2024 United States Grand Prix - [RACE] discussion thread 🏎️
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    PunchingWood
    8h ago 50%

    Well, sucks for Lando, but I think he would've gotten a penalty for that overtake if he didn't get one for track limits. He might've had a chance if they just gave back track position right away and keep fighting.

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  • Mission report
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    PunchingWood
    11h ago 100%

    I thought the moon wasn't an option because of a bunch of reasons?

    Like no resources, no gravity, no atmosphere, can't grow/harvest anyting, and the ground isn't good to build on or something. It would be too dependent on resources coming from Earth. Not that Mars is that great, but apparently it has a lot more options.

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  • ‘Unknown 9: Awakening’ Arrives To 200 Steam Players, Poor Reviews
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    PunchingWood
    11h ago 66%

    Not sure what I'm being misled over? It literally says on Wikipedia as well:

    Sweet Baby Inc. is a Canadian narrative development and consultation studio based in Montreal. Founded by former Ubisoft developers, including scriptwriter Kim Belair and product manager David Bédard, the company consults on video game narratives during development to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion within game narratives and studios.

    Also, in every game they've worked on it's quite obvious which part they've been involved with, based on the above.

    But people on this sub really just like to keep shooting the messenger huh 🙄

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  • ‘Unknown 9: Awakening’ Arrives To 200 Steam Players, Poor Reviews
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    PunchingWood
    21h ago 30%

    It means exactly what DEI is. So yeah, predominantly focusing on non-white people and non-straight people.

    They are a studio that consults on specifically this in games they're collaborating with.

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  • ‘Unknown 9: Awakening’ Arrives To 200 Steam Players, Poor Reviews
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    PunchingWood
    2d ago 16%

    Like I said, some good games. Which by the way still received criticism from people about certain DEI related involvements, whether you agree or disagree with that is different thing, but the criticism was there too.

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  • ‘Unknown 9: Awakening’ Arrives To 200 Steam Players, Poor Reviews
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    PunchingWood
    2d ago 100%

    I remember it from one of the recent game conferences, but basically only because of the actress that played in the Witcher show too. Pretty much forgot about it immediately.

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  • ‘Unknown 9: Awakening’ Arrives To 200 Steam Players, Poor Reviews
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    PunchingWood
    2d ago 42%

    From what I know Sweet Baby Inc. is involved. Which is a studio that focuses a lot on DEI when it comes to narratives/story in games.

    They already did not have the greatest track record, some good games, but a lot of mediocre and even bad games. It doesn't necessarily mean that the game scores are related to DEI, but the fact it keeps happening to games they're involved with says at least something.

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  • Tencent's soulless Age of Empires Mobile cash-grab is here to ruin your childhood
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    PunchingWood
    2d ago 57%

    I enjoyed plenty of phone and tablet games back in the day, when it all started (god I feel old). When there were both amazing free and paid games. But then they started including ads, and microtransactions, and then battle passes, and then unskippable ads and promotions, and then progression got locked behind paywalls, etc.

    I'm sure there are a few good games out there, but the few attempts I tried a few mobile games again it feels like I always run into having to pay to progress sooner or later. It's most definitely nothing like the golden ages back around 2010.

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  • Tencent's soulless Age of Empires Mobile cash-grab is here to ruin your childhood
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    PunchingWood
    3d ago 95%

    What self-respecting RTS and/or AoE fan plays this kind of stuff on mobile anyway?

    Barely anything good ever comes from these kind of mobile games, or any mobile games in general for that matter.

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  • Helldivers may be featured in the PlayStation-focused episode of Secret Level (Helldiver above the "V")
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    PunchingWood
    3d ago 100%

    Can't imagine they would put a helldiver on there and then not feature them in an episode lol, would expect more than just a background cameo, since the game came out this year.

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  • What game has the best thunderstorm?
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    PunchingWood
    3d ago 100%

    One of the few games where I thought storms were an actual danger.

