Carighan

Carighan, 4 dni temu

Yeah that’s a fair take.

It is reprehensible and disgusting behavior, but it doesn’t mean we should universally apply labels across vast swaths of different issues, as it devalues said label and poisons future discussion.

Simple labels simplify discussion of course, but that runs the risk of losing nuance for the specific way someone was a disgusting creep.

Carighan, 4 dni temu

I did not disagree with that, so I’m not sure what you’re on about.

Carighan, 4 dni temu

Yeah I do. I disagree with most of their posts, but I agree with the motion that using the same labels indiscriminately is a problem in online discourse.

For example, far as I know so far, I’d call him a pedo, but I am unsure whether I’d call him a predator (of course, language differences apply, too). That’s just because I need words to express the predatory nature of people like Maxwell who prey on teens and YA.

That’s kinda what I meant, there’s too few words to just use the same label across the board sometimes. Doesn’t make something someone does less reprehensible. Rather i prefer to sometimes use full sentences instead of quick labels because it more accurately expresses the matter.

Carighan, 5 dni temu

Ugh, I know the games are divisive, but for me they really did not work at all. I can’t even truly say why. They were below-expectations, yeah, but not terribly so. Just didn’t connect.

I got the same issue with FF16, tbh. While FFX worked for me (even though I’m weird, and think FFX-2 is better 😅).

Carighan, 5 dni temu

Nah, it’s not that old.

looks it up

Fuuuuuck I’m old! 😭

Carighan, 5 dni temu

I’m not disagreeing, although I will say that as I have aged, I started to prefer either of:

• Turn-based
• Real-time-with-pause (granted, this is mostly RPGs)
• Pre-submitted concurrent turns (ala Frozen Synapse)

I don’t know. I just no longer find the extra stress from the real-time element engaging. I used to love it, but preferences shift of course, and now I prefer the relaxation of taking my own time to figure out what I want to do, then checking whether I “solved the puzzle”, basically.

Carighan, 5 dni temu (edited 5 dni temu)

I think one possible resolution for increasing the popularity of RTS is to take a hybrid real time approach. You can build and do things in real time, but under the hood battles and the economy operate in discrete chunks of at least several seconds.

Come to think of it, I saw two approaches that were similar to this before:

1. In Frozen Synapse, you plan your turn, eventually commit it, then it plays out at the same time as the enemy planned turn. You can even move enemy units while planning to simulate possible movements and attacks they might make.
2. In the fourth Battle Isle game, Battle Isle The Andosia War, you did your strategic turns with your units, then in real-time as everyone else did those turns, built your production base and produced units. So the longer you take for your strategic turn, the more time everyone else gets to work on their economy.

Carighan, 5 dni temu

Damn this looks amazing. Like Papers Please but with a cannon instead of two stamps.

Carighan, 10 dni temu

Costs 16.99 here. Which locale is this in?

Carighan, 10 dni temu

Oooh, finally a sale on the Shadow Gambit DLC. Time to get both, I heard a lot that while Yuki is of course the “cooler” DLC since well, it’s Yuki, the other one is mechanically smarter as the new unit is overpowered but also quite different.

On that note, cannot recommend Shadow Gambit enough. It’s the perfection of the Commandos / Shadow Tactics / Desperados formula.

Carighan, 12 dni temu

Quite odd that this is supposed to come to Switch just about when the next console will probably release. I wonder whether this will be the switchover (ha!) title akin to Twilight Princess or Breath of the Wild.

Carighan, 11 dni temu

It’s great just to see it exist. And not every game needs to reinvent the wheel, especially when the series hasn’t had a game in 15 years.

Plus it’s a MetroidVania. Well, kinda the MetroidVania, or half of it. Trying too much with it would feel weird IMO because I’d want the two grandfathers to focus more on the central tenets, not some inventive genre-spinoffs.

Carighan, 11 dni temu

This recycles the graphics from the Link’s Awakening remake, for which it was already divisive, yeah.

OTOH, it’s a great way to make it look teensy-tiny, especially with the built-in tilt-shift.

