PunchingWood @ PunchingWood @lemmy.world

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That overtake moment has to be Norris penalty?

But the rest of that battle was absolute cinema.

Can't really compare both, different circumstances.

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 🙄

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.

That feels like very optimistic wishful thinking.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Okay, well, I hope it takes me out for dinner first.

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.

Nintendo:

I think it's kind of weird that this trend is happening that early access games, games that are not finished, get title updates that are practically advertised as expansions would've.

I always figured early access meant early access to a game until it is a fully developed base game, then start to do "named" expansions.

It's not exclusive to this game, but it just seems like a strange development and frankly not a fan of it. Some games linger in early access way too long, but they can always use it as an excuse to get away with bad optimisation or game breaking bugs and what not.

Really can't stand his dumbass face. The fucking epitome of click bait and reaction faces on thumbnails. Usually just riding whatever negativity hate-train is active for his free clicks and internet points. It's honestly baffling how this goblin garnered such an army of followers.

Now perhaps that goblin finally has time to take a shower and clean his cave.

I feel like it would've taken little effort to do a survey, or just even common sense to know what to expect.

They added that paid DLC barely 2 weeks after the game launched, it doesn't require much thought how this probably wouldn't be received positively.