🎮│game

[bleak pike]

It needs to be prett y

[cyan pewter]

@vital wren soju car
https://medal.tv/games/assetto-corsa-competizione/clips/mssRmbs2Ihv-IsdeV?invite=cr-MSxTTFgsMzM3MTkzMzA

[cold anvil]

@outer pollen try demo it's peak (also accidentally pinged you in #🌐│pc_gear sorry)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3727410/FriendOS/

Steam

FriendOS

Welcome to** FriendOS**, a 1-3 player action RPG set within a virus-infected computer. Join other Friends to face difficult challenges in a forgotten virtual world.…

Release Date

2026

[sudden prawn]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Overwatch/comments/1seeybd/anran_official_face_update_coming_season_2/

lol they are actually changing Anran's' face

[proper basin]

HOLY SHIT A DEER

[bleak pike]

Ye and I think they did a good job imo

[outer pollen]

Looks cute

[cold anvil]

I like the gameplay

it really shines when you get to the boss

[outer pollen]

https://fxtwitter.com/pirat_nation/status/2041358327620268218

Pirat_Nation 🔴 (@Pirat_Nation)

Asmongold has been banned on Twitch

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FxTwitter · Apr 7, 2026, 3:32 AM

For a week

[cyan pewter]

what he do

[cold anvil]

I’d ban the guy before he’d even speak

Can’t believe there’s people who unironically watch the roach king 🤢

[orchid prism]

Asmon confirms Americans illiterate? Bold.

[compact oriole]

Wonder if he takes a vac or just keeps streaming on his other platforms

[nimble current]

dudes been deepthroating trump so furiously for the past couple months he needs a new pair of kneepads

[orchid prism]

Holy shit.

2nd try. 5% chance

Guess I'll finally have to make a proper Genie character with a turban. 😄

[hardy merlin]

I'm surprised he didn't move to Kick already, vermin like him being in there

[orchid prism]

People are lazy. Once someone subs, you don't want to remind them to unsub, and risk them not resubbing elsewhere.

(See gym memberships, one month free trials of streaming services etc)

[compact oriole]

He's multi streaming already

[compact oriole]

He's making barely any money on twitch while being one of the biggest streamers

[mellow garden]

That's because he refuses to run ads

Plus I wouldn't say he's barely making money, big streamers print money from Twitch.

[compact oriole]

Well he can't. Ppl like him and Hasan can't run ads cz they're too controversial

Well according to him and others anyway

[fringe salmon]

oh no, poor guy only makes tripple the median american salary from twitch subs, thats almost nothing : (

[compact oriole]

He shows his earnings regularly. I don't remember the figure but it's a joke compared to his size. He tells ppl not to sub and has no bonuses for subbing

[compact oriole]

For being one of the top streamers it's very little. Bro is rich AF through YouTube and his companies

[fringe salmon]

that doesnt matter if he could make more, the statement that hes barely making any money on twitch is just flat out wrong

[compact oriole]

Relative to his size, I meant

Kick is only a fraction of viewership and he makes a ton more there with ads n subs

[hardy merlin]

Kick can subsidize a ton - after all they are owned by a casino company

[compact oriole]

Well they run ads on his channel

Idk what kinda ads kick runs. Is it mostly gambling? Or do they do normal shit too

If smth isn't on twitch it's dead to me. I'm not boutta check 15 streaming sites for content

[fringe salmon]

I just hope he moves to kick so I dont have to see his face on twitch anymore, would benefit society a lot

[compact oriole]

Just don't.. watch him

Can you block streams on twitch?

Or users, and would that also block the stream

[fringe salmon]

I mean me not watching him doesn't change that he's just a detriment to society

[nimble current]

yeah he should be making net negative for actively making the world a worse place but here we are

[compact oriole]

How's he doing that?

[nimble current]

are you being serious right now?

[compact oriole]

Yes

[fringe salmon]

hm idk, how about unironically advocating for war crimes?

[compact oriole]

I'm curious

[nimble current]

dude's preaching hate and intolerance on a daily basis

[nimble current]

also that

[compact oriole]

@fringe salmon to both of those. Like what?

I'm at work so I can't always answer quickly

[fringe salmon]

he's giving commentary about the war with iran and his takes were they should just kill the medics

reasoning is that thats smart because idk he must be viewing it like a video game where he thinks the medpack respawns a soldier

[mellow garden]

Twitch streamers are not the people to ask about world politics

[fringe salmon]

doesnt change that thats what his content is and what he gets views for

[hardy merlin]

Pretty sure most Twitch streamers are not the people to even ask about the game they are playing

[fringe salmon]

what was the other dumb recent thing? shoplifters should be shot? or was that an older take

[compact oriole]

Ironically 2 of the biggest streamers do a lot of politics

Twitch should ban political shit ngl

[mellow garden]

Twitch's biggest misstep was going after non-gaming livestreams instead of adding more gaming focused features.

They used to own Curseforge

They had a Discord competitor

VOD functions could've been a YouTube competitor for gaming content

[hardy merlin]

When a lot of people run to YouTube of all platforms for streaming, from the platform which sole focus is streaming...

[mellow garden]

Twitch still has a tech advantage in some areas

Especially as YouTube is higher latency for anything above 1080p60 SDR

[compact oriole]

Feel like way more ppl been going to other platforms. YouTube has kinda stopped trying to actively compete for streaming last I heard

[mellow garden]

That's because giving out money for exclusive deals wasn't generating a return on investment

Especially as Twitch now allows multi-streaming

[hardy merlin]

Yeah, but... Youtube is suppporting AV1 for both encoding and decoding for almost a year
Twitch is still trying to move with HEVC, AV1 is still very much experimental

[mellow garden]

Twitch also has drops which is a huge part of viewership for many live service games

If YouTube could start winning over that viewership, then I think people would switch platforms in larger quantities.

[hardy merlin]

The only reason I go there tbh

[fringe salmon]

Youtube refuses to change the UI for streaming, doesnt let you have a set channel link and you need different links to the individual stream each time etc.

[mellow garden]

Twitch also has a built-in sponsorship system which is kinda cool.

Especially as a way for smaller streamers to get paid for playing a specific game.

[fringe salmon]

youtube very much is a case of oh we have the tech lets add the option without thinking about QoL features that arent super technical but extremely important

[mellow garden]

Although I just don't really care for Twitch etc at this point

There's a few streamers that I still watch, but my account will get deleted if/when they stop (or I lose interest entirely).

[hardy merlin]

YouTube needs so many of those tiny QoL changes which most of could be made in an afternoon
But instead they prefer chaging UI again and again, so people get confused

The new embed UI is a joke, can't even change volume in many cases

[mellow garden]

Soon™

[compact oriole]

I don't understand why twitch still isn't maining av1..

[fringe salmon]

phones

[compact oriole]

Phones have issues with it?

[fringe salmon]

you cant switch to universally use av1 so you gain massive overhead if you have to distribute multiple codecs at once

modern phones have it but not the big majority of what people use

[compact oriole]

[mellow garden]

Twitch only uses H265 for 1080p and 1440p if a streamer opts into advanced broadcasting

Otherwise it's H264 up to 1080p

[fringe salmon]

yup h265 is supported on more hardware

[mellow garden]

There's still a huge userbase on mobile and/or incredibly bandwidth limited.

[hardy merlin]

My shitty old Samsung with random Exynos and my Android TV box with random old MediaTek support hardware AV1 decoding

[mellow garden]

Smart TVs were quite early to AV1 decoding

[fringe salmon]

yeah we're getting to the point where it makes sense to support it thats why they are adding it

[compact oriole]

Isn't av1 more efficient? As in smaller size for same quality

[mellow garden]

Even the PS4 Pro supported AV1 decoding using the traditional GPU cores. Although it was only the Netflix app using that feature, I believe.

[hardy merlin]

And no fuckery with patent trolls

[mellow garden]

Apple were quite late to the party on AV1 decoding though.

Which is probably a limiting factor in widespread adoption.

[fringe salmon]

but thats why its taking a while, also the server hardware needed isn't small, and unlike youtube twitch is mostly not VOD content so using AV1 sooner for internal storage savings doesnt make sense

[hardy merlin]

So they were with USB-C on the phones

[fringe salmon]

surprisingly not for reasons you'd imagine

[mellow garden]

Lightning was arguably a better connector

[hardy merlin]

Just give them USB-C cables then

[mellow garden]

In an ideal world, USB-C is just Lightning.

[fringe salmon]

if your customer is dumb you dont educate them you sell what they think is right

[hardy merlin]

In current year you just push whatever you think is right onto them and they mostly be like "yeah, aite"

[mellow garden]

I can't wait to see what the MacBook Neo's marketshare ends up being

[hardy merlin]

Anywho, AV1
With HEVC there's still patent problems, mostly because Korean Gensquare and American M&K are buying out patents for pennies and are suing anyone who even thinks of using anything remotely similar
That's why I'm excited for AV1 widespread adoption

[buoyant osprey]

I'm going to add to it

[mellow garden]

A few years of Apple hardware supports AV1 decoding, so that's a start. No hardware AV1 encoding on an iPhone at this moment.