Carighan, 12 dni temu

Yeah that’s the point of the video.

He’s not wrong, Valve does have a lot of power over the PC gaming market. Worryingly so. But Hi-Rez of all possible asshole companies with an asshole boss should be very very quiet about such subjects.

Carighan, 12 dni temu

Yeah but that game is either (depending on how you view early access) woefully unfinished and shat out in such an incomplete state, or not released yet and possibly years away from release.

Carighan, 14 dni temu

I mean considering that single skins cost 20 in Overwatch or Dead by Daylight, 7 for an actual mission is almost generous.

Fuck gaming is fucked…

Carighan, 14 dni temu

Certainly not the players, given current costs - where Steam is virtually always cheaper than elsewhere.

Carighan, 14 dni temu

Of course it is.

All those large online action/claim sites are commercial in underlying nature. When you saw all the small farmers protest in Germany it was primarily driven as an action by about 5 large farming conglomerates because they are the ones getting ~85% of the grant money that was being cut. The whole point of the cut was to not funnel money that was supposed to go to small farmers to large megacorps after all. Who in turn instrumentalized the small farmers to protest it.

Probably what’s going on here, too. You can bet somewhere deep deep down, this is something Tim Sweeney cooked up.

Carighan, 14 dni temu

Even if you believe that all privately owned capital is intrinsicly evil, you still ought to go after companies from most to least problematic within a specific category, no?

That is, for digital storefronts, start with the likes of Epic or in a broader digital gaming space in general, Microsoft or Ubisoft. Go after Steam when you’ve cleaned up the rapists, backroom dealers and collusionists.

Carighan, 16 dni temu

Oh that’s awesome! It took a long time, but they’ve been asked for a universal menu and they actually did it. Nice! 👍

Carighan, 18 dni temu

Wow, an actual new Mana game. Looks quite rough from the trailer but going to keep an eye on it. If the dress-spheres, sorry, class-changes, work mid-fight I could see myself enjoy that combat system.

Carighan, 18 dni temu

I genuinely did, either. Not actually making fun of it. Everyone hated X-2, and there I was seemingly having a better time with it than with X!

Carighan, 19 dni temu

Ha, 460k to create a modern huge scope game. Uh huh. Very trustworthy KS this is.

Carighan, 19 dni temu

Yeah, Daggerfall was cool. I can’t really tell nowadays whether it impressed me more than Arena did or not because obviously the first one got me when I was younger and it was my first experience of an open adventure game, constrained as it was.

Carighan, 19 dni temu

“Fun” doesn’t pay C-suite bonuses or shareholder payouts. Ain’t nobody got a reason to work on that!

Carighan, 18 dni temu

I did!

It’s … actually damn good. I know, I know.

Okay so caveat first: It is just Far Cry wearing a Pandora mask. That’s it. I’d say it’s even slightly less than that because they had to thin some mechanics to make space to fit the theme a bit more.

But, that theme? It… it makes it work! Even the mechanics being watered down works, because making it fit the theme just ends up being more important. Yeah, you play this for playing on Pandora. But fuck does the game sell this well! Incredibly well. I found myself just stalking the jungle (or plains, or forest, of which the plains are the weakest but still incredibly beautiful) half the time, genuinely doing the grindathon entirely willingly, just because of the lush atmosphere the game presents and how it feels to be roaming in this alien nature.

Plus, I played Horizon Forbidden West right after this, and while I give HFW that it has much higher fidelity overall and is really pretty, the actual jungle and forest in particular are leaps and bounds above it in Avatar. You can notice the artists focused their entire effort on that, and even at daytime it looks amazing. Nighttime and they did the bioluminsensce we know from the movies incredibly well.

So erm… recommended? In a weird way? It’s really just Far Cry: Pandora, but it turns out that despite not expecting to, that’s kinda what I wanted? 😅

(Caveat though: I don’t think it’s worth €70. However given how much I liked it, €50 or so seems perfectly adequate.)

Carighan, 20 dni temu

And it’s a nothingburger even for a teaser. Peak Ubisoft.

