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stopthatgirl7

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Hey, y’all! Just another random, loudmouthed, opinionated, Southern-fried nerdy American living abroad.

I’m moving off kbin to lemmy, so I won’t be posting from here (unless kbin social gets it together).

Mastodon: https://famichiki.jp/@stopthatgirl7
Lemmy: stopthatgirl7@lemmy.world

Profil ze zdalnego serwera może być niekompletny. Zobacz więcej na oryginalnej instancji.

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And of all the hubris to want to rock up to a company that is over 125 years old and still going strong to tell them you would know better how to run their company than them.

stopthatgirl7,
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Microsoft is never going to love you back, dude.

stopthatgirl7,
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Yeeeeah, I don’t know what you’re reading, but it certainly isn’t anything I wrote.

You seem to be a troll, judging by this and other comments I’ve seen, along with your user name, so goodbye.

stopthatgirl7,
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This was in 2020 they were thinking this, and it doesn’t seem like Nintendo was interested at all.

Microsoft offered to buy them back in 2000 or something, and got laughed at. Nintendo is not looking to be bought out. Nintendo does things its way and stays in its lane.

stopthatgirl7,
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Sorry, I have an ad blocker on my phone so I genuinely have no idea if there are ads on a site or how bad they are anymore on mobile. Try flipping to reader view to see it without ads?

stopthatgirl7,
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If you don’t have an ad blocker installed though, seriously, I can’t recommend getting one enough. It’s legit like night and day how different it is. There are occasional inconveniences, but it is overall so, so much better for browsing QoL.

stopthatgirl7,
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Y’know, I can’t think of a lot of adjectives to use for “all digital,” but “adorably” sure af is not one of them.

stopthatgirl7,
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Or maybe just wait for the Switch 2, since that’s actually looking like it’s real? This could’ve been a good 3rd party launch title for it.

stopthatgirl7,
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Aren’t most Switch games still $60, though? Just flipping through the US E-store, the only game I saw at $70 was Tears of the Kingdom, and this version of Mortal Kombat is not going to compare favorably to that.

Alternative sources for the No Pronouns mod for Starfield (kbin.social) angielski

In light of Nexus Mods and Mod DB banning the No Pronouns mod for Starfield, I figured I would look around for alternative sources and collect them in one place for others' convenience. This seems like a good place to put them....

stopthatgirl7,
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Yuck.

stopthatgirl7,
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Unity well and truly stepped in it, eh.

stopthatgirl7,
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One thing about Nintendo, they always do their own thing. They’re content to let Sony and Microsoft fight it out over hardware specs, while they just stay in their own lane.

stopthatgirl7,
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I figure we all had to know this was coming.

stopthatgirl7,
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I’m also one of that small number. It’s actually my favorite in the series.

Mass Effect 2 is also my least favorite in the series, so I know I’m in the minority for both franchises.

stopthatgirl7,
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I can only imagine how good DA2 would have been if BioWare had been given more than a year and a half to make it.

stopthatgirl7,
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When I found out that fight with Orsino had been mandated by higher ups who demanded another boss fight be added, it explained so much.

stopthatgirl7,
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The Orsino fight doesn’t make much sense if you side with the mages - there was no reason for him to go Akira monster when he did. Even BioWare acknowledged how little sense it made, in a conversation you can have with Varric in Inquisition.

Game developers flee Unity after exorbitant price plan announced, but not everyone can get out (boingboing.net) angielski

Unity isn't a game engine. It's a malware-pushing advertising network which merged with a game engine to acquire a delivery channel and now wears its skin. This is fine for the bigger devs and publishers structured around platform relationships, but for everyone else? Gamemaker, Godot, Unreal, Defold… pick a flavor, they're...

stopthatgirl7,
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Ahh, thanks. I’m not in that group so I can’t get to it easily from kbin, so feel free to post it there!

stopthatgirl7,
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Yup, the @ sign does it.

stopthatgirl7,
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Oh, that’s good to know.