Apple TV 4K doesn't support AV1 which isn't too much of an issue, all the major streaming platforms are largely H264/H265.

[fringe salmon]

yeah some places are already looking at VVC instead of AV1/2 so thats fun and just not helping

[mellow garden]

In practice, it's probably another decade before AV1 is the codec.

[hardy merlin]

but why

[fringe salmon]

hardware drives adoption and if you see VVC as the next big step because its going to be out before AV2 you might just wait for that

[ivory dune]

I'm trynna go for a light and dark theme thing

[fringe salmon]

and the same reason why they have a license fee is why they have money to push adoption more than a free codec 🙂 fun 🙂

[hardy merlin]

Good thing that in EU we can just slap x266 on it and done

[compact oriole]

I'm sure the bigger reason wasn't the extra money printing for people having to sell accessories and cables with the mfi seal of approval

[hardy merlin]

Software patents are a scourge and should never be the case

[ivory dune]

this is cooler, I think

[fringe salmon]

doesnt change that h266 will be full of license consts again and local use aside is going to be relevant if you expect streaming services to use it

[compact oriole]

Crazy what kinda shit is patented

I have lil knowledge but that patent trolling that rothschild tried on is valve was questionable. Like they have a Patent to have smth on a server and for others to be able to download?

At least that's how I understood it

[hardy merlin]

US 8.856.221 "System and method for storing broadcast content in a cloud-based computing environment"
How they got patent on that is a joke in itself, because that's basically patenting a concept of server, everything on server is broadcast content
But it's funnier that Valve licensed that patent, and then Rothschild went, yeah, nah, not for Steam Deck

[compact oriole]

Crazy how shit like that is legal. Prolly cz boomers who didn't understand what it means

They should revamp the system and stop this bs

[hardy merlin]

Most patents and laws that make no sense are pushed like that, yes
Won't be changed because people with money like how it is

[ivory dune]

Okay I'm done now

[keen scaffold]

not bad

[sinful cobalt]

Looks cool

[ivory dune]

It's a bit of a "light in the dark" sorta theme

Dunno if that comes through

[keen scaffold]

it does

[mellow garden]

Me when Ulduar

[quiet vault]

new anran face

[compact oriole]

They like.. faintly changed the eyes and brows

[serene orbit]

Before and before

[quiet vault]

enough change imo

[sinful cobalt]

Her face is a little bit skinnier

[outer pollen]

Less chubby

[quiet vault]

looks a bit older and more confident

more like comic

[verbal nymph]

face go from looking like a brat to normal ish

[nimble current]

corpos keep pushing these unrealistic body standards smh

[compact oriole]

That was the change we needed. Good thing they listened to that one tweet from that one va

[quiet vault]

the VA only did shit after the fans did 😭

[compact oriole]

For a change noone can even tell without being told it happened and even then you wouldn't see it in-game

[buoyant osprey]

Without the comparison I wouldn't have realised it's changed

[quiet vault]

it hasnt changed ingame yet

[compact oriole]

Well to me at least it seemed like her tweet made blizz react. But idk

Since she voiced the character

[quiet vault]

nah the community "outrage" was pretty crazy

[compact oriole]

Was it tho..

[quiet vault]

definetly the main topic for a few weeks

[compact oriole]

Felt like the usual loud minority who doesn't buy the product anyway

[buoyant osprey]

Blizzard is a weak company that seems to easily cave

[quiet vault]

https://fixupx.com/MaritimeFeeling/status/2020543146967605294?s=20

MaritimeFeelings🪷🪸🍉 (@MaritimeFeeling)

Let The Phoenix Out 🔥🪭
︀︀#Overwatch #Anran

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FixupX · Feb 8, 2026, 5:00 PM

shit got 90k likes and 2.6mil views

[quiet vault]

so do gamers want companies that react to feedback or nah

[compact oriole]

Well that's a really nice pic

[quiet vault]

even the news articles about the face changes before and now get lots of interest

bro i hate twitter

why is there random nsfw stuff 😭

[nimble current]

because twitter is garbage

[compact oriole]

Why can't you filter out shit based on interest

[quiet vault]

Search doesnt seem to do that

gotta be careful, especially with ow characters...

[compact oriole]

I don't use twitter but it'd be nice to have a pol filter that you can toggle

[buoyant osprey]

Sure. But remember when Blizzard was the Reddit point of attention for caving to China. They just seem to side with whatever will cause them the least outrage. No balls company

[quiet vault]

uh what China thing

[compact oriole]

Well everyone who's competent left. Only suits and losers still work there

[quiet vault]

there were many xd

[verbal nymph]

Blizzard be caving for money, I can imagine it'll be harder to sell skin for the character when a lot of people having trouble with their face.

[buoyant osprey]

They kind of blend together with me too

[quiet vault]

not a fan of the regional exclusive stuff they get now

[buoyant osprey]

Remember when China were one of the most hated things on Reddit due to the Uyghur stuff etc.? Reddit slacktivists have just forgotten about that (because they never truly cared in the first place), and because Trump being bad apparently makes China good

[compact oriole]

They barely changed shit and they didn't do what these people were trying to reach. They said they'd rework it so ppl stfu and now no one will care enough to start a shit storm for yet another change

[buoyant osprey]

Gonna order 300k Twitter bots and bully them into changing whatever I want in the game

[quiet vault]

i think most are happy now

looks like the comic one

[nimble current]

at least china has aliexpress

[maiden tulip]

Overwatch is still relevant?

[compact oriole]

She looked more middle eastern with a bigger nose in the trailer. And they changed almost nothing

[compact oriole]

Still one of the biggest live service games. So yes

[buoyant osprey]

It's hard to tell how popular it is. When I quit the game years ago it felt like it was dying because queue times felt so long

And it's a game people almost never speak positively about, no matter if they actively play it or not

[compact oriole]

Not that hard to tell. You look at steam ccu and also realize that many ppl stayed on battlenet to play it

[maiden tulip]

Dont say that too loud or the mods will delete your messages

On here

[buoyant osprey]

How do I post the message more quietly?

[hardy merlin]

[compact oriole]

Why would mods on here care

[maiden tulip]

You dont

[quiet vault]

it was the 6th most popular pc game in february (after cs2, minecraft, roblox, fortnite and league)

[maiden tulip]

Wooting staff does

Mods are chill

[compact oriole]

About what in that statement?

[buoyant osprey]

What happened in January 2026 to give it this boost

[quiet vault]

big update

[compact oriole]

Reboot, renaming it to ow again and new shit

[maiden tulip]

Literally last time i mentionned this topic my messages got deleted by a member of staff, we do not speak ill of china around here as it makes wooting look bad

[quiet vault]

how

we love china

[compact oriole]

Chyna

[maiden tulip]

https://tenor.com/view/there-is-no-war-in-ba-sing-se-avatar-the-last-airbender-atla-no-war-there-is-no-war-gif-15884087966518847999

[nimble current]

https://tenor.com/view/ripped-off-muscle-macho-body-gif-16227729

[verbal nymph]

@grok is this true?

[buoyant osprey]

I'm not aware of China having done a single thing to actually earn people's love since the days of when they were the most hated thing on the internet. And now I can't tell if people are being serious or not when they act like China is great and epic

[quiet vault]

@buoyant osprey

[outer pollen]

Don’t forget Reddit used to love Elon as well

[hardy merlin]

There was this time where Chinese people without job aka social media influencers were hating on Wooting because... reasons

[buoyant osprey]

Yeah but to be fair he did actually (publicly) change. I'm not aware of China doing it

China suddenly being «loved» just seems to be some kneejerk anti-Trump contrarianism

As if they are the best alternative instead of a new third one

[compact oriole]

Wasn't it just the reveal of his politics?

[buoyant osprey]

Yes I count going public with it as changing

[outer pollen]

The Path of Exile 2 stream for Elon was fucking brutal

[compact oriole]

Everything he does brings that reaction lol. Bro could come up with the cure for cancer

[buoyant osprey]

But yeah it's funny doing Google searches and finding old posts to see now infamous people be total Reddit darlings before like Elon and Rowling

[outer pollen]

People legit spamming that no one loves you and shit like that

[compact oriole]

Ye but he was already hated then

[hardy merlin]

He used to be quite left-leaning and was proudly saying about equality and LGBT share of employees in his companies for example
But too much money does to people what it does
Plus he was always a hack, but people didn't understand rockets, so he was praised a genius

[outer pollen]

He loves to personally fire people as well

[maiden tulip]

Just because he owns the company doesn't mean he knows shit, the engineers know their shit and did most of the work

But people tend to associate owner and company products

Its odd

[buoyant osprey]

Teslas went from being awesome futuristic cars until people started hating Elon then they were suddenly disastrous terrible cars that don't function and I am suspicious of that

[fallow bronze]

that stream was a revelation that he was full of shit to gamers, but its been known that he was full of shit long ago.

