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yesman, do games w What are your favorite games for killing nazis?

Red Dead Redemption 2.

OK hear me out.

Sure the game’s setting predates the Nazis and there are none to kill in the game. However, there is an entire inexhaustible faction of Confederates to murder. But even better than that, the game gives you several opportunities to stumble on a Klan meeting.

These encounters are special because they’re a sandbox for creative butchery and guiltless massacre. Even the game’s honor system looks the other way while you toss a gallon of liquor onto the burning cross, dousing the Grand Dragon and all his Cyclopses, sending them in a screeching panic, fully engulfed, off a nearby cliff just like that dude in Lord of the Rings.

Ferrous,
@Ferrous@lemmy.ml avatar

It also has that one dude on the street in saint denis who

minor side character spoileris pushing his eugenics book.

LaserTurboShark69,

I save my moltovs for that guy and his books

noxypaws,
@noxypaws@pawb.social avatar

I hogtied him in front of everyone, put him on the back of my horse, rode up to a swamp, and threw him in right in front of a gator

Good times

ObstreperousCanadian,
@ObstreperousCanadian@lemmy.ca avatar

Also, if you just watch them they accidentally light themselves on fire.

noxypaws,
@noxypaws@pawb.social avatar

Evey time I run into the RDR2 version of the KKK (Lemoyne Raiders?) I get so giddy and happy that I get the opportunity to find a new, creative, fun way to kill them all.

Probably favorite is to hogtie the ones I can keep alive, toss all the live and dead ones into a single pile, then light it on fire

Artyom,

Lemoyne Raiders aren’t the Klan. There’s actual klansmen too. You have to find them at night in the woods near Lemoyne, but they’re never associated with the raiders.

noxypaws,
@noxypaws@pawb.social avatar

I could have sworn I got some note off one of the hooded corpses that identified them as Raiders, and nothing actually using the actual KKK name, though it’s so obvious from the hoods and the cross that that’s exactly who they’re intended to be

Infernal_pizza,
@Infernal_pizza@lemm.ee avatar

SpoilerI love the part when you come across that old man who’s house etc has been repossessed and he wants you to go and retrieve some belongings. I initially I felt sorry for him so of course I went and did it, and then you find out he was a slave trader. I completed the quest anyway and liked the cut scene where Arthur just burns everything. Then before I rode away I shot him in the head and laughed when I saw it made my honour go up

noxypaws,
@noxypaws@pawb.social avatar

I loved the way that little discovery wrapped up. His body burned real good.

Eyck_of_denesle, do games w PEGI gives Balatro an 18+ rating for gambling imagery

Windows comes bundled with solitaire. How is it allowed in schools?

A_Union_of_Kobolds,

Give the kids Linux! Build a generation of superusers!

warmaster,

Supertux depicts imagery of speeding, misdemeanor and felony. +18 Age rating for Torvalds and all of his derivatives.

turbowafflz,

I think the current microsoft version of solitaire has microtransactions and ads so is actually significantly worse

vaultdweller013,

Why, how, the fuck do you add microtransactions to fucking solitaire?!

iAmTheTot,

It’s not really micro transactions as much as it is a monthly subscription to remove ads.

vaultdweller013,

Its fucking solitaire you can play the old version from windows 95 online for free. This is beyond fucking stupid.

iAmTheTot,

If that satisfies you then all the power to you.

FuzzyDog,

Real question, why wouldn’t the win95/xp version satisfy someone? Isn’t it the same thing with simpler graphics?

iAmTheTot,

I can’t speak for other people, I don’t even play solitaire. Realistically, I imagine most people get new PCs with newer Windows versions and play whatever solitaire is on there.

vaultdweller013,

Im a Utilitarian to a fault, of course I think the windows 95 version is just as valid. I wear everything down to scrap.

Zangoose,
@Zangoose@lemmy.world avatar

Step 1: Add ads into [insert app of choice here] that are really annoying

Step 2: Make people pay to get rid of them. Bonus points if it’s a subscription

Step 3: People hate your app but it’s the one that’s installed by default so they use it anyway

Step 4: Profit

vaultdweller013,

The fact that this business model earns moneu rather than car bombs annoys me.

RogueBanana,

They added micro transactions and ads to fucking solitaire? How have I not heard about this till now…

TriflingToad,

iirc it’s a subscription too

iAmTheTot,

This isn’t really new. Solitaire has had ads for over a decade now since Windows 8, and there is a monthly premium subscription to remove them. As I understand it they also don’t show during offline play, but might be wrong about that.

redhorsejacket,

Offline play? It’s SOLITAIRE. Offline play should be the ONLY play, by default.

Feeling like I took crazy pills this morning…

ggtdbz, (edited )

If it makes you feel better/worse, the subscription is shared across multiple games. I was playing a bunch of Microsoft Jigsaw at one point (don’t ask), and while you could play as much as you’d like for free, the fact that they squeezed ads into it to extort you (or more likely, clueless older people) really cheapened the whole thing.

They had a lot of pretty photos which were probably not free, but come on, this is Microsoft, they have the money. I think this should’ve been bundled with Windows for free. I truly think a lot of people might even look back on it fondly the way they do with a lot of the older bundled-in games. We will take for granted how much the default option with any sort of technology around us has an impact on us as kids. Maybe not everyone, but not everyone loved pinball or inkball.

Actual textbook enshittification: what was once a space for a nice default thing to fall back on if you were bored and had their operating system has now become an “opportunity” to “generate more business.” Very sad. Computers are impossibly wonderful machines, everyone who has access to one should be able to enjoy a few basic things, packed in, for free - with no strings attached (looking at you candy crush).

