p03locke

p03locke, 5 dni temu

The entirety of the internet is unusable without ad blockers.

p03locke, 12 dni temu

If buying isn’t owning, then piracy isn’t stealing.

p03locke, 13 dni temu

Q: How does Snoop answer the phone?

A: I’ll make the song.

p03locke, 13 dni temu

90-minutes, 20-hours? I know it’s a joke, but everything about this infographic infuriates me on a technical level.

p03locke, 15 dni temu

Yep, we already beat that dead IP into the ground, so let’s do it for another one!

p03locke, 27 dni temu

Konami died the moment they fired Kojima and embraced the god of pachinko machines.

p03locke, 29 dni temu

Chris Roberts is still rich, and could probably retire right now without worrying about anything. He could tank the company, and he wouldn’t care.

p03locke, 30 dni temu

This guy has the most unhinged thumbnails.

p03locke, miesiąc temu

The sad part is that most of the whales aren’t actually that rich…

p03locke, miesiąc temu

It’s made much worse by the games “journalists” industry paying too much attention to X. They find some crackpot spouting off controversy, elevate that shit to the moon, and suddenly other people are talking about this opinion that only lives in a vacuum.

IGN, PCGamer, RPS, Kotaku… they all live for this shit.

p03locke, miesiąc temu

If anything is a “Bethesda-killer”, it’s games like Outer Wilds, not The Outer Worlds.

p03locke, miesiąc temu

This coming from the company that made the artistic decision to play hip-hop music when the black protag starts a fight.

p03locke, miesiąc temu

This is not the place for commas. This calls for a slash.

Alan Wake / Control developer agrees

p03locke, miesiąc temu

A HexBear post.

p03locke, miesiąc temu

Well, it also doesn’t help how much they are “accidentally” insulting multiple racial groups trying to make an Assassins’ Creed game.

p03locke, miesiąc temu

Seems like it to me

p03locke, 2 miesiące temu

That kind of ownership clause is pretty standard for mods, especially when the game officially supports mods. Game studios don’t want to run into legal issues if they release some DLC or patch that happens to implement features that another mod included.

p03locke, 2 miesiące temu

There all on F95.

p03locke, 2 miesiące temu

we’ll burn out from endless selection of predictable movies and other entertainment

We aren’t already doing that? Even without AI, most of today’s writers suck ass, and corporate meddling has stomped out risk taking. Writers have no chance to build experience with good shows with longevity. With no risk, there is no creativity.

All of the good series were ones from cable TV. Breaking Bad, Sopranos, old Star Trek, Mr. Robot, Babylon 5, House, Rick and Morty, Game of Thrones (even if it ended badly), Better Call Saul, The Expanse (which died immediately after it switched to Amazon), Gravity Falls. About the only streaming series I really enjoyed was Loki, and that only lasted two seasons. Anything else might have a good first season, but they chop out any sense of character development by making these season 6-8 episodes long. No episodic content. No character development. Just go go go towards the seasonal end goal. And then get cancelled, because they didn’t get a chance to shake out the mediocre ideas and improve their direction. Can you imagine Star Trek:TNG being represented by only their first season, and then cancelled as a result of that?

All of the recent good movies were from directors that had a chance to take risks back in the 2000s, and are now given full creative control to do what they are good at. Dune was a great movie, but it simply adapted the source material, and was given enough budget and resources and creative control to Denis to produce what it needed to be. How many good directors will be left when the old guard retires?

All of the good games are from indie series now. Concord is being getting review-wrecked and shat on, while people focus more of their attention on an fucking asset-flip game about a squirrel with a gun. All of the good bigger studios are gone, fully absorbed into the Microsoft/ZeniMax/WB/EA empire. Only the first or second-time indie game developers are the ones producing good games.

Hell, at this point, maybe AI would do a better job than the shit that’s out there. I doubt it, though. It’s too half-baked right now.

p03locke, 2 miesiące temu

From what I’ve read they tried to combine the console and PC version into a unified single version.

JFC. Starting off with something that is cross-compatible is one thing, but trying to merge the two codebases together… that’s a 2-3+ year effort, minimum.

p03locke, 2 miesiące temu

Steam is just ok to for what I want from a store/launcher.

