🎮│game

[fringe salmon]

or a car

[barren pewter]

Probably calling the bank ahead and arranging to ensure that one massive transaction goes through

[fringe salmon]

for a car, maybe

for a gpu? lol

[hardy merlin]

Yeah, but still, up to like €1000, maybe €2000 limit you can set by yourself in banking app

[fringe salmon]

think default on my card was 3k when I got it?

[hot spire]

Mine just gives me a notification

And you can just say yess

[hardy merlin]

Same

3DSecure

[fading spade]

Just looked in my bank app
Couldn't find any settings related to spend limits

[vapid lintel]

Banks serving US persons are required to report transactions over $10k to FinCen, as well as any transaction that is flagged as suspicious based on unpublished rules, as well as encouraged to report on transactions over $600

[fading spade]

Maybe I gotta login on the website instead??

[fringe salmon]

Idk none of us will know what your bank does where

[hardy merlin]

Try cards section in your app

[fading spade]

I have

[hot spire]

They still go through instantly

[vapid lintel]

"through" and "instantly" but yes

[hardy merlin]

Eh, I wait till tomorrow, maybe it clears
Looks like Volvo actually prepared this year, still everything is in stock in EU

[hot spire]

Never had an issue with it

I run 10k+ a few times a year via CC

Hit the confirm notification and it runs thought like a $1 charge

[vapid lintel]

Sure, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's settled, and being settled doesn't necesarily mean it can't be clawed back

[hot spire]

I mean any transaction can be reversed by the bank

Unless they empty the account to cash and don't care about the debt

[vapid lintel]

The way money works is a rabbit whole of epic porportions

[hot spire]

Yeah

[vapid lintel]

Written in a language barely anyone knows

https://www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/magazine/cobol-controls-your-money
Light bedtime reading

[hot spire]

If it's two reputable banks they will return if you say fraud most of the time

But no guarantees

Credit card transactions are escrowed so that's easier

[hardy merlin]

COBOL is cool, tried to learn at least basics, but it's so convoluted...
No wonder people working with it are earning in a month more than I do in a year

[vapid lintel]

Learn COBOL and you're set for life. Simple fact there

[fringe salmon]

welllll

https://devops.com/ibm-previews-generative-ai-tool-for-converting-cobol-to-java/

[hardy merlin]

The problem is with "Learn COBOL"

[hot spire]

To be honest you probably make six figures learning it

[vapid lintel]

I don't believe it to be possible to "convert" the amalgamation that is the global financial system

[hot spire]

There are lots of examples of people making over six figures to teach someone on retainer

[hardy merlin]

What documentation?

[hot spire]

Likewe will pay you $150,000 a year just to answer emails

[still spire]

Meh

https://store.steampowered.com/app/70/HalfLife/

Steam

Half-Life

Named Game of the Year by over 50 publications, Valve's debut title blends action and adventure with award-winning technology to create a frighteningly realistic world where players must think to survive. Also includes an exciting multiplayer mode that allows you to play against friends and enemies around the world.

Price

$9.99

Recommendations

78424

Metacritic

96

HALF LIFE IS FREE EVERYONE

BIGGER NEWS

[feral ferry]

Is this what they were working on?

[novel umbra]

If banks go full java i go full cash

[fringe salmon]

[hot spire]

Imagine they actually use Oracle Java

Sorry doing the garbage collection issue all of your money now belongs to the Central Bank of Zimbabwe

[hardy merlin]

Oracle having a grasp over global financial systems? I'd really reconsider using that Elon's newfangled idea of X being a finance platform

[hot spire]

Yeah Larry doesn't need more power

[slim token]

lol

[hardy merlin]

Oracle and Microsoft both, most corporate entities on Earth, even Apple doesn't come close

[hot spire]

See Elon just wants to be cool

[fringe salmon]

and yet if I had to choose I'd take larry over musk still

[slim token]

easily overshadowed by oled release

[hot spire]

He doesn't want world domination like larry

[orchid prism]

Mario in Dwarf Fortress? That's quite the crossover.

[hot spire]

I'd play that

[hardy merlin]

Steam is good
Only checkout side of things have problems

[still spire]

Still in

[slim token]

wow it came back

should i snatch one

[hardy merlin]

AT LAST!

Allow local game content transfers from a plugged-in Steam Deck to other Steam clients on the same LAN.
Days of copying from Deck to PC are over

[slim token]

new high score+

[hardy merlin]

Are LEs still in stock there over yonder?

[fringe salmon]

LE is US only

[slim token]

*and canada

[feral ferry]

What do you think they said

[hardy merlin]

That's why I'm asking, can't check

[fringe salmon]

oh right, thought cals is american

[feral ferry]

Lol no, le pole

[fringe salmon]

because earlier talk about america sold out but eu having stock etc.

[slim token]

north america basically

it died in my area, then came back to life

curious about the supply numbers

somewhat tempted to get one

[hardy merlin]

Yeah, like for once Volvo actually supplied the stuff they want to sell, amazing

If you can get it still, then why not

I'd try to get it if I weren't doing a shell swap, since now the whole disassembly process ought to be easier

I want these two

[slim token]

def getting the anti glare

because i can switch back and forth with a screen protector

as wasteful as that may be

[hardy merlin]

You can do that too with glossy screen and matte protector

I wonder if LCD protectors will fit OLED, I'm left with 2 more

[slim token]

the cutout is allegedly the same, so should be fine

[hardy merlin]

Pff... anti-glare coating
Tis a job for 240 grit sandpaper

Fineness, the lower the grit, the bigger abrasive particles are

[fringe salmon]

no need for coating if you just crank the nits up to >1000k

[slim token]

one million is a lot

[hardy merlin]

Ah

[orchid prism]

[hardy merlin]

Pizza Possum devs will wake up tomorrow to a nice surprise

Also Steam now seems to remember your controllers

Why wouldn't it show Steam controller though?

[feral ferry]

https://automaton-media.com/en/news/20231115-23031/

https://www.eurogamer.net/baldurs-gate-3-is-getting-a-fancy-physical-deluxe-edition-early-next-year

Ok that is... pretty neat

[orchid prism]

Looks... lackluster

[feral ferry]

It's only $79.99

Not priced as a big collector's

[orchid prism]

Morrowind and Oblivion came with a map, and was only retail price.

Morrowind even came with a second disc that had - ALL of the game assets for modding needs.

[feral ferry]

Considering this one comes with a full physical disk?

I think it's worth buying just for that lol

[orchid prism]

BG3 has had hundreds of gigabytes of patches.

Having "data on disc" is... optimistic.

[hardy merlin]

It's just a disc with Steam code on it

[feral ferry]

" There's the game itself, which comes on three discs for Xbox Series X/S, two discs for PS5, and a single DVD on PC - although that just contains a custom downloader app with an accompanying Steam key. "

Why are the damn console assholes getting a proper ass disk

Where's my data

[orchid prism]

The soundtrack is... nice? But honestly the soundtrack is already IN the game you already downloaded. Just let customers access this easily instead.