I’m sure there’s a nice free or paid jigsaw game made with love out there that could satisfy that itch I felt that one week in 2020. Hm.

Edit: I have now redownloaded Microsoft Jigsaw and might just expand this comment into a full post/rant about the state of modern consumer software through the lens of Microsoft’s current casual games suite

iAmTheTot,

There are daily challenges and things like that which is what I would refer to as online play. Not that crazy imho of you’ve put thousands of hours into vanilla solitaire that you may welcome something to spice it up.

RogueBanana,

Damn I have fond memories of those games back in xp and 7 era but ig enshitification is evitable when it comes to Microsoft

AwesomeLowlander,

You’re being funny, right? Tell me you’re just kidding

the_post_of_tom_joad,

I can’t see any news that you can ‘pay to remove ads’ but lots of “how do i remove ads in solitaire” with settings instructions or registry edits so i think op is only half right

AwesomeLowlander,

Jesus I’m so glad I moved to Linux

pixelscript,

I also don’t think it comes pre-installed anymore, you have to get it through Microsoft’s meme store that no one uses.

absquatulate,

MTX and ads? Then it’s clearly only 3+ and should be allowed lol

Maggoty,

Because you don’t place bets on your solitaire hand.

ech,

Maybe look into the game being discussed even a little before commenting on it.

Maggoty,

I did. I’m not going to go buy it for this though. They literally use poker terms, poker imagery, and real poker hands. Saying it’s just because there’s cards involved is disingenuous.

ech,

And yet you say it’s cause of “gambling”. So you’re either lying about looking into it or lying about what you saw.

Maggoty,

This is all on their steam page dude.

ech,

So lying about looking into it. Got it.

Overshoot2648,

You could use the same for majong or pachinko like games like Peggle. The issue is the actual gambling, not just the game elements or risk, reward, and points going up. Loot boxes are 10× worse.

Maggoty,

No, we know that stuff that glorifies addictive activities can recruit or cause relapse as well.

sundray, do gaming w This is spot on for so many games

Meanwhile, in Star Wars:

“This is Snow World. It’s all snow there. That is Wet World. The whole planet is wet. Over there is Sand World. Nothing but sand everywhere.”

carbonari_sandwich,

Behold Coruscant! The entire planet … is a city!

zyratoxx,
@zyratoxx@lemm.ee avatar

https://files.catbox.moe/em26db.png

Behold Umate

Coruscant’s tallest mountain and the only place where the planet’s surface is still visible.

lemmy_get_my_coat,

That’s some trivia I did not previously know, thank umate

Xenny,

You should watch Andor. It’s an actual good star wars show. Probably because it is mostly an original story in the star wars universe.

GraniteM,

I did not expect an absolutely savage takedown of capitalism in the middle of my Rogue One prequel. 10/10, would unionize my workplace.

lemmy_get_my_coat,

Absolutely loved Andor, the tension was so thick.

qarbone,

I mean, that is just a sci-fi concept. Ecumenopolis.

exu, do games w The UK Stop Killing Games petition has reached 100.000 signatures

Awesome! Now let’s get the EU one as well, much closer than before now. (840’000)

ipkpjersi,

5 minutes later and it’s 843k, almost 1k signatures per minute, not bad at all!

illi,
@illi@sh.itjust.works avatar

844k now. Wow. I wonder what caused the sudden surge? Or is it just that most momentum can be gain at the start and towards the end like with Kickstarters?

Essence_of_Meh,
@Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world avatar

After Ross announced the campaign is dead a bunch of YouTubers (and media, I think?) picked up the topic and started spreading the word far and wide. This is the result.

mnemonicmonkeys, (edited )

Here’s what bugs me: Why didn’t channels like GamerNexus and LTT cover the petition until after Louis declared it dead?

Essence_of_Meh,
@Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world avatar

That’s actually one of the most annoying parts about the whole thing. SKG campaign has been running for what, a year now? Barely anyone with an audience cared enough to even look into it, let alone spread the news. Now that things came close to failing suddenly everyone thinks it’s an important topic and scrambled to make videos/posts/whatever. I’d like to give them the benefit of the doubt but I just don’t have that in me any more…
We could’ve been in so much better place with awareness, petitions and general sentiment if people in the industry actually cared about these things from the start.

Better late than never, I guess. I just hope there’s enough time to push through the EU petition as well.

sp3ctr4l, (edited )

Well, there’s at least two aspects here:

Fucking Thor, PirateSoftware.

Up untill Ross posted his ‘SKG is dead’ video… Thor had by far gotten the most views of anyone with a video discussing SKG.

And Thor… well, he was anti-SKG, and had been spreading a bunch of objectively false bullshit about it, actual FUDD.

So… about half of Ross’s video was dedicated to pointing out how Thor was wildly misunderstanding things, and fairly graciously and politely trying to correct these misconceptions.

So here’s the two sort of things at play I see, in terms of 'why sudden surge now?'

  1. Thor was just shown to be objectively, factually wrong. Thus, the immediate effect of this would be to reiterate and clarify and reinforce with more specificity what SKG actually is… and that could directly convince people to give a damn, to believe in Ross’s SKG over Thor’s misunderstandings and mischaracterizations.

But uh, almost certainly much, much more relevant:

  1. Ross doing (1) created an absolute drama shit storm via the way youtube works now… which is very much just drama mongers and commentators reporting on e-drama. (1) kicked off an actual, organic, honest to god, truly viral explosion of many, many people who’d basically never heard of any of this before, mostly dogpiling on Thor for being such a disingenuous, egotistical asshole and liar, but also of course encouraging people to sign the SKG petition.

