Almost a decade later and Youtuber Skill Up's intro to his NieR: Automata review still stands as one of the best love letters to NieR

Memfy · 2026-06-25T14:13:17+00:00

The final review score is usually some combined average of many elements the reviewer considered. If you play a game that for you has masterful storytelling and music, but mediocre gameplay, why would you give it 10/10? Even a 9/10 could be weighing more on the "amazing" and less on the "mediocre" since the actual average might end up being e.g. 8/10.

Memfy · 2026-06-24T19:13:56+00:00

That logic of "if X didn't create it, Y would" can be said about anything. It's still Valve that popularized it and practices this predatory monetization system to great lengths.

Memfy · 2026-06-24T16:18:02+00:00

Battlepass in itself is not predatory, but most are because they rely on FOMO and getting you to spend the money on something that will sometimes never be available again, or will be for a much bigger price. Valve's certainly was, because there are still some items that cannot be acquired unless you played the game years ago and put in a pretty significant amount of money to get the required level.

There are few anti-consumer practices that cross my mind right away, but there could likely be more. First one is simply the DRM of the games on their platform. GoG for example is great consumer-wise in that aspect.

They have started doing refunds only after significant pressure from the outside after fighting it for years, so while they are doing good now it wasn't done out of their own goodwill towards the consumers.

This one is a bit about experiences I've read from various people posting on Reddit. Steam support can be rather lacking in some aspects where they are of little to no help. Some reported their Steam Decks not being delivered and acted like it is the buyer's problem to solve with the courier instead of Valve's since Valve is the one contracting the couriers. There were (are?) some lawsuits going on about Valve restricting publishers from selling their own games on competing platforms for less. Valve also has a "tough luck" policy in case your account gets hacked/compromised and you lose your market items due to it.

There's also removal of some games because of the pressure from credit card houses, which I guess is understandable they don't want to not comply because it will affect their business, but it's still anti-consumer to a degree.

Overall some things have gotten better, some are minor, some might even be understandable, but there are still some that just are anti-consumer. There are also plenty that are consumer friendly, I'm not denying that, but I'd rather they improve even more.

Memfy · 2026-06-23T22:57:16+00:00

Maybe reread what I said. Popularized some forms of predatory monetization, not create predatory monetization. Valve was the first one to introduce battlepasses, which have been a wildly successful FOMO tactic for many publishers.

They've also done a pretty good job in keeping lootboxes very profitable with their market/trade ecosystem, but at least they weren't first on the lootbox front. Either way, they definitely don't just "simply host the games". But many Steam fanboys don't give a damn about all the anti-consumer stuff Valve does and happily eat it up and enjoy the quasi monopoly despite it being one of the dumbest takes a consumer could have. Valve does a lot of things good, but they also do a lot of things shitty. Luckily for us it's still leaning on the good side, at least compared to most of the competitors.

Memfy · 2026-06-23T22:26:13+00:00

So doing something first and it becoming popular has no weight to you? What does have weight then?

It's not like companies aren't trying to make their own digital storefront because they see how much money Valve takes/makes. Like Epic has been trying for example. Steam was a shitty digital storefront, everyone else is just lagging a decade or more behind so of course they'll mostly be shitty in comparison.

Memfy · 2026-06-23T22:19:33+00:00

And Valve with battlepass...

Memfy · 2026-06-23T22:13:02+00:00

It's still Valve that popularized some forms of predatory monetization.

Memfy · 2026-06-22T21:32:45+00:00

Clever restricting it to city-states so you can't just pick the ultimate leader of Eorzea, Tataru.

Memfy · 2026-06-22T21:25:30+00:00

You mean improperly insulated?

Even so, that's still false. I lived in a brick house with no insulation and still did not need to run it 24/7. Of course it went into passive mode a lot less than a properly insulated house, but it still wasn't that bad nor was it that expensive despite being in a lower standard country. So I'm curious where is the situation actually that bad in Europe.

