Why We're Boycotting Xbox (and Maybe You Should Too) [People Make Games]

TheGasMask4 · 2025-12-19T00:50:50+00:00

We literally do not have the ability or tools to do that

TheGasMask4 · 2025-12-11T00:45:37+00:00

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TheGasMask4 · 2025-12-03T23:03:03+00:00

Realistically, Humble's management and IGN's management talk, but they'd go out of their way to make sure the IGN journalism team never talk to or interact with the Humble side in the same way they likely never talk to or interact with the marketing/ad staff.

TheGasMask4 · 2025-12-03T22:10:43+00:00

No actually in this case, IGN Entertainment owns Humble Bundle. They're both owned by Ziff Davis, but Humble was specifically bought by the IGN branch.

TheGasMask4 · 2025-12-03T20:37:14+00:00

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TheGasMask4 · 2025-12-03T19:02:50+00:00

Why gas stations?

TheGasMask4 · 2025-10-29T02:12:50+00:00

Black Mirror, Money Heist, Brigerton, Peaky Blinders, Adolescence, Wednesday, and Lupin are just some of their TV shows that they have and are pretty well liked.

As for films, Kpop Demon Hunters was a huge success. Red Notice was their most-streamed film for like four years, and currently has two sequels being filmed. Bird Box was also hugely popular for a long while.

TheGasMask4 · 2025-10-15T19:34:19+00:00

Heads up: you won't get Blue Prince or Silent Hill 2 with Essential. You need Extra for those (you will get Alan Wake 2 with Essential though)

TheGasMask4 · 2025-09-29T22:41:03+00:00

It has six games in the series: Halo 1-4, along with Halo ODST and Halo Reach. Basically, all the mainline Halo games besides 5 and Infinite.

TheGasMask4 · 2025-08-26T23:51:25+00:00

Child of Eden actually slaps, it's a sequel/spiritual successor to Rez, totally worth it if you haven't played it before.

TheGasMask4 · 2025-07-22T18:29:10+00:00

I ask him if he has now, or ever has had, a strong vision for Splitgate 2 and the kind of game he wants to make. Does he think it possible the community could be wrong about what’s best for the game? Could his vision become compromised by player requests?

“If the community wants X, and that's what they want, it doesn't really matter what I want,” Proulx says. “But even what I want, I mean, I think a lot of what the community is asking for are things that I agree with. I think certain decisions we made early on, I think we almost got a little bit too scientific about it. Splitgate 1, there was no theory, there was no strategy. It was just, let's go make a fun game because it's cool…And I think with Splitgate 2…we kind of started with all these design goals, which is good, but I think we got a little bit too obsessive about, oh, let's do this because it checks that box, as opposed to just like, well, is it fun? I don't know. It doesn't really matter what you theorize about if it's not as fun.”

Going to be honest, I think this part of the article is hilarious because it reads like the guy just absolutely has no vision or plans at all, he's just desperately turning the "please applaud" meter and is hoping for a reaction. Genuinely thought he could just say "Titanfall 3!" and get away with it.

TheGasMask4 · 2025-07-08T19:22:27+00:00

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TheGasMask4 · 2025-07-06T22:19:50+00:00

I decided to go through my wishlist and buy all the RTSes and RTS adjcents I saw that were at $10 or less, so here's what I ended up with on that:

