EncryptKeeper

EncryptKeeper, 2 dni temu

I’m struggling to wrap my head around how a controller without two joysticks is supposed to word in the year of our lord 2025

EncryptKeeper, 2 dni temu

That’s sounds truly awful lol

EncryptKeeper, 7 dni temu

Yes the needs of your very special child are so unfathomably different from all the other children in the planet lol

EncryptKeeper, 14 dni temu

I mean, big YouTubers like Charlie and others covering Thor’s bullshit is what drove this huge spike in signatures so maybe we should be thanking Thor lol

EncryptKeeper, 14 dni temu

I’ve been served PirateSoftware’s shorts long before all this controversy and it always bugged me how confidently wrong he was about systems and network things. He seems to be under the impression that he understands these things on an advanced level due to his experience as a checks notes QA tester for Blizzard, and a… indie software developer lol.

All this backlash against him is so vindicating.

EncryptKeeper, 14 dni temu

youtu.be/GuTp4Am51i0

There’s a group with a petition to “Stop Killing Games” which seeks to legally remedy the issue of game developers making games that are later turned off and left unplayable even in the case of them being single player.

Thor of PirateSoftware owns a development outfit that makes indie games and he also does a lot of streams. He’s against Stop Killing Games, but doesn’t seem to even understand it, and has publicly spoke out against it, going so far as to spread misinformation about it.

EncryptKeeper, 15 dni temu

I remember being the lone voice against GamePass and Microsoft buying up all these studios. These idiots kept saying “It’s pro consumer bro! The more studios they buy the better the GamePass value gets bro!” “So many games for one low monthly price! Let’s see greedy Sony do that!”

As if they didn’t live in the same world where Netflix exists. We’ve already seen this bro, it’s a classic. Yeah man it’s great deal now while they desperately need your buy-in. But a few short years later and very predictably we get nothing but layoffs, award winning studios shuttered for no reason, formerly third party games becoming exclusive etc.

I’m no corporate simp for Sony or any other corp out there by any means. But the Microsoft grift was so blatantly, obviously an unsustainable market grab that would inevitably go south and make the industry worse for all of us.

EncryptKeeper, 14 dni temu

What about the 92 metacritic score and the vast majority of reviews calling it “better than the first game in every way” makes it look like a 5/10 for you?

EncryptKeeper, 14 dni temu

The first game is a ton of fun. And seems to have been an 8/10 game. This one is evidently more so and is a 9/10 game. How you get 5/10 from that I’ll never know.

I think the DS games are just not for you.

EncryptKeeper, 22 dni temu

Kojima is only getting weirder.

EncryptKeeper, miesiąc temu

Is the different from the last co-op mode with Stone and Knight?

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I feel like I should give this game a try but the awful name “Lied of P” is so bad it turns me off the game so hard lol.

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It’s also the game they’re giving away with purchases of the 50 series Nvidia cards.

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It didn’t used to be like that and they actually mentioned in the deep dive that they’re getting back to the way it was before. Like the point of the game is loot goblining, but they’ve promised not to inundate the player with legendary weapons every twelve seconds so that you actually have time to savor the weapons you get between good drops.

EncryptKeeper, miesiąc temu

Taking a traumatic, devastating, and most of all very personal health event like a miscarriage that your girlfriend went through and hand drawing it in a cartoon style to post on your public “Funny haha” gamer douche web comic is generally considered a dick move.

Some further context is that the author Tim Buckley was generally pretty despised at the time and considered a huge dick. The comic itself IIRC was full of that turn of the century gamer douche “haha women bad” type comedy. So the posting of that comic was not only like a comically huge tonal shift but almost felt like him trying to somehow appear more sensitive and likeable.

EncryptKeeper, miesiąc temu

Well, it was more like putting his college girlfriend’s life experience into his work, and then making the work about him. You’ll notice he’s in 3 of the four panels and she’s in one. Where he appears as the empathetic and caring boyfriend, while she is the one grieving.

Making the comic into a meme is disrespectful to him, but not the girl, since she’s such a small part of it, and we don’t even know who she is since it’s a fictional character taking her place in the comic.

EncryptKeeper, miesiąc temu

A genuine expression of how he felt about an event that had happened years prior? I guess that’s possible, although an odd choice. And out of character for him to boot.

As for his tools, his tools were his ability to draw. He probably could have drawn something to express his feelings that didn’t involve his funny haha web comic characters and it would have been far less weird.

