video-games

[fathom juniper]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/638031423340806185/1358864541022425483/image.png?ex=67f564b9&is=67f41339&hm=cfd91d25cb1f24cfc3dc3a7a734c8e836cfe9a8b033f67912d4727cfefe7958c&

[dense kindle]

idk what currency that is but damn

[fathom juniper]

okay - guess i'm not buying it yet

[fathom juniper]

it's pierogi bucks

[dense kindle]

just buy a key

[fathom juniper]

huh

it's 140 on my trusted key reseller

half the freaking price

wot

[dense kindle]

with keys you get a steam sale every day

[fathom juniper]

oh wait

it's one of those "oh it's not a key - it's just an access to an account that has this game on" kind of things

yeah nah thanks

[dense kindle]

rip

[fathom juniper]

oh yeah i just remembered

one more question - is there wallrunning in this game?

[faint cape]

no

theres some fun movement tech though

[fathom juniper]

the best movement i've seen in cyberpunk was that one clip of a guy t-posing between bullets

ah damn it i can't find it right now

yeah it's happening again
i'm gonna waste hours looking for that stupid effin clip

FOUND IT!
https://packaged-media.redd.it/z0m26m1x1xt81/pb/m2-res_480p.mp4?m=DASHPlaylist.mpd&v=1&e=1744066800&s=802f0b404d7721ba5f4923271e0652fa5b8c54f0

[silk abyss]

But peak now

[tame veldt]

ur gonna be really sad when you realize the story defaults to streetkid by hour 3

i like 77's story but the paths being meaningless beyond the prologue is pretty disappointing

[fathom juniper]

oh

huh

well - which path would you recommend?

or more like - which "intro"

[ocean iris]

whichever you like dude

corpo, streetkid (the canon one from what it seems) or grease monkey

Hell, at E3 it teased you could choose between Saburo Arasaka, Johnny Silverhand or Morgan Blackhand as your childhood hero and it was basically the engram in your head

But seems it would have been to expensive and didnt help they got Keanu as Johnny

[fathom juniper]

yeah - if we wanna go through all the stuff that was promised before launch we'd be here all day

[tame veldt]

nomad is the fastest

[dense hearth]

@meager sphinx I remembered I don't like Lies of P and it's going back at the end of the backlog.

[molten mica]

In recent news, the anonymous modder responsible for Infinity Blade for PC has now successfully ported all of Infinity Blade 2 for PC as well!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq5DgjWKMg4&pp=ygUTaW5maW5pdHkgYmxhZGUgMiBwYw%3D%3D

[fathom juniper]

oooohhhh

on one hand - good
that's really, really good news for games preservation

on the other, however
it's just not the same when played on a regular screen

ALTHOUGH

steam deck has a touch screen

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[fathom juniper]

https://tenor.com/view/dacia-top-gear-james-good-news-great-news-gif-16523018

Amon Tobin’s amazing soundtrack for Chaos Theory is on Spotify

[ocean iris]

LESGO

Best Splinter Cell ever

the coop experience was so damn good with my friend

and it runs like a DREAM at 144hz

[fathom juniper]

Oh hell yeah

[ocean iris]

genuinely beautiful game

[fathom juniper]

Yeah

[ocean iris]

screw it im replaying it tonight

[fathom juniper]

Rip Sam fisher

Yeah I was thinking about trying it on the deck

[ocean iris]

i got it for free on ubisoft connect for it's anniversary iirc

[ocean iris]

Im curious about the upcoming SC game if Ubisoft isnt bankrupt by then

[fathom juniper]

I still have an original boxed copy at my moms old place

[ocean iris]

I hope they return to the hardcore stealth roots

[fathom juniper]

One of the earliest polish dub prints

With a typo on the cover

[ocean iris]

And use modern lighting tech to it's fullest

[fathom juniper]

They won’t do that

If they wanted to they would’ve done it in blacklist

At this point I’m not sure I even want to see that SC remake

Leave it as is

Dude
I remember getting into the spies vs mercs multiplayer like a week before servers shut down

I had to leave the next day and when I came back the game was down

So I was just sitting in the menu listening to that battery theme

https://youtu.be/lsxhy_9iijg?si=paVIWEvn4o17okbE

Man this game is so delightfully moody

[fathom juniper]

Now I got nostalgic and I’m looking up some funny dialogues and interrogations and MAN

https://youtube.com/shorts/E_0tOAzmlV4?si=tRbNIhG3UmcZqWha

The npcs in this game had so much character

The worst thing that happened to this series was the 7th gen edge
Brown and gloom, all grit and no funny moments at all

[vale root]

sabrina carpenter in fortnite its literally good now

[fathom juniper]

@ocean iris Hell yeah!

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/638031423340806185/1359218402467512583/IMG_4052.jpg?ex=67f6ae48&is=67f55cc8&hm=7a906a08f61620a80c6d49bf5be8087ed7d482476ead7ac969074bde4312e5ce&

Runs like a dream!

[ocean iris]

bootiful socks

[fathom juniper]

Max details downsampled from 1200p down to a 800p screen

I just had to spend like 10 minutes remapping all controls cause apparently this game is completely unsupported on the deck

As you can plainly see

[faint cape]

hell yeah

wait what game

[fathom juniper]

Oh god damn it

[fathom juniper]

Splinter cell chaos theory

[faint cape]

nice

[fathom juniper]

Aka: one of the best stealth games ever made

Let’s see if I still got what it takes to beat it on expert non lethal

100% score
And of course I’m gonna save those two pilots in Seoul

[fathom juniper]

welp

looks like my steam deck is completely effed

it's acting up even after doing a factory reset

which means i'll have to flash a clean instalation of steamOS

no splinter cell for me today, i guess

[fathom juniper]

also - i just realized
chaos theory hits 20 this year
20!

i could have a beer with this game wtf

[clear python]

so crazy

reminder that 2012 was 21 years ago

[fathom juniper]

wha-

[fathom juniper]

have you ever played chaos theory?

[clear python]

For thirty minutes bc someone told me you can change your crouch speed and then i was spotted through a wall (probably just a skill issue tho)

👍

[fathom juniper]

spotted through a wall?

i finished chaos theory like 10 times and i've never been spotted through a wall

so yeah - that's probably a skill issue

but anyways
this game does not look like a 20 years old game

it's so good

[clear python]

i found it kinda janky but i‘m really picky about that. The most painful newbie gamer ever. Couldn‘t handle TES Arena, or Blood Money, or idk

[fathom juniper]

janky?

you sure we're talking about the same game?

the first two splinter cell games were a bit janky - sure
but chaos theory? it's the smoothest of them all

hell - i'd go as far as saying it controls better than 2013 SC blacklist

[clear python]

my definition for janky is much more inclusive or rather, I get very easily confused by control schemes that aren‘t as polished/streamlined as newer games

[fathom juniper]

but sc3 is super streamlined

plays smooth as butter

[clear python]

doom also plays smooth as butter but not for my butter smooth brain (ok doom actually doesnt count bc you dont do anything complex)

[fathom juniper]

i... still don't get your point

how is chaos theory janky?

sam fisher-price never controlled better
even in newer games

[clear python]

I played it after blacklist (lol) and yes i found it different. This is just personal feel, it‘s like saying ‚this game is too fast for me‘; it‘s not a universal statement

[fathom juniper]

I played it after blacklist
ah - so that proves SC Conviction did more damage than i initially thought

since blacklist more or less uses the same control scheme and animation systems

and boi - conviction is on the level of...
mirror's edge catalyst for me

[clear python]

I know a lil more about Hitman, so if you compare the newer ones with Blood Money, the item menu feels ultra janky with a weird scrolling action where it‘s not clear what you even select, objectives aren‘t rly clear, general interaction is just bad compared to new stuff

[fathom juniper]

here i can kinda see it

but i'll still call it a skill issue

but in splinter cell?
nah

really, really long, loud, obnoxious naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

[clear python]

of COURSE it‘s a skill issue lol

[fathom juniper]

system shock 2 levels of naaaaaaaaaaaaah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctF-dVNR4jo

[clear python]

i just find soooo many old games really too unwieldy for me

[fathom juniper]

B-BUT but

but!

but sc3 is not unwieldy!