This kind of absurd, out of nowhere explosion of popularity of some topic, idea, meme, whatever, that spreads from person to person to person, from the ground up instead of top down… this is what something going ‘viral’ originally meant in the earlier days of the internet, 15 to 20 ish years ago.

You know, it spreads, from host to host, like a pandemic outbreak, shockingly rapidly.

These days we have everything hypermanaged by algorithms that silo you into your own content niche… and this was an exceptional enough of an event that it broke containment.

Videos like … this entire topic/event/story… used to be what the YouTube trending tab looked like… just totally random shit that for whatever reason, a bunch of people organically shared with each other, back when the algos were much, much more primitive.

Anyway… extremely ironically, a whole lot of the viral nature of this is due to Thor being just such an astoundingly massive piece of shit liar and manipulator.

He has a whole entire history of being astoundingly cocky, arrogant, dishonest, deceptive, intellectually inconsistent, rhetorically manipulative, etc, and it is genuienly… just astounding, i dont know what other word to use, to go through every single shitty thing Thor has done or said, not only in regards to SKG, but many, many other things Thor has done.

Basically, Thor is now a lolcow, a perfect person to milk by making content criticizing him, because he really is that much of an unbelievable, outrageuous idiot asshole.

seralth,

LTT likely because Linus is extremely out of touch. Like comically so.

Game nexus likely because Steve is more focused on other sectors of the industry. He’s a hardware and news guy more then a “gaming” channel in the strictest of sense. So it just very likely slipped his radar.

Dindonmasker,
@Dindonmasker@sh.itjust.works avatar

Piewdiepie made a community post yesterday supporting it and asking people to go sign if that has still something to do with it.

illi, (edited )
@illi@sh.itjust.works avatar

Well whatever it was it seems to be working. 876k now. Crossing fingers.

sip,

910k and going.

Deathray5,
@Deathray5@lemmynsfw.com avatar

He seems to be doing good stuff. Kinda giving whiplash

Kjell,
@Kjell@lemmy.world avatar

2 hours later and it’s 860k.

Damage,

2 more and it’s at 880k holy shit

tetris11,
@tetris11@lemmy.ml avatar

1hr more and its 890k

TheTetrapod,

900k

sip,

909k now. signed ✅

ChapulinColorado,

918k now. Not European, but you guys give me hope for the future :)

Deathray5,
@Deathray5@lemmynsfw.com avatar

924k yeah this could reach the 2 million mark

tetris11,
@tetris11@lemmy.ml avatar

944k!

Klear,

955k now

illi,
@illi@sh.itjust.works avatar

962k. Incredible

tetris11,
@tetris11@lemmy.ml avatar

978k

tetris11,
@tetris11@lemmy.ml avatar
sp3ctr4l,

This is fucking bonkers.

I ran the math a few days ago, before this absolutely blew the fuck up, and I came to:

We’d need 11k sigs per day until July 31st.

… We’re now apparently at more than double that and climbing exponentially.

Ho Lee Shit.

God DAMN has it been a while since I’ve seen something go actually, truly, organically viral.

ipkpjersi,

I’m just worried some of them are botted, especially now that we’re less than 100k away from 1m.

sp3ctr4l,

I mean, its not technically completely impossible, but the vast majority of EU countries require a valid name, id, address, etc, its usually a pretty dumb idea to bot spam an official government web portal, and I’m sure there will be a review process after July 31.

Also… its not like it hits a million and then just no one else can sign up to it anymore.

It’ll stay open till the end of the month, could easily breach a million, maybe even two million if anything like this insane rate keeps up.

Klear,

No need to do the math, this site has you covered: stopkillinggamestracker.pages.dev

Right now we need 1669 per day remaining, though that number is probably going ot be smaller by the time you click the link.

Worth noting that the actual target is somewhere above one million, since there’s probably some invalid signatures mixed in and the initiative needs a million even after these get removed. Still, it’s looking really good.

kazerniel, (edited )
@kazerniel@lemmy.world avatar
Klear,

It’s been like this for a while and the actual page where you sign the initiative is down right now apparently =D

Rhynoplaz, do games w Horse archers ruin every game they are in.

Repost. Stolen from an Asian news site in the 13th century.

UndercoverUlrikHD,
@UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev avatar

Which in turn reposted it from a Roman source

DragonTypeWyvern,

Fucking Parthian tryhards

hannesh93, do games w Stardew Valley 1.6 is Coming November 4th.
@hannesh93@feddit.org avatar

That guy legitimately made his hobby into his job.

There’s 0 reasons for him to still keep updating the game with as much content as he’s doing except for his own satisfaction. Truly the best developer a game can have

scrubbles, do games w Oblivion remake is... really making it apparent how outdated Bethesda is in its approach to making games
!deleted6348 avatar

Man the negativity. I’m so sick of gamers negativity. It’s not even a new game, it’s a remaster. you knew what the product was going to be. It’s oblivion. We all knew it was oblivion. If you don’t like oblivion, why did you buy it?!

I swear to God if they changed it too much I’d be commenting here on a post about how they had no respect for the original. Then we wonder why “they never listen to gamers”. Because we bitch and moan about everything.

Donebrach,
@Donebrach@lemmy.world avatar

Just musing on the fact that Bethesda doesn’t care about making games and instead just cashes in on nostalgia. I also think their finance bros realized their upcoming big IP drop is going to be an objective POS and wanted to prime people’s expectations by re-releasing a 20 year old game with some lipstick on it.

