weird revenge fetish

… or their disposable energy after working 10h and caring for the kids.

Sometimes if a game is available on GOG and Steam I choose Steam simply because I will play the game exclusively on the SteamDeck and there Steam’s eco system and UX is obviously better.

I don’t want to discredit Steam’s features like compatibility layers, but the software itself is a mess. It is an unnessecary RAM-heavy chromium instance, to be fair, just like most other launchers. I replaced it with Playnite which is streamlined, responsive and more feature rich for managing a library (Steam still needs to be installed of course because they don’t offer offline installer like GOG). And I’d argue that console user saren’t free of launcher, they are locked into a very specific one.

But as someone who’s neither been to Costco nor Walmart, what is the difference?

With the second paragraph I agree, it’s a bad fit for a sequel and this is consensus (probably, I didn’t enjoy Bloodlines much), even TCR thinks so. But is this a scale? Is Bloodlines 1 a lesser game with subpar gameplay because it’s systems weren’t as complex as other CRPGs? “Game” is just the term we stuck with, it doesn’t mean that the fidelity of the gameplay, the mechanics and dynamics is paramount. If I value narrative, and it is, has become, a narrative medium, I very well might think that A Machine For Pigs did a better job.

And would hip hop be lesser music than jazz?

SOMA isn’t a walking sim and I don’t remember such situations in Still Wakes the Deep. The gameplay never stood in the way for me.

I’m sorry, too

A decent review process is always necessary, LLMs or not.

The launcher?! This bloatware is the second worst thing about Valve’s services right after the gamble mechanics.

The gameplay in their original IPs is only subpar if you think that walking sims are inherently lesser games.

It might be cosmetic, but it can be sold, which fuels the addiction mechanic. EA is bad, too, but this whataboutism.

Loot boxes in Counter-Strike

Unreal 1 was a milestone, and Unreal Engine always has been very popular, now more than ever.

Valve banned shitcoins and blockchain scams

would’ve been nice if they banned gambling, too, but that’s part of their business model unfortunately.

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The killer app is language processing and if a localization contractor isn’t using an LLM to quickly check for style errors and inconsistencies, they’re just making it hard for them for no good reason.

Führer is not just „leader“, it is tainted and using it as a substitute for Hitler in a factual text is super weird, like casually calling Jesus in his Wikipedia article „our lord and savior“ now and then.

It’s been a very common feature for the last few years and has been very rare before that so it really depends on when you started playing new releases. I’m in my mid-30s and pausing mid-cutscene definitely happended after I stopped being excited about my birthday.

I didn’t want to argue about your initial point, I do want to argue about your weird persistence that I didn’t get what you were saying.

So because I don’t wanna argue I don’t get your point?