[clear python]

That‘s one thing that surprised me about HL, because I think that‘s the most playable ‚old‘ (sorry boomers) game I played

[fathom juniper]

https://tenor.com/view/kermit-freaking-out-wild-scream-gif-16620464

[clear python]

for a different genre, it‘s crazy how long it took to get the comparatively simple control scheme right (literally a mouse with two buttons. or even one)

uh the genre is point n click

[fathom juniper]

yeah it's kinda like this

but instead of point n click it's more like

scoot n sometimes shoot

[clear python]

but yeah im a cooked gen alpha gamer sorz grampa my first real game was skyrim (im not kidding)

[fathom juniper]

you can't be serious

[clear python]

well i played games before but in a different way i feel like, they werent hobbies or anything

Got anno 1503 from a supermarket‘s bargain bin

Didn‘t have consoles either or they only had racing games which i sucked at lol

[fathom juniper]

fair enough

still - SC3 is totally worth giving another shot

[clear python]

yeah it‘s totally on my backlog still

:peeposmile:

[fathom juniper]

no it's not

[clear python]

wtf?

[fathom juniper]

i bet it's not

[clear python]

i bet it‘s somewhere in there… buried…

[fathom juniper]

listen

have you ever played a game in which you could kill an enemy by hacking their... treadmill?

while making turkey noises at the flying ragdoll?

[clear python]

Ah carp i dont think so!

[fathom juniper]

https://tenor.com/view/would-you-like-to-would-you-like-to-robbie-rotten-would-you-like-to-lazytown-wouldyouliketo-would-you-like-to-lazy-town-gif-16977898220458783297

[clear python]

hmm i dont think you can hack a treadmill in hitman

but flamingo costume obv

[fathom juniper]

well in CT you have this sort of fancy sci-fi gadget called OSP attached to your pistol
basically it's like a directed emp - you aim at something, click right mouse and it jams whatever electric thing you're aiming at
computers, lights, radios - whatever

and there's one level in which you can find one of the guards running on a treadmill
full tilt

and you can easily sneak past, or you can...
aim that OSP-thingy at the control panel and jam the entire treadmill
which will propel this poor dude halfway across the map like a g-mod ragdoll

[fathom juniper]

oh nooooOOOOOOO MY BLENDER PLUGINS!

so i reinstalled steamOS yesterday, right?

no biggie - i can quickly download all the games and software back

but i had blender there and like 15 plugins and i don't remember their names or where i got them

i remember some of them were pretty hard to get too

oh nooooooooooo

at least splinter cell works better now
ALTHOUGH
i think that reinstall yesterday might've been pointless because it looks like the game itself was throwing a hissy fit

who would've thought an unsupported game might cause some issues

god i'm a dingus

[signal kayak]

You may or may not leave a note somewhere well protected with the names of those in case it happens again

totally didn't happen to me once

[fathom juniper]

Well we have a saying here
mądry Polak po szkodzie
Basically meaning that yeah - now I’m smart enough to do that
After it’s too late

So

I had one that allowed me to take movement data from a video recording and chuck it into blender
I had one that hooked a search bar up to a site that had like a brazilion free material presets
I had some wiggle bones, some… whatever thingy for baking

Uhhhhhh

Crap I can’t remember the rest

I had two that allowed me to import stuff from source engine games

[mystic wave]

Kids these days and their blender gizmos. Back in my day we used a whisk and good old elbow grease!

[fathom juniper]

You just reminded me of the old “will it blend” series on YouTube

Quality content

[ocean iris]

https://youtu.be/e3SwbHIPnfo?si=tKeQ8VNoM5T1JoTn

[fathom juniper]

I…

Am an idiot

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/638031423340806185/1359592447151440105/clip.mov?ex=67f80aa3&is=67f6b923&hm=8990c90ffbcbf98915c0f65dd4a10d97a21a37cc4882dc001af4b385799adf47&

I could swear they didn’t react to this sound

To be fair though - if someone were to wake me up like that I’d start blasting too

Oh my god dude are you okay?

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/638031423340806185/1359594206947180696/IMG_4075.jpg?ex=67f80c46&is=67f6bac6&hm=70ee48c10e3b6ffea197f9f3be2ba1bbcf5c3e2bd3dd659d1221249e2f9e73a1&

God I love early 2000s ragdolls

[pastel sable]

Idk if someone can answer this question but anyhow if i gift Hades II to a friend (as example) since i bought the game for them do they also get it for free when it releases?

[pastel sable]

🤔 cos i couldn't find any related resources on the FAQ section that's why I asked 😅

[fathom juniper]

Yo what the f-

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/638031423340806185/1359609717323993108/clip.mov?ex=67f81ab8&is=67f6c938&hm=b526cc418d448f122a537ad85eee1ec06734cd9e18634da52462cc86fd3405b5&

@ocean iris check this out

This dude has superhuman hearing

Freakin spidey-sense

[ocean iris]

LORD. I forgot how damn good the music was

[fathom juniper]

Right?

Like - it makes sc1 and 2 sound generic and amateurish by comparison

I wonder why they never brought tobin back

Oh my god YES

https://images.steamusercontent.com/ugc/2071150481743889436/1A35462CEE3B81372737BDD99C256B59CC2EF38F/?imw=5000&imh=5000&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false

[pastel sable]

Lol

[ocean iris]

Very accurate

[fathom juniper]

I love this pic to bits
I wanna know the story behind it

[fathom juniper]

yeeees
YEEEEES!

banco de panama
Best damn level in the entire series

[violet oak]

Yes; whenever you purchase, that product will be sent to them, they just update it like any other product. The price will stay the same 👍

The key is locked in transit once you complete the purchase

[clear python]

most important game of all time returns https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zj9p5cCY3G8

this is incredibly niche but this niche is SO BACK

[stable kindle]

yo did anyone play guild wars, theres gonna be a community play event for its 20th anniversary https://returntogw1.com/

[ocean iris]

https://www.instagram.com/p/DIPUjkWMc1r/

ah damn it not am embed?

[signal kayak]

embedfailure.gif

[ocean iris]

it's an artwork of sabrina carpenter carrying goku on her back

because both are in fortnite

[fathom juniper]

Well
Who isn’t ?

[clear python]

you?

[fathom juniper]

Thank god

[dire warren]

what if it was James May

[clear python]

sabrina you blithering idiot

[fathom juniper]

https://tenor.com/view/hi-james-may-grand-tour-top-gear-close-door-gif-15763817707233769999

[next patio]

https://www.ddinstagram.com/p/DIPUjkWMc1r/

Oh it doesn't embed with that either

Ig is bc it has audio?

[lost igloo]

so i opened that link, and scrolled down... whew, thats some fancy artwork

[ocean iris]

For some reason the artist was under fire because people thought they use ai which is crazy

[lost igloo]

meh, tools are tools, its neat images 🙂

[fathom juniper]

Nah
Gen ai should die in a garbage fire
Where it belongs

[ocean iris]

I think its fine as long as you dont claim you are an artist

[fathom juniper]

And don’t post it anywhere

And don’t generate it

Yeah - then it’s ok

Gen ai is ok as long as nobody is using it, yeah

[lost igloo]

i thoroughly enjoyed my time using it and had a lot of fun making some images i was very happy with.
its just graphics processing with a visualization 🙂

[fathom juniper]

Yeah trained on petabytes of stollen art

And photos

Like if you’re using it for yourself - I’m not gonna stop you

No one will

[lost igloo]

yeah, like being able to see steals the world. whoever got that copyright on lines and dots is making bank =p

[fathom juniper]

But I’ll eat my shoes before I make anything with gen ai

Socks included

Jeez you’re still going on that message ?

[lost igloo]

i dont see much beneficial value in attempting to tell someone that something they spent time and effort in influencing the final product of an image that their final product of an image "is not art".
aside from the obvious argument of "thats not art" has been used on hundreds of items currently installed within art museums, ranging from weird cars, melted metal scrap, performance art, and ect.
"Yeah but all of those things, a person did something to make an outcome, but Ai gen is just the computer doing everything" will be an argument i see frequently, which i can only find silly now. If you want to produce an image in the way you want it takes a lot of time, effort, and trial and error. i would spend 3-4 hours trying to get some of the images exactly how i wanted them to be.
So "All ai gen is garbage" just feels more trendy to say than accurate to reality.

it is a way to share with others the things that happen inside your mind. Such forms of expression are historically reguarded as artforms, although it usually requires a good ammount of time to pass first.