[maiden tulip]

Quality control was always shoddy on them if you actually looked at automotive channels

[outer pollen]

It was so hard to watch

[maiden tulip]

Also they had rust issues for example

And paint issues

Which were widely documented even while tesla was considered "good"

[buoyant osprey]

Never heard of that. I guess people were too busy salivating over the idea of a car running on electricity

But I was never a car fan so I'm just reporting the general vibe around them

[fallow bronze]

like the hyperloop fad, that was when most ppl caught on he was full of shit

thats 14 years ago

[nimble current]

elon musk is a pathological liar with no friends

[little cape]

https://tenor.com/view/the-other-guys-shut-your-face-the-rock-gif-5680706

CHINA NUMBA ONE 👲 🇨🇳

[maiden tulip]

https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1772567/peinture-tesla-voiture-fragile-modele-trois-facture

it's in french but this is before elon went full on maga and back then i'd say he was still... liked?

Idk in canadian media the rust problems were fairly talked about

[nimble current]

what does this mean in a non maple french language

[maiden tulip]

That teslas rust

[little cape]

lowkey might download rust just to knock on people's door then runaway

[nimble current]

oh yeah we've seen plenty of that here too

also really weak parts used in things like suspension and chassis assembly

[maiden tulip]

And the paint chips and is just bad

[nimble current]

hit a curb a bit fast and the car is basically written off bad

[maiden tulip]

And this was prior to elon going full crazy and buying twitter

And going full wierdo maga

[nimble current]

dude just did what made him most likely to get away with corpo crimes

he knew if he suckered up to trump he'd gain access to american institutions that was looking into his bullcrap

and dismantle them

I mean the dude is a liar, a fraud and stupid but he's not that stupid

[buoyant osprey]

He's kind of like Ainz from Overlord

[compact oriole]

Everyone loved Tesla until he supported trump. Then it was a Nazi car and the libtards did what they do best. Think they have the moral high ground which makes it ok to use violence to scare people into submission

[fallow bronze]

teslas were always known for shoddy body work.

but great drive train and software

[maiden tulip]

But yeah road salt + harsh quebec winters = rusted tesla within a year

[nimble current]

I've seen the maga cultists use a lot more actual violence so far tbh

[compact oriole]

Tesla's used to be those people's favorite cars cz it was so green and "good for the environment" while looking sleek like an apple product

[buoyant osprey]

Haven't Tesla's also had some weird things where you have to pay for very normal features like seat warming etc.

[nimble current]

but I guess people are subjective in what they want to see or not based on their own biases

[fallow bronze]

i wonder how norway deals with this, as they have lots of teslas and harsh winters

[fallow bronze]

that was mercedes, and they dont do that anymore

[nimble current]

third party rust proofing

[compact oriole]

Really? Like what. Cz almost all violent" protest"s have been Antifa or other left groups in the past 10 years

[nimble current]

how about ICE shooting people in the street, or magaites breaking into politicians homes and murdering them

[maiden tulip]

Pretty sure they had the same issues

[buoyant osprey]

Did Tesla never have any weird subscription thing?

[maiden tulip]

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-faces-inquiry-by-norways-safety-regulator-over-suspension-failures-2023-12-21/

[buoyant osprey]

I wish I could give an answer but I've never owned a car

[maiden tulip]

Corrosion, who woulda thunk

@fallow bronze

[compact oriole]

Ice aren't civilians and they shot 2 people, one of which risked hitting a cop with a car and another one bringing a gun to a protest

[nimble current]

it wasn't even close tho, what sources are you even watching

[maiden tulip]

Second amendment rights for me but not for thee

😡

[nimble current]

carrying a gun, not pointing it at anyone, which is legal in the US

what is this cherrypicking lmao

[compact oriole]

I watched the video of the dude almost getting hit. And why would you escalate and try to flee or bring a gun to a fucking Protest in the first place.

[nimble current]

it is your right as an american citizen, but nice victimblaming

[maiden tulip]

Funny how the right didnt say that about kyle rittenhouse

[compact oriole]

They didn't deserve death but if you escalate, situations can escelate

[nimble current]

I can see quite clearly where your biases lie

using terms like libtard and seeing nothing wrong with the rhetoric people like asmeinkampf uses

[compact oriole]

Bro acted in self defence with overwhelming Video evidence showing it. Which is why he won. Your what aboutisms don't work. But he also shouldn't have brought a gun

[maiden tulip]

But he did

Bring a gun to a protest

And the guy who got shot by ice did and didn't pull it out

[compact oriole]

I have no biases and using violence to scare people into submission is garbage behaviour. I don't call left wing people libtards. I call specific people that

[fallow bronze]

of course you have biases, everyone has bias

[maiden tulip]

So @compact oriole should all firearms be banned at protests no matter the political affiliation

Are you at least consistent on that?

[compact oriole]

Rittenhouse would've had is ass shot if he had met the cops and tried to resist arrest. It's his luck he didnt

[compact oriole]

Ofc. Why would you bring a fucking gun

[maiden tulip]

ok but he still brought a firearm to a protest

[nimble current]

self defence

[maiden tulip]

Plenty of americans do for self defense purposes and it's not outlawed in most jurisdictions

[compact oriole]

It's way more likely to get short if you have a gun than if you dont

[maiden tulip]

Hnless there's a city ordinance

[nimble current]

things can get nasty at these things, especially if you have an unhinged wannabe dictator at the helm pulling the strings of these people

[maiden tulip]

And that's why concealed and open carry is moronic

[compact oriole]

It's really easy. The gun isn't the problem. Don't fucking try to resist an arrest and it won't escelate. Obv I'm not on ice side to just shoot em. But I would never think to try and resist cops in general and esp not in the US

[nimble current]

its pretty clear to me that ICE has no interest in the safety or lives of american people under trumps direction

[maiden tulip]

As a whole

It is absolutely stupid

[compact oriole]

The US can never go back but the whole weapon thing over there is a huge problem in general

[fallow bronze]

it can go gunless, but it would take a long time

[maiden tulip]

Well most people who conceal carry bring guns to protest no matter the political affiliation

[nimble current]

and yes US weapon laws have a billion flaws but that doesn't change the fact that alex didn't violate any laws by carrying a gun

[maiden tulip]

Are we just supposed to use it as a justification for anyone shot by police if it's seen as normal?

To have a gun on you

Even if the gun isn't deployed touched or used as a means to threaten

[compact oriole]

No. I'm saying bringing one and then escelating increases the chances of shit happening

Even outside of this you on the street.

[buoyant osprey]

The guy that was shot was definitely a violent attention seeker but the shooting was definitely unjustified, and the gun he had on him was also fine, it's not like he was using it or pointing it at people

[compact oriole]

Just owning a gun increases your chances of being shot

[maiden tulip]

Doesn't justify it happenning

[compact oriole]

He didn't even have the fun when he was shot

[nimble current]

helping a woman get on her feet after being shoved by ICE agents isn't really escalating to me

especially not to the extent to warrant getting shot in the back of the head

[compact oriole]

Do I speak Chinese? I didn't say it was justified. I said it increases the odds

[nimble current]

they can blame him having a gun on him all they like, he wasn't pointing it at anyone and didn't present a direct threat to them

[compact oriole]

Bro was on the ground flailing while being held by like 6 officers

[compact oriole]

The guy who shot him was a re***

Guy was on the ground and disarmed in front of him

And he shot him nevertheless cz someone screamed " he got a gun"

It's obv not justified

But having one got him killed

[maiden tulip]

You said it was earlier

[maiden tulip]

Beepboop

[compact oriole]

Those were the reasons it happened. I didn't say it was justified

[maiden tulip]

No the reason was the agent was a moron

And they botched the job

[compact oriole]

Also true

[buoyant osprey]

Seems more fair to say he was killed because of a major mistake by someone else and not because he was armed

[compact oriole]

They're clowns with only weeks of training. But nevertheless. If you resist, you escelate the odds of shit happening.

[compact oriole]

Ye but if you don't fight the cops it's very unlikely

[maiden tulip]

Gun got taken away and the agent didn't have the critical thinking of i just saw the gun being taken away but i'm hearing gun so i'm shooting

[compact oriole]

If you think it's a false arrest go with it and then sue

[buoyant osprey]

Would have been avoided if they didn't have guns out. Then no one would have shot him

[compact oriole]

Sure. If guns didn't exists there would be no one shot by guns

[buoyant osprey]

If that's what you got out of what I just wrote...

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/863478402966618122/933895122939158548/B1DB63E0-6586-441B-8A50-20E29EEF02A1.gif

[compact oriole]

Well it seemed like the counter argument of me saying he shouldn't have brought a gun

By which I stand but the actual issue is trying to escelate imo

Cops say, turn off the car, you turn off the car. That typa shit

You always lose if you resist like this even if you don't lose your life to some idiot, you'll get charged on top

I'm just saying how it is, not that it should be like that

[compact oriole]

They're untrained monkeys. There's no question about it. How is it possible that ice or cops in general in the US only get weeks or months of training. Over here it's like 5+ years of school, training on the job under supervision and tons of tests

[nimble current]

yep they are literally in it to cause mayhem and hurt people

its basically a free pass to be antisocial

[compact oriole]

Also gotta be physically fit. I get why that's not a requirement over there tho

[mellow garden]

@ivory dune Absolute state of Echo's pull count

[fringe salmon]

it was kinda of depressing watching this race, I can understand the game without having played it since they lowered addon requirements

but man all of these players just lack understanding of basic game mechanics it seems lol

[compact oriole]

ive never played wow. i heard tho that the race was kind of a joke cz it was so easy that they finished it way faster than usual or smth

also they took out a ton of spells and added a one button auto rotation that does x% less damage?

