I’d like to think they provide a useful service. “useful” as in entertaining and a sense of community. They get things wrong but I’d like to think that they try and in the “churn” of making videos and running a company you screw up every now and again.

I haven’t watched an LTT video in a while though. I just hate their thumbnails (I get the algorithm forces them) but over time I think their content just isn’t for me, but I can see why others would.

ooo I didn’t know that, due to my carpal tunnel and finger problems I’ve been leaning towards more controller based games and I thought PoE2 wouldn’t be like that … maybe I’ll try it in early access this holiday season.

Are these the same people that complain about cancer culture? It feels like it.

yup, this is the sorta game I’d prefer to watch others stream than play myself

lol what’s with the downvotes, we both watched the video and it wasn’t our thing but it looks good for what it is … jeez

The headline isn’t telling a full story

Some of these include free fruit and beverages, fitness coaches in the gym, a sabbatical after four years with the company, and the grounding of the Intel Air Shuttle that flies between California, Arizona, and Oregon.

lol, it’s alright, it’s cold communication on the Internet. I also genuinely thank you for both replies!

I mean I think I understand the argument for your distinction. I don’t play either games, I just watched VFX artists reaction and saw Snoop Dogg in it so I was wondering why it’s such a big deal with Tencent. As he does seem to “dance” in CoD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdhPvXhXoUM.

I may take slight issue with your last statement. To be clear, I’m not trying to have a “dishonest discussion”, I genuinely don’t understand the distinction and there isn’t really an article or anything here for me to clarify.

Thanks for your reply on it though it does clarify a bit more to me.

Isn’t he already in Call of Duty?

You’re only saying that because it’s true.

I don’t think any console that did releases annually would be worth buying and I think you have a solid point.

That being said, it is slightly different insofar as console games are not implicitly available across generations. What I mean is PS4 games are playable on PS5 but WiiU aren’t on Switch or what-have-you.

I think most people are crossing over PC/laptop updates with game consoles and the walls are being broken down a bit.

I think Steam doesn’t want to muddy the waters with “Steam Verified” and everything just yet. They’re eventually going to with an upcoming refresh of the system, but it’s easier to get devs and consumers on the same page with Steam Deck verified and the software and such if they don’t iterate every year.

What do I know though, I’m an idiot.

Yup, it’s a good reminder that Steam can change direction at any point as well.

I genuinely don’t understand it, the game itself is gorgeous.

I’ve had a friend tell me that her stream group (and her) or whatever was happy to see these woke games die. I’m only looking at this superficially but what about this game is woke? I just thought it was shit.

I worked for a major investment bank and one of their exotics trading teams was basically all add-ons and stuff built on top of Excel.

To be fair, the traders looked like Wizards using it, it was pretty neat.

No lie, when I saw the ghosts in FF7: Remake or whatever … I forced myself to finish the game and there’s no way I’m likely to play any of the sequels.

Also, like, this is just me but I got into PlayStation games fairly late. I got a PS5 and I played God of War 4 and was gobsmacked about how good that game played and looked. When I played FF7: Remake, the game itself looked amazing and a younger me would have loved seeing those graphics. However, I felt the cinematics and storyline were SO lackluster. I think after seeing God of War 4 cinematics, the FF7: Remake ones felt so dated …

Btw, I actually enjoyed FF15, I know it’s like unfinished with drama and all that but I really did like playing that game.

Nintendo confirmed that with me via an email!

I have a friend that worked on Stadia. He said he couldn’t believe how little faith they had in their own system.

My personal opinion is that almost everything about it seemed botched. Which was so strange because I think it was out during COVID and it seemed to be an ideal device when parts were expensive at the time.

There’s a converter on GitHub for it.

It works surprisingly well. I wanted to wait for the official but I have a flight coming up and this is gonna make it awesome.

I can’t wait to buy the mobile version and recommend it to all of my friends!

I remember PirateSoftware talking about the remote play online co-op on steam, I think I found it here:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Iu4kpM692vI

Definitely doesn’t seem to be sitting on it. Hell man, I have re-bought some games on other platforms just to re-play it on my Steam Deck.

I can’t defend/accost the 30% simply due to my lack of knowledge in the industry.

I was kinda hoping a modular phone would have a headphone jack module of some sort.

Non-removable battery and lanyard strap is enough I guess…

Yeah, almost every review is along the lines of “this is a technical marvel” to “and now it’s sitting on the shelf awaiting a purpose”.

Through VR, Apple was “at least seemingly” going to move from games being the primary use to office work, but every review I’ve seen has been lackluster for that. You can do cool things but it’s missing a lot of features like the screen sharing and stuff.

It seems to fall into the “solution looking for a problem” category.

I hate the Steam Deck! /s

I mean, I’m half joking but I used to sleep in bed and now I waste like 2-3 hours on Balatro instead of falling asleep at an appropriate hour.