[fathom juniper]

https://tenor.com/view/spongebob-squarepants-sunglasses-book-reading-gif-17804335886508438673

Alright

[lost igloo]

like previously waste an hour in MSpaint to make a HORRIBLE representation of something i'm trying to explain to someone when i could instead take 10 min or so with an AI gen to get a much more clear representation of what i'm trying to show someone

[fathom juniper]

I respectfully disagree

[lost igloo]

that's fair. i'd be interested to know what you think there is to gain by shaming someone who is attempting to express their thoughts because you dislike the tool they have used. Like: if you dont agree with me saying there is no benifit to doing that, then what IS the benifit?

is the goal to make the person using it feel bad and decide to use different tools instead? because thats not a realistic option for everyone. If i want to make an image that looks like a "fancy painting" for example, i do not have the necessary time nor the required funds to perfect that skill to a level i would want. Nor do i have the funds to sponsor someone else to spend their time or effort. so do you feel art should be reserved for only people who can dedicate X ammount of time, effort and money to it? if so what is this X? how much personal investment does an individual make to a single image they are putting out before it is allowed to be called "Art"

[fathom juniper]

„is the goal to make the person using it feel bad and decide to use different tools instead?”
Honestly ? Yeah
Yes it is
Because gen ai doesn’t make this stuff - at best it can cobble something up based on others work.
Work of people who didn’t consent on it being used like that and apparently - it looks like they have almost no say in this. Because screw their hard work and their rights, right?

I’m not a musician - I can’t produce music at all. And I wouldn’t dare using a program to plagiarize some only for me to call myself one.
If someone did spend X amount of time making something they deserve recognition for it - not a faceless program that can make a blurry facsimile of it.

Not to mention the absurd amounts of horsepower and borderline unimaginable amounts of stolen data required to run it all

Or the shady terms and conditions of software of this kind.

Like - look where we are, mate.
I’ll never draw as well as Jen.
I’ll never make anything nowhere as pretty as transistor. And if I were to spend years getting good to get close to that level - I think everyone would approve that

On the other hand - if I were to tell an ai to look at transistor and go like „yeah draw me something like that but change a buncha crap” - I wouldn’t dare showing my face here

[lost igloo]

but thats not how it actually works.
thats like saying you just had Blender make you a new doom(2016) real quick

[fathom juniper]

Blender doesn’t work on ai prompts
You really need to put a lot of elbow grease to make anything in there

[lost igloo]

if you want gen ai to make you something actually functional it requires time and effort, just like any other tool

[fathom juniper]

It’s completely offline and - most importantly - it doesn’t run on projects made by people who didn’t consent

[signal kayak]

So in other words, Blender at least requires good user input to even put up some work, while gen a i is just press and forget
I see two paths to take and only one deserves some respect

[fathom juniper]

It’s not just that

Hell - I’d be happy if blender actually had an easier ui that involved less clicks

But in blender - you’re actually making stuff
There’s no way to tell it to do anything for you
While gen ai only - as name implies - generates something based on your prompt

And how does it know what to do?
By being trained on ridiculous amount of data - drawings, movies, photos - whatever
With their actual authors having no say in if they want their art to be used like that or not

I can’t believe we’re having this argument

[lost igloo]

the specifics of that COULD be debated if you were to consider the physics sims =p

[lost igloo]

oh i'll stop if you're upset, im just talking. sorry

[fathom juniper]

Oh I’m not upset

I just thought the consensus on it was pretty clear and obvious

Like - the only actually reasonable scenario for gen ai I can see is for internal use

[lost igloo]

I'm aware that lots of people dislike it. im also aware that lots of people think things about it that are not accurate. and apply blanket statements that one program did to the entirety of the process and tool as a whole, and that seems intellectually dishonest

[fathom juniper]

As in - for trying to visualize a certain idea before you scrap it and go an make it yourself
That’s it

[fathom juniper]

I’ll stop being dishonest the moment they stop being dishonest

[lost igloo]

who is "they"

[fathom juniper]

I’ll try to be objective the moment this modern day idea of ai starts being objective

But for the time being - f it

[fathom juniper]

Companies peddling thsi crap like openAI

Or hell - even adobe

[lost igloo]

openai is junk, dont use it. 100% agree. that company is garbage for many reasons.
this does not translate into = all ai gen is garbage ands everything about that company also applies to this tool

[fathom juniper]

Well I’ve yet to see a good example of it so

Anyways
I’ve got better things to do

[lost igloo]

thats cool bud, thanks for talking, sorry for not agreeing with ya

[fathom juniper]

Oh don’t be sorry mate

We can agree to disagree

At least I don’t have to eat my shoes

[lost igloo]

a few of my friends have been telling me about inZOI, and it kinda looks fuuuuun

[stable kindle]

the only thing i know about it is ppl who thinks sims is superior are bickering with inzoi ppl, normal ppl are like "yay more cakes!" (they like any life sim type game and don't just stick to the sims), and i heard rumours there might have been generative ai involved, but im not interested in the game so i haven't looked at that. just smth that crossed my feed once

i looked at the discussion board once and saw a lot of defensive ppl so there's probably plenty of popcorn to be had there

[ocean iris]

all tiktok posts i saw about sims > inzoi all got in their bio "Ea affiliate"

L M A O

[silk abyss]

You could actually run over children in the game along with kidnapping

I’m not kidding

[stable kindle]

[silk abyss]

They patched the running over one

I don’t know about kidnapping

[fathom juniper]

Well damn
Didn’t know the sims had such a competitive scene lol

[fathom juniper]

Oh come on
Don’t tell me you never sold the pool ladder while your sims were swimming in it

Or set up a house with the cheapest fireplace, a bunch of cheap furniture nearby and then sold the door

[stable kindle]

well that's because i haven't

[fathom juniper]

Well maybe I was a weird kid

[clear python]

not just kid

👍

[fathom juniper]

This reminds me of that one absolute mad lad that calculated the maximum amount of time your sim can waste before hopping in to the work car before it drives off

And then made a hedge maze in front of that sims house that takes that exact amount of time to get through

And then hired him in some dead-end office job

And that’s when the torture begins - each day a car would show up to take that sim to work
And he had to run to make it in time - constantly passing out from exhaustion and pissing his pants cause all the meters were at 0

And then - when coming back to work that sim would just walk through that maze - which took so long the moment he reached the front door - beep beep
a new car just spawned - time to run

So that poor sims life was just a loop of working a crappy job, running around a hedge maze 24/7, pissing and crying

That’s beyond cruel

[ocean iris]

this is what the monopoly of a single game over a niche genre does

any attempt at a game like sims is shunned by EA shills by nitpicking everything while their low poly old ass game gets a new overpriced dlc

Sims 4 is cool but outdated

[fathom juniper]

The the sims expansions are…
That’s a rabbit hole I don’t want to get into

[ocean iris]

ahem

ea dlc unlocker

[fathom juniper]

oooooohhh

Actually…

I don’t care

[stable kindle]

extremely funny series of replies

[fathom juniper]

Listen - even if they’re free
There’s so much of them it’s easier for me to learn all the pokemon

Theres like what
150?

[signal kayak]

That's just the first gen (151 if you count Mew)

They broke the thousand milestone

Unrelated

iii-Initiative is live on Twitch, will start proper in 16 minutes

[twin yarrow]

speaking of pokemon, funny how big N finally got mad over "critters spawning from throwable item" mechanic that Palword had for so long

but at the same time ARK exists and nintendants don't care

it's almost as if they wanted desperately to find something to get lawsuits going

[fathom juniper]

They WHAT

bruh

hurrrrr back in my days

[twin yarrow]

i remember having a poster with all 151 of them, when the show was popular here

then somewhere mom got another one, with second gen, and we've never saw any of them in the show

it was cut short for some reason around the time Charizard started to behave

bc old people went "oh no, pokemons make our kids degenerated, anime makes our kids violent" and it became a popular idea among politics

[ocean iris]

ah yes gotta love puritanic takes on the most innocent anime ever

[ocean iris]

i miss tacked on multiplayer modes
they could have been made very fun

uncharted 4's was great, factions was awesome, mass effect 3 had awesome multiplayer survival coop action as other races
splinter cell's agent vs mercenary was absolutely epic, max payne 3 too

and MGO2 and MGO3

[lost igloo]

all great examples.
go back just a bit more and you dont have to specify "Tacked On" multiplayer modes, since they were planned to be half of the game that complimented the story campaign, Like Gears of War 3

[next patio]

https://www.vxreddit.com/r/VampireSurvivors/s/5jp55OUGOj

[lost igloo]

https://tenor.com/view/bayley-lacey-evans-funny-running-meme-gif-16143393

NOOO YOU JERKS! ITS FREE! i was so ready to throw more money at VS

haaaah!