EncryptKeeper, miesiąc temu (edited miesiąc temu)

You are giving the author a whole lot of benefit of the doubt that he hasn’t earned. You’re looking at this through the lens of a guy using his art to express his feelings of grief. Thats certain what he wants you to think, and if that’s what it was, it wouldn’t be so bad. But that’s not what it is. I mean for gods sake a couple comics later the female character crying on the hospital bed in the fourth panel apologizes to his self-insert for having the miscarriage. If that’s the type of guy you empathize with I don’t know what to tell you other than YIKES pal.

This is just a comic made by a notorious and blatant narcissist who dug up the traumatic experience of someone else from his past in an effort to be taken more seriously because his comics were regularly mocked as a poorly made ripoff of another popular comic at the time. If bullying a bad person is immoral then hey maybe you’re right. I’m not really prepared to have that philosophical debate at this time lol.

EncryptKeeper, miesiąc temu

Whoever he was 17 years ago is very likely not who he is today.

Surely whatever he learned from that experience has been learned, and we can move on.

Ok well you keep all that learning and growing in mind while you take a look at this comic that the artist uploaded to his site a few short years ago on one of the anniversaries of the original comic.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/255aa135-a0e0-4498-a342-c22efcea2500.jpeg

EncryptKeeper, miesiąc temu

Lmao “relentlessly bullied”. Well you are free to hold your candle for the guy if you want to. Good luck in your pursuit of getting people to stop posting loss memes I guess.

EncryptKeeper, miesiąc temu

There’s an app called Active911 used by first responders like EMS and firemen to receive dispatch pages in lieu of a physical digital pager, and as far back as I can remember one of the selectable alert tones alongside various beep patterns, horns, and klaxons, was a recording of Leeroy Jenkins’ famous yell lmao

EncryptKeeper, 2 miesiące temu

I mean sure but we could all just do that with everything and we wouldn’t need Lemmy at all lmao

EncryptKeeper, 2 miesiące temu

No, you’re thinking of Medal of Honor Allied Assault.

This is the PS1 game.

EncryptKeeper, 2 miesiące temu

Does the Steam deck have a PS1 emulator?

EncryptKeeper, 2 miesiące temu

Naw, this and the PC were different.

EncryptKeeper, 2 miesiące temu

It’s either my guy.

EncryptKeeper, 2 miesiące temu

Not sure where you’re coming from. Stardew Valley was completed years ago and the guy has actually kept releasing free content updates nobody even asked for. People are actually getting annoyed at him for continuing to update it since he’s supposed to be working on his next game.

EncryptKeeper, 2 miesiące temu

It’s never happened. No idea what that fella is smoking

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Mobile app Revolt is nice, but doesn’t support servers that aren’t the main one yet last I tried.

EncryptKeeper, 2 miesiące temu

Also the First Ace Attorney fucking slaps and has the best sound track by far. Their “Flop” was an incredible game.

EncryptKeeper, 2 miesiące temu

I can only guess you’re referring to the “Cornered” pursuit theme that plays when you’ve really starting catching out the current witness in all their lies. Everybody has their favorite version from whatever game but yo me, nothing surpasses the first one.

EncryptKeeper, 2 miesiące temu

Devastating

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Civ 6 has two DLCs.

EncryptKeeper, 2 miesiące temu

Hearts of Iron IV. It’s a grand strategy but War is the whole point.

EncryptKeeper, 3 miesiące temu

This is true, but one thing I noticed with AC Shadows is that there were a LOT of no-name streamers posting reels with fake hype over the game. It was a little egregious and came off as more than a little desperate.

EncryptKeeper, 3 miesiące temu

Generally speaking, algorithms on these sites don’t serve me a ton of videos with no views from creators with no followers, en masse. With AC shadows, I was suddenly inundated with these videos, on multiple sites, without ever having looked anything up about it, exclusively by streamers that nobody is watching.

EncryptKeeper, 3 miesiące temu (edited 3 miesiące temu)

I am an absolute die hard Hitman fan. I’ve played all of them. Replayed the whole series last year. Blood money was a better sandbox by far than the previous games. And it’s still a blast to go back and play just for the nostalgia and the vibes. But the people who insist today that it’s better than the World of Assassination trilogy are smoking crack. Not only that, but in some ways Blood Money was a big downgrade from the previous games. Hitman 3 in its current state today incorporates all the best things about Blood Money, the games that came before it, the game came after it, while cutting out the negatives.

