Huh? WoW gearing is easy as hell this season. Yeah it’s not 2 hours until max level but there’s more easy ways than ever to get good gear. Hell, you can get a piece of the second highest level armor every week doing solo content

Some friends convinced me to try GW2 and I had the opposite experience. Everyone had all their fancy mounts and stuff from past expansions and I couldn’t do shit unless I went back and did the relevant campaigns…each of which is several hours. I got close to max level and quit. The combat is also painfully boring IMO

I had no issues running it a couple years ago…though it was a pretty disappointing. Very very dated and plain. I couldn’t remember how to get anywhere either and for a game so reliant on portalling around, it was rough

Ohhh shit someone else who has visited Rubi-Ka? Loved that game when I was younger

I figured it was a bug!

Lemmy is breaking for one of us

I just bought Opus Magnum which is on sale right now so maybe nothing, haven’t had any games I’ve been eyeing except that

I’ve now read more about this and developers DO have a ton of control. They can choose what parts of the image to apply it to and with what intensity. So I guess it’s not literally impossible

I read some more about it and it looks like developers have a lot of granular control. Not just % applied but options per object type. So they can max it out for faces, 50% for water, 25% for foliage, etc.

There are some legitimately awesome use cases for this especially if they let developers train their own models. I didn’t play Death Stranding but I know they’ve got detailed face scans of Norman Reedus…imagine if the Norman filter got applied to his character in-game.

I hate Nvidia and think this demo (mostly) looks like shit but these hyperbolic reactions are making me feel like the crazy one. I know it’s janky and running on 2 cards but it’s wild that it’s happening in real time and IMO it’s really interesting tech. There are so many cool ways this could be applied beyond hyper realism

I don’t see why it wouldn’t work the same way as shaders. There’s just no way a developer making a 3d puzzle game would be forced to have it enabled

I don’t love it either but you and I are probably have a similar chance of dying to gun violence even if the statistics say I’m 200% more likely to

Also helped by the fact that EA games just aren’t that good. Easiest boycott of my life

Hilariously one of the more statistically dangerous cities in the country lol

I lived in Chicago for over 20 years and while I did see someone ditch a stolen car and escape the stereotypically-fat cops by jumping on a train, I never even heard gunfire.

I don’t dispute that (I’d even wager that the safer state is worse than the most dangerous eu country) but it’s not like it’s commonplace to get killed by a stranger. You’re more likely to die during travel unless you’re specifically traveling to dangerous neighborhoods

It’s not downplaying it at all, I’m saying gun violence being a significant factor in choosing not to travel in the US is pretty ridiculous.

I’m not gonna say gun violence isn’t a problem here but…this reminds me of rightwingers going on about violence in Chicago. The reality is that most of the gun violence is isolated to certain areas and Chicago is a big place…the US is even bigger.

And it’s not like you’re being invited to visit a high school

I love survival crafting games but Don’t Starve is a bit too punishing for me. I gave it 20 hours of attempts before giving up.

Things can fall apart so fast and so easily and like you said, they just throw you to the wolves to figure it out or die

I had a good time with that in beta. Maybe I’ll spin it up again

Same thing I came here to say.

I got the itch and played a campaign on 6 last week and was thinking about what 7 would need for me to buy it…and the answer is an expansion and a deep discount. The feature changed are kinda meh to me

Or maybe hearing that all the buggy stuff that bugs me about 6 is fixed.

I mean guess I did interact with Progress Quest to launch it the first time lol

I am not defending this stupid idea at all, I’m just saying there IS a market for idle games

Nah. I definitely don’t plan on getting this game but there’s a market for what you’re describing. They’re called “idle games” and there’s a shitton of them.

It doesn’t matter if it’s humans playing, many people just like to see things progress. I liked “playing” WorldBox because it was fun to see who won given the “scenario” I put in place. And long before that, I had Progress Quest running

He’s not a dumb fuck and that’s the problem

All they have to do is disable games with mtx in the countries that ban it

Yeah. And it could be the master of a LOT if it just gave up a few.

I love USB when it connects things at my desk. I like it a lot less elsewhere

It’s ok for consumer stuff but it has a lot of problems in professional environments. I’m not talking peripherals and laptop docks.

It’s hard to extend/convert, has a cap on hubs, and there’s compatibility issues. Enforcement of the standard is understandably lacking when it’s supposed to work in every application. But it’s like every company invents their own proprietary way to use it so there only thing standard is the connector itself.

Solaar has been good for me as well. Last I checked it doesn’t have the MX Master 3 listed as supported but it seems to work fine

USB is pretty jank now, too, with how they’re trying to make it the “everything” connector. I am dealing with USB issues every week (pro/commercial AV) nowadays

Hey, thanks for the heads up. I will definitely wait until then

Ahh ok I’ve played since most of those were added but not the mini games or towns. Might have to give it another play this winter

Not looking for a full changelog or anything but what would you say have been some of the most significant changes over the years?

Read what he posted. He said the series is against sexual misconduct which is what I’m “debunking”

The Like A Dragon Series has a long-standing history of opposing sexual misconduct in all its forms

This is why I commented

Did you read what he wrote…? He claims hiring this guy goes against the messaging in the games. The messaging in the last game included “rape is comedic topic when it happens to a man”

Of course it’s different to actual assault but it’s pretty sick that you’re defending it as an acceptable form of humor.

The main character of Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth gets sexually assaulted several times during the side quests. From kissing to sex, it’s always verbally and physically non-consensual. He gets strapped to a table in one of them.

But it’s women doing it so it’s funny, I guess

Edited to add: this is specifically what I’m replying to

The Like A Dragon Series has a long-standing history of opposing sexual misconduct in all its forms

No it does not.

If I’m remembering correctly, no. But it persisted between visits to that specific camp

Yeah that’s true. My friend said “be right back” once and left for an hour so I collected every chest and crate in act 1 and stacked it in camp

I’ve finished BG3 4 times by myself and failed to make it past the first act in a group 5 or 6 times.

Love the game (obviously) but I found it PAINFUL to play in a group. Especially combat, having multiple people making decisions meant it was more waiting and reacting than planning. And planning is my favorite part!

Adjustable HUD offset for widescreen.

I have a 32:9 display and it SUCKS when HUD elements are anchored to the sides. I have to turn my head to see it!

#1 reason I didn’t buy it, even beating out “it’s not on sale” for the top spot