🎮│game

[young hill]

Say he was veteean sangeli clan member

He was from halo discord

Cannot have nothing nice at times

[little cape]

i remember one time i tried playing halo infinite with a console player through a halo discord and bro started tweaking

dropping slurs left and right

and he was like" I HATE YOU PC PLAYERS YOU RUIN EVERYTHING"

I just laughed

[compact oriole]

man. american servers sound so eventful. unlike euro servers where noone fucking talks

[mellow garden]

That's cope

[little cape]

i heard its the other way around

i seen clips of eu server being more eventful than NA

[compact oriole]

standard noob cope. console players crying about pc players and pc players crying about aim assist for rollers

i can only speak from watching streams, but having a unified language 300mil people speak makes it a lot better

[young hill]

We cannot even do simulatenous keyboard gamepad on it

[buoyant osprey]

And when they talk it's some Ruskie

[compact oriole]

anyone know why steam has been dying tonight? everyone loads super slow if at all

[sinful cobalt]

Maintenance its Tuesday

[mellow garden]

It is time

[compact oriole]

im so bored i almost preordered

but im waiting to see actual live gameplay

hopefully some early access streams coming up

[hot spire]

they al,ready got permium horse armor, gonna be a no for me

[young hill]

it do not even look like the same person anymore

[little cape]

he was typing it in the halo discord but you right

[young hill]

Oh

[cold anvil]

PS5 finally has a game

https://vxtwitter.com/PlayStationUK/status/2033974146770641076?s=20

PlayStation UK (@PlayStationUK)

It was time for Thomas to leave. He had seen everything.

You know the theme tune, Thomas & Friends: Wonders of Sodor is out now on PS5.

▶ Play video

vxTwitter / fixvx · Mar 17, 2026, 6:30 PM

[young hill]

It seems silly we cannot have dual input at the same time though

Console players have comfort and aim assistance

We are not gonna be getting that

Especially since the system would fight itself you know

[buoyant osprey]

Amazing. Maybe PS6 will have half a game through its run

[bleak pike]

That looks insanely detailed for a kids game lmao

[maiden tulip]

Fortnite is insanely detailed for a kids game

[barren pewter]

HOLY SHIT FINALLY

omg it's on steam

omg it's on steam

[cyan pewter]

@vital wren game should not have been this close

[vital wren]

I hate overtime

[young hill]

this time i was part lara croft on loading

[cyan pewter]

was sweating bullets

[hot spire]

DO NOT PUT LOTION ON THE VAPOREON

[verbal nymph]

2 more days

[vital wren]

@cyan pewter did they fucked up cs cases?
Like I saw a Ohne clip talking about X-Ray scanner

[cyan pewter]

yeah you dont get slidy cases anymore

there is a lawsuit against valve cs2 cases enabling gambling

[vital wren]

But the gambling was the good part

[cyan pewter]

yes

[vital wren]

Aww man

[old glen]

I just saw that the original subnautica 2 devs were reinstated, I don't feel bad about buying the game now lol

[verbal nymph]

It's for the best. Just a step before any kind of in game gambling is reduced

[verbal nymph]

Preloaded the game

Now we wait

For 1 day 18 hours

[cold anvil]

Crimson desert?

[verbal nymph]

yes

[outer pollen]

@bleak pike

Requirements for the 4th map in Marathon

[outer pollen]

The person that got access to my accounts stole my Riot account

Blessing or Cursed

[serene orbit]

Same passwords?

[orchid prism]

Someone out there forced to play DOTA forever. Just punishment.

[serene orbit]

https://tenor.com/view/teemo-gif-19065277

[outer pollen]

Nah I downloaded cracked game and it had infostealer I think

I changed everything else but forgot to change Riot and Humble Bundle

[orchid prism]

https://tenor.com/view/shame-septa-got-westeros-walk-of-atonement-gif-3828987465249036403

[outer pollen]

[compact oriole]

dota supremacy

https://tenor.com/view/dota-dota2-invoker-nyx-rave-gif-25637997

[serene orbit]

Did u use a browser password manager?

[outer pollen]

[outer pollen]

Yeh

[scarlet marlin]

I tried to do a final rank push last night for marvel rivals

it did not go well

[serene orbit]

Gg firefox?

[orchid prism]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6d5XtIFx48

[outer pollen]

Yeah

[verbal nymph]

1 day 12 hours left

[serene orbit]

Yeah firefox stores passwords in plaintext

Use bitwarden

[small comet]

even with the master password?

[hardy merlin]

That was few years ago, logins.json is encrypted by default
But they can still copy your cookies

[small comet]

isnt that every browser where they can copy your cookies

[hardy merlin]

Yes

That's why CORS and cross-domain cookies exist

[small comet]

oh i meant when they are on your pc

[hardy merlin]

Ah... then no, it's just plain sqlite

[outer pollen]

I’ll look into it

[serene orbit]

Yeah it only has to be unlocked and they can export it anyways haha

[hardy merlin]

I believe Chrome uses OS keychain to store cookies, but Chromium browsers do not

[outer pollen]

This was a coordinated attack to try and steal Marathon from me

[serene orbit]

Sadly they failed

[outer pollen]

They did get my Epic account, but I got that back. I’m in the process of getting my Riot account back and they stole 21$ from me by buying Hollow Woke: Slopsong

[vapid lintel]

Hollow Woke: Slopsong? Your suffering is deserved.

[small comet]

so they can copy it very easily in any browser

[stiff fiber]

will crimson desert be good

[orchid prism]

Only time will tell.

If you're unsure, wait for reviews and influencers to play it for a bit. Let Starfield be a lesson 😄

[stiff fiber]

yeah apparently 400k person pre ordered the game on steam

crazy if the game is not good

[compact oriole]

hype around the game is pretty high. i almost preordered out of boredom as well

but ima wait for steam reviews and actual unspliced footage from streams

[verbal nymph]

I'll give you my opinion on Friday

[stiff fiber]

Yeah waiting for some reviews

I have already too many games to play so I wait to see if the game is really excpetionnal

[scarlet marlin]

that doesnt have to mean anything

if the game just doesnt work or isnt fun

its gg

[outer pollen]

The sad part is some people will still defend the game just to not be wrong

[scarlet marlin]

the game is not out yet

lets just wait and see :)

[compact oriole]

reminds me of another game

[outer pollen]

better not start with an M and end with an N

[nimble current]

people never learn not to hypetrain

[sinful cobalt]

And they never will

[compact oriole]

[compact oriole]

https://tenor.com/view/scrubs-hype-hype-train-train-zach-braff-gif-17276201

https://i.imgur.com/R8wshRV.png lol didnt even know slay the spire devs threw shade at marathon

[scarlet marlin]

peak gaming right here https://store.steampowered.com/app/3743790/Thomas__Friends_Wonders_of_Sodor/

Steam

Thomas & Friends™: Wonders of Sodor

Join Thomas and friends on a special journey across the Island of Sodor! Hop into the cab of the North Western Railway’s classic steam team, and enjoy nostalgic stories and all-new narratives right from the driver’s seat. Embark on a magical journey and explore the Wonders of Sodor as you’ve never seen them before!

Take the controls of…

Price

$39.99

Recommendations

130

[sinful cobalt]

$40

[outer pollen]

Might get this for my nephew

[orchid prism]

I didn't even click it! God damn you Discord. Stop selling my data

[sinful cobalt]

[nimble current]

yeah discord needing ID checks my ass, they already know everything about every user

[scarlet marlin]

[outer pollen]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-orange-spin-hat-one-brain-cell-gif-2745719316163357325

[compact oriole]

its crazy.. literally ill be talking to people in voice about something or in chat and youtube will give me recs based on that

[nimble current]

voice chat is supposedly end to end encrypted and discord claims they can't listen in on it

do I believe them? not really

[verbal nymph]

they're listening to your mic

[compact oriole]

actually

now that i think about it i think it hasnt happened as much or at all recently

am i not interesting enough for advertisers anymore?