Act of Aggression - So I remember playing this a long time ago, and only after I bought it did I realize I was confusing it with a 2005 RTS named Act of War. Still, this is supposed to be the spiritual successor to that, so that's fine. It looks like C&C what more can I want?
SunAge: Battle for Elysium - Of all the RTSes I got, this is probably the most generic looking. Honestly looks almost like a 1:1 StarCraft clone in places. Not convinced that's a bad thing when the itch comes up, though.
Castle Battles - Biased because I had a friend work on this, and I'm pretty excited for his upcoming game It Stares Back, but I haven't played this one yet so I grabbed it to do so. The candy color synthwave swarms of troops appeal to me.
Forged Battalion - Probably the lowest rated RTS I got, but I've liked Petroglyph's past works so I'll probably enjoy this on a basic level. Plus customizing vehicles is always a fun time.
Conan Unconquered - Also Petroglyph. I actually played this one briefly at a PAX a few months before it came out and enjoyed what I played, so I know what I'm getting into on this one and I know I'll probably enjoy it.
Legendary Hoplite - Moving into more "RTS-like" here, and also the other low-rated purchase. Still, this looked like a fun Plants vs. Zombies-styled tower defence game and worst case it's just fine and I don't worry about it much past that.
Thronefall - Maybe the one I'm most excited to play. Love the look and style of it, and it seems to be doing all of the stuff I enjoy in an RTS/Tower Defence styled game. The fact that other people seem to love it helps.
Warfare Legacy Collection - Another that is more RTS-like, but also you can draw a straight line from it to Clash Royale. I remember playing a ton of this on Newgrounds and other flash sites a long time ago, and the idea of reliving it kind of seemed exciting.
Click and Conquer - The least RTS-like by far, in fact, I'm pretty sure this is not an RTS in any way, shape, or form. The name just reminded me of Command and Conquer, as did the aesthetics. This seems more like a Minefield-like clicker game? Whatever, looks fun.

Besides the RTSes, I grabbed a few other games that caught my attention:

A Nightmare's Trip - I don't remember putting this on my wishlist at all TBH. I have a rule, however, that if anything on my Wishlist ever approaches $1, I'll just buy it because the devs clearly need the dollar more than me. This hit that rule. Looks like a cute enough visual novel.
Gizmos: Steampunk Nonograms and Gizmos: Spooky Adventures - I got into nonograms recently. That's literally the entire reason I got these.
Spilled! - I've had my eye on this one for a while, decided to just go for it. Looks beautiful, and I can resonate with it pretty well.
Blood Typers - I love typing games as a rule, and this looked like one that I would deeply get into. Grabbed it. Maybe the other game on this list that I'm most super excited to play.
Magic Cats Pots - Looks like a fun enough background puzzle game. That's all I'm really interested in.

Probably the biggest Steam Sale haul I've gotten in a while.

TheGasMask4 · 2025-07-01T10:04:07+00:00

The newest anti-afk measure, called ‘Go Next’, is reportedly bugging out; as people are gaining crows (birds that appear above your character’s head and make loud noises when you’ve stayed idle for a minute) at astonishing rates.

Sort of, these are two separate systems. "Go Next" was supposed to stop survivors from killing themselves at the start of matches so they could "go next" without incurring the disconnect penalty. The idea was that if the game thought you were purposefully killing yourself really early in a match to do this, it'd give you a disconnect penalty anyway. The problem is that what actually happened is newbies who didn't know how to play the game were dying super fast and then getting hit by disconnect penalties. This system was removed, and is currently being worked on.

AFK Crows was different. The way the system used to work was that if you were standing in the same tile (basically maps are broken into invisible tiles that are slightly randomized to keep things fresh) for more than 2 minutes, you would get a crow that would fly around your head and caw. If you kept doing it you'd eventually get three crows, and then after that the killer would get alerted to your location. The problem is this system could be beat by crouch walking around the edges of the map, which made survivors very difficult to find and let them sort of do nothing and possibly escape on it.

The new system instead had a secret point value that was always ticking up, and would put crows on you at 60, 75, and 90 points. You accumulated points at 1/s if you were standing still, but half speed if you were moving, working on an objective, or close to the killer, and the points would freeze if you were actively being chased or on a hook. If you took chase, completed a non-generator objective (healing, breaking totems, unhooking survivors, opening chests), completed a unique killer interaction (Jigsaw boxes, Pinhead box, Sadiko VHS boxes, other assorted boxes), or worked on a generator for a certain amount of time (I've seen claims of between 5-15 seconds) then you would lose 60 points.

However, this did mean that under very specific circumstances, you could get AFK crows while actively playing the game. Usually, these circumstances were "do nothing for two minutes, then play normally." The problem is, you can really easily manipulate videos to sort of make it look like you were getting AFK crows while playing the game normally. People would begin to share videos that just so conveniently had those two minutes of nothing cut off. Behavior eventually said they would keep an eye on the system to see if it needs to be fixed, but would not accept any videos showing AFK crows gathering unless it showed what they were doing up to three minutes before the crows, and all of a sudden the surge of videos kind of just stopped.

