Letterboxd and Goodreads both use a star rating system in addition to long-form reviews and it seems to work out great. I have my disagreements with how the sites are run, but the rating system isn’t one of them.

YouTube star ratings never included the opportunity to review (in text) a specific video, so I think your comparison isn’t very applicable or helpful in this specific situation. The Steam review system isn’t very analogous to how YouTube used to work.

Seconding this. I got a used Wii and hacked it to play pirated games from an SD card, including Just Dance. Literally every commercially sold Wii can be hacked now, it’s super easy. No money given to Nintendo.

Also, the Just Dance modding scene is still pretty active and there are Wii ports for newer songs/games. But you can emulate stuff instead if you don’t have/want a Wii.

I decided to reinstall Cult of the Lamb since the new expansion was announced. There’s a lot of stuff in that game that I straight up forgot existed lol.

Can you articulate your problem or are you just going to down vote?

Childhood? You don’t understand everything’s fucked yet, and you have no responsibilities other than light chores and homework.

I guess they’re hoping no one buying 2 has played the original or has much familiarity with the source material. Not the worst move from a marketing standpoint, but not really inspiring confidence for me since VtMB is probably one of my favourite linear/sandbox RPGs purely because of the atmosphere and dialog.

No, the combat in VtMB wasn’t very good, but that doesn’t mean the sequel has to be an ARPG. I really hope this is just one person’s opinion and it’s not that bad. Also, Phyre is a cringe name that hasn’t grown on me at all, so that sucks considering she apparently fucking says it constantly.

Hell yeah, Shipbreaker had some cool worldbuilding that I vibed with while tearing shit down. Who knows when it’s actually coming, but I’m looking forward to more stuff in that universe.

Logseq is very similar to Obsidian but it’s open source, if that matters. Doesn’t have the same extensibility through community plugins though.

Personally, I set a timer or alarm on my phone. It works for one-off stuff as well as recurring events. If I need more flexibility, I’ll make a calendar event that sends a push notification.

Same, but I use Notes by Bill Farmer to keep track of them all and set custom CSS styles.

It’s not really meant to be beautiful or functional or push boundaries, it’s meant to create (or recreate) a certain atmosphere or aesthetic sense. And you can’t forget that Puppet Combo’s games got really popular on YouTube and Twitch, so their style inspired and was iterated on by others. Mouthwashing was also really influential.

Sometimes things are intentionally ugly or weird or messy or technologically outdated. Sometimes people think it’s cool to make a car out of rusty parts.

Really? You don’t understand why people might look back fondly on the hardware limitations of early games that they now feel nostalgic for? There are still people making Game Boy games and physically releasing them, to the point that there’s now third-party handhelds that can play GB/GBC cartridges. There’s still a thriving Commodore 64 gaming community.

Edited for tone, I was having a bad day earlier.

If you like retro-inspired arcade racers, Slipstream is a fucking blast. You can use your own music if you want to and there are mods to add more cars.

I’m going to say The Last of Us 2. I loved the first one so much, and then 2 was not what I wanted or was expecting, which completely killed any love I had for it and any desire for a larger franchise.

I was hoping for an anthology series where each game focused on a different group of people in the same universe. I loved Joel and Ellie, but I wanted their story to be over and to get a look at how other people had dealt with things.

Specifying commentarial satire seems redundant, no? All satire is commentary, that’s the point.

Any gift card still needs to be processed by a processor, who could get all up in arms just like MasterCard and Visa.

I mentioned digital transactions because that’s what has been restricted in essentially all cases. They don’t seem to care if you buy porn in person, they just don’t want you buying porn online.

I’ve noticed the slight increase in vertical space when I’ve used paragraph breaks in Markdown editors in the past and I thought it was some sort of rendering error. I feel like I’ve unlocked secret knowledge. Thanks for your post!

A gift card isn’t cash, legally or literally. Gift cards also require processors. So this could happen again with gift cards, just with a different set of processing companies.