[mellow garden]

Echo threw the win in the end

[mellow garden]

One button rotation is an accessibility option that's designed to perform worse than actually playing the game.

[compact oriole]

man progging new raids is one of my top experiences ive ever had in gaming. i wish there was an mmo i enjoyed just for this

[mellow garden]

The people who need one button rotation aren't the target audience for Mythic raids.

[compact oriole]

practicing a new raid, finding out mechs by trial and error with a cool group

peak gaming moments for me

[fringe salmon]

yeah blind progging raids is fun

which is why I'd never try wow while they have a test realm where you do QA for them to test the raids

sounds dumb as hell and boring as fuck

[compact oriole]

well you dont have to play it

or watch content on it. i completely blind progged all lost ark raids until i quit with a group of likeminded people (which was insanely hard to find). all raids were years old but for us they were new

[fringe salmon]

well yeah just saying why I dont play wow, in FF14 I can worst case even just find randoms to blind prog on release day, sounds impossible to even heave anything like that in wow

[compact oriole]

all these people only focussed on the end goal instead of enjoying the journey

[fringe salmon]

it also just shows whos able to understand a game and who just follows guides xD

people who can figure out how and why it works can goof around more and people who just learn how to follow a guide panic if something goes wrong

[compact oriole]

people want the quick and easy way

[orchid prism]

Learning mechanics organically? Takes time and effort.
Watching a video and a quick guide, and chastising anyone who didn't for it, and kicking them from raid groups.

[compact oriole]

definitely. after the first week when we beat it blind compared to all the guide followers we were way more solid with the whole raid than almost anyone else. and we werent even sick tryhard gods at the game. we just practiced a ton and learned it the "right way"

[mellow garden]

I enjoy progression raiding in WoW, but a combination of guides being ready on day zero and being able to outgear normal/heroic really quickly does ruin the fun.

[orchid prism]

The key is to not raid. Take a break, watch the cinematics and someone doing an edited down run. Come back next expansion.

[mellow garden]

Final Fantasy XIV has a better structure in that regard, gearing is paced so you need several weeks of clears to really out gear boss fights plus there's no PTR to test and write guides.

[compact oriole]

i also made sure to be on ilvl for the content cz out damaging everything also sucks

[fringe salmon]

yup, XIV I did all of this expansions raids blinds, just not the ultimates because dear god I dont have enough time for that

[ivory dune]

I never liked raiding in ffxiv

[fringe salmon]

took us >60hours of pure active fight time for FRU, doing that blind easily would double that xD

[ivory dune]

I just do not dig yhe ffxiv artstyle I think

It feels too same-y for me.

But we all have different tastes

[fringe salmon]

reshade and mods can fix that if its the art

[ivory dune]

I will never run reshade or mods again

[mellow garden]

Mare users

[ivory dune]

I'm one of the people who reverse engineered the dawnsomething shaders

[mellow garden]

XIV has a huge moderation problem

[fringe salmon]

mare is long dead

[mellow garden]

Cheating is sadly rife in XIV and the game rewards it.

There's no client-side anti-cheat and pretty much nothing server-side either.

It's why I never touched PvP in XIV, cheating galore.

[fringe salmon]

I mean its mostly a group pve game, not like that matters much

[mellow garden]

Pretty much none of the crafters with high leaderboard scores for Ishgardian Restoration are legit.

Same for the Dawntrail crafting and gathering content, everyone is botting.

[fringe salmon]

I mean sure but its not like that changes much, you can afk craft everything with ingame macros

[small comet]

final pantasy

[mellow garden]

Yeah, I went down the rabbit hole of the XIV community when it was my main game.

Especially in any mod-centric communities, never again.

[ivory dune]

So toxic a place

And 99 of the mod usecases are nudity

[mellow garden]

It's mostly just egos from people that get a lil' social media following, but there's also some very weird people.

[orchid prism]

Hides WoW modding community

[small comet]

now youve gone too far buddy. the r34 people will come and find you

[mellow garden]

I enjoy the game and will eventually go back to it, probably in 7.56 to play the remaining Dawntrail MSQ and to prepare for 8.0.

[ivory dune]

I never understood nor wanted to "work" in that ffxiv modding community

[small comet]

better hide any modding community

[mellow garden]

Modding a video game isn't a job.

[ivory dune]

People charge so much money for silly things

[mellow garden]

lol, lmao even

[orchid prism]

But it can lead to one.

[ivory dune]

That people actually make it a job

[mellow garden]

I never understood why XIV players in particular get a real hard on for monetising asset rips from other games.

[fringe salmon]

people make more money than they could get in a fulltime job at times

[ivory dune]

The pipeline for modding is often similar to a job

However, when your mini skirt has 2 mil tris I get very upsetti spaghetti

[fringe salmon]

but so often its just second life and vrchat assets repackaged for XIV and sold again

[ivory dune]

Especially when you charge 15 bucks for said abamination

[mellow garden]

The XIV community is it's own worst enemy and I can't wait for it to come crashing down.

[fringe salmon]

my character was made with randomize appearance->start playing so I never cared for mods anyway but its funny to watch

[ivory dune]

Modding has no real oversight

[small comet]

as long as my "everyone is elon musk" mod is free im fine

[ivory dune]

Unlike at a company, you have reviews and standards

That's what bothers me

[small comet]

you have just described the internet

[fringe salmon]

yeah but its really funny seeing half of limsa DC because someones zip-bomb style hair got loaded

[ivory dune]

As someone who is a professional at modeling, it grinds my gears when people say "It's just so easy lol"

[mellow garden]

The oversight in the modding community, especially paid mods, is a charge back.

[ivory dune]

And then their fucking hairstyle is five hundred time the resource hog of the entire limsa city model

[small comet]

but it also looks good dont forget about that

[ivory dune]

You have these dodos that have earrings that have more tris than entire boss fight models together with the players

[fringe salmon]

That’s only sometimes the case

[outer pollen]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-smiling-cat-cute-cat-cat-meme-smiling-gif-10086598795453609558

[ivory dune]

And it's exactly these people who leave shitty reviews saying the game got worse

[mellow garden]

Mild take but most XIV mods are incredibly ugly and ruin the art style of the game

[outer pollen]

100%

[ivory dune]

Big boob big butt

[fringe salmon]

Well yeah most of them are literally copied from second life and co so it doesn’t fit at all

Or just the same person publishing what they did in the past

[small comet]

woah just cause you dont wanna play with every race swapped for WoW races doesnt mean no one wants to

[ivory dune]

I liked the fidelity of BG3 more anyway

[mellow garden]

My favourite part of BG3 is Shadowheart

[mellow garden]

Especially WoW races with their still low quality models

[small comet]

yes

[orchid prism]

I mean... it's an art style.

Comparing classic models to retail is a world of difference.

FF14 also suffers a tad from "Human but X" syndrome. Most race options are basically humans with minor differences.

[small comet]

yes

[mellow garden]

I, for one, enjoy bunny girls.

[ivory dune]

A world of differencecraft

[mellow garden]

[orchid prism]

Warcraft 3 vs... warcraft 3? Neat

[ivory dune]

I like fucky races

[small comet]

no vs just closeup

[ivory dune]

Like voidelf with tentacles, undead, tauren, orc

[small comet]

the new wc3 models look like this for the grunt

1 or 2 more polygons

[mellow garden]

Define "fucky"

[orchid prism]

Why are we bringing a "remastered" RTS into the discussion between two MMOs? 😄

[ivory dune]

Everyone's too normie good looking in ffxiv

[small comet]

more the low poly classic models of wow and all i could think of was the wc3 orc grunt

[orchid prism]

I mean... yeah. That's fair. Cause Wow Classic basically was upscaled WC3 at that point. And not by much.

Game ran on basically nothing 😄

[small comet]

exactly

but it wasnt meant to be wc3 compared to anything just wanted to post grunt

[orchid prism]

Retail still isn't photo real - And thank god. It would look dreadful (Cinematic models are a tad weird to look at)

[small comet]

i mean theres prob an even more iconic model besides the grunt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx21G8oXFmE

good ol peon

[orchid prism]

I also have some... complaints about certain newer races. The drake human male form is... ridiculous.

[small comet]

work work

[mellow garden]

Looks very yassified IMHO

Ru Paul Drag Race: The Game

[fringe salmon]

mansen getting ready to larp as kristi noems husband

[orchid prism]

I'm also not a huge fan of having the burly, thicc humans be considered a separate race. Especially since they have such a limited selection of hairstyles and bears compared to "Normal" humans.

But that's a wider complaint. 3-4 races have an alt look now that's a separate subrace.

[mellow garden]

Lore accurate haircuts

[orchid prism]

Like - did we really need a separate race of Gnomes, just to give them mechanical limbs?