Carighan, 20 dni temu

Hrm, not sure what to make of this.

From a vibes-level, this is “We got Wolfenstein at home”, UK edition.

Carighan, 20 dni temu

IMO, the ex-DLC developers Deck Nine (who are doing this) do a far better job with LiS True Colors evoking the feelings and moods of LiS1 than the actual devs did with LiS2 or Tell Me Why.

So to me, this is maximum hype.

Carighan, 20 dni temu

This isn’t Dontnod doing this, but Deck Nine (Dontnod no longer owns the rights to the LiS name). So after how well True Colors worked, no, I don’t think it’s that. Was my first thought too though. 😅

Carighan, 20 dni temu

Ah yeah I remember that. Did we ever hear whether it was actually one dev and they caught them and got rid of them, or whether that was the cover story?

Carighan, 20 dni temu

Yeah sadly absolutely no clue so far.

Although, to be honest, that just means I’m neutral so far. Could also be awesome. The vibe is definitely there and unlike South of Midnight, they do their low-FPS motion well here by contrasting it against the super-smooth camera.

Carighan, 20 dni temu (edited 20 dni temu)

Yeah it seems like a remaster. Or more specifically via a re-implementation as a sort-of official mod for Age of Empires 3 (thanks for the correction) I imagine, and judging from the graphics.

Excited! This bodes really well for AoM2.

Carighan, 20 dni temu

Oh, 3 even not 4. TY

Carighan, 20 dni temu

This looks… fantastic. Especially from a small studio. Love the setting they’re going for, something quite fresh.

Carighan, 20 dni temu

Probably done with the console version I’d assume.

Carighan, 20 dni temu

Wow this looks bad.

Really, really, really bad.

I mean sure, maybe the game turns out fantastic, but after a trailer that was apparently done by the Forspoken team with some consulting by Marvel and Fortnite people, I have exactly 0 hope for this.

Carighan, 21 dni temu

Yeah the jokes bring entirely unfunny of the one part that feels fitting.

Carighan, 21 dni temu

This is explicitly meant to be an mtx vehicle so yeah, no way it won’t be ruined by them.

Carighan, 23 dni temu

And the worst is, the C-suites get to fuck shit up, reap massive bonuses, and never suffer any con-S-quences when inevitable their way of running the company causes shit like this to happen.

Carighan, 24 dni temu

It’s becaue they allow you to sync all save games to the cloud if you want to, and you can naturally end up with a lot of them.

Carighan, 25 dni temu

On Steam it’s per-game configured by the devs, no? Crypt of the Necrodancer tells me it has nearly 100GB space left, while Deep Rock Galactic says it’s capped at ~85MB.

Carighan, 25 dni temu

If you can play from say the UK, and you pay money for the game or access to it’s Internet or components, they are doing business in the UK, and hence their business, business interactions and everything are subject to UK laws.

Seriously, we let companies get away with too much. If you provide public spaces, you are responsible for some degree of safety in/on them, and that includes certain personal safety, protection from libel, slander and threats. Likewise if you do business in a country and can make money from customers there, you are responsible for adhering to those countries laws. Want to do business in >200 countries? Yeah, you now have to adhere to >200 sets of laws.

Now you could say “But it’d suck if so many companies no longer release their products globally!”. Sure. OTOH, it sucks much more that companies shirk responsibilities constantly. Companies are supposed to be like persons. So like a person, require them to adhere to local laws and show at least some degree of decency.

And no, it’s ridiculous to assume someone should take steps to protect themselves. It’s a failure of society that we have to do that for something as deranged as online rape or death threats. Because we let both the aggressor and the conductor get away with it, exactly in the way you do, by immediately putting the onus onto the victim.

Carighan, 24 dni temu

Yeah fair enough. Good point. Legal consequences for online activity are always a tricky subject because of privacy issues. Can’t trust the very companies I would like to be on the hook for not taking safety serious to in turn take safety of data serious.

(And of course too many people think “it’s like the high seas”, ignoring that those have more laws than many countries and hence why you need marine lawyers if you do shipping 😅)