So what’s your answer? Cheques, money orders, cash in the mail? Or maybe MasterCard, Visa, and their ilk shouldn’t legally be allowed to limit legal purchases that haven’t been flagged as fraud.

You’re going to start mailing cash to Valve with a little note listing your Steam account and what games you want?

As Steph Sterling has said multiple times, they’re making the games boring and grindy so they can sell you the convenience of skipping the boring and grindy parts. How fun.

Wow, I totally missed the part where Microsoft had a gun to your head. Obviously sales go down when people don’t have to buy the game to play it.

Why does Arkane suck so much now?

Even if they gave it away for free, they probably wouldn’t hit that. Absolutely going to be used to justify layoffs.

I’m not really surprised. A phone can often be cheaper, can do a lot of the same tasks (and some a PC can’t do without special hardware), and generally has a better warranty program and tons of upgrade promotions. A lot of younger people have never needed to use a PC because they had tablets or phones.

I also think the concept of having to pay for an OS license is kinda stale for MS in particular because they’re money grubbers in so many other ways. Just give out the OS for free to non-enterprise users and call it a day; it’s not like they’re using the revenue to provide desktop support or add customer value.

I got the game for free in 2015 as part of a choose-your-own-bundle promo for the AMD R9 270X. Haven’t paid a cent for it and I still sorta feel ripped off.

It would be so cool if this meant Funcom had extra money to put into The Secret World (now known as Secret World Legends). Love that game, wish there was more. I know there’s a TTRPG now but it’s not the same.

Microsoft is not there to make computers for Palestinians. They are there to be military contractors for Israel.

ran perfectly

had some glitches

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Oh, I didn’t know that about Warframe chat! That’s an interesting way to implement chat in an MMO. Uplink is an excellent game.

Just for reference, a year of full-time work is about 2000 hours. This dude did the equivalent of 5 years of working for this.

Lmao, whoops. Too early in the morning.

I remember feeling this way about Die Hard: Vendetta for GC. Strong meh/10.

They are heavy-handed and it comes at the expense of atmosphere and tension; a lot of their efforts come across as cheap even though there’re obvious signs of attention and care.

I think the remake of Silent Hill 2 suffers for it. They shouldn’t be given this franchise IMO. You can see it in Layers of Fear and The Medium, and even in The Observer and Blair Witch to some extent.

I like Bloober Team (I’ve played a ton of their games, obviously) but they just haven’t impressed me to the point of convincing me they can remake of Silent Hill properly. It’s an important franchise and they miss the mark on all of the subtleties that made the originals excellent.

Bloober Team again? They have the delicate touch of a rhinoceros on meth. Goddamnit.

Did you read this article? It literally says this:

As you can see, the number of Switch 2 titles not on Game-Key Cards is very slim.

The only games that will be fully available on the cartridge are the ones explicitly singled out. There are 10. How is that significant?

Not in 10+ years when you can’t download the rest of the game from the servers because they don’t put the whole game on the cartridge anymore. Not to mention patches and DLC aren’t on the cartridge either.

Steam has the games Nintendon’t. For everything else, there’s emulation.

That’s awesome, thank you, but the damage is already done and the mods are already broken. I am mostly interested now in hearing that it’s done being updated so that I can go through it at my own pace with all of the content it will ever have and QoL and visual mods that still work. I appreciate you though.

I want him to stop because he keeps breaking the mods that I need to make this game how I want it. I haven’t played anything past 1.4 or 1.5 because the update broke one of my favourite mods and I can no longer enjoy the game the way I did for years.

Work on Haunted Chocolatier or make Stardew Valley 2 so I can pick up the pieces and finish this fucking game. Otherwise I just can’t fucking play without immense fear that a really important mod will break again at some point. Literally the opposite of a chill time.

Edit: I’m mentally ill, if that wasn’t clear. I don’t expect him to stop, I just want him to. Don’t care if that’s unpopular.

You don’t need a patent to protect the IP of a game. That’s what copyright is for.

Maybe you’re just not an expert yet?