Yeah the engine is so horrible I wonder how they can afford to continue using it. I don’t even know how modders put up with this bullshit.
I get wanting to make the game you love better but there’s gotta be a limit.
Tried my hand at Starfield modding and omg the editor crashes constantly. Makes me wonder if this is a practical joke or the devs really work like this.

Argh the Steam Link is the one piece of valve hardware I regret not getting, though it’s basically been entirely outclassed by the Steam Deck

I hear you but the previous steam controller was also only $60 like regular controllers. And Valve typically don’t have good margins on hardware, so it would surprise me if SC2 was suddenly super expensive. I could always be wrong, I mean it’s not like Valve have released a lot of hardware so the sample size is very smol.

Why do you worry about affordability? Valves hardware has always been affordable. I would be very surprised if the controller costs more than $80

Yeah the fact that the basic 4x LMB into RMB combo is basically the only combo you can do kinda blows. The abilities do mix it up, but only a little. I hope it gets better since I’m only like 7-8 hours into the game and there’s still new stuff being added to the combat, but it does make a really bad first impression.

I still have a hearty backlog tho and I know Like A Dragon is waiting so the horizon is looking good. And I’m gonna buy Expedition 33 this Christmas sale.

Just bounced off of Elden Ring again. It’s a good game but idk starting a fresh playthrough just feels like a slog. And jumping back into my overheated character feels boring. I should remove it from my “favorite game” section on Steam but idk what should replace it.

Another game I’m way more into than I thought is Final Fantasy XVI. I’m not a huge FF fan and have gotten a lot less interested in turn based combat as I got older, so I really like this direction FF is heading into.

Clive and Sid’s VAs sound like 30 years older than their characters and the amount of cutscenes is quite overwhelming, but I’m invested.

I had it on my wishlist for quite some time and the reason why I finally pulled the trigger was a short 50 sec video of someone annihilating a deer with the power of god.

Bold of them to go up against Simpsons 2

A surprisingly good bundle. Basically any one game is worth the price.
Just a little sad I own most of these already.

Oh so it’s loot boxes mixed with a limited time store multiplied by FOMO. Very cool.

Not!

Also: “At what point do they become macro transactions?” IMO at $2. That’s the micro/macro cutoff for me.

How to avoid a alien invasion according to war of the worlds 2025

Same here. Battery is still going strong. Only thing that bothers me is the RAM seems a bit too smol. Open a game and Lemmy says byebye. Not enough of an issue to upgrade to a whole new phone tho.

At this point I’d rather play CoD than ubislop assassins creed 43 here we go assassinating again

Again?

I am, and don’t call me Windows 10!

"Aim at the balls”
“I’m sorry, this request is against content guidelines so I cannot comply”

For me it’s health related reasons. Even if I wanted to, I can’t go to a cinema to watch a movie.
That’s why I don’t mind paying for premium VODs (that’s the closest I can get to real cinema) but it’s just cruel that in this COVID-era of ours films are still released cinema first with a huge delay until the digital release.
Just let me watch it at home same day it releases for everyone else, I’m willing to pay for it.

Bit off topic but I wanted to watch a YT video about James Bond and like 30 seconds in the guy launches into spoilers for the new Mission Impossible movie. Had to close that tab real fast like; shit like this could be prevented.

Got 3 games I rotate now of which only 1 I haven’t played before.

Death Stranding: Finished it on the PS4 way back when and bought the PC director’s cut a long time ago but only recently picked it up again.

Cyberpunk 2077: Technically bought it day 1 but I am just now doing my first modded playthru.

Starfield: I am not a Bethesda fan so I was 0% hyped for this and only watched a lot of YouTube content about it. Randomly decided to pull the trigger recently tho. Completed the game vanilla first now I am doing a modded playthru and taking my time with it.
This one surprised me the most because I’m having fun and really enjoy my time with it. Funny thing is that most of the negative stuff mentioned about this game absolutely holds true, the game kinda ass. And Nasapunk is an oxymoron. But I’m a raccoon I enjoy trash. And if u shove 600 mods down Todd’s throat you actually get a really cool experience out of it.
Still wouldn’t recommend it tho.

"You’re right, there is supposed to cheese on a cheeseburger. Please excuse my mistake“

NAT is like package delivery IRL. If you’re a server and send a package to a client without NAT, that’s like sending a delivery boy to deliver pizza, goes straight from source to destination.

But with NAT it’s like ordering a package online. It first will be delivered to a distribution center, and then a delivery warehouse in your area, and then the courier delivers packages to all people on his route.

It’s way more complex and you now have a whole bunch of points of failure.

Cool but I wish this applied retroactively to Doom dark ages… oh well