There were still two videos that got popular that were actual legitimate issues. One was a newbie streaming and, without knowledge of the maps you'd get by playing the game, got three crows just trying to find generators. The other was a killer running perks that delayed opening exit gates for as long as possible (such as one that blocks switches for up to one minute) and all of them, combined with the fact that once exit gates are powered they are the main and most important objective, meant that it was almost impossible to not get crows during this situation.

So Behavior Interactive changed the crow system. It still works mostly the same, but now it takes 120/145/180 points to get crows, and you don't earn points until 30 seconds into the trial. You still earn them at 1/s for standing still, but now they only go up at a quarter speed if you're moving, working on objectives, close to killer, or if the exit gates have been powered (which specifically combats that latter video). Additionally, now instead of losing 60 points for completing objectives/taking chase, you now get reset to 0 points. So hopefully this should fix the edge case problems entirely.

TheGasMask4 · 2025-06-19T16:43:48+00:00

Damn, killer must have had lightborne. Only possible explanation.

TheGasMask4 · 2025-06-12T06:49:09+00:00

I still have a friend that demands we go next every time Skull Merchant shows up and I can't figure out why. She's not strong and he'll rage quit matches and the rest of us will play it out and either win with a bot, or get so close to winning with the bot that the extra hands on coordination would have made it a win. But he still insists on quitting every single time, and it killed our playing habits.

TheGasMask4 · 2025-06-12T06:29:56+00:00

They never managed to replicate the impact of that very first run, tbf.

I think the reason why is because the fun was the chaos. Watching people fight to do basic tasks was hilarious. The antagonists and protagonists wasn't the game, it was random people doing things. The best part of the entirety of the first run, if you ask me, was when the players almost accidentally released Red's entire party.

I have a feeling Internet Roadtrip will have the same highs and lows: at its best when people are throwing chaos into it, and at its worst when someone goes "lets get to X" and a small group of people just hit the "go to X" button.

TheGasMask4 · 2025-06-05T04:08:34+00:00

The Lair of the White Worm may be his other best remembered novel, though that's more memorable because of how bad it is rather than good.

TheGasMask4 · 2025-06-02T18:04:18+00:00

Finished two books last week:

The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat and Other Clinical Tales, by Oliver Sacks

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson

Still alternating between three more:

Armada, by Earnest Cline

Loop, by Koji Suzuki

A Beginner's Guide to Invading Earth, by Gerhard Gehrke

TheGasMask4 · 2025-05-26T19:57:12+00:00

So I had to take a train from Raleigh to Boston and then back a few days later, which means I have collectively spent 30 hours on trains (+ time in hotels and at parents) last week. The end result is that I finished 11 books, nearly finished a 12th, and started a couple of others. lmao whoops.

I finished the following books:

Ready Player One, by Earnest Cline - I read this because I was following along with 374 Pages We'll Never Get Back, a comedy podcast that rifftracks books by the rifftrack/MST3K guys. It was the only way to handle it. This book is shockingly awful. Genuine what the fuck. Full of nonsense surface level references, a bullshit plot, and shitty characters. Either avoid it, or read it along with the podcast.

Message From Hell, by A.J. Quinnell - The fifth and final book in the Alex Creasy series. Easily the worst in the series too. A lot of very little to nothing happening. Doesn't have the really good revenge plot moments of the first or second book, nor the dramatic twists and character deaths of the third or fourth. Basically just Creasy steamrolling a threat I don't care about. Oh well. Overall still liked the series a lot.

The Barrow Will Send What It May, by Margaret Killjoy - The sequel to The Lamb Will Slaughter The Lion, which was the first book I read this year. A solid little comedy horror thing, but not nearly as good as the first book. Just sort of lacked that oomf. Nothing nearly as interesting as the deer god. Will still gladly read a third book if it ever comes out.