It would be neat if they hired some people who actually had innovative ideas about gameplay, visuals and stories to maybe make a neat new game within an existing or new IP, but they haven’t done that in literal decades so I think its pretty reasonable to not be incredibly excited about anything they are putting out or planning to put out in the future.

torrentialgrain,

Imagine if capital G Gamers actually enjoyed playing games instead of nonstop bitching on online forums.

Donebrach,
@Donebrach@lemmy.world avatar

the internet would fall silent.

prole,

As someone with no kids and a work/life balance that allows me to enjoy video games, I wonder how much of this vitriol comes from bitter millennials who are mad at the world because they don’t have time to play games anymore.

peregrin5, (edited )
@peregrin5@lemm.ee avatar

Nah. The millennials would need to play and beat the game and then come to online forums to bitch. We don’t have that amount of free time.

They are nearly always Zoomers and younger. (Or college kids and teenagers if I’m getting the generations wrong again)

prole,

Lol 9 times out of 10, they don’t actually play the games they whine about.

killeronthecorner,
@killeronthecorner@lemmy.world avatar

As a long time Bethesda game fan I agree with you on almost everything you’ve said about Bethesda… But the remaster is a terrible example of your points.

The remaster does exactly what it says on the tin and they’ve been very upfront about how it was made and why it was made in the launch video.

It’s hard to criticise them for cashing in on nostalgia when they’ve shown time and time again with Skyrim re-releases that do a fraction of what the Oblivion remaster does still sell like hot cakes.

Nostalgia is at the core of their business model. That’s why they march Skyrim’s corpse out every two years like clockwork; that’s why they picked Fallout for a new franchise after ES; that’s, frankly, likely why Starfield sucks so much.

halcyoncmdr,
@halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world avatar

It’s not even much of a remaster. They just slapped a coat of paint on it.

The Gamebryo/Creation Engine is still there running the game, it just uses Unreal 5 for the graphical elements. And they updated some of the levelling to work more like Skyrim, because the Oblivion system sucked in comparison.

It’s still the same 20 year old Oblivion under the hood.

Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but calling it a remaster is a bit disingenuous.

psx_crab,

What do you think “remaster” actually mean?

halcyoncmdr,
@halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world avatar

More than a coat of paint. They didn’t actually port the game to Unreal 5, they just used it to make the graphics look better. The modding community could have done this years ago if that’s all they wanted to do. Skyblivion is more of a remaster than this official one.

With all of the resources of the original development and sources, I expect more than the modding community is capable of.

psx_crab,

Emm, no. If you build something from the ground up it’s called remake.(Demon Souls, the Resident Evil series) Remastered is taking the old game and put on a fresh paint of coat and give it some modern QOL so it’s much more accessible today.

Skyblivion is closer to remake than remaster.

Also i feels like you misunderstand why people like this game.

halcyoncmdr,
@halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world avatar

If you’re fine paying $50-60 for what amounts to a community graphical overhaul mod that’s fine. I expect more from an actual developer with access to the source code.

A remaster should be releasing Oblivion with an updated engine and graphics, and bringing in some gameplay enhancements from newer games. Technically this meets those requirements, but only by the bare minimum and all of those can be achieved with community mods for free.

A remake would be completely abandoning the decrepit Gamebryo/Creation Engine that’s clearly dragging all of their games down now, and has been for over a decade, and actually giving us something that doesn’t feel like it came out 20+ years ago.

I love the Elder Scrolls, Oblivion is one of my favorite games of all time, and the only one I ever bothered to get every achievement for back on the 360. But I won’t accept a half assed remaster for nearly full price just because it’s what Bethesda wants to distract everyone from the fact that Elder Scrolls 6 isn’t coming out anytime soon and they couldn’t just release Skyrim for the 12th time.

Don’t accept paying for mediocre products just because you’re desperate for content.

sugar_in_your_tea,

The only real problem here is the price. It should’ve been more like $30.

psx_crab,

Ok.

overload,

You’re describing a remake, which isn’t what this remaster is. A remaster is literally what this is, just like Diablo 2 Resurrected a few years ago

MellowYellow13,

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    !deleted6348 avatar

    They literally had a hour long stream explaining what they did, and then you could have watched any of the thousands of twitch streams showing it. There was zero reason that you should have bought this if you thought this. I knew exactly what I was buying, seems like pretty much everyone did.

    You are describing a remake. A remaster is a fresh coat of paint. Todd Howard said verbatim “This is not a remake” and then talked about his reasons why. You’re going on like they lied to you when they literally said everything you just complained about, and then you still bought it.

    ThunderclapSasquatch,

    That’s literally what remaster are, a new coat of paint

    Zagorath,
    @Zagorath@aussie.zone avatar

    And they updated some of the levelling to work more like Skyrim, because the Oblivion system sucked in comparison

    Updated how exactly? Oblivion and Skyrim both have pretty serious flaws. I believe there are popular mods to fix the Oblivion system in a way that still feels like Oblivion, though it’s been a long time since I’ve read in to any of it.

    overload,

    100% agree. Pleasing Gamers™ is a Kafka trap.

    lloram239, do gaming w I don't want to "Press any key to continue" to the main menu

    Why is that there?

    It’s there due to the technical certification requirements of XBox. All games are required to become interactive after a set number of seconds. When you have a complex game with long loading times, that might be difficult. The load start screen works around that, it’s simple enough to load quickly and it is interactive, i.e. “Press any key to continue”. It’s not useful, but it fulfills the certification requirements, all loading time that follows or might happen in the background while that screen is shown, doesn’t count.

