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Malix, do gaming w Self insert power fantasy recommendations?
@Malix@sopuli.xyz avatar

While it’s not indie: Cyberpunk 2077?

You can make your character as pretty as you please (though, no “sex appeal” -slider like in Saint’s Row :D). Also, no 3rd person camera, so you’d only see your character in inventory screen. Otherwise there’s bit of boobies to be seen - and massive amounts if you so choose with modding.

Difficultywise it’ll cater to very casual approach, but the game does the “bethesda-thing” where you will end up as destroyer of worlds regardless of difficulty.

edit: btw, you might want to specify your platform? No modding for cyberpunk on consoles as of yet, I just assumed PC here.

DoucheBagMcSwag, do gaming w I hate how CoD is all microscopic maps now thanks to Shipment 24/7

Brain rot

Black Ops 6

You already lost

But_my_mom_says_im_cool, do games w What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews.

Don’t speak I’ll of steam and billionaire Gabe around here. The steam bros are gonna crucify you for daring to even think ill of THEIR corporation and THEIR billionaire who of course loves and cares for them all.

kadup,
@kadup@lemmy.world avatar

What’s Steam got to do with Borderlands 2 having a rootkit?

Dagamant, do games w What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews.

You literally posted the answer to your question. Here is an expansion of the details.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/d8063cbe-622a-4e9f-aaa8-24b5bb421203.jpeg

Goodeye8,

I haven't read the new TOS but if this review is correct it looks like a GDPR nightmare for them. Good luck to them explaining why they need to collect all that personal data.

raltoid,

The “collected data types” in that comment seems to be copy/pasted from the privacy policy

www.take2games.com/privacy/en-US/

avattar,

That might be US only, where the companies have freedom to get all the customer’s data and do with it as they will.

echodot,

The list where this doesn’t apply seems to basically be every country with consumer protection laws.

They obviously know this won’t fly pretty much anywhere other than the US so that’s all they’re trying to push.

Vanilla_PuddinFudge,
@Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub avatar

Most people don’t care about privacy.

Most people in the western civilized world are on Facebook, so…

blind3rdeye,

but ask those same people whether facebook should be allowed to collect and use all that data, and people will generally say ‘no’.

LainTrain,

Sad truth, but it’s no excuse.

Vinstaal0,

Do we know this is a thing in the EU?

moon,

Due to Steam’s tos updates a few months ago, isn’t take-two opening itself up to a massive lawsuit?

SaharaMaleikuhm,

No idea, but I think it would be funny, so I’m all for it and hope you are right.

Nephalis, (edited )

Hm… Ok. Thats crazy. Someone wants to create a new branch of income it seems.

Thats a fucking shame. Now I need to reconsider my plans to buy Borderlands4.

But how will they do it? Which information is gathered from which source? Most of my accounts only hold as little informations as possible. Also my Os knows nothing about me. My MS account neither.

On the other hand my steam 2FA need some mobile information.

Fiivemacs,

Checkout Jump Ship? It’s some weird borderlands, Star citizen, (insert other generic shooter) type game. Pretty neat, was recommended to me by a shooter fanatic friend of mine. I trust his shooting game opinion

store.steampowered.com/app/1757300/Jump_Ship/

topherclay,

oh cool, I can see that it’s similar Borderlands by the screenshots, and I can see that it’s like Star Citizen because it’s not actually released yet and they’re taking money for early access.

Fiivemacs,

Hah exactly :D

thermal_shock,

😂😂

Dagamant,

Unless you use Linux, your OS knows a ton about you. On top of that, with root access to your computer they can do whatever they want and if their system gets hacked you become a member of a bot farm or crypto mine.

Nephalis,

Well I use Linux, but not on my gaming pc. I would switch to it because its all amd, but I don’t want to because it lacks the driver suite for my gpu (adrenaline) and I don’t want to install a bunch of small applications to gain a small fraction of options it offers.

It’s a pitty. Because I realy want to ditch windows since its newest iteration.

Berttheduck, do gaming w Self insert power fantasy recommendations?

Dragons dogma 1 and 2 fit the bill I think. 2 more so than the first.

