I used to visit a classic forum like this. One person really carried the conversation and then suddenly disappeared and the forum died. Still have no idea what happened to them. Hope they just got bored or preoccupied with life.
If someone dies because the medicine needed to save them is “too expensive,” both the corporate executives who set the price and the government cheapskates who won’t adequately fund healthcare should be guilty of murder. Change my mind.
I believe if you have the means to save someone and willfully withhold it, you’re culpable for murder.
Pharmaceutical companies aren’t going bankrupt if they can’t charge thousands of dollars for a single dose. Common medications that are manufactured and sold in bulk subsidize the cost of medicines for rare conditions. They also enjoy patent benefits other industries don’t get specifically to recouperate R&D costs.
Governments also can and do negotiate for lower drug costs, which is why medication is cheaper in Canada than the US.
Oh, and don’t forget all the public funding pharmaceutical companies already get. Governments dumped tons of money into developing the covid vaccines and the companies made insane profits off of it.
I knew you’d retort with this exact example, because you’re predictable.
No, I actually don’t have the means to save everyone starving in Africa, or even a few. I don’t have supply chain access, influence over foreign governments, or anything to directly aid anyone internationally. So I can give to charities, and do, but government corruption in poor nations ensures that the reach of those donations is limited and the cycle of poverty is ever perpetuated in order to maintain their existing power dynamics.
I also fully support foreign aid and am happy to pay my taxes to contribute to that.
I also am not wealthy. I’m not poor, but I have a hard cap on how much I can give to others before I’m hurting myself and my dependents, and that amount is nothing more than enough to keep a few people limping along for a little longer.
A billion-dollar company can reduce the cost of their absurdly priced medicines that would save millions, and still make insane profits. They just might not maintain perpetual growth.
Coop is completely broken without this mod. A friend and I tried to play vanilla ER but 4/5 times the summon would fail, and 5/5 times I’d get invaded immediately.
Installed the mod and suddenly it all just worked.
I really wish game and film companies would stop sharing trailers on xitter, and people should definitely find a different source before resharing it. We all need to quit driving traffic to Elon’s nazi bar.
This is really surprising. I figured this game was lost to time because of licensing issues after Vivendi was absorbed into Activision.
It looks like more than just a remaster is going on here. I’ve been replaying it recently and there are some things shown in this trailer that aren’t in the original game, unless they just scripted some scenes to look cool for the trailer that aren’t actually going to be in the game.
I just hope they rebalance the boss fights. Some of them are ridiculously difficult in the original, to the point where they almost ruin the game.
Budokai Tenkaichi 3 on Wii is my favourite DBZ game of all time, so I hope this lives up to it. That game had a massive roster, with the ability to transform and fuse characters mid-match, so I hope that’s still a feature.
I’m just worried that they’ll chop up the characters and release them piecemeal as DLC. Seeing Gogeta and Broly as pre-order bonuses makes me think this’ll be the case, but they’re just “early-unlock” so maybe they’re in the game anyway but the pre-order just gives you access to them from the start.
I’ve been playing this game off and on, starting over since it came out. I was a hardcore Bloodborne player, but also played a lot of elden ring and ds3. Sekiro never clicked, I thought it was slick and the action felt incredible but I just couldn’t get past the beginning. Finally I’ve broken through and am having a blast,...
I never figured out parrying in Dark Souls or Bloodborne, so I spent the first few hours of Sekiro cheesing enemies by sprinting around them and taking pot shots. This worked up until the Blazing Bull before I got stuck.
I restarted the game, making a point of trying to parry the easier enemies. When I actually tried, I found the timing to be a lot more forgiving than the other games and you can even spam it a bit because the animation is so fast. Once I figured that out, I finally started playing the game correctly and ended up defeating every boss and mini boss.
I never thought the music in nu-Doom was all that great anyway. Not compared to classic Doom at least. E1M1 is forever stuck in my head and if you hum a couple bars to anyone who has played it, they’ll immediately know the tune.
