So what has effectively happened? Just… Ruined a bunch of stuff and destabilized a bunch of society and lined the pockets of a few companies?

I was interested for like 15-20 seconds until I realized I have this place now and I actually don’t give an exploding flying fuck

Information has generally always been power

Alan Wake universe wat

Is 3 bad or something?

I’m not sure even that would fix it. It’s clearly a capitalism-needs-to-learn-what-actually-makes-games-good problem. Unionization might be the real-world fix, but I’m worried that, even with that, getting a company to create unique games that are fun and high value to gamers could be out of purview.

It’s a money-people in charge problem, the same way that money-people are in charge of things like healthcare. I’m really not sure that unionizing a publicly traded company will have more effect than just changing who is being told what medical procedures are authorized, or in gaming’s case: what decisions to implement to make the investors more money.

And now that this structure has been in place long enough and has gotten so ingrained in the surrounding structures, like education and standard business practices and expectations, and also in culture, it’s going to take more than unionization. Maybe if the whole industry suddenly unionized and had a very clear goal of telling the bean counters to collectively fuck off, but good luck with that happening. We’d all like to see that happen.

Just checked my steam library, I have all three games. 2001, 2003, and 2012.

I still remember seeing the demo on a pcgamer demo disc, back when coconut monkey was still a thing. I remember thinking that the game seemed fun, but probably relied on the matrix mechanic too much. And have wanted to play it, but haven’t been strongly driven to for many years now.

Maybe it’s time.

Max Payne is still on my list of to-play games

And as a gamer, don’t stand for it. Be more aware and stop paying for bad behavior.

And stop kids that don’t know any better from getting sucked into it, too.

It would have been good if not for horrible load times, hostile balancing, and a live service slow grind model built to sell in game currency. The soullessness of it is why it was bad.

Gta6 hl3 es6 LET’S GOOOOOO

Edit also maybe the new d4 expansion will fix the game. Maybe. If they fuck up that one too it’ll be a fail 3/3 and blizz is dead to me

Puritan

My gpu that I bought in 2021 came with a copy of cod cold war. And EVGA or Nvidia probably paid for that, I just didn’t.

I’m not really into cod games and never would have bought it, but now the outbreak zombie mode is something that my partner and some friends just do sometimes to hang out and talk online. We still haven’t beaten the easter egg boss though because of computer crashes and that if you drop from online mode you stupidly lose everything. Probably to avoid cheating.

That issue sucks, but the gamemode is fun. You just run around in a giant map doing challenges and leveling up weapons until you’re ready to push to the next level. Very self paced and potentially mindless. Great for talking over or relaxing.

Unfortunately, the cod player base is really split between the varying gamemodes, and each gamemode’s fanbase thinks they’re the most important one and that all the other gamemodes are bad and don’t matter.

:<

No, uh, unfortunately for me, my healthcare was politicized and made illegal and now it’s bankrupting me

No. What the heck? You can/could have used sticky keys to elevate account access??? What?

I remember figuring out how to make my account an admin account in like Windows 2k through some obscure setting that was still available. We stared with weird flash games in the library, and eventually played unreal tournament.

Some finance stuff fell through recently for me and I will no longer be getting any of the steam hardware when it comes out. Maybe next year.

Fucking clickbait titles jfc

Recently discovered The Division 2.

Apparently this game came out before the pandemic and also predicted it. So-so gunplay, great rpg progression so far (I’m level 23/40), and the world is insanely beautiful. I like dungeon crawlers, I like exploring, I like shooting stuff, so this game fits pretty well.

Unfortunately, it has this weird, mouse sensitivity jitter issue that seems pretty tied into framerate for some reason. I dropped my mouse polling rate way down and that helped a ton, but it’s still there for whatever reason.

It was in like 2006. A dvd rw full of mp3s to play on my portable dvd player that could decode all the useful codecs.