Lemjukes, do games w What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews.
@Lemjukes@lemm.ee avatar
  • Did the EULA change? ✅
  • Were all Take Two games automatically updated in secret and now hijack your machine with root access to spy on everything you do? ❌
  • Do Take Two games contain code to report telemetry and user information(including application/system activity) to a home server? ✅
  • Is this EULA change extraordinary and particularly egregious in comparison to others that most people have probably already agreed to? ❌(IMO)
  • Are people riled up because e a YouTube video went a little viral and now they’re all playing telephone to the point where it’s now gotten to the point of random dumdums are review booming a 13 year old game claiming it’s turned into literal spyware? ✅(again, IMO)
  • Should you be surprised by any of this if you’ve been even remotely paying attention for any period of the last 30-40 years? ❌
Mustakrakish,
BlindFrog,

Precise location information? Wtf for?

Lemjukes,
@Lemjukes@lemm.ee avatar

Hyper Localized Advertising. Welcome back o the future :(

Couldbealeotard,
@Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world avatar

I just saw an advertisement for a custom T-shirt:
“That’s right, I’m a December dad, who lives at 62a, with size 10 feet and prescription glasses…”

/S

BlindFrog,

“By scrolling past, you agree to sharing with us (and our affiliates) the following collected data types: …”

outhouseperilous,

Oh honey, what’s any of it for?

NIB,

They use the same terms of service for mobile games and they just dont bother to change it for pc games.

BlindFrog,

This mistake makes sense to make as a mistake. But also, that’s fuckin asinine

QuoVadisHomines,

It isn’t a mistake. Writing different EULA for each game costs more money than writing an overly aggressive one that covers most cases.

Lemjukes,
@Lemjukes@lemm.ee avatar

A bit more than what, not really sure what your point here is? All of those bullet points are similar if not identical to terms in other EULAs half the people in this thread have already clicked thru.

I’ll say it again, if you think this is anything new you haven’t been paying attention. I’m all for calling this fuckery out and pushing for something better. But like where yall been?

MummysLittleBloodSlut,

Let’s ride the wave. Turn this into a huge controversy known industry-wide. Then, next game that comes out with EULA like this, we say “THIS GAME HAS A BORDERLANDS-STYLE EULA”. Pretend it’s new to exploit the shock value and get the gamers riled up. Then, the industry gets better.

Tell the frog that the pot wasn’t always this hot.

emeralddawn45,

What point are you trying to make? You say you’re “all for calling this kind of fuckery out” but then you’re criticizing people for calling it out? And who cares what other EULAs might say? The point is that the license agreement for this game and others owned by this company didn’t say this shit before, and now they do. The company is actively making their user agreement more hostile to the users which is what people are pissed about.

Don_alForno,

Some people will always find an excuse to change nothing.

It doesn’t matter how many similar EULA’s people have already accepted. The best moment to not eat it anymore would have been the first time it happened, the second best time is right now.

Also, retroactively amending an EULA is a different quality, since people have already paid for the game and would be locked out after the fact if they didn’t accept.

Semjaza,

If more folks are waking up and shaking a stick at it or doing something but blindly click through (thus legally unenforceable) EULAs I’m all for it.

Better late than never.

Vespair,

I see this kind of comment before and I will never understand it - “other companies do it so just bend over and let us do it to you too!”

People say this all the time about Denuvo too: “Other games already have Denuvo, why are you crying about it here when you’re playing other games?”

And see, that’s the problem - we aren’t playing those other Denuvo games. And same thing applies here, guess what, a lot of us aren’t buying games from gross companies like EA with these shit terms. So when a company we are doing business with suddenly changes their terms to be shit, that’s a valid complaint. Some of us have already been boycotting bad business practices in the industry, so the idea of company changing terms towards the boycott after we’ve already invested in the game feels like a betrayal because it is.

So maybe stop focusing on what you assume the rest of audience is doing and instead go back to focusing on what the people at the goddamn podium are trying to pull?

LainTrain,

I don’t click thru any EULAs. I see bad EULA - I pirate. Then if it makes any network traffic i just block that shit.

