I hoped for better, but honestly I’m not surprised. Valve’s idea of customer service has always depended on auromated systems because they don’t want to hire people to do customer service.

Gonna be honest, I miss Might and Magic. Not Heroes of, I mean the original series.

starfield looks uncanny as fuck anyway

The starfield demo looks better with dlss5 on, but that says more about starfield than it doesn about dlss5.

I am not physically walking into a liquor store.

I am not physically walking into a casino.

If I am a legal child, then I am supervised by my parent or guardian. Otherwise, I can do as I want.

I get that online casinos are a thing. Parents are supposed to parent their children.

I actually would be in favor of id checks at the OS level IF AND ONLY IF I could trust the government.

I’ve never been able to do a direct comparison, so maybe that part was a scam too.

well, better streaming was one of the things that I was knowingly and intentionally paying for nitro for.

that’s fair

lots of customization options for both the interface and your profile, but more important to most people is being able to use emojis/stickers from your subscribed servers everywhere on the platform. This might seem petty, but there’s no other software that I regularly use that requires me to pay in order to for example, change the theme of the interface.

edit: that does not include the stuff that I knew I was paying for and was on purpose paying for, like better stream quality and larger upload size and extra shit for my server.

when my nitro expired, I was astonished how much basic functionality was locked behind that paywall. The vanilla experience is so unpleasant.

Meanwhile on stoat, there is no subscription and most of discord’s paid features are just… features. Sure, stoat is janky as balls, but so was discord when it was new.

stoat has a lot of new platform jank, but remember discord was just as bad when it was new but we loved it anyway because it was better than everything else at the time. Personally I’m willing to sacrifice some convenience for the sake of privacy and security.

as far as I remember, this has only happened twice in recent years, last time being silksong.

love seeing small and/or independent devs show up the aaa’s.

this looks very interesting, I feel like I should check this out as sn occasional streamer with no fanbase

On the one hand, good. Valve needs to be held responsible for this.

On the other hand, steam has the best parental controls of any platform I’ve ever seen. You can just not let your kid play those games. Parents should take responsibility for their kids. Games already have ratings and warnings and such.

On the third hand, I forsee this as being yet another means of forcing ID checks and face scanning into the platform. I don’t trust our government not to fuck this up in the worst way possible right now.

It’s EA. Anyone who’s surprised by this either is an idiot or hasn’t been paying attention.

That would be so cool if only it helped me get away from microsoft owned products

Does it work on proton experimental? No? try proton 9.x! Did that work? okay and have a nice day

They’re different games, focused on different things. Taht’s why I said Scope Cieling, not just scope.

I’ll just add it to the pile of reasons why ubisoft is on my shit list alongside ea, epic, and activision.

Civ 6 has some cool modes that are interesting, but if you just want a good old game of civ rhen stick to 5 or 4.

that’s fair

i feel you, but you obviously haven’t had a colony with 400+ civilians and no lag. Rimworld can’t do that. Songs of Syx can.

When you get bored of rimworld in a few thousand hours and are ready for something similar with a larger scope ceiling, try songs of syx.

I’d be interested to see how sales of the steam deck compare. Sure, it’s a pc not a console, but the whole thing is to bring pc gaming to console gamers so I’m interested in the comparison.

EDIT: based on a quick search, 4 million as of this time last year. I did not find anything more up to date than that. Looking that up made me realize that it would be nice if this chart had a date on it since two of the consoles in the chart are still in production.

you think people even read it?

I spent 3 hours stuck on one boss fight.

In most games, finally beating it would have me saying “thank fuck its over”.

In silksong, I’m saying “fuck yeah that was a good boss”. It’s a very different feeling, and one that I haven’t had the pleasure of enjoying in quite some time.

That said.

I think both hollow knight and silksong should have easy modes. It would be fine. It doesn’t hurt me any that someone else can have an easier time. People need to remember that video games are entertainment, and the sweaty “hardcore gamers” can fuck off with their usual judgemental elitism.

there’s a setting for that now, i think the default is yes.

If this actually happens, my next phone will probably be a dumb phone, unless I can find a true linux phone.

I’ve recently decided that I’m not spending more than $10 on a game until I’ve cleaned out my backlog.

There’s hundreds of games in my backlog, so it’s going to be a while.

but if people are watching porn or having gay sex then they’re not making babies to sacrifice to the capitalist meat grinder.

yo ho, all hands, hoist the colors high,

heave ho, thieves and beggars, never shall we die.

The current management of nintendo will never figure it out. Piracy is the competition. It’s not about getting the thing for free, it’s about getting a better service. I’d buy mario 3 again (again) if that meant I’d get a rom I could run on my pc through FCEUX and enjoy all the features/enhancements that software offers. There’s a handful of gamecube games available on switch2, but all of them are better through Dolphin than what official hardware can offer. Nintendo’s refund policy is a joke. The eshop is unpleasant to use. Even ignoring all of that, the original switch only had a handful of actual first party titles, not enough to justify the console’s price tag (and each those were merely ok, not enough to justify buying a console for one game).

sega sells their games on steam, and while I don’t like the emulator they use I can at least say that I own a legal copy of sonic spinball.

i agree. However, they’ll continue to get away with it because it aligns with republican psuedo-christian ideals of oppression.

in some previous times something like this happened (I forgot specifically which), visa/mastercard would deny all payments with a platform until whatever offended them was removed (don’t know if they only threatened that or actually followed through)

i know it’s not the important part of your comment, but I must point out that indies will be fine because indies do not have publishing deals. If your studio is beholden to a publisher, then you are by definition not independent.

its only the big publishers that are going to crash, so nothing of value will be lost.

Since you’re being reasonable again, I’ll answer.

Perhaps “demanded” was the wrong word to use. It got the wrong point across. You did not explicitly ask for it, but rather strongly implied that you wanted the other guy’s argument to be a certain way. (your comment I am referring to is quoted below). Ultimately, you were right, as the plot has thickened over the past 2 hours. In another comment the other guy agreed with the explanation I provided, and used that to claim that proc gen and gen ai are effectively the same (a claim that I disputed in another another comment). So on this point, you win. It was I who misunderstood the other guy’s argument.

I feel like it does. theunknownmuncher thinks it’s somehow inconsistent to be against generative AI while being ok with procedural generation, which implies that they think they’re equivalent in some way. As if the reason people don’t like generative AI is because it makes bad games.

Agreed.

What am I projecting???

This is what using ChatGPT does yo your brain, it destroys your reading comprehension

Why is it that now that I am asking you to explain things, you won’t?

You’re projecting, and being an asshole

Point not proven.

There are many reasons why people in general actively dislike generative ai. Many of those reasons have to do with the creation of the ai (including environmental damage and harm to artists, and more besides), and are applicable regardless of the quality of the end product.

Furthermore, using generative ai does tend to make the end product worse, regardless of what that product is. This does not mean that it is impossible to make good shit with ai, nor does it mean that ai only makes good shit. There’s nuance to the issue that is often ignored.

Furthermore again, there is bandwagonning happening in the hate of ai. However, just begause bandwagonning is a logical fallacy, does not automatically make the arguments wrong (see the fallacy fallacy).

Furthermore the third, developers absolutely can be held at fault for using generative ai. Valve demands ai use be disclosed, they didn’t comply, ipso facto, devs are at fault. However, not all fault is equal. The example being discussed in the original post is much less egregious than most in my opinion. It’s not like they ai generated the entire game asset by asset.

I had another point but already forgot what it was so I’ll leave it at that for now.

I will concede that we have lived different experiences.