[hot spire]

Digital versions of soundtracks are different sometimes

Well I mean standalone not digital

In game sometimes loops or shortened sections based on your activity

[orchid prism]

Not necessarily. But even then, just let everyone download the full OST.

Don't make it a weird exclusive.

[hot spire]

Isn't it already a purchasable dlc?

[hardy merlin]

Metal Gear Revengeance did so great with looping specific segments of OST

[hot spire]

Doom

[feral ferry]

Inb4 Mansen says you don't need the character sheets cause you can just play the characters

[orchid prism]

[hot spire]

I mean all their stats are in the game so you could just copy them down

Just like you could just sit in the game and let it play the music and record it lol

But yeah they're generally is some cost in packaging the music for a soundtrack standalone release

[feral ferry]

Where are those character sheets

They aren't showing them off

[hot spire]

So it's usually a deluxe edition or DLC

[hot spire]

I wonder if there's stock 5e character sheets already filled in or if they're in bg3 style art

[hardy merlin]

Guess you have to print them by yourself

[feral ferry]

Did they stuff the character sheets to the OST DVDs?

That doesn't sound right

Game DVDs? I guess that's more likely but still, a bit weird

[hot spire]

Email?

[orchid prism]

I have to wonder how those character sheets are done - Because BG3 has a -lot- of house rules.

[hot spire]

Not that many

[hardy merlin]

Character sheets are included with Deluxe Edition already

[feral ferry]

Apparently they look like this

Already in the game

[hot spire]

That's dope

Wonder if they give you the empty template?

It would have been really cool if I could pull out your characters from the save and print them

[feral ferry]

Btw that's literally wrong lol

Gale.. doesn't use a greatsword lol

[hot spire]

Lmao

And 0 bludgeoning

[feral ferry]

Although that would be funny as shit

Bonking claymore magicman

[fading spade]

.-. id only get 238 Euro for selling them my Deck

[feral ferry]

Ok, then don't waste money

OLED is overrated anyways

[fading spade]

I want the 90Hz and the better battery too

most of the games I play on the Deck run at 90Hz

[feral ferry]

Go work then, what are you selling the Deck for

[fading spade]

I dont need two at once

[feral ferry]

K then it put it up for sale on ebay for like 350 or whatever

If someone buys it happy days

Fuck spotify man why tf is that so loud

[deft bloom]

raphael's final act yes sir

[feral ferry]

Not the first time spotify just blasts my ears with no volume button

[slim token]

one for home one for school ez

[hardy merlin]

One for bed, one for toilet

[deft bloom]

the chapter songs were out before the game, old gods songs are coming, probably the whole game's soundtrack will be out later as well ? !?!

the music video for herald of darkness came out a few days ago too

actually yesterday

yess

very good

[hardy merlin]

It went through!

🥳

[fading spade]

🤦‍♀️

Buy: 230
Sell 555

[feral ferry]

That's how pawnshops work

[fading spade]

THATS MORE THAN A BRAND NEW ONE .-.

[feral ferry]

Ireland tax

Get good, keep coping

[fading spade]

no, they are 420 to buy in Ireland

not 555

[hardy merlin]

tbf you can get them on ebay for price close to that

[barren pewter]

Girlypop, the pawn shop probably doesn’t care
It’ll probably sell at that markup anyway

And yes, they intentionally buy stuff off of people at a lower price
They make money off of the resale

[hardy merlin]

Yeah, people will pay more for not having to wait 2 weeks for shipping

[fading spade]

they make more money than they buy it for .-.

wait no thats wrong

[barren pewter]

Yeah, restaurants technically do so with the ingredients they buy

That isn’t the full picture

[hardy merlin]

Seems to work for them

[fading spade]

yeh....

[hardy merlin]

Never sell through retail shops, try FB marketplace or some other local marketplace
I dunno if olx is in Ireland, I usually use it here for such purposes

[fading spade]

;-;

i want the oled model

[feral ferry]

Go work

A month's salary will get you one

[fading spade]

been trying to find work for the last year and 9 months

[feral ferry]

https://tenor.com/view/shock-damn-oh-surprise-shades-off-gif-15633660

[fading spade]

and again, I must sellthis one, no reason for me to have two of them

Im literally not

Yeah, cause im shit at being social at interviews .-.

[hardy merlin]

So, IT could work then

[feral ferry]

Have you seen their programming posts lol

[fading spade]

yeah, I failed a few interviews for those for not making enough eye contact with the interviewer or not having a convincing voice

so yeah, they seem to give a shit about being social for IT jobs

[hardy merlin]

Eh, even Linux basics nowadays will set you for some internship at bigger companies

[feral ferry]

Write Wooting an email for a job, if you have anything you can be useful for

And move to Netherlands or Belgium lol

Uh, no

Why'd you move before you have a position?

[fading spade]

^

[feral ferry]

Just move there and go bankrupt renting a place if nobody hires?

[fading spade]

^

[unique bane]

Just call the boss, walk in on his meeting, request 1on1 and firmly shake his hand while keeping eye contact. That oughta do it.

[feral ferry]

You apply first, get the position, then you move

[fading spade]

yep

[feral ferry]

Wootwoot could have something for you Lana

It is lol

[hardy merlin]

Yeah, it looks like

Rule of thumb, first score a job, then move there

[fading spade]

^

[unique bane]

job market velocity is such a different beast as well in EU than NA

[hardy merlin]

There are always remote jobs too, don't have to move, don't have to deal with people

[unique bane]

its harder here

[feral ferry]

That's why self employment is the best

[hot spire]

jobs everywhere

[hardy merlin]

Not unusual in Europe

[unique bane]

literally not possible for me rn, trying to work towards that

Oof

[feral ferry]

What are taxes

You don't pocket those?

[unique bane]

self employed pays a little less tax

[feral ferry]

That just screams america lol

[unique bane]

dont have to fund the ponzi retirement scam

[hardy merlin]

Yeah, here you just get fucked over by local tax office

tbh I only saw a gun on security guys delivering money to banks
Police usually use tear gas and tasers if it comes to something

[barren pewter]

...

ugh

any suggestions for finding skylanders on the cheap?

yeah...thought so

I'm still missing a hyper beam prism break

and I completely forgot Spyro's Adventure has four bonus levels

so I'm now looking for those too

:z

I remember walking past those at walmart
they were on clearance then

WHY DID I NOT GRAB THEM

hello
found all the adventure pack stuff on ebay for 40 CAD

...hm

and it had a mac port...

oh dear

this is not a rabbit hole I wanted to go down

[willow quiver]

shut it debil

[barren pewter]

[willow quiver]

go to sleep

[barren pewter]

who

[willow quiver]

GO TO SLEEP DEBIL

[barren pewter]

asked

who asked

[willow quiver]

it

was

a

state

ment

[barren pewter]

one I am choosing to ignore

I mean
"take into consideration, and I do thank you for your input"

jackass

[willow quiver]

thank you debil, go on with ur business

-eso

jackasses

[barren pewter]

I mean

old pokémon games

even used, people will pay double the retail of the games at launch after a few gens

but I would never sell my copy of Pokémon White

I love that game way too much

[tall anchor]

skylanders?

i missed something or is it new

hmm

[barren pewter]

