Cethin

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[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 3 points 13 hours ago

I have a suspicion $80 was made up to anchor the price, so when they drop it to $70 stupid people think they won and are getting a deal.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 12 points 13 hours ago (5 children)

I agree with you that time isn't the measure of value. That's not what the person above said though. Honestly, I think it was a pretty bad game. The writting didn't trust the player, instead they beat them over the head that it's a goofy critique of capitalism. The characters were boring. The game in general just wasn't very fun.

Honestly, it did fall into what you're saying where it felt bloated. There was potentially a good game in there, but it was buried under everything that wasn't interesting but they thought they needed.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 12 points 13 hours ago

Yeah, I have a theory that the absurd $80 price was to make as feel like we won when it drops to $70. This isn't a win. Don't celebrate it.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

They're talking about the one where you put your feet flat on the end of the far side of the box, then you stretch forward as far as you can to see how far you can touch.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 5 points 14 hours ago

Throw the System Shock remakes into your replay. They're Bioshock in all but name, except you get more freedom (that decreases steadily over time with each game in this "series").

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 4 points 14 hours ago

With the right team willing to take risks, I agree. There's still so much it could explore. I doubt this is that though.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 10 points 14 hours ago

To be fair, they are largely anti-american and woke, but in a good way. Woke is good, and America has some fucking issues. If you're choosing to be not woke or actively pro-america, then you might be doing something wrong.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 10 points 14 hours ago

Lol. Not paid by them, but I do love the game and think it deserves more recognition for being the first truly innovative multiplayer shooter I've played in a long time, and also for not being greedy fucks.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 points 14 hours ago
[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 3 points 14 hours ago

I think the ideal would be this, but with a removable divider. You could have your separate baths, or combine it into one big bath. I don't know how feasible this would be to make, but I'm sure it's possible.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 3 points 15 hours ago

I've been playing Squad fairly frequently for a long time on Linux, usually without issue. Most game aren't technically supported, but they work perfectly fine, as long as the devs don't purposefully block it. With that said, I'm pretty sure OWI has said they actively support Linux now, with them recently adding support for Squad44 too.

(The current playtest this weekend for the next big update to UE5 won't let me join servers though, and I'm pretty sure it's an issue with Linux support.)

I also wouldn't say it's a strategy game in first person. Certainly that is a way some people will be playing, but most are playing an FPS, just much slower paced than most, and where you need to follow orders and work together to be effective.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 points 15 hours ago

If you think Hell Let Loose is realistic, then you haven't gotten into the milsim side of things yet, and it's great. Hell Let Loose wants to look realistic, but it plays like CoD.

It's my understanding that their original goal was more like ArmA, or maybe Squad.

 

I hope this isn't the case, but the timing of the movies is really good to get people into Dune. They'll need the books to fully understand the parallels though.

Hopefully Trump doesn't do the things we suspect he'll do based on what he's said, but, if he does, hopefully it's a moment humanity can learn from (again). Hopefully we come out of this and people stop trusting charismatic leaders. Dune may be more relevant than ever.

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