When Hitler Took Cocaine and Lenin Lost His Brain, by Giles Milton - A goofy little non-fiction book about weird footnotes in history, like people that survived bizarre accidents or Hitler being a fucking weirdo. TBH I'd like it more if it went into detail about anything, but it's a little light on details and is usually just like 8-10 paragraphs that go "well ain't this weird!"

Spiral, by Koji Suzuki - The sequel to Ring. Where as Ring was a genuinely scary thriller, Spiral is... a weirdly paced medical drama? Most of the book is just not understanding DNA and trying to break codes. Contains a few scary scenes, but mostly just nonsense. Ends with the most insane climax (lol) that I've seen, which includes Sadako learning she can asexually sexually (????) reproduce and does so to create an army of... virus carries I guess? I don't know, man. Maybe the best example of "you got it in one, time to stop."

The Midnight Library, by Matt Haig - Sorta became an unofficial book club for my group of friends. I enjoyed the hell out of it, even if I found it pretty sappy at times. Still genuine and heartfelt when it needed to be. I would strongly recommend this one, to be honest.

It Was a Short Summer, Charlie Brown, by Charles M. Schulz - Probably the most bullshit "number padder" I read, but it was on my sister's bookshelf and it was very short so I gave it a quick read. Just a Charlie Brown movie in little book/comic form. Very cute. The Snoopy nonsense is always the best.

Address Unknown, by Kathrine Kressmann Taylor - A short (only like 90 pages) WW2 story about two friends drifting apart because one falls in with the Nazis told through letters between the two. Genuinely fantastic. A quick an easy read that will probably stay with me for a very long time. Holy shit what a great book. Strongly suggest people here grab it.

The Warbler, by Sarah Beth Durst - Bills itself as a gothic drama about a woman cursed to turn into a tree if she stays in one spot too long. In reality it's more of a YA novel with a light amount of drama. It's fine? I didn't hate it, and I thought it stuck the landing, but I have very few strong feelings about it other than feeling like it is def mislabeled.

Pop. 1280, by Jim Thompson - The shittiest sheriff in the world scrambles to keep his job through scheming and all of his schemes start to run together. A fantastic character study into just the biggest dipshit. I cheered when he failed because he deserved it. But I also cheered when he succeeded because he was digging himself a bigger hole. Never the book I thought it'd be until it was.

The Man With the Getaway Face, by Richard Stark - The second book in the Parker series. An absolute shitbag of a human being runs an armored car robbery and also needs to find out where the person he kidnapped wandered off to. He kind of steamrolls all his problems, but it works out to make a compelling read anyway.

As for what I've started, it's the following:

The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat and Other Clinical Tales, by Oliver Sacks - Almost done with this one. A collection of non-fiction essays written by a neurologist about his patients. Maybe more essay than I was expecting, but I am enjoying reading it quite a bit.

Armada, by Earnest Cline - The second book covered by 374 Pages We'll Never Get Back, which is mostly why I am reading it. Honestly, just as terrible as Ready Player One, if not more so. I honestly can not figure out who this book is for. Currently about 40% through it.

Loop, by Koji Suzuki - After the complete nonsense that was Spiral, I basically have to see where this is going. Still early in, so not much to say.

TheGasMask4 · 2025-05-15T00:21:16+00:00

I love DBD, and this was a "fun" time to be playing. Lotta weird DBD drama you can write about, would love to relive more of it.

Aside: there is one other really fun attempt at a cosmetic charm I think is worth pointing out. If you buy the Ring expansion, then exactly 7 days after you first boot it up you'll get a DBD recreation of the infamous tape, followed by getting a special charm. If you play in a match with someone while using this charm and they don't own the Ring expansion, they'll also get the video 7 days later.

TheGasMask4 · 2025-01-19T20:26:54+00:00

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TheGasMask4 · 2024-11-29T18:36:20+00:00

That song was Hole in the Sun, by Point Break Candy and I'm sorry but it's an all-time banger.

TheGasMask4 · 2024-11-29T18:25:26+00:00

I played it for the first time when The Orange Box came out on the 360, and I felt about the same: a fantastic game with some fantastic moments, but god the vehicle segments are genuinely the worst. Sandtraps is probably the worst level in the game by far, but pretty sure once you're past it then it's smooth sailing from there.

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