I used to buy soundblasters but their driver quality cratered in the mid-2000's
they always made my system unstable, and they'd stop supporting them really quickly as well
these days I just buy gaming motherboards and use built-in audio
Funny, I've had soundblasters in all my gaming machines going back to the 90's and I've never had issues. My Soundblaster Z has been working great for the last 6+ years and the software is nice for amping up bass or adding more of a soundstage to games that need it. The only issue I've had was 2 of my roommates got the USB models and one of them died in 2 years. The other is still going.
Though I'd agree, it's hardly needed anymore. Most AAA games have their own sound positioning and stuff like that, where you don't need extra software anymore. If you have nice headphones, and external Amp is probably good enough.
afaik there's just one weird drug but it's alcohol that's Been Through Some Shit
Arguably exposure to the pale could be considered a mondo super drug. Since it creates weird experiences that permanently alter brain chemistry and become very addictive. Also the medications that give you a bit of resistance to the pale's effects are themselves super addictive, although seemingly have relatively benign effects of just making you super high, eventually giving you a permanently weird perception of light, and eventually causing your eye's sclera to turn yellow and glow.
I'm a square that had my saddest cop not consume any alcohol or drugs during my entire play-through.
I was also a teetotaler! Just felt right. I was not sad, though. I was incredibly and instantly confident, happy to explain that the spirit of the city was speaking to me and that's how I knew what to do. High Shivers is really fun.
I felt like my cop didn't have enough memory of why he started drinking to keep drinking. I think at one point I did drugs because I couldn't figure out another way to pass a check but I forget if I continued that save or reloaded when it didn't work.
Anyone picked up Evil Genius 2 yet? I'm curious about it.
i'm about 5 hours into it. i love the look and style of it, and i like building out the base, but i'm not sure it's actually fun to play moment to moment. now that i'm past most of the tutorial, it feels like i'm just waiting around and watching numbers until i can build something new. the overworld map isn't super engaging. there is also some stuff that is either missing or locked behind the tech tree that i feel like should be basic functionality (batch selecting items, setting minion reactions by zone). it's also kind of buggy. for example, i'll set it so my minions are supposed to distract the good guys, but they'll start fighting for some reason, then once the good guys kill 1 minion, they see the body as something suspicious, so now i have to kill/capture all the good guys before they leave
they have a season pass so i'm hoping they will do more work on it. i would suggest watching some gameplay videos to get a sense of it, or waiting to see if they revamp some of the systems
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if I was given a rifle and told to patrol a chain-link border or stand menacingly in front of a door I'd definitely keep my gun in my hands.
that second to sling it around is all Sam Fisher needs to snap my neck and drag me into the shadows.
I like to think about this sort of thing while at work and position myself somewhere where Sam Fisher/Solid Snake can't sneak up and give me the old snappy snap
How often do you hear a noise, investigate it, and then say out loud "Must have been the wind.
I actually do that!
I've lost track of the times a coworker has shown up with a newly shaved head and dropping quarters, only for me to wake up hours later in a dumpster or a refrigerator.
While this post was obviously a joke, within minutes of making it my boss and a bald customer caught my attention after dropping a bunch of coins. So if I don't ever post again you all know what happened.
Anyone picked up Evil Genius 2 yet? I'm curious about it.
I've managed to survive, but I've gone into hiding in my volcano lair.
Evil Genius 2 does feel a bit rough, but then again so did the first one. It fixes some of the problems of the original, but it doesn't really build anything new off of it.
So a video game team doesn’t have ANY Indigenous people working on it, but directly exploits triggering things for us such as colonial violence, alcoholism and disease?
No I’m sorry, you don’t get to decide what is or isn’t harmful to Native people.
*screenshots from the This Land Is My Land official twitter feed are displayed*
Twitter user is a member of the Cree
This game was already giving me bad vibes, but HOO BOY
EDIT: Oh god, later tweets in that same thread show even more damning screenshots. Wow.
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Shortytouching the meatIntergalactic Cool CourtRegistered Userregular
I wonder who could have predicted such a turn of events, other than everyone
One of those posts has a picture of their first world boss being "the British Army", but they're wearing spiked military helmets that wouldn't have been around until like the 1880's, so they're struggling to even get a handle on white people culture.
For folks into the building a cartoon part of Evil Genius but who don't care about the specific Evil Geniusing, Two-Point Hospital was a really fun little building game. Gets a bit too hectic to juggle in the late game but generally a ton of fun!
Europeans shouldn't make media about Indigenous people
Karl May is a German author who had never been to the US but wrote a series of novels about a German cowboy and his "noble savage" sidekick/blood brother.
