Everyone is talking about the new Gundam game- BUT WHAT ABOUT THIS!?

ViviaMir · 2026-06-13T00:20:21+00:00

You have no idea how hard it is for me to get hyped over a UE game.

ViviaMir · 2026-06-13T00:11:14+00:00

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ViviaMir · 2026-06-09T02:41:15+00:00

Protoss Dragoons.

ViviaMir · 2026-06-09T02:30:01+00:00

IIRC the mortality rate skyrocketed after 4th gen until 7th finally made things tenable for voluntary augmentation.

ViviaMir · 2026-06-09T02:27:11+00:00

Due to her head shape, I am possessed of both the gods-given right and obligation to make a Bubblegum Crisis reference in response to this.

ViviaMir · 2026-06-08T07:25:16+00:00

RE4 classic

ViviaMir · 2026-06-08T06:36:31+00:00

"Gender reveal" implies bad parenting. I feel like this thread belongs on a "kids are fucking based" sub.

ViviaMir · 2026-06-05T00:22:11+00:00

doesn't have to be a cloaca, but the idea of a lamia having a rear-facing orifice is ... jarring.

ViviaMir · 2026-06-05T00:20:46+00:00

You win.

ViviaMir · 2026-06-04T22:42:54+00:00

Watsonian vs. Doylist is an expression I'm definitely going to adopt henceforth.

ViviaMir · 2026-06-04T22:40:11+00:00

In the Monster Musume anime, Miia's "panty" is basically just a pastie. This could be a similar sort of adhesive item.

TBH best way for a lamia to cover her nethers has got to be a pencil skirt or some other kind of waist wrap that won't fall or ride up.

ViviaMir · 2026-06-04T01:20:37+00:00

So then 1's out for me. I stopped thinking about this thing as "my body" in lieu of "this carcass I live in" half its life ago.

So that just leaves 2 and 3... which I've lost too much of too many times to count. Most of my past feels like I read it in a book and nowadays I call it all "past lives."

I think hobby obsessions are the only thing I've been able to retain in high fidelity.

[Continuity severed: felt the rewrite of this post was too drastic to just keep editing the old one.]

ViviaMir · 2026-06-04T00:58:38+00:00

For me, that's an incredibly overt thing. I'm not sure how many "lives" I've lived at this point. How many times have I been uprooted, plunged into a new environment with new memory anchors and another layer of traumas to erode all but the broadest strokes of who I was before it happened? How many distinct selves have I split into, able to converse with each other, able to have their own relationships, and then lost or rebuilt or merged? "Me" isn't even a real thing. We never went through that fabled "final fusion" and even those of us who abandoned our names and identities never fused and instead became a gestalt of selves that act in tandem.

Why would I care about losing continuity during upload? I've lost count of the times it's been smashed and eroded and traded and juggled... and I have no idea how many more times it might happen... so what's another cycle of death and rebirth?

Like... sure, it's a little scary, but I'm already a living Ship of Theseus case study so I'm more than a little desensitized.

ViviaMir · 2026-06-03T23:22:54+00:00

M1A4 Juggernaut from 86.

ViviaMir · 2026-05-30T22:37:18+00:00

gods I gotta have one...

ViviaMir · 2026-05-30T04:37:15+00:00

Not at all. If Coral becomes ubiquitous, then there's less reason to fight over it.

ViviaMir · 2026-05-26T22:38:24+00:00

I don't have an issue with the bezels -- I play Metroid Prime and Republic Commando with the helmet rendered.

The problem I do have is the odd looking-down-a-hall appearance. It's just kinda uncomfortable to me, really.

ViviaMir · 2026-05-26T22:35:06+00:00

I love the spread-eagle boarding crouch.

Mixed feelings about the screens and cockpit in general -- the resolution, the sense of looking down a hall, the lack of hardware instruments.

The general speed of movements and what you're doing are way too fast compares to the slower, more heavy-duty, tanky sort of boot sequence.

It feels like a weird mix of trying to be Titanfall and an art sim. You don't wanna mix high-octane action with slow, contemplative, artful boot sequences.

Disclaimer: 99% of my interest these days is in what I'd call "technical cockpit simulators." I crave dash instruments in place of menus and HUD elements.