[orchid prism]

67 67 skibidi rizz

There. That should help your algo.

[compact oriole]

thanks for the help

nah im actually just thinking about if it maybe wasnt discord as i assumed but my google pixel phone that i stopped using a couple months ago

[mellow garden]

Chat, are we cooked?

[compact oriole]

on god

[mellow garden]

fr fr no cap

[nimble current]

yeah this happened all the time when I had an android phone

could have an irl discussion about something and I'd get recommendations on things discussed almost immediately after

[verbal nymph]

ooo, does that mean thid year is the year of IOS???

[nimble current]

idk it hasn't happened since I switched back to iphone

[compact oriole]

havent had that happen with my samsung so far. ill pay more attention the next couple weeks

[trim rock]

Haven't had that happen to me, but I turned off all that automatic hey Google nonsense

[nimble current]

mine was an assmung phone

[compact oriole]

same i disable all the mic shit but it was still happening while i owned the pixel

[nimble current]

I never used that stuff or had it on either, I switched off as much of the google assistants and tracking bs as I could find in settings but somehow it would still happen

[compact oriole]

they hide so much shit in a billion different options. basically cant get all of it unless you got some comprehensive guide lol

[bleak pike]

I'll most definitely not unlock that

[outer pollen]

[nimble current]

yeah don't think I'll return to android anytime soon, its not that I don't like the actual user experience but having google breathing down my neck at all times got old

[compact oriole]

better having apple breathing down your neck at all times, i get it

[nimble current]

well at least they aren't sharing that data with every punter on the internet

but yes I know better than to think they're not collecting things too

[compact oriole]

only reason ive not gone to apple is the closed appstore stuff. tho seems like thatll change for android as well..

[verbal nymph]

September 2026, a nice time to also switch to apple

[compact oriole]

rn i have versions of apps of youtube, twitch and reddit that have no ads and a couple more features than the originals for example. i dont wanna give that up as long as i can

[nimble current]

and apple doesn't constantly remind me of how tirelessly they're stalking me like google did

like I'd visit a location and google be all you were last here 8 days, 15 hours, 36 minutes and 13 seconds ago

thanks google I really needed to know that

[compact oriole]

if we get to a point where im fucked on either platform and i cant work with another os like graphene, i will probably swap to apple if i think the pricing is alr

does iphone have the function of going back by swiping from either side?

i remember people complaining how going back is not unified and different in every app

[nimble current]

in browsers at least

[compact oriole]

not a global function?

[nimble current]

I mean in apps like discord you sideswipe to get back to channel list and such so can't really have it do both

[outer pollen]

You can swipe back from the left side edge

Or the bottom left edge to go back to the previous app

[nimble current]

oh yeah bottom edge swipe worked

[outer pollen]

I don’t use it often myself since I forget it exist

[nimble current]

idk I never use it, I just swipe up from bottom to bring up all the open apps

[compact oriole]

i used to have an app that gave me edge swiping to go back before it was widely implemented on android. its a small thing but i think its essential

[nimble current]

I find the side swipe annoying more often than not while browsing because its too easy to do by accident

[compact oriole]

well either way. apple hw is insane and their cameras are at the top with samsung

not that id need that kinda hw.. i dont use my phone much

i just care about a good camera

[nimble current]

I mostly want a decent camera and screen, don't care much about powerful hardware

I haven't had a game on my phone in like a decade

[verbal nymph]

Same. Having nice camera would bring me to capture more of my life

256 would still be fine since I'm okay with transferring my picture to another place.

[serene orbit]

Only thing i seen about crimson desert so far is negativity from bdo players who seemingly dont even play bdo. Just random skeptics without real criticism apart from the game being too ambitious. And people who are super hyped. Seemingly not much middleground

[outer pollen]

I know some people aren’t happy about the Denuvo

[hardy merlin]

I will not play it
Now
Because Death Stranding 2 releases too on the same day

[serene orbit]

But the benchmarks were done with denuvo so who cares at that point

[outer pollen]

Ohhhh that’s good I thought they were done without

[serene orbit]

Nope DF and PA said the benchmarks and hardware reqs were with denuvo in mind

[outer pollen]

That’s good

[serene orbit]

Only people complaining about denuvo now wouldnt buy the game anyways in fairly certain

[hardy merlin]

I'm happy that DS2 doesn't have Denuvo
I won't be paying 80€, Sony is joking

[serene orbit]

Im hyped but im also cautious about it being as wide as a lake and as deep as a puddle

[serene orbit]

But what does denuvo impact if the requirements are released?

[hardy merlin]

I can get it from alternative sources

[serene orbit]

I mean yes you can bypass denuvo with an environment for which you have to disable all your security features, but idk why people care about denuvo if they would buy the game anyways

[hardy merlin]

I wouldn't buy not because of Denuvo, but because I won't be paying 80€ for a game, either wait for discount or for it to pop up already without DRM on certain sites

[compact oriole]

just cz they tested it with denuvo already doesnt mean the game runs worse than it could because it has denuvo

[serene orbit]

https://tenor.com/view/joe-biden-what-gif-3784745843284049350

[compact oriole]

many games usually run worse because of denuvo. df having tested it with denuvo is great. so we know the numbers are what they are. but the game could still be running better without it

[serene orbit]

Yeah but people were positively surprised about the spec requirements but now its suddenly not good anymore cuz denuvo?

[hardy merlin]

I think it's a case of

[compact oriole]

thats bs ofc

i buy all games i like so i dont mind drm that much in a sense but i do not like denuvo and how it often fucks with perf and a game having it means im not gonna buy full price but get a key

[fringe salmon]

denuvo basically never fucks with game performance though

you have cases like capcom adding their own drm on top for RE village that fought with denuvo and the no drm vs just denuvo without capcom drm fps were basically the same

[serene orbit]

Same for monster hunter

With their dlc issue

[hardy merlin]

Denuvo doesn't fuck with game performance if it's properly implemented
As in per Denuvo recommendations, and not game studio execs hallucinations

[compact oriole]

ive not made a list but there were quite a few games that sufferent from lags and/or worse fps because of how denuvo keeps checking if its legit

[fringe salmon]

im certain almost all of them are quite old at this point and not a case anymore

the latest one where I know someone properly tested it

[compact oriole]

well thats one. and most recent denuvo games havent been cracked yet

actually doom dark ages was cracked so the other 2025 games may soon as well

[bleak pike]

They hinted something "that'll surprise you"

For the next crack

[compact oriole]

[fringe salmon]

yeah and all the examples in the other way were capcom games so lol

which means there isnt any example that denuvo hurts performance unless its capcom

[vapid lintel]

When next EMPRESS rant?

[compact oriole]

isnt she completely out of the game and fell from grace in the community?

[serene orbit]

Yeah think empress quit

[hardy merlin]

She was supposedly either snatched by Denuvo or is working on her MMO nowadays
Or lust lost her marbles completely at this point

[serene orbit]

I think theres only another dude now, or the bypass with another environment which has to disable all your security features to be able to run well

[hardy merlin]

Nah, scene exploded now
Voices is doing HV bypasses, but there is other group which built on top of that and now can reliably crack v2025 of Denuvo
Now both of them do both types of cracks, and there are some other smaller guys somewhere in there

[serene orbit]

The group is doing it 1 by 1 starting at 2025 right?