I like kbin, but ur still really rough around the edges.

stopthatgirl7,
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This is definitely a time when it’s important to capitalize the first letters in the name of proper nouns.

stopthatgirl7,
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You as well. Goodbye!

stopthatgirl7,
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It looks like they’ve made a LOT of fixes to some of the base mechanics, so hopefully that’ll make the game closer to what it was envisioned to be. It might make the game feel fresh for a replay.

stopthatgirl7,
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Do you think that’s because a lot of the planets are procedurally generated? I’ve seen people saying that since they’re generated, not hand crafted, they feel really same-y after a while, and there’s never anything interesting to find to start you on a quest you could easily miss, like you could find in other Bethesda games by exploring.

stopthatgirl7,
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It feels a lot like scores have been artificially inflated for a long time. Like you said, games that can barely run will get a 5, or a 4 at the lowest. It’s like half the possible scores have been lopped off, so there’s no real way to tell what a score actually means. A 7 should be a perfectly serviceable game, but it’s treated like you’ve called a game complete trash for anything below a 8.

stopthatgirl7,
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Thank you!

stopthatgirl7,
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Just block me, bro. It won’t hurt my feelings. Curate your feed as you need to.

stopthatgirl7,
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Feel free to block me, too. If you don’t like what I post, you won’t need to see it.

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I post things that I think can get people talking and spark conversations along with things I think are interesting. I posted this, for example, because of the way it was talking about how gamers can get tribal and make it so you can’t seriously talk about a game when that happens because of how some folks lose their shit when you try.

stopthatgirl7,
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There’s literally no one angry in these comments except the folks complaining about this being posted. Everyone else is talking about the game.

But you have a nice day.

stopthatgirl7,
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So basically, there’s a lot to explore, but nothing to find.

stopthatgirl7,
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Doing a rerun of the Mass Effect trilogy, and just started ME3. Mass Effect is my comfort game, I swear.

stopthatgirl7,
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I’ve played Andromeda - quite a lot, actually, because before I started PC gaming, and after my PS3 broke, the only way to get my Mass Effect fix was to play Andromeda.

I think Andromeda got a bad rap. Or rather, people were a lot harder on it than it deserved, because the game was rough and, more importantly, Ryder wasn’t Shepard. Ryder is a very different character and folks wanted Shepard in a different skin. They wanted Paragon and Renegade when BioWare went with a more Inquisition feel to developing how Ryder can react. Add to that how the beginning act was easily the least polished section of the game at launch, and so people just dragged it. And once The Gamers as a collective decide a game is only fit to be made fun of, that’s it.

Now, Andromeda wasn’t perfect at all. The facial animations are not the best, and I still have no idea why they thought Ryder’s running animation was ok. I also really think the writing needed at least another two rounds of editing. But. The game play is really solid, easily the best of any Mass Effect game, and there was something there in the story (it just needed some rewriting). BioWare also made the mistake of putting in more for the sake of more - Inquisition was too big, and they decided to try to make Andromeda bigger, and there’s a lot of filler quests that shouldn’t be there.

I actually really enjoyed playing Andromeda, for all I got really irritated by a lot of the things I mentioned here - and I got irritated because I could see how close they were to something really, really special, and how they needed more time to get there, but didn’t have because of the mess they made of early development. There were enough things and decisions that I really wanted to see how they played out down the line, and I’m sad I probably won’t get to.

The best way to enjoy Andromeda is to go in thinking of it as less of a “Mass Effect” game, and more as a game set in the Mass Effect universe, if that makes sense.

stopthatgirl7,
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I wonder if Bioware will try an Andromeda 2 down the line, I think that universe deserves another shot.

Sadly, with the closure of BioWare Montreal and them deciding to go back to the Milky Way for 5, I don’t think we will. Which is a really shame, because I still think Andromeda 2 could have really been special, because the Montreal devs said they learned a lot from Andromeda and had big plans for 2 and improving things.

A lot of people also compared Andromeda to the entire ME trilogy, which really wasn’t fair to it.

BioWare had a good idea with trying to do something new, but sadly, often times True Fans don’t want something new; they want the exact same thing. They couldn’t - or wouldn’t - let Andromeda be Andromeda.

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Most games should be so lucky.

stopthatgirl7,
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The 100% Objective Review

stopthatgirl7,
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I mean, it’s pretty obvious from context, given who you were talking to, that sassing them was not gonna go well for you.

It was totally worth that TPK, tho.

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I honestly don’t know which is stupider, console wars or iPhone vs Android. Like. Use whatever you like to get your dopamine rush.

I especially can’t wrap my brain around being so loyal to your console that you’d try to get someone fired for playing a game on the other console. If you are at that point, you need to go outside for serious. Go for a nice hike in the woods or something.

stopthatgirl7,
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I did; wth did I type lol

And let’s not start the phone wars, please.

stopthatgirl7,
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And I truly do not get it. I was a PlayStation person before I got a PC, and I never understood it even then. Why are you getting mad at more people getting to play good games?

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