...ok...

wow
thanks Locke

:D

[tall anchor]

looks like a happy meal toy

[barren pewter]

now I need to find and crack a mac copy

and get it to play nice with my modern mac

[barren pewter]

fuck you, Arden

this was the shit back in the day

[tall anchor]

i step on your toy

[barren pewter]

I step on you
no wait you're probably into that

[tall anchor]

no im not

[barren pewter]

tbh, if I knew someone was going to step on my skylander, I would intentionally put a more durable one with a lot of sharp edges

as opposed to one with thin sections like Hex...

my lightcore Hex's extended arm fell off...

the socket came loose, but the fact I needed to glue it back together...idk

anyway
thank you, V

this is even cheaper than buying the adventure packs

and probably more durable in the long run

hm
I haven't actually played the latter half of the skylanders titles

...

crap

rabbit hole it is

and it appears that only the first game ever got PC releases...emulation time

[rancid hearth]

Skylanders was the rich kids game, never played it

[dreamy rain]

Game

Need game

Bored

Game

[still spire]

Signalis

[dreamy rain]

im not even gonna try searching that up

Nvm curiosity gas peaked

[hot spire]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo7bpUtguWQ

yeah its nuts

[tacit pewter]

anyone tried the 60he in mw3 yet? i play mostly fast twitch movement based games and wondering if there’s noticeable improvement of movement for mw3 specifically

also curious if there’s any counterstrike kz players who have input on this as well

[barren pewter]

...people play Modern Warfare 3 still?
I assume you're talking about the ok one from over a decade ago

assuming you mean the recent dumpster fire of a CoD game, I doubt anything has changed from last year's release
have at it

[tacit pewter]

i play it purely because i like the movement - i play games purely for movement

the new one yes

[hot spire]

mw2 only allows one input

so you cant use analog

[hot spire]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4KGm7ixcqI

[still spire]

Oh that video is good, I watched it awhile ago

[hot spire]

It came out 6 hours ago

[slim token]

lel

bro is from alternate timeline

[still spire]

I could swear

This came out before

Lmao ok yeah it did

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXzoZ2AfWwg

[slim panther]

Dimension hopper

[still spire]

Same guy

[novel umbra]

Tbh if you were super worried about it you might be able to use funky shaders?

To make them look physical

But idk what your engine options would be for that

Since idk what you are really doing lol

Ye

can you do transparent textures

They you could just do dials with less glow

And black With some glow on the rear

[still spire]

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/219990/view/5851926267990450745

Huge QoL update

Automated stuff, added dodging, removed healing potions

[deft bloom]

FINALLY I HAVE WANTED AUTOMATED AUTOMATED STUFF FOR SO LONG

[novel umbra]

automated

gotta have it

[still spire]

lol

[hardy merlin]

Average redditor moment

[feral ferry]

Lol

When non-P2W doesn't work so you have to sell P2W shite to make money

[orchid prism]

[trim rock]

Hell yeah now I'm interested

[feral ferry]

This was the short that I saw recently that really pissed me off

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IHZru-6M8BY

[tropic vapor]

wait what why do they imply that like no other video game can let you spend time with other people and make friends for much less money

when thats not true

you dont need to buy 3000euro worth of spaceships just to play a video game with others and possibly meet new people and make friends

[vital wyvern]

yeah it's just kinda cringy to argue about it like that

it's simply what you like wasting money on I guess

no need to make it sound like a well-thought out decision on a mortgage

hell I have hundreds worth of digital goods across games, yeah they are all pointless, so what

[tropic vapor]

the weird part is they were using it as an excuse to try and pick up a woman when thats probably gonna drive them away

[vital wyvern]

yeah zzzzz

not the play here

[tropic vapor]

but to be fair it is a redditor

[vital wyvern]

yeah makes sense

or it just didn't happen in the first place I guess

[tropic vapor]

yeah it might not have even happened

either way feels like theyre having some copium

to try and justify spending 3000euro on a half baked game

[vital wyvern]

yeah haha

[deft bloom]

[fallow bronze]

this guy is also on my shorts.. he's gaming the system very right

[feral ferry]

Yep

He's been popping off

And honestly I quite like em

Game developer, good mindset

inspirational

[strange sequoia]

what does non-P2W even mean xdd

[feral ferry]

https://tenor.com/view/blinking-eyes-white-guy-blinking-meme-what-huh-gif-26334322

360 was weirdly successful

And Nintendo as always is just being Nintendo

[hardy merlin]

Wait, PS3 sold more than X360? 👀

[still spire]

Long tail

[hardy merlin]

Steam casually trying to tell me I'm spending a tad too much on games

[still spire]

Lol

Buy 3 steam decks to increase odds of HL3

[hardy merlin]

I already did
Granted, one was from my brother's acc and it was for him, but still

[still spire]

Lol

[feral ferry]

Oh man

March 22nd 2024.. in-game purchases?

https://www.pcgamesn.com/half-life/steam-app

Come on release whatever that new half life product is

[pine bone]

Where is Game Boy Slim and Game Boy Colour.

[feral ferry]

Who cares

[pine bone]

https://tenor.com/view/peepo-peepo-riot-riot-protest-peepo-angry-gif-21768097

Riot time.

[novel umbra]

as a bluray player

[tired knoll]

Always.

[hardy merlin]

Oh ffs, thanks guys
I fell asleep in chair, "working"
Your pings woke me up

[tired knoll]

WAKE UP

[hardy merlin]

36 minutes to go

[feral ferry]

@hardy merlin here, have one for free

[hot spire]

Wtf is a game boy slim

[quiet vault]

wtf

[fading spade]

the PS5 Slim would be soooo much smaller if its PSU was external....

[orchid prism]

I miss external PSUs

[fading spade]

the whole black part is the PSU

[orchid prism]

Hasn't been a thing since before 3D consoles though

[fading spade]

the 360 PSU is external

[fallow bronze]

and its HUUUGE

[fading spade]

and Wii

[fallow bronze]

and hot

[fading spade]

YEAH

[orchid prism]

Are you sure? The Xbox OG was internal AND had a power brick.

Now I gotta dig up some 360 photos

[fading spade]

my 360 Slim has external brick

oh, AND brick 🤔
IDK mine has a huge black rectangle with a power light on it halfway along the cable

[orchid prism]

Oh that's right. The OG 360 had that massive brick as well. Just found mine.

Well okay - So it's been an on and off thing I guess 😄

[fading spade]

XD

[orchid prism]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnWZqfUDXp8

Aww yiss.

My first city builder.

[small comet]

i got 2 of those

[orchid prism]

Only one here. Do have two slims though.

Never got around to modding it. Such a painful console.

[small comet]

i only have 2 incase mine breaks again lol. glad mine is already JTAG modded

[orchid prism]

My OG is JTAG'ed, but the GPU died years ago.

I can maybe turn it on once every blue moon for a few minutes.

