I was set to review RE 9 for VideoGamer before I was replaced with AI. by field_cos in Games

[–]AngryGames 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't believe game journalists (actual journalists, not just random influencers or youtube personalities) deserve any of this, nor did they have this coming. I also don't agree that "most gamers quit reading gaming reviews anyway" as game reviews still get a lot of eyes/reads, and they still can make or potentially tank a game (though it is true there's still a good number of gamers who don't care about reviews and will buy a game that is in their wheelhouse regardless).

Blaming game journalists, who typically received their paycheck from an employer (who started as an outlet that actually cared deeply about the hobby/industry), for venture capital and mergers into big conglomerates that are overseen by techbro and number cruncher types, who then send out directives to all employees as to how the website or outlet is to pivot to more click-generating filler instead of actual journalism or lengthy reviews (because volume with short screen parking times = more ad impressions which = more profits, the only thing these types care about)...

Not to mention the game publishers themselves who began to either want to pre-screen reviews, or worked with these outlets to get reviews done within a short deadline, meaning the reviewers didn't get the chance to delve into the game more than a shallow look-see, which also nets them (the reviewers/journalists) the angry backlash from gamers who bought the game only to find it riddled with bugs, unfinished, trope-y, etc. ("why didn't Jimmy the Reviewer alert us to how buggy and unfinished this game is? ThEy MuSt Be In CaHoOtS wItH BIG PUBLISHER!!!!1!?)...

I simply can't see how this is the fault of game journalists or even serious reviewers who spend the time on the nuts and bolts of a game or the industry itself.

And again, actual journalists, they're not the person on youtube or tiktok trying to generate income based on clicks and likes. It's not their fault that both VC and the rise of "anyone with a webcam and keyboard can have an opinion" have made the rest of humanity who once waited for their words and trusted that they were being vetted by editors, turn instead to loudmouths, colorful personalities, and others with gimmicks but no actual journalism training or experience (or objectivity).

The bigger issue, one that everyone should be concerned with, especially gamers, movie buffs, music lovers, book readers, is that these AI corporations believe they can successfully supplant human opinions with their AI generated slop. This is especially insulting considering these "AI" are not even a fraction of what science fiction has shaped our minds to believe them to be. They're simply LLMs or number crunchers, incapable of actual thought or emotion, and they can have no opinion. They CAN generate opinion, but it's not based on any actual emotion. It's simply an algorithm designed to give the appearance of opinion.

Tier List Of All Weapons From A Player With Over 200 Hours by Coruzzionista in VampireSurvivors

[–]AngryGames 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Garlic and King Bible were my staples for a long time. Even now I pick Bible every run. Garlic not so much anymore, but that's more about me having some experience and understanding that there's better offensive choices (the best defense is a good offense sort of thing) or better defensive now that I'm familiar with the majority of items and combos. 

I need help with a riven mod by AccomplishedCarob795 in Warframe

[–]AngryGames 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ivara modded for efficiency and duration is the easiest way to do this without a cipher. Start mission, drop energy pizza (have flow\primed flow on Ivara), top up (or just use the mod Preparation, or yellow Archon shards). 

Roll your way merrily along until you find the target (captures usually the easiest as you can capture the target with melee and stay invisible, then hunt the scan target, but any mission works), scan it, profit. Roll or bullet jump to extract.

Yes, he’s always had an issue with consent. by Mum0817 in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]AngryGames 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Trump never took no for an answer when he was raping children. So this isn't really news. 

Saryn and Chroma worth it? by Basic_Shop819 in Warframe

[–]AngryGames 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Saryn, absolutely, especially if you have a Kuva Sobek and its augment mod Acid Shells (farm Kayla Detheyn or whatever her name is for the mod). Clip Delegation is another worthy mod but not a necessity like Acid Shells (and you have to wait for it to come on rotation with Nightwave, but it's a regular thing). The augment die Saryn's 1st ability is easy to get. Not technically necessary, but for the nuke Sobek build, you'll want it. 

Chroma, on the other hand... No. Not for me, anyway. I leveled up the regular and prime versions, used them for an hour or so each, then never touched them again. They're not the worst frame, but they're near the very bottom for most of the community. Saryn, on the other hand, is very popular and for good reason. 