[vapid lintel]

Awwww

I enjoyed her derangement

[serene orbit]

In amelie we trust

[verbal nymph]

1 day 14 hours left

[serene orbit]

I took my friday off muhehehe

[compact oriole]

didnt know it was the same guys for both. im still hoping they find a way to use the hypervisor stuff without all the security BS. day 1 viable denuvo crack would make me

obv i dont know and theres a reason some of the big studios use denuvo but i feel like denuvo only helps bad games

[verbal nymph]

actually, 1 day 8 hours.

brain tired after exercise

[compact oriole]

any word on streamer early access today?

[serene orbit]

Why spoil yourself

[compact oriole]

i wanna see unspliced gameplay to decide if im going to buy it

since i cant just try it

unless they have a demo

[scarlet marlin]

for that one game everyone wants to play?

or the thomas game

[compact oriole]

whyd you say the same game twice

[scarlet marlin]

[outer pollen]

Who’s hopping on Marathon?

[small comet]

what marathon?

cant say im a good runner but ill try

[vapid lintel]

We can do a walking 5k, Tony

[outer pollen]

Marathon reference!

[small comet]

germans have a sport?

[compact oriole]

sport ist mord

[vapid lintel]

Blitzkrieg without the blitz

[scarlet marlin]

langlaufen

[narrow junco]

@ivory dune

always gamble

[small comet]

look its diablo 2

[ivory dune]

What the helly

I have a 95 only :(

[narrow junco]

i got so damn lucky

this is the first good one i ever got

before they were all under half of the total roll range

[outer pollen]

Dude I should buy Diablo 2 on Steam

Anyone played Toxic Commando yet?

[maiden tulip]

Dont say that too loud or reddit will freak

[hardy merlin]

When will Reddit not freak out

[hasty belfry]

Buy on console and you get no denuvo :>

[scarlet marlin]

maid deadpool

[compact oriole]

ye. they get worse performance for free

[outer pollen]

that doll skin looks cool

[quiet vault]

🤔

[scarlet marlin]

you mean the penni skin?

[orchid prism]

I am entirely unsurprised. 😄

[outer pollen]

Whaaaa

[scarlet marlin]

I dunno who else you could refer to with doll

[outer pollen]

If this is penni that’s cool

[scarlet marlin]

yes thats penni deff!

[outer pollen]

insta getting the pass

[scarlet marlin]

https://giphy.com/gifs/xbox-game-xbox-series-x-s-Py1UaQFbcmMwLjF5s2

[verbal nymph]

hmm, since tomorrow is the release day and on early day I won't have much energy to cook

I might just eat a bunch of cereal and 1l of milk, that's good enough

[pure bear]

dont forget a few cans of monster to top it off

[verbal nymph]

that's for the 6-12 hour mark of my play

[plush anvil]

Dogshit latency dlc inclusive

[little cape]

what rank are you ?

[hasty belfry]

Game is on disc so it wins automatically

[compact oriole]

ye with a day1 50 gb update

[hasty belfry]

Crimson Desert 💩

My Deluxe arrived today probably sending it back because of the download requirement.

[compact oriole]

are you serious?

what kinda internet do you have that you put stock in the game being on the disc

[scarlet marlin]

made it to dia1

second season playing ranked seriously

[little cape]

aaaaaah makes sense

diamond -gm is hell

[scarlet marlin]

because I hadnt played ranked since s1 (I just wanted to get to gold for the invis skin and stopped afterwards) I got put into the bronze/silver trenches

thats real hell

where you get dps cloak players for example

[little cape]

reminding me of the ptsd from rivals ranked matches

getting spiderman who never swings, bruce banner who never transforms into hulk

bp dashing into nobody

https://tenor.com/view/vietnam-flashback-traumatized-cat-gif-7852054576948114551

[verbal nymph]

man entered the wrong timeline

[little cape]

in the early seasons people use to throw like crazy and still do now

and now theres a wesbite where you pay random people to throw matches

[verbal nymph]

at that point, having a friend becomes a requirement

[little cape]

yup in that game

full squad or you wont have fun

[verbal nymph]

that's why I don't play that sort of game, no friends 😭

[little cape]

i had friends who played it but i would reach higher ranks without them

i mean i would make alt accounts and play with them but rivals community is something else man

You have people who play selfishly and dont try to play with the team

and refuse to swap characters when things arent working out. "I love spiderman or wanda I'm not changing!"

[compact oriole]

some people prefer fun over winning

[little cape]

i dont like ow but the gameplay balance is just better in ow compared to rivals

[verbal nymph]

the vibe man

[little cape]

rivals feels like a dps junkie game and the healers are trying to keep everyone alive

[little cape]

thats true

but in high elo ranked matches?

i understand that pov in qp

[compact oriole]

idk some people take it more seriously and some just play in there. sucks when the mismatch happens

[little cape]

the most fun i had in that game when i dont play with my friends were in ranked matches where randoms actually communicated and worked as a team and we end up winning or very close matches but we lose

[stiff fiber]

really curious to know if crimson desert is good

[little cape]

playing with people who only play for themselves and wonder why we lose horribly is what takes me out from playing the game tbh

[verbal nymph]

1 day and 5 hours left

[little cape]

and the devs dont really do much to make the experience better

[hasty belfry]

My bet is 7/10

Maybe 8/10

[verbal nymph]

I'm hoping for at least 8/10

Like, I wanna play it for the visual since it looks like how I want my minecraft to look

[hasty belfry]

I got yotei for free yesterday so playing that with the new PSSR

[little cape]

Hows that? Right now im playing ghost of tsushima

[stiff fiber]

I feel this game wont be mid either very bad or very good

[serene orbit]

I mean 8/10 is already a great game no?

9/10 is like goty, 10/10 is rare

[verbal nymph]

Yesh, I have hope in da Korean dev

[hasty belfry]

I've only played for like an hour but so far so good, it looks nice, sadly I never played it before the update so can't really compare.

[stiff fiber]

10/10 is like botw witcher 3

[little cape]

fair i was hoping that game came to pc but from the looks of it

it wont

[outer pollen]

Arc Raider player mentality

[stiff fiber]

this is why I like arc raiders

I am just happy with good goop

[compact oriole]

well if its mid its very bad with the expectations around it

[outer pollen]

https://tenor.com/view/live-by-the-goop-die-by-the-goop-goop-goopa-theburntpeanut-theburntpeanut-goop-gif-17020388325775660040

[serene orbit]

None of those are 10/10 for me

Thats the neat part about games and your own opinion

[stiff fiber]

yeah even if it is good the risk is people will be disapointed

[stiff fiber]

10/10 for me is starcraft, subnautica

[serene orbit]

Starcraft is a solid 6/10 for me lol

[outer pollen]

I just feel like they’re promising a lot for Crimson Desert but I do hope they deliver

[stiff fiber]

wtf

[compact oriole]

i used to tryhard a lot but these days i just try to have fun. its better to have fun in most of the games instead of 50% (the ones you win)

[buoyant osprey]

Crimson Desert looks so unappealing to me. The Korean design. The particle effects

[outer pollen]

@maiden tulip Crimson Desert on Switch 2 when

[compact oriole]

game barely runs on a ps5

[outer pollen]

I’ll come home from work and then go straight into a couple of Marathon matches

[little cape]

it doesnt help there's EOMM so the game forces you to be with terrible teammates at some point if you dont queue with a full squad

[stiff fiber]

I want to like marathon but it is too difficult for me

marathon needs sbmm but if you say that in the discord people feel like you insulted their family

[outer pollen]

You can’t say anything about the game in the discord cause they’ll just say “skill issue”

[compact oriole]

whats eomm again? engagement based? or like based on skins or some shit?