[small comet]

thats the fate of my first JTAG as well

[orchid prism]

Both slims are vanilla. 😦

[small comet]

i do want to get an RGH slim but im sort of on the fence

[orchid prism]

I'll get around to it eventually...hopefully...before the wife threatens me to sell it 😄

[small comet]

meanwhile my gf doesnt mind me buying more and more consoles especially retro ones

[orchid prism]

Seeming as I had like 40 moving boxes or ... a third of our apartment, mine is not enthusiastic 😄

[pine bone]

Game boy B&W but slim version.

It was released shortly before introduction of game boy colour.

[orchid prism]

You mean the Gameboy POCKET?

[hot spire]

Pocket

[pine bone]

I’m Jurassic park movie theatre release old

[orchid prism]

Not to be confused with the Gameboy Micro, which was a redesign of the GBA

[pine bone]

Childhood memories are spotty. Because guess who got bullied.

[small comet]

micros in good condition are $$$

[pine bone]

Anyhow. I still have the game boy pocket.

In used condition but whole.

As in. Buttons are shiny and a bit worn.

[small comet]

for christmas i might raid my parents retro consoles and get a GB, GB Pocket and GameCube with GB Player

maybe even an original DS if that survived

[pine bone]

Tony. Get Lord of The Rings games for Nintendo handheld. Diablo vibe for handheld.

[small comet]

currently spend way too much on pokemon games already

[pine bone]

What spending on Pokemon games.

[small comet]

like 500 or 600eur at this point

[pine bone]

Per game?

[small comet]

total

none of them have boxes either

its just cartridges in good condition

[pine bone]

Gunpla collecting is worse 👀

[small comet]

basically got gen1 up to HG/SS and then ORAS ontop

[small comet]

i wont commnent on platic model collections as they all through the bank seem overpriced

ive spend multiple hundreds of eur on 1 warhammer model.... and in the end just threw it away as i never painted it and the hobby just became more and more expensive to look at and get other nice looking shelve pieces

[pine bone]

It’s model kits. Gotta build em too.

[small comet]

i did

[pine bone]

It’s no glue and posable

[small comet]

but painting them is not my forte nor do i have the patience or skill required to learn how to properly paint figurines and models

warhammer figurines arent glued either

[pine bone]

Warhammer from GW store?

[small comet]

reseller of their stuff but yes that warhammer

[pine bone]

Kits from there are unpainted and unglued

[small comet]

i am aware

[pine bone]

And require glue and painting.

[small comet]

but they dont require glue

[pine bone]

Is it the tabletop scale too?

Or larger.

[small comet]

it was a large one although idk if its meant to be to scale of the tabletop as they have a really crazy universe

[pine bone]

Kotobukiya weapon model but the mobile suit is Bandai.

[proper basin]

big ass gun

[pine bone]

Howitzer shell gun.

[small comet]

i have no sense of scale

[proper basin]

bigger than a frog

[pine bone]

1/100.

[small comet]

ngl doesnt help lol

[pine bone]

So about 30CM give or take.

Some can be larger and taller or smaller.

[small comet]

the main issue i have with gunpla is im not an all too big mech fan and they mainly rely on friction fits not acetone solvents

idk if you can even use acetone to permanently combine pieces

[pine bone]

Like revell? Ye you can.

[feral ferry]

https://www.eurogamer.net/unity-6-engine-will-launch-next-year-with-expansion-of-responsibly-sourced-ai-tools

[still spire]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/778887485400154132/1175102766981591040/Screenshot_11_17_2023_9_53_45_AM.png?ex=656a02bc&is=65578dbc&hm=d5d7344b7cc32f7f2ebe62e84a79047f07c931828e787db17459b05907ea0ab3&

[pine bone]

Is it recommended ? No. Maybe for minor bits.

[feral ferry]

I hope Unity with the departure of the moronic muppet CEO will recover

Unity can definitely be a valid game engine for all kinds of projects

[stray sluice]

@feral ferry I think the problem is as a public company they'll always be more interested in chasing short term profits than long term gains at the expense of their developers.

[small comet]

[feral ferry]

That change I 100% was the CEO's BS move

Good thing the guy got sacked again after

Look up his history, bad decisions, shite directorship

Pushing microtransactions

[stray sluice]

It's good he got sacked but imo the real question is how did he get into that position in the first place

[vapid lintel]

Because Unity has never, ever turned a profit

And there are many organizations with systems built on unity that are not games and provide absolutely no revenue to Unity

[orchid prism]

Was about to say. Doesn't matter who the CEO was. The writing on the wall for a change like this was... chiseled into the wall.

[pine bone]

That looks like a cool handheld.

Is the screen big?

[vapid lintel]

Why did it happen now? Because the age of free money is over and now making a profit matters again

[stray sluice]

Hard to turn a profit when you keep acquiring questionable companies for large sums of money.

[orchid prism]

The entire industry has had layoffs this year.

Unity is just one of many.

[vapid lintel]

Their M&A isn't what is driving their loss making

[small comet]

3.5" and its a dual FPGA handheld that can natively play GB/C, GBA, Lynx, Sega handheld and more by just plugging in the back

they are sort of finalmouse style of marketing though

[pine bone]

Cool.

[small comet]

very limited stock and hyped up

1600 something x 1440p screen in those 3.5"

so GB/C games have a 10x integer scale on the res for better visuals

ill order some GBA mod kits next and then compare the 2 to figure out which one is better

[pine bone]

Idk finalmouse.

[small comet]

hype marketing basically. hype up the product and create FOMO by limiting stock severely

[pine bone]

Oh. You mean predatory *********** tactics. Got it.

[stray sluice]

$250 seems quite a lot for a gameboy

[small comet]

although i am a bit surprised by the price tag for oversees shipping a small gameboy pocket siyed handheld

[small comet]

the main appeal seems to be the openFPGA system they have where anyone can write programs for its second FPGA. most of the ones out rn are emulators for arcade machines and retro consoles

like the capcom arcades of the first generation etc

[wheat kraken]

Exactly. Buy a second hand vita 1000 or a damn DS or something

[wheat kraken]

I mean yeah I guess

[stray sluice]

Can't you emulate almost everything on a smartphone anyways?

[small comet]

well both of those cant natively connect via hdmi

[wheat kraken]

Well that too but the FPGA is the key point for like... True simulation of the system or something

[wheat kraken]

Switch

[stray sluice]

Phones can via USB-C?

[wheat kraken]

I said vita or ds

[small comet]

i cant stuff a switch down my pocket sadly

[rancid hearth]

At the very least they have something somewhat original unlike final mouse

[pine bone]

Buy proper jeans.

[wheat kraken]

Haha

[small comet]

either way i got it so i can compare it and the main alure is i can plug in my game carts without needing to load roms all the time

[wheat kraken]

Ah fair

[small comet]

the main main main issue is though.... that videos and reviews are really split on if its worth it or not

and many reviews were made on release a year or so ago where most of the updates that make it good to new reviewers werent out yet

[stray sluice]

Wouldn't it be better to pay extra 100 for steam deck?