[ivory dune]

Diaper gnomes

[orchid prism]

Dwarves but dark skinned and red magma bears (Or stone dwarf cause lore)

We've got four? different kinds of elf. I mean... come on 😄

[mellow garden]

Can't be a High Elf though

[small comet]

why do all your races have bears mansen

[orchid prism]

Blood Elves can - Which is the real irony 😄

[scarlet sail]

that's the bloodelves for you, former high-elves that simply renamed their race after the events from warcraft 3 iirc

[orchid prism]

You joke - But honestly most of my characters are bulky like me. 😄

FF14 - Main race was the big ogre people.

Wow: Tauren

[small comet]

i mean more that you type bear not beard

[orchid prism]

Ohhhh.... I always make typos.

[mellow garden]

I'm a Human Male in WoW

[scarlet sail]

aka steak on legs^^

[orchid prism]

I tape really fast, but I also make alot of typos 😄

[mellow garden]

Sexy-ass Bunny Boy™ in XIV

[orchid prism]

If it breathes, I can turn it into a kebab.

[scarlet sail]

i mean for tauren just ram a pole up their backdoor, jank off their equip and you got a spitroast ready^^

[ivory dune]

Uhm

Sir this is a wendies

[mellow garden]

huh

[scarlet sail]

i mean blizzard got you covered in those endeavors

[mellow garden]

Flag of Ownership

The highlight of Swifty PvP videos back in t' day

[scarlet sail]

sadly it had quite a bit of a cooldown back in the day, usually couldn't pole everyone in my path before they released, but then again, shadowmourne arms warrior in top arena gear was simply a wreckingball, add some disco priest behind it and there's almost no stopping him^^

(wotlk times were the best for pvp) 😇

[mellow garden]

I was a "Wrath baby"

December 27th 2009

[scarlet sail]

heh i actually played since the vanilla CB thanks to winning an entry ticked in a diablo 2 tournament and stopped 1 week after cataclysm dropped and ruined the game for good

[mellow garden]

Cataclysm was decent

I enjoyed raiding in Firelands and Dragon Soul

Mists of Pandaria was probably peak PvE end-game IMHO

Legion in second, but mostly because of the stacked content cycle.

[scarlet sail]

it was the worst crap the game could've turned into, that mastery rating literally made my entire raid community quit right at cata release or at most 1-2 months after

like who cares about stats on loot anymore and decides from that which class deserves it most, when you can just remove stats at will and turn them into the holy grail named mastery rating instead >_<

not to even mention the totally castrated talent trees

[mellow garden]

See, I never understood why talent trees needed to remain when you specifically select a spec before placing any talents.

At least in earlier versions of the game, the system was more traditional.

[orchid prism]

People like the illusion of choice

[scarlet sail]

not really an illusion

i've had like 25 different warrior specs for each specific task which all were worth doing in the end

like even different arena ones, one def and one off for each, 2v2, 3v3 and 5v5

the respec costs were kinda high, especially thanks to the glyphs but eh, can't reach the top of the arena and boss speed kills if you're not willing to invest for the best setup

[compact oriole]

how much of a difference were they really tho

[scarlet sail]

some were quite weird stuff like 22/31/18 and alike and could sometimes really save my ass in tight spots

[orchid prism]

Uh huh...

[scarlet sail]

and specs like that, that effectively used all 3 trees were simply impossible after cata dropped since you had to bottom out the first tree before you could even place any points into another one

[orchid prism]

And yet the game is still alive a handful of expansions later. It's okay fellow Grandpa. The youngs don't understand it.

[scarlet sail]

well, they've lost quite a huge portion of veterans with cata, just to appeal to newer audiences, which imo is the biggest dick move you can do

[orchid prism]

[scarlet sail]

i mean hey, we were quite the varied group age wise, from young ones at like 16 up to our guild granny and grandpa at 68/74, yet everyone had fun together 😅

[mellow garden]

They'll need new players sooner or later

Legion onwards has implemented a lot of ARPG mechanics into gearing

Also because a ton of Diablo devs got moved onto the WoW team

[scarlet sail]

sure, but what's the point of getting new players when they directly drive away loyal veterans in the same move?

veterans that made the game successful in the first place at that

[orchid prism]

I think their goal is to keep their game alive by adding and changing things, to keep players wanting to play.

Nothing in the playbook about catering more to veterans, if they are vastly outnumbered by new players.

[scarlet sail]

yet the subscription numbers dropped considerably just a few weeks into cata 🤔

[orchid prism]

And that was definitely the last thing that ever happened in WoW history. Nothing further ever happened.

[scarlet sail]

those numbers literally point exactly towards my stance, wotlk was the best expansion and gut butchered to pieces afterwards, even tho they managed to regain a good amount during the past 2 years it's still laughable

[orchid prism]

Okay grandpa. Go back to playing Wrath classic then.

[scarlet sail]

why would i play wrath classic? they took over 10 years to finally bring up classic servers and then still altered parts of it, so yea, instead of paying them for their neglect i'd rather hop on warmane every now and then to scratch the itch

[orchid prism]

Aight. Have a nice day. 😄

[mellow garden]

Housing is gonna do huge numbers for WoW long-term

[scarlet sail]

was also suggested like 20 years ago and just recently they started acting on it 😄

[mellow garden]

They spent a decade working on it in secret

It's taken a lot of effort for them to build housing into WoW, but it's a very good system.

Doesn't suffer from the same flaws as other MMOs either

[orchid prism]

FF14 housing lottery hides in a closet

[scarlet sail]

really no clue why it would take them a decade to get it in when they already had the foundation set during vanilla, namely dungeons that save the state on an individual basis 🤷‍♂️

[mellow garden]

Being able to place thousands of items in your own house

Being able to set the room layout

Having a hidden buffer zone between rooms and floors so you can place objects in walls etc

Being able to size/transform all items

A dye system

A system for storing all your collected housing items

[orchid prism]

Personally I'll stick with my little Pandaren homestead. Too much work to build a house with no payoff.

[mellow garden]

There's also the neighbourhood system as you can decorate your estate outside the housing interior

Plus there's both guild and public neighbourhoods

[vapid lintel]

https://tenor.com/view/explode-fusrodough-is-to-lethe-sweetroll-explosion-gif-11981350

[orchid prism]

Cheese. All the cheese.

[mellow garden]

There’s some player criticism of housing. It’s making the game too soft and girlie, apparently.

[orchid prism]

Man... I forgot how nice Kul Tiras looks.

Not that dull troll jungle.

Guess it's time to roll a Monk. Get a proper brewmaster look going 😄

Ugh... I only have a DK to unlock Kul Tirans. And all of the action bars are messed up. Funtimes.

[buoyant osprey]

Import BG2 character into Neverwinter Nights?

Funny seeing these outdated loading screen tips

[orchid prism]

NWN was such a disappointment on launch. Massive oversight failure.

[stiff fiber]

is pillar of eternity a good game?

[orchid prism]

Uhhh.... maybe if you like that kind of game?

If you don't, skip them and play the new one that's basically Dragon Age I guess? 😄

[vapid lintel]

I wish they made a new Dragon Age game that didn't suck

[buoyant osprey]

But is the game good?

[orchid prism]

Skip the basegame and play the two expansions separately.

Iirc Wizards pushed hard to make the game a DMs dream sandbox with tools...and the campaign suffered massively from it.

They managed to address that with the expansions.

[stiff fiber]

dragon age is the modern version of pillar of eternity?

[orchid prism]

No. Pillars of Eternity has three games. The first two are oldschool cRPGs. The newest one controls like Mass Effect/Dragon Age (later games)

[stiff fiber]

oh ok

mass effect is one of my favorite games

[cold anvil]

https://tenor.com/view/yugioh-punch-ground-punching-ground-it-shouldve-been-me-it-shouldve-been-me-not-him-gif-27446150

[vapid lintel]

I guess their release plan was... off target

[cold anvil]

Thank you, never change.

[orchid prism]

Can't wait for people complaining that Nintendo banned their consoles, for putting a game they purchased legitimately into their Switch

[stiff fiber]

from all the videogame community I have seen the one of marathon is unique. These people are sabotaging the game they love just to pretend they are werewolf hardcore energy gamers (discord) or masochist loving to die 20 times in a row (reddit). They are so delusionnal even when you try to bring feedback to make the game fun for everyone they act like extremist saying what you say it is just hate 😵‍💫

honesly the game could have been fun but it isnt and this community is awful

[vapid lintel]

Par for the course to be fair

Reddit is a cesspool in the best of circumstances

Discord, too, if we're being honest

[stiff fiber]

cannot believe I paid 40 euros for a game, played 50 hours, but I am not even allowed to bring any feedback because apparently I would like to see the game I paid fail

people just cannot handle criticism anymore

[vapid lintel]

Your mistake was giving a damn about what other random people online think about your opinions

[stiff fiber]

yeah true

but I love the universe of marathon I would just like to be able to have fun with it

honestly I just said that hoping eventually feedback could help the developpers

but this community is just extreme I dont know

[cold anvil]

1.25 hours per dollar is pretty good..