Do I need to know SaGa to play the expansion?
I'm pretty sure you don't even need to know anything about Vampire Survivors to play Vampire Survivors!

[stable kindle]

a saga crossover rn is interesting when ive been considering checking the series. a sign, surely

(i will do nothing with this information for i will forget in ten minutes)

[stray crown]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvY_0EJPBuw

first silksong now this

[next patio]

Yooo finally?

[fathom juniper]

@ocean iris check out this cool play

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/638031423340806185/1360307115113058404/clip.mov?ex=67faa439&is=67f952b9&hm=42e60001e0124bc9cdc99bb1f83daaa63c0c0aa74fa36916a6cb63a98524860e&

Ngl I’m kinda pleased with how it went

[ocean iris]

hell yeah

[fathom juniper]

Dude the bank heist is so good!

This is The End levels of good
Isle of Sgail levels of good

[fathom juniper]

oh dude THAT WAS SO CLOSE

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/638031423340806185/1360318750494298314/clip.mov?ex=67faaf0f&is=67f95d8f&hm=b4349551b5162bb2604a410eed27dcd260267b504aea55e125620956cca27404&

Buttcheeks status: clenched

[fathom juniper]

Yeah baby
1:05, 100% on expert and only 6 knocked out guards

That’s as close I can get to full on ghosting

[ocean iris]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/416466471003226112/1360332081334452224/ssstwitter.com_1744371027003.mp4?ex=67fabb79&is=67f969f9&hm=2738a1635da1de0c8283595af7e6075573fd03e190975eed13c80efbfe71551f&

[fathom juniper]

Oh my god this is some Monty Python crap

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/638031423340806185/1360349068458594425/clip.mov?ex=67facb4b&is=67f979cb&hm=ff5666e707314f925b095b74c7f3a36e5b22780d339a28cfabac74b73a7e23d5&

Check this out @ocean iris

Sam takes like 10% damage from nut shots

[ocean iris]

lmao

[fathom juniper]

Usually on expert a single hit from a 9mm takes like 80% of your health

But here he shrugged off 5 rounds like it’s nothing

[fathom juniper]

Man
How does this 20 years old game have better lighting than most modern aaa games ?

[storm rose]

Y’all, I got Monster Prom for only $4

[fathom juniper]

Monster prom?

alright
i've got a bit of an unusual question

what is the best way of picking the, uh... gamer lint out of crevices of handhelds and gamepads?

cause i just looked at my steam deck in broad daylight (instead of gaming on it in a pitch black room like i usually do) and i noticed it's full of gaming crust in the seams between two halves of the casing

[storm rose]

Yep

[fathom juniper]

what's that?

[storm rose]

It’s this competitive dating sim where you find a prom date in a school full of monsters

[fathom juniper]

• a competitive dating sim *

[storm rose]

I would post a picture, but I can’t in here

[fathom juniper]

so basically tinder

[storm rose]

Yeah, basically

[fathom juniper]

Lmao
I just heard two guards talking how “no one would ever need an mp3 player bigger than 64 gigs”in sc3

Just to remind me this game is 20 years old

Wouldn’t know it just from looking at it or playing it

[storm rose]

Wow XDD

[fathom juniper]

Bro wtf
Who’s doing the sneaking here? Me or them?

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/638031423340806185/1360536351086219314/clip.mov?ex=67fb79b7&is=67fa2837&hm=e9a6bfcfe35197f737b0faa122e498866508a506aea812e6bc83f7e1467379a7&

You know what? I ain’t even mad
That was actually impressive

[clear python]

I use these lil plastic brushes that are made to clean the space between your teeth

[mystic wave]

Can of compressed air

[fathom juniper]

I think I’ll go with the brush

[mystic wave]

No bim! don't let tidb win

[clear python]

wtf??

[mystic wave]

Nothing personnel

[clear python]

kiddo…

[fathom juniper]

I’d rather have Germans winning at this than… other things

[mystic wave]

Is this the fabled German engineering

[fathom juniper]

Nah that would be a 300 sl gullwing

Absolute beauty

[fathom juniper]

holy crap - someone restored old EAX support for chaos theory!
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxPExLY86_0j5cnNtOz4FIDUKd4e_VeQNY?si=FlMGTVxOZPvHDgJ0

listen to the difference it makes
this bit used to have some cheesy VA, but this reverb makes all the difference and makes it sound terrifying

[fathom juniper]

ah boy here we go
Seoul

The second biggest difficulty spike of the game with lots of rng

It’s annoying enough on a normal playthrough
With a sniper rifle and live ammo

But here on expert non-lethal 100% rank?
I’ve finished this game like 10 times and never managed to get my score above 60 - even on lower difficulties

[fathom juniper]

Alright
This got a good chuckle out of me

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/638031423340806185/1360638285525029206/clip.mov?ex=67fbd8a6&is=67fa8726&hm=ffe8eb306537e39b6b706c950a27ce9b7fac51df25399bbd10d86c2a08097feb&

[fathom juniper]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/638031423340806185/1360648603349025080/IMG_4113.jpg?ex=67fbe242&is=67fa90c2&hm=e0d2a2ec2fd2c341f7c03ad79f4bbb95534010ab1a63af42b9475a93f60b26e2&

• inhales deeply... *

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xeGE_5kSI0&t=2s

i'm mad

like - what do you mean bodies found?
one - he wasn't dead, he was just eepy
two - it's a freakin warzone - there's bodies all over the place

there goes my 100% run score

[ocean iris]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/416466471003226112/1360661705700540707/Screenshot_20250412_200212_Google2.jpg?ex=67fbee76&is=67fa9cf6&hm=2dab4345abe820266f0031f7dac51d9f2badda74078ee8148f9c604a047b3461&

please please please please

[ocean iris]

dude

coop splinter cell with my mate was crazy

he was the clinical non lethal guy
i was the risk taker psycho stabbing everyone

[fathom juniper]

dude
now i regret formatting my old laptop a few weeks ago

i had some SC co-op clips there from the old x-fire days

it was the funniest sh- i've ever played

have i told you that one story about those two guards watching a football match?

[ocean iris]

nope

but you know a game's good when someone's got stories with their experience in it

[fathom juniper]

alright 👏
buckle tf up

so we were doing that prequel bank co-op mission
and we were sneaking around, being extra careful (my co-op buddy wasn't good at stealth games and i have finished the singleplayer campaign like three times at that point)
and we came across this lounge room with two guards chilling on a couch watching a football match

so we thought we're gonna be super tacti-cool and wanted to do the call of duty thing and take both of them out at the same time

we got our pistols ready, aimed at their heads
"On one. Ready? Three, two, on-"
and right there someone scored in that match and both of those guys got up cheering GOOOOOOOAAAAALLLL like as we were about to shoot

shot both of them in the cheeks
and just made them super angry and they turned around and started blasting full auto

just a pair of fumbling bumbling idiots pretending to be super spies

[fathom juniper]

oh yeah chaos theory is like a cool story generator: the game

[ocean iris]

beautiful

[fathom juniper]

such a shame there's basically no other game like that

and that this co-op mode is so hard to get going
oh and that they never patched the vent softlock

[signal kayak]

So...Demonio Uno is in my library now
Is Beelzebub just an HD mod btw? Or should I try out DevilutionX, or can I even stack both?

[fathom juniper]

I don’t know those names

[signal kayak]

Diablo I

[fathom juniper]

But beelzebub did change names to Diablo hd I think

And yes it’s way more than just an Hd mod

Brings a lot of improvements and restores cut content

[signal kayak]

Does either one have controller support?

