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MOTHER FATHER CHINESE DENTIST!

Situationists never die, they’re just remixed.

Have you heard of Monsieur Guy Debord?

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Souls-like, but not as difficult.

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Scott Aukerman is an absolute wreck over this news.

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I’ll admit, the reason I ended up reading the whole article were the words “Ben Schwartz.”

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He asks maybe three or four times, tops.

…still too many…

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Other devs, please follow suit.

This industry needs class consciousness in it yesterday.

Just because you’re paid well doesn’t mean you’re not being mistreated.

It’s valid to be thankful for what you have but to also know you deserve more.

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Like Han Solo in Star Wars. The “ancient” religion of the Jedi was like… when he was a kid or something.

(Now former?) Telltale employee: "This is a sore subject, but I feel it necessary to add to the gaming layoff news: Telltale laid most of us off early September. Status of TWAU2, I can't say (NDA)." (twitter.com)

have not seen this picked up in gaming media yet, but i would assume it’s forthcoming if this is accurate (which i see no reason to believe otherwise)....

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Amog Sus?

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I’m gonna take a wild stab in the dark…

“What the current wave of layoffs means for the games industry?”

Crunch, crunch, and more crunch.

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I feel like this was announced years ago.

ign.com/…/devil-may-cry-series-joins-castlevania-…

Turns out I was right. This was announced first in 2018.

I wonder what happened between then and now that would delay this so much?

sportskeeda.com/…/what-happened-netflix-animation…

Oh yeah, it was Netflix shitcanning their entire animation department. No wonder they’re going with Studio Mir, they fucking fired everybody competent internally.

As much as I liked Castlevania, I think Warren Ellis brought more to the series than people think. I’m not sure if I trust Adi Shankar to write a compelling narrative on his own. Especially with Netflix slashing budgets and somehow saving this one from cancellation.

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I mean, this meme is accurate, because that’s about how expressive the faces are in Starfield…

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I think it would be interesting to compare these reviews to the same publications reviews of Cyberpunk 2077 in it’s pre-release review period.

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Pretty sure that’s an April Fools thread.

EDIT: Looks like the original CP2077 review thread got nuked. There’s a follow-up from a few days after it released.

Original megathread: old.reddit.com/r/…/cyberpunk_2077_review_thread/

Post-release megathread: reddit.com/…/cyberpunk_2077_review_thread_2_postl…

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Yacht Rockerman, Shock Jockerman, and Trick Shotterman are pretty high up there, too.

Also, the one he never used because I made it up myself: Snot Flickerman.

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The system requirements have also been kicked through the roof for that update. Pffft, optimization, never heard of it!

Upgrading your system to play the update isn’t “free.”

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I mean, I’m against pre-orders but why TotK specifically?

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Valid critique. I felt like it really built on the first game in positive ways in gameplay and story. They basically hid the existence of the Depths until the games release. I spent very little time building stuff, and a lot of time fucking around in the Depths.

For a game existing in the same world as the previous title, I think it worked well for what it was. Also, far fewer people complained about Far Cry 4/Far Cry Primal having the exact same map, slightly tweaked, so the complaints about it seemed a little confusing for me.

However, I would agree that while I think it’s bigger than a DLC, it really shouldn’t have been $70 brand new, especially when they had no plans to make DLC for it.

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Owlboy is a story about failure. Each time you “succeed” it turns out other events that were happening nullified that success.

It’s not really the same thing, but the choice to foist failure on the player even when they “win” was an interesting story device.

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There’s a joke in here somewhere, I know it.

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I agree, but at the same time there’s still a bunch of games without that. Nintendo, especially, continues to offer titles that don’t have sex emphasized. Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom were both great games, with good story (if a little cutesy, but it’s aimed at being family friendly), not even really any allusion to sex.

Also, with games like Baldurs Gate 3, they’re really just following in the footsteps of the original games. BG/BG2 and Fallout didn’t necessarily have companions you could romance, but they did have at least one or two options to have sex/marry someone. They were less detailed, and less descriptive, but it is part of the evolution of traditional Western RPGs, which traditionally were aimed at adults and didn’t shy away from including sex.

As far as Starfield goes, it’s a similar story, Bethesda games have long had those options, it’s not super new, although it’s a lot more prevalent now.

Still, I think there’s far more games without sex than there are with sex. Still a little weird though, I’m not horny enough to really enjoy it, I guess?

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I thought GameStop was going all in on NFTs and bragging about how it was going to revolutionize the gaming space because you could be more “invested” in the things because you really “own” (hahahaha, fucking as if) your own copy.

