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I think Discord calls it Discord Rich Presence. It’s such a good feature, and I always get excited when I see it implemented. Sometimes when I look it up I’m lucky enough to find mods that add it for some of my games, too.

“I’ll upload a patch later this week” 12 years ago

Dragon’s Dogma 2 really has me like that now. I’ve waited years for this, and for the most part it’s everything I expected. I love the new playable race, and I’m excited to try out the new vocations. I have a lot of fun just hunting monsters for other players’ followers’ quests, and finding things for them to potentially tell their own players about. In some ways it feels better than traditional multiplayer.

Also loving Helldivers 2, but now that I’ve unlocked almost everything it’s no longer all I think about all day.

I believe this is usually covered by the fact that you can do just about anything you need to do over mail. I once ran into a government site that only worked on Edge.

Until people outside the service industry have the same opportunity to get something extra, tipping culture can fuck right off.

I think that’s called bonus pay, I’ve just never seen a job that actually gave bonus pay.

At this point, I’ve come to expect that all of the products I like are going to be ruined at some point, so it’s about establishing enough independence to more easily transition to the next service.

Kagi’s great, and I’ll worry about finding a better search engine once it gets worse, but I don’t expect that to happen before my next renewal, so I’m happy.

I kind of disagree with this one, because making the magic item nearly completely useless would cause the opposite problem, where they’re the only player without a useful magical item, and it really sucks being the only character that’s struggling to be useful every encounter.

This analogy doesn’t work for me. First of all, I’d absolutely watch coked esports. Secondly, glitched speedruns are absolutely a popular form of competitive cheating. Nobody would watch an aimbot competition because that specifically would be boring, it’d just be cameras jumping around and death screens. There’s no real competition happening. Wallhacks might be fun to watch - my favorite FPS Blacklight Retribution had that as a mechanic and it was great.

Figures we’d get runners. Can’t catch a damn break.

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At least the trolls make it obvious they’re not voting sincerely. Steam awards are a popularity contest where the categories don’t really matter, so I’m just glad less people will take the results seriously this time around.

Just a heads-up, most of the advice I’ve seen is that letting them fight it out will just make the problem worse, e.g.: https://www.aspca.org/pet-care/cat-care/common-cat-behavior-issues/aggression-between-cats-your-household

Ultimately the best thing you can do is introduce cats over a period of weeks by rotating them between separate adjacent rooms. Supposedly this can still help even if they’ve already met.

The Chevrolet Nova sold very well in Latin American markets; General Motors did not need to rename the car. While no va does mean “it doesn’t go” in Spanish, nova was easily understood to mean “new”.

The Heuristomancer.

Resident Evil Outbreak. They’ve remade so many games and added so much PvP to the series, but Outbreak was an amazing and very fun co-op game that flopped because it used PlayStation 2 internet. I loved the game even offline and think it was way ahead of its time, and a rerelease with today’s much more ubiquitous internet capabilities would be a hit, but they’re obsessed with PvP game modes that I’ve seen very few people enjoy and most people hate. It would also give us more Raccoon City to explore, which I felt like they glossed over too much in the RE2 and 3 remakes.

It would be one thing if people were just overhyping things, but a lot of the outrage was over how much they just blatantly lied while marketing the game. They promised a lot of specific things and then released something that was aesthetically impressive but ultimately outdone in just about every other category by sometimes decades old games, and lacked all of the groundbreaking features they marketed.

Personally, even coming back to it much later and trying to enjoy it at face value with all of its updates, it still felt like a boring and shallow GTA clone with a neon glaze. That’s not to mention the fact that it’s still frustratingly buggy.

YouTube recommendations are emblematic of a greater trend I’ve noticed in tech where instead of catering content towards us, we’re starting to be catered towards the content they want to show us. Managing your own subscriptions and keeping the things you don’t want out of your feed just keeps getting harder.

Exactly! I can’t even stand physical ads like billboards because the concept of reserving land for manipulating every passing person into buying something they don’t need is ridiculously perverse to me. Ads are an attack against my psyche and I will do everything I can to avoid them.

When I want to invest in a better product or look for something that solves my wants or needs, I research my options. I will never make my decision based on an obvious ad because they are intrinsically deceitful.