Lol. I still remember the S2 CEO being a complete piece of shit and likewise fostering the most toxic community in the DotA scene, which is an achievement in itself.

It was so toxic, that in my first ever game, in a “new players” lobby, after I announced that I’m a new player. I got flamed for being bad at the game…

Here’s a good start https://youtu.be/v6jhjjVy5Ls

The only thing that’s dumbshit is your simplistic understanding of how the world works and how these systems interplay

Buying them randomly and being able to trade them is the a distinct decision and it powers this industry. They could shut this off immediately if they wanted to, but they profit from it.

Coffeezilla did a 3-part series about how CS2 skin gambling is flourishing and hooking children as young as 12 and Valve is profiting from its inaction to crack down on it.

I insist that this is nowhere near the same as actual gambling with skins on slots and such. Those are much much worse.

Ah gotcha. Thanks for the explanation. I’d argue reselling of accounts is nowhere near as bad as skin gambling though. It doesn’t trigger the gambling addicts.

I know you mean the general gambling of loot boxes, but no, I meant, literal gambling on 3rd party s(h)ites. CS2 skin gambling. Which iirc most other games are not doing.

The dark open secret here is that counterstrike (and potentially dota) made the most money due to being used as a vehicle for gambling

4 but none other than obtaining seems to be getting any updates lately, so kinda moot

These live service games are the “wow-killer” mmorpg of our age. Companies wasted likewise millions on those games and burnt out thousands of people, just trying to make their own golden goose. It keeps happening because Capitalism sucks

I fully expect companies would switch to releasing some bullshit and call the DLC released.

Btw, have you played something like Hades? You’re not technically a wizard, but close enough. And there’s other hades-like games which might be more “wizard-like”.

Oh man, that’s really sad :(

Badass wizard eh? Try Magicka! 😁

It’s an ongoing spam wave

EAC is heaxbear, confirmed!

Omg that logo. GoL is a hexbear confirmed!

It’s been used as a gracious closer, kinda like a handshake in chess matches, for decades now.

Every time I lose in online 1v1 games. I have Rejection sensitivity dysphoria and it’s probably what’s making me extremely salty on loss. I literally cannon bring myself to say ‘gg’ in most cases but I I’m mostly angry at myself. I avoid saying ‘gg’ only when I win either as I feel like like a hypocrite.

Funnily enough, this doesn’t affect me in boardgames

I play all actually. 1v1 when alone. 2v2 when I can get my buddy. FFA when I want to do it for the memes. I had like 8 hours in FFA last weekend, but got a bit disappointed in it because who tends to win is the one with the meme build sitting on the other side of me that their neighbours never try to counter. Like someone won with 16 hackers in my last game. Cmon.

It’s like fucking crack to me. It’s bad…

I don’t know un-installed it after 2 games. I wanted to like it, but the shooting was boring, and I can’t be bollocksed to study 3 pages of items.

Yea I wouldn’t recommend it due to the short countdown every turn

I’ve been hopelessly addicted to this game for a year now. So I opened a community about it: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/mechabellum

Started Dave the Diver with the sale.

I honestly can’t play civ anymore because the ai is completely braindead, so either you play in normal mode where there’s no challenge, or you play in hard mode where the rampart cheating makes the game unimersive and grindy

All my games are Foss. honesty if that happened I would be more upset they didn’t want to just collaborate on the same code

Mine is always the strategic ai. It’s brain dead and makes playing the game either trivial or frustrating as higher difficulties just cheat like crazy

Does it really cost 1.5k?!

As mentioned elsewhere, just started Fallout 4, after being put in the mood by then series.

Huh, I didn’t even realize. Thanks!

You can follow the quests of SS2 to unlock more stuff, but I think some of them unlock on their own? Don’t have quite enough experience with it. But it provides enough out of the box that you would do the basics and then have pretty well maintained settlements anyway.

Not sure what you mean by " install all the chapters". IIRC it’s just one file.

I modded the game from the first time. Since it’s my first time playing it, I used Sim Settlements 2 out of the box, but I did try my hand at Settlement management without it (since its features don’t unlock immediately, there’s some sidequests) and it was agonizing as you describe. However with Sim Settlements 2, not only is it a breeze, but the settlements look way more interesting as well without inordinate amounts of time. I enjoy finding things to equip my settlers to fight off attacks etc.

Ah same here.The series triggered me to get the GOTY on the cheap and dive into it. Have been hooked non-stop for the past days.

As is tradition, Bethesda games are not even worth playing without mods. FO4 inv management is just pull-nails-out attrocious and mandatory to play the game at non-braindead difficulties. So better inventory management is a must for me.

And if you want to do anything with the settlements that doesn’t waste infinite amount of time, Sim Settlements 2 just dropped and it’s great!

Myself I’ve been mostly doing sidequests until now and only started going into the main quest now, still quite impressed how well the difficulty scaling holds up.

I’ve set up half a dozen settlements and spend way too much time equipping the settlers there. Hoping this will be more useful later. Haven’t had to use flares yet though, need to get into the habit of doing it instead of relying on chem and stims to get through combat.

This is why all big companies talk like fucking robots to their fans. If you do anything else, this is kinda thing hsppens

Some unions would really put a hamper on that shite

Holy fucking shit. I was infuriated just reading this!

The lesson I’ve learned in my past 20 years is that one does not start working at their new duties before the contract amendment is written and signed. If they say something you just reply “I’m just waiting for the written contract to come through and I’ll start immediately”. Put the ball on their side.

I love the idea of bar but I don’t think I’ll ever be able to play seriously. The learning curve is just massive and there’s not enough time in the world among my other hobbies. Instead I’m getting my mechanized battles and explosions kick from mechabellum. 😁

Bar is what I call a lifestyle game. It’s the hobby to take over all your hobby time

Is this your comfy workflow, or from someone else?