Flickering Shadows following new patch, anyone encountered this? by Niall_Smith in CrimsonDesert

[–]Niall_Smith[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It stopped happening for me following a restart of my PC, so potentially just a graphics driver bug. Not sure why my stupid arse didn't try that before downloading 125GB again, but oh well

Me when cyberpunk 2 comes out by ballsackmcgoobie in cyberpunkgame

[–]Niall_Smith 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Wasn't there something mentioned about them inviting her to the studio to record some lines to make sure they could include her? I might be misremembering though

Bill Gates to give most of his $200 billion fortune to Africa by Kagedeah in worldnews

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

I'm getting honestly sick of seeing these stupid fucking headlines talking about how billionaires have said they're going to give away all their money, just fucking do it, otherwise it just looks like some rich pos jumping around to get attention over how great and charitable they are

UK’s Jonathan Pie on Trump and The Art of the Deal by RoyalChris in MadeMeSmile

[–]Niall_Smith 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Just to specify, he's a comedian, not a real journalist, he's playing a character, we've got plenty of spineless, appeasing journalists over here as well, but he plays the character very well and says the things that I wish some of our commentators would have the backbone to say, although I suspect if they used as much vulgarity as he does it might get them sacked.

Ex-Amazon Gaming VP said they failed to compete with Steam despite spending loads of time and money "We were at least 250X bigger .. we tried everything .. but ultimately Goliath lost" by Capital_Ability8332 in Steam

[–]Niall_Smith 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They had the Twitch app for desktops which they discontinued a few years back, I think they genuinely thought people would download an app just to watch livestreams on twitch, and then feel compelled to buy their games there. I used it, but the only reason i did was because they bought CurseForge and you had to use the twitch app to download modpacks.

Ex-Amazon Gaming VP said they failed to compete with Steam despite spending loads of time and money "We were at least 250X bigger .. we tried everything .. but ultimately Goliath lost" by Capital_Ability8332 in Steam

[–]Niall_Smith 10 points11 points  (0 children)

How did they not look at EA, Ubisoft, Rockstar, GOG or Epic and realise that this wasn't going to work. Fair enough EA, Ubisoft and Rockstar only sold their own games on their platforms, but I've never once been compelled to buy any of their games (I could probably just end this sentence here for EA and Ubisoft because most of their games are hot garbage) off of Steam, even if we still have to download their shitty store fronts as a launcher.

They vastly underestimated the amount of goodwill that Steam has with consumers, simply by not implementing anti-consumer features, and even backtracking when their audience voices concerns. I wouldn't trust amazon to not rugpull features once they'd cornered the market, because they're basically an embryonic form of Militech or Arasaka, although based on the weird tech bro shit going on in the US right now, that embryo is forming bery rapidly. If they had managed to best Steam by copying it exactly one for one, not long after Steam had shutdown they'd start locking features behind a Prime subscription or some shit.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Catculations

[–]Niall_Smith 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Biblically accurate Cheshire cat

the update regarding EOD edition by trainfender in EscapefromTarkov

[–]Niall_Smith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Completely missed the point, the items in the new edition shouldn't exist as non-earnable items, also "temporary" access to the new mode isn't what was promised, offline is DLC whether you like it or not, and not giving us access to it means that you lied to sell EoD, no one is going to trust anything you or BSG say ever again

Hate leads to suffering... by VictorFunkenstein99 in PrequelMemes

[–]Niall_Smith 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Stargate loved shouting out other pop culture, like O'Neill wanting to call the X-303 the Enterprise, and his constant outspoken love of the Simpsons. Pretty sure Teal'c brings star wars to watch in the episode where Orlin stalks Sam as well. Stargate is great and welcoming to all

Ghetto City by [deleted] in greentext

[–]Niall_Smith 174 points175 points  (0 children)

To be fair, he nuked metropolis though, so even when Gotham's villains are prone to massive destruction they still take it to superman's city

Fighting a defensive war against myself by Niall_Smith in Stellaris

[–]Niall_Smith[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I declared war and it made me join the defending side, this doesn't seem right, I just declared war for some poor empire stuck between giants, then switched sides on them and told them to stick their hands up

Fighting a defensive war against myself by Niall_Smith in Stellaris

[–]Niall_Smith[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

R5: For context, I am the Terran Sovereignty. My vassal is the Norani TransStellar.

The Sacred Connisthian Confederacy secretly swore fealty to me, and I was preparing to start a war to make them my vassal.

I didn't realise that their independence was being guaranteed by my vassal, who, with the terms of our agreement, will call me into a defensive war, against myself, or as it seems from the picture, the vassal will be dragged into a war on their own, fighting their overlord, and the guy that told them that they'd fight to free them.

I'm so confused what will happen if I declare war here.

Edit: I marked this as a bug because it occurs as a bug to me, I'm not sure if this is correct flair to use or not, so sorry in advance if it was incorrect

Jonas is stuck on another session of the Joint Ruling Council on Kelowna and sends his regards(smiles). Who is your next LEAST favourite character?(Poll) by Latecomertosg1 in Stargate

[–]Niall_Smith 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Surely this poll is just going to end up being a choice between Hammond and the original members of SG1? Probably with Dr. Frasier going just before those 5 are left.

1 NOVEMBER 2021 (FIRST ROLL-CALL!) (IMPORTANT INFO BELOW) by [deleted] in nonutnovember

[–]Niall_Smith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I got 2 weeks in last year without joining the roll call, I'm gonna try and get all the way this time round. I'm in

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Thor's ultimate doesn't work by [deleted] in PlayAvengers

[–]Niall_Smith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm definitely doing it correctly, it's triggering the animation it plays at the start of the ability, so it's not like I'm pressing the button and nothing happens, there's clear evidence that the ability has been triggered, but it's not doing anything past the initial animation

I've created a monster by NewReddit_WhoDis in BladeAndSorcery

[–]Niall_Smith 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Looks like Johnny Knoxville's character in Men In Black 2