind their cause.

I really hate to break it to you, but that isn’t the Mona Lisa.

And also…

https://news.yahoo.com/man-wig-tries-smash-glass-164135109.html

a visitor to the Louvre Museum in Paris tried to smash the glass protecting the famous painting, and then smeared what looked like cake frosting across the surface.

“We hate oil! Let’s block traffic and force thousands of people to idle, burning more oil than they would’ve if we hadn’t blocked them!”

Absolute brainless bellends.

And yes, the actual art is fine. But they still do actual damage to other parts of the museums – spray-painting walls and destroying frames & display cases. And when they threw crap at the Mona Lisa, they tried breaking through the glass protecting the painting first, so they could destroy the actual painting.

Excellent deduction. I was totally saying they were the same thing. /s

Blocking emergency vehicles on roadways and damaging pieces of art aren’t “interrupting computer toy showcases” either (“God, people who play videogames… what a bunch of fucking losers! Right, /c/games?”). But “yay” for that, too.

I’m pointing out the mindset of people here.

[Just Stop Oil protestor stabs a random old lady in the face]

[Lemmy users collectively applaud in support] “If it wasn’t disruptive, nobody would listen! Yay!”

Callisto Protocol is one of the free October PSPlus games.

One would think they’d get some cash out of that (???)

I suppose I could’ve been less of a butthole about it…

But I just look at the letter grade on games like Devil May Cry or Final Fantasy 13 and think “why is that even here?”.

Then I just pay no attention to it at all. It’s not like a bad grade means you beat the level any less.

And if they base trophies off it, then I don’t try getting all the trophies. More often than not, getting a Platinum Trophy on a game sucks all of the fun out of it anyways. Hard pass.

Honestly, I can’t stand Soulsbornes.

It’s okay to be bad at stuff. And, surprise! All of us are, no matter how many people tell us we’re perfect at everything and can do no wrong.

I’m not going to let it ruin my day like OP if a videogame tells me I did less than SSS performance on a level.

If I recall, the only thing not dubbed was non-boss-enemy callouts around battles.

Have they actually said this game and Infinite Wealth would have English dubs?

The excellent dub in LaD is what finally got me into the series.

Dub > Sub. Fight me, Street Hooligans.

OP’s perfect world.

Buy game. Install game. Launch game. “YOU WIN!”

No.

This is not what Discord is for.

People need to stop trying to use Discord as a forum, or a wiki, or a website, or a file repo, or as the Support page for a product.

Discord is group chat. You say something. It’s relavent for five minutes. Then it might as well have never happened.

Probably for the best. The Deck certification process on games would probably be annoying if they had a whole bunch of revisions with only like 10% difference in performance.

Wait a few years and make the next one a meaningful jump.

Valve pockets 30% of almost every PC game sale by every company ever.

Honestly, I’m surprised that number isn’t higher.

v:dw

(Video: Didn’t watch)

I’m maybe 2/3 through.

The voice acting is extremely excellent. It’s also not anime, if that’s what you’re in it for. So, no awkward hyperventilating between sentences. Female characters don’t all sound like screeching children. And intonation is what an actual human would use in actual speech.

The side quests in the game are definitely pretty awful, though.

Wonder if we’ll ever see that fixed Saints Row 2…

One of the biggest reasons I stopped playing Overwatch on PlayStation a few years ago.

Smurfing is out of control there (unlimited free accounts), and most matches down where I lived in Gold were determined by which team had more Masters players on their team.

I mean… I get that it’s the thing to do right now – haphazardly throwing more money than you can afford at every service, streamer, Patreon, Kickstarter, product or vague idea that you pledge your “support” to. Then five minutes later, complaining about how you don’t have enough money for food/housing/whatever; and blaming someone else for that.

I probably spend $100 or less per year on games, and I’ve got plenty to keep me busy until I’m a corpse.

BG3 looks like a good game. I’ll play it when I get around to it. And by that time, it’ll be far cheaper than $60.

Being angry at someone for saving some money on something that you paid full price on, though? That’s definitely a way to approach things.

Correct.

That’s a big reason why I checked out of console gaming for many, many years. I went from the original NES to the PS2. And I made a specific point to buy the disc version of my PS5 so I could still get dirt cheap used games.

Truthfully? No game is worth $60-70 (to me).

Especially when that same game costs $30 a year later.

I’ve never paid full price for any videogame.

Patient Gaming wins again.

Keeps patching. I’m looking forward to a fun $20-30 game.

Yep. Steal over $2500 worth of stuff, get up to 12 years of prison. Them’s the rules.

This had nothing to do with him streaming the game. (Though the fact he did it using a username based on his actual name might’ve gotten him caught)

It looks neat, but I have zero reason to buy it when I have a Retroid Pocket 3 Plus… (that was cheaper, and plays plenty of games on its own)

Would Mass Effect Andromeda’s writers be considered senior staff at this point?

“Wake has a double.”

So they’re still using the American Nightmare stuff?

When I bailed right after JeffG left, there were personalities I liked, and some I did not.

Also, since it was a complete dice roll who’d actually be on a given podcast: some were great; some not so much.

And more often than not, their podcasts were populated by randos not even on the crew.

There’s never been a better podcast! (I fell off them at first, but I think that was because the world sucked quite a bit right around when they started, and it leaked into their podcast. They’re pretty great now.)

I stuck with Giant Bomb right up until they canned Jeff Gerstmann. Quickly after that, Giant Bomb just felt icky. That said, I couldn’t hang with Jeff’s solo gig – while he’s still a threat, he sorely needs a co-host(s).

While I don’t mind LTT videos every now & then for entertainment value, I tried listening to their WAN Show podcast recently.

Holy crapballs, do they lean harrrrd into their merch.

To the point where (I think?) you need to buy something from them to get a question read on the podcast(?)

Is this the same thing as Strato?

I’m having a hard time keeping up with what happened to Skyline…

Unfortunately, the fact the we currently seem to be making this some kind of contest means that it’ll just get ignored as review-bombing.

Which is a shame, because Blizzard took what was a pretty good game in the original Overwatch, and made it a microtransaction battlepass hell.

I wonder if it’s the same issue I have with Mint Mobile? I’ve had to set preferred to LTE on my Pixel 6a with them.

Something is broken with Pixel phones with Mint. It’ll drop from 5G to no signal, and refuse to reconnect unless you cycle airplane mode. And when you do that, it oftens shows a full-bar cell signal that the phone refused to connect to for some mysterious reason.

That’s good, right? 👴

That certainly is a game title.

Though making people think of “afterbirth” maybe isn’t what they were going for…

I can’t say I want to pay 2-3x as much for a phone where the plastic screen self-destructs if you even fart in its general direction.

So, the $1500-2000+ GPU tier will get even more expensive, with no competition for Nvidia. But then, people buying those have never cared about price. They’ll pay any price to say they have the biggest & fastest.

I’m more concerned about $500 & under GPUs that I’d actually consider.

Wait, so this /c isn’t abandoned?

I’m so confused…