    It the same reason why you see so many games have the same “You’ll lose all your unsaved progress if you exit the game” screen, even in games that save so often to be a non-issue. It’s a certification requirement too. There is a whole bunch of stuff like this in games (and movies) that is not there because anybody wants it, but because some contract somewhere says it has to be there or you aren’t allowed to publish your game (see also the way names in movie posters never line up with the people on that poster).

    PS: This has been around since at least the Xbox360s, don’t know what Sony requires or how Microsoft might have updated their requirements since then.

    bionicjoey,

    God I wish they wouldn’t try to adhere to these awful requirements in PC games.

    ampersandrew,
    @ampersandrew@kbin.social avatar

    If you have a particularly slow PC, this screen would be good feedback that it hasn't crashed while booting the game. It also keeps the game consistent across platforms.

    all-knight-party,
    @all-knight-party@kbin.cafe avatar

    Yeah, they're not gonna do all that stuff for cert and then go "now let's remake our whole intro sequence to be more convenient!", I don't think devs typically have that much free time

    bionicjoey,

    It wouldn’t be that hard. Devs already have to make all sorts of adjustments for different platforms

    Lowbird,

    Getting rid of that screen would be a negligible improvement and also might mean getting rid of any unique art that some may indeed want to see.

    stephen01king,

    And they are better off using their time to do those improvements rather than something inconsequential like removing the press to start screen.

    TwilightVulpine,

    The save warning is helpful for kids who don't get how game saves work yet.

    lloram239,

    The problem is that the majority of games do not tell you what you are actually losing or how to prevent it. Do you lose the last five seconds or do you go right back to the beginning of the game? How far away is the next save point? Games don’t tell you. You have to try to find out. There are a few smart games that will tell you “2min since your last save”, but they are pretty rare.

    And of course in modern times that screen is rather unnecessary to begin with: Just save the damn game and let me continue were I left of. Xbox has QuickResume, but a lot of other platforms still have nothing like it.

    TwilightVulpine,

    Seems pretty common in games with auto saves that they will show a little icon whenever they are doing it.

    Lowbird,

    It’s usually a really subtle and easy to miss icon though, especially in a game that otherwise demands all your attention.

    Zalack,
    @Zalack@startrek.website avatar

    IMO it’s a good feature and it’s a good thing it’s required. I remember the days when I would boot up a game and never be sure if my system crashed or not.

    This requires the game to start giving you feedback before you start wondering if you should do a power cycle.

    towerful,

    I mean, better loading feedback would be better than an arbitrary “interactive within 1 second” blanket rule, leading to this whole “press button to continue” workaround.

    That’s like a generator needing an earth rod, and the engineer putting an earth rod into a plant pot. Sure, the earth rod is there, and sunk to regulated depth in dirt… but it’s a plant pot.
    Just make an accurate loading screen with accurate feedback.

    Zalack,
    @Zalack@startrek.website avatar

    Imo that’s still not enough. Plenty of crashes or failures happen in a way where loading screen animations still keep playing. Having a cursor you can move around to validate that the process is still responsive is important feedback.

    I also remember lots of games that did exactly what you are saying and there was no way to tell if it had hung during loading or not because you couldn’t check if it was accepting feedback.

    DaSaw,

    Neither of these things can be true, because they’ve been around since long before Microsoft got into the console game. I’m pretty sure Atari 2600 games had that prompt. I know NES games did.

    lloram239,

    blog.csdn.net/baozi3026/article/details/4272761

    TCR # 003 BAS Initial Interactive State

    Requirement

    Games must enter an interactive state that accepts player input within 20 seconds after the initial start-up sequence. If an animation or cinematic shown during the start-up sequence runs longer than 20 seconds, it must be skippable using the START button.

    What earlier games were doing was very similar, but was done for different reasons. Arcade games had an attract mode that would show gameplay or intro cutscenes in a loop when the device wasn’t in active use and had an “Insert Coin” flashing to attract players. The normal game would only started once coin got inserted into the arcade machine. Early console games had that attract mode too, just “insert coin” replaced with a “press start”.

    What makes the modern start screen different is that there is often no cutscene to skip, no gameplay to watch, it’s just a pointless screen before you go to the main menu.

    DaSaw,

    Wouldn’t just going straight to the main menu qualify as an “interactive state that accepts player input within 20 seconds”?

    lloram239,

    Yes, but you’d have to get there in 20sec first, which in case of very elaborate main menus, might not always be the case. The start screen provides a safety buffer so that you never fail at this certification criteria, as all the loading time after the start screen doesn’t count.

    Fenix,
    @Fenix@feddit.de avatar

    TIL

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

    That. The content of the screenshot you posted. That is what’s going on.

    Kolanaki, do games w Skill issue
    @Kolanaki@pawb.social avatar

    I never understood this mentality, myself.

    Gamers: “I never get laid… 😩”

    Also Gamers: “Women are just kitchen accessories.”

    Worx,

    I can buy a new toaster from the shop, why can’t I buy a woman too? Does this mean Gamers are pro sex-work? Or pro indentured servitude for women more likely…

    Delphia,

    You cant pirate pussy, and we all know how gamers feel about subscription models.

    melpomenesclevage, (edited )

    my inner engineer wants to challenge this: I know there’s a dildo company that does tours, and at least copies penises and vulvae of customers as a souveneir, im sure there are things that copy at least he surface of the vaginal canal if you want to be completionist. maybe with the right kind of 3d printer it could be done? not sure, haven’t really worked with nylon materials.

