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SharkAttak, do games w Life imitates art
@SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org avatar

We are outside the Matrix, right?

filcuk,

God I hope we’re in the matrix. I refuse to accept this is the reality now.

Spaniard,
@Spaniard@lemmy.world avatar

If this is the Matrix then it sucks, I don’t think it’s supposed to suck this much, everyone would take living in Zion over this.

WFloyd, do games w Life imitates art

As funny as this is, it’s also a very common logo, being a varient of the Penrose Triangle. Honestly more shocked they didn’t spring for some better graphics…

MagnyusG,

it would actually be funny if they bought Ubisoft, because they’re the ones that make the Assassin’s Creed games, not EA.

P1nkman,

In the next game, they’ll shift the story so Abstergo to becomes the good guys, destroying the entire backstory from so previous games.

And it’ll be written by AI, including the dialog being AI generated. I hope it fucking tanks.

Cocodapuf,

I mean, as it’s made by ubisoft, it would be pretty funny if they leaned heavily into the evil Abstergo storyline as a dig at EA.

orochi02,

Didnt they do that in rogue more or less?

vaultdweller013,

Yep and honestly I think it’s one of the better Assassins Creed games. It shows that at their best the Templar’s are trying to guide humanity into its future, while at their worst the Assassins are children playing with powers they don’t understand. Mind you that’s within the fact that the Templar’s are power tripping assholes in most games. I kinda wish we could get a Templar equivalent to Origin, perhaps have the Templar’s emerge out of the collapse of the Western Roman Empire after witnessing the Assassins being stupid with an artifact.

Zacryon, do games w Life imitates art
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D_Bohica, do games w Day 442 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing

Congrats on beating Abzu! I can tell you appreciate detailed world-building and memorable character moments and that’s actually something I’ve been working on in my own fantasy/romantasy novel. If you ever feel like taking a break from games and diving into a new story I’d love to have your perspective as a beta reader. Here’s the link if you’re interested: storyoriginapp.com/…/fa6b74b0-01c8-4cd0-8f9f-d67d… Would be great to hear your thoughts especially since you pick up on all the little details.

MyNameIsAtticus,
@MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world avatar

It’s been a while since i read with my short attention span making it hard. I do appreciate fantasy and have a secret soft spot for romantasy in specific though, so i’ll have to take a look.

W3dd1e, do games w Xbox consoles are now getting a fullscreen Xbox Game Pass Ultimate ad at boot, just a day after a 50% price hike was announced

I used to get something like all the time, even when I already paid for Game Pass.

baines, do games w Xbox consoles are now getting a fullscreen Xbox Game Pass Ultimate ad at boot, just a day after a 50% price hike was announced

lmao imagine giving MA money in 2025

LuckingFurker,

I mean, I’ll give them some money to activate developer mode so I can install emulators on my Xbox. I don’t need emulators on my Xbox but it’s gonna sit there doing nothing otherwise because I’m not paying for Gamepass

SpaceNoodle,

Why? It doesn’t cost them anything to flip that bit on hardware that you own.

LuckingFurker,

If there’s a way to activate dev mode without paying them I don’t know about it

SpaceNoodle,

Sorry, my comment wasn’t clear. I’m just saying that it’s total bullshit that they would charge for that.

LuckingFurker,

I’m in full agreement there, but at least it’s a small one-off payment to just use it the way I want to rather than playing cat-and-mouse with hacks and software updates

mnemonicmonkeys,

Huh? Just get an old Dell optiplex tower on Ebay or Craigslist and install Batocera on it. It’d probably cost a similar amount

LuckingFurker,

I already own an Xbox, there’s no earthly way that buying an old anything would be cheaper than paying the small developer mode activation charge for the console I already have (bought second hand a few years ago from a friend who had used it 3 times)

eatCasserole,

I kinda wish I had a gamepass subscription so I could enjoy cancelling it, but alas, I’ve already cancelled everything.

AtariDump, do games w Xbox consoles are now getting a fullscreen Xbox Game Pass Ultimate ad at boot, just a day after a 50% price hike was announced

Surprised this isn’t like three verification cans.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/652a6cd4-8b4f-4db4-853e-2006b4654ac9.jpeg

Sunsofold, do gaming w What's the video game equivalent of fast food?

Almost the entire mobile game industry. Copiously available, cheap, hollow, dopamine hunting, etc.

