i love how inflation is just always magically a reason for companies to charge arbitrarily large sums for their products, how the hell do you people think people are supposed to afford things?
seriously, if everything just constantly increases in cost, how precisely do you envision the economy functioning?
not sure that’s hugely better frankly, because now it’s implied that the mooks are just there to let the important people act out decadent fantasies in absurd detail
like being an extra in a mr beast episode whose sole job is to get punched into cold water
whenever i find a game that i actually want to keep playing i give a quick prayer to the gods, thanking them for their mercy
go figure that game was The Long Dark this time, only thing more violently autistic than a realistic canadian survival game would be a railway planning ga- sigh
they’re more reliable but they still wear out, but i don’t really think it’s a problem you need to worry about, just have in the back of your mind that you’ll want to make a backup after a while so you’re not sitting there with a dying sd card with all your data on it.
But also IIRC flash storage specifically fails to write data as it wears out, so it’s not like the data is gone.
I blame the consolidation of sports titles under a limited number of developers and publishers. But maybe I just feel this way because sports games aren’t my thing.
I think gamers as a whole, though specifically those in niche communities, need to take a long and hard look at themselves. We should celebrate the volunteers that create wonderful content for us, generally with no financial gain. Instead, commonly, there are communities that criticize and tear down every little thing they can...
early access games are also notorious for being dogshite and left as such, or they’re fine but with obvious flaws which are never fixed because “bro it’s still in early access!”
it’s like how yahtzee will continously corrupt the name of whatever he’s talking about in fullyramblomatic videos: balatro, baloney, balalaika, bolschevism, botulism
[alt text: a panel from a Sonic the Hedgehog comic book, depicting Sonic using his spin attack to cut a robot in half. There are caption boxes in the panel, which say: “For the first time in his life, Sonic is devoid of humor… For the first time in his life, Sonic truly understands the meaning of WAR…”]
that sounds like a parody wuxia move
[Echoes of the Plum Grove]! enemy rushes off to the toilet as they start undergoing profoundly healthy bowel movements
[alt text: a post on twitter by @Ranting_Trans, posted in June 2022. The text in the post says: “People only ask ‘what is a woman’ and not ‘what is a man’, because that question was already answered by the greatest philosopher of our time: Dracula”. Below the text is a screenshot from the game Castlevania: Symphony...
it’s really funny to me how obvious the… “inspiration” of this game is from pokemon, and yet nintendo has been struggling so hard to come up with something to sue them for, like i don’t really care about this in and of itself, but seeing a big company unable to remove a splinter from their toe and copyright unable to be enforced brings me joy.
Tanooki Mario (comfy man in pajamas), and uhhhh…well i don’t really have a Smash main, I like to play all kinds of different styles. Which I guess also fits the question…
i understand the appeal as a minigame, like it’s literally a minigame in Deep Rock Galactic, but the fact that people genuinely play it as its own game is… bro just play minesweeper
Ontop of all of that, it was also just clearly a corporate cash grab where the people who made it either didn’t feel strongly about it or they didn’t get to put their soul into it as much as they wanted.
It’s not just bland, it’s a cold and calculating kind of bland. Like being served nutrient paste, but it’s not even flavourless instead they added artificial banana flavour so now it’s both depressing and makes you feel sick.
this is the only thing i’m desperately missing from deep rock galactic, i yearn to see the dwarves vibrating up and down
i want to huddle around the compressed gold shouting about future riches while we all buzz like bees dancing to show the way to pollen.
Things aren’t looking good for me. I’m a few levels into Selaco, a new FPS out now on Steam, and I’m stuck behind a bar as a group of sci-fi soldiers unload their rifles and shotguns into my hiding spot. I’m also low on health. So yeah, a bad spot to be in. I take a deep breath and try something....
thing is, games aren’t pretty because they model every cell in every lifeform and have 5 gigabyte textures for each individual leaf, they’re pretty because they have good graphical design.
Just lighting alone is like 50% of making a scene look nice, you can literally just slap together a low-poly flat-colour scene in blender and set up nice lighting and people will call you talented.