JasonDJ,

So…if Steam is running in a Flatpak, and Borderlands is launched from Steam, how much can they even see…really?

RetroGoblet79,

They know I use Linux and that means they know too much

MentalEdge,
@MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz avatar

Not a lot. Even when it isn’t a flatpak windows software running on linux won’t be able to interact with the system anywhere near as much as on windows.

They’ll be able to tell it’s linux, though.

Squizzy,

New to linux…are flatpaks like sandboxed?

iknowitwheniseeit,

Sort of. They can be, but are not always.

Nilz,

They are somewhat isolated but not sandboxed.

domi,
@domi@lemmy.secnd.me avatar

You can install an application like Flatseal (flathub.org/apps/com.github.tchx84.Flatseal) to inspect the permissions for a flatpak.

How locked down a flatpak is depends entirely on the developer and what permissions they request. By default, they can’t really see much. For example, they can’t even see the processes running on your host or your user and system files.

Flatpak does not do anything about network access though, it can only do no access or full access, no in between. The data they can collect on Linux in a Flatpak is very limited but it does not prevent them from calling home.

LainTrain, do games w What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews.

Yikes. Is the review in the screenshot true? They got root anticheat? Or rootkit data harvesting?

luciole, do gaming w Self insert power fantasy recommendations?
@luciole@beehaw.org avatar

If you want to play Hades as a girl, you can play Hades II :D

MummysLittleBloodSlut,

Hmmm, I only want to play it when it’s done. I really loved Hades 1, I want to get the full intended experience, no spoilers.

vortexal, (edited ) do games w What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews.
@vortexal@sopuli.xyz avatar

Is the EULA also applicable to the Linux version, assuming that Aspyr did actually port the game to Linux and not just use Wine or something?

aesthelete,

The Linux version is utter dog shit. It’s native but it’s really terrible looking.

vortexal, (edited )
@vortexal@sopuli.xyz avatar

Is it not fully compatible with newer versions of Linux? All the gameplay and comparison videos I’ve seen look identical to the Windows version. I’d test it myself but I’m pretty sure my computer doesn’t have the hardware to run it even on low settings.

JackbyDev,

Remind me and I’ll look into it. I have BL2 but never ever played it back in the day.

aesthelete,

I played it sometime toward the end of last year using proton. I’ll have to try it again.

thoughtfuldragon,

It’s also not been updated for a long time. You can’t play with the windows version anymore.

Korhaka,

If it hasn’t been updated that means the new user agreement isn’t asked surely?

Onyxonblack, do games w What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews.

I apparently love downvotes but here goes: All the Borderlands games (annoying childish cell-shaded skinner-box) and everything Gearbox is and has ever created it utter shit. The CEO is a garbage person, and thier dealings with Epic is Capitalist-Oink-Piggy shite! "“FUCK YOU 2K & GEARBOX, AND FUCK YOU BORDERLANDS!”

red,

Apart from the politics, the Borderlands games themselves are hardly utter shit for the most part.

Vanilla_PuddinFudge, (edited )
@Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub avatar

The writing is garbage but,… it’s a game for edgy teenagers. It would be.

The gameplay for me is Diablo with guns. It would suck for anyone not into that. If anyone isn’t into that, don’t buy Borderlands games.

red,

Got to argue, I’m a 39 year old gamer, started with PCs back in 90s.

The games are casual fun, they work great as co-op shooters. Story is what it is, but the games themselves are lighthearted and just pure entertaining fun.

Not masterpieces. Just good.

keckbug,

The first felt really fresh at the time. FPS was dominated by various milsim shooters and Halo, and the irreverence and clever cell shading style worked well.

Two dialed things up in scope and scale and added some nice environmental variety.

But the rest? The presequel? The 3rd? I just couldn’t. It was more of the same, tired, repetitive, the jokes started really scraping the bottom of the barrel. I had fun early on, but I’m out.

bitwolf,

I liked 1 and 2. Got bored for the prequel and 3 early on.

