Swedneck

Swedneck, 9 miesięcy temu

just pirate it

Swedneck, 9 miesięcy temu

they basically just looked at the recent popular games and yoinked the good bits, which entirely unsurprisingly results in a fun game when executed decently

like honestly palworld feels like something that should be used as an example in game design courses: this is what it looks like when you just set out to make a successful game, without any particular vision. Resist the whisperings of satan telling you to add microtransactions and charge 60 bucks for it, and people will eat that shit up

Swedneck, 9 miesięcy temu

the default setting is literally called humane, too, where the pals will just stop working if they feel cranky

if’s effectively a commune with extremely suspect recruting methods

Swedneck, 9 miesięcy temu

and if understand the game right one of the “bad guy” groups you fight thinks this is fucked up and wants to kill you because you make pals fight

you’re kind of explicitly playing as the bad guy, and considering the stuff the game has you do you’re basically a cartoon villain in a massive lair filled with grunts who are just sort of there and go on lunch breaks between shifts of building death rays

Swedneck, 9 miesięcy temu

we need to set up new lan parties and create our own fun

Swedneck, 9 miesięcy temu

if i’m exposed to lgbt content i might be forced to confront that my repressed attraction to hairy man ass actually means i’m gay, and that’s much too frightening a prospect

Swedneck, 9 miesięcy temu

this is like half the reason why DRG is so good, there’s so many rituals the community has developed and most of them have voice lines from mission control telling you to knock it off (which of course makes it that much funnier)

it’s kinda strange there’s no crouching though, i want to see my fellow dwarves crouching at light speed before doing something incredibly stupid

Swedneck, 10 miesięcy temu

PC, steam deck

Swedneck, 10 miesięcy temu

you can use p2p services behind cgnat, like how do you think torrent works?

Swedneck, 10 miesięcy temu

not sure where you’re getting that from, all you need is some server to establish connections via and then it works mostly fine

Swedneck, 11 miesięcy temu

i plug my motor cortex directly into the USB port

Swedneck, 11 miesięcy temu

watch them work just fine in proton (i don’t actually know if that works but i wouldn’t be the least surprised)

Swedneck, rok temu

so is it the good kind of colour-blind settings or did they fall for the old “this is just fucking filters that simulate colourblindness” chestnut?

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at this point the confusing naming is a pretty good shibboleth to show if you know what you’re talking about

you failed

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i just want a VR headset that i can afford and won’t send retinal scans to facebook…

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okayh so you’re just scrambling to justify something thaṭ, deep down, you know is an addiction and not something good in your life.

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you do realize you’re just saying that the predatory business has to be predatory otherwise they couldn’t operate their predatory business, right? It’s like a sheep defending wolves because if they didn’t eat sheep they wouldn’t be able to continue eating sheep.

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do you actually think just adding lanes will infinitely increase the capacity of roads?

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yeah uh, i think you’ll find that you need junctions, which create chokepoints?

even with highways you get chokepoints at the ramps, and they are extremely absurdly costly.

Swedneck, rok temu

yeah see what’s happening here is that you’re completely ignoring junctions: even in the ideal case of a completely straight road you still need junctions to get on and off the road, which will put a hard limit on throughput.

This is why traffic in america is miserable, the traffic engineers fail to recognize that you can’t just put businesses right next to roads as that will cause stupendous amounts of choking every time someone wants to pop in for some mcdonalds.

3 lanes in each direction is about the most you’ll ever need, which is what you’ll tend to see on big highways in europe. And really most of the time you’ll do just fine with 2 lanes.

Swedneck, rok temu

yeah uh, you do realize stockholm is infamous for having shit traffic, right? Precisely because it took a lot of the road design from the US.

Your example only proves my point.

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there’s a difference between a road and a street, a road is meant for quick throughfare and streets are destinations.

what happens a lot especially in america is trying to do both at once, which results in a street that is incredibly stressful to try and enter/leave and is miserable to be near outside of a car, and yet doesn’t allow traffic to flow smoothly and quickly.

These are commonly referred to as “stroads”, and the solution is to decide whether you want a street or a road and design it as such. In dense areas this means you have to bite the sour apple and accept that not everything can be a dedicated throughfare, the best solution is a backbone network of throughfares with streets branching off.
In less dense areas you can have the best of both worlds by simply putting a street on the side of the road, with some greenery between them so people have somewhat of an enjoyable view, and then connect the streets to the road at either end.

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this is why i love witcher 3, it actually has a reasonably large and detailed city! like it’s still pretty unmatched as far as i’m aware.

