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I have noticed that all of these misogynists are incredibly insecure alpha-pretending males. Can’t imagine how tiring this constant fear must be.


World of Warcraft!

I know people like to look down on it here but it’s trully an amazing theme park metaverse experience.

I don’t have much time for it these days but just playing couple of hours every week is such a joyful experience. There’s just so much to do in the game, great writing, legendary characters, great people playing it. True metaverse experience everyone has been chasing lately.


The last two of their games - two point hospital and two point campus - were both incredible.



Just legal bullying. Good luck fighting an army of lawyers that are also lobbying the system. That being said all of that would be civil suits so if emulator creators don’t earn money they don’t have much to lose but the ability to continue the work.



Zero information about the developers on the web. Not a good sign


Saboteur is an incredible fun. Feel like replaying it now


Instant pre-order for me. Steamdeck has been by far my favorite gaming console but TV performance is only good for low requirement games and I’d love the same experience for proper 4k gaming even if it’s medium fidelity.


Crypto is a failure because of design failures not because “it’s some control ponzi scheme”.

I take issue with OP attributing the problem through appeal to emotion rather than actually learning what went wrong. As you implied the tech behind crypto is very interesting and there’s a lot of value there that has been buried.

Now, idiots like OP convolute all of this process with idiotic reductionism that helps no one and will just lead us to repeat the same mistakes.


Tried to play the game like 10 times - just can’t get over the incredibly poor performance. What a waste.


Yeah it seems kinda crazy these days to believe that society should organize itself democratically through trust and merit but Americans be like: “oh no the system failed me once - time to destroy everything!”


You know it’s possible to be critical of something without lying? You literally invalidate all of your points and I say this as a crypto hater myself. Just stop this stupid shit that is not helping anyone and just infect people with stupid.


Way to reinforce the meme that all crypto haters are idiots by straight up lying and making shit up. Come on man.

And here we are - greedy scam idiots on the left, angry ignorant haters on the right and we chug along through mud. The internet is so tiring…


The Guardian review is more critical than others. I’ve never known they even review video games. Are they always like this?


it’s selling well too though it’s actually 78$. They put Mailbox and Auction House on it which AFAIK the only mount that has both which is incredibly valuable.

If not the fuction I wouldn’t mind but because the function is so valuable it’s really poor form by Blizzard. I even love the mount and buy it as cosmetic but I’m not supporting this at the state it is currently.


Yeah I really liked puzzles and only found the timing puzzles annoying on a controller though with mouse and keyboard it was much easier.


I love the movement a lot in the last game and it’s so great to see more of the same focus! I hope it’s just not a reskin though


Alabaster Dawn is an Action RPG that builds on the best aspects of Radical Fish Games’ previous title, **CrossCode**. It features a deep combat system, challenging puzzles, and a mysterious world teeming with secrets, all bundled up in an engaging story. The shadow of Nyx has fallen—warping the world into a wasteland and vanishing the gods and their people. Now, Juno the Outcast Chosen, awakes to an impossible task: bring it all back. STEAM PAGE: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3110760/Alabaster_Dawn/ HOME PAGE: https://www.alabaster-dawn.com
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so they’ve covered all 4 horsemen in the last 4 games:

  • Darksiders 1 - War
  • Darksiders 2 - Death
  • Darksiders 3 - Fury
  • Darksiders Genesis - Strife (+War)

What do you think is next?


it’s 100% that they count mobile games as “gaming” so grandma and grandpa playing candy crush and wordle are “gamers” now. They list 11% on console but even that seems high. 23% on PC probably includes wordle too.


I think you’re right that they need to be transparent with what is considered political and what is not through a visible flag or something.

Though it’s definitely great idea to reduce weights on political content and discourage it. That’s the only way to get off this swamp and if we have to sacrifice gay pride parade talks to prevent the rise of fascism and genocide then it’s a pretty good deal imo.


Agreed.

Threads is actually kinda fun if not all of the spam and straight up harmless idiots. Meta is right for once.

There are plenty of other tools for politics and it’s better kept in smaller more mindful communities rather than these pools of random algorithmic shit.



I guess the experience varies wildly based on ear shape but I never lost a bud. I think there are better ways to address this than to add a whole ass cable though. That’s not very creative.


Why would you want that? I can’t imagine to ever going back to non wireless buds



Did you really say that you can do as well without food economy as without video game economy. Lol go home 🤡


Nah yes you do. I’m sorry but as much as I love games I can do fine in a world with no commercial video game market. I can’t say the same about world without farming market lol

Gamers are peak delulu to the point where it’s emberassing to associate yourself with this hobby as an adult.


You’re implying that all labor is the same?


Fair point tho as a consumer you don’t really have a practical way to affect this so this whole exercise just feels mentally unhealthy.


How did you come up to that conclusion?

The reality is that it’s an extreme privilege to work in entertainment and art full time so caring about the well being of this industry as a consumer is really not a priority and honestly it shouldn’t be.


I’m a gamer but it’s still so hard to care about layoffs in an entertainment industry. We’ll have fewer games in the next few years? That’s like at the bottom of the list of issues we’re facing in 2024.


True though that’s a bit of a potato/potatoh probpem as the easiest way to patch-in offline would be to run server locally rather than have 2 different architectures of offline and online plays. That’s already how many games work today actually - singleplayer is just a server with only you on it.


This would be a huge precedent for video-game preservation. IANAL but this would mean one of these two:

  • service cannot be shut down without release of server source code
  • whole game need to be reclassified as software service

Seems like the latter would be an easy loophole tbh.


gg.deals can do that through tags. For example here’s tag for epic exclusives: https://gg.deals/games/epic-games-exclusives/. You can use the “Tags” filter and search for “exclusive” to find all related tags.



Most are very fair though. dota2, cs2, pubg, apex (I think) only sell cosmetics.



Did he pay with Euros or that’s some fantasy currency?


The original title sucks and doesn’t deserve to be repeated.


I'm confused why Kotaku mentioning next gen in the title when Rockstar only commented on current generation PS5 and Xbox Series X/S.
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Most interesting part of the article: > "Our focus is on transforming our biggest franchises from largely console and PC-based with 3-4 year release schedules to include more always-on gameplay through live services, multiplatform, and free-to-play extensions, with the goal of having more players spending more time on more platforms. U > Ultimately, we want to drive engagement and monetization over longer cycles and at higher levels where per specific capabilities we're currently under scale, and see significant opportunity to generate greater post-purchase revenue" What a major turn-off ngl.
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Meta sneakily introduced "Platform Integrity Attestation API" which basically calls home to see whether the user has a valid license to play. This means that to run apps user has to have online connection to perform an integrity test. Whether it's only a test on launch or continues call home like Denuvo-like DRMs is not yet clear. This could also mean that modified headsets could fail to pass this test essentially closing down the device for modifications that could damage "platform integrity". Not all details are clear yet but this doesn't look good. Currently it's optional and up to app developers to enable it.
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YSK about Hermit - app that turns web pages to native apps. Works great with Fediverse apps!
Android browsers can already add pages to home screen but Hermit takes this even futher. It has significantly better UX with frameless and full screen modes. You can bookmark pages, so on Lemmy you can quickly bookmark community in specific sorting order. There are user scripts and blockers and loads of customization. You can even add push notifications for changes on the site or RSS feed. I've been running most Fediverse web apps through Hermit and it works really well! The only exception is that I couldn't figure out how to setup notifications on Mastodon.
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