    Delphia,

    “yOu WoUlDnT dOwNlOaD a cUnT.”

    melpomenesclevage,

    genuinely do not give a shit if you download mine.

    kind of concerned with how it was ever digitized in the first place, but, like, once it is, you have my blessing. or curse I guess. whichever.

    Chocobofangirl,
    @Chocobofangirl@lemmy.world avatar

    Nylon? I would think this would be a ‘print the moulds we use to pour in silicone’ situation, if we’re going for usability. formlabs.com/blog/casting-silicone-guide/ On an engineering note I’m also sure I’ve seen this exact thing before, but I wonder what would improve it. Self-heating? DIY solution could be a hidden pocket for reusable handwarmers lol

    melpomenesclevage,

    yeah I was just kind of riffing, assuming nobody wanted to really melt down silicone in their home.

    Artyom,

    You might have a career as a Halo 3 e-sports pro then!

    GeneralEmergency,

    G*mers aren’t known for being smart.

    melpomenesclevage,

    yeah. all your free time is conclusions being handed to you and the illusion of agency.

    and it’s not like everyone’s sitting around playing shit like ‘disco elysium’ all day.

    GladiusB,
    @GladiusB@lemmy.world avatar

    I understand it, but I don’t think it applies.

    Gamers tend to think of things as quests. A box to check off. A completionist. Getting married and having kids is part of life’s quests for many people. It’s not seen as collaboration in many ways.

    andros_rex,

    How does romance work in most video games? Select the correct dialogue options, memorize the correct answer to questions, give them the same gift every day?

    The other main way a lot of young men “interact” with women is through porn, which is always made with a mind to what a woman would enjoy during sex…/s

    pyre,

    because you think of “I never get laid” as a normal human need to connect with another person, which is what it is but they’re too deep in misogyny to realize it. instead to them getting laid is a quest to complete and it involves a quest item known as a woman, not a character. so I never get laid has less of an undertone of “why can’t I connect with a woman” and more of “when will we get our government mandated sex slaves”

    Davel23, do gaming w Rant: Valve's new Steam Deck screws speak volumes about their ethos.

    Valve is possibly the closest thing to a non-evil company in the world today.

    ivanafterall,

    This is why Gabe is my billionaire of choice in the forthcoming billionaire mercenary wars.

    bear,

    When the corporation wars start over the remaining arable land and drinkable water, I’ll be joining the Steam Corps

    andrew,
    @andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun avatar

    Maybe this is going to be the real Half Life 3. You thought it was scary in VR? Get ready for IRL.

    picnicolas, (edited )

    I had to stop playing Half Life Alyx when it got to the dark flashlight bit with zombies jumping out at you. Nearly gave me a heart attack. Definitely couldn’t handle it IRL. edit: autocorrect

    andrew,
    @andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun avatar

    Yeah I definitely took breaks and actually just never went back after a certain point. Not because it was too intense directly, but one of my breaks, I just never went back.

    picnicolas,

    Same. I was planning to but never did and that was years ago. Hoping to set up the old vive again soon.

    HeartyBeast,
    @HeartyBeast@kbin.social avatar

    Yeh, you say that. But you know they finished Half Life 4 about 2 years ago and are holding it back on purpose

    YMS,
    @YMS@kbin.social avatar

    Mostly because they have to wait for Half-Life 3 in order not to confuse the customers.

    HeartyBeast,
    @HeartyBeast@kbin.social avatar

    That’s been in the warehouse for 10 years.

    All_Your_Base,
    @All_Your_Base@feddit.cl avatar

    One of the benefits of not going public, I guess

    SnotFlickerman,
    @SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

    But it only works as long as the replacement for Gabe Newell has the exact same ethos about the business. Changing hands always risks changing how things function at a company. Unless Newell has been practically grooming a successor for years, it’s very likely that a replacement will want to “shake things up.”

    When Newell retires/passes, things will change. Time will tell if it will be for the better or the worse.

    Fubarberry,
    @Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz avatar

    Unless Newell has been practically grooming a successor for years

    Supposedly he’s doing this with his son. Only time will tell though.

    theangriestbird,

    Great, the Kendall Roy of Valve

    antrosapien,

    How much time do we have?

    SnotFlickerman,
    @SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

    Well he’s 61, and the average life expectancy for males in the US is 73ish. He is well-to-do, so he likely has better access to healthcare than most, meaning he will be one of those who lives past 73. I’d suspect we have twenty years at best, but more likely about 10 years if he retires at a “reasonable” age.

    Sentau,

    Unfortunately gabe is also overweight and hence has the health risks associated with being overweight. So him only living till the average age has a higher possibility.

    Phen,

    Not exactly. Of course Gabe could be replaced by some idiot who fucks everything up, but if Valve doesn’t become publicly traded it will continue to be in the best interest of whoever ends up owning it to continue doing things this way. Gabe doesn’t do good things just because. He does it because happy customers means more money in the long run.

    Publicly traded companies on the other hand need to extract as much money as quickly as possible and have no regards to what will happen to it a few months later. So even if Gabe dies, all Valve needs is a leader interested in what’s best for itself.

    erwan,

    Private companies owned by institutional investors are no better.

    The real difference is the the founder still own the company.

    SnotFlickerman,
    @SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

    When GabeN dies, shit gonna hit the fan.

    Davel23,

    It's my understanding that Gabe's son is being prepped to take over when the time comes. Hopefully he shares his father's values.