A prime example of this is valheim: ps2-style models and textures and yet the lighting and general graphical design makes it look lovely and atmospheric, especially combined with the music.
it annoys me to no end that people think minecraft looks terrible and attribute that to the textures, it’s literally just pixel art! Other games are praised for having pixel art! aurgh!
Minecraft might be considered ugly, but in that case it’s probably moreso because its lighting is… rudimentary… or that person specifically just doesn’t like the artstyle.
Also something that almost no one ever talks about is render distance! Games with a gargantuan render distance look SOOOOOO much more appealing and are easier to navigate, but people just don’t think about it!
I recently played Satisfactory and holy shit that render distance, when i called down the space elevator it’s the only time i can recall a game ever making me just sit there in awe, never before have i felt such a visceral sense of scale from something on a display!
Don't hate the player
Just kill me
Still can't believe the new Mario Kart is open world
Steep learning curves
New dwarf planet spotted at the edge of the solar system (www.newscientist.com)
ADHD gaming
The steam deck is just great
Is Rocket League a sports game?
I blame the consolidation of sports titles under a limited number of developers and publishers. But maybe I just feel this way because sports games aren’t my thing.
I don't think these hills are silent after all
Me, having neither somehow
Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032 (arstechnica.com)
Gotta get better gear anyway we can. You don't want to be looted yourself right?
Funko Pop abuses domain name reporting system, takes down itch.io
x.com/itchio/status/1866017758040993829
Popular Female Skyrim Modder Has Abandoned Her Work Due to Daily Harrassment (www.gamesradar.com)
I think gamers as a whole, though specifically those in niche communities, need to take a long and hard look at themselves. We should celebrate the volunteers that create wonderful content for us, generally with no financial gain. Instead, commonly, there are communities that criticize and tear down every little thing they can...
SteamDeck TOP Played list.
SteamDeck TOP Played list....
"Wirelessly connect with me" doesn't work as well these days
war... war never goes fast... (beehaw.org)
[alt text: a panel from a Sonic the Hedgehog comic book, depicting Sonic using his spin attack to cut a robot in half. There are caption boxes in the panel, which say: “For the first time in his life, Sonic is devoid of humor… For the first time in his life, Sonic truly understands the meaning of WAR…”]
Deadlock Is Turning Cheaters Into Frogs - Aftermath (aftermath.site)
he got his bachelor's in gender studies circa 1492 (beehaw.org)
[alt text: a post on twitter by @Ranting_Trans, posted in June 2022. The text in the post says: “People only ask ‘what is a woman’ and not ‘what is a man’, because that question was already answered by the greatest philosopher of our time: Dracula”. Below the text is a screenshot from the game Castlevania: Symphony...
Nintendo files lawsuit against Palworld (www.nintendolife.com)
www.nintendo.co.jp/corporate/…/240919.html
is this true? (beehaw.org)
Tanooki Mario (comfy man in pajamas), and uhhhh…well i don’t really have a Smash main, I like to play all kinds of different styles. Which I guess also fits the question…
63% of Gen Z Would Rather Play Video Games Than Watch a Movie (gamerblurb.com)
Mobile classic Flappy Bird comes back, immediately ruined by fact it is seemingly just a vehicle for blockchain nonsense with the original creator not involved (www.vg247.com)
The hubris of AAA publishing in three panels.
When will they learn? When will they learn, that their actions have consequences? (lemmy.world)
I don't hate Body Type replacing Gender, I hate laziness
This is a bit of a rant, but please try to stick with me through the whole thing...
Size Comparison: Pluto and Australia
Source
The true mark of an ally (lemmy.world)
Every single time. (files.catbox.moe)
GOG will delete cloud saves more than 200MB per game after August 31st (support.gog.com)
New FPS Built Using Doom Tech Is Better Than Most AAA Shooters (kotaku.com)
Things aren’t looking good for me. I’m a few levels into Selaco, a new FPS out now on Steam, and I’m stuck behind a bar as a group of sci-fi soldiers unload their rifles and shotguns into my hiding spot. I’m also low on health. So yeah, a bad spot to be in. I take a deep breath and try something....
IGN immediately lays off every non-UK person at their newly bought sites, including some key members like deputy editor Alice Bell (aftermath.site)
Welp, this didn’t take long....
Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone Can’t Let Go Of Stardew Valley (aftermath.site)