[fathom juniper]

I mean
Every game has controller support nowadays

Just chuck it into steam and use steam input

[signal kayak]

Wait, of course DevilutionX does, it's been ported to a few consoles by now

[ocean iris]

https://youtu.be/uZRGDZCl9pg

this is so ass 💔

They saying from the creators of halo and destiny as if the staff that made them is still there LOL

[fathom juniper]

Bruh

I love the art style, but

This ain’t marathon

The first two (or three, if you’re a masochist) marathon games were spooky single player shooters about isolation and mind games

A borderline horror at times

[ocean iris]

The artstyle was cool for the trailers but it looks like its gonna get old in game

[fathom juniper]

Yeah I can see that too

Like either the talent behind those trailers didn’t translate back to the game

Or they had to cut some corners for the sake of performance or gameplay

Also check out that duplo shotgun

SPEAKING OF SHOTGUNS

where’s my terminator reload?

[ocean iris]

Dude. I hope Bungie finally goes bankrupt at this point

[fathom juniper]

Marathon was the first fps where you could do that cool t-800 shotgun flip

[fathom juniper]

Nah I wouldn’t go that far

This whole thing is just …
Confusing as all hell

[ocean iris]

It will Im sorry
Plus did you know how their CEO is

[fathom juniper]

Ey?

What do you mean?

[ocean iris]

He laid off like 220 employees last year and spent 2.4mil dollars on classic cars since Sony bought Bungie

That Bungie people loved is long gone

[fathom juniper]

Ah
I see

Holy crap
I don’t remember this level being so huge mcbiglarge

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/638031423340806185/1360680236664230040/IMG_4115.jpg?ex=67fbffb8&is=67faae38&hm=032dbbf35e28db0de39ba6af4b9d7bed3afee46f20a0c9fecd1af43e922516db&

The whole map won’t even fit in the frame
They won’t let me zoom far enough

[fathom juniper]

aaaaaand here comes the pain
The infamous bathhouse section

[obsidian niche]

Minesweeper
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[fathom juniper]

oh god i was at this level for 4 hours only to barely get the over 60% mark

i could finish transistor in this time

or mirror's edge!
twice!

[clear python]

hmm maybe i should play ME

[obsidian niche]

ME is fun.

[clear python]

urgh well let's do it i wanna see the sewer again

[fathom juniper]

OH ABOSO-FREAKING-LUTELY

one of my favorite games ever made

[clear python]

one of the best levels of all time idk why i love it SO MUCH

i LOVE machinery

i LOVE water

yeah it's an all-timer

[fathom juniper]

I LOVE the most expensive graphics cards on the market not supporting this 2009 tech

yeah apparently the rtx 50xx lineup craps itself to death on the OG mirror's edge

cause they dropped support for 32 bit physix games

for some freakin reason

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

[clear python]

let‘s see how my amd card handles it now :^)

[fathom juniper]

honestly?
there's a rather high chance you're gonna get higher frames than this

even if amdies don't support physix

[clear python]

i know my 5450 (lol) completely died. it‘s probably more impressive that it ran at all

the glass shooty scene is coming up

[fathom juniper]

fun fact
i tried replicating this dynamic procedural glass in doom

and it worked!

but it was so messy and performed so poorly i scrapped the whole thing and just...
calculated physics in blender and crunched it down to a series of sprites and called it a day

[clear python]

yeah drops to 20 fps

[fathom juniper]

well hey look at the bright side

that's better than a 5080

[clear python]

ok it gradually dropped to 5 while entering the subway idk why

[fathom juniper]

ooohh

cloth physics probably

there's some flags and what not nearby

[clear python]

sewer lets goooo

[fathom juniper]

the green storm drain?

[clear python]

yea

and the part where all the water flows into the black abyss...

[fathom juniper]

good stuff

i remember being scared poopless of that black abyss

cause the sound this game makes when falling down a pit is just...

horror material

[clear python]

yeah

[fathom juniper]

i had nightmares about that sound
and i'm dead serious right now

i had multiple dreams about this game

and only this one

[clear python]

anyway i need to stop playing or i'll get nothing done but yes prettiest game of all time

[fathom juniper]

WHY DO WE NEED REAL TIME RAYTRACING!?

just bake that crap in!

[clear python]

runs smoothly at 4K on my not up-to-date gpu and looks better, even in the details, than whatever new stuff happening

[fathom juniper]

dude the details on all those paintings

[clear python]

i need to do a leisurely stroll playthrough again bc rn i was focused on getting to the sewer asap

[fathom juniper]

it's like - you can shove your face all the way up there and see what kind of brush was used to paint that

incredible

[fathom juniper]

oh yeah you have to
you'd be surprised how many cool details you can find there if you slow down

like that one single guy having a unique pistol
or the fact that those police runner... guys have unique takedown animations

or all the cool text you can find on some props

[clear python]

sniped and shotgun'd 👍

[fathom juniper]

or the unique "ohno both my legs are broken" animation

this is the stuff catalyst was missing

character

there was no rats, no janitors, no cool little stories spanning through emails and post-it notes
no cool grafitti hinting at the grander universe, no unique enemies

just... take some scrapped beta content (i know you have it - every game does) and hide it in some obscure corner of a map - that's it

[clear python]

tho it‘s objectively funny that within the first 15 minutes, an armed helicopter with a sniper is following you and destroys half the city

[fathom juniper]

it's also funny that this is the only bit that features...
a working mirror

in a game called mirror's edge

[clear python]

10 years later we get moh warfighter where you can choose between 10 different door breach animations

[fathom juniper]

that change absolutely nothing

wait
10 years later?

MOH Doorfighter wasn't 2018

it was like...
2012 tops

[clear python]

yeah realized that later

anyway door breach funny

[fathom juniper]

BTW

i hope you're not bashing down doors anymore in ME

[clear python]

umm it‘s called door breaching sweatie

[fathom juniper]

you know you can just shoot locks to save on time, right?

instead of doing that stock animation that slows you down

[clear python]

hmm i only shot cops till now

[fathom juniper]

yeah - that bit from that vid i posted earlier
in ropeburn's office

just grab the gun off his desk (acrobatics there are easy enough for it to not slow you down too much)
shoot some windows to make it easier for yourself
and when you get to the top floor just turn on slow-motion to help yourself with aiming at the lock

and the door outside will swing wide open on it's own

[clear python]

time for your dusa gun emote

[fathom juniper]

©️ Bim, 2025

[clear python]

art

[fathom juniper]

@ocean iris https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CV7sMYC4Ygs

god wtf is this HUD?

it's my arch nemesis
the AAA special

white lines and blurry backgrounds

[clear python]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/333162407826554882/1360764014514143377/image.png?ex=67fc4dbe&is=67fafc3e&hm=298b9fd1e797fe971c46a2007aa4cff26984035065c36a34c9675063f2fbe3f9&

[silk abyss]

I’m gonna be honest be a bit wary while I’m still excited for it Pete I love cars parsons is still in charge

Like destiny 2 is really good rn but it keeps having issues because of him

[fathom juniper]

I’m still wondering wtf does this have to do with marathon

Like - how did we go from a game that feels like this:

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/638031423340806185/1360851298211070074/IMG_4116.jpg?ex=67fc9f08&is=67fb4d88&hm=eadcba25d0bf0478fb0497d8f7028e3c99fb9404c93d4f51b5d737e3f7e10ff5&

To a game that feels like this?

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/638031423340806185/1360851298567589978/IMG_4117.jpg?ex=67fc9f08&is=67fb4d88&hm=941ecae735f84ea3c2b76f28c2b92f16178b77aa97004583b4182fe74d817324&

[woven breach]

https://x.com/sorogamea/status/1911269826619732446

いおち (@sorogamea) on X

CAPCOMさん、ハンマー強化したなら言ってくださいよ　#MHWilds

X · Apr 13, 2025, 4:06 AM

this is so funny

[fathom juniper]

https://tenor.com/view/sonic-gif-7633544

[lost igloo]

https://youtu.be/GiDcZaE4MA8

[ocean iris]

Metro 2033 redux is free to keep on Steam!!!