[serene orbit]

For me 10/10 is like rdr2, gta5, bg3, the last of us, ghost of tsushima, minecraft, skyrim

[hot spire]

gtav really?

[serene orbit]

The cod thing right?

[little cape]

yeah its engagement based so if the game sees you won like 4 matches in a row they give you teammates who been losing 10 matches in a row

which ruins the whole experience together

[serene orbit]

Yeah why wouldnt it be? Great story, great gameplay, multiplayer is loads of fun

[stiff fiber]

sadly I fear people dont play this game because too difficult and honestly they struggle to justify why they dont want sbmm. I think they just want easy target without realizing easy target stop playing the game if they feel it is only frustration. Then they said to me it was like a fromsoft game and I shouldnt complain

[little cape]

isnt cod skill base matchmaking?

[serene orbit]

I think cod had a skin based matchmaking too

[little cape]

or was at one point

[hot spire]

but it has so much potentional on mp that was killed for greed.

[stiff fiber]

I am sure tons of people dropped marathon because of the matchmaking

[serene orbit]

Such as?

If just the prices are killed by greed then i dont think you’ve ever play the right heists cuz money was and still is trivial in gta:o

[buoyant osprey]

I don't have a single 10/10 game

[barren pewter]

New Vegas

[buoyant osprey]

Definitely not

[barren pewter]

[hardy merlin]

From now on better watch out every time you cross the street

[little cape]

naw watch the sidewalks too

I'm driving every where

https://tenor.com/view/spongebob-spongebob-meme-driving-funny-hit-and-run-gif-7943957724749628048

[maiden tulip]

do you guys even have a gaming setup in pokopia

[mellow garden]

[hot spire]

you 3d printing people with that thing damn

[bleak pike]

Is that a fridge

[mellow garden]

Looks like a mini fridge to me

[bleak pike]

Ye haha

[maiden tulip]

yes a gaming fridge

DO YOU NOT SEE THE RGEEBEE

[stiff fiber]

I think we will see review of crimson desert soon

[buoyant osprey]

It's just way too flawed for me

[little cape]

the only thing bro enjoys is being miserable

[buoyant osprey]

Did I say the game sucks? It's good just too flawed to be a 10

[stiff fiber]

having a mini fridge next to the pc would be nice

you can drink cold in summer

[little cape]

100% resident evil 9 just to say the game sucks

[buoyant osprey]

I didn't say that

[maiden tulip]

dont trust soria he plays on a microsoft ergo keep knockoff by logitech a fuckING MEMBRANE KEYBOARD

[hot spire]

wild take, i prefer membrane over most mechs

[mellow garden]

No Wooting?

Hall Effect ergo keyboard would kinda fuck though

[hot spire]

i only use wooting because analog

i want analog tactile back

[maiden tulip]

no its like the squiggly keyboard

[mellow garden]

I know what I'm asking for

[hasty belfry]

My dental office has this one

[maiden tulip]

soria dental office worker confirmed

[buoyant osprey]

It's comfy af

[maiden tulip]

you GAME on this

It's objectively a bad board for gaming

[hot spire]

i mean i doubt

[young hill]

ERGOnomic

[maiden tulip]

we need to excommunicado soria

no wooting and said newvegas aint a 10/10

[hasty belfry]

Bethesda game

Automatic 6/10

[buoyant osprey]

The specs aren't good true but it's too comfortable to give up unless Wooting makes something like this

[mellow garden]

I agree on New Vegas

Bethesda RPGs are mid

[hasty belfry]

I use ball mouse, we all know shape is king and it just so happens to be a baller.

[buoyant osprey]

Obsidian developed, Bethesda published

[stiff fiber]

Apparently some people says cryo archive you cannot enter if you play solo in marathon

[hasty belfry]

Still runs their turd engine

[cold anvil]

I thought they had 80he?

the big 80he but only got 77.5% in question

the sense aint makin sense

[cold anvil]

I agree, I don't think there has ever been many objective 10/10 games. there's always bias and preference

even my most favorite games I consider in my top 10 are flawed

[outer pollen]

Pokemon Red

[maiden tulip]

He doesnt

It was cancelled xd

[cold anvil]

https://tenor.com/view/festthefestivefest-morgone-jones-morgan-jones-tweaking-tweak-gif-14491782401479632016

how you gonna claim the badge but not own the product

[compact oriole]

hes an amogus

[cold anvil]

I love my 80he way too much

[cold anvil]

This is awesome

[maiden tulip]

I upgraded my gaming setup @outer pollen

@bleak pike

@hot spire

@mellow garden

litwick wants to play

[cold anvil]

I think its just as good to play bad games as it is to play good games cause then if you go unchecked you’ll have a warped perception of good and bad games and just have really high standards

Make sure to give the stinkers in your library some love ya’ll

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3280350/DEATH_STRANDING_2_ON_THE_BEACH/?snr=1_4_4__118

Steam

DEATH STRANDING 2: ON THE BEACH

From legendary game creator Hideo Kojima comes an emotionally charged evolution of this genre-defying experience. In bringing this title to PC, KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS worked with Nixxes Software to deliver the definitive version of the critically acclaimed console release.

Unique and realistic world
In the expansive open world of DEATH STRANDING 2\…

Price

$69.99

Release Date

Mar 19, 2026

SOON

[mellow garden]

Crimson Desert for me

[mellow garden]

[vapid lintel]

I can't wait to be an Amazon delivery driver

[lone oasis]

don't know if anyone posted this already https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/cozy-grove

[bleak pike]

Random but ok lol

[fading spade]

Muse Dash looks different now....

[cold anvil]

Why is Andrew Tate there

[fading spade]

[mellow garden]

@ivory dune the new WoW raids are cool. Done the one boss on normal, 4/6 done in the other.

No loot

[verbal nymph]

1 day and 1 hour left

[fading spade]

90 FOV on Bedrock, no stretching on the edges like on Java

60 FOV (Default) vs 84 FOV

[fading spade]

huh?

[trail dove]

when I first got minecraft I unironically played on quake pro now it makes me sick to play on anything above 90

[sinful cobalt]

I used to play with max fov on JAVA

Now im happy with 75-80 fov

[trail dove]

yeah quake pro is max on java but it's awful like the post above the edges get super distorted and ugly

there are now mods that fix it but you shouldn't need mods to play the game comfortably

[buoyant osprey]

Always been a 90 fov enjoyer. In my TF2 days I also often enjoy upwards of 110 fov

[fading spade]

i use 88 fov on Java

[cyan pewter]

i play on 95

[orchid prism]

You should set your FOV based on your monitor.

[sinful cobalt]

I was a kid and i only played PVP

[stiff fiber]

I never played minecraft

Where should I start?

[sinful cobalt]

There is no real end to Minecraft so you can just play the latest version

[fading spade]

what FOV for 1440p 27 inch monitor then?

[stiff fiber]

On the website there is minecraft java bedrock, minecraft dungeons and legend, I should get jqva bedrock right?

[sinful cobalt]

[fading spade]

if you wanna xd

its argubly the better version to play on PC

why did Microsoft go to the trouble of making official shaders for Bedrock that are enabled by default but they dont work on Multiplayer servers despite being entirely client-side???