I use that for psx games

[small comet]

i have no use for a steam deck.

for anything this one cant do i have a switch already

and most of the systems people emulate i own

like multiple DS/3DS systems. PSPs and such

my main hope is extending the lifespan of my GameBoys with this

[stray sluice]

Iirc you can get apps now where once ROM is added it handles icon/game art so u don't have to keep manually changing them

[rancid hearth]

Emulating 3ds sucks, some games are just meh in terms of performance on citra

[stray sluice]

On steam deck I just dump ROMs into the consoles name folder and it sorts out the rest and they show up in steam library

[small comet]

also got an everdrive on the way for my more uh aged games i would call them

mainly sucks on GB/C games cause the shell is designed in a way where the top cover always rubs onto the PCB

[hot spire]

On v60 with second screen it works great

[fading spade]

How did Laswell get a topless photo of Makorov to put in their intel database? xd

[hot spire]

Have it in some razer controller case

[orchid prism]

His lanagram.

[fading spade]

xd

[gilded light]

hey everyone, just wanting to check in and see which gaming mouse everyone is liking right now

[feral ferry]

All of them

[gilded light]

i have that problem too

[proper basin]

lol yeah

[feral ferry]

Except for steelseries

Fuck steelseries

[proper basin]

their is app so bloated its insane

and i thought razer was bad

[feral ferry]

Razer is pretty bad but it's not that shit

[proper basin]

yeah cuz at least i can install what i want with razers shit

i dont need any aimtrainer or clip recording thing from steelseries lmao only decent thing they have is sonar

[feral ferry]

17 is pretty awful dood

[small comet]

makorov? i assume this is cod

so makarov

u mean the lusty argonian maid?

[drifting rose]

17 hours for a campaign isn't bad at all, unless it's filled with open world shenanigans and grinding

you can't please everyone I guess!

if after 17 hours they still don't have enough, it ought to be good. in past years, you'd replay a really good game with new game+ and unlock cool shit

but that's the geriartric millenial in me speaking 😛

[still spire]

Eye is a good game, shame it was never finished

[drifting rose]

what site is that?

[orchid prism]

Stay online, turn off friends.

Hey presto.

[feral ferry]

People are supposed to play absolutely everything?

Get off your high horse

Ah fuck news hit, Star Wars KOTOR remake is dead

[digital dawn]

you dont have to play a game to hear of it

[feral ferry]

I have heard of plenty of games, not the random underground goblin ones that V' has invented

[orchid prism]

Good? If they won't do both games together, then don't bother at all.

[feral ferry]

Why would you want KOTOR2 remade

Wasn't that a bit eh

[orchid prism]

Irrelevant. It's part of the same story.

And the remake would be a chance for some of the restored content to make it back officially.

Like the cut planet that was partially intact on the Xbox version in game files but never used.

[nimble current]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbZ3HzvFEto

[trim rock]

Oh cool wonder if they fixed all the stuff they broke with the transition to steam

Oh they brought back the WON menu look that's nice

[silent vortex]

kotor 1 and 2 were awesome!

[nimble current]

I miss that menu

[feral ferry]

Dumb take but, whatever

Ahh they finally launched it

Half-Life 25th Anniversary Update

[trim rock]

Incorporated func_vehicle entity support from Counter-Strike, for mod-makers to use. Full SDK update will come later, but level designers can use it now.
FUNC_VEHICLE

[feral ferry]

When FUNC_VEHICLE in CS2

[nimble current]

oh wow they actually patched the game

[feral ferry]

No I have not and no I will not?

Dumb take to say that everyone just HAS to play absolutely everything just cause it exists

[drifting rose]

updating a 25 year old game, based

[feral ferry]

Ahahah

[trim rock]

Yeah, how many of the people who worked on it back then thought it would still be getting official updates 25 years later

[feral ferry]

Ivan is back

[drifting rose]

I have the alpha build with these zany models on my hard drive, it is quite something

[trim rock]

And good to see the tutorial texts are still as useless as ever

[drifting rose]

holy BASED

[trim rock]

Oh and they brought back the head roll when strafing, based

[drifting rose]

fucking 90s style software renderer

[trim rock]

Gotta have that fancy water

[drifting rose]

I don't remember. did it have quake 1 water?

the swirly kind

[nimble current]

haven't seen this menu screen since I was like 13

[drifting rose]

nice they updated it for 16:9

[nimble current]

they added the transition sound effect after the click one tho which triggers a long dormant muscle memory path in my brain

oh hey you can play hl uplink too

[trim rock]

Oh they even fixed the crowbar so the first hit actually deals more damage and one hit kills headcrabs

Wonder how much of this is because of the Dario Casali playthrough

[drifting rose]

the software renderer on linux is fucking spot-on

coronas around light sources look fucked tho

[trim rock]

Usekeying movables no longer sends them moving at lightspeed, speedrunners in shambles

[drifting rose]

never thought I'd play something that feels so much like the boxed copy I bought in the early 2000s, without resorting to fan-made stuff

[trim rock]

Now where 3

[feral ferry]

Never, lel

Half Life Alyx 2 next

Re-alyx'd

[drifting rose]

software renderer is a bit broken in uplink, at least. some doors, ladders and railings don't get rendered

[fringe salmon]

oh thats a good point

[feral ferry]

That means nothing

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1844380/view/3803912974092224489

New game is out

I saw that ending more than once

It's quite a good little twist to the ending

Especially that ||Gman somehow has ability to see and influence parallel universes||

Which.. I have to say was a bit dumb?

But it might have been planned to just unveil that from the beginning but this just makes the foe all the more unbeatable

But still, that ending literally doesn't mean that any of the Valve teams are working on HL3

[fallow bronze]

https://youtu.be/IKRGCwulOm8?si=UQ1iYzZOdATyxlZn

[fading spade]

🤔 ah yes, Hitler is Irish...yep yep

[fallow bronze]

Are you posting youtube screenshot again?

[rancid hearth]

the potatoes got to em

[barren pewter]

been meaning to

just need deckard to do the thing where it releases

[tired knoll]

Adolf Twinkler

[rancid hearth]

he/himmler

[fading spade]

Egg laying fetish

WAT?

wat

[rancid hearth]

you sweet summer child

[fading spade]

Never heard of this fetish and I dont wanna hear about it cause it sounds horrific... xd

[orchid prism]

Knock-off GB?

The GB is too old to trigger my nostalgia. I got started on SNES, PS1 and the GBC

[nimble current]

had one for a while as a kid

tbh very few games still hold up today

[drifting rose]

super GB cpu in game boy is a classic mod

[drifting rose]

agree, the vast majority was shovelware

[small comet]

?

[drifting rose]

reminds me of that guy who went around Spain, finding Resident Evil 4 textures in real life

it's the most impressive feat of extreme autism I have witnessed

[slim token]

sopmeone should find the bodies from that one game

[young hill]

might be late to this, seems interesting nonetheless

[void marlin]

K

[slim token]

this in vr would be dope

[small comet]

tbf thats how almost all games ever are done

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsCN0Yx2Vbs

this video was truly eye opening since i thought using real images for textures is a sort of newer thing

like ps2 era and onward

[green dune]

Nah just too bit crushed.

