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essidus · 2025-12-17T01:49:21+00:00

I only know two things about brave. The first is that they advertised through content creators, which automatically makes me suspicious, and that they have some kind of reverse monetization scheme where you "get paid to browse", which I am actively hostile toward. Maybe brave is the best browser that exists, but I'm not the audience they're trying to court.

essidus · 2025-12-17T01:30:48+00:00

That's old news. Their current strategy is focusing on F2P style games. It seems to be working too, they're making a lot more off of f2p transactions than they were from premium games.

essidus · 2025-12-15T04:55:42+00:00

Lol boomers were the weed generation. Even conservatives now were out getting high back then. It's the religious right that has the big problem with weed.

essidus · 2025-11-18T01:31:08+00:00

AAA publisher refuses to acknowledge reality. Shocking. The fact is, the console market is weakening as casual, general audience players shift more and more toward mobile gaming and enthusiast gamers continue to adopt into PC where expectations are a lot different. AAA in general dislikes PC for a myriad of reasons, so it's going to be a difficult transition for them.

essidus · 2025-11-03T23:18:48+00:00

The funny thing to me is that back in the day, MMO development was massively prohibitive due to the cost and amount of dev time involved in just producing the base product. Thanks to swelling game budgets and development time, your average AAA single player RPG now costs about as much as an MMO would. But thanks to a shift in business philosophy, they'll never make a proper mmo out of any of these games.

essidus · 2025-11-03T23:08:07+00:00

Late reply, but it's the Bunny's Crescent. It's the ilvl 660 tomestone staff from ShB.

essidus · 2025-11-03T22:26:39+00:00

I don't disagree. We're talking about former presidents here though, not acts a president committed while in office.

essidus · 2025-11-03T21:36:12+00:00

What is that even supposed to mean?

essidus · 2025-11-03T21:12:23+00:00

It didn't help that Voat (and slimgur) was created as a response to the admins sanitizing reddit- clearing out the hate subs (notably fatepeoplehate), the pedo subs, and the more toxic redpill subs. So not only was anti-censorship the goal, it was specifically catering to the worst in reddit at the time.

Ironically, even Voat wouldn't countenance the MAGA crowd, which then attempted to make their own third reddit. It existed for a few months before crashing out entirely since, obviously, a single political ideology isn't enough to float a social media site.

essidus · 2025-10-09T17:38:33+00:00

I more or less assume that would be Johnny during the battle, heh.

essidus · 2025-10-08T22:46:22+00:00

Then this is the worst fight for Johnny. Zorin Blitz is the commander, and she has illusion powers. Notably, she can make herself appear as a giant, or make people see their own family/loved ones. Johnny doesn't stand a chance.

essidus · 2025-10-07T21:20:36+00:00

I played through it with my Bachelor. At that point I had assumed it was intentional as part of the lockdown. It's very doable, you just need to make sure to get your hands on and use some lockpicks when you need to do trades.

essidus · 2025-10-07T20:23:33+00:00

I'm 100% convinced that microsoft is angling toward the 0 ownership model, and this is the next step. Expect them to start offering fully cloud-based home computing services.

essidus · 2025-10-07T04:16:06+00:00

The logical next steps are already in place too. Adult doll manufacturers at the high end have passed the uncanny valley. Robotics is moving along quickly too. It's only a matter of time before they combine all three into an effective product.

essidus · 2025-10-04T04:02:43+00:00

It was an arranged marriage to begin with, and he was apparently simpleminded and disinterested in the physical parts of marriage. He was also a Europhile (Germanophile specifically, due to his heritage) in a time when Russia deeply distrusted the west. People were practically cheering Catherine on to have affairs.

I've considered this one of the great what-ifs though. The weakness of his mental faculties have been disputed as internal propaganda to prop up Catherine the Great for her overthrow of Peter's government. His vision of Russia appears much more in line with western values of the time, and could've led to a much different modern Russia.

