Blackmist

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Blackmist,

The cricket council honestly has more chance of bringing any of these cunts to justice than the real ICC.

I mean fucking Kony is still on the list, and I forget how long ago that was a thing, and he was on their list long before that.

Blackmist,

At this point, which one?

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Will certainly be replaced with an equally reprehensible PoS though.

Blackmist,

Suspicious bald helicopter maintenance man seen prior to takeoff.

Blackmist,

Kobe wasn’t involved in an almost sort of war with Israel though.

Blackmist,

They probably suspect Israel did it, but since they fired close to 400 missiles and drones into Israel and hit nothing, and Israel fired one back and took out their air defence radar, they’ll probably stick to arming Hamas in order to hurt Israel.

Very little point in a direct conflict.

Helicopter carrying Iran's President Raisi crashes, search under way (www.reuters.com)

DUBAI, May 19 (Reuters) - A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and his foreign minister crashed on Sunday as it was crossing mountain terrain in heavy fog, an Iranian official told Reuters, and rescuers were struggling to reach the site of the incident....

Blackmist,

The fact that they haven’t found them yet, indicates a very hard landing indeed.

Blackmist,

I guess it doesn’t matter if Israel is behind this or not, because they’re going to get the blame in any case…

Blackmist,

Doubt it, even if Khamenei was on board. Like everywhere else, there are just too many powerful people with too much to lose.

Blackmist,

Sounds like Iranian leaders are in need of more helicopter rides.

Blackmist,

Well Iran, unfortunately.

Blackmist,

This the same person who wanked a guy off in a crowded cinema?

Blackmist,

Surely there’s a billboard near her home that they can put that on?

Blackmist,

So you don’t spend your whole day waiting to play when they push a ludicrous 50GB patch and you can’t play online without it.

Blackmist,

This is a nonsense take.

The Last of Us, Elden Ring, Baldur’s Gate 3, God of War, Doom. There are plenty of AAA games worth your time and money. Every bit as lovingly crafted as your precious indie darlings.

Maybe stop buying them blindly because you’ve seen a flashy ad for them on TV. There’s plenty of bad AAA games that do all the gameplay competently but have literally nothing to say. Where you can’t feel the touch of the designer at all, and all you can hear in it’s place is a hubbub of design-by-committee noise. The only thing those games have to say is “give me your money”.

Blackmist,

Probably injecting ads “naturally” into the conversation.

Blackmist,

Eaten by a family of domesticated bears, while distracted by a Fruit of the Loom logo.

Blackmist,

I had to laugh when they described Far Cry 6 as AAAA.

It’s a buggy load of generic shite. I’ve never had to reboot my PS5 before because bullets stopped making sounds…

Blackmist,

Bark at everyone in shorts just in case they’re a postman.

Blackmist,

Wolf attacks on humans are rare but common enough to have their own Wikipedia page, but there’s no record of wild gorillas killing anyone.

Which means they’re either super chill, or really fucking sneaky about it.

Blackmist,

That just sounds like Snakebite and Black, a drink most places in the UK won’t serve.

Mostly because cleaning bright purple vomit out of your pub carpet is a fucking nightmare.

Blackmist,

Because we’re civilised.

I mean, not civilised enough to avoid attempting to drink a dozen snakebite and blacks and then launching it The Exorcist style all over the floor, but just civilised enough to be able to go to the hospital for free when the three lads who’ve stuffed their noses with magic dickhead powder decided you were looking at them funny.

Blackmist,

I think if Sony want to push this they need to…

  1. Make PSN available at least in all countries that Steam operates in.
  2. Add cross-buy so if you buy a Sony published game for PC you also get it for Playstation and vice-versa.
Blackmist,

You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the Pedo Guy.

Blackmist,

Last year brought us Baldur’s Gate 3.

In what way can “nerd things” not be mainstream?

Blackmist,

Honestly sounds like Sony need to just add those places to their list of supported countries.

A lot of them are just piddling little islands. It’s not like they need to open up a regional office on the fucking Isle of Man.

Sony are a lot bigger than Valve. This is very easily achievable.

Blackmist,

As somebody who played GoT a while back, it has a multiplayer mode?

Blackmist,

I got the 8TB version the other day since it was cheap, but it’s mostly for Jellyfin.

Blackmist,

Not everything needs backing up. If it’s just your stuff from Steam, you can just grab it again if it fails.

Blackmist,

Mostly the same, although I did break my accidental EA boycott for Titanfall 2, It Takes Two and Tales of Kenzera.

Blackmist,

I don’t think there’s any claim that it’s to sustain the dev costs. This is a "dear shareholders, prep your cocks for a tuggin’ " pitch.

I’d expect more paid ads in the likes of Madden and not-FIFA.

Blackmist,

Yes they are. A PS5 costs £389.99.

What gaming PC can you build for that?

Blackmist,

Why even bother with a PC when I have a stick and a hoop?

If it can’t be played with a few bits of wood and plastic, then the game isn’t worth playing.

