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I don't use AI/Chat GPT much for writing; I don't have much use for it but I gave it the prompt to "write a Babylon Bee Style announcement for the 7th anniversary of development where 50% of developers had switched genders" and that was it produced. Holy crap, it fairly well slaps. All hail...

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It's wasn't a bad idea, per se, but like so many people in the streaming space found out, its hard to duplicate that First Mover advantage without a significant value add/upgrade. Microsoft has divided loyalties that keep crippling its efforts: Between PC and Console with PC and Xbox, and even...

"Are you man or women? M'aiq believes gender is on a spectrum." "Do you have a husband or wife? M'aiq can't choose. This one will never judge and always respect your choices." "M'aiq thinks the Orange one should die." Bar could not be set any lower and Bethesda will still underperform.

As Az indicated in his well-memorialized rant, It was FULL of woke shit, in a sci-fi setting in places where it didn't matter (gay partners are fine but how many do you need to see before it becomes overwhelming?) and in places where it didn't make any sense (I'm trans because I am female clone...

There are not insignificant odds now by the time its ready, MS cancels this. The MS axe is falling on so many things, the next Xbox may be the last, and MS is moving away from gaming due to the failure of GamePass to grow as expected. Woke has ruined Western Game Devs. (and Hollywood, and most...

From what I have read, it seems like folks aren't judging it on it merit but rather on it's intricacy or rather its complexity rather than its quality or applicability. Luther creates a pocket universe, which effectively makes travel to anywhere instantaneous through two gateways and also...

So we watched this and its clear to me that James Gunn fundamentally doesn't understand what makes the character of Superman work. Much like Nolan and Snyder's take with Man of Steel got a lot right but missed on a few key points (too much batman/grounded) that led to a flawed movie, Gunn gets...

Look, a pox on all of their houses, to be honest; I am not a fan of anyone's game, although I like Eleventh Hour the best, it seems. I had/have a lot of fun with Last Epoch, I loved the hell of out of Grim Dawn, I probably played POE2 too early but to be frank have never been the biggest fan of...

What kind of WOKE BS is this bullshit? "Pregnant People"? You mean "Mothers" The Learning Loops, FFS? It's over, cleanse yourself of this bullshit. Image search for Hot Mothers day:

I think Blizzard has great/the best network engineers, and has for two decades. Almost everything else about the game sucks from a code perspective; When it launched, part of the reason we discovered that you couldn't have more storage is that everyone was loading everything that everyone had...

The controls are the most responsive, the movement feels fluid, the combat feels the best, the onscreen feedback is the most informational, etc.

I don't know, I had my ARPG buddies come back to this, so I redownloaded and gave it a try again, playing an Immolate/Hydra Sorc and its fun. Moment to moment gameplay is still the best amongst all the ARPG's out there, I like the itemization, skill tree is OK. Game narrative, however is a pile...

After AOC and The Secret World, which were good/GREAT games but plagued by bugs and FUNCOMism™; I decided to sit this one out until it got through Beta/Early Access and had completely forgot about it until they sent me a survey the other day. Glad to read they are living down to their past...

Look, I get it: You care. The only thing about it is, so did we, 6 Presidential terms or so ago. This kind of earnestness hitting the wall of reality, bitterness, and disappointment is only going to lead to a poor end. Get off the Crusade train before it gets to Retard Station.

It's not just that; our whole society has ground to a halt creatively across multiple/all mediums over the last decade. Political correctness/wokeism//cancel culture/metoo/cultural marxism/Great Leap Forward/corporatism/ideation atomization/whatever your favorite bugbear is, we have stopped...

This thread brings me back, hits me right in the feels, seems like we are right back in the prime of 99 with people talking out of their ass: Just like old school EQ. Bravo, gentlemen. Bravo.

Drawn by a man. It's Japan, though, Hentai Weirdness powers activate! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hokusai Also, same guy did a slightly more famous print you may have seen.

Marvel Heroes. <pours one out>

This movie weighed heavily on me. Growing up in the 80s, I wasn't scared of slashers or Freddy (I grew up in a community of hunters and a house with so.many.guns.) but what did scare me what the slow-moving apocalypse of the original "Dawn of the Dead". Zombies were an inexorable, inescapable...