Oh, wait, *checks notes

They totally are winding that down and going “whoopsie doodles!”

arstechnica.com/…/gamestop-citing-regulatory-unce…

Ryan Cohen making a quick spin because he’s a fucking idiot, and the only thing he has to sell is an “idea” of a company that respects its consumers. GameStop ain’t it Superstonkers. This guy literally went from “You’ll be buying all your games as NFTs at GameStop” to “Errm, yeah, we need physical drives, you know for the gamers, not so we can continue ripping people off with used games.” What a fucking joke. He didn’t care about physical media six months ago because he was all-in on NFTs.

GameStop gonna get Toys ‘R’ Us’d hard. If this is the best Cohen’s got right now, they’ve got nothing.

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He’s only saying this about disc drives because six months ago he was saying “You’ll be buying all your games as NFTs from GameStop!” (notice he didn’t give one fuck about physical media six months ago?) and then when that went tits up and they closed their cryptocoin and NFT wallets, they need another way to get people to keep buying stocks. They’ve got those Gamestonk idiots still in a frenzy and they haven’t yet woken up to being taken for a ride since the NFT dream turned bust.

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Six months ago Cohen didn’t give a flying fuck about disc drives because he was selling the idea that you would soon buy all your games from GameStop on an NFT marketplace that they recently had to shut down because the SEC is cracking down on NFTs as Securities.

He gives a fuck now because his golden goose got shot in the head.

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arstechnica.com/…/gamestop-citing-regulatory-unce…

They were selling the idea to Superstonk investment idiots that the “future” of game sales was in NFTs where you would “really own your copy of the game.” Which… to anyone who knows how NFTs really work is such a sick fucking joke as to pawn that idea off on to consumers.

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NFTs and how they only hold enough data to point to a URL aren’t doing the model any favors. NFTs have been a joke since they were initially released. They don’t show ownership of an item, they show a re-direct to a URL where an item you might be able to claim is yours exists.

The people who bought into the idea of “smart contracts” in NFTs got taken for a fucking ride. There’s simply not enough BITS to be able to store such data within an NFT. The best they can do is a URL.

www.enchant.com/what-is-nft-ownership

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I can own digital files just fine without needing all that unnecessary bullshit. It’s the copyright cabal that says I don’t “own” them.

Funny, because I have the files stored on a physical drive. If that drive is destroyed, so are the items stored on it. Ergot, data is real and physical. You can already own it physically. NFTs are actually just one more way for wall street to justify the bullshit ways copyright doesn’t work.

Because nothing is stopping digital “ownership” from existing as it currently exists, except people who don’t like the idea that data can be copied infinitely at no cost.

This is why I never took off my pirate hat, because it’s just a bunch of tomfoolery to make you think things don’t already work this way. They do, computing always allowed data to be copied infinitely. It’s jerks who try to code locks to hide them behind who are the problem.

It’s also why I buy games at GOG, because they respect this. They sell games with no DRM and understand that this means piracy will happen, but do it anyway because it’s the right thing to do.

Copy that floppy, motherfucker.

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What if that digital file is the title to your car, deed to your home, your college degree, passport, driver’s license, etc?

If you destroy the hard drive they’re stored on, it’s no different than burning a piece of paper they’re written on. Data is always stored in a medium, whether it’s paper or a disk drive. So for digital files like that, you would choose a storage medium that is rated for long-term storage and put it in a fireproof safe. Done.

You’re basically asking “what if you lose the title to your car?” Well, there’s plenty of ways to get a replacement title, even though they’re not easy or free.

The bottom line is data is real and it’s always in a storage medium. The storage medium is what you should be worried about more.

Oh wait, that NFT you “own” is stored on someone else’s server? Oh wait, I guess you don’t own it then, because that data is on a hard drive owned by someone else in the “cloud” and if they destroy that drive, they also destroyed the item you ostensibly “own.”

Oh the server with my Title Deed for my home went down and now I have no proof I own my own home? Probably should have kept a copy of the file locally!

There is nothing interesting about NFTs because they’re a fundamental, nay, purposeful misunderstanding of what data is and how it works.

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A scan of my Title Deed or my Vehicle Title will already be unique digital files. They can be copied infinitely so I can never lose track of them. I can even take a hash of the original file and always keep that around to make sure I’m always dealing with an original copy.

What does storing it on someone else’s property (server) and just linking to it actually achieve for me, as a person? The NFT does not change the data of the original file in any way, it’s just a hash-check itself in many ways.

Would you be okay with storing your car in someone else’s garage that you couldn’t actually see or access, but were told was secure? That’s what you’re doing with an NFT. You’re putting the actual item you own on someone else’s private property, and then claiming that a piece of paper that shows ownership (NFT) is all you need to get it back. Sometimes that works, sometimes it doesn’t.

An NFT is much more a “certificate of authenticity” than it is a title of ownership.

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“i LiKe ThE sToCk”

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Because there’s a lot of misinformation in this thread.

All media is physical media. All data is stored on a medium. Data is real and physical. Some data is stored on paper in ink writing, some data is stored as ones and zeroes on a disc drive, but the type of disc drive may vary. Hard drives, USB thumbsticks, SSDs, and so on, are all physical media.

