LazyPiranha

Of all my friends, I easily buy the most games overall and the most new games by far.  Once I finally built a gaming PC a decade ago and the novelty of steam sales wore off, I basically never add to my backlog by buying older games.  Looking back at the past handful of years, the only older games I bought new that weren’t remakes or rereleases were Bloodborne because I finally got a PS5 and EDF 5.

Even with that, I easily play more older games than new.  I play Vampire Survivors, Amobg Us, Slay the Spire, or Into the Breach on my phone constantly.  I dig out old classic games to play with my boys because they’re simpler and I know what’s in them.  I replay games I love all the time.  Unless a new game comes along and REALLY sucks me in like Valheim or Helldivers, I’m easily playing more than half of my games years out.  

How do you get roms on this thing?

I don’t know, I’d be interested to know how those stats relate to history overall.  Just by pure math, games that came out within the last year are going to be less than .1% of all possible games, so I’d find it more surprising if they were in the majority somehow.  To me the only thing the so called forever games have done is consolidated the older games into a bunch of large silos instead of just tons of piles of disparate stuff.  

22 minutes ago, silentbob said:

Feels like something might be happening soon, because gas in my area is said to be going up 14-16 cents a litre as of midnight.

A litre?  Are you in Canada?  Do they do the summer gas thing too?

1 hour ago, Keyser_Soze said:

 

Now "people" are upset that there is a female space marine in warhammer 40k

Women means menstruation, menstruation means chaos, and chaos means heresy.

A dickless man is an outspoken chud?  Life is truly beyond parody.

The odds of him actually doing that are slim to none, but if he did?

lol

Trump supporters are truly beyond parody.  I’ve seen a bunch of them happy about him falling asleep in court because he’s giving it the respect it deserves. You know if Biden fell asleep during literally anything it would be a sign of low energy and dementia or some shit.

45 minutes ago, TUFKAK said:

I can’t take Americans seriously on this topic is my point. They see the world through a myopic lens where all that matters is their comfort and connivence. Whereas we have the monopoly in military power, Israel doesn’t, we fight Iran it just inconveniences us for a little bit. 
 

Israel fights them it’s a threat to their existence.

 

But I am so tired of Americans and Europeans criticizing others for doing the exact same thing they/we do and have done. 

I hope this doesn’t come across like me being a dick, I can understand where your emotions and feelings are coming from. 
 

I genuinely think that a lot of time you’re arguing against imaginary liberals that don’t actually exist.  Like yeah, I imagine a lot of liberals are very vocal about the issue right in front of their faces that has the potential to impact their lives in a significant way.  The fact that they weren’t up in arms about a woman being executed for her clothing doesn’t mean they like that, support that, or are even indifferent to it.  In every day conversation, you’d be hard pressed to know my stance on fracking because I am a person who exists in the world and not a soundboard of my opinions stuck on replay, that doesn’t mean I don’t have one and it doesn’t mean I’m pro-fracking until proven otherwise. I guarantee that near enough as makes no difference all of the leftists arguing Israel should move on without escalating are also opposed to that woman’s killing and it’s weird to argue otherwise.  
 

It’s the same with by saying that the US can’t throw stones because we’re all in a glass house which ignores the fact that tons of people were extremely opposed to throwing those stones and others were actively mislead into thinking it was a good idea in the first place.  Even after the heat of 9/11, the American public STILL had to be sold on the idea of invading Iraq, and we were fucking lied to in order to make it seem like we had a reason to do it.  It’s one of the few things people in this country, regardless of politics, largely view as a mistake we never should have made.  If you’re arguing that Israel should mimic the decisions we made post 9/11, then they are even stupider than we are because they got to watch us step on a rake and smack ourselves in the face over and over for twenty god damned years and now they want in on that sweet rake action.  

39 minutes ago, Littleronin said:

Didn't stop my local stations from jacking up the price by 50 cents a gallon just after the attack.

Depending on where you live it could be the switch to summer blend gas combined with bad timing.

The only car subscription I think is valid to pay for is satellite radio, and I wouldn’t pay for that either way.

Right now the series X version is $10 off a pre-order on Amazon, but not the PS5.  Just in case that’s someone’s platform of choice.

This seems like a clusterfuck from top to bottom.

I know people have some opinions about Kotaku, but I find it hard to believe that they would be writing anything in any detail about the conditions or circumstances of her medical issues, and it seems like a wild leap to make.

Indie game studio Possibility Space shuts down, CEO blames leaks to reporter

WWW.ENGADGET.COM

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Possibility Space, an independent game studio with employees distributed across the globe, was abruptly shut down today.

You might know this as the game studio Austin Walker left Waypoint for.  A lot of the former employees are posting on the site that shall not be named if you want more information, but the reason the owner is giving is essentially that a Kotaku reporter reached out with questions regarding the game Possibility Space was working on.  Some of these details involved publishing and finance info, so the publisher “lost faith” in financing the project, so the game was canceled and the studio closed.  
 