I received mine on Monday so I may see if I can get a price adjust as well. That's a fair amount of money when I can just buy another one and return this one for another month.

I was tweaking all of my stuff when I first got it because I spent a fair amount on it, then I realized that the card never got hot and the CPU temp never got above 34-35C. It wasn't that long ago that you could get serious extra performance out of every single part if you worked at it but now...

Can you undervolt/fan profile it down to be more quiet? I hate that, I love Gigabyte as a brand and would have bought one if I could. XFX Mercury OC looks amazing, though. My Power Color Red Devil is thankful quiet.

Looking at $1100 Costco PC from 2019, best guess as to specs I could find were PCIE 3x, which may limit top end frame rate somewhat. PCIE 4x was common a the time but the machines listed seem to be more budget AM4 vs AM5 in current parlance, happy and hope to be in error in this regard. Some...

I readily admit its probably an oversized fear on my behalf; again, I had "image persistence", which is what they called burn in on early LCD monitors, when 15-17-19 inch LCD monitors were still state of the art. Really my manager has had his for 3 years now, not 2 and with active use, still no...

So the LG C4 is going to be the best latency you are going to get, period. I WFH and sit all day on screens with static elements and so have resisted moving to an LG or other OLED monitors for my main desk; I bought an ASUS 48 OLED but ended up putting it on my daughter's desk. When we were...

July 14th or 16th for that one.

Nintendo is the last console maker with a real exclusive ecosystem. Sony seemed to have real exclusives but now is just PC's cousin. MS/XBOX is just Trans PC but everywhere: ANYTHING IS AN XBOX, they say in a wrong pitched voice.

They were asking me what other games I wanted to buy, and the only thing that I could think of, "The Duskbloods?" which isn't a launch title. There isn't much that I recognized as non-specialized Nintendo stuff, everything else is pre-order. Even something I would have thought would have been a...

My daughter and I went to a smaller Game Stop here in town and got preorders for two Switch 2s w/ Mario Cart World today. Traded in my Xbox One and PS4 Pro and got 150 bucks for them, which was awesome and got them off my workbench. Will go back tonight at 11PM to get them. Was a super easy...

All of this. Asmon made a great point talking about today; games take too long to make and these companies are too big and too insulated from gamers and the audience to be successful. Sure, there is all the DEI/ESG/internal activist influence that drives these projects into the weeds, i.e...

I just downloaded and started this tonight, played through the prologue and got to the meadow. I need way more practice at parry and dodge at least on exhibiteer or whatever the mid diff is. I also wasn't warned that the main protag was fake modeled on Robert P but voiced by Charlie C. Now I...

Probably true but someday someone will realize that ESG/DEI money won't buy your way into heaven but fat stacks of James Cameron money will buy tons of hookers and blow.

I switched to Windows 11 a few years ago, there is too much wrong from a security perspective to use Win 10 in 2025. You can get StarDock's Start11 and make Windows 11 look however you want, just like Win10 (or Win 8 or Win7 in fact) without needing to hack the Registry, which isn't any fun any...

I had almost a 1000 hours in EU4 in the base game, then in first few expansions but then they hit on the Paradox version of Live Service where they kept adding and changing the game mechanics constantly with the expansions, and I got sick of having to learn the game constantly from what it felt...

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When they say what killed the Xbox hardware platform, of which I have owned every generation, there can be be only one answer: Stupidity. It seems like every institution in our society is rife with it. Forget trying to build back market share, or earn back goodwill, or even just not be seen as...

Right, I get that. My Name is Byf is a lore guy after all and went on at some length about some of the backstory for this game that I had no idea existed; that any such complex story existed, that they were going to try to imbue it with any kind of complicated/deep/intense lore is...

Listening to My Name is Byf talk about the lore of the game in that livestream, I'm not more likely to play it because PVPVE Extraction shooters aren't my thing but there is a ton more to Marathon than I had suspected. THAT's the Bungie I know and love, so maybe there is some non-gay hope for...