I’m always surprised by how small the Steam Deck playerbase is. It has such strong word of mouth, but the niche it supports seems pretty small.

In the U.S., cops statistically do nothing. They don’t prevent crime, they don’t solve crimes, they’re just a publically funded security firm for local businesses to contract. It would honestly be more surprising if you had a useful interaction with the police.

Even though this is all colloquially known and accepted, don’t think of arguing to lower the police budget in any way. Gotta make sure those buffoons have their surplus army equipment so they can feel safe while they rob and oppress citizens.

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I don’t think anyone is worried about there being too many old people for young people to look after. I believe you’re confusing that for the very serious issue, being that there won’t be enough young people financially supporting social services to adequately fund them to meet the needs of the aging population. In that sense, AI automating jobs directly exacerbates the problem, because less young people working means less taxes funding things like social security and Medicare in the US.

Arguably, the actual conservative party died in like 2012-2014, and the Tea Party has just been wearing their skin ever since. Guess Americans can only demand more from their elected leaders if the demand is to be more racist.

If you ask a friend to help you bury a body and they agree, that person is definitely a good friend. They’re a bad person for assisting you in murder, but you can be a good friend and a bad person.

Modern WoW at least seems to be moving in a good direction, though I haven’t personally played since BFA. At least we now have official vanilla servers if you want to play the “good” WoW.

I feel big fear and trepidation at the shout-out to Warcraft: Orcs and Humans though. Hope we’re not getting another WC3 Reforged situation.

probably, at which point you might as well pirate the game anyway. At least then you’re not financially supporting Sony’a dumbass decision.

It’s a shame that I’m a quivering pussy, because I think the combat against the replicants in FEAR fucking rules. The shooting feels awesome, slow-mo karate is awesome, the game feels awesome to play.

…and then the game goes quiet after the shooting stops, and it delivers some of the spookiest atmosphere I’ve experienced even after two decades of age. A single light fixture moves suddenly, showing the shadow of something just behind me, and I jump out of my skin and have to take a break from playing.

If you’re a fan of ARPGs and haven’t yet given Last Epoch a go, I highly recommend it. It’s probably the single best casual ARPG currently available, meaning you don’t need a galaxy brain to figure out your own builds. I’ve levelled 5 characters to endgame just kinda fucking around and putting together simple synergies.

I think the record still goes to Amazon’s Crucible, which was cancelled before release after a closed-beta that nobody played.

The extra A stands for Ass!

I don’t have any inherent disagreement, but I feel like I’m gonna need you to show your work. Can’t you have beef pepperoni? that feels very close to milk, and only a step away from cream.

What e-sports have kernel level anti-cheat? Isn’t it just the crap published by Riot? I know both CS and Dota 2 work on Linux, I’m pretty sure you can get Overwatch 2 running. You can’t exactly play Smash on a Windows PC either, but I think the other major fighting games like Tekken and Street Fighter work. Are there any other serious contenders for a major esport I’m just forgetting?

This really shouldn’t have been much of a surprise. From my limited work on modding, QA just isn’t a thing you can actually do. It’ll work on your machine, and maybe you can have one or two other people test something on their machine once or twice, but once it hits the wild you’ll quickly find bits that don’t work on thousands of machines.

I’m very excited for Fallout London, but I’m excited to play it in like a year, once things are stable.

The problem is that to argue this point, you have to start going through all of the facts like case conversion rates, the domestic abuse rates, the rates of racist attacks by law enforcement, and the membership overlap between law enforcement and white supremacist groups. Once you start bringing up that many numbers, the idiots get confused and their eyes roll out of their skull, whereas the centrists get too scared realizing that basically no cop is actually trying to keep the U.S. safe and try to shutdown the conversation.

I mean, I don’t wanna undercut this accomplishment, but Bioware games have pretty much always had trash character creators. We’ll need to get our hands on this one to see, but the competition is Elden Ring and Dragon’s Dogma 2, which both have pretty incredible options that have allowed users to recreate tons of characters from real life/pop culture.

The Sims 2 Castaway is basically the proto survival crafting game. It’s kinda cool to see the classic Sim stats get used in such a different way. I sometimes wish EA would return to those days of selling spinoff Sim games like Castaway and the Urbz, rather than just dumping every single new idea they get into one game as DLC.

Honestly, I could maybe get behind AAA narrative-focused games being the hot new trend to chase, but Actiblizz just cancelled a massive internal project late last year and laid off all the devs working on it. I think it was also some trend chasing bullshit, some survival craft-em-up style live service nonsense, so why the hell didn’t they just scrap the project and shuffle the existing devs around. What was the point of shuttering that team just to make a new one?

Huh. Not exactly the IP I was expecting them to adapt next, I really had my money on Lord of the Rings. That being said, I guess Star Wars works too? I can’t really think of what melee infantry would look like though outside of Force users though, and it’s not like there were really factions that made heavy use of monsters… Is it really just going to be all gun lines all the time, with a couple very powerful characters?