The biggest problem with Blood Money for me was that it trivialized all challenge the game could have had by making disguises perfect and infallible. In the games that came before, having the right disguise only working from a distance, and get this: you actually had to act natural. You could just sprint between two armed guards, brushing both of their shoulders with a huge machine gun out as you passed by. In Blood Money disguises were simply an indicator of which rooms you were allowed to be in, and if you got a good enough disguise you could just be in all of them.

In WoA they fixed this without making you have to walk everywhere via the enforcer system, and better level design with tiered guards. Finding a disguise for the highest level guards let you go anywhere you want, but there would be more enforcers for you to have to avoid. Where’s more niche disguises that would reasonably make sense for nobody to recognize you were much better for moving around unabated.

EncryptKeeper, 3 miesiące temu

I don’t know about that one. Games are expensive these days and if your game releases anywhere near the rumored $100 GTA 6, a LOT of people are going to have to choose one or the other, and it’s very unlikely that in most cases they don’t choose GTA6, literally the most anticipated video game of the last decade. Sure you can always buy the smaller game later, but a huge part of the sales of video games is the opening week, when all the hype around it has had time to come to a head, and you’re influenced by the fact that lots of other people are playing it.

Yeah good games will always sell SOME copies. But if you thinking that a game even releasing in the same month as GTA6 won’t have a permanent impact on that games sales, you’re smoking the reefer.

EncryptKeeper, 3 miesiące temu

They aren’t crowding into those windows because competition helps their sales, it’s because they expect the biggest shopping period of the year will result in more sales than they lose. And there’s a reason only the biggest titles release in these windows.

Capcom made the decision years ago to release in February/March because they know a November window will drown them.

EncryptKeeper, 3 miesiące temu

It’s the exact same thing actually. Their claim was:

Good games will sell regardless of what’s out

But that’s just not true, and game studios of all sizes know that. The risk aversion of these companies exist because of the reality of the situation.

It also has nothing to do with a studios confidence in their game. The quality of a game is light years away from being the sole objective indicator of a games sales. The Outer Wilds is objectively one of the greatest games ever made and has no real peers in what it does. And yet it didn’t make nearly the sales numbers as the latest asset flipped Call of Duty game.

EncryptKeeper, 3 miesiące temu

A good solo game might take a hit to its initial sales but should recover in the long run.

It won’t though. This feel-good theory that if a game is “good” then it’ll just make the same amount of money it always would have otherwise is not supported by any real world evidence. And even the most hypothetically high quality, ethical, game making company is still a company in the end, and companies need to money to pay living wages and keep people employed making new games. And if the games they are putting out are high quality, they probably have competent leadership. And competent leadership isn’t going to gamble the future of their company and livelihoods of their employees on an unproven feel-good fantasy espoused only by people on Reddit and Lemmy who’ve never run a business before.

EncryptKeeper, 3 miesiące temu

That’s just not how these things work. Launch windows have a documented history of being uniquely impactful to the long term success of games, movies, even products. It would take some serious evidence to the contrary for you to claim otherwise.

Also if an (already established) company’s future is jeopardized by a single game not doing well, I’m sorry but it’s not well managed. Ask me how I know.

That’s not really here nor there. It also isn’t really true.

EncryptKeeper, 3 miesiące temu

A good observation. Hence why one of those games can afford to launch during a crowded window despite its lack of quality, and the other, despite their confidence in their work, and the high quality of their work, could not. You’re starting to get it now.

EncryptKeeper, 3 miesiące temu

It’s one of those things where it looks good where in like the case of a video game, the GAME’s implementation of it is good AND your Console/PCs implementation is good AND your TV/Monitor’s implementation is good. But like unless you’ve got semi-deep pockets, at least one of those probably isn’t good, and so the whole thing is a wash.

EncryptKeeper, 3 miesiące temu

SWAT 4.

EncryptKeeper, 3 miesiące temu

SWAT 4 - $4.99

Four player co op PvE tactical shooter.

Have all players install this mod which completely revamps the game to add a ton of more modern features

EncryptKeeper, 3 miesiące temu

Sounds like hotseat. A remnant of the good old days.

EncryptKeeper, 4 miesiące temu

I could not preorder this game any harder if I tried.