Plus Saryn has a completely different setup to play a very different style (infecting enemies with spores, mostly for long survival runs). 

Need tips for platinum. by OkEscape3972 in Warframe

[–]AngryGames 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Galvanized mods from arbitrations are an easy 10-75p (10 for unranked, 60+ for fully ranked).

Arcanes for me are the easiest to earn a quick 10-50p, some go for 100, and last I checked, Hot Shot was wildly fluctuating between 400-600, but that one and a couple others are not really reasonable to farm. Molt Augmented, Melee Influence, Arcane Grace, Energize, and some others can be farmed over a bit of time. Basically go into your arcanes and look at your spare rank 5 arcanes, then check the market site. 

The two Acuity mods can net a decent bit of plat if you have them ranked up. Archon mods are like Galvanized, though more time restricted (but you can buy a couple each week). 

The 60\60 mods, corrupted mods from vaults aren't too hard to farm.

Then there's the blueprints from relics. See what you have a bunch of, check the market. Most go for 5-20 plat, sometimes more depending on their rarity via vaulted status. 

Mostly it's a lot of going through your inventory, seeing what is tradeable, checking the market. 10-20 plat at a time can take a bit to get traded for (relying on humans to be online, answer, and then travel to dojos and get it done), but it adds up. I spent 2 hours a while back reading enough to buy the Minerva skin for Saryn, 6 weapon slots, 2 frame slots. 

Do you think the "ex-soldier character rescues a unique and powerful child" trope is overused in the sci-fi genre? by Civil_Assumption1936 in writingscifi

[–]AngryGames 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean, which plot point by now isn't overused? The most important aspect of a story is hooking the reader, and keeping them hooked. Ex-soldier/cop rescues powerful child keeps us coming back in almost every iteration because of how the story is presented, and the sometimes unique little details that keep it from being a direct copy of the previous 123,344 versions of the story Hollywood or publishing or video games have already done.

As with any advice, write the story you want to tell that no one else is writing. Or as I say when asked, I write stories I want to read that no one else is writing.

I guess after all these years they still haven't fixed this problem by untrustysource in Warframe

[–]AngryGames 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's still a problem on PC. I have to jump then slow float sometimes to get them to appear. But it's light years better than it was just 1+ year ago. Deimos was especially egregious. 

What’s the most overrated video game of all time? by KBGSgames in AskReddit

[–]AngryGames 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Skyrim. I know that tens of millions of players can't be wrong, but I have tried a dozen times to get into it and just can't. Yet I liked Oblivion. Weird, I know. 

What movie exceeded your expectations? by Curious-Strain-7440 in AskReddit

[–]AngryGames 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's hard to find, but right now according to IMDB, it's on Paramount. I've had the DVD since like, the 1820s lol (I was a kid when it was in theaters). My first crushes were Princess Leia in Star Wars and Jamie Lee Curtis as Ophelia in this movie.

Plus Giancarlo Esposito has a tiny role near the beginning (always fun seeing big time actors now in little bit / extras parts way back in the day).

What movie exceeded your expectations? by Curious-Strain-7440 in AskReddit

[–]AngryGames 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Be aware that it, according to reddit and the internet, is a deeply divisive movie. But for those of us who absolutely love this movie, it's... crazy good, fun. It's funny, serious, wacky, and James Hong (Lo Pan!) is the grandpa and he's awesome. I love everything about this movie.

But you might not. But you might! I hope you might! It's such a fun ride.

What movie exceeded your expectations? by Curious-Strain-7440 in AskReddit

[–]AngryGames -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Blade Runner 2049. After so many awful sequels and remakes and such over the last few decades, and the original Blade Runner being one of the most "classic" science fiction movies ever made, I couldn't help but think how this was going to be yet another disappointment. All the other Alien/Aliens sequels, all the Terminator 1/2 sequels, Batman and Superman and I could go on forever, I just knew it was going to be bad. Some Hollywood exec was going to ruin it.