If I destroy a BluRay, or destroy a hard drive, or burn a piece of paper, does the data still physically exist? No. In all cases, destroying the medium in which the data exists destroys the data. Whether it is paper, a disc you put in a drive, or a hard drive.

When something is stored “in the cloud” it’s still on a hard drive somewhere, just not on your hard drive somewhere. You have essentially chosen to store your property on someone else’s private property. Much like a physical storage unit. If the storage unit burns down, everything in it will cease to exist. If the data center where your cloud data is stored burns down without any backups, same issue, the data ceases to exist.

People in this thread specifically only dislike one type of physical media, and it’s a type that has one of the shorter shelf-lifes for long-term data storage.

Also, with hard drives, its often trivial to recover deleted data, which is why companies that deal with secure data often completely shred old hard drives to prevent data being exfiltrated from them after wiping.

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The short answer is HDMI was mainly developed by a consortium of Stereo and Television manufacturers whereas DisplayPort was firmly always developed as a modern replacement for VGA.

Somehow, I trust the people in the computer industry to make better and more strict standards than I expect from the audio/visual industry. There’s a lot more advertising fluff from those groups while PC stuff can generally be nailed down by checking benchmarks against each other. How would you even benchmark two different stereo systems? (If I’m wrong and there is a way to benchmark them, cool, please share!)

Anyway, yeah, HDMI was for “Home Theaters” and pushed by the industry that builds that kind of thing and DisplayPort is for computers, period.

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Yeah, this is just a little silly.

We all know it isn’t and never intended to be No Man’s Sky.

This is like acting upset you can’t land on planets in Mass Effect 2.

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It’s really hard to top Jazzpunk…

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It was immersion breaking, but I’m not complaining about not having to work hard for dommy mommy Lae’zel.

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Rendering more screens is more demand on the graphics card.

Also, not everyone has multiple screens or their screens laid out in a similar arrangement and/or the same resolutions.

Beyond these though, there shouldn’t be that much limitation to the idea.

I currently play Baldurs Gate 3 couch co-op split between two screens. There doesn’t seem to be a way to do it natively, since it recognizes each monitor individually, but doesn’t see their connections to each other. I have to do a borderless window and then drag one side of it to the other monitor.

Anyway, I wish there were more built-in options to spread a game across multiple screens. Years ago I used to play Rocket League across three monitors so I could see more of the field while playing.

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Fixed a rare issue that could cause Companions to float in the air.

People are calling it the least buggy Bethesda title to date and that is mildly disappointing because their bugs were rarely game-breaking and often humorous.

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Sounds like everyone should have listened to Pearl Jam thirty years ago when Tickermaster wasn’t a complete monopoly.

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I missed the meme monday rule before, so soryy for breaking it before

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/9c89d02f-ec9e-4071-bd7b-82cc38692ad5.webp

I was honestly disappointed that thread disappeared.

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Wasn’t this a Mitch Hedburg joke?

Yes, yes it was.

Fuck, maybe I watch too much Dr. Katz. Nah, no such thing, I need my Jon Benjamin fix.

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He was with us for such a short time, but what he produced in that time was legendary.

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If you were able to get into Dragon Age Origins this will be easier to get into

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The only oc memes i have involve self hate (very icky).

Oh I live for those because they speak to me and my self hate.

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I stopped talking to my friends because they all started seeming really annoyed hearing about my struggles with cancer. I know they’re going through their own problems as well, but it certainly made me feel like I was just a burden on them. I suppose I was right, because it’s been over six months and no one has reached out, including my oldest friend who just never responded to me when I told them I had cancer.

I am dead weight, but that’s because of a sick fucking economic system that doesn’t care if I live or die.

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I abandoned them, so whatever. I do appreciate the kind words but I don’t blame them.

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Alert! The enemy has taken our intelligence!

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Good to know my copy of Scott Pilgrim vs. The World on the Xbox 360 will still be available to me, I guess?

It’s wild to me to think that many of these are still in service. I went through several RRODs.

What is up with Baldur's Gate 3?

This is not a criticism - I love how much attention this game has been getting. I’m just not understanding why BG3 has been blowing up so much. It seems like BG3 is getting more attention than all of Larian’s previous games combined (and maybe all of Obsidian’s recent crpgs as well). Traditionally crpgs have not lit the...

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Everyone else is playing the System Shock remake while I’m just sitting here hoping for a System Shock 2 remake, because it was a spiritual predecessor to BioShock that included class-based co-operative play. The netcode in the original was/is dogshit, so my friend and I never actually completed the game before our saves were totally corrupted.

Frankly, also wouldn’t mind a remake of the original Deus Ex either. Warren Spector was heavily involved in the development of System Shock and Deus Ex, while Ken Levine was instrumental in System Shock 2 and BioShock.

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