Better yet, they dont work when you have a resource pack enabled even in singleplayer
Even the official texture upgrade pack doesnt work with them

you can only use these shaders on offline singleplayer with resource packs disabled

Meanwhile, Bedrock custom UI back at it again with a map selection screen

[mellow garden]

Good first raid night of the current WoW expansion. No loot, but good to blast with the boys™ again.

[young hill]

I remember a long while back in SCUM they updated the way FOV is

[fading spade]

Wtf
Right is just zooming in

[trail dove]

dungeons is a different game, it's an arpg so definitely not that one. if you want to play with friends on consoles or mobile then get bedrock otherwise java is the best version to get for pc

altho dungeons is pretty fun if you're looking for minecraft that's not it

[young hill]

Looks better that way in my opinion

[fading spade]

I had dungeons on switch cause I got it free
Laggy as hell on switch but fun

[young hill]

probably more noticeable on an ultrawide

[cold anvil]

I am so washed

[fading spade]

Wtf

I really want to play beat saber
But I also know that I'll probably suck at it

The only rhythm game I'm good at is Muse Dash and I can barely do level 10 songs on that

[cold anvil]

muse dash is neat

[compact oriole]

what the fuck. i thought this was a rythm game with music, not exploding kitchen appliances

[sinful cobalt]

I would love to buy a quest 3 for vr but yeah its kinda expensive

[compact oriole]

you can get one used for like 300 bucks and pirate 95% of its library with 10 min work

[sinful cobalt]

I would only use it for beat saber

[compact oriole]

well then 300 bucks is quite expensive unless you put in hundreds of hours. and if you get it on the quest idk if you can play custom songs

[sinful cobalt]

I would get it on steam

But i don’t have the space for it

[compact oriole]

if you can stand and put out your arms around you thatd be enough for beat saber

[fringe salmon]

you can mod it on the quest store version but steam is much easier

[cold anvil]

beatsaber has a very high skill ceiling but nobody knows cause of how niche the custom/competitive scene is

[compact oriole]

its a fucking hard game. iwas just poking fun at the insane song

[cold anvil]

oh ok

[compact oriole]

i couldnt imagine playing with this song for hours

[cold anvil]

idk how many hours I have cause I started playing on quest but if I had to guess it'd be close to or maybeee over a thousand hours

def past 500 hours

[sinful cobalt]

I could get Quest 2’s for 250$

Quest 3’s starts at 320$

[fringe salmon]

quest3 or quest3s?

[sinful cobalt]

Normal quest 3

Okay quest3s cost 375$ while Quest3 cost 600$

[fringe salmon]

huh

[sinful cobalt]

That was a dead headset price

[fringe salmon]

[sinful cobalt]

[fringe salmon]

holy shit

[fading spade]

Hmmm.......

[sinful cobalt]

Add a 27% vat to the price

[fading spade]

This includes vat

[fringe salmon]

€ prices are required to include vat

[fading spade]

Ok but why is the cable €115?!

[fringe salmon]

if you get it in another country that has a higher one it would just add the difference I suppose

its expensive but not an apple level scam because its actually better

its fibre obtic cables with converter at both ends so it guarantees usb3 at longer cable distances while being flexible

but you can find quality ones for cheaper as well

[fading spade]

Oo

[stiff fiber]

Thank you I play on pc so rather java I guess

[sinful cobalt]

Without vat 265.99€ with vat 337.8€ for a Quest 3s

[stiff fiber]

Review of crimson desert are out apparently gigantic world, a huge open world reminding of games like botw, good combat system but boring story. Apparently people love the sandbox aspect of the game and dont really care about the main story

[trail dove]

huh I don't remember buying black desert but apparently I did in jan of 2025

[compact oriole]

embargo dropped 45 mins ago

[trail dove]

oh it was free to keep so ig I didn't buy it but just got it for free

that would be why I don't remember it

[fading spade]

.... WAIT WE HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL POSSIBLY DECEMBER NOW??

[sinful cobalt]

[fringe salmon]

hey if they delay it long enough they might make the gpu good and/or amd finally gets their ass kicked to make fsr4 work on rdna3

[compact oriole]

tbh with valve having stpped production of index and base stations i feel like the frame will at some point be the only option if you dont wanna go meta

like the big screen beyond 2 is amazing but if i cant replace my base stations when they break that fucking sucks

[fringe salmon]

someone else will produce them while people are still using it

they talked about letting others manufacture them and being in talks for that

[compact oriole]

well can someone else just produce em?

[fringe salmon]

yes?

[compact oriole]

its not obvious.. can they just make their own and theyll be able to communicate with the headsets?

and if they can, why has noone made any

[fringe salmon]

see

[compact oriole]

ye. in the talks

so the answer is no

until it changes

i hope they do even if it fucks with their own product

[fringe salmon]

I mean essentially someone just needs to come to them and be like hey we want to make them, and show they can and valve is probably just saying okay heres permission and schematics

[compact oriole]

yes, but that hinges on valve giving permission and sharing information

[fringe salmon]

which they said in some interview they are open to do because they dont need it anymore

[compact oriole]

it still hinges on that.. so you cant just make your own atm

[fringe salmon]

actually I might be mixing up and this is from something earlier and htc already is doing that

[compact oriole]

htc were the first to use this system

do they still make headsets? i havent heard anything from them since around index launch

[fringe salmon]

yeah htc does have the lighthouse 2.0 they make

[compact oriole]

seems theyre still selling em

[fringe salmon]

yeah they make xr in any kind still

[compact oriole]

so if they dont stop, i guess its pretty save to get base station tracked headsets

buying pimax or big screen and years down the line when your base stations break youre sol

[outer pollen]

@pure bear bro I just bought a collector pack for MTG and got shit

[proper basin]

thats how they get you

[outer pollen]

Should have bought mango, marathon instead

https://tenor.com/view/cat-orange-spin-hat-one-brain-cell-gif-2745719316163357325

[proper basin]

indeed

yet you were a fool

[outer pollen]

https://tenor.com/view/giygas-cat-melon-cat-psychotic-gif-25770926

Joker cat

[little cape]

lowkey been thinking about getting some MTG cards

[outer pollen]

https://fxtwitter.com/culturecrave/status/2033925452860166214

Culture Crave 🍿 (@CultureCrave)

First official look at Black Cat in 'Marvel Rivals' 🎮

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[cyan pewter]

yeah bro

[cyan pewter]

new support kinda broken too

[young hill]

[little cape]

👀

[young hill]

makes sense

[verbal nymph]

21 hours left

[fathom swift]

So what's it gonna be called?

So there's just not gonna be a name for online services yet you'll still need to pay for them?

[outer pollen]

"Station"

https://tenor.com/view/patrick-star-spongebob-squarepants-wow-mindblown-gif-13169052

[verbal nymph]

Playstation Web

I dunno

[fathom swift]

Play hub

[verbal nymph]

Yesh, I have a PH account long time ago.

[cyan pewter]

@outer pollen i need new wuwa waifu

https://tenor.com/view/wuthering-waves-wuwa-hiyuki-legendary-miko-gif-5791220460490938729

her name is hiyuki

[outer pollen]

what's her thing?

[cyan pewter]

ice

works with none of my characters

but that’s not what we play wuwa for

fuck team compositions

[outer pollen]

https://www.ign.com/articles/crimson-desert-review

[little cape]

I got on halo mcc and played some social games. My first game was griftball and people were just standing around tbagging for the entire first round

https://tenor.com/view/halo-gif-12948310

[young hill]

bruh

[verbal nymph]

I see

19 more hours

[outer pollen]

9s and 10s is fucking crazy lol

[verbal nymph]

I think I'm going to like it

I don't really care much about the story and just there to do sheet and do good. Much like how i treat BOTW

and Skyrim.