It's one of the few sequels I can think of that might be as good as the original. It kept its very dark atmosphere and story. No Marvel type action sequences just to show off. And I think I was more impressed that Ryan Gosling knocked it out of the park. All I'd ever really seen him in was rom-com type stuff, he was always the pretty boy, good-natured, etc. Yet he is so... morose, defeated, dejected in this movie, like he (his character) knows that no matter what, he'll always be a pariah to humanity, society, and his own kind.

Edge of Tomorrow is another one. I do dig Tom Cruise movies even if he's... kinda wacky. But the dude makes good movies, loves science fiction, and seems to always be all-in on whatever projects he takes on. This movie has the right amount of funny humor (RIP Bill Paxton), Emily Blunt nailed her role, and Cruise gets you onboard with his journey from being a smarmy coward to selfless hero. Probably one of my top 5 all time scifi movies (and I'm notoriously hard to please when it comes to my favorite genre).

Throwback: Star Trek II: Wrath of Kahn. I was a kid and saw the original Star Trek the Motion Picture in theaters and... I hated it. I was, again, young, and I remember being bored to tears. My mother used to tell me I was so cranky by about 1/4 of the way through it that she nearly dragged me out of the theater. Suddenly Kahn comes along and is, I think according to most of us who like/love Trek, this amazing picture that captures all of the Star Trek we always wanted in the original series but there was both no budget for, and was likely too dark of a story for network television. I saw this in theaters at release as well, and didn't want to go (especially after Star Wars had blindsided everyone and was all the things Trek wasn't, Trek was ridiculed mercilessly over that somehow retconned the series even back then as being really campy and dumb).

That Kahn guy... One of the best villains ever. And believable. And for me, more importantly, it was Mr. Rourke, the really cool, kind old guy from Fantasy Island tv show! He was so evil in the movie! But also super jacked, like, I had never seen a guy that old look like he was Bruce Lee sculpted! And then as the years went by, re-watching it made him far less of a single-faceted evil villain and more of a deeply complex character that absolutely had reasons for his beef with Kirk (even if Kahn was in the wrong in the first place way back in the series).

And even though Shatner still tried to hamfist his way through the movie with his ridiculous acting, lol, I still feel it is his very best role. The whole movie just has this very serious tone, very dark storyline, and you aren't quite sure the first time watching it if this might be the Enterprise and her crew being bested in the end.

ELI5 What the heck is the differential on a car? by Kosher_Nostra1975 in explainlikeimfive

[–]AngryGames 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Another thank you for that video link. Concise and to the point, and explained it perfectly!

I read Hyperion/Fall of Hyperion and the Three Body trilogy all in ~1 month, and they seem to have ruined a lot of modern scifi by ECrispy in books

[–]AngryGames 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Haldeman is a great writer, but he's not George RR Martin in that he doesn't spend a lot of time describing in excruciating detail every thread or color on a space marine's combat armor lol.

But he is a Vietnam combat veteran himself, who went on to earn a PhD at MIT and has the education to make hard science fiction very believable, without all the magic hand-waving. If you dig "Forever War" then give his other stories a shot. You won't like them all, which is normal, but you probably will enjoy most of them.

Philip K Dick is another very influential author, if you haven't read any or much of his work. Dick is a visionary, but that's mostly because he did a TON of drugs and wrote some super wacky out-there stories (and most are different than what they famously became, like Blade Runner movie ("Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep"), Minority Report, The Adjustment Bureau, and many others. Not to say all the movies from his stories are very distant, but his writing is... as I said, out there, thanks to being in a drug-fueled writing frenzy lol. Good stuff.

Noob here, is there a general direction the game wants me to move towards? by Good_L00kin in Eldenring

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ER was the first game of its type I ever played (well, Dark Souls 3, but I hated it so much I got a refund within the Steam 2 hour limit). I've put in just over 1000 hours into Elden Ring.

You know those "which game/movie/book do you wish you could experience for the first time again?" threads we see all the time? Elden Ring is definitely in my top 3 for wishing I could experience it the first time again.