[fallow bronze]

https://youtu.be/IKRGCwulOm8?si=saKcOmch4Ypi19jP

[feral ferry]

https://youtu.be/Dd1DQUuRYo4

Well we know the release date so that's there

[still spire]

I can't wait for TLOUII Remake

[still spire]

So there's kinda a mindblowing thought

New SD OLED is 90HZ

Half-Life's 25th Anniversary

Steam Deck Verified now

You can now play Half-Life, a 90's FPS, at 90FPS on the SD OLED.

[feral ferry]

https://tenor.com/view/the-universe-tim-and-eric-mind-blown-mind-blown-meme-mind-explosion-mind-explosion-meme-gif-18002878

[still spire]

Long con by Gaben

[tough jay]

There are 3 9's in what you just said, 3*3 = 9, half-life 3 confirmed!

[feral ferry]

10$ eh

[novel umbra]

But it has guitar free play

And mario bros the lost levels

[feral ferry]

Wasn't this game a complete detachment from anything that made 1 a good game?

A complete writing failure

[tough jay]

Never played either of them, but as far as I understand the opinions of II differ quite wildly.

[feral ferry]

I played 1 and I can't say I liked it that much

It was fine, but a lot of downtime of just traversing apocalyptic terrain

Which I guess it a part of the experience, earth is fookd

Some forced arena sequences too which were a bit.. bleh

It was an alright game, wouldn't say it's the best thing ever

2 I heard what it packs in gameplay is completely destroyed by shoddy writing and direction

[drifting rose]

If you didn't like the first one, maybe the second one will do it for you! ignore popular opinion and make your own

[feral ferry]

I didn't say I didn't like it lol

It was just an average experience

And I'm definitely never touching part 2

[still spire]

Why?

Be specific

And honet

honest

😛

[bleak pike]

Guessing the same team?

This means pc then yay

[bleak pike]

Was deffo overrated but I liked it a lot

[feral ferry]

Ah they actually got Marc Laidlaw for the 25th anniversary documentary?

I was suspecting there might be some bad blood there between Marc and Valve considering the fallout and Epistle 3, maybe not

https://steamcommunity.com/games/250820/announcements/detail/3814047346171316603

[fading spade]

Its insane how Half Life was created and developed in less than 2 years

ooo so many guns

Valve have a wall of guns in their office, pretty cool!

[pure bear]

least armed american office

[feral ferry]

Those are fake, by the looks of things

Orange barrel tips

WHERE'S MY SCAR IN CSGO

[fringe salmon]

You would hope they are fake lmfao

[feral ferry]

Well it's America, who knows

They can have real guns there that are just disabled/deactivated

But those don't look in general like real guns lol

[fringe salmon]

Don’t think valve would be that stupid xD

Even if they are in America

[still spire]

https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/17y41y6/what_19_buys_you_on_steam_switch_gamer_perspective/

Another convert

Especially Switch games are expensive

[feral ferry]

Far Cry new dawn 🤢

[still spire]

All of that would probably cost you 250$ if it was on Switch :p

They got Baldurs Gate 1 + 2 EE for like 50$ when it's 3$ on PC lol

[feral ferry]

Well, 0, actually, if you just emulate

[still spire]

lol

Ok yes, if you piracy it up

[feral ferry]

It's also morally fine to emulate anything Nintendo

They have more than enough money to not have any layoffs or be hurt as a company

Mothercluckers sell games like it's nothing

[still spire]

Ah I see, so you align with Jim Sterling. 😛

I get it

[feral ferry]

I don't know much about Jim, he's from the old era of youtube, kinda in the same league of pro-consumer advocacy like Cynical Brit used to be

Last I heard Jim's gender transitioned or something? Made a lot of enemies with that move lol

But Jim shat on Wargaming when WG was on their bullshit so he has that going for him, from my perspective

[still spire]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OA8xrgLqQZ8 The legendary video

[fringe salmon]

didnt watch it but still think its a braindead take and doubt anything in there would change my mind

[still spire]

lol

[feral ferry]

Tbf consumers love piracy until they become game devs and realize it's bad for sales

[fringe salmon]

personally think it's ok if you dont have the money, if you have the money but think its not worth it just dont buy it

nobody is entitled to have a game just because they disagree with something the dev/publisher whoever does or says

there is so many others, just get something else if you dont think its worth the money

[tough jay]

To me morally copyright and buying is mostly a social expectation to all contribute to funding future works.
Pirating can be fine under circumstances but with caution.
Just because Nintendo keeps their games expensive does not mean it's justified to pirate them.
That being said pirating a game way outside the window the original developers could reasonably expect to gain revenue on it, I find it perfectly fine.
Even if a competing re-release / remaster exists, assuming you pirate the original.

Of course there are always other exceptions that sound fair, but you need to at least make a good case for it.
If a game releases to € 1000 at launch, the value is absolutely ridiculously bad, and you just want to experience what it's all about, sure go ahead would be one.

In the past I thought differently about it but that's where I stand

I also think pirating what you already bought is fine or pirating leaked early copies.

In the later as long as you buy it when expressing a genuine interest, not just a interesting that it's leaked kind of thing.

[drifting rose]

why the fuck would I care about the wellbeing of the most greedy industry? steal as much as you can

[karmic lagoon]

If I set rapid trigger to .15 should I also set the actuation point to .1 or is it better to keep them both at .4 for like wsad

[fringe salmon]

wait you think gaming is the most greedy industry lol

[drifting rose]

hyperbole to get my point across

[tough jay]

If you genuinly believe 100% of the game industry might as well not exist, feel free to pirate.

[fringe salmon]

what about the option to you know, just not get the game thats too expensive in your eyes

[drifting rose]

I do buy games, lots of them in fact, but I do pirate in equal measure

[fringe salmon]

why not just not pirate and ignore those ones

[drifting rose]

because I wanna play them/check out if they're any good

game is crap = bux saved

game is good = I buy it eventually

[tough jay]

Why not just wait when the game is on sale before you play it?

If a game is crap on somewhere like steam you can refund.

[drifting rose]

I guess I'm just used to doing it like this

but waiting is not an option anyway, I may have lost interest by the time it's on sale

[fringe salmon]

and doing the 2 hours then refund isnt enough to decide if its crap or good?

[drifting rose]

nope

[heavy gull]

you can also watch / read reviews before tho

[fringe salmon]

nah I can understand not doing that, especially if its story driven I dont want to read any spoilers or anything

[heavy gull]

oh yeah fair

[fringe salmon]

and mechanics can be fun for different people so that might also not say anything unless its like egregious issues

[tough jay]

I know where you are coming from, I pirated a lot of games myself in the past, until somewhat recently on my switch.
It is a transition to make mentally. I would mostly recommend you to keep thinking about it.

There is a social expectation that when you play a game on launch you are paying the higher price.
If you pirate the game you are doing a wrong towards the people who did happily buy it and could have pirated instead.

Why should they pay when you don't?

[drifting rose]

I think if it was easier a lot more people would do it, I don't think consumers inherently conform to moral obligation to pay

as an aside, I recently got pissed that valve removed a game I paid money for from my steam library, and replaced it with another one they deemed better. you aren't buying games, you are buying a license to play them in perpetuity, unless the publisher decides different

that, I think is a bit fucked. the piracy of today will be the game preservation of the future

[tough jay]

Yes it is, though for single-player games on pc with a few exceptions it's been mostly fine.
This is one reason I personally try to avoid closed systems like consoles.
In the past I used it as an argument to pirate switch games, but now I mostly just don't play them, which to me is the better answer.
If there is a switch game I really want to play I'll buy it but I'll mostly leave the system be.