I’d say you got your moneys worth

Drop the game and never play it again

[nimble current]

yeah sometimes I think about jumping into a discussion about something but then I realize I don't really give enough of a shit to warrant mudfighting with the pigs

[vapid lintel]

My engagement with Reddit is limited to solely downvoting people on WallStreetBets who don't gain or lose at least 100k in their post

https://tenor.com/view/honest-word-its-honest-work-it-aint-much-it-aint-much-but-its-honest-work-gif-13763573

[mellow garden]

Y’know, physical games releasing early is why I can see a major AAA game being digital-only at release to avoid spoilers. My money is on GTA VI.

[stiff fiber]

true but tbh I didnt really enjoy it

[vapid lintel]

Took you 50 hours to realize you weren't having fun?

Mate...

[stiff fiber]

well I wanted to improve

[cold anvil]

I don’t ever see the industry going fully digital, maybe digital first then physical but thats about it AT MOST.

[maiden tulip]

how

This is literally soriamoria 2.0 who beat re9 5 times and got every achivenent just to say "it bad"

[compact oriole]

idk gotta enjoy it to some extend if you put in 50 hours

[maiden tulip]

🤣

[maiden tulip]

Literally

[cold anvil]

I think it should be within the first 5 hours to determine if you like a game or not imo

[compact oriole]

most people dont even take 20 minutes to decide that

[cold anvil]

😭

[cold anvil]

Unfortunately true

[maiden tulip]

I swear it's like the people who say "starfield gets good after 15 hours guysssss"

Fucking idiots

[compact oriole]

woulda been his favorite game if itd have locked cameras and tank controls

[mellow garden]

Xbox is pretty much digital only, I don’t see future consoles having a disc drive at all.

Sony are on their way with the disc drive being an add on. Some rumours suggest PS6 will only support a disc drive for backwards compatibility purposes.

Nintendo’s hand will be forced due to flash memory prices and the Switch 2 cartridges being slow. Even game key cards are too expensive to really justify from a publisher’s perspective.

[cold anvil]

“The show really picks up after season 5, you just have to get through all the bullshit first”

[mellow garden]

I could see all three platforms being near exclusively digital in the next 5 years.

[maiden tulip]

I like the old re games but they don't stack up nowadays, it's mostly nostalgia keeping em relevant

[stiff fiber]

well in the discord they told me that I wasnt allowed to criticize the game because 50 hours is nothing and I could only appreciate the game after like 120 hours

yeah this community is weird

[compact oriole]

physical is already basically dead. idk if theres statistics but id be surprised if more than 10% of sales in the west are physical

[maiden tulip]

At 120 hours my dude you need 300 hours clearly

[stiff fiber]

yeah 😂

the worst part is the guy who told me that was the most friendly of them

[compact oriole]

its the usual gate keepers putting up an imaginary goalpost to dismiss your argument. when youre at 120 theyll say you need 250

[vapid lintel]

My favorite is the Steam reviews of games that say the game is awful, yet they have a thousand hours in the game at review time and several thousand more afterwards

[stiff fiber]

believe me it is a cult

[cold anvil]

I have 3000 hours on Fortnite and I can say I kinda enjoy it, it’s pretty good

[stiff fiber]

they were telling everyone to play another games some week ago

now that casuals left they complain the game is too difficult

they dont understand that without sbmm, well sbmm happen anyway when casual leave

[sinful cobalt]

it took me a 30 minutes video about Marathon to decide that the game is ass

[compact oriole]

well its one thing to enjoy a game or have an addiction and then to recommend it to others to play

[vapid lintel]

The thumbnail was enough for me

[stiff fiber]

on the discord it is a contest to the most stupid idea to game the game more difficult

because for sure there are too many players right now

on reddit you find the masochist "oh I lost 50 games in a row but I am addicted"

[vapid lintel]

Too many players, yea that's the problem they have

[compact oriole]

even tho i hated the art direction i gave marathon a fair try and didnt enjoy it enough to want ot buy it. id have played a couple rounds for free tho

[stiff fiber]

they were begging casuals go go play arc raiders at the slight criticism

[vapid lintel]

It's not that I didn't like the art direction, the neon color barrage will give me a headache

[stiff fiber]

I dont joke

[cold anvil]

I find it hard to believe video game addiction is a thing, like I know it is but my brain cannot wrap itself around the concept

[sinful cobalt]

time to read funny War Thunder Reviews

[vapid lintel]

Good, I need more easy targets

[compact oriole]

your brain coping, like most addicts

[stiff fiber]

it is like in a cult where you have to prove you are more pure than other member of the cult by being more extreme well it is marathon

[cold anvil]

9 years of fortnite mustve done a number on me

[vapid lintel]

Any action that triggers a dopamine response can be addicting

[compact oriole]

ive had some heavy addictions to some games over the years. but it was also insanely fun

[sinful cobalt]

Mark is a Rimworld enjoyer

[vapid lintel]

It's not an addiction, I can stop at any time, I swear....

[sinful cobalt]

we know Mark is unstable

[stiff fiber]

imagine you do a review saying it is not so great

[sinful cobalt]

[little cape]

dali rules all

[vapid lintel]

The Rimworld OST is unironically my most listened album on Spotify

Wait what? I launched the game and my hours played went down? What kind of witchcraft is this

[sinful cobalt]

the game wanna tell you that 2 hours playtime wasn't even there

it was just in your head

[vapid lintel]

Guess I've got to make those hours up

[sinful cobalt]

thats it chat we lost Mark

[vapid lintel]

https://tenor.com/view/rimworld-randy-random-gif-16946575157696816803

[sinful cobalt]

[compact oriole]

man its been so long that i played portal 1 and 2 that i could actually replay it

[sinful cobalt]

i would love to see Portal 1 and 2 remakes in Source 2

[compact oriole]

didnt they release some rtx version for p1

[vapid lintel]

I recently replayed Portal 2, showing it to a friend

... I thought it was recent, nearly 2 years ago

[vapid lintel]

It was a tech demo more than anything else

[compact oriole]

[sinful cobalt]

yeah it works great

[compact oriole]

i kinda wanna try it now

https://i.imgur.com/quAEcOy.png

[sinful cobalt]

i want more Portal games into my Library

[vapid lintel]

Sorry, Valve is incapable of counting to 3

[compact oriole]

im dling it now to check how it runs

[vapid lintel]

Sad Left 4 Dead noises

[nimble current]

how do you fick up this bad

the levels are tiny and the textures aren't particularly high res

[compact oriole]

i wonder if hes playing 4k res

[sinful cobalt]

time to replay Portal 2 for the 10 000th time

[iron oak]

Will STS2 be adding more content later on? It says early access at the moment.

[vapid lintel]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6ljFaKRTrI

[sinful cobalt]

i would be suprised that i forgot even one Test Chambers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdpvj_iVAFk still my favorite moment

[compact oriole]

bro.. rtx 5090, 3440x1440 maxed no dlss im getting like 35 fps in the spawn chamber

[sinful cobalt]

xD

5090 BTW

[compact oriole]

with quality dlss it goes up to 60-80. so thats playable i guess

[vapid lintel]

Akko I've named this new baby after you

[sinful cobalt]

👀

[sinful cobalt]

10/10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nHDT5nrjCY do we gonna see Crysis 4 get released

[bleak pike]

Don't worry, the ex Devs are gonna make their own game and it's going to be just as good if not better!

Oh wait....

[sinful cobalt]

i mean i had fun playing Back 4 Blood

[orchid prism]

Oh yeah. Now we're cooking brewin'

[compact oriole]

hm i guess its playable with dlss

[vapid lintel]

Back 4 Blood would have been way more fun without getting sucked into the dumb card based bullshit and all the garbage 2015 and later era "not actually fun but we call it engagement" parts of gaming...

I think Evolve was much better in that respect, but it never got the chance to come into its own...

I enjoyed that game

[sinful cobalt]

Evolve looked fun

[vapid lintel]

It was

[hardy merlin]

Evolve was fun on the beginning
Later on it was just running around in circles

[little cape]

gibe me more left 4 dead content

[vapid lintel]

It suffers from the same problem that the highest level of L4D2 competitive play had:
A tank event at the highest levels would always be won by the survivors.

However, a top level tank player against anyone except the top 1% of players, the tank is untouchable and will wipe the surivors every time.

[little cape]

MLG days?

i member gamebattles

[hardy merlin]

Asymmetrical PvP is incredibly hard to balance
But when it is balanced, yeah, it's fun

[vapid lintel]

They don't call me Mr. Ak for nuthin

[little cape]

i'll never forgive the homies doing the "Nothing Special" achievement without me

they werent real homies

[vapid lintel]

My most prized achievement

[little cape]

i use to laugh when i heard the boomer was close

[bleak pike]

I mean it also lacked a lot of features l4d had too

As for evolve, I liked it but most of my gameplay was the beta tbh

The launch rubbed me the wrong way with pre order and dlc monsters

[vapid lintel]

And not to toot my own horn or anything, but 100% finale win rate....