I feel like the only thing I worry about the game now is the bugs but if like 80-90% of it are fine, im good.

[young hill]

not really a fan of epic games but might grab that

[serene orbit]

Reviews sure, ign idk xd

[hardy merlin]

Huh, may be an actual good RPG

[orchid prism]

You DO have to score it now, fuckos

[stiff fiber]

I dont know saw some video seem like a botw kind of game but not as good

[serene orbit]

https://www.reddit.com/r/CrimsonDesert/s/vNyzjHTALr

A lot of reviewers are in here apparently

A reviewer was shittalking another reviewer and the reviewer who got shit talked was in the thread lol

[serene orbit]

Apparently this guy rated highguard 7-8?

[stiff fiber]

feel like the reviewer and the companies do not really get that people are not so much invested in AAA games

expedition 33 and arc were not AAA games

still best games recently

[hardy merlin]

IGN is a meme site
CoDs and Ubislop games get consistently 8s and 9s, good games get 5s and 6s
So CD may actually be really good

[stiff fiber]

well the truth is probably at the intersection of every review

and from what I read most people say good sandbox/botw kind of game, boring story

gigantic world

[hardy merlin]

Skyrim got 9,5/10
Ask anyone if they remember anything from Skyrim main story besides Paarthurnax

[orchid prism]

Yeah... TES main stories have always been a weak point.

Especially the middle slog of the big three.

Most people remember escaping the sewers in Oblivion, Kvatch and the big finale. But everything in between? That gets muddy fast.

Or doing all the shitty back and forth in Morrowind for the tribes.

[hasty belfry]

Morrowind is just the best TES game, Oblivion and Skyrim too dumbed down and they got rid of all the unique and cool quest gear.

Skyrim is just 💩

[compact oriole]

idk its a korean game. i didnt expect it to have a worthwhile story

[orchid prism]

https://giphy.com/gifs/archerfx-pam-archerfxx-tough-but-fair-L4Huas8DQDp28AW30K

[thin junco]

hello play dead game warfork on steam (around evening time for ur region)

[orchid prism]

I recognize the sounds but not the game. Some kind of new Quake game?

[thin junco]

warfork as name implies is a fork of warsow which released 2012 yeah its a dead quake "clone" lol
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsow_(video_game)

[orchid prism]

i c ic

[thin junco]

warfork on steam warsow has its own client

both active around evenings just different gamemodes

[orchid prism]

Haven't played Quake since... god... III Arena?

[thin junco]

mm yes

thing ab it lol

#shamelesshilling

[hardy merlin]

Warsaw? It really is a dead place and a shithole

[orchid prism]

[thin junco]

https://tenor.com/view/ishowspeed-waving-polish-poland-flag-gif-9622601764257784242

fake news

^speed in warsaw

[orchid prism]

I dunno... doesn't look like anyone's moving fast in that clip.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUVf_CQ32KU
Gotta love seeing new channels just pop up and release great content.

Also "Our imperial guests hate alcohol - But it won't stop them from drinking it and blaming us for it anyway"

Classic RimRim 😄

[vapid lintel]

You did this

[orchid prism]

Mmm... I kind of want to do a Treasure Planet themed playthrough now. Steampunk and Medieval themed base, a mechanitor running a small wooden ship base, roaming the planet.

[serene orbit]

https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/s/OkjvleWDxL

[vapid lintel]

Wooden gravship? Madman

[serene orbit]

Some of the critical consensus after over 60 reviews on aggregate sites:

A lot of reviews point out that it is trying to go for a Witcher 3 feel.

Pros - Amazing combat, incredibly large world, looks premium - basically a great sandbox game

Cons - undercooked story, bland quests, frustrating enemies and bosses, and some game-breaking bugs reported by the likes of IGN and VGC

But i read the frustrating enemies and bosses are due to a lack of grinding for skills

But bland story and quests were my biggest worry

[orchid prism]

There's a mod for it. Uses magical crystals instead for non-contemporary Rimworld 😄

Yarr de harr

Oooh and cannons on the sides for the real fun.

[compact oriole]

ye im not gonna take some "critics" opinion on enemies and bosses

[novel umbra]

yea apparently you can go crazy in combat and a lot of journalists want to see as much of the game as possible (for obvious reasons) + they generally tend to have a lack of skill

[orchid prism]

I'm so glad I don't have to deal with any of this. If it's good in a year and on a decent sale, I can consider it then 😄

[serene orbit]

Yeah i played 4 hours of it and the bosses are difficult, but not frustrating or anything

I think i did like 7 different bosses?

[compact oriole]

reviews say what i expected. gonna have to see some live gameplay to decide if i think id put a ton of time into. it seems to be an insanely huge game

[serene orbit]

Also kinda weird that the reviews are like “i put 200 hours into the press release but after 200 hours ive seen most things”

Is 200 hours not insane nowadays anymore

Does this include finishing the entire story?

[compact oriole]

being able to put 200 hours in 1 playthrough is pretty insane

[stiff fiber]

Apparently the world is huge and the one enjoying the game play it as a sandbox

[compact oriole]

assuming you didnt waste a lot of time into not progressing by doing live skilling or building a settlement or some shit

[serene orbit]

Maybe i should read the reviews more in depth but yea i wonder if they did allat

[compact oriole]

ye from what i gather its a huge sandbox with very little hand holding. im hoping its akin to how fromsoft does it

[stiff fiber]

from what I have seen it seems they did several things good but they missed the storyline

[serene orbit]

Yeah pearl abyss is weak on the story lines

[stiff fiber]

Yeah I think people enjoying it will play it this way

[stiff fiber]

I dont understand these studio just hire some writers

[compact oriole]

korea in general. idont remember a korean game with good story. they usually do really good gameplay

[serene orbit]

Hoped they improved it for crimson but apparently not much

[serene orbit]

Where winds meet story was alright too imo

If its that level its good enough for me

[stiff fiber]

well if the game already give 100 hours or more fun it is still that

they will do better on the storyline on another game

[compact oriole]

id expect it to be along those lines ye

idk "not a good story" is always kinda iffy to say. like i dont think any fromsoft game had a good story

because those games have fat lore but not a real story in that sense where shit happens

honestly i just hope its little dialogue and exposition and no handholding with some ultimate goal you try to achieve

similar to dark souls and elden ring

if the story is bad but you also need to constantly listen to exposition thatd be annoying

[serene orbit]

I don’t think i can recount you the dark souls or elden ring stories ngl

[compact oriole]

ye those games have like a very basic premise for a story and then a lot of lore in the world told through encounters with characters, item descriptions and visuals of places you go

youre always some kinda chosen undead that wants to break an eternal cycle

i really like how they do it. hollow knight is very similar in that way

[verbal nymph]

13 more hours

[compact oriole]

11pm release here <.<

[verbal nymph]

6 am release for me

Very brave of them to do it 1 day before weekends in Korea

[compact oriole]

why

[verbal nymph]

Thinking that they either think the game is complete enough to allow for some rest or having to sacrifice one just to fix game breaking bugs found by players.

[stiff fiber]

I think they will fix stuffs

rest next week

now seem like the game is already succeeding when it comes to sales

[compact oriole]

ye im not sure they have normal weekends with releases like these. probably not

game devs in general

[hardy merlin]

I'm sorry, because it will be a bit harsh
But with no digital scarcity and with current speeds of internet you have to be kinda braindead to preorder games on digital platforms

[bleak pike]

Sadge

[bleak pike]

That's what I had feared

[serene orbit]

Why sadge

8/10 not good?