[signal kayak]

And also on GOG, so I read

[fathom juniper]

uh

i mean

OH CRAP!

i wonder how it runs on the deck

• yoink *

thanks mate @ocean iris

[ocean iris]

:D

[clear python]

https://x.com/geckowo/status/1911446587072532555

claire (@geckowo) on X

X · Apr 13, 2025, 3:49 PM

[mystic wave]

but at least she has MULT

[woven breach]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/742058492952838225/1344298882510880838/rapidsave.com_xv2q23akzdle1.gif

[fathom juniper]

https://tenor.com/view/balatro-wheel-of-fortune-balatro-wheel-of-fortune-balatro-wheel-empty-wallet-gif-9087530590380236719

[graceful galleon]

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/steam-total-account-spend/

[fathom juniper]

Huh

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/638031423340806185/1361618399272370186/IMG_4208.png?ex=67ff6974&is=67fe17f4&hm=743fb30c099d618556ae79c0b7230ba36b3a0d5f2bc99a22a756e990e8e5224a&

Didn’t even know I had hidden games

[graceful galleon]

It's private by default lol

[fathom juniper]

Ah

[woven breach]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3419430/Bongo_Cat/

Steam

Bongo Cat

Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?

Item drop pool chances*:
*
Common - 90%

…

▶ Play video

I love this

[signal kayak]

Clive Finalfantasy, Arthur Warframe, Prometheus Hadestwo and Jimbo Balatro have taken the stand
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AamFDYUaMhM

[fathom juniper]

oh christ
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/638031423340806185/1361749301809909891/image.png?ex=67ffe35d&is=67fe91dd&hm=eac1dd06eb004275cd590397f06df236acaf4ee35ff2be7d54fd3d7a8f94ff1e&

[clear python]

behold: the power of bundles https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/333162407826554882/1361787348043432048/image.png?ex=680006cc&is=67feb54c&hm=76742e41759c17dacb91d638a827a4444787349be852bb55fb6281801254a681&

[fathom juniper]

how the hell did you get 13k hours while not playing games?

hows rollerdrome btw

[clear python]

no time!

[fathom juniper]

well that screenshot begs to differ

also
ayyyy

sgg background pals

[clear python]

SO TRUE

[fathom juniper]

anywhoo

new dwarf fortress noclip episode!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5zgBXp4e8A

[ocean iris]

Im so sad Marathon is an extraction shooter

[fathom juniper]

Yeah…

[ocean iris]

I was gonna say
How about a god damn singleplayer game, Bungie?

But I forgot they havent made anything singleplayer since Halo Reach

And all of their revenue is from the greediness

Also they wont add proximity chat to Marathon because of toxicity

(Said by the company that revolutionized multiplayer gaming and gaming socialization)

Unironically

Just mute people

[clear python]

I remember playing destiny and literally not understanding it. Maybe i‘m built different (code for being dumb). Didn‘t understand warframe either

[ocean iris]

Same to both but at least I enjoyed Warframe

[clear python]

My destiny experience was: Play the intro, get to the overly big hub world, select a mission, play through it (it‘s like one room filled with enemies), check out their loot and if i can grab some weapo— sorry buddy time‘s up, you‘re teleported back

[fathom juniper]

Didn’t teabagging start in halo?

[ocean iris]

mhm

[fathom juniper]

What gives

Hell - even kid friendly Nintendo is doing voice chat now

[lost igloo]

Translation: we were too lazy to get voice chat working right s here's an excuse to make it look intentional

[signal kayak]

Minute one hell blizzard, guaranteed

[fathom juniper]

Oh yeah people are gonna be super inappropriate there

It’s like they forgot how bad this thing went in burnout paradise

[stable forum]

https://youtube.com/shorts/g25fEuKylx4?si=nv-j-CNYMa96kibw

Thank you Supergiant Games! 🫡

[silk abyss]

Ultrakill fulfilled my void for fps games

https://imgur.com/a/u9tnnV2

[graceful galleon]

Wilds insect glaive feels really sluggish

[mystic wave]

yeah... its also extremely powerful

https://streamable.com/o8ggi0

[graceful galleon]

it is

but it takes getting used to holding the button and doing other stuff, bit clunky. They drastically nerfed the attack speed too I feel, especially the up+triangle thrust

https://i.imgur.com/xTHNSW6.png

pretty okay game

[fathom juniper]

oh hey
i played this a bunch

it's a nice co-op game when it's late, you're both drunk and don't have enough braincells left to play anything more taxing

and it got me to buy vampire survivors

[dense hearth]

just got my 3rd Steam 100%

[lost igloo]

nice, what one?

[dense hearth]

AI Limit

[woven breach]

I have successfully hacked my ps vita

am playing gravity rush

I miss this game

[graceful galleon]

y know, at one point I considered purchasing a hacked ps vita

[fathom juniper]

https://tenor.com/view/hacker-hackerman-kung-fury-gif-7953536

[signal kayak]

Playing Zero Escape The Nonary Games on mine

Now I remember why I don't like Virtue's Last Reward

[woven breach]

Not exactly. I wanted to patch Phantasy Star Nova with eng translation on mine but my PC couldn't detect the SD card on the vita. Went through several webs and threads only to find out...!

all I had to do was press select on Vitashell app...

https://tenor.com/view/slap-the-head-oh-no-the-naked-gun-leslie-nielsen-facepalm-gif-14881869

also my right analog is very crunchy

for some reason

[woven breach]

in my country's case, they're sold at the same price as the day it launched. For whatever reason.

[signal kayak]

Oh god that one hurts

[fathom juniper]

Oh I’ve done worse two weeks ago
I reinstalled entire steamOS TWICE thinking it was having some issues…
…only to realize that a game I was playing was just acting up

Steamos was fine

Cleaned my whole steam deck
Did a factory reset
Re-downloaded my games
Still had issues
Reformatted the whole thing again
Flashed steamOS from a separate drive
Downloaded my games again

Oh would you look at that
It’s this unsupported game that’s the issue
Who would’ve thought

[next patio]

Flushed? Omg like balatro

[signal kayak]

+30 chips +4 mult

Or was it 35?

[next patio]

35 ye

[woven breach]

...I found another troubleshooting nightmare with dumb solution!

Patching the game with ENG fan translation needed a repatch pluggin
Watched the tutorial step-by-step but there was an error
thonking
Ended up cross referencing OTHER tutorials to no avail
Only to realise it didn't work because I didn't delete the pluggin on the external memory and caused the one from internal memory to collide while opening the game

fun

speaking of other debugging nightmare

I seem to have a lot of these in the past few months

you know what

I don't have the energy

I'll tell it some other time

[fathom juniper]

Listen
I’ve been doing some blending lately

Doing detective work for this sort of stuff is a daily occurance for me now

Remember
There’s a world of difference between clicking something, and alt-clicking something

Turns out alt-clicking a modifier applies that modifier…
to everything

[graceful galleon]

idk the price on launch but dang, it's still pretty expensive here too for like 15 y.o console

[woven breach]

exactly

[fathom juniper]

Where are you from again ?

I’m curious what place still stocks ps vitas

[mystic wave]

Correction, they stock hacked ps vitas

[fathom juniper]

Ah

[mystic wave]

Anyway fluffy is my neighbour

We're in southeast asia

[fathom juniper]

technically i'm neighbours with tidb
i live pretty close to the german border

[clear python]

dzien dobry

[fathom juniper]

which, uh...
sure is a good source of some really inappropriate jokes

[fathom juniper]

guten tag

lmao
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypuJdFAFSsc

those paddles were hugo's idea, i bet

also - doom 1 + 2 is getting a new physical release with a box that...
plays doom

literally a game that plays itself

they call it the "will it run edition" and it's priced at
you guessed it
666 burgerbucks

https://images.nintendolife.com/1757431d0da65/doom.900x.jpg

[ocean iris]

that's kinda insane

the casette tapes though

those look SICK

wish they gave the game to you on a floppy too

[fathom juniper]

yeah so that no one can run it

but dude

PORTABLE PLAYABLE CACO!

yes!

https://tenor.com/view/cacodemon-caco-pet-cute-doom-gif-18064293408960087153

[clear python]

this could be us

[fathom juniper]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/361885089824505858/1329565612929978451/bim4.gif

[clear python]

https://tenor.com/view/jayce-viktor-jayvik-league-of-legends-do-you-want-to-play-gif-23765870

[fathom juniper]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvcNLrYxgF8

[clear python]

ultrakill more like ultrasnore!!! (i tried the demo for like half an hour and SUCKED)

[fathom juniper]

you mean the game or was it an yet another case of skill issue?

||i'm genuinelly asking cause i haven't played ultrakill yet||

||this game scares me||

actually
i should delete that last joke

there we go

[clear python]

skill issue yeah

not exactly a boomer shooter pro

[fathom juniper]

it ain't even a boomer shooter

[clear python]

idk what words are

[fathom juniper]

this thing is borderline lethal to boomers

especially the music

[clear python]

health…

[fathom juniper]

OKAY

[clear python]

(i havent listened to anything else)

[fathom juniper]

• SLAMS DESK *

HOW IN TF DID HAKITA GET HEALTH TO MAKE SUCH A BANGER FOR THIS GAME!?