[drifting rose]

I'll wait for emulation to play Tears of the Kingdom and other stuff I may be interested in

[tough jay]

Just wanted to say there have been 0 games since I own my steam deck that really prompted me to go back to my switch.
Maybe I will emulate tears of the kingdom in a decade or so, but there are enough good games I can play instead.

[still spire]

I try to convert people at work with that argument too, that it might be pricey initially but the savings on PC games, plus having them for basically ever makes a big difference

[still spire]

https://www.humblebundle.com/games/wb-100-play-legends

[tough jay]

Cool I guess. Just already own or don't care about these.

Still one of the better bundles.

[still spire]

Yeah

[still spire]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/692387066365083678/1175458433940607048/image.png

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWMpPABozKo

40 second load times

Entering and exitring anything

OG version had no load screens at all

[pure bear]

who woulda thunk that nintendos throttled ancient hardware could not run that

[still spire]

I know but

40 seconds

[digital dawn]

in a decade? it runs fine now.

[granite pier]

Hi guys, im trying to remap my keybinds but there's no save keyboard in the top right like the youtube video shows

can anyone help me with this?

[orchid prism]

Stop making changes to an inactive profile. There is nothing to save.

Drag it up to replace one of the four ACTIVE profiles that are on the board, and you'll get the option to save.

[granite pier]

ohh

[orchid prism]

(Or just edit one of those)

[granite pier]

youre the best thank you

[feral ferry]

Right

So, where are the graphical improvements?

PS5 version at the bottom, if you can't guess just by the image

That looks very meaningless

[deft bloom]

Cash grab

Gash crab

[fringe salmon]

if you have the game you can get the remaster for 10$ I think it was?

if you didnt have it you get a new version with some more details

there have been worse cashgrabs

[nimble current]

imagine not being id software and charging money for your remasters

bit cringe tbh

[fringe salmon]

also I know you are trolling but look at the zipper or in general the cloth

quite easy to see if it wasnt a shot where like half the image has depth of field and the other is in the shadow

[drifting rose]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT0Z_M-fJyM

[small comet]

old news

[orchid prism]

Very intriguing. But only in technical terms. I see no point in playing it on an N64

[drifting rose]

I think the sale window for N64 games has passed by about 25 years yes

[small comet]

its not to be sold

its a fan project

[drifting rose]

technically, this is completely awesome and I think that's the point

[orchid prism]

I'd argue it isn't even meant to be PLAYED beyond a "huh, neat" technical demo.

[nimble current]

is basically like when I got quake running on my old nokia symbian phone, the effort gets you some bragging rights but nobody in their right mind should play it in that state

[drifting rose]

I have an n64 + flash cart + old television here, I might give it a whirl and see how playable it is

[small comet]

they want to port the rest of the levels but yes its more like doom on all devices. just technical demo stuff of "yes we can"

[tough jay]

I have been following the portal 64 project for a while, it's mostly just interesting to see how far the conole can be pushed.

[tropic vapor]

the original game still gets load screens if your drive can't stream assets fast enough

usually thats alleviated by running it on an SSD but also higher graphics settings and a not as powerful gpu increase the asset streaming load

ive noticed on the PC version at least i get much more loading times with raytracing on

(like i mean enough for doors to show loading spinners when they don't often show one on lower graphics settings)

[feral ferry]

What was it supposed to win?

[barren pewter]

[feral ferry]

It wasn't even that good

Quite pretty though, some visuals did look good

Story was really really basic ass

Combat was a bit of a joke outside of like 1 boss

Idk, a very basic 2005 formula in a pretty package

Not a GOTY, but maybe a contender for some other awards

[barren pewter]

most mediocre niche game entry 2023

[feral ferry]

Maybe we should have gaming's razzies?

Would get more awards out.. in the word possible way

What's this year's razzie winner?

Some would say one more than it deserves

Lol that's the only one it deserves to be in

[barren pewter]

Best action game this year was RE4R

The horror elements were nonexistent

Oh, hard agree

RE2R still blows me away

[feral ferry]

GOTY? No. Game direction? No. Narrative? I liked the little woman companion but.. nah. Art? Maybe. Music? Can't remember any of it. Audio? Can't remember any of it. Accessibility? Don't care really.

For me it seems it got nominated for all the awards it deserves to be nominated for, and that's action game

Which will prolly go to hi-fi rush anyways

[feral ferry]

That's an action adventure

Which RE4R isn't winning either lol

[fallow bronze]

Lol I thought it was a leet soak of rear.

[feral ferry]

Hard to call who's winning action/adventure

I think TOTK takes it

[tough jay]

Let's see, Jedi Survivor is going to win this one, that would have been the best joke

[feral ferry]

I still pray that GOTY is Balding Gape 3

It's like 6 months old

[tough jay]

Forgot Dead Space Remake came out this year

2004, 2007 don't forget those

[feral ferry]

So many games, so little of them I care for

2024 is prolly going to be more interesting for me personally

[tough jay]

Actually not the best year for me, have not played any game that came out this year yet

[feral ferry]

Out of the big boys the only one I gave a fair shake was Baldur's Gate 3 and that was pretty pretty good

It has its weaknesses which get very apparent towards the end

[tough jay]

Kind of unsure if BG3 is my game, also have not done a whole lot of gaming this year

I know what it is, also sort of want to do it coop but need someone to play it with, A guy I also play dnd with is a candidate but so far kind of open.

Otherwise I want to play their earlier games first

[feral ferry]

It's a good experience in SP

And doesn't require previous knowledge of games cause as far as I gather there's not much continuity

There are returning characters though which to me meant nothing lol cause BG3 was the very first D&D anything I played

[tough jay]

Obviously not but I already own the Divinity - Original Sin games, so might as well play those first.

Oh I just remember I do own one of these 2023 titles, Jedi Survivor, got it for free with my cpu.

Just have 0 attachment to Star Wars either way, no real interest of playing it anytime soon

My experience with Star Wars goes as far as what the internet serves you + half watching a few of the movies I did not find particularly noteworthy on tv as a kid.

[feral ferry]

Ngl after BG3 I felt inspired to try DOS2

And I couldn't get past first arc it's just so damn boring

Who put shitty silly humour into my bloody RPG

[tough jay]

Sort of in the first act of DOS1, unsure about it as of now

Game is supposed to have a very much inverse difficulty curve

Anyway the biggest thing I have against it is it's open nature, I don't want to be safe loading a lot and I am not a fan of branching paths in general.