[bleak pike]

I care a lot about story

And most reviews are saying it's bland

[serene orbit]

Yeah its not a storygame

[verbal nymph]

It's alright. At least there'll be Death Stranding 2

[stiff fiber]

I dont understand these studios creating such a game and not hiring a good writer for the story line

[compact oriole]

lol some of these people are such a joke. some guy gives every fifa 80 but gave crimson the same mark as forspoken.. 60

[compact oriole]

gameplay > story

[stiff fiber]

yeah but I dont know it seems making a good story is not the most difficult part

there are good storyteller in the world

[verbal nymph]

Yesh, if I want to read story, I just watch movie rather than trailing people talking about lore for 3-5 min.

[compact oriole]

lol id say making good stories is difficult

[stiff fiber]

yeah you need to hire the people knowing how to do that

cannot help to feel like they overlook the story

witcher used to be a book before being a videogame

you need to hire some fantasy writer I think

[hardy merlin]

Oh, DS2 is already on seas

[compact oriole]

ye has been for 2 days

[hardy merlin]

Not on private trackers still

Hoped for some easy credits

[compact oriole]

[novel umbra]

Dark Souls 2?

[hardy merlin]

KojimaVerse: Death Stranding 2: On the Beach

[novel umbra]

a

[trim rock]

a

[fathom swift]

b

[verbal nymph]

b

Hmm, if I can't sleep I might actually have to be awake for 24 hours lmao to be able to play during release time

[mellow garden]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joDXWCNf-JM

[hardy merlin]

New FSR4 INT8 dll is here
It's from OptiScaler Discord and I tested it myself too

[novel umbra]

man I really hope you can put the dlss5 dlls into anything

would be really funny

[orchid prism]

Shove it into Oblivion Remastered.

[vapid lintel]

You can't improve on perfection

[orchid prism]

Boop the snoot

[scarlet marlin]

https://giphy.com/gifs/9mc-shitpost-sigma-face-O4B8IPrI2BOFCpr5P9

[compact oriole]

if you dont sleep before release youll play less cz you need to sleep

[compact oriole]

im sure people will find ways to patch it into many games with smth like optiscaler

the lighting tech could be interesting for old games

[novel umbra]

"the lighing tech" aka just guessing shit

meanwhile the lighting tech that people actually want is just rtao that isn't as horribly optimized as lumen is atm

[verbal nymph]

I see

[compact oriole]

dlss in general is "just guessing shit" but its been doing it really well. and ye real ray tracing would be even better but that takes a ton of work and lots of resources from the gpu

[novel umbra]

bro they used fucking 2 5090s for dlss5

it is anything but light on resources

[compact oriole]

well itll take some time before we get it either way and probably longer to be better optimized

i would think that once its not a stupid insta showcase that itll be lighter than rt. but maybe im wrong

[novel umbra]

don't get me wrong, it is a technological marvel, but you can't just say it is not well optimized right now

they are doing live image processing, that shit takes a ton of resources right now

[compact oriole]

the next tech you wont be able to use for the next 5 years like rt

rt been around since 2018 and i feel like you werent even able to actually make good use of it until 40 series

[novel umbra]

nah with RT the biggest issue was a lack of titles that properly used it

it would have been great at AO even back when it released

only title that used it for that back then was metro tho iirc

and lumen afaik still is software RT so it runs like ass

[compact oriole]

ye

[fringe salmon]

Fun fact epic made Lumen use software RT because they didn’t trust the consoles could do RT and then when it turned out RT in rdna2 worked it was kind of a “huh guess this was pointless” moment

[novel umbra]

great

Lumen runs extra bad on amd cards iirc as well

[compact oriole]

direct x got or is getting some kinda update that is supposed to help a bunch with ray/path tracing performance

ok apparently its smth devs need to implement

[compact oriole]

do you happen to have or be able to procure german trackers by any chance

[orchid prism]

Two steps forward, one step backwards.

[compact oriole]

lol

how much were the packs on their own

[orchid prism]

Oh boye...

More of course. But this is definitely not the best way to handle a game with this much DLC 😄

The game has a 10 bucks a month DLC subscription.

[mellow garden]

Me being an ETS2 enjoyer

Although that's only twice per year for map DLCs

I typically don't buy the cargo packs etc

[orchid prism]

Somehow manages to be more expensive than Warhammer 3 - Which is such a DLC intensive game 😄

[white hamlet]

Any slay the spire 2 people in here? I just started playing the first game and quite like it. Second game worth it yet? Or too early

[scarlet marlin]

I bought the combo deal a while back

havent played it yet

[vapid lintel]

I picked it up, am enjoying it

[white hamlet]

Is it worth getting the second game without having played much of the first?

[verbal nymph]

7 hour 30 min left

also forgot this

[compact oriole]

https://tenor.com/view/steam-gaben-sale-gif-22090346

[verbal nymph]

I HAVE NO MONEY, I SPENT $200 on KEEB PART NOT LONG AGO.

😭 😭 😭 😭

Maybe summer sale I'll actually open my wallet

[bleak pike]

My printer wants a word

[verbal nymph]

a

[maiden tulip]

https://youtu.be/5XM_Is7k7UY?si=521cQXJgUNmAqsnp

[maiden tulip]

The steam sales kinda suck nowadays anyways

[verbal nymph]

I mean, there's always older game but I guess, at least the thing I wanna buy actually have decent sale

[compact oriole]

theyre like exactly the same as always but if youve been on steam more than 2 years theres nothing to buy

new games have even seen bigger sales quicker than they used to

you see games going on 30%+ sales just months after release sometimes

dashi just a valve hater

[bleak pike]

Good or bad

[maiden tulip]

Small drop not enough to be problematic

[vapid lintel]

Cash poor but keyboard rich \

[quiet vault]

https://youtu.be/dGuBHlqcPF8?is=2doHFo6A3TSlbwDz

[small comet]

so underground 2 is still the best game for modding cars?

[grizzled quarry]

Is that an ls swapped miata i see

I seen a chaser👀 👀 👀

Alright im in, been waiting for chasers in forza for a long while

[serene orbit]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1481623825262051358/1484164804603150386/image.png?ex=69bd3baf&is=69bbea2f&hm=5dbe2afd81dcea15339583d2148def2c00ded4a4c7a3bdc384887cbde8c3f70c&

[nimble current]

still got no idea what this game is

[verbal nymph]

You are Crimson in a Dessert

6 hours 14 minute left

I slept in the morning so I don't need to sleep at night

[outer pollen]

You’re trying to bring the greymanes back into power

[compact oriole]

fucking liars

how did no reviewer catch this. theyre all paid off

[compact oriole]

huge ass sandbox medival high fantasy rpg singleplayer

[maiden tulip]

https://www.gog.com/en/spring-sale

just a reminder that this exists

And that you actually own your games unlike steam

[outer pollen]

Then Dashi turns around and defends Nintendo

https://tenor.com/view/isabelle-animal-crossing-mario-backflip-gif-27169535

[serene orbit]

You mean after gog almost went down the same rabbit hole? 😄

[maiden tulip]

the ownership switch was a good thing

Also you do own your games

[compact oriole]

nintendo can do no wrong and valve can do no right

[compact oriole]

they can literally just nuke any license you have online and/or ban your account and youre sol

they can even just brick your switch if they want to lol

[verbal nymph]

my fear if I ever get switch 2

[maiden tulip]

im talking about gog?