The music in nu-Doom is fine while you’re playing, but I can’t remember a single track.
I’d rather get a new Quake game, particularly one following the story from the first game. But if we get another Doom, I’d like something different at least. The formula from nu-Doom and Eternal doesn’t need another go.
I never completed Arkham Knight and only played the first two games which I really liked. But for some reason I can’t get into Arkham Knight. I find myself overwhelmed by the controls that seem to do something different all the time....
Origins is better, in my opinion. It’s the black sheep but it’s my favourite in the series.
Arkham Knight is my least favourite but I still like it. If you really hate the tank sections, though, you might not like it no matter how long you play. That’s a pretty big part of the game, and it’s not great.
The story is also dumb.
major story spoilersIt would have been way better if Barbara was the arkham knight, having faked her death and the suit could have had mechanical legs to help her walk and her voice digitally altered to sound like a man. Instead we got another Jason Todd as the Red Hood with a different name.
ETA: I’m curious whether the downvotes are because I think Origins is better or because you don’t like my idea for how the story could have been improved.
Or, more rationally, you all invested so much of yourselves into your gamer outrage campaign and built yourselves up as the underdogs fighting the big, mean corporation. And when, to your own surprise, you actually won and got all of your demands met without compromise, you still can’t let it go because you managed to incorporate all that upset over a video game into your personal identities over just a few days time.
So now, instead of celebrating your win, you’ll limply cling to your hatred of Sony for a few more days or weeks until everyone finds something else to get upset about.
I talk like I have seen this exact same thing happen over and over and I’m sick of capital-G Gamers throwing tantrums over every inconvenience. You aren’t Union Men fighting for your rights. You’re gamers upset by a TOS change to your new toy even though Steam was going beyond their own policy to honor refunds.
Aw, the gamer is upset I forced some introspection into their life.
But no, I’m sorry. You’re totally a noble warrior who fought back the evil Sony and now must remain ever vigilant lest Kazuo Hirai leap from the shadows and scream “Riiiiidge Racer” at you and take away your toys while Gabe Newell gives you your money back and sheepishly shrugs like “I know, right? This guy, man.”
The “random upset people” on the former side were perfectly happy to give their money to the “corp” on the latter side before the TOS change. This has nothing to do with how untrustworthy Sony has been in the past and everything to do with upset Gamers wanting to keep their outrage party going even after they got what they wanted.
The picture of Elbow Mush in the thumbnail looks like he’s going for the “Justin Timberlake if he aged badly after a diet of whiskey, hamburgers and pocket-fulls of drugs” look.
Ah yes, the super chad of its console generation, tons of great games, dvd playback, and PS1 compatibility! What’s not to love about this legendary system?...
I still love the aesthetic a lot of PS2 games have, with smooth, bright textures instead of a lot of detail that gets stretched and blurry at low resolutions. The way metal surfaces look in MGS2 and Zone of the Enders is really nice.
But then there are games like Silent Hill 2 & 3 that use a lot of detail in the low resolution textures to create a grimy or rusted look. Those games really benefited from working within the limitations of the system, like the fog to reduce draw distance.
Dreamcast was killed off so early and didn’t run alongside the others for most of the generation, so a lot of people consider it as more of an in-between system. Maybe not to someone who actually owned one, but given how poorly it sold the majority probably didn’t.
I could never get into the Ratchet and Clank games, except for Deadlocked which I know is generally disliked by fans. I was really into arena shooters at the time.
I’ve tried a bunch of the others and they are definitely good, but not my kind of game.
Same here. I find it isn’t powerful enough for a lot of modern PC games unless you drop the settings, but it’s amazing for retro and emulation. I’m living in 2004 again.
Three Indian nationals have been arrested and charged over the killing of a Sikh separatist leader in Canada, which sparked a major diplomatic row between the two countries....
This guy is yet another tankie on Lemmy. Every comment is defending Russia and China. Of course they’d defend Modi now that India is more interested in cozying up to Russia.