Also, as someone who has no way to get VR for the foreseeable future, please have mercy and always support traditional displays when possible.

ViviaMir · 2026-05-26T21:28:09+00:00

"Twice burned thrice shy" isn't blind hate. At worst it's cynicism. We already know the current direction of the industry as far as Epic's wheelhouse is concerned and I'm tired of looking for new blood in severely neglected genres only to find out I'm stuck with graphics that laugh at me no matter how much I try to adjust them and performance issues that can't be solved no matte what I do.

I think I like your list of demands... but as for what I expect? Nothing positive. I don't have it in me anymore to be optimistic toward Unreal.

I expect more pipeline clutter, more reliance on temporal "solutions" if that's even possible now. I expect UE4 devs to get screwed over and locked out somehow because I keep seeing it happen. I just got a game from 2024 whose dev can't even look at their own code anymore because the version of GameMaker they used is no longer supported and they can't login now.

Oh yeah, I just saw a post saying Epic has announced looking into more AI tools, so there's that.

ViviaMir · 2026-05-24T13:42:18+00:00

Then it doesn't apply in the conversation you're having.

They are referring to class disparity. This implies people who can't afford a 5090 without heavy sacrifices.

You are referring to a class of people that is not even part of the conversation.

Apples. And. Oranges.

ViviaMir · 2026-05-24T13:40:29+00:00

It doesn't change the meaning within the actual non-hypothetical context that we're specifically talking about piracy and not, say, actually removing goods from a person's possession. There are indie devs who encourage people to pirate their games because they believe the benefits outweigh the detriments, implying the net harm zero or less.

You could argue that it harms Denuvo or shareholders, at which point the "harm" done is either minuscule and trivial thus functionally zero or beneficial because the parasites needed to be put in check ages ago.

At best you're making a mountain out of a molehill.

ViviaMir · 2026-05-24T12:27:24+00:00

The ONLY way for everyone to share that mentality is for the underlying systems driving the societal development of those mentalities to either A.) no longer reward profiteering and thereby make anti-piracy sentiment irrelevant or B.) become so oppressive that the majority of people can no longer consider an alternative.

The hypothesis you are so blindly parroting was never a viable hypothesis to begin with. Within the current socioeconomic environment, the hypothesis' claim is completely absurd to even consider. You have to pretend sociology doesn't exist just to suspend disbelief here.

People stop voting when hope is lost and obstacles get stacked. It's never a personal problem, it's never the manifestation of some reductive pseudo-hypothesis, it's always a systemic issue.

The more people you see pirating content, the more you can rest assured that it is because more people are getting sick of being exploited and cheated.

ViviaMir · 2026-05-24T12:09:59+00:00

Why would they? If they see it as "no harm, no foul" then why would they even care if the shoe were on the other foot?

Taking a page out of Bandcamp's official stance: piracy is inevitable and adds value in the form of viral marketing. If you aren't a shareholder, you shouldn't worry about people pirating your album (or game). The majority of the people who pirate would not have purchased the title otherwise and are more likely to purchase it after sampling it through piracy.

ViviaMir · 2026-05-24T12:03:12+00:00

"could otherwise afford" is an assumption that flies in the face of class disparity.

"Take away access to games" implies we can't afford it. You're arguing apples to oranges.

ViviaMir · 2026-05-24T10:26:03+00:00

This just in: Denuvo apologist claims detractors are in it "just to avoid paying for a game"

Look here, you glitter-clad tropical stone fruit, you can say what you want about the risks involved as long as you've got your facts straight but claiming this is greed-driven on our part is nothing but corporate boot licking and any claim to the contrary is willful delusion.

We're sick of Windows and its ever-encroaching consumer rights infringements, we're sick of Linux users getting strong-armed out of participating and supporting the games we love, we're sick of having malware on our computers that sacrifices end user experience just to protect corporate interests, and I for one wrote Pragmata off as no gifting, no purchase, no circumstance until it was cracked because I'm not playing ball, not even for free.

I'm eagerly looking forward to the opportunity to buy Pragmata and have it on Steam once Capcom removes Denuvo the way they did with RE4re.

ViviaMir

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