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ROCK AND STONE BROTHERS

FOR KARL

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capitalism

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I don’t remember who said it, but in some youtube video they said something along the lines that fallout 76 could have been the ultimate bethesda game if it was actually finished on release and didn’t have that stupid “no human NPCs” gimmick, as it REALLY embraced that environmental design that they’re actually good at.

They can clearly make fun games, look at skyrim and fallout 4 which tons of people love to just run around doing quests and fighting stuff in, but then they always bollocks it up by forcing in a story that barely makes sense upon closer scrutiny and they never capitalize of the potential of really truly interacting with the world.

I think bethesda could actually make the best VR game so far, the format plays perfectly into what they’re good at since as valve realized people just want to rummage around drawers for hours on end and explore the environments.
Hell even as is skyrim VR seems pretty sweet, imagine if they actually designed the game for VR from scratch!

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I mean ESO isn’t a bethesda game, it’s made by zenimax.

And from what i remember it’s actually pretty decent for what it is, it definitely looks nice and iirc while it has microtransactions to catch the whales, it isn’t an absolute twat about it and there at least was a membership system that was/is quite reasonable.

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i don’t understand how they could ship the game with more than 1 featureless gray rock planet, the interesting environments is the bread and butter of bethesda games and the one thing you’ve been able to rely on enjoying even if you find everything else to be garbage!

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Well a lot of people had very fun with fallout 4, which is my definition of a good game.

It’s not a great game, nor a competent one aside from the environments and functional gunplay, and it’s a fucking terrible fallout game, but it is pretty fun if you just run around shooting things and looking at the environments and laughing at the environmental storytelling.

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it took me several hours to realize there was even a text chat, in basically any other game the first thing i would have seen upon loading into a mission would have been a slur.

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it doesn’t require friends, it makes everyone your friend.

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I mean adding content without charging for it is precisely what made it a no-brainer for me to buy the game on sale, it’s amazing PR for them.

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Virtual glass frames

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Or if you just actually take the time to have your programmers optimize the game, knowing the hardware is nice but sooooo much of modern games are just generally unoptimized.

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valve might be the closest thing i have ever seen to an actual benevolent dictator, even if said dictator is very lazy and only deigns to do anything significant once in a while.

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i said valve rather than gabe for a reason, gabe mostly leaves the company to its own devices at this point while he focuses on realizing holodeck technology or whatever the hell he’s doing now.

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the steam deck is also just a regular ol’ PC so you can use it for non-gaming stuff like making a lil’ drawing on the go, or plug in some peripherals and just… use it like an honestly pretty okay performance desktop.

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Looking at the retro computer scene should make anyone a diehard open source fanatic, it’s god awful how much retro stuff relies on a single guy happening to find an old disc in their basement and upload it to the internet, and a lot of the time that never happened and so the software is just lost forever and the only way hardware can be used is by people writing their own software completely from scratch and sharing it with others.

And of course if they then don’t make it open source that’s extra fun.

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MAC addresses are absolutely trivial to spoof, to the point that it’s just a drop-down option on linux lmao, so yeah good luck with that one

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I wonder if game designers realize that this actually fucks people like me up, if i get an item that is said to have sentimental value i’m going to put that in a chest and ignore it because i don’t have the heart to sell it and have it just get atomized when the vendor’s inventory refreshes.

I love Enderal for actually letting you hand over some items you get early on, you can totally just ignore them or sell them but if you’re like me and have the instinct to keep sentimental items then you get to be absolutely flabberghasted when you realize the game accounts for this.

Swedneck, rok temu

my only problem with them is that they can tend to be a bunch of extra data to download, rather that including it in the first download

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saves are also important for archiving and sharing game states, maybe i want to preserve this specific game state so i can relive it for the rest of my life? or i want to download a save from someone else to experience something specific they found or made

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since developers have stopped making demos i simply take matters into my own hands to try games before paying for them…

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paid to tweak him? you… you don’t mean actual real money, right?

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new tesla model least likely to spontaneously catch fire and explode to date, say sources

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i genuinely cannot imagine that it’ll be anything other than a continuation of the bethesda model: simplify and just add more environments to keep the players inside the basic gameplay loop of “go here, do thing, return, reward, go here, do thing”

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shame most people who implement it don’t agree

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I’m hoping for a middle-age mario to show up, voiced by vinny vinesauce.

“eeeuuuhhh wahoo ey? Hope the princess made lotsa gabbagool because ah’m pooped!”