Injustice Gods Among Us if it’s still available!

Steam reviews are comedy gold.

Original Sin 2 I mean

I am currently playing Divinity 2, and the game’s humour and lore is indeed dark.

In the Ubisoft trading community that I mentioned, some folks blamed UbiSoft’s downfall for “being woke”. As if Ubisoft’s blind chasing of money, abandoning most of their IP, selling broke products, and last but not least an executive telling consumers to get used to not owning games are not bigger factors.

The Ubisoft trading community are coping to justify holding on to their tanking investments. It’s a gambler doubling down on losing.

Christ, how the mighty Ubisoft has fallen. They will go the way of EA and become a spyware company for the decadent Arab royals. I’m just crying that Ubisoft made some of my favourite games growing up and look what they have done to my boy-- a rotting zombie 🥲

Steam had been one of the good companies so far. Until they showed clear signs of enshitiffication, I will patronise Steam.

I haven’t paid much attention to FTC prosecution under Biden, but I can see what you mean. Prosecutors tend to build up their cases however slow. Maybe she hadn’t done her due diligence on this regard.

Wdym? The regulators under Biden were pretty aggressive with antitrust investigations, which pissed off the right and oligarchs and decided to throw their support to have Trump return to deregulate.

Gamepass only ever made sense to people who had time to play or dabble in a sufficiently large amount of games per year

Exactly. I only played two games before unsubscribing. You have to have so many free time to make the gamepass worth your while and money.

Metal Gear Solid 2 menu theme. The digital sound fits with the main menu motif like a glove, and evokes a sense of mystery and foreboding of what is to come. And boy, you are in for a surprise!

Hi fascist! I’m guillotine!

All the more reason to use Signal.

I wonder what the right wing media tell voters to convince them to support rich people and their cronies. I get that Trump made people feel special during campaign, but he’s a billionaire, why would people think he’s going to help the plebs? Is scapegoating minorities been addled too much into people’s brain that they forget they don’t like rich people? If you ask a lot of ordinary people, they don’t like the rich, but somehow they see Trump as the exception.

perfectly attuned to terrabytes of marketing data

My friend works as software dev and he can attest the exact same thing. He has better ideas as a software dev, but marketing and sales people disagree and the management listens to them because all they see are numbers and money. MacNamara fallacy is epidemic in private industry.

Not entirely surprising if true.

Project 2025 goal is to spread their backwards ideology across the globe. They want to see the world burn.

It’s important to recognise exceptionally good imo.

And the good people never brag how charitable they are for doing so.

The landmark legal ruling on lay offs and pay cuts in Japan is great. Any Japanese company must objectively be in financial difficulty to justify lay offs and salary cuts. That’s why it is common for Japanese executives to take pay cuts, because they can’t do the disingenuous move of laying rank and file while giving bonus to executives, not because higher ups genuinely care about their employees.

Get a techie to set gaming distros for you. My brother installed Bazzite for me and troubleshoots. Speaking of which, Bazzite is meant to be for average users who are less literate on computers. I have rarely had issues on Bazzite unlike with other distros. Indeed, newer distros are better.

I understand. Linux can be daunting for us average Joes. Plenty of information i see on the internet are either outdated, or simply doesn’t work.

Maybe depends on what distro you are using. There are ones dedicated for gaming.

It’s nice to see a more reasonable response in the comments on Fediverse. On the itch discussion board people are frothing at the mouth posting death threats and the like against itch staff.

Sounds like the bar is so low to be even comparing the two sites.

Okay. Let’s vote with our wallets.

Can’t afford a home, holiday and now videogames.

Yes, but the motivation behind the rhetoric is far more sinister and cynical. They’re demonising affordable healthcare as excuse to stay home and play videogames.

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Well, the fact is that there are also a LOT of dumb customers willing to buy crap.

As much as everyone love Oblivion…it all started from there with the $9 horse armour DLC.

God knows why.

Yet somehow there’s enough of a customer base for that that they sell it.

Kids. Fucking kids. Thankfully I am never that stupid to buy individual DLCs even when I was a child, which is compounded by familial circumstances and education, but kids will be kids. Either they stole their parent’s credit card to pay for useless virtual items, or they were spoiled and never taught with financial literacy.

A monied entity who likes to steal of one’s labour. Shocking.

Arghhh!!!

I heard Assassin’s Creed Shadows is decent if not good. But overall, it looks like AC Origins is the last properly good Ubisoft game.

Use Bazzite. It is a distro dedicated to gaming and user friendly for beginners. It still has some limitations but it is better compared to others when it comes to gaming. You don’t really require more tweaking unlike other distros to make games work.

When Gabe dies, sure, enshittification will happen. In the meanwhile, enjoy Steam for what it is for now, but prepare with contingencies.

Yeah, after what happened, I now understand how irrational stock market is.

Well… if there is one thing I have to commend CCP is they are unafraid to crack down on billionaires after all.

I need to finish the game.

To be honest, I never got that feeling. I always feel catharsis finishing a game. However, with a huge exception on the Metal Gear Solid series, because Hideo Kojima always leaves more questions than answers at the end of the games. But without spoiling anything for those who haven’t played it yet, the exception in itself in the series is MGSV which completed the series full circle at the end.

The only time I felt empty after consuming a media is after the finale of Breaking Bad. Never have I felt so empty and lost on what to do after. Post-college life does not even beat it.

If the next game is as impeccable as BG3, then this media blackout to create hype is the cleverest marketing move I have ever seen.

That’s why I am not buying new ones until I finish the others.

Edit: also, I do take the high seas. But only games coming from greedy devs who don’t deserve my money.

Bought games from years ago I have to finish. Waste of money if I don’t complete them but I keep buying new ones.

I’m nearly finishing up The Witcher 2. Judging from the discussions, I’m afraid of starting Witcher 3 because I have other backlog of games I have to finish as soon as possible.