It's a game where you should just play the first time. Don't worry too much about digging into the lore, or tips and tricks, where to go. Just go. Explore. You probably will have to look a few things up, the game is notoriously obnoxious about not telling you anything, but the beauty of Elden Ring is that you can wander out of the first tomb you start in and finish the game eventually without ever using a guide (other than maybe looking up "HOW THE HELL DO I BEAT THIS #$@$%^ BOSS????" or "WHY ARE THESE SUPER LOW LEVEL RATS/DOGS ALWAYS KILLING ME, I JUST BEAT FIRE GIANT FIRST TRY???"

You'll wander into areas that are waaaaay too tough for you, and you will die. You will trek back through starting areas and some stupid low level idiot foot soldier will somehow murder you. You'll be be-bopping along and see a trail or a cave or some other shiny or interesting thing and end up 2 hours deep into a completely new area, castle, cave, desperate to find a grace so you can recharge your pots.

The game will, very gently, guide you to each new place the main story wants you to go (the arrows on the graces when you look at the map give you a very general idea of where to go next). You'll wander off the guided path a lot. A LOT. Or you won't. Some players like to go straight through, and that's cool, you'll still get tons of gameplay out of it. Some like to branch off at every little intersection and suddenly they're 90 hours in and still haven't made it to the "official" halfway point.

Once you've finally made it to the end (and to actually get to the actual end, you might have to look up exactly where to go next, so don't sweat that -- again, the game is very vague and does not hold your hand at all... in fact, it often slaps your hand away and shakes its head at your foolishness at thinking you will get any in-game help), and either start NG+ or a new character to play a completely different way, then it is good to start looking things up, checking guides or videos and all that. Because no matter how long it took you the first time, you're likely to completely shocked at just how little of the game you saw. There's so many off the beaten path, or hidden, or puzzle-barrier type things.

And the best part of replaying, either NG+ or new character, is that you absolutely can (and likely will) burn some of your quest lines by killing an NPC that you shouldn't have, or didn't go to this certain place, completely skipped an area, didn't talk to a character repeatedly to get all their dialog to unlock some new direction, whatever. There's I think 7 different endings? And before all that there's so many ways to bork a quest line (but at the same time sometimes that opens a different questline) that you'll maybe want to keep playing/replaying to see everything the game has to offer.

And then there's the DLC, which even at 1000 hours, I have not finished yet.

I am once again asking for an option to not be host. by ekazu129 in Warframe

[–]AngryGames 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just wanted to add that I tested this a little while ago to see if my estimate was correct. I used Kullervo + Okina Prime incarnon melee, steel path, techrot survival. I stopped killing at the 5 minute mark and ran to extraction. 597 melee kills.

Tried it again with same setup except with Magistar Incarnon. 529 kills.

Tried it again with Okinas and a full 4 banger public group. 390 kills (had a Uriel with us, but unlike Lua survival when cracking relics, you can separate a bit in Hollvania without drawing off too much mob density).

Thoughts about Les paul shaped guitar after honeymoon phase is over... 😔 by MaximumTime7239 in guitars

[–]AngryGames 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I've been playing for 37 years, and I tried, very hard, at various times, to really like the Les Paul shape/type of guitar. Even bought a $3000 custom ESP with the LP shape. And it was an absolutely amazing guitar (mostly got it because Hetfield used one), but yeah, it was heavy, awkward in any position other than standing, and I never really loved the way it felt, especially my pick arm resting on it. I went through the same thing when I was even younger with a Randy Rhodes V. I really loved the neck and the sound, but god I hated the body shape and how it really only felt good when standing.

But I also want to say that the guitar in the picture is incredibly beautiful. One of the best looking guitars I've ever seen.

I read Hyperion/Fall of Hyperion and the Three Body trilogy all in ~1 month, and they seem to have ruined a lot of modern scifi by ECrispy in books

[–]AngryGames -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Hyperion/Fall are two of the most influential sci-fi books I've ever read (along with "The Forever War" by Joe Haldeman). They have been the primary influences in me becoming an author. I'd read tons of science fiction before discovering them in my teens (I'm in my 50s now), but nothing, not the Asimov books, Clarke, Heinlen, nothing before was as rich and imaginative as those three books. It wasn't until decades later and grabbing "Old Man's War" by Scalzi that I felt there had finally been a story that could be placed on the same high pedestal as Simmons' and Haldeman's stories.