JustARegularNerd, do games w Xbox consoles are now getting a fullscreen Xbox Game Pass Ultimate ad at boot, just a day after a 50% price hike was announced

…and they want to compete with the Steam Deck?

samus12345,
@samus12345@sh.itjust.works avatar

It’s nice to see the LCD Deck get discounted, if only to relive the old days when consoles got cheaper instead of more expensive as time went on. I almost wanted to buy another one out of principle, even though I don’t have use for more than one.

mic_check_one_two,

I lowkey considered getting a second SD, just to keep it plugged into my TV 24/7. I cart mine back and forth from work and home, and the minor inconvenience of packing it into my bag each morning had me considering a second purchase.

But then I remembered I’m fucking broke.

myfunnyaccountname, do games w Xbox consoles are now getting a fullscreen Xbox Game Pass Ultimate ad at boot, just a day after a 50% price hike was announced

I rarely boot up my Xbox anymore. Is it bad that I’m thinking about buying the games I already own on Xbox, on a different system just to avoid using the Xbox at all?

Edit to clarify

dellish,

If they’re single-player can’t you just disconnect from the internet? I haven’t turned on my xbox in 4 years. I remember the day clearly: I wanted to replay Call of Duty 4 and the xbox told me I had to buy the new Remastered version in order to play. Bitch I already paid for the game, why would I buy it again?? Turned off, never to be seen again.

mnemonicmonkeys,

Counterpoint: yar har fiddle dee dee

badbytes, do games w this level is amazing

IK, it was such a new game mechanic, really enjoyed getting caught in that level. Hide and seek.

nao, do games w Xbox consoles are now getting a fullscreen Xbox Game Pass Ultimate ad at boot, just a day after a 50% price hike was announced

Do you get this once or on every boot?

Fiivemacs,

who cares… it’ll always end up with more and more and more. stop giving any justification to companies for this bullshit. don’t even question it anymore, one ad is more then enough to throw the thing in the trash and never consider them a source of entertainment ever again.

nao,

Not justifying it, something that I paid for should not show ads. But there isn’t a current mainstream console that doesn’t have ads, so getting it once would still be better than getting it on every boot.

Fiivemacs,

getting it once and not pushing back, means you’ll get it twice… then three times… then anytime you boot. then anytime you load a game, then while you’re playing a game.

you’re being raped and justifying it because ‘it could be worse’

like you said, something you paid for should not show ads, yet it is…

skulblaka,
@skulblaka@sh.itjust.works avatar

My Steam Deck doesn’t serve me ads. Not even the on-boot sale pop up that desktop Steam gives.

CaptainBasculin,

its interface puts anything steam related to the top, so in a sense it is advertising itself.

Let’s say you’re planning to get Silksong. You could buy it off from GOG by switching to desktop mode, running Heroic, searching back the game and buy it. Alternatively you can just search it on Steam and buy there with no previous steps.

jjjalljs,

You can turn that one on desktop off, btw

MellowYellow13,

Shocking my SteamDeck and Linux PC give me zero ads.

psx_crab,

Very likely once…in a while, like that stupid fullscreen win11 ads on win10.

fuzzywombat, do games w Xbox consoles are now getting a fullscreen Xbox Game Pass Ultimate ad at boot, just a day after a 50% price hike was announced

50% price hike means Microsoft is basically betting that less than 1/3 of the current subscribers will cancel. Microsoft is also betting that some will not cancel but just downgrade to lower tier instead. If more than 2/3 of the subscriber remain a subscriber then Microsoft will come out ahead.

Baggie, do games w this level is amazing

Great set piece, mildly irritating execution

kosanovskiy, do games w Xbox consoles are now getting a fullscreen Xbox Game Pass Ultimate ad at boot, just a day after a 50% price hike was announced

Lol add on xbox. Is it possible to add a ad guard DNS to it block these like with Samsung tv?

datavoid,

There is no way an Xbox would continue to work after blocking MS servers

ohshit604,
@ohshit604@sh.itjust.works avatar

Depends on the host name, I’m sure there is a PiHole blocklist out in the wild but likely only targets telemetry.

ohshit604,
@ohshit604@sh.itjust.works avatar

If it connects to the internet, you can change the DNS to whatever you want it to be. If Tim over at Apple had his way I’m sure he’d force his ‘i’ devices to use a “Secure Apple DNS Pro™️” server.

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