[bleak pike]

Because you don't play the game you just run past zombies

And leave Team mates to die

[vapid lintel]

Not my fault you can't find the shove button

[bleak pike]

Sureeeee

While you're cozy in your safe room XD

[vapid lintel]

Ach in campaign you respawn next map anyway

Or in the case of the Parish bridge finale... Well yea, you're on your own pal

[bleak pike]

Ye I think we did custom games or something

Like one of us was a zombie right

90% if my gameplay growing up was modded on a cracked version tbh hahaha

[vapid lintel]

That's versus mode yea

[bleak pike]

I think I had to use a lan application to play with my friends and others who had pirates it 🤣

[vapid lintel]

One moment please, I've got mech breachers to deal with

Smaller Randy roll, easily dispatched with just one Mastodon casualty

[little cape]

hot take they should update the gun sounds in l4d 2

sounds so horrid now unless its a me issue

[vapid lintel]

They sound very flat compared to more modern shooters, yea

[little cape]

for its time though it was peak

[vapid lintel]

The gun play in general doesn't hold up to the best of recent games

[bleak pike]

I mean TBF

A lot of games would sound meh if they used real fun sounds

[verbal nymph]

At least you can mod the sound on l4d

[vapid lintel]

My tank music is the Imperial March

[nimble current]

playing as the zombies against survivors was too much fun in L4D2

coordinating attacks with several different classes

[vapid lintel]

Heck yea

Played far too many hours of versus during University... 😂

[ivory dune]

I vividly remember buying the l4d box edition back then

And the box had a cd and a small sticker with a cd key

[nimble current]

I still have a physical copy of L4D2 here

it was cheaper buying it that way and registering the key on steam than buying it on steam directly

[bleak pike]

My friend had a physical copy, I think it's how I grabbed the files and cracked it

Back when my internet was like 2mb down

[vapid lintel]

L4D2 was the first game I took very seriously, it will always have a special place in my heart

[bleak pike]

Makes sense

[nimble current]

for me it was Q3A and TF2

[bleak pike]

I couldn't pin down a single game

[vapid lintel]

I only ever played a casual few hundred hours in TF2

[hardy merlin]

TF2

[bleak pike]

Probably my first serious game in terms of commitment was probably pirates of the Caribbean online

[nimble current]

last one was world of warships

[bleak pike]

Or cod zombies since I played every single version from release

[hardy merlin]

That's where I tasted sweet sweet online in-game item gambling

[bleak pike]

Up until black ops 4

Halo 3 is another one, I played that game religiously, I wanna say as much as Halo CE but probably not.

[vapid lintel]

I stopped playing after the Hats update

[nimble current]

I held a grudge against halo for maaany years

[bleak pike]

Like genuinely, I played everything I couldn't even remember a lot.

Especially shooters

[vapid lintel]

It wasn't the game, it was the players

[nimble current]

nah it was the fact that halo was the game that truly popularized shooters on console

[bleak pike]

If you didn't play halo 3 during its peak you weren't living

[nimble current]

and basically ruined shooters on PC for like 15 years in the process

[bleak pike]

If you know, you know

[nimble current]

badly optimized console to PC ports and shitty tropes like cover mechanics or waiting for shields to regen

[bleak pike]

Still a thing tbf XD

[hardy merlin]

I started playing in 2014

[nimble current]

I don't mind those mechanics as such but they became extremely overused throughout the 00s and early 10s

[bleak pike]

I played for a few hours but couldn't get into TF2

[trim rock]

TF2 was peak in 2010 when I played it far too much every day, no bias here no siree

[bleak pike]

But I think I was late to the scene

[vapid lintel]

Then CoD took it to a whole new level with base health regenerating for no reason

[cold anvil]

Tf2 is one of the games where you play for fun every once in a while tbh

[bleak pike]

Battlefield wasn't innocent

[cold anvil]

I don’t understand people who constantly play it, power to them tho

[vapid lintel]

These days it's just bots

[bleak pike]

Honestly, if cod died for good it would be a nice day.

[cold anvil]

I agree

[vapid lintel]

They're doing their best to do just that

[bleak pike]

Then again I stopped being into MP cod when ghosts came out.

[vapid lintel]

Can't come soon enough

[bleak pike]

I was always zombies

[vapid lintel]

Then again Pleasant, you enjoy Fortnite, soooooo 😛

[nimble current]

CoD has jumped the shark so many times its jumping through the multiverse at this point

[bleak pike]

But once the aether storyline ended I stopped

[trim rock]

Yeah matchmaking ruined things, I enjoyed hopping on one of my fav TF2 servers and seeing the same names and knowing how things would go based on that

[bleak pike]

If you played during the Star wars events you would too

[vapid lintel]

Definitely not

SlopVader does not entice me

[bleak pike]

Some of the smoothest lightsaber and blaster combat to date

[cold anvil]

Ive never missed a single season of Fortnite, I’ve played every one of them at least once

[nimble current]

gross

[bleak pike]

And flying in space with star fingers/x wings

[vapid lintel]

Spoken from the perspective of someone who has never played a good Star Wars game

[bleak pike]

The storming death star experience was incredible

[cold anvil]

It’s the Gen Z cells in me, I cannot stop.

[bleak pike]

Tell me a good one

[vapid lintel]

Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Outcast

[nimble current]

dark forces and jedi knight

[bleak pike]

I've played it

[bleak pike]

Played it

[nimble current]

dark forces had no lightsabers though, but very satisfying guns

[hardy merlin]

Fortnite started to become sloppy in like Season 9 or so? Then it was shoveling everything on the way

[bleak pike]

But tbh I don't love Fortnite much these days

Haven't for a long time, I login and have a game or two every so often.

But the music mode is so god damn fun

[nimble current]

fortnite am holding a grudge against for basically killing the unreal franchise completely

[bleak pike]

It's so relaxing to vibe and make music with people

[cold anvil]

I got tired of fortnite season 9 and season 10, didn’t play for a long while until I had the sudden itch and got into chapter 2 season 1

[nimble current]

the bitter unc in me is speaking

[little cape]

https://tenor.com/view/you-youre-your-yourself-straight-face-gif-26118421

gen zerrrrrrrrrr

[bleak pike]

As for VaderAI, I found it funny but definitely wasn't necessary.

Me and @maiden tulip got him talking about Wooting

[hardy merlin]

Season 3 was peak

[little cape]

chapter one?

[hardy merlin]

Fake John Wick was where it's at

[trim rock]

Season 0 was peak

[cold anvil]

I never really got into it until late season 4, I did play every season prior. It was mostly because my older brother was a fat hogging bastard who wouldn’t let me play on the ps4

[nimble current]

I love AI corpsewalking beloved actors for soulless corpos profit

[little cape]

it was indeed

[bleak pike]

My favourite season was tanks, they were so op it was hilarious

[little cape]

those john wick players were cracked

[bleak pike]

We killed 20+ people with a tank

Glorious

[hardy merlin]

Double pump times

[bleak pike]

It got nerfed like two days later

[little cape]

https://tenor.com/view/fortnite-dance-john-wick-gif-11533217

[bleak pike]

Chapter 3: Season 2 (Resistance)

I enjoyed that season a lot

[vapid lintel]

Honestly, I appreciate Fortnite

Kept the kids out of games I enjoyed playing

[little cape]

ngl i hate their support team

truly awful

[bleak pike]

Idk man, there's something so chill about Fortnite, at least in the past.

[hardy merlin]

It was really cool and fresh take on Battle Royale at the time
Now it's just everything platform

[bleak pike]

Like I love when I start jamming with someone haha

I hate building to be clear

[stiff fiber]

fortnite is a containment for 12 yo yes. Cannot imagine them coming to play arc

[little cape]

downfall of fortnite was creative mode and people making money off the game

every lobby was a sweat fest

[bleak pike]

Chapter 3, Season 2 was pretty much when I started playing.

[vapid lintel]

"Fresh take" copied PubG pound for pound, except for the childish graphics and mechanics

[little cape]

pubg was goated

[stiff fiber]

I just hate the graphical design of fortnite

[vapid lintel]

To be clear, PubG was itself a copy of a earlier game, but that doesn't make Fortnite more holy

[bleak pike]

I... After years of saying the same disagree

[little cape]

not doing region lock ruined that game for a bit

because of all the chinese hackers

[bleak pike]

I think it's beautiful these days

Before it was pretty ugly

[little cape]

i miss voip

[vapid lintel]

That's the great thing about opinions. They're like assholes. Everyone has one, and they all stink

[bleak pike]

Ye

I do miss playing Fortnite though, most of the time I just play music mode and custom games now.

Sometimes solo br

It's just... Chill

And I love having pve content during matches

[nimble current]

definitely the best part about it

[bleak pike]

It just mixes things up

https://tenor.com/view/fortnite-peter-griffin-family-guy-bass-party-rock-gif-9961147574889674398

[little cape]

I remember i had this asian girl outside the house shoot at me. Then we were just swearing at each other for two minutes then the storm was approaching we both said goodbye to each other then laugh and went our separate ways

peak pubg experience beside people in the pre game lobby saying "china numba one" or some dude blasting euro music

[cold anvil]

Festival is only fun if you’re a normie

Festival is super boring to me

[bleak pike]

It's chill

[trim rock]

Absolutely, prox voice chat should be a must have in all those kinds of games

[bleak pike]

Just sit back and play music

[vapid lintel]

Often the same person

[bleak pike]

It is actually a thing in fn

[trim rock]

Not in battle royale to my knowledge

[bleak pike]

It does but separate br mode

[cold anvil]

I get that, much better with friends who like/know the same music it just feels like such a slog to play for me

[trim rock]

A limited time delulu mode does not count

[cold anvil]

Especially with the shit to mid chartings

[bleak pike]

I mostly play solo with fandoms

[little cape]

the only reason i got a gaming pc was because of pubG and i thought voip chat was the next move in gaming

[bleak pike]

You mean the mode that's always around?