    SnotFlickerman, (edited )
    @SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

    Dear God. Because Nepotism has worked out so well so many times in the past. /s

    Just shut down the company now, Gabe.

    From an interview with his son:

    “If it’s one thing I’d like to see Valve do, it’s push it with more their ideas,” he said. "The people there are the smartest I’ve ever met, the hardest working, the most inspiring. The culture at Valve is a very good one but they’ve kind of found this point where they’re a working machine. And that’s good, but I think they should reach out and do something scary. Do something that they don’t know what the outcome is going to be.

    They make incredibly smart decisions, but sometimes you have to do something stupid. Sometimes you have to have a stupid crazy idea and say ‘fuck it’, go with it. Valve has a mindbogglingly enormous amount of resources at their back, and I hope they find the courage to throw it at something new. I want to see them push the envelope again.”

    Yeah this chucklefuck is going to break shit day one, guaranteed.

    Cavemanfreak,

    Eh, it sounds more like he wants then to go back to the roots and developer a groundbreaking game, like Portal, or HL2, again. Which doesn’t sound like a bad thing. To do something groundbreaking it probably helps if you dare to do something that is scary.

    SnotFlickerman,
    @SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

    They literally already did that with the SteamDeck, it’s absolutely groundbreaking. They created a whole new product category, but it took years of planning and patience and watching the market. It happened with prototypes like the Steam Controller, the Steam Link, and the original vision for Steam Boxes, as well as the nearly decade of work they’ve done on Proton to get Windows games to run well in Linux. It didn’t happen with a “stupid crazy idea” that they said “fuck it, go with it.” It started with a smart idea, well executed, over a long period of time, with many bumps in the road on the way to success.

    Steam Boxes were originally announced in 2012, this is the result of a full decade of work.

    averyminya,

    Unrelated: do you know a hot saucerman or are there 4 fans of this random show-cast?

    SnotFlickerman,
    @SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

    Everyone loves Scotty Auks, doncha know?

    argv_minus_one,

    @SnotFlickerman @Cavemanfreak

    And one hell of a lot of work, too! Reimplementing the Windows APIs that Wine didn't already have, and then optimizing those implementations enough to be not only sufficient for some of the most performance-sensitive software under the sun but faster than actual Windows, is no small feat.

    SnotFlickerman,
    @SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

    I wonder how much of Newell’s past at Microsoft helped with that? He helped produce the first three versions of Windows.

    While Windows works wildly differently these days and the last one he worked on was Windows 3.0 (maybe 3.1?) and a massive amount of stuff has changed in how Operating Systems work since then.

    However, I do wonder if his familiarity with the old systems helped at all.

    Cavemanfreak,

    Yeah, you are correct, and that’s why I think he was talking about games specifically. That’s a grade A assumption from me though (and a bit of hopium?)

    tricoro,

    People here are so scared of bad things happening that they can’t even imagine that something good might happen.

    Crotaro, (edited )

    So SteamDeck, Valve Index and pushing back against the short-term money maker that was NFTs until half a year or so, among other things, aren’t scary enough projects when you’re “just” a game developer and distributor?

    K0W4LSK1,
    @K0W4LSK1@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

    Hope is the word that scares me here

    lea,

    I love their approach to Hardware and Linux but have we collectively forgotten that Valve had a huge part in pushing loot boxes and underage gambling? Far from being the least evil company, but still a net win for consumers and I appreciate that they exist.

    Plume,

    And you wanna know why? :)

    divulgâcheIt’s because they’re not public. So investors can’t ruin everything like they always do.

    megopie,

    More specifically “private equity” investors who are gradually looting the US economy.

    krimson, do games w Thank you, Thor! 🥳
    @krimson@lemmy.world avatar

    I watch this dude sometimes, he says he’s a fulltime game dev but all I see him do is play other games. The game he works on has seen very little progress.

    Would be nice if he at least admits he’s a streamer and not a game dev.

    Lemminary,

    I’ve also noticed this from watching his stream and the more I learn about the guy the less I like him. He seems to misrepresent and oversell himself quite a bit.

    Btw did he tell you about the time he worked at Blizzard, for the millionth time?

    JoYo,
    @JoYo@lemmy.ml avatar

    The job he got through nepotism?

    echodot,

    He worked at Blizzard in the same way that Apple store employees work for Apple. They do, but not in the capacity that’s been implied.

    whats_all_this_then,

    Are Apple devs even contractually allowed to say that they’re Apple devs? I swear every employee from every other company won’t shut up about it on twitter but you never hear a thing from Apple people. Have I just been missing them completely?

    echodot,

    I know a few people who used to work for Apple. The reason a lot don’t say it though is because if you do people automatically assume you had something to do with whatever feature they don’t personally like, and you get berated about it.

    whats_all_this_then,

    Ah, that’s completely understandable. Most people don’t realize that in a lot of companies, the decision to make the stupid feature/break your workflow comes from a suit 10 pay grades above your level and despite everyone involved trying to explain that it’s a bad idea.

    Also it’s a big fucking company haha

    e8d79,
    @e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

    Sounds an awful lot like what YandereDev did when he was still relevant.

    burgerpocalyse,

    yanderedev is always relevant

    ICastFist,
    @ICastFist@programming.dev avatar

    One of the best cautionary tales for developers

    DreamlandLividity,

    No joke, YandereDev has been making more progress than Thor on Hartbound and he at least does not pretend to be experienced Blizzard game developer.

    frenchfryenjoyer,
    @frenchfryenjoyer@lemmings.world avatar

    I remember seeing gameplay of Heartbound in like 2017? maybe earlier. it’s still not finished?

    chronicledmonocle,

    No it’s not. It’s sad.