If you haven’t already checked it out, Armed and Dangerous is by the same studio and is very similar in terms of gameplay and humor. Not quite as polished, but a lot funnier in my opinion.
Kinda like when Warner Music Group tried to strong arm the world over “Happy Birthday” but when they were finally challenged on it in court it was ruled that they never actually owned the copyright.
After getting money from billionaires, Trump says he will give unlimited green cards to foreigners to work American jobs (www.nationalreview.com)
We all know it's true
Drug-resistant tuberculosis leaves EU scrambling for medicines (www.politico.eu)
Vital drugs are either not authorized or are deemed too expensive, as cases rise....
FromSoftware says Elden Ring's popular Seamless Co-op mod is 'definitely not something we actively oppose,' and may even 'consider ideas like that with our future games' (www.pcgamer.com)
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The men vs. bear saga reaches the inevitable conclusion (lemmy.today)
I wonder if in hindsight, she feels like she’s made the right decision…...
Thanks, I hate it (lemmy.today)
Star Wars Outlaws: Official Gameplay Showcase | Ubisoft Forward (www.youtube.com)
Dragon Age The Veilguard Gameplay Reveal Teaser (x.com)
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METAL GEAR SOLID Δ: SNAKE EATER - Official Trailer #1 (www.youtube.com)
The Thing: Remastered Announcement Trailer | Nightdive Studios (www.youtube.com)
DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO - Release Date Announcement (www.youtube.com)
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Biden slams ICC prosecutor’s ‘outrageous’ request for arrest warrants against Israeli leaders (thehill.com)
Marco Rubio says he would not accept 2024 election results ‘if it’s unfair’ (www.theguardian.com)
Republican senator’s comments come as he is considered among Trump’s top candidates for vice-president...
I'm finally getting the hang of Sekiro
I’ve been playing this game off and on, starting over since it came out. I was a hardcore Bloodborne player, but also played a lot of elden ring and ds3. Sekiro never clicked, I thought it was slick and the action felt incredible but I just couldn’t get past the beginning. Finally I’ve broken through and am having a blast,...
New Doom Game Could Be Announced At Xbox Showcase In June (www.gamespot.com)
New Doom Game Could Be Announced At Xbox Showcase In June (www.gamespot.com)
EA boss thinks ads in triple-A games would be 'meaningful' growth driver (www.gamedeveloper.com)
What could help triple-A games get even bigger right now? According to EA CEO Andrew Wilson, the answer lies in ads....
Suicide Squad Cost Warner Bros. $200 Million In Revenue (insider-gaming.com)
Does Arkham Knight get better?
I never completed Arkham Knight and only played the first two games which I really liked. But for some reason I can’t get into Arkham Knight. I find myself overwhelmed by the controls that seem to do something different all the time....
Sony cancelled the PSN account linking requirement for Helldivers 2 (lemmy.world)
Swiss public broadcasters withdraw from X/Twitter (www.swissinfo.ch)
Swiss public broadcasters RTS and SRF are drastically reducing their communications via the social network X (formerly Twitter)....
The PlayStation 2
Ah yes, the super chad of its console generation, tons of great games, dvd playback, and PS1 compatibility! What’s not to love about this legendary system?...
Three arrested and charged over Sikh activist's killing in Canada (www.bbc.com)
Three Indian nationals have been arrested and charged over the killing of a Sikh separatist leader in Canada, which sparked a major diplomatic row between the two countries....
Ukraine wiped out 100 Russian troops at once in a strike showcasing the range and power of its new US ATACMS (www.businessinsider.com)
Ukrainian forces took out more than 100 Russian soldiers with an ATACMS missile, per OSINT analysts....
Unity's New CEO Nets Millions Months After Layoffs and Scandals (insider-gaming.com)
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Barrels are without honor (lemmy.world)
Garry's Mod to remove ALL Nintendo content from the Steam Workshop due to takedown (store.steampowered.com)
Holy shit, I can’t even imagine the amount of mods that will get erased. There were so many fan-mods, maps, minigames, models… Fucking Nintendo…