It’s not just ok, compared to the alternatives. A games library that cannot be matched, regular sales, easy no-frills refunds, cloud saves, beta support, family mode, big picture support, seamless integration with the Steam deck, which in its own right, has pushed right-to-repair and Linux gaming to new heights. The competition doesn’t even have any of this stuff, including the console market, and if they can’t compete, they don’t deserve my money.

No digital game store is worth your loyalty.

I’m fine being loyal to a privately-owned company that actually gives a shit about its customers. As long as Gabe is still alive and they will continue to be privately-owned, the company will stay in good graces.

p03locke, 2 miesiące temu

It’s not an article. It’s a blog post. That’s the problem.

p03locke, 3 miesiące temu

All indie porn games are still in development. That’s their default state.

p03locke, 3 miesiące temu

It’s a somewhat new job title, but it’s now becoming standard across the movie industry.

p03locke, 3 miesiące temu

Or FF13. Some of the ultima weapons in that game require so much fucking grinding.

p03locke, 3 miesiące temu

Ditto. Alan Wake 2 looks like a cool game, but I have 32 games on my Steam wishlist, and I can make it 33 when they decide to put it on Steam.

p03locke, 3 miesiące temu

You mean Activision?

p03locke, 3 miesiące temu

I‘m pretty sure that the Overwatch 2 debacle started before blizzard was sold to MS Activision

It was sold to Activision before it was sold to Microsoft.

p03locke, 5 miesięcy temu

American IP law

IP and copyright are two entirely different things.

p03locke, 5 miesięcy temu

Right, but when companies go after pirated games, they are going after them because of copyright, not patents or trademarks. The way copyrights are enforced and the way the law works is a lot different than how it works with patents and trademarks.

There is no “use it or lose it” clause for copyrights. If somebody is breaking copyright, you still have the right to enforce it for a long as the copyright is still valid, and don’t have to vigorously defend it to keep it.

p03locke, 5 miesięcy temu

That’s WB in a nutshell.

They just put out a Smash Bros competitor with a ton of characters, voice acting, looked like it had a lot of promise.

…and it’s free-to-play. Which means it’s loaded with microtransactions.

Imagine being one of those guys who puts in all of this effort for a game that is doomed to fail.

p03locke, 5 miesięcy temu

Gonna wait until it comes out before I play or look at any of this stuff.

p03locke, 5 miesięcy temu

Whoa… I’ve had this on my wishlist for years. I was half afraid that it was just in development limbo. Didn’t realize the dev finally put out a demo.

This is the same guy that did Gunpoint and Heat Signature. Heat Signature especially was super inventive in its core gameplay loop. I’d expect no less from a tactical game like this one.

The animated screenshots remind me of some of the mechanics of Fights in Tight Places.

p03locke, 5 miesięcy temu

There’s a lot of reading.

I mean, there’s a lot of reading, but almost all of it is voice acted. Wonderfully.

Disco Elysium is worth it for the voice acting alone. And that’s not even a tenth of the game.

p03locke, 6 miesięcy temu

No. That’s called Star Citizen, and it’s a scam at this point.

p03locke, 6 miesięcy temu

Would you like to code something for no money that would help people?

That’s open-source software in a nutshell.

p03locke, 6 miesięcy temu

These are just logos, names, and brands. They have no real meaning behind them. The people and the company are still the same as it always was.

p03locke, 6 miesięcy temu

<delay the time to hit Continue for comedic effect>

BANG!

p03locke, 6 miesięcy temu

Well, got this rather generic description of the game itself out of Gemini at least:

Sure, just take the all of the ingredients out of your sandwich and eat just the crust…

p03locke, 7 miesięcy temu

Higher stakes were really rough and RNG-heavy. I’m hoping the changes for free joker tags and new joker stickers make it possible to beat some of the harder stakes with more skill and less RNG.

p03locke, 7 miesięcy temu

/r/shittytu… Okay, why isn’t there a Lemmy version of Shitty Tumblr GIFs?

p03locke, 7 miesięcy temu

Seems petty and harsh to me. It’s just some dude talking about his opinions about Portal.