[feral ferry]

They ain't wrong lol

And the projects were supposedly working on was a multiplayer game

(and a part 3 but who gives a shit)

[nimble current]

did the game even have to be remastered or did they just tack that on to differentiate the console only version from the pc also one

[fringe salmon]

its a 10$ upgrade for people who owned it on ps4, idk there have been worse deals

[nimble current]

isn't the first one about the same age as gta5 now

[fringe salmon]

think so

[feral ferry]

There's also Smart Delivery which is completely free and nobody asked them to remaster that game and then monetize it

[fringe salmon]

I said there have been worse deals I didnt say it was the best deal

[nimble current]

if its visuals are comparable to what gtav does am not surprised if they didn't do all that much in that regard

inb4 "next chapter of gta" trailer turns out being a mission dlc for V and the base game receives a remastered namesake

marketing lingo for porting the games over to current gen ps network so they can kill support for the original release?

and how has that stopped developers from making forced online launchers

[fringe salmon]

you cant really retroactively add that onto a singleplayer game

much less on console

[nimble current]

I mean, I'm no playstation expert, I just know consoles are as full of this perpetually online bs like everything else these days

[digital dawn]

I think they’re referring to always online games where you need a connection to play

[nimble current]

and ps4 isn't that old so wouldn't be unimaginable

[tough jay]

The only thing I would sort of want at a low price is something that can either cleanly capture 480p over hdmi without much latency or integer scale 480p to 1440p hdmi in / out.
But honestly the build in scaler in my monitor works fineish

[bleak pike]

i see the switch cannot handle that many chests xD

[bleak pike]

Using windows on the deck to get rid of windows by making a steam os recovery drive

[still spire]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/778887485400154132/1175679582565826560/RDT_20231119_191021.mp4?ex=656c1bef&is=6559a6ef&hm=3ddc3401e786bcc50f228c9c754078f41a6a8bea92cded0ca279d22fcba22bec&

[severe compass]

The second they said it was live action I knew the Zelda movie was for nobody

[still spire]

I mean, anyone who didn't think Link's name was Zelda as a kid is a liar

cause everyone absolutely did

[orchid prism]

wat

The games literally calls him Link over and over

[still spire]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F_AUiwAXwAA0zWK?format=png&name=360x360

[still spire]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2023/11/18/the-walking-dead-just-released-a-shocking-hilariously-bad-game/?sh=7efba9c4172d

[fading spade]

🤔

[feral ferry]

A bit of casual lanaposting

https://youtu.be/M-qxuyUQ5GU

Ahahahah

Ymfah is truly one of the best, he's jumped on the AI train and the content is top notch

[orchid prism]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/EQjRjTw3TUA

Literally me every time we discuss Minecraft updates.

[feral ferry]

How it feels when Lana keeps lanaposting in a public discord

[orchid prism]

https://tenor.com/view/johnny-depp-court-objection-hearsay-gif-25461916

[fading spade]

cherry blossom elytra 😍

[feral ferry]

Still hearsay?

[orchid prism]

https://tenor.com/view/fair-that's-fair-stefon-bill-hader-snl-gif-11240744675777193136

[bleak pike]

Someone is playing bedwars

Also that looks like a elytra

Oh it is

[fading spade]

nah., not bedwars xd

im playing a parkour map xd

[tough jay]

That's one way to do it, though creating a recovery drive from linux is generally easier

[fading spade]

Valve also suggest using Etcher to write the Recovery Image, or dd in Linux

[tough jay]

Using DD is mostly stupid to use for that as per the arch wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/USB_flash_installation_medium
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/224277/is-it-better-to-use-cat-dd-pv-or-another-procedure-to-copy-a-cd-dvd/224314#224314
https://www.vidarholen.net/contents/blog/?p=479

Personally I just use cp isofile.iso > /dev/sdx

[bleak pike]

I mean windows was installed

SteamOS

[tough jay]

I am just saying technically creating the bootable drive from steam os desktop would be easier on paper, oh yea you probably need to have sudo access / set a password not hard but if you didn't do it sure.

[bleak pike]

Well yes but windows was installed not sheam os

There was no Linux to access

[tough jay]

Fair enough

[feral ferry]

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/11/17/parents-sue-gaming-companies-over-video-game-addiction-because-thats-easier-than-parenting/

That sure would work

[severe compass]

Kid probably has depression or some anxiety disorder that needs treatment, but his parents as always skip over his needs to try and fill their own pockets

[feral ferry]

https://vxtwitter.com/Genki_JPN/status/1726209453664686394

2023 was a pretty meh, 2024 will be amazing

New mainline Persona game

[fringe salmon]

calls one of the best years for gaming meh lol

[feral ferry]

It was meh though

[fallow bronze]

I expect it Turns out the games were a coping mechanism, and keeping the kids from doing worse

[fringe salmon]

we might have not gotten some new entries in some series but overall in gaming we got like everything you could want

[feral ferry]

Nowhere near lol

RPG genre middling this year, RTS is borderline dead in a ditch

[fringe salmon]

whats your definition of rpg

[feral ferry]

Yes yes technically Baldur's Gate 3 and Hogwarts are RPGs

[fringe salmon]

that is why I'm asking

[feral ferry]

But more open world, non linear, go wherever you want shit

Starfield was meant to be that and we know how that worked out

[pure bear]

starfield kappa

[feral ferry]

I think this year is a bit overstated

[fringe salmon]

cyberpunk dlc and horizon burning shores? lords of the fallen, ToTK

spider man2

[feral ferry]

A game that nobody will play cause the distribution sucks, a GOTY, a PS5 exclusive that wasn't even that good apparently, mediocre remake that lost all the good aspects of the original, Mario, and an expansion to Breath of the Wild lol

Might need to try out that Cyberpunk DLC though, Horizon is another PS5 exclusive

Still, 2-4 alright games doesn't make the year "best in gaming"

[fringe salmon]

that is just in one genre ignoring other games that didnt fit your criteria lol

lies of p, octopath 2, FF16

[feral ferry]

Octopath 2 was this year? Okay that's interesting

[fringe salmon]

atelier ryzer 3 for a different combat system of rpg

then we have indie games or mid size that are doing great like sea of starts

avatar game in december

[feral ferry]

2024 just has so many more interesting titles than whatever released this year

[fringe salmon]

oh the recent yakuza game is also rpg

sure we will get some good games that are lined up for 2024 but unlikely its as much variety and quality as this year

[feral ferry]

I might need to pick up FFXIV to get into for the new expansion

Which people are apparently a bit hyped up for

[feral ferry]

Well it'll certainly be different genres than this year, but I like the games that will come out next year far more than most titles from this year

And a lot of the "big games" launched botched this year, so there's that

Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, Elden Ring DLC, Metaphor Re Fantazio, Stalker 2, Hades 2, Frostpunk 2, FFXIV DLC, Little Nightmares 3, Hellblade 2, Star Wars Outlaws, Still Wakes the Deep, Wolf Among Us 2, Bloodlines 2

I'm somewhat interested in that new Granblue Fantasy game

Next year just has far more RPG than this year

My hopes for Ark 2 are shallow but there's that..

Also Baby Steps is next year as well which will be funny

And that's just what's announced, I imagine there could be surprise reveals for 24 in TGA's

I expect Kingdom Come 2 to be next year, hopefully which would be one of my GOTY's

[fringe salmon]

I mean if we want to just list things, alan wake, the jedi game, hifi rush, AC6 RE4 were all this year