[clear python]

its SO GOOD

[fathom juniper]

this is my fave album of last year

the whole thing is just

well it's not a 10/10
it's not downward spiral

but it's a proper 8,5/10

the best comment i've seen was someone calling it "a downward spiral for people with a low attention span" and that person couldn't be more accurate

[clear python]

missed their previous europe tours and will miss the ones this summer as well, i feel like by the time they come around here agin it'll be even more depressed

[fathom juniper]

oh shush

i'm gonna miss what will probably be NIN's last gig in poland

trent's pushing 60

i'm still mad about this

[clear python]

oh no

[fathom juniper]

they are going to play in germany though

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/638031423340806185/1362494012002406743/image.png?ex=680298ee&is=6801476e&hm=df2630272257261638efd581bb59ff2b3b3c19e3912d7e14e44fcce9fb40a035&

no, wait

that's denmark

no, wait

it's berlin

i'm dum
and kinda

i saw the DE and i was like wha

[clear python]

Yeah i just wont have the time at that… time

[fathom juniper]

i still wish trent did some more game soundtracks

his work on quake is legendary

dude just dipped and dashed on games and went on to score some indie movies and * checks notes *

...animated pixar movies?

hey whatever floats your creative boat

[clear python]

Doesnt he have like two oscars

[fathom juniper]

yeah and he got a grammy for shouting fist f- really loud

dude is just an enigma

and a statue in the rock and roll hall of fame for a gig where he performed covered head to toes in human feces

i love this band

but yeah - bideo gaems
try falling asleep to the quake 1 OST @clear python

it's gonna be fun

especially that one track which sounds like a bunch of maggots eating the flesh behind your right ear

[dense kindle]

didn't he not like the vibes of quake 2

something like "this game has no soul"

[fathom juniper]

i guess, if civvie is to be believed

although quake 2 really did have a different kind of mood and sonic mayhem
aka: sasha di-cantspellthathere-cian
fits that mood really well

made one hell of an OST

it's just - you know
quake 2

[dense kindle]

"I was even asked to do Quake II and III, but the direction was to do music that would amp you up to play, and that doesn‘t interest me that much." - Trent Reznor, 2000

I guess id and him just had creative differences

[fathom juniper]

yeah but they're as respectful as "creative differences" usually go in this industry

don't forget - NIN went to ID for quake 1 - not the other way around

they were both just really big fans of each other

they were both rockstars of their industries

[twin yarrow]

well, they made cassette tapes, okay

at this point, also, i kinda feel bad about cacodaemons becoming a "cute mascot" of series.. it doesn't feel right to shoot them now

[woven breach]

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

Woooooooooo

[fathom juniper]

This feels…
Like it wants to do what dustborn tried to do but… good?

This genuinely looks fun

[woven breach]

I've played the first demo. It is fun

[woven breach]

I now have the energy to talk about this

For context, I have Intel Arc B580.
This game, Honkai Star Rail, would restart the whole PC after playing like 20 mins. It runs fine. No stutters and no nothing. Just sudden restart after a few battles. No other games do this. It's just this game. Surprise (or not surprising at all), it's a driver bug issue thingy that to this day still haven't been solved. The best thing I could do then was to contact the dev and intel

Fast forward to now, I discovered a workaround -- that is to change PCIE from auto to gen 3 in the bios. Someone in a thread said they got it working with a PCIE gen 3 riser. And it works now.

[mystic wave]

Did the devs or Intel had actual answers for you

[woven breach]

no to both

well actually

intel said they couldn't replicate the issue with the newest driver

but I've seen some peeps having trouble installing newest driver

so I'mma stay where I'm at

[lost igloo]

https://tenor.com/view/flcl-anime-gif-9463277

its flcl the game lol

[fathom juniper]

@ocean iris mate
You won’t believe what I’m playing right now

[ocean iris]

wut

[fathom juniper]

Marathon

Im actually playing a bungie shooter

[ocean iris]

playing Marathon before playing any Halo is wild

but I mean

all 3 marathon games are free on steam

[fathom juniper]

I played halo

[ocean iris]

a bungie shooter :3

[fathom juniper]

What do you mean

[ocean iris]

halo and marathon are bungie shooters

[fathom juniper]

Oh that

Yeah I didn’t quite like halo
Like - I kinda get why it’s so beloved and such

But I wanted to experience the insanity of marathon first hand

[fathom juniper]

Honestly ?
This is pretty cool so far

[fathom juniper]

Very important news

What

Bot!
It’s just a single link

WHAT DO YOU MEAN TOO MANY ATTACHMENTS!?

Im gonna do it the mom way

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/638031423340806185/1362986525440081941/IMG_4315.png?ex=6804639e&is=6803121e&hm=673843a5154368a03ef35d9e4cc9cf9fc63ae02893b0331db2518ea7c299cd16&

Now it works

[graceful galleon]

holy cow and it's already sold at like $95

[woven breach]

I don't think I believe that...

[mystic wave]

If that thing drifts it will be a loss to all parties involved

[woven breach]

https://tenor.com/view/şşşüüüüşşş-gif-27139933

[lost igloo]

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/loss
nah its that old dead baby joke

[fathom juniper]

It’s just a gift that keeps on giving

I AM GOING TO EXPLODE
Muh blender just crashed on compositing…
After rendering a single 4k frame for 30 minutes

[graceful galleon]

ahh lmao. I didnt get it

[stable forum]

https://youtu.be/rcxnRaZ6slU?si=9YOyHVpUaV6QLWMS

[woven breach]

I cracked up on the hidden war monologue. Imagined Kronk saying that.
"Ah yes, a war you don't see."
"The one fought in shadows."
"The war beneath the war."
"A war that's won with the right strategy."

https://tenor.com/view/kronk-redundant-emperors-new-groove-point-obvious-gif-4918618

[ocean iris]

tiktok kids are mad its turn based

me as an X-COM enjoyer, Im excited

I just hope it wont be 70 bucks and will be complex

[fathom juniper]

wait a minute

a turn-based AAA game?

in this day and age?

[ocean iris]

star wars xcom is lowkey one of my dreams

pls be good

[fathom juniper]

yeah i'm watching the trailer right now, and

a star wars game that isn't your regular third-person action slop with token RPG mechanics and barebones stealth?

||take a guess which one i was describing there lmao||

[ocean iris]

lawl

[fathom juniper]

from a major publisher, no less?

i'm quite surprised

https://tenor.com/view/senator-palpatine-anakin-skywalker-phantom-menace-gif-10607636

[ocean iris]

Heh

doubt it will have the customization of xcom

[fathom juniper]

like - was scrolling through this channel earlier
saw that trailer
saw "star wars" and "ea" in the same sentence and i didn't even click it

but now you have my curiosity

[fathom juniper]

or the difficulty

maybe that's good
i can't afford to smash another keyboard on the ground

worst bit of gamer rage in my life, i swear

[ocean iris]

its gonna be the only game where it makes sense enemies miss you

[mystic wave]

XCOM isn't difficult if you reload your save every 2 minutes. Skill issue!

[ocean iris]

iirc its randomized

or at least very tedious to save scum

[fathom juniper]

screw blender

i'm off to play some marathon

https://youtu.be/A1PgVanAdwE?si=GV2TJJwGQli78gQ5

god this OST is great

AAAAAAAAA

alright, okay - mad bim time

the next person that puts a blindingly white anything in a pitch-black game that's best played at night should be will be banned from making video games

it's like getting flashbanged by the namco bandai logo in dark souls

[ocean iris]

or the mohjang red logo in minecraft

[fathom juniper]

Give me the shotgun, you glorified doorknob!