Tiny Tinas I did play and really enjoyed that game. It felt like a reasonable advancement over BL 1 and 2. It felt like they stagnated for a bit and raised the bar slightly with Tinas.

I really wanted an MMO style Borderlands with 4, and I wouldn’t value 4 any higher than Tinas launch price. But I am interested in what the game has to offer.

If you liked only the first two, def give Tina’s a try, if it has a good sale.

MrScottyTay,

I loved the gameplay of pre sequel. But the writing for that was constantly throwing me for a loop on how any of it was greenlit. I didn’t mind the writing in 1 and 2, I got a few chuckles out of that. Pre sequel just made me groan, moan and yawn.

JackbyDev,

What are you arguing with? I don’t see your comment as contradictory to theirs at all.

red,

I guess his premise, that it’s for edgy teens. Heck, half the pop references were ancient on launch.

dil,

Except lawbreakers but he tainted it by supporting it and made ppl against it

Crankenstein,

Bro thank you for mentioning Lawbreakers. Such a fun game that was cut short.

psycho_driver,

You’re definitely right about Pitchford or w/e dingleberry’s name is.

ms_lane,

everything Gearbox is and has ever created it utter shit

OpFor was good, Blue Shift was alright too.

Everything since they stole the whole idea of Borderlands has been bad though.

MentalEdge,
@MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz avatar

I’m sorry, but Battleborn was brilliant. Deadlock is the first game to re-capture (and expand on) the mix of mechanics Battleborn put together.

Didn’t stop Gearbox from shutting it down so that no-one who bought it could ever play again. Not even the story campaign.

Korhaka,

Yes, but it should still be illegal for a company to do this. Don’t let them blame the users for accepting this bullshit. As Louis Rossmann would say, they have the mentality of a rapist.

blomvik, do games w The first weekly What Are You Playing? thread!

I am playing Drove and really loving it. Most likely done with the first chapter. The Gothic inspiration is clear, but it plays entirely differently. Gonna join the Remnants as they were more playfully written.

macaw_dean_settle, do gaming w If you hear Latin, you're in trouble.

If he/she is a boss, where are their employees? Not a boss, no employees.

MummysLittleBloodSlut,

Hey buddy, you used a microaggression. You shouldn’t say “he/she”, you should say “they” instead.

cepelinas,

They used the grammatically correct version, they is plural and while I am not against it your point is still wrong.

MummysLittleBloodSlut,

My favourite dictionary is Merriam-Webster, what’s yours?

merriam-webster.com/…/singular-nonbinary-they

cepelinas,

In English class they is a plural pronoun he, she, it are singular and how is using a traditionally singular pronoun microaggression I am not against trans people but wth?

Pipster,

Singular they is not a new concept designed to appeal to the “woke crowd”. I was very much taught in school to use singular they, it was always something used when the gender of the subject was unknown and often even if it is known but unimportant. It has been part of the English language for a long time.

cepelinas,

I am sorry that my comment appeared trans phobic but I still do not get how is a person using he/she instead of they is micro aggression.

MummysLittleBloodSlut,

Some video game bosses aren’t hes or shes. Some are theys and some are its.

Empricorn,

Yet somehow not as aggressive as your comment.

MummysLittleBloodSlut,

UwU fuckmuffin, u used a micwoaggweshun! U shudnt use he/she, u shud use dey insted OwO!

Better?

MonkderVierte, do games w What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews.

🏴‍☠️ is free and without shenanigans.

DrGrout, do games w What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews.

Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. Owns Rockstar Games, Zynga and 2K. So if that’s all their games, it includes at least these: Bioshock series, Borderlands series, Civilization series, Grand Theft Auto series, Mafia series, Max Payne series, NBA 2K series, PGA Tour 2K series, Red Dead series, WWE 2K series and XCOM series.

Amazing stuff!

damdy,

That’s just a list of games that used to be good and now suck.

Godwins_Law,

I object to that for XCOM

v4ld1z, (edited ) do gaming w If you hear Latin, you're in trouble.
RadioFreeArabia,

!soulslike

You need ! before the community’s name

v4ld1z,

autocorrect didn’t help me out this time. ty

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