    The way those storms rolled in and turned peace into pure chaos. Driving around avoiding thunderstrikes. Going on foot meant having to dodge pieces of debris or getting yeeted to some unknown part of the map. Actually required to take shelter somewhere. Storms felt actually like it really added something to the game beyond just a different skybox and rain. That was good shit.

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  • Windows 10 only has a year of support: 12 months left to keep Copilot off your desktop or learn Linux
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    PunchingWood
    4d ago 85%

    That's been pretty much a similar experience I used to have. Especially online games often suffer from poor Linux support because anti-cheat systems aren't working, or not up-to-date, or something else entirely. It just felt like there was always something. I just want to boot up my PC and get going. Not boot it up and having to spend half the evening trying to figure out why a random driver/game/anti-cheat update destroyed everything that was working fine.

    I'd be fine trying it again, but I know that a few games I play are still struggling with Linux issues, judging by the regular posts popping up on the related social media platforms.

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  • Windows 10 only has a year of support: 12 months left to keep Copilot off your desktop or learn Linux
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    PunchingWood
    4d ago 61%

    That's the thing. I play a lot of online games, not specifically competitive games, but they frequently do use stuff like EAC. And the amount of times I've seen EAC issues paired with Linux posts pop up on various social platforms is ridiculous. It seems like a recurring thing that requires constant maintenance. Not to mention I use Windows for more than just games. Stuff like Adobe doesn't even work on Linux and probably won't be anytime soon either (and no I am not going to use alternative programs).

    The effort and time it takes to get stuff working on Linux usually isn't worth it, and then there's hoping that everything stays working whenever something gets updated.

    It's quite ridiculous how a lot of people on this platform take it as a personal insult though. The article title is complete clickbait anyway.

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  • Windows 10 only has a year of support: 12 months left to keep Copilot off your desktop or learn Linux
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    PunchingWood
    4d ago 37%

    Until games fully support Linux or the other way around, I won't be using Linux.

    Also can't really say that I care about Copilot that much. I don't use it and it doesn't bother me.

    Edit: lol the people triggered by this will never not be entertaining.

    It's always the same "Games work fine on Linux... But..". And it's that "but" that's usually a massive problem or nuisance to work with.

    No thanks. I'll stick to Windows for gaming just fine.

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    Figured instead of doing daily shots I'll just dump a load of screens in an album in no particular order. Some shots might've been posted here before. Be warned though, there are (minor) spoilers in some of them. All screenshots are taken with the in-game photo tool on PC and unedited.

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    https://imgur.com/gallery/star-wars-outlaws-screendump-spoilers-iiMvoM7

    Figured instead of doing daily shots I'll just dump a load of screens in an album in no particular order. Be warned though, there are (minor) spoilers in some of them. All screenshots are taken with the in-game photo tool and unedited.

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    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19337495 > I can't stop playing Sabacc, it's so addictive that I've gambled all my money away on several occasions. It's not been often I get so invested in a mini-game.

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    I can't stop playing Sabacc, it's so addictive that I've gambled all my money away on several occasions. It's not been often I get so invested in a mini-game.

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    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19291838 > [A few more shots](https://imgur.com/a/star-wars-outlaws-trooper-imperial-checkpoint-Wxce03s)

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    [A few more shots](https://imgur.com/a/star-wars-outlaws-trooper-imperial-checkpoint-Wxce03s)

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    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19272648 > So figured I'd add some content to this sub, and what better to start off from the very beginning of the game, a close-up of our main girl, Kay Vess. > > I was worried about visual details, after hearing and seeing some pre-release content. But damn, the detail quality is just insane!

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    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19272648 > So figured I'd add some content to this sub, and what better to start off from the very beginning of the game, a close-up of our main girl, Kay Vess. > > I was worried about visual details, after hearing and seeing some pre-release content. But damn, the detail quality is just insane!

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    So figured I'd add some content to this sub, and what better to start off from the very beginning of the game, a close-up of our main girl, Kay Vess. I was worried about visual details, after hearing and seeing some pre-release content. But damn, the detail quality is just insane!

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