LazyPiranha

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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.

Yeah I played some of that back in the day, either from a demo or from flying the black flag.  It was very forgettable shooter fluff of the era, but not terrible like you might imagine.

On 4/4/2024 at 8:41 PM, Chris- said:

Damn, you’re so loaded you get to be the silent mystery player. 

I was worried he got so rich he turned into a creepy white guy.

Clearly still butt hurt over Black Adam.

Its extra ironic because chuds were giving him shit for letting his daughters put wigs and makeup on him recently.

Weird, I didn’t notice anything that time.

I didn’t realize the 2011 earthquake originated in Virginia.  Crazy.

4.7 magnitude earthquake hits NJ, shaking felt across Northeast including Philadelphia area

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A 4.7 magnitude earthquake hit Hunterdon County, New Jersey on Friday morning, with shaking felt across the Northeast, including Philadelphia.

Just felt this in my house working from home today.  

What in the actual fuck

Can we seriously just let this shit go?  It’s exhausting to see the same shit re-litigated in constant threads.

2 hours ago, CitizenVectron said:

 

Yeah, looks great. We're a one-car household so EVs are a bit trickier (since our city is also cold 7+ months of the year, and very poor highway charging infrastructure). Our PHEV is perfect right now since it's 90% functionally an EV, but I'm hoping that by 2027-2028 (likely when we'll replace the Prius Prime) EVs will have advanced a tiny bit (mostly on price) and my city's infrastructure will be better!

Yeah, for the foreseeable future there’s absolutely no way we could be a one car household, my wife and I work an hour apart from each other.  I’d be happy to go EV knowing that we’d still have her gas car to fall back on as I just drive to work and back and that’s it.  Any longer trips I make regularly would still fall well within the range of most EVs with time to spare and there are fast chargers all over the place. 

I plan on running my Mazda until it dies/I suddenly come into a ton of money for some reason.  I’m hoping that by that time the Rivian R3 will be out and vaguely affordable as my kids will be old enough that I won’t need a car seat or stroller anymore and I’ll need way less specialty crap when traveling.

Got burnt once but it was only gonorrhea

You have to be seriously deluded to think that fat fuck is going to be alive in nine years.

2 hours ago, Bacon said:

Brutal Legend. The first hour or so was a perfect Zelda game. And then RTS shit happened.

 

Dark Souls 2. Once the excitement of "WOW NEW SOULS GAME" wore off I became physically repulsed from ever playing it again. Even thinking about playing it makes me "ugh..."

 

Not exactly what you are looking for but Fallout 3. When it came out it was the best fucking game in the world. I loved it. I spent hundreds of hours playing and beat it multiple times including the DLCs. Now I can't stand to play it. But honestly, I think it's a Bethesda Formula thing cuz I can't stand TES anymore either, but Fallout NV gives me the same feeling.

What was so bad about Dark Souls 2?  I actually liked it quite a bit.

2 hours ago, mclumber1 said:

Are there any comparatively sized social media companies that are publicly traded? 

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