    MITM0, (edited )
    @MITM0@lemmy.world avatar

    I mean isn’t it a Deltarune ripoff ??

    EDIT: Undertale it is then

    dustyData,

    Deltarune didn’t exist yet. It’s an undertale ripoff.

    Which is very telling, tobyfox released a whole game on his own. While this " I worked at blizzard, BTW" tool hasn’t with an (allegedly) entire company around him. He’s a grifter, he scams people around him to profit off of other’s work. That’s all he does.

    chronicledmonocle,

    Given that it didn’t exist yet, more like an Undertale rip off

    underscores,

    “game dev” is a way to put it

    Randomgal,

    Yeah but did you know he worked at Blizzard?

    kadaverin0,

    He’s been working on that game for almost a decade now, too.

    AmbiguousProps, do games w We did it! 🥳
    @AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today avatar

    Awesome! Keep signing though, some signatures will fail to validate so there should be as many as possible.

    Blackout, do games w Why do Counterstrike and the other top 10 games on Steam NEVER change?
    @Blackout@fedia.io avatar

    I'm in my 40s and I've been playing counterstrike since I was in my 20s. I play other games briefly but anytime i'm bored I still hop on CS. It's a habit like checking your locks 3 times or taking your clothes off to poop

    JusticeForPorygon,
    @JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world avatar

    Buddy… What?

    Asafum,

    They’re just referring to normal habits we all do like checking your oven for the family of mice you let live there before leaving for work or brushing your teeth one tooth at a time while watching the Flintstones in a language you don’t understand. We all do it.

    vonxylofon,

    You don’t have a poop knife?

    Tramort,

    That’s a reddit thing.

    There are no poop knives in the fediverse

    vonxylofon,

    Poop dessert fork will have to do, then.

    OopsAllTwix,

    That’s disgusting. I only have a toe knife.

    WalnutLum,

    Yea like moving all the food on the top shelf of your fridge to the bottom and moving everything up shelf by shelf every morning or making sure you vacuum your walls properly. Standard stuff.

    deepfriedchril,

    Gotta make sure everything is locked, helps with pooping.

    Krackalot,

    I don’t know about every time, but I’ve had an intestinal blockage. Everything came off. I was sweating and crying for what felt like hours. Pooping was the best feeling I’ve ever had at that moment.

    pixeltree,
    @pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

    Been there, though I just took a couple hours in the shower with the enema wand set to “pressure wash”

    meco03211,

    While I don’t fully disrobe, the freedom of pulling one leg out of my pants is amazing. You can get a nice spread going for those times you need to bear down a bit.

    CrayonRosary,

    It’s a habit like licking the bottom of your shoes when you get home.

    MrHandyMan,

    The older I get, the less I want to learn new competitive games because I just don’t have time anymore. It’s just nice to go back to something familiar every now and then.

    metaStatic, do gaming w What game mechanics do you love and hate?

    FUCK. THE. ALWAYS. ONLINE. PARADIGM.

    MJBrune,

    Not truly a game mechanic but I love the passion against GAAS.

    teawrecks,

    Does this include cloud streamed games? I for one am still waiting for a streaming exclusive game in the vein of Elden Ring or BotW. Bonus if it’s an MMO. Imagine how much more mysterious a world could be if no one is able to datamine the binary. The only way to discover things would be players actually discovering them.

    MJBrune,

    Eh. I would say that they are still mysterious and interesting if you don’t look at the information on a website saying what’s in the game or not. So yeah, I don’t really like what cloud gaming is doing. If you want to keep the mystery of a universe, have some self-control.

    teawrecks,

    I’m not saying “for each player, they are able to experience a sense of wonder in a game when played in isolation”, that’s old hat. I’m saying “for all players, everyone experiences a shared sense of wonder and discovery in an artificial world they live in together”.

    I’ve never played Elden Ring, yet I couldn’t help but see the community make new discoveries together. The first couple of days every post was about Margit, then a few people found the fake wall that hides an entire zone, and a month later someone has reverse engineered the levels and found a wall that takes over 1000 hits to get rid of.

    When the binary is entirely hidden from the users, and the only thing the users have have access to is a window peering into the world as you want them to see it, you get to create an entire set of physical laws that is hidden from the players. Players have to work together to conduct experiments, peer review each other, compete with each other, and become experts in very narrow fields of research within your simulation. Imagine spending months as a community raising in-game funding and developing the technology to sail/fly/launch to a New World for the first time, and when you finally arrive you know you are the first set of players to ever see it, specifically as a result of your efforts.

    What you’re describing is a neat little one-off escape room experience. What I’m describing is an actual world. We currently cannot do this.

    TeryVeneno,

    While this is a cool concept, I don’t think there is a single organization with the money needed to pull it off that wouldn’t also ruin the concept with monetization features. Maybe some kind of community made game could accomplish it, similar to what the Thrive devs are doing, but the amount of consistent resources needed would be a lot.

    teawrecks,

    Yeah, that’s why I think we’re in an MMO slump right now. The only companies who can afford the scale “need” it to be a cash cow. So they need really predictable methods of generating income, which means not doing anything too interesting. I’m hoping one day we’ll get past that. I think we have the technology right now for indie devs to roll out a semi-affordable MMO of decent quality, but I also don’t want the market to be flooded with garbage MMOs. We already have too many of those.

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