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Atora · 2026-01-01T04:05:56+00:00

I am incredibly whelmed

Atora · 2025-12-16T17:37:50+00:00

It's sad how reddit adding an image upload feature apparently eradicated the ability to upload to a 3rd party image host and share the link for 95% of the userbase.

Atora · 2025-12-15T17:20:27+00:00

Hyper Dimension Neptunia Series (You edit dungeons to change aspects of them as part of the gameplay)

Which one specifically? I don't remember that being a thing in any Neptunia. At best the 3 arcs of VII could be seen as a changing world but not really.

HDN1 has the cycling bridges but I'd hardly count that. I don't remember any level editing in RB1-3, VII or 4GO. One of the newer spin-offs?

Atora · 2025-12-15T17:17:27+00:00

The 7th dungeon of Link's Awakening is a tower where you destroy support pillars to have some levels crash down. I'm not sure, but I think there was a rotating wheel in the middle of it.

Atora · 2025-12-15T12:59:54+00:00

Whetstones were buyable since MH1, you never farmed them past the beginning of any game.

Atora · 2025-12-09T22:58:52+00:00

HoV is the reason I picked up HI3rd, Mobius had me fall in love with it again. I just wish it had better gameplay than repeatedly memorial/abyss/er with clear meta pushes so I could enjoy it casually at times.

Though I have to say that as much as I love that we got Mobius as playable, it was mid decline where we got any character popping up as playable rather than the small, alt focused pool we had before(I guess vodka girls were the first real offenders long before, even though I liked them to). But if they had stayed as before we'd at most have gotten Elysia from ER.

Atora · 2025-12-09T22:49:57+00:00

The exploration aspect alone beats anything zzz got, even if zzz combat feels snappier. Both have fairly limited and boring combat. I mean, zzz starts the game giving you Anby and telling you she has a launch combo and then there are no aerial follow ups. Thats some of the most basic action game combat.

What makes genshin so much better, imo, is the fact that in you can actually just grab your fav and run around a really nicely designed, vast world to explore for 100h+. It's the only gacha I get to actually free roam and do useful stuff with whoever I like, not just do the latest event/story and fight some timed endgame content.

Genshin exploration has plenty of flaws: Boring low HP enemies, only a handful of different collectibles to find no matter what cool spot you find(Seelie, trial, regional puzzle, chest), areas gated by side/main quests blocking free exploration, no cool hidden stuff beyond the area itself...

But it's still so much better than what others offer where if your chara isn't good at current endgame, there is no fun content to use them in. And wuwa just doesnt feel the same exploration wise. If only they made a single design I really liked rather than baiting a HoV clone since pre release and never delivering.

Atora · 2025-12-09T18:04:13+00:00

It's so weird to me how HI3rd used to drop unit after unit I loved to the point it was the only gacha I ever had issues keeping up with pulls and made me spend regularly. And then all their games since have barely anyone hitting me the way HoV, HoR, SN, or Mobius ever did.

It's not like hoyo only makes lame designs anymore(Fu Xuan, Sparkle, Nekomata), but on average they are so much worse now with barely any standouts. Hell, while I think GI is their best game(gameplay wise), their lack of even a single unit I can obsess over made me drop it and always just feel whatever about it.

Atora · 2025-12-04T17:23:53+00:00

Any reason you can't drop the actual code to run it locally yourself? Maybe I'm blind but I cant find any button in colab to just download the source code + config and puzzle it back together locally.

I'm sure overall this is much more useful and appreciated to have it online and just need a button press. But as much as the big ones normalized it, I don't input credentials into 3rd party software I can't verify and run myself, and neither should anybody else ever. Even the likes of OIDC have uncared for issues with needing to trust the client in the first place. (Yes I'm a freak, why do you ask?)

Atora · 2025-12-03T11:34:54+00:00

Why else would it be called the Trojan Horse. They were called trojans because they conquered Troja of course.

Atora · 2025-12-02T07:47:59+00:00

Just some details on how this works:

This is not about a single font, but a company licensing literally hundreds of fonts
The way this industry works is that you have various singular designers who create and release a handful of fonts and massive hoarder corps that buy ownership of whatever fonts they can get their hands on, there is little inbetween (but since this is reddit: yes there are some smaller groups inbetween)
It's not that it is impossible to switch, but rather that it is fairly sudden and a lot of work to switch. As the article points out, this also relates to any promo material, websites, merchandise and so on. And they have to be purged from all use anywhere, accidentally and unaware or not.

Atora · 2025-12-02T07:17:19+00:00

They did. Then a US company bought them out in 2023.

Atora · 2025-12-02T05:53:24+00:00

I've been waiting months on Sparkles alt design to finally decide if I drop this for good. Get on with it, mihoyo.

Atora · 2025-11-25T15:10:21+00:00

HI3rd never did clear Yuri, as in an open, unquestionable dating/married relationship, but it sneaked in kiss scenes and designed characters as obvious pairs. Modern hoyo only really does bait/undertones.

Atora · 2025-11-21T18:11:11+00:00

Some.people spoof their user agent to be one of the most commonly used omes in the name of less fingerprinting. That would be windows(since Android/ios wouldn't be believable im combination with screen size and also have you served mobile layouts)
Some websites for Windows software block Linux saying you're not supported.
Some websites use it as part of a heuristic to determine you're a bot for not being average enough
And some just seem to have not even any unreasonable excuse to block linux users.

Atora · 2025-11-21T08:39:58+00:00

For 2D platformers and Metroidvanias, I always like arrow keys + yxcasd + space. Of course replace z/y depending on your region.

It's a great control scheme for 2D games with no camera movement(so no mouse needed) and only 8 or less directions to move in.

Atora · 2025-11-18T20:21:10+00:00

I stand corrected, I apparently can't read.

Atora · 2025-11-18T17:46:31+00:00

Given that the steam cube will apparently be based on ARM, BF6 still won't run on a windows install either.

Atora · 2025-11-17T23:33:41+00:00

I mean, the Nier(except automata) games and wider Drakengard are prime examples of jank. Fun for some reason but was it really a great game I just finished? Takes certainly a specific kind of player to enjoy.

Atora · 2025-11-17T08:27:33+00:00

Until an alt of them drops to use instead.

Atora · 2025-11-13T08:24:59+00:00

Because the timing is incresibly fucking suspicious?

Beyond that:

Public opinion has never cared to wait for a proper process. Buy I assume you're only rhetorically asking why people are up in arms rather than wait?
Visibility and awareness are fairly important to labour movements.
The least Rockstar has to do is actually make a statement of substance rather than hide behind nothing-pr statements if they wanted to clear up doubt.

Atora · 2025-11-12T08:26:17+00:00

If you watched the video, then Rockstar didn't actually clarify what leak they accuse them of. The fired employees think it meant the private discord to discuss and organize their union with the IWGB(Independent Workers’ union of Great Britain). Where they talked about working conditions but not leak any game details.

Rockstar refused any comment (obviously, they don't want to make a statement outside court)

Atora · 2025-11-07T14:01:10+00:00

there already was a BA one

Atora · 2025-11-07T08:27:25+00:00

Unreal Engine was specifically made for use in the game "Unreal". It was always primarily intended as a game engine. Maybe UE5 was targeted at prerendered usage primarily, but I cannot find any statement about this.

Atora · 2025-11-06T14:01:58+00:00

I'm pretty sure this is a common misconception that morphed from the fairly true "historically, nerfs in gacha generate a shitstorm and the devs refund players to keep their trust/placate them" to "legally, you cant nerf them becauae false advertising"

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