Yeah, Capcom figured that out ages ago with Monster Hunter.

They tweak some movesets on the skeletons, they improve the ai a bit. They create new textures, and spend their time making endgame bosses a more unique.

My favorite example is Kushala Daora. I don’t exactly know how many times his skeleton has been reused, but I know Monster Hunter World had at least three reuses of it.

But they always have unique fights for final bosses, even if the Elder Dragon reused assets.

Programming is all about reuse in general. Reuse is part of good applications.

Man

I can’t even begin to fathom what they would cook up

Ok that third one, come the fuck on.

Like don’t even pretend. You could never ride nearly the number of Pokemon you can compared to Pals in Palworld.

That’s basically patenting riding a fucking horse

GODLIKE!!!

Good lord if that ain’t the truth.

It has every opportunity to be good, but I can’t even navigate the goddamn menus, let alone step into my ship.

Forget about using something other than a mouse and keyboard too, it just won’t work.

Oh that’s easy.

M!

Monster Hunter

Monster Hunter Freedom

Monster Hunter Freedom 2

Monster Hunter Freedom Unite

Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate

Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate

Monster Hunter Generations

Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate

Monster Hunter World/Iceborne

Monster Hunter Rise/Sunbreak

I guess you could say I like Monster Hunter

Heh. You’ll learn pretty quick what you can, can’t do. The ghost people (the haunted things I mentioned) cant be killed unless dismembered. It’s also a constant health drain rate in the Cloud regardless of resistance (it’s corrosive, not poison)

This whole DLC is a nightmare. With those damn haunted things popping out of the fog. I don’t even remember if the hazmat suit protects you from it that much either.

Sure, but, technically, without Gacha games I would t have discovered my ex wife sexting another dude. Because she was attempting to hide the money she spent in credit cards I didn’t have access to, then wanted me to pay.

Which led me to digging around, discovering the unaltered statement, then she got drunk and the phone was open in her hand playing some stupid virtual bingo and a snap popped up and wouldnt you know it

Ok haven’t heard of that I’ll look it up

Is it still kicking? I didn’t have a lot of success with it in the past, I’ll give it another shot

I love my PS5.

But I also just got a Ryzen 9 5900x for $300 off, I have a RTX 2070 Super. My PS5 can play games with HDR at 4k at 30fps. Big ol 65" screen. With the Ryzen 7 3700x I could get like 70 FPS on cyberpunk 2077 on my 2k monitor 27" screen, no HDR with DLSS3 enabled.

The processor upgrade alone was an huge boost to game quality for $250. Since I now don’t have to replace all my internals to utilize an RTX 4080 Super, I’m getting one of those.

The RTX 4080 Super has an HDMI 2.1 port, so I can use VRR on my TV and enjoy the 120hz smooth frame rate.

The PS5 pro is essentially the same as the PS4 Pro was the last generation. It you have a PS5, you won’t notice a huge difference.

I was literally looking at playing again with the Sailing announcement

Now it’s… No. I remember $5 back in the day and that was awesome.

Yes

Ooooo and it’s on sale.

I wish. There are things we have been unable to change, even with the assistance of a couple of child psychologists.

When he gets upset with other kids, particularly when they break rules, he is absolutely convinced he needs to be the executive of the rules and often hits or pushes the other kids.

He was doing it before my ex and I separated. It only seems to happen during the summer at the day care program, so it’s likely something more going on there.

Kids are still humans, and honestly I have to remind myself I’m doing the best I can. Because if I knew a better way to do things, I’d be doing that instead.

To me it’s not about raising a superstar, it’s raising someone who shares my values, and is capable of caring for themselves as an adult. Socializing and play is the most vital part of childhood development, so I do everything I can there.

It is the single most difficult thing as a parent to put my foot down about. Or it was at first.

My son LOVES watching the YouTubers playing the (horribly developed) games and enjoys making pretend games based on what he watches (some of it, sometimes we have to skip a video). He has a lot of friends at school that play it.

I will not let my son play it. Minecraft? Sure. Minecraft has a very different system, plenty of it crap, but it’s much easier to supervise and much less exploitive.

But he does let me know that he feels left out when his friends play it and he can’t. He doesn’t have any siblings, so I understand how it’s difficult to lack that connection to peers. He has other ways he gets to connect - mine craft, local playgyms, events for children, sports.

As a parent part of the empathy is feeling that sadness that comes from his disappointment in not being allowed to play it. But I think he has started to understand as he’s gotten a little older, that adults making money off of what a kid makes isn’t nice, or fair, or safe.

Turkey did well here. I don’t think we’ll ever have something similar in the states, but I hope regulation can come about eventually.

That… Is quite a stretch.

Elden ring is their easiest game

If you doubt this, go start a new play through on Dark Souls II.

So if they made it impossible to find, how did he find it?

Dammit. I don’t have time to play until Monday night

Yeah it’s… Not looking great for my productivity

I see a Helldiver I up vote.

For Liberty!

But on a serious note, something as obvious as “Managed Democracy” and quitting your job by signing up for “Early Biovat Reprocessing” and the characters literally saying things like “HELLDIVERS NEVER DIE!” Before being obliterated by a 380? It’s satire. Satire is funny. Like hahaha look at stupid Facist regime, I’ll role play along to get into the mood of the game because the idea is so fucking dumb it’s funny with amazing gameplay.

It’s willful ignorance at some point. I don’t think media literacy has much to do with it. It’s simply listening for what they want to hear, then ignoring the rest, just as real facists desire.

Because they got theirs.

Look at Boeing. So what if people die in preventable crashes, stock to up

I fucking love my pixel.

Instead of AT&T, Samsung and Google spying on me it’s just AT&T and Google.

And surprisingly if you read all the fine print, they do mention a lot of what they collect, so maybe it’s not all terrible to have one less company spying on me

You can butcher anything that goes in a pal ball.

The syndicate thug gave me gold and ammo when butchered

Easily. My computer runs it on default graphics at 60fps without weird artifacts. The things I use and build work.

Palworld.

For an early access it’s surprisingly polished.

i wouldn’t say “ruins.” I’m doing another int/fth playthrough and forgot how fucking wicked the Sword of Night and Flame was. It’s way easier to get than Comet Azur

Y NO METROID PRIME 4

The Outer Worlds 2: String Bean Thoery

There is a particular thing that really irks me with starfield.

I enjoy it. I’ve spent 200+ hours in it.

But the planets/moons arent indicative of the range of things we might expect. Mountains, valleys, or planets with active tectonics, or oceans. etc. That little bit of added features on a few planets would he enough.

Take Earth for example. I feel like I should at least be able to visit landmarks like the grand canyon, Mount everest, or the Mariana trench (given what happened to Earth’s atmosphere).

Look man, when squidface approached my paladin-warlock half Elf I figured “eh, Shadowheart didn’t mind me with a bear.”

But now that you’ve brought withers into it, his whole “I do not have a choice” attitude is really bugging me

But he’s not wrong?

Ahhhhh. Dragon Age Origins. I knew there was a game that BG3 was scratching the itch from.

… I liked it

Has anyone tried Dyson Sphere Program on Steam Deck? I haven’t played it yet because I’m a little worried about addiction to it, but fuck it if it’s on deck

And VR!

According to a friend.

Space exploration? Is that a thing I wasn’t aware of or that I purposefully avoided because I sank too much time into factorio

I don’t know, and valve is lying if they say they do.

There are not naked ladies in my games