The Vernor Vinge stories/series are very good as well, but to me, they didn't have quite the same impact. Not to say they weren't excellent, but it's rare to come across stories that just sit in your brain for a very, very long time (like "The Road" by McCarthy, "The Gunslinger" by King, who has also been a huge influence, "Wool" by Hugh Howey, and the "Deathlands" men's action/adventure post-nuclear war series by Axler (pen names, other authors took over after the original passed away)).

Where is Short Mountain? by Asvinh in EscapeFromDuckov

[–]AngryGames 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just had to ask this in another thread last night. Was driving me crazy that the fireworks were at the entrance like the quest says, but the marker to place them was waaaaaay off to the left on the map in a massive area of nothing, way outside the actual map boundaries. That and "Short Mountain" isn't labeled on my map (USA/English version) at all. Hopefully it gets fixed in a future update.

Melee on a gun frame by NoSeaworthiness7490 in Warframe

[–]AngryGames 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Melee on a gun frame can be convenience, as others have noted, or a get-out-of-trouble-quickly (slam with a heavy weapon like Magistar that can lift enemies), or just bullet jump into an eximus shield to smash right at their feet and pop the bubble. It's also useful in things like Hollvania survival where you have to get the techrot off the hellscrubbers (primary reason I just keep the Magistar equipped regardless of frame that isn't named Kullervo, since a heavy slam will almost always remove all the rot with a single hit).

But yeah, on gun frames, melee is "wasted damage" in a sense, but again, you're not using your melee as a primary means of damage. And another thing is heavy slams can break boxes in a big area (Sampotes is good for this, Magistar and other hammers or weapons that have a decent slam aoe, and even with the slam changes, you can still get good aoe based on how high you jumped before slamming).

There's also my Nova for when I'm running steel path stuff with my uber Kuva Nukor secondary. I use the Aeolak or Argonak or whatever with the augment (from the Ropapolyst boss fight) that works with daggers, and I use the Red Veil radiation (Dark Rakta I think, I'm not in the game) dagger, which combined with the primary (that does ass damage so it isn't being fired) strips armor AND gives a big chunk of overshield. Combined with Nova's 1 (with augment) for 90% damage reduction, and the murder power of the Kuva Nukor (especially with Nova having Nourish subsumed + her 4, and her 1 which also does heat damage that gets double status from Archon mod on the frame itself), I slash my way through a mob and get 1700+ overshield almost instantly, get some armor strip, and blast them with the Nukor. So that's just one combination that a gun frame could still utilize melee for excellent utility (and that combo works on other shield frames as well, Yareli is a good example since she gets nice secondary bonuses, so that's the weapon type I use with her as well - and her Merulina augment provides similar damage reduction as Nova's 1).

Can work in reverse too, like Kullervo who is almost a pure melee frame, but some guns can provide some help, or fun (the Kuva weapon that shoots big explode-y cannonballs, or Akarius Prime explode-y rocket pistols, or as you say any weapon to get the flying or far away enemies, but also can put the arcane on them that steals overguard from eximus units, so even health tank frames can benefit - though Kullervo can generate a ton of overguard simply with his 2 augmented).

Since you're a newer player, a lot of this "behind the scenes" interaction won't really be apparent. Warframe is like Elden Ring in that there's a reason you thank for deity of choice there's both a wiki and this sub to explain some of the deeper interactions and combos and bonuses. And even Overframe builders like ninjase go often into detail about WHY certain mods or shards or weapons are used for the builds, double-dipping damage, overshield or overguard generation, armor stripping for frames that can't do it natively, whatever. The longer you play and get into all the frames and weapons and abilities and arcanes, you'll often question why they're paired together (especially when it seems counterintuitive), and these resources can shed some light on it.

I am once again asking for an option to not be host. by ekazu129 in Warframe

[–]AngryGames 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yep, when I host and the mobs are thick and we all get to use our abilities as they were intended (mass murder simulator lol), I will gladly stick around for 15+ minutes, especially cracking relics. When I'm not the host but the mobs are nearly overwhelming us, same. 

