Always has been.

Remember John Deere?

Combat was amazing.

I have hard time finding any game that comes even close to having so much fun with enemies.

Throwing them on spikes, off the ledges, cutting them in half after running up a wall… it was so good and so much fun.

Easily my favourite game.

I still remember playing this game, after purchasing it on Steam, then it launched uPlay to start the game. And randomly drops connection during playing to uPlay, not saving any progress, shutting down my game. Steam was still online, everything else worked.

After two minutes uPlay logged back in, so I restarted from last save, lost like 30 minutes of unsaved stuff. So I get to it, and whatdoyaknow, it drops AGAIN.

Uninstalled the game, and never bought anything from Ubisoft ever again.

Fuck that company. And I still love Prince of Persia Warrior Within.

I mean, that’s the only issue.

I put Steam on my Gentoo. Because it works, and I get 0 hassle gaming experience.

Guess who gets my money?

No, even Two Thrones felt off.

The combat and movement was so good in WW that I didn’t try anything new after TT.

Ubisoft has been utter shir for more than a decade.

I used to love Prince of Persia, I tried to play Warrior Within half a year ago, that’s how much I love it.

But it hasn’t been the same, it’s just generic shit all over the place.

I’ve had AMDs since forever, my first own build with Phenom II.

They were always good, but Ryzens were just best.

Never used TPM, so can’t comment on that. And most people never used it,

But yes, so many hardcore Intel diehards, it’s almost funny if it wasn’t sad. Like Intels legacy of adding wattage to get nothing in return.

Oh hell naw, the issues with Intel came up much sooner.

Ever since Ryzen came out, Intel just stagnated.

Again: if majority of players stop buying PC hardware, it will not be sold AT ALL. That’s it. Indies will fade slowly after.

Nah, I fight as much as I can, but it’s been decades, and nothing meaningfully improved.

It just sucks to see the world march goosesteppingly into madness.

Play for a week, refund on Steam.

Free forever!

I’m just trying to explain to you that YOU might do your thing, but YOU do not sway the industry.

I’ve known and understood the dangers of dark practices, yet those companies were rewarded regardless of me not buying into them and warning others.

All I’m saying is that you and I represent an insignificant minority of money in gaming, and if the majority won’t shop for PC hardware, that will cease to be sold. Completely. You and I will not change that.

I’m telling you that we are in a minority.

And that unless we can convince at least 50% of gamers to not buy into that, we lost.

EA should have been bankrupt twenty times over, but people keep buying their games.

Same as with everything.

I keep fighting, but this fight has been lost since the start.

Do you play Call of Duty every release?

No? Because millions of people do.

Do you think your actions are offsetting that?

Because they are not. Nobody is going to sell hardware to a couple thousand folk who won’t get in with the times.

People keep buying calls of duty like their lives depend on it.

Make it make sense.

Fuck Epic

Because AI sucks, can’t reason, and has no concept of anything.

Putting words one after another is not what software needs. It needs complex understanding of the platforms and business cases. Which is difficult enough for the brightest humans.

Forget LLMs.

Like forever in Linux.

I swear I would punch one of my best friends if he was in the same room with me when we played together.

All he had to do was the bare minimum, and he still fucked up while acting like he doesn’t care. Made me furious.

Dota 2.

Mandatory for every gamer.

That can only end up great.

There aren’t 50% of gamer parents anyway.

Fuck EA

Ubisoft has been shit for a very long time.

I still recoil from the memory of Far Cry 3 dropping in the middle of the game because thier launcher had an issue, three times in one hour. Which reset my progress. Uninstall, never bought shit from them again.

I’m not saying every AI company is bad, just the generative ones.

Specially the token models.

We did good things for much cheaper, just because the llmentalist effect everybody rich lost their mind and believes in the AGI from LLMs.

You dense motherfucker.

No LLMs are being developed in the open.

Even provided weights mean nothing.

It’s not knowledge LLMs retain, just the ingressed text.

LLMs should be skipped after confirming that they are indeed a dead end they always were. And the entire world should focus on anything else.

Any benefits are by far outweighted by the cost and dangers.

Tell me more about the value when every LLM company is hemorrhaging money.

Also your scripts will always do what they were meant to do.

LLMs will do whatever.

LLMentalist is a mandatory read.

Stop making LLMs happen, we don’t need energy hungry bullshit generators for anything.

There are so many more important AIs that need attention and funding to help us with real problems.

LLMs won’t solve anything.

Pirating a game still supports the release by becoming a common topic.

If you want to protest, ignore the developer and their every game. Otherwise you still use their product and help with marketing.

All those anti-QoL things are just an inconvenience to me. I get it might help with immersion, so I don’t diss them, but most of those things sound like they can be worked around easily, just very time-consumingly. I think I saw some get fixed gameplay, where people died by flying to space? So you just build a space wall and you’re in vanilla with extra steps. And I hate doing the preps.

Way back in the 2012 maybe I collected every vanilla item, and since then I just enjoy fighting bosses. The rest is hard meh. Slapping extra HP is also just lame.

Calamity did everything correctly, specially the post-ML content, and Infernum changed bosses so well that passing them feels like a real achievement.

One of the hardest things in vanilla now is to accept that those bosses are so much more simple, but so are my options.

Lol.

Lmao, even.

Whoever believes a single word that company says?

Like why are we as a society normalizing lying about everything? “Marketing”, “Public relations”, even “Politics”. All of which are ultimately pointless, as we don’t need to keep buying shit, think better of corporations, and argue about same three questions over and over again.

Which is to say, fuck Microsoft. And everything they do. Yes, EVERYTHING. Including the open-source stuff. We need to break down big companies into much smaller ones.

I will never forget even Yahron, much less Calamitas on Revengeance in 2020. Played ranger. But it literally took me a week of constant battles to beat Calamitas once. (After that, even with post-Calamitas equip and with duping, I still had trouble killing it.)

But Infernum Queen Slime? Lol, we beat it in team only thanks to respawn items. Infernum bosses are on the top level of crack, and I love it so much. Those battles are so much fun, yet so stressful. Also visually stunning.

Never tried any special vanilla seeds. Are they difficult compared to Infernum? Or if you once start owning Infernum, vanilla is a piece of cake?

Playing with lag sounds awful, and it’s sad it prevents the true experience. So thank you so much for your advice, much appreciated.

Wow, this is an amazing post, thank you very much!

I played through Calamity on Revengeance during covid (took me a week to just kill Calamitas?), then tried a Infernum run with and without friends last year, and I got beat hard. I love Terraria so much, was so happy to discover Calamity, as the content added is top notch, but if there’s modpack for even more content, I’ll definitely find some time to try it.

But dying just 30 times to a boss? Took me about 170 attempts to kill King Slime in Infernum, after reworking my arena multiple times. I’m very bad at the game.

What mods do you use in Terraria?

Has been for many years

Yeah, I created Patreon account just to give them money years ago, and I even forgot about it.

OpenTTD is always on sale ;)

In building specifically, I only played OpenTTD and Dwarf Fortress.

And I paid for DF after sinking most hours.

OpenTTD is free

You are selling me on this game