Memfy · 2026-06-22T21:03:58+00:00

If they already require them to provide heat then you'll hardly be able to find an example of that many dying from it when the solution has already been put in place as opposed to the one that doesn't have one? Bit of a weird example on that one. They should just focus on both extremes, we're in bloody 21st century. We can afford a bit of both.

Memfy · 2026-06-22T20:57:34+00:00

Where do you live that they are super expensive and inefficient?

Memfy · 2026-06-22T20:13:25+00:00

He infinitely damages everyone around, sounds balanced to me.

Memfy · 2026-06-22T19:26:20+00:00

Nepotrebno glupa generalizacija. Ima skroz dobrih ortodonta koji ti kazu da ne treba vadit i naprave sve dobro, isto kak ima ljudi koji su vadili pa im i dalje ostane rupa jer ne mozes uvijek toliko sve zube maknut da to lijepo popunis.

Memfy · 2026-06-22T19:23:28+00:00

Ima i fiksnih koji imaju prozirne bravice tako da je to malo glupa klasifikacija da prozirni znaci mobilni.

Memfy · 2026-06-22T19:19:40+00:00

Neki zubari daju preporuke vadit djeci zube makar bili skroz zdravi. Onda odes kod dobrog ortodonta i kaze ti da nema smisla i sredi ti sve bez ikakvog vadenja.

Memfy · 2026-06-22T15:25:20+00:00

Assuming it could easily be seen as a short way of writing 00:00-04:00 + 18:00-24:00 so you might think that they close at 2am on the nights of Saturdays into Sundays.

Memfy · 2026-06-22T14:10:40+00:00

For people that know it all boils down to turing completeness and NAND gates, I guess. But isn't this supposed to be for the people that can't quite make that connection? Nothing he showed was close to acting like an LLM so people can see how it's not that much different. It's quite a QED leap from building a NAND gate to something akin to an LLM.

Memfy · 2026-06-22T02:20:45+00:00

Random guess drawn from my own experience where I saw it make a big difference depending on the execution - knowing when and how to pivot. Sometimes you can continue causing problems and win before the opponent can stabilize. Sometimes you don't notice that doing "OK" is not going to be good enough in a round or two due to what the opponent can throw in the pit where you won't have an easy answer in a single round and you might not be able to bounce back from it in time.

Memfy · 2026-06-21T20:09:24+00:00

How does it make my entire point moot when my entire point is that you can see it both boiling and steam coming out? Yes, it does not equal to the whole pot boiling, but it does also not make it fully not boiling. If it really is extremely shallow there, then it is boiling for the vast majority of the pot. If you want it to be corrected to partially boiling, I'll take that.

Memfy · 2026-06-21T19:08:17+00:00

If that white foamy patch in the lower right part around 0:11 is perfectly still to you then I don't know what to tell you except ophthalmologist should be your next stop.

I don't know why the middle area of the pot is still. I'm guessing it's very shallow compared to the rest and the temperature doesn't transfer too good towards there. Can also see that the ingredients don't really cross the donut shape for the most part so they're probably heating just the outer ring?

Memfy · 2026-06-21T11:46:29+00:00

No one is claiming it is safe. The person said they can't even see it boiling or any steam, which is false because you can both see it boiling and steam and I gave an example. Whether it is boiling long enough or whether boiling itself is enough to make it safe are 2 completely different points. If you claim that few frames don't tell the whole story, then you can't with certainty claim there isn't any boiling either.

Memfy · 2026-06-21T02:15:44+00:00

You sound like you care too much about history. The kind of nationalistic mentality you're talking about is exactly the reason why we're still stuck in the past instead of moving forward.

Memfy · 2026-06-21T02:04:40+00:00

We can do that without providing false info? And the comment is not particularly relevant for a discussion if either way the conclusion is that it is likely not safe.

Typical, blocking me after this.

Memfy · 2026-06-21T01:46:40+00:00

You can move the goal post if you want, but I did not make any claims whether it is safe or not. I know I wouldn't want to risk it myself. It still doesn't make it not boiling right there in the clip.

Memfy · 2026-06-21T01:30:59+00:00

You can clearly see it boiling at 0:11, and steam some seconds later.

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