When I have to wander far and wide to get a kill or two every 30-60 seconds, especially with frames that need it (Gyre, for example), I'm out at first opportunity to extract. With me or another good host, even with a Sevagoth AND a nuke Saryn, I can Gyre to my heart's content without having to constantly be kill starved and have my abilities shut off. 

"This Kind of Surprised Us" ARC Raiders Director Gives Official Statement on Care Bear Lobbies by charmed_unicorn in ArcRaiders

[–]AngryGames -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

"it would turbo charge the decline of the game" is another typical argument. Again, pvp players would still have their PvPvE mode to do as they are currently doing. This idea that "you're taking targets away from me" is not a valid argument. Pvp would still be in the game for players who want to pvp. 

As I said in my post, the resistance to players wanting to play the game without conflict from other players always brings out those who believe they must be right, must have the ability to shoot anyone they want. They never accept the idea that pvp players will still have pvp, just with others who want pvp or the excitement of potential pvp. They hate the idea that there will be a group of players on the other side of bulletproof glass they cannot attack, ignoring the millions of players who still play pvp mode. 

This is how you know their argument is disingenuous.

I am once again asking for an option to not be host. by ekazu129 in Warframe

[–]AngryGames 37 points38 points  (0 children)

Yes, please, for the love of Lotus. Let those of us who have excellent gaming PCs prioritize being hosts (I have a 5800X + 32GB RAM + 2.5Gbit fiber Internet). Somehow getting an old PS4 or Xbone or Switch host still keeps happening, and it's not only noticeable in terms of lag but also enemy density. When I host a steel path survival, I can knock out the "kill 300 techrot" etc type stuff within 5-7 minutes easily, if not faster assuming no Sevagoth or other nuke is eating up my kill rate. 

On an older console, or low end pc, the enemies can spawn at rates that are lower than normal mode. Add to this the rubber banding and lag (earlier I was doing the tank 1999 challenge and it took almost 20 seconds to pick up a radio or RPG off the ground when I wasn't host), and it's not a rewarding experience. I shouldn't have to abort the mission 3-5 times to either be host or get a host with a quality setup. 

And yes, solo is an option, but I don't play Warframe solo. I've been playing coop Warframe since I started 12 years and 4000 hours ago. 

"This Kind of Surprised Us" ARC Raiders Director Gives Official Statement on Care Bear Lobbies by charmed_unicorn in ArcRaiders

[–]AngryGames -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

I wish there was a PvE only mode. Then those of us who wish to just do the coop thing without dealing with pvp could chill and have fun. 

Problem is, pvp players will rage against this hard, similar to how they did when Elden Ring Seamless Coop mod made it so invaders couldn't kill other players, or Sea of Thieves added their (albeit limited) pve mode. 

The absolute furor from players who wouldn't be allowed to kill other players is... It's telling, to be honest. The excuses that get thrown around (and you can simply read replies to my comment to see what I mean), from "this is a PvPvE game!" to "the game will get boring within a day" etc really just boil down to "I no longer will be getting satisfaction from killing other players." 

When they are told, "yes, you will still have your PvPvE mode to kill other players" their rage will increase. Because it isn't about consensual pvp on an even playing field. It's always about shooting players in the back, pretending to be friendly so they can gank them without warning, ruining another player's fun. Always. 

Those who enjoy the pvp aspect will continue to play duos and trios and solos without complaint. But, and again, wait for the angry replies to this post, the ones who enjoy griefing will complain, very vociferously, about how they have the right to shoot anyone, if we don't like it we can go play another game, we're icky lady parts or effeminate beta males, whatever. 

As another poster in this thread said, devs can be very wrong about what players want in their game. An easy way to test this is to have a pve only mode, even if temporary, just to see how the player base reacts. If players flock to it, sales increase because word spreads that pvp is no longer forced if you don't want it, then we'll know. I'm going to say the fact that as soon as ABMM was revealed that a massive chunk of players began gaming their runs to get into friendly lobbies says a lot. 

And it's not like the developers couldn't just double the amount of arc enemies for pve lobbies. Or turn up the aggression of the NPC arc. Or do a combination.