Oh, man. There’s so much shit on a daily basis I completely forgot about that. Honestly there’s not really a point to buy the Halo campaigns again. 1 and 2 already got remade once and the rest hold up pretty well in my opinion.

(Everyone that drives, including myself): Yeah but I’m a good driver. I’m more worried about other people on the road then myself.

For real though, if I had the option to take public transportation to where I work I would take that pretty much daily. Cars are expensive and dangerous even if you are a good driver. And if my car broke down I could lose my job. The fact that so many people in car centric countries don’t even have a back up when things go wrong is abysmal.

My friend that let me borrow his copy of Half Life 2 back in the day would probably say the same thing. And he’s probably just as credible at this point. If it ain’t coming from Valve directly there’s really no reason to believe it.

They honestly should have expected this given peoples visceral reaction to anything AI. Personally, I have huge problems with AI and refuse to play most games that have used it. I think it’s poisoning every creative industry and replacing important jobs while using vague the excuse that it makes things “easier” while making the game soulless in the process. I’m willing to give Larian the benefit of the doubt simply because of their previous games being amazing, but imma wait for the reviews on this one. This game is still going to be in development for another 4 years and none of us will no what’ll happen between then and now, but for now I’ll remain hopefully optimistic

With the money they made from BG3 they have the means to make Divinity the best it can possibly be and I couldn’t be happier for them. The first two Divinity games were great, don’t get me wrong, but they were basically low budget when compared to the money they got from Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast to make BG3. I imagine they basically have “fuck you” money now and can do whatever the hell they want. They definitely deserve it and I can’t wait.

Edit: Turns out Larian is going to use gen AI for concept art. I guess fuck all those concept artists trying to get entry level jobs. Very disappointed.

I never understood the hate for her, to be honest. Are the comics sometimes unfunny? Absolutely. Is she a bit cringe? Definitely. But it seems so many people have a visceral reaction to her comics like they were personally offended. This one even makes a good point. If this was a plain text screenshot of a tweet you’d have read it, nodded, and moved on with your life.

I guess I’m confused because I didn’t know that “low budget” was now synonymous with “indie.” They are an indie dev that made their first game yet their game doesn’t count as “indie” because they had a budget? What about a game like No Man’s Sky? They were an indie dev that got promoted by Sony and everyone shat on it when it came out and said they bit off more than they could chew. In my opinion, that seems even less fair.

I’m not saying they deserved the award more than any other game, I enjoyed all the games nominated, I’m just saying that if E33 flopped I highly doubt anyone would call them more than an indie dev that tried to punch above their weight just like No Man’s Sky.

In my honest opinion as someone that had played and enjoyed both games, they both deserved the awards in their own ways. I think Kingdom Come is definitely a better RPG in general, but at the same time E33 is an amazing game that is an RPG. It’s semantics at this point and I think it’s more of a lack of categories. RPG is such a loose term these days that I feel like it should be sub-divided into a few more. Lumping games together and comparing games that are vastly different based solely on a loose term like RPG is disingenuous.

I went over to Reddit so I could keep track if the game awards because I didn’t have time to actually watch it. Holy shit the hate E33 is getting is completely ridiculous, as Reddit does. Whether you go to the Silksong, KCD2, Death Stranding, Dispatch, Arc Raiders, or any other games subreddit that was nominated for any award about half the comments saying E33 is trash, overhyped, and their game deserved to win instead. As someone that has enjoyed all of these games, the salt is absolutely bonkers. Most of the ones complaining are basically saying “I never played it but I heard they did [blank] so they don’t deserve [blank] award.”

I just don’t get why they need to shit on other people and the games they like just because their game didn’t win. Shit on TGA all you want, but the fans and the devs literally had nothing to do with winning. They were all great games and all deserve praise in their own ways. In two weeks none of us will give a shit anymore anyway and will probably be complaining that “RV There Yet” wins the “Most Innovative Gameplay” award on Steam. I mean, a flippin’ gacha game won the “Players Voice” Award and people are spending their time shitting on objectively good games.

My guess is that they don’t quite have the resources to do anything about it but are more than happy to let everyone know they are doing it to scare people. We’ve already seen how abysmal their ICE recruitment numbers have been and I highly doubt they’d be able to do anything against more than 50% of the entire population with what they currently have.

Obligatory Fuck ICE

I betcha $10 they won’t consolidate their streaming platforms so they can milk us out of more of our money.

I have now noticed retroactively. Kept seeing it show up and everyone in the comments bitching about it but never thought much of it, but now that you mention it is very obvious. Next imma look at the profile of who made the post to see if they are AI. It’s how r/conservative and r/worldnews are. Everyone that makes a post there as an account that’s less than a couple years old, has a generic default username, and barely posts anywhere else.

At this point if there ends up being a blanket law that forces everyone to do it I might just opt out of the modern internet entirely. The modern internet is just an amalgamation of ragebait, AI slop, propaganda, and scams. What would I really miss out on? I’d say the porn but even that is being poisoned by the AI slop.

I don’t even give r/w access to my coworkers in most circumstances. I barely even trust myself sometimes! I was formating an old drive to decommission an old computer (thanks windows 10 end of life. Super cool) so I was copying all the files on the drive to our server. When I was done, I accidentally deleted all the files on the server instead of the local drive and started formatting. Good thing I’m paranoid about this exact instance and had it copied to multiple locations.

I run into that same issue from time to time. Another one I run into is when I click on items on the task bar it doesn’t bring it up as the active window even when everything else is working. I have to ALT+tab to bring up any Window or minimize every window just to find the one I want and it is absolutely infuriating.

I use windows 10 at home while I use windows 11 at work. The only thing I like about windows 11 is tabs in the file explorer. Besides that I’ve had to deal with Windows Explorer crashing on a daily basis, task bar freezing completely multiple times a week, certain software straight up not working that I need to get work done, programs crashing that work perfectly fine on 10, internet connectivity issues (usually DNS for some fucking reason), periodically hearing the disconnect sound for a device even when everything is still working, awful drop down menus, needing to change the registry just to get basic features that 10 has, and the list goes on and on. At home everything just works. I’ve been testing Linux and have been getting better stability than Windows 11 and I feel like every week there’s a new problem.

My friends convinced me to play Destiny 2 a couple years back. It was pretty fun and I was definitely enjoying myself for a couple days. But that’s when I found out they vaulted all the previous content from when the game came out. Felt like I was starting the game halfway through the story with no concrete starting point so I lost all motivation to play it again. I didn’t pick up the game so I could read up on the story line and watch youtube videos just to understand what’s going on. You’ll never get that many new players if the first thing you have to do before you play is do homework.

Hell yeah.

I cry during sad movies. Fight me about it, bro.

With how much external funding gets shoved into AI startups these days, I feel like 90% of AI startups are basically just a pump and dump with extra steps and targeted at investors. He’s probably already gotten millions in investments already just by this announcement.