Toilet humor is the fucking sauce of Borderlands. BL3’s greatest flaws were the insufferable antagonists, the annoying Chosen One kid, and the death of my favorite player character directly caused by her. They might as well put skibidi toilet in BL4 because BL3 had the same kind of contemporary brainrot.

Yes, and we should not give app developers a free pass because “everybody is doing it”.

“Big company, therefore manipulation” is one hell of an argument my dude

• It’s decently-made (rarely the case with new titles in current year)
• Concentrated industrial-grade nostalgiabait
• Doesn’t require the player to be a skilled Gamer
• Judges determine the majority of the score (who are probably not skilled Gamers)

Just language barriers and general gamer stupidity all around.

I’m pretty sure nationalistic pride is also a factor. Wukong is not just a game they like, it’s their game.

It could work the same way as the three origin stories in CP77: each ending from The Witcher 3 leading to a separate intro story with a time skip before the main game begins.

It makes perfect sense with two of the three endings, and could even work with the third depending on how much CDPR wants to explain the cosmology behind the white frost.

I hope they didn’t ask the same people for input who decided to use a broken torii gate as advertising material.

Sure, I don’t disagree, that’s not what I’m saying. All three offending parties could/should be held responsible, depending on how the takedown request was delivered.

I don’t believe that it was a malicious misuse. Most likely some fuckwit moron at Funko or Brandshield didn’t understand the difference between the hosting platform and the registrar and sent the takedown request to the wrong place out of negligence.

It wasn’t even a DMCA request.

Oh, I don’t think they messed up at all. I think it was intentional and calculated. Business decisions don’t just materialize out of happenstance, they are written, proposed, and approved by multiple people. They came up with and implemented the pricing and the bait-and-switching of components. Their lawyers wrote, reviewed, and approved the contract. Their public relations personnel came up with the untrue statements that should be said in sponsored videos. And now that the shift has left the ass, the CEO wants to pretend it was all a mistake? Fuck off.

“We might be able to banish the demon and save your son.”
“Really?”
“No, it’s just fun to get your hopes up. I’m gonna kill the kid.”

Veilguard doesn’t let you be an absolute dick the way Origins did. The story (what little I’ve seen) is filtered and sanitized like it’s meant for six-year-olds.

It also approaches sensitive topics, like the gender of one character, with the graceful and delicate touch of a fucking brick. If your character in Origins is a woman, Sten will bluntly comment on your role as a warrior, which is reflects the Qunari culture and their strict adherence to their norms. In Veilguard, a character blurts out “I’m non-binary by the way, I use pronouns” and another starts doing push-ups for accidentally misgendering them. It was fucking ridiculous.

Dragon Age Origins for the first time. I think I’m at the climax of the Redcliffe arc, and finally I understand why people call Veilguard “disneyfied”.

I have 4700 hours on Warframe and feel more or less the same.

We’re already past the “spreading awareness” stage. Now it’s time to do something about legally sanctioned robbery.

The fandom takes cosplay and immersion very seriously.

Sony is the biggest fucking security risk in this entire deal, what the fuck

It’s because xbox’s naming scheme is fucking stupid.

Those dialogues go frickin’ haaard, dude!

(I hate myself for even writing this.)

All of the characters look like they came straight outta Shrek 2.

Never ask:

• A man his salary
• A woman her age
• An audiophile how much they paid for their hoard

On second thought, ask all of those questions.

• Secrecy is how employers get away with wage inequality.
• “I didn’t know she was 17” does not work in a court of law.
• An audiophile will proudly point at their favourite budget headset. I mean, the Samson SR-850 is just insane value for its price. Sure, it’s a symphony of plastics, the design is just a straight rip-off of the AKG K240, and the fixed cable is a bummer, but the frequency response and the soundstage are out of this world. Plus the impedance is only 32 ohms: it easily runs out of a smartphone.

Host a multiplayer game and annoy the shit out of people

Date an audiophile and you’ll never run out of quality cables. If you’re lucky, they might even agree to flog you with the Stax Lambda’s flat ribbon cable.

Enjoy it while you can. Recall is going to be a hard dependency of the new file explorer because of… reasons.

Successor of ZA/UM, but not of Disco Elysium unless Kurvitz and Rostov are also involved.

Do people actually believe Apple’s hogwash about privacy?

1. There is a setting for an alternative character control mode. Use it, the regular one is dogshit.

2. The level difference between Geralt and enemies is very important. A difference of +/- 4 can make fights ridiculously trivial or a one-hit KO. Same goes for jobs’ recommended difficulty.

3. Getting swarmed by level 50 sewer rats is not fun.

Look at what pirate repackers like fitgirl and dodi are putting out. They have a much lower throughput and often focus on popular indie or small studio titles.

Schrödinger’s Bug: it’s both a bug and a feature, until observed by the consumers. After, it depends on the public reaction.

they allow other oses now

They don’t. It’s the same category as jailbreaking an iPhone: possible, legal, might brick your console, Sony hates it.

At this point, the distinction between console and PC comes down to the corporate side. The PS4 and PS5 operating systems are based on a BSD (probably FreeBSD but not sure), and are capable of running a desktop OS (as long as hackers find a way to bypass Sony’s locked-down firmware). XBox One and Series use a Windows-based OS, also locked down by Microsoft to only run the applications they want.

Everything about the Steam Deck is designed with gaming in mind, but in terms of capabilities, it’s no different from a PC. You could hook it up to a USB-C dock and use it for work. I’d sooner call it a handheld PC than a console.

I totally forgot how completely overwhelmingly fucking beige those Fallout games were.

Worked wonders for the Yuzu developers.

They could be, easily. Sony wouldn’t likely win, but all they really need to do is bury the operators in legal fees and subpoenas.

What do you suppose they should do instead? Get sued out of existence?

It’s okay, disability discount is available for everyone with a peg leg, eyepatch, or hook hand.

The devs can just raise the price by 30%

Actually they can’t. Steam’s TOS has a “most favored nation” clause that forbids developers from charging less for their games on other platforms (at least this is how I understand it, I’m not a lawyer). From a small developer’s perspective, it sucks that they can’t unburden the player from the 30% where it doesn’t apply. From Valve’s perspective, that would turn Steam into an advertising platform for other stores.

effort/infrastructure to host a download and display a webpage

Except that’s not all Valve does. Game files and updates need to be distributed, and that alone is a massive task at the scale Steam operates on, both the storage and transmission of data, and the operating cost of the CDN. Steam Cloud is also not free, it’s covered by the 30% so the players don’t have to pay for the service separately. Add to that the cost of sales where the discount is covered by Valve.

The EGS isn’t profitable either, it’s kept alive by Fortnite money.

It’s a bit more obvious if you’ve played through AW1 and Max Payne recently. AW1 contains a couple of excerpts from Wake’s book The Sudden Stop, starring detective Alex Casey. They are written in the exact same style as Max Payne, and narrated by James McCaffrey, Payne’s VA.