The books remain a cultural institution over there, and there's still between 40,000 and 100,000 people across Germany who participate in "Native hobbyism," which means "dress up like the Hollywood stereotype of what Native Americans look like and host 'pow wows' and have tomahawk throwing competitions and other shit like that"
I learned about this like a decade ago and it's just mind-blowing to me.
Europeans shouldn't make media about Indigenous people
Karl May is a German author who had never been to the US but wrote a series of novels about a German cowboy and his "noble savage" sidekick/blood brother.
The books remain a cultural institution over there, and there's still between 40,000 and 100,000 people across Germany who participate in "Native hobbyism," which means "dress up like the Hollywood stereotype of what Native Americans look like and host 'pow wows' and have tomahawk throwing competitions and other shit like that"
I learned about this like a decade ago and it's just mind-blowing to me.
Oh, I know alllll about that motherfucker.
The Karl May museum has indigenous remains, and it has consistently and refused requests to repatriate them. Motherfucker never stepped foot on US soil, but it's just super important that folks' ancestors lay on display in a German museum.
So a video game team doesn’t have ANY Indigenous people working on it, but directly exploits triggering things for us such as colonial violence, alcoholism and disease?
No I’m sorry, you don’t get to decide what is or isn’t harmful to Native people.
*screenshots from the This Land Is My Land official twitter feed are displayed*
Twitter user is a member of the Cree
This game was already giving me bad vibes, but HOO BOY
EDIT: Oh god, later tweets in that same thread show even more damning screenshots. Wow.
So a video game team doesn’t have ANY Indigenous people working on it, but directly exploits triggering things for us such as colonial violence, alcoholism and disease?
No I’m sorry, you don’t get to decide what is or isn’t harmful to Native people.
*screenshots from the This Land Is My Land official twitter feed are displayed*
Twitter user is a member of the Cree
This game was already giving me bad vibes, but HOO BOY
EDIT: Oh god, later tweets in that same thread show even more damning screenshots. Wow.
to me it felt like the disco elysium protag did not deserve to go sober in his short time as an amnesiac
he didn't earn it
he couldn't! That would require character growth, and much of the game was about character discovery, which is different
so instead I had my superstar commie cop go full HARDCORE and make the drugs even better
not against him reconsidering sobriety in an eventual sequel though
I did sobriety, but treated it like someone doing an ill-advised cold turkey weekend, thinking that would fix all their problems
Right down to getting passionately, aggressively invested in something new as a coping mechanism. Namely, in this case, communism.
Something I really like from the Disco Elysium endgame:
is that when you confront your team at the end of the game, and do a cold turkey sobriety run like I did, they actually bring up that he's done this shit before. Got sober after a terrible incident, and then slipped, so why the fuck should they believe him this time? It's a painfully realistic moment that the game handles with a surprising amount of deft, and that conversation was great.
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Funny, I've had soundblasters in all my gaming machines going back to the 90's and I've never had issues. My Soundblaster Z has been working great for the last 6+ years and the software is nice for amping up bass or adding more of a soundstage to games that need it. The only issue I've had was 2 of my roommates got the USB models and one of them died in 2 years. The other is still going.
Though I'd agree, it's hardly needed anymore. Most AAA games have their own sound positioning and stuff like that, where you don't need extra software anymore. If you have nice headphones, and external Amp is probably good enough.
Stranger's Wrath was pretty good. A real departure from the rest of the series but still, pretty fun.
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I was also a teetotaler! Just felt right. I was not sad, though. I was incredibly and instantly confident, happy to explain that the spirit of the city was speaking to me and that's how I knew what to do. High Shivers is really fun.
he didn't earn it
he couldn't! That would require character growth, and much of the game was about character discovery, which is different
so instead I had my superstar commie cop go full HARDCORE and make the drugs even better
not against him reconsidering sobriety in an eventual sequel though
Well you know, he did come... from aerospace
I feel like when Lorne Lanning smiles there should be a sound effect to indicate the twinkle from his teeth
I did sobriety, but treated it like someone doing an ill-advised cold turkey weekend, thinking that would fix all their problems
Right down to getting passionately, aggressively invested in something new as a coping mechanism. Namely, in this case, communism.
I'm still in my first day and haven't done drugs yet, but I expect to break at some point soon
i'm about 5 hours into it. i love the look and style of it, and i like building out the base, but i'm not sure it's actually fun to play moment to moment. now that i'm past most of the tutorial, it feels like i'm just waiting around and watching numbers until i can build something new. the overworld map isn't super engaging. there is also some stuff that is either missing or locked behind the tech tree that i feