[-] GreenAlex@kbin.social 13 points 4 months ago

This strikes me as though the TOS existing is one of the (seemingly few) things out of their control when using the ip, but they went and made it as pro-consumer as they could.

[-] GreenAlex@kbin.social 14 points 4 months ago

Option 3: the dog is a commander of other dogs. My beagle gets orders from him at least once a week.

[-] GreenAlex@kbin.social 20 points 4 months ago

While I'm not surprised and I'm not sure if the current proposals are any different, I hate how dishonest the framing around our aid so far has been. Even in non-right-wing news, it's regularly talked about as a dollar amount, implying that it is or will be a strain on our economy. In actuality, we are primarily supplying old equipment that, while better than what Russia has, is not the best we own and would use ourselves. All that to say, this is not some big drain on the country like some people would like us to believe.

[-] GreenAlex@kbin.social 29 points 5 months ago

The conversation around the two really wears me out. IMO, there's no need to be so restrictive. We can call them traditional roguelikes, platform roguelikes, whatever, and I think that's fine. If anything, I think we should have better terminology to differentiate games where the runs are isolated and those where there is meta progression. I don't think roguelite a good name for the latter.

[-] GreenAlex@kbin.social 25 points 5 months ago

It's rare for crap like this to hit a game I'm currently playing, but here we are. It is astounding to me that this company managed to absolutely bomb its reputation so quickly after building it back up over the last 10 or so years. I'm not even sure what any of this is supposed to accomplish, as people are reporting that mods still work if you have an OS that can even start the game.

[-] GreenAlex@kbin.social 27 points 9 months ago

It makes total sense. Just a bit of a bummer when looking at the reality of devs being awful/not caring about optimising their games. The Deck is just barely hanging on with this year's big titles.

Thankfully, there's plenty of older and/or more lightweight options out there.

[-] GreenAlex@kbin.social 68 points 10 months ago

Credit where it's due, Bluetooth headphones have come a long way. I like the ones I have now. That said, removing the jack and micro SD slots was extremely anti consumer and they should come back.

[-] GreenAlex@kbin.social 15 points 10 months ago

Wife and I are loving it but it needs some tunning for sure. Performance struggles and crashes are pretty common, and my wife clipped through a door just after the tutorial section. Didn't do anything crazy, just walked right on through a locked door.

[-] GreenAlex@kbin.social 13 points 11 months ago

I think if they were sincere in their 'protect the kids' narrative they would be pushing for an age-rating system instead of outright bans. To be clear, they still wouldn't use such a system in good faith, but it certainly wouldn't be as blatant.

[-] GreenAlex@kbin.social 24 points 11 months ago

Could it be Knowledge Adventure? I played some of the JumpStart games growing up.

https://www.closinglogos.com/page/Knowledge_Adventure

[-] GreenAlex@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago

IMO the industry overall is in a truly horrible place, but only the AAA and part of the AA space. Indies have been and continue to hold up the industry by themselves.

[-] GreenAlex@kbin.social 21 points 1 year ago

It's amazing to me how short-sighted this decision is. Yeah sure keep wide access to CoD for 10 years to get the FTC off their back and then watch all that fall away immediately after. For us this is potentially decent gains in the short term but certainly contributes to this industry turning to crap long term.

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