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/638031423340806185/1363234597281730831/IMG_4317.jpg?ex=68054aa7&is=6803f927&hm=6e0fa8114d087fcd872d216a4468572eed65549768a6c6664f5cc2fae5302c69&

[fathom juniper]

durandal didn't give me a shotgun

man @ocean iris
imagine if proper marathon had terminals that looked like this
https://youtu.be/N4Jv5H3_yAo?si=vtchQDaI5NagoFmh

also - based on this trailer i can tell you exactly when this new "marathon" takes place

2886
92 years after marathon 1

leela says in 1 that it would take 92 years for the distress signal to reach earth
i just had that bit a few hours ago

[strong kraken]

i got the demo for schedule I today and im enjoying it more than I thought I would

[stable kindle]

i know no one here cares but after getting sidetracked by 489372982 things for genuinely months i finally finished (the EASIER version!) my dragon mount 😭😭 slowest gamer alive award 🏆

[fathom juniper]

Is this one of dem monster hoonter games ?

Also

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/809044727021436939/1363228250696056852/087408748074.mov?ex=680544be&is=6803f33e&hm=fef01cafc6ae7e33b1d6bf636d931aa1761778b2ff5fadc08f2834828b447099&

Good mornin

[clear python]

who up getting they roller dromed

[fathom juniper]

Ayyyy
Tell me how it goes

[clear python]

i will!

[stable kindle]

nah i can't get into monhun, this is gw2. i realized yesterday i was nearly done with my perma dragon mount so i finally focused that and finished it after uh. idk ive been back for like 5 months lol it definitely does not take anywhere near that long usually. unless you're me i guess

[mystic wave]

There's too much text. Monster hoonters don't read

They unga

Or they bunga

[lost igloo]

the text in the middle also says what game it is 🙂

[fathom juniper]

oh yeah

[stable kindle]

LMAO

i honestly forgot all about that

[fathom juniper]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/809044727021436939/1363178106147442838/aD2bAPw_460sv.mp4?ex=6806678b&is=6805160b&hm=5345bd3ca1532b6ba9983d5978d3b7e91e961d3abcec8d480de846e0433017a7&

[ocean iris]

@fathom juniper
https://i.imgur.com/EUKybJs.jpeg
https://i.imgur.com/b2KkW5S.jpeg
https://i.imgur.com/WquFP2y.jpeg

fallout 4.....but good?

[clear python]

oh carp they made disco elysium 2

[ocean iris]

https://cdnb.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/025/822/811/large/alexander-berezin-vegas.jpg?1587046671

Alexander Berezin is unironically one of my favorite artists

search for his artstation, it's a DELIGHT

https://cdnb.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/030/977/099/large/alexander-berezin-1080-wpng-01.jpg?1602204428

https://red888guns.artstation.com

[fathom juniper]

man i can't wait for newblood's fallout thing

[fathom juniper]

yeyeye
how's rollerdrome?

[clear python]

will start soon

[ocean iris]

the what

[fathom juniper]

wtf you should be s-ranking OFB on civetta summit already
chop chop 👏

[clear python]

how's fear

[fathom juniper]

oh yeah dave oshry want's to make his own isometric fallout-y rpg
with some actual dialogues and stats and prerendered everything

[ocean iris]

what's it called?

[fathom juniper]

doesn't have a name yet afaik

[clear python]

oh god it's a skating game i'm SO f'd

[fathom juniper]

well... yeah?

what did you think this was?

man it's such a shame we don't have a streaming channel here

i'd love to watch tidb epxeriencing this for the first time

[clear python]

phew what a question, possibly a pixel rpgmaker indie game that's about depression idk

also it looks gorgeous, now to figure out why resolution doesn't go beyond fhd

[fathom juniper]

yeah that's the only technical gripe i have with this game

there's no antialiasing

and bodging it outside the game doesn't work well either because of the artstyle

but it sure is pwetty

but then again - this stuff will run on anything
i was downsampling it from 1440p down to 800p on a steam deck

i'm pretty sure even my microwave has enough horsepower to get me through the tutorial and even my fridge boots to the title screen

[clear python]

found "Roll7 used Unity's multiplatform capabilities to ensure their dynamic action shooter shines at 4K 120 fps." while looking how to set the options and YES SIBLING I'D LIKE TO PLAY TOO

i love settings...

lmfao this is the worst, so unfortunate

some guy on sforums suggested to lower the frequency (below 60) so more resolutions are available and it kinda worked, and then I selected 4K and my monitor flashed green, then went back to some weird ultrawide thingie

now i started it again and my only options are 60 & 75 Hz and 720p and below LOL

config file it is...?

[fathom juniper]

ilve bim reaction

https://tenor.com/view/caleb-blood-1997-reallydude-gif-22063475

[clear python]

alt-tabbing back had the game on two monitors at once, but only one reacted to my mouse

[clear python]

Finally, there we go. Command line… now 4K

[fathom juniper]

https://tenor.com/view/half-life-scientist-hl-hl-scientist-yummy-taco-gif-3533674388679369408

[mystic wave]

tidb

[clear python]

yakuza miko

[mystic wave]

was ist Eiersollbruchstellenverursacher

[clear python]

a device to put a line on your egg where it should break :)

[mystic wave]

woah...

freaky

there you go bim, blender ideas

[fathom juniper]

https://tenor.com/view/sweaty-nervous-dog-gif-10253137

oh dear lord

[mystic wave]

its a blunt instrument

[fathom juniper]

like

?

[mystic wave]

errr

[fathom juniper]

i just love this emote

oh...

ooh nooooo....
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/638031423340806185/1363598443620209040/image.png?ex=68069d83&is=68054c03&hm=ab4a2b35acf97708767b769d9d6ac318bac66578c40dd1d439f2e9ceea5d050d&

i've heard horror stories about this one

[clear python]

oh noooo it‘s got weapon switching this is gonna kill me

[fathom juniper]

there's only 4 guns, you're gonna be fine

[clear python]

brother it took me around three years to switch weapons in dommy ternal

[fathom juniper]

nah it's gonna be fine, trust me

[mystic wave]

tidb have you considered interacting with the world with anything other than weapons

[fathom juniper]

why tho

[clear python]

??? no

why would i want that

[fathom juniper]

see?

exactly

i own a musket for elevator small talk

just as founding fathers intended

[mystic wave]

those fathers didnt found you....

[fathom juniper]

but their spirit lives in my heart

[mystic wave]

[clear python]

also yeah rollerdrome is gorgeous. runs like a charm. like a proper comic. 200 years of ‚we‘ll just slap a postprocess toon shader on it‘ undone

[mystic wave]

makes me think of gungrave on ps2

thinking about that game gives me tremors in my hands

every time you shoot it vibrates like crazy

[fathom juniper]

oh yeah black on ps2 had some crazy rumble

and 90% of this game is going full auto

[signal kayak]

Gungrave, huh

Never had the chance to play it, only got to know it exists because of the PS4 game

Are...they good?

[mystic wave]

i have no idea how the ps4 game is. the ps2 one is lots of fun!

kinda arcadey 3rd person shooty game

you dont aim its more like shooting in devil may cry. and sometimes you deflect rockets back to the enemies

if you shoot good you build up your meters to use extremely anime super guns

[signal kayak]

Super recommended?

[mystic wave]

yeah. its an Experience™! gungrave overdose, especially

one of the playable characters is a guitar-toting guy with a pompadour

his name is Rocketbilly Redcadillac

you cant make this up

[clear python]

currently downloading my new personality from kara hassan

[signal kayak]

Alright then, can't say no to Rocketbilly Redcadillac

[mystic wave]

theres also gungrave anime. which i checked out after playing the overdose

truth be told the story in overdose wasnt really all that good. its got all the wacky characters and fights though so it is fun

but the anime wasnt anything like it at all

its a slow burn crime drama

wasnt expecting that. i was hooked

[signal kayak]

I'll be blunt, more often than not, I really don't care about the story of most of what I play, if the gameplay is good, that's all I'm there for

[fathom juniper]

huh
so this is the context for this line
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/638031423340806185/1363608745174892704/image.png?ex=6806a71b&is=6805559b&hm=b5ccda2acbc12e93e217364da6b0972fad471ef6adfa0de5f5a017e2fe43fa5b&

the one they made a tagline for this new marathon