That goes away for days and comes back? XD

[trim rock]

Oh they made it permanent?

[little cape]

then all the games went rated E for everyone DX

[cold anvil]

Out here playing with whole communities
(Ik you meant randoms)

[vapid lintel]

E for Ehhhh I'll pass

[trim rock]

It bugs me with many modern games completely lacking any way of talking to other players like bruh

[cold anvil]

I despise when devs make F to interact

[bleak pike]

Personally I've rarely ever used prox voice

Ever

[vapid lintel]

that doesn't bug me at all. I always turn off voice chat in games, I have 0 interest in speaking with or hearing other players voice comms

[little cape]

yeah nowadays i dont blame you

[vapid lintel]

If I want to talk to my teammates, then I do it via my dedicated TS3 push to talk button

[trim rock]

It's a multiplayer game, part of it is the fact that it's other real players if I wanted the bot experience I'd play with bots

[bleak pike]

Sea of thieves when a kid is crying about losing his loot was entertaining though

[little cape]

but back then you would have some funny interactions

[bleak pike]

I got the appeal and saw many funny videos, but I feel like most players just don't use it lol

[little cape]

might be EU thing

in NA people would use it a lot back then

[vapid lintel]

The 20% entertaining and 10% endearing interactions don't make up for the 40% ear assault and 30% whining children

[little cape]

now its 50/50 and depends on the community

[bleak pike]

Oh god idk why but you gave me echo arena flashbacks

[little cape]

https://tenor.com/view/morgan-freeman-true-morgan-freeman-true-nodding-gif-13973817878387504960

[bleak pike]

When the quest released

So many damn kids on voice oml

[little cape]

remember that one viral clip in fortnite. "REVIVE MEEEEE !"

[bleak pike]

Ok I will admit the proximity voice was amazing in vr

Id spend half an hour in the echo arena lobby chilling with random people

[bleak pike]

Lol ye

[cold anvil]

[vapid lintel]

Mansen is making dinner

[hardy merlin]

[nimble current]

family guy characters in 3D is just cursed

[mellow garden]

https://youtu.be/HPJ3GlL3znM

[hardy merlin]

6 year old game?

[mellow garden]

It’s because they’ve added PSSR2

https://blog.playstation.com/2026/04/07/cyberpunk-2077-playstation-5-pro-enhancements-detailed/

[small comet]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1963610/Road_to_Vostok/

Steam

Road to Vostok

Hardcore Survival
A hardcore single-player survival game set in a post-apocalyptic border zone between Finland and Russia. Survive, loot, plan and prepare to cross the border into Vostok, a permadeath zone where one mistake can end it all.

Core Features…

Price

$14.99

Recommendations

442

[verbal nymph]

very cool, wishlisted

[hardy merlin]

I love scene community
They couldn't bypass mtx shop in Tekken 8
So they are donating to this one guy who buys everything and then shares his save with everything unlocked

[stiff fiber]

now people are suprised in the marathon discord that the queue time is too long

they were telling every casual to go play another game 2 weeks ago

guess they did

[mellow garden]

Tekken 9 about to be an online-only live service game

[hardy merlin]

Eh, Tekken 7 is where the game ends for me
T8 is just weird
Plus I have T3 and T5 on PS2, life is good

[scarlet sail]

pfft, this gotta be peak support level
https://steamcommunity.com/app/236390/discussions/4/801217828677338039

so yea, instead of wasting any more time with their forums i might as well post it here in case someone might have an idea about an actual solution^^

[high bluff]

from what i've found personally. controller impute in the RB/AB game modes, while not having some form of controller/hosas/hotas selected in the settings causes controller imputes to be treated like keypresses.
this changes in sim at least for air sim controls where it will let you use mixed imputes despite having keyboard advanced selected as a control style in the set up wizard.

i haven't had my wooting for very long, and for me this works because i'm used to it, so i haven't looked much deeper into it then what i was able to find out my self in game.

the problem with selecting a controller in the wizzard is that you have to manually set every key bind after selecting it because if you go through the set guide it'll set you controls to keyboard advanced if most of your imputs are from the keyboard.

sadly since for a good 13 years of this games life ~30% of key binds, some of which are essential in some modes start unbound, the chance of gaijin fixing this is extremely low. especially since they ~3 months behind on looking at bug reports, let alone fixing them.

i should clarify, that i only changed pitch/yaw/roll on aircraft.

it worked at first. but after reloading the game it switch to a like 70% dead zone for the key press, where after it would let me fine control the axis like a stick to about 35% of travel before slamming to max impute.

i was able to get it to work like what you would expect an axis too, but only after toggling through controller imputes and fullreal/mouse aim. it would last though, and would fix its self every time i loaded a new test flight or match, that wasn't using full real or in sim.

idk if this helps, or its just the "same problem. same problem..." meme, but it was worth a shot.

[scarlet sail]

the thing is, the controller input works perfectly fine for forward/reverse movement and the axis are shown as working as well so i simply don't understand why my tank is behaving the way it does, only when it comes to steering, as in moving forward when i want it to turn at slow speed and at half strength it behaves like a regular keypress

so yea, i've set 2 different axis manually, one axis for forward/reverse which works as it should, and one for left/right steering and that makes my tank move in totally absurd ways compared to how it should be

oh and the funniest part is, the control settings interface when going to the bind key details actually shows the axis as fully working from -100% up to +100% at the full length of it without any jumps or anything

like the settings seem fine to me, no dead-zones or anything, just had to invert the steering axis since that was the first weird thing about it but was fixed that way^^

[high bluff]

okay. some i've done some testing.
first in the tiger tiger, then 122b+ and lastly the t-72b3
all three do the exact same thing you described on the 122b+ once i start neutral steering i can somewhat adjust how fast i'm turning, but not much. while tiger tiger and t72 (which doesn't have neutral steering) function the exact same.

here is what i think is happening.

when you press a movement key. the auto gearbox system activates, shifting you into first gear, instantly putting you into a roll. which means now you are fighting the many different traction "features" in the game. only once the rpm/horse power is enough to overcome these "features" are you able to neutral steer. which is what i think is giving the wall effect feeling

now the tiger tiger doesn't have enough hp/t left over once it gets to this point, to allow fine control. the t72 doesn't have neutral steering, and ends up doing the same thing. the 122b+ just has enough hp/t left over to allow some turning speed adjustments but not much.

the problem its self is two fold.

first is the in game auto gear box control. which is trying to get you to go forwards when a movement control is pressed.

the second, is/always has been a problem with neutral steering in game. tldr is it isnt modled correctly, and is based of the fake neutral steering of tank the t72/t90, since tracks are technically tires in the game engine.

i didnt really know if it was that second one for sure at first. so i didnt bring it up. (to much faith in the snail i guess)

its also not common knowledge, and factchecking it is probably impossible now that the old forums are gone.

the only tank that i can get it to work properly on is the strv 103. which is the only tank that i can think of that has true neutral steering irl, but i think its and acceptation not a rule, due to the hull aiming mechanic.
(technically most modern tanks don't have true neutral steering. that's separate mountain to climb.)

[scarlet sail]

thing is, whenever i floor the movement completely in one go it turns at the same speed as when it's at 50%, but never moves forward in the slightest, like it instantly starts turning on the spot instead of powering up first and then turning

and actually all of the tanks i tested it with have (and historically had) neutral steering, tigher H1, panther, jagdpanther, panther II, leopard 2 and all of them behave the exact same as described instead of giving me any control over their movement, they go from a slow crawl at 10-20% input to a fullspeed turning at about 50% input

like no matter if i push down 50% or 100% there's no change at all anymore

oh and everything in arcade settings, so the engines have way more power

[high bluff]

in sim in the tiger tiger i get 3k rpm but only 2900 in arcade for some reason. there is probably a hard limit to turning power thats here as well could also be a reason

[scarlet sail]

i simply don't see how that would translate to crawling forward and then suddenly stopping and turning at full speed right away instead of giving me any kind of steering speed control

[high bluff]

gaijin code moment probably.

[scarlet sail]

which makes me wonder even harder about this is, how no console player or pc players that use controllers ever complained about WT having a stroke like that

[high bluff]

in the most oversimplification tanks are coded like 4 wheel cars that can technically turn on the spot... technically.

because most probably are used to it, or slam the throttle/stick when turning. there is usually no reason not to.

[scarlet sail]

i mean i searched for similar topics before posting that issue and didn't dfind anything besides like 1 post from 2016 that was only remotely connected