Are you stupid

[buoyant osprey]

Looks like offline Black Desert Online to me

[maiden tulip]

Also regarding nintendo... even a banned console is still usable

[compact oriole]

ooooh ownership switch as in they switched their approach

i thought you meant nintendo switch

[maiden tulip]

Valve can brick your steam deck

If they feel like it

[compact oriole]

valve can ban your whole account for no reason

[maiden tulip]

I got banned from steam for credit card fraud by mistake and it took weeks to get my account back

Literally any company can screw us over

[compact oriole]

gog is nice. but there you also only own the game as long as you have the installer

[fringe salmon]

wow the brain gymnastics to say valve can close your account for suspected cc fraud to they can brick your steam deck should be submited to the olympics

[maiden tulip]

They literally can

[nimble current]

pretty sure you can run whatever you want on a steam deck

[maiden tulip]

You literally can't access desktop mode without logging into steam first

[nimble current]

don't need to be steamos, or be logged into valve

[maiden tulip]

Since the latest update

[maiden tulip]

Technically yeah you could install another distro on it

[fringe salmon]

thats not bricking you steam deck

[maiden tulip]

But it's about as bricked as a switch being "bricked"

[fringe salmon]

that just means you cant use the default software

no thats really not the same at all

[maiden tulip]

Yes and a switch that's "bricked" can still play physical software and whatever's installed on it

[fringe salmon]

you cant just put a regular os on the switch

[maiden tulip]

You can still play all of your games

Just no online

The only thing is if you factory reset it after a ban well since there's no online you can't redo the activation process

So just don't factory reset it and you're good

Also valve had blacklisted steam decks for being reported stolen

[verbal nymph]

I don't think you can just reinstall Switch 2 OS and have your system be 'unbricked' and play game online. Unlike steamdeck.

[fringe salmon]

thats still not bricking the device

[maiden tulip]

Yeah none of it is bricking

[maiden tulip]

The switch 2 isnt bricked tho

Literally can still play games

[mellow garden]

This is pretty common for a lot of hardware

[fringe salmon]

neither devices are being bricked, only the switch can be fully banned so you dont have full access to the thing you bought

[maiden tulip]

The way we describe bricked it kind of a joke tbh

[mellow garden]

Laptops, tablets, and phones can all be bricked if they're stolen.

[maiden tulip]

You can play everything that's installed on the machine

[mellow garden]

Apple can even detect parts taken from stolen devices.

[maiden tulip]

Just cant open the eshop anymore

[outer pollen]

[fringe salmon]

so cant get anything new while on steamdeck you lose 0 functionality

[maiden tulip]

... you do lose functionality lol

[hardy merlin]

It's a bug, and they acknowledged it https://github.com/ValveSoftware/SteamOS/issues/2342#issuecomment-4071287831
You could go to Desktop mode without inputting PIN, so you could bypass PIN security before
Now that option is fixed, but there's a bug that if you don't have PIN set at all it doesn't show Desktop mode option either before log in

[fringe salmon]

I can just install bazzite or whatever the flavor of the month is if steamos has whatever issue, be it a bug or not

[verbal nymph]

or windows!

[maiden tulip]

Oh well that's good

I just saw the change and it pissed me off

[nimble current]

as long as you don't get busted for cheating or you're actually using fraudulent payment methods the chance of your steam account getting permanently shut down is extremely slim

[maiden tulip]

But literally your mac is flagged

Making it useless on steam...

[hardy merlin]

Mac as in MAC address?

[maiden tulip]

ye

[mellow garden]

If someone steals my device, I want it bricked.

Whether that's a phone, tablet, computer, or console.

[maiden tulip]

Stolen steam decks can't access steam unless you spoof your device's mac address

[mellow garden]

Even tracking parts like Apple does should just be the standard across the entire tech industry.

[hardy merlin]

But you can change it anytime in Windows settings
Heck, Android devices by default now use random MAC while connecting to Wi-Fi

[mellow garden]

Go ahead, steal my device, it's worthless and will get more devices bricked as well.

[maiden tulip]

Technically you can unban a hacked nintendo 3ds by doing the same thing

dunno about the switch

Point is its still a pain in the ass

[mellow garden]

Apple devices default to a randomised MAC address but certain core OS functions bypass that.

Same for bypassing VPNs in some cases.

[hardy merlin]

I think using HWID and hardware fingerprint would make more sense when it comes to flagging devices

[maiden tulip]

Pretty sure they do that too but honestly im not sure

[mellow garden]

HWID and fingerprinting of individual parts is the standard that the entire industry should be using.

[hardy merlin]

Yeah, but Apple's OS core is quite closed from anyone, so they have also remote lock and stuff

[mellow garden]

Go ahead, steal my iPhone and take the parts to brick 10 more iPhones.

[grizzled quarry]

Even for cheating they dont shut your account down

[mellow garden]

[hardy merlin]

Cheating they don't really care about
But money... ooooh...

[maiden tulip]

I'm still annoyed about losing access to my account for a month due to a mistake on valve's end

was a few years ago but

I am still annoyed

but yeah point is

Customers get fucked it doesn't matter who you do business with

You'll get fucked one way or another

Whether it's an account ban or a device ban

Any company can fuck you over

[fringe salmon]

every company makes mistakes so all bad ones are just the same as the better ones

[hardy merlin]

Just saying that if every company had as good customer support as Steam has, world would be a better place

[maiden tulip]

It would be nice

[maiden tulip]

Losing my nintendo acc or losing my steam acc is about the same really

[fringe salmon]

sure sure

[maiden tulip]

If you lose it you lose it

[maiden tulip]

How is it not the same

Literally

You can get banned by mistake by either of them

[cyan pewter]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gGlPNiq7hLs&pp=0gcJCcMKAYcqIYzv

[maiden tulip]

Or intentionally

[grizzled quarry]

They have chasers 👀

[cyan pewter]

i cant be the only one who hates the neon green ui color scheme

[fringe salmon]

one of them bans the account the other bans your hardware with it but sure its the same

[grizzled quarry]

Ive waited so long for them to add chasers and its finally here

[cyan pewter]

i hope we can change that

[maiden tulip]

Tbh

I'd rather rebuy a switch and be able to get my shit back

[cyan pewter]

im not sure

[grizzled quarry]

I seen one

[maiden tulip]

If i had a choice between both

I'll take the device ban

[grizzled quarry]

In one of the drifting cut scenes there was a jzx100

[cyan pewter]

i think there is in the initial reveal

[maiden tulip]

The account ban if they say nuh huh

[maiden tulip]

You're actually fucked fully, the device ban you can still use offline, if you want online access again you can just buy a new one

[fringe salmon]

you can just buy a new one
aight

[maiden tulip]

Even if lets say you install windows on your deck

If your steam account is banned... what's the point

[grizzled quarry]

Chaser with a 1jz

[mellow garden]

The real chad move would be device and account bans

[grizzled quarry]

My beloved

[fringe salmon]

idk I dont have all my games on steam so I wouldnt care

[maiden tulip]

Idk about you but my steam games are worth more than the price of a nintendo swich

[grizzled quarry]

If you manage to get a steam account fully banned and wiped bravo

[fringe salmon]

okay?

[maiden tulip]

6000$ or 600$

[fringe salmon]

my steam account is worth more so im fine with nintendo being able to ban my switch instead.. sure

[compact oriole]

idek how you could get your whole account banned on steam unless you break some laws

[fringe salmon]

these gymnastics man

[maiden tulip]

You're a moron it's not at all what im saying

[grizzled quarry]

Ive broken some and still havent had it happen 😭