TwilightVulpine @ TwilightVulpine @kbin.social

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Guilty for advocating for public health concerns during a pandemic? What sort of insane land has become the US

Between that and the online DRM of Integrity API, it's time everyone moves to Firefox.

No Man's Sky is definitely not a game for everyone, but it's impressive how close they have managed to get to their overblown initial promises.

PS4 quality games on a portable format would be amazing, and it's just baffling how Sony missed the chance to do it first.

Nah, dumping your own copy, or at least DRM-free digital, is a much more reliable way to maintain your ownership than any blockchain-based system.

Cyberpunk on PS4 was an unparalleled shitshow

I literally just replied to you about this and I don't know where you are getting it from. Games may ask for updates but games that are unplayable without downloads are very much the exception.

This is why I edited my last comment to say explicitly "played without any download" rather than "run from the disk", the comment I replied to was missing my point. I couldn't care less if the disk goes spinny or not, this is not about storage technology, it's about control over the games you buy. The point is owning games without being bound to online services, which a disk that can be installed directly does perfectly fine.

Most? That's definitely not right. Every single game I bought up to the PS4 could be played without any downloads.

You are mixing having your own physical copy with needing to run games straight from the disk. Nevermind that there's no reason that games couldn't be sold on faster cartridges, you can still have a physical media that can install a game into the console. Offline, without relying on an online service that will inevitably close eventually.

As it is, with disks and cartridges, they can't make it so absolutely every game must check with their online services. They have to make sure grandma in the boonies can make little Timmy's game work right out of the box. Without them, there's nothing stopping them. They could even straight up say that "no game could be expected to last more than 10 years", and I see enough people that already seem ready to fall for that. Nevermind that to this day there's people playing the nearly 40 year old Super Mario Bros.

For tracking and foraging. You don't roll Survival to resist damage so I don't think the idea is the same here.

And you know, just because it could be done in other ways, it doesn't mean the way they are doing it is bad, even if you don't like it.

He is obviously biased by his business interests, but frankly he is ultimately correct. Once consoles are digital only, console players will lose the last form of control they have over anything they own.

In retrospect there were some advantages to Blockbuster compared to streaming services where stuff disappears every day.

Funny enough that was already possible on the PS3, so it's a matter of control rather than technological limitation. They use the excuse of "technological progress" to close the walled garden even more.

I wouldn't call that a fuck up by any measure. This seems meaningfully distinct than just "difficult terrain", since its a hazard in itself. It's not a matter of just going slow, just staying there is dangerous. Not to mention it can compound with difficult terrain.

In practice, I'd still prefer the 5e rule where everyone has at least some time they can manage being in there as opposed to just rolling con and having your wizard drown immediately when they touch water like it is a video game.

1 con roll for what? A turn? A minute? 10 meters of movement?

The value of more thorough rules is setting common expectations among everyone. If you'll just keep making it up by vibes, you don't need any system. You might not even need dice,

There's personal preferences, and then there's needlessly complicated or lacking mechanics and poor balance.

"It's focking RAW! You donkey!"

All those professions are badly in need of strong unions for sure.

Seems like any career that is commonly seen as a passion comes with an additional level of exploitation. Game developers and animators get a raw deal.