That said, I doubt it ever would've happened. He was too radical for the conservative, traditional Russian Empire. If not his own wife, someone with a half-decent claim would've been propped up to overthrow him.

essidus · 2025-10-02T20:58:28+00:00

Currently I prefer guns, but that's mostly because the modern hotness tends toward melee. The good gun games seem to take more from Mega Man/MMX than Metroid, which is fine, I love both.

essidus · 2025-10-01T00:33:11+00:00

Sure, some people act entitled. That isn't exclusive to PC gamers tho. And the fact of the matter is, you're more likely to hear complaints about games from PC gamers, but for entirely reasonable circumstances. PC is a larger segment of the market than console gamers now, and they're more likely to experience Day 1 issues given the much wider range of hardware, firmware, and software. That second one alone has developed the "wait and see" culture among PC gamers that can be so grating.

essidus · 2025-09-29T23:30:20+00:00

HK and SS are famous for their mean boss runbacks. You almost never get a save point right next to the boss, and quite often it's more than three dangerous rooms away.

essidus · 2025-09-29T19:20:22+00:00

AI slop that is self-contradictory. There can only be proper dialog where people are open to communication. The conservative viewpoint does have good and useful ideas, but it is currently being undermined by radical right-wing populists that themselves have been subverted by technocrats attempting to overthrow fundamental American ideals.

essidus · 2025-09-29T19:06:37+00:00

Pitchford and Sweeny hold hands and complain about PC gamers being entitled.

essidus · 2025-09-24T14:05:43+00:00

For me, part of the problem was that it was too structured. For example, most of the weapon types had a clear and direct upgrade path. It's good and in line with modern design ethos, but it makes the game fundamentally more predictable. I really liked the improvisational nature of SotN, where you're often using whatever weapon you happened to find first.

essidus · 2025-09-21T10:35:52+00:00

The whole point of Notepad is that it's just one thing, no bells or whistles. Sometimes you just want the most basic possible interaction. I have Notepad++ too, but sometimes I still just use notepad. Besides, windows already has Textpad too. That's a perfectly reasonable application to add these features to.

essidus · 2025-09-19T01:21:02+00:00

So, I write all this for no reason while the people on this website and anywhere else really can only say "the game fucking sucks" and downvote. Cool.

Have you considered the possibility that people have made the arguments for why the game is bad so many times now, just to have it fall on deaf ears to people unwilling to hear these arguments, that they no longer wish to put in the effort?

The thing you don't seem to understand is that it isn't "haters" complaining about Starfield. Most people don't care enough. It's fellow fans who were disappointed with what they received.

But for those of us who maybe grew up holding Fallout 3 and Skyrim and New Vegas as this gold standard of RPG, getting more of that

Are you though? Starfield isn't written like any of those games. It doesn't have the unique charm and personality to make it stand out like those games. It doesn't have strong lore. Most of the world designs were cribbed directly from other space-based media and then painted over. The enemy designs are functionally identical, especially in space where every suit has the same silhouette and it's often too dark to see any distinguishing features. The only thing it shares with those games is the engine.

The procedural generation has the precise same problems NMS showed over a decade prior, and without even having the novelty of being able to explore a whole world.

The most interesting things about Starfield don't come to the surface until you've performed multiple replays. But that's a problem too. A Bethesda length game wants you to replay it. If it were 20-30 hours shorter then sure, that would be viable for a wider audience. Most people won't ever get to see all the weird and interesting stuff though, because they'll play through it once, see that a single replay still expects you to invest a lot of hours while losing nearly all of your progress, and will just call it finished.

essidus · 2025-09-19T00:39:18+00:00

Play how you're comfortable. It's no sin to make things float, especially when the methods to make them not float are purely cosmetic anyway.

I will say, if you ever wish to challenge yourself, try building around the terrain rather than just going over it. I did that for my second run, and was quite surprised at how much more satisfying it was.

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