Blackmist,

Definitely my least favourite PS controller. Those convex shoulder buttons were terrible, and there was genuinely no comfortable way to use them.

The motion controls were used in a handful of early games (and I can only assume Sony forced them to implement them) and swiftly abandoned.

Blackmist,

I’m still not 100% sold on the shoulder force feedback. Sometimes it works well, but many games do this odd thing where you hold it down and it clicks repeatedly and uncomfortably like you’re breaking it and I’ve no idea what they’re really trying to convey.

Blackmist,

I’d think that too, but it does it on both of mine, and it doesn’t get worse over time indicating any kind of damage.

It’s only certain games that trigger it.

Blackmist,

Yeah, that would be nice. I know people who lament the loss of the original Xbox Duke controller, and that the only thing closer was the similarly jumbo Dreamcast controller.

Could even unbundle them from the consoles, and just pick the size when you buy them. If they can make them in Hello Kitty pink, or endless CoD camouflage colours, then I’m not convinced it’s uneconomical to provide different size grips.

Blackmist,

Only 100%? A supreme leader like Donnie deserves at least 200%!

Any true American will sneak back in and vote a second time.

Blackmist,

I don’t think anybody wants a monopoly, because it means the leader can stagnate, and honestly that’s already happened. Sony are getting complacent, the big releases are few and far between. We’re all getting less for our money, no matter what team you’re on.

I often buy multiple consoles in a generation, but I didn’t get the Xbox One or Xbox Series consoles, because there’s no reason to, and it’s not because I’ve got an expensive PC either, still being on a 1060. Being late to the game is fine, PS3 did that and ended up selling pretty much as many as the Xbox 360 in the end, but where is that spark from MS? They’ve gambled it all on Game Pass and I’m not sure you can run an entire gaming division on that, same as Netflix couldn’t compete with Hollywood without the box office money. The cloud growth just hasn’t happened for them. It doesn’t feel as good as local play, and I suspect it never will. A PS5 has hit pricing that isn’t really that expensive for fairly casual gamers, although the most casual went mobile ages ago and I doubt they’re coming back.

Xbox hardware is fine, there just isn’t any reason to own it. If it ran Windows and I could install my Steam library on it, I’d have got it on day one, but how does that make MS money? There’s even been noises about the next Xbox allowing Steam, although I don’t know how true that it is. I would guess the only way that can happen is if MS get a chunk of Valve’s money every time somebody buys a game through Steam for Xbox. It’s the only real feature that would get me to buy one right now.

Blackmist,

I think in this business you can survive a generation in the wilderness. Nintendo had it with the Wii U. Arguably Sony had one with the PS3.

Two in a row? Well you’re out. Saturn followed by Dreamcast. MS are in their second, and tbh, it looks like they’re pivoting towards being a cross platform publisher and subscription provider. They can certainly afford to keep throwing money at the issue, but if there’s no results, there’s only so long they’ll be allowed to continue doing that before the boss pulls the rug on it. He does not seem like a man who is excited by his gaming division.

Blackmist,

I blame Far Cry 3 for this proliferation of open world bobbins. So much shit to do and almost none of it is worth doing.

Blackmist,

I think raytracing can improve graphics (especially lighting) without needing insane development resources to be thrown at it.

In terms of simple pixel pushing though, I struggle to see much difference between last gen and this gen. The models and textures look almost identical. Only real difference is framerate.

Blackmist,

Honestly can’t blame Activision for putting shit campaigns into CoD. Since Modern Warfare the focus has been almost entirely on the multiplayer side of things. I suspect most players don’t even touch it now. They sell millions regardless.

Infinity Ward’s original MW and MW2 are the only ones worth playing. Titanfall 2 as well, since it’s the same people.

Blackmist,

You were more patient than me. I lasted about an hour of it. I just don’t think FPS gameplay and RPG stats gel at all well. Can’t stand Destiny for the exact same reason.

Call me a traditionalist, but I expect enemies that take bullets to the face to do the decent thing and drop down dead, rather than just take very slightly more damage.

Blackmist,

Cheaper veg means either more subsidies or more slavery. Check out the greenhouses outside Almeria. You can see that place from space, and it’s chock full of African workers in 40C+ heat making a pittance.

I think meat benefits from corn being pretty much automated on a giant scale. Most veg needs workers to harvest it, and a lot of it rots quickly once picked.

Blackmist,

If you ever wonder why gamers buy Playstation and not Xbox, here is your reason.

MS have no idea what they’re doing with gaming. There will be no The Last of Us or God of War coming from them. They don’t want to sell you games. They want to sell you GamePass. They don’t want you to have a great time. They want you to have a time that is just about acceptable enough to keep paying for it.

The only one of their games I’ve heard people get excited about is Hi-Fi Rush, and you can see here what they think of that. Clearly it didn’t maintain enough Monthly Active Users, or have a short enough Time To Purchase or whatever other bullshit mobile-era metric determines whether a studio lives or dies.

Blackmist,

Well, that’s enough internet for today.

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