I just bought it based on this alone. Early-access and FPS games aren’t typically my thing, but I like the cut of this person’s jib.

Yup. I’ve just been purchasing games without the Verified tag now because I’ll just be like: “yeah that seems like it’d work and it typically does”.

I made the mistake of installing Stardew Valley on it for 1.6. Oof, I’m playing it everywhere. Very bad when you can’t handle your addictions well.

Yup, I didn’t buy the Steam Deck to do 4K ray tracing at 120FPS. I bought it so I can pick up any Steam Deck Verified game and play it without relative issue. Being able to suspend the game immediately and just knowing things work beats fiddling with Windows on a handheld.

The accounts are so important that you’re willing to lose sales in that many countries?!

I was upset because I bought my Oculus headset before Facebook acquired it and then forced me to have a log in of theirs.

I decided not to have a Facebook account for a reason. Mainly because I don’t trust the company with my data. As enticing it is to have a VR headset and I would love to for their price … … I just don’t want to give Meta any more of my cash.

What’s happening in VR now is that Meta is licensing their Horizon OS so maybe other manufacturers can make their own headsets with Meta’s OS on top. That introduces another problem because I don’t trust that their OS isn’t spying on me either …

I think it helps not just in sales but also in terms of player count. I think just having it swarmed with the number of HellDivers makes it more alive too and gets other people more into it.

I’ve also purchased this game like three times. I bought it on PS5 so I could give it to my brother to play. Bought it for myself and for a friend of mine.

I really didn’t like FF7 Remake and I really wanted to like it. I’m a fan of the original and I liked the FF15 game despite it feeling a bit rushed and unfinished at the end and even with the battle system.

I think you do have a point about the action battle system. There’s something about it that just feels imprecise and unsatisfying compared to games in the new category it’s in (although I enjoyed FF15, so you can’t trust me)

What really bugged me is the cinematics/voice acting and story. I just finished GoW4 and Ragnarok back-to-back. I’m not expecting every game to be like GoW, but the cutscenes and stuff in FF felt so corny and cheesy after playing a game like GoW.

Also, they seem to milk Sephiroth to death. If this was a three part series, I didn’t expect to battle him once in the first game and let alone see him as much as I did (I thought the mystery of Sephiroth would have been a teaser for later games). Also, no idea what’s going on with the death clouds.

The game itself looks gorgeous though. I felt if I sent screenshots of the this game to myself as a kid, I’d have my mind blown.

I thought I remember them selling off big properties a few years ago and wanting to go crazy with NFTs. Selling off Tomb Raider, Deus Ex and stuff.

You can tell with those decisions it’s really about management. There was also all sorts of drama with FF15 behind the scenes.

I’m on your side. Mainly because I was also really hoping for some sort of revival of Heroes of the Storm :P. Seriously, Blizzard is not the same company I thought I loved growing up.

However, I did watch someone on YouTube that talked about working Gears of War and execs of MS were less than helpful.

I think it’s Laura Fryer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69gs773bZRI

It has been many years ago though. Blzzard and Activision definitely could use a change of leadership in my opinion.

YUP! I’m sorry, Apple earned more money than Spotify purely based on their airpod market. I refuse to believe otherwise.

If they truly cared about repairability/maintainability they’d give me a headphone jack phone with a replaceable module in case it wears down.

I freaking hate dongles, I always have one when I don’t need one and can never find one when I don’t. They randomly don’t work or I don’t know if this AliExpress one I bought is actually stealing my data. Just give a built-in jack, please!

I’m a developer and see their stories about moving databases and it’s quite cumbersome at their scale. So there are real costs and covering those costs aren’t always easy. Most people don’t want to pay. Not sure what the alternative is either.

All I could think about was it’d be nice if this were a single player game with tighter/fleshed out mechanics. Be cool to do some PvE with a good story.

I mean, there’s always Spiderman and Wolverine will be coming out soon.

On a HZD post, I remember saying years ago I can’t wait because I’d love to play it on keyboard and mouse!

Got downvoted like hell and someone replied, “you can’t play it with a mouse and keyboard”.

I was completely baffled as to what’s going on.

Similar to me. Previous job we tried our best to squeeze any ounce of optimisation out of it. Mainly because I was on the SEO team and we had to focus on the core web vitals. Everything was deferred and every image was optimised.

New job, we don’t even have any metrics.

So it looks like they’re rolling it into the main app like Google play movies. No big deal. Although, they were pushing me to use the YT kids app not too long ago.

I never gave into this pressure when I was a kid. My parents helped by being poor.

Swype is great but every now and then I get “swypos” where I’ll think I put the right word and I put something else there and the reader has to figure it out :)

I mean everyone’s favorite game Stardew Valley is a Harvest Moon rip-off. Gotta shit or get off the pot Nintendo.