Who knows, lots of things are possible, but in a world where details leak to the press all the time, this seems like an insane overreaction.  It’s not like a build got out, and the article in question about the game hasn’t even been published.  The same umbrella company shuttered Crop Circle Games a few weeks ago after first furloughing people and then letting them know their jobs didn’t exist anymore immediately after GDC.

It seems like awfully convenient timing to completely shutter two studios in as many months and to have it somehow be the studio’s fault and the fault of the internet’s favorite website whipping boy as opposed to poor choices from the parent company in any way.  

I too am firmly in the camp that he did it.  The problem is the police force was so corrupt and racist to an extent that if you wrote the story as a novel they’d tell you to dial it way back.  

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3 hours ago, Greatoneshere said:

 

I'm not sure about the first game being played offline, I only ever played it online. But if your defense is that casuals are stupid, don't know they are playing a sequel, don't understand how the gameplay loop works even if there was a first game to go off of first, etc. you won't find any sympathy here. Their ignorance isn't a criticism of the developer, it's a criticism of casual gamers. I do think if you're just "jumping on the bandwagon now" that being surprised is unreasonable, that's my entire argument. The slightest amount of research (like with anything) would elucidate this for them.

 

If most people playing this game don't understand the gameplay loop, the articles are still stupid for not informing them better/more clearly rather than trying to drum up clickbait. I don't disagree with you that most Helldivers 2 players, like most people in general, are idiots, but idiots making stupid "jump to conclusions mat" Office Space style are to be chastised and educated, not justified.

How in the hell did we get to the conclusion that you’re in idiot for not playing a game from nine years ago?  You’re angry about clickbait titles that aren’t even clickbait, but you also think someone is a dipshit if they found out about a popular game because it was popular and didn’t do an oral history of the previous game before playing?  You call people stupid casuals for not knowing the gameplay loop of a game they didn’t play or a game that hasn’t fully revealed its own loop yet, while at the exact same time not knowing the mechanics of the original game yourself?  What are we even doing here?

3 hours ago, Greatoneshere said:

 

Why would it piss anyone off? The first game did the exact same thing over and over. That'd be weird to be upset by a mechanic people have known this game would have since the first has had it for a decade.

This game has already massively outsold the original.  I know people in my personal life who play one or two games year who either bought this game or have asked me about it.  The majority of players have never played the original and probably would have no idea this was a sequel if 2 wasn’t in the title.  Most people who play this game have no clue what was or wasn’t present in the original.  If you’re just jumping on the bandwagon now, I don’t think being surprised that an entire faction isn’t playable for a while is unreasonable.  
 

On top of that, the original didn’t require an internet connection to play, you could just play by yourself offline.  I never played the original, but I’m assuming with no connection to the meta-game online, you could just play whatever you wanted even if a faction was off the map for a bit, because how would your offline game know that?  
 

Also don’t get annoyed at outlets playing the game for clicks and engagement, the entire internet is ruined that way.  We built the shittiest version of something possible and made it impossible to succeed otherwise, it’s not their fault.

15 minutes ago, Paperclyp said:

 

 

Nobody in their right mind thinks they're removing half the game. 

 

This site knows it for sure, and decided to take an angle that would incite people to be upset who don't realize that it's clearly just a ruse that everyone knows is a ruse. 

You’re reading a tone in the article that absolutely isn’t there.  The entire thing is littered with references to the fact that it’s almost certainly temporary.  It’s more of an interesting curiosity if the way the game runs than anything else.  If they wanted to incite rage, they could have been way more explicit about it.

As for them removing half of the game, they actually did for a short period of time.  Unless there’s some offline/private mode I’m unaware of, if I really liked fighting bots or the missions on bot planets, I literally couldn’t.  It’s an interesting choice to make, and one that I’m guessing they knew would piss people off because they came back very quickly.  

Well that didn’t take long

13 hours ago, Paperclyp said:

Because these are piece of shit sites who know exactly what they’re doing.

I mean, it is technically true and people do care about collecting trophies/achievements.  It is a little odd for a game this popular and new to take essentially half of the content and remove it from the equation for an unknown amount of time.  
 

I could see removing it from the war effort or whatever but leaving the option to play private matches in some capacity.  It just strange to think that someone buying the game today is getting half the experience everyone else did a week ago.

Who crossbred the ORLY? bird with a bald eagle, and why does that moron have it?

2 minutes ago, TUFKAK said:

Tabbies has a 99.9% mortality rate in humans so I advocate they skip the post exposure medication for themselves too.

A 99.9% killing machine

Did they take the old kidney snout first, or is it still in there?

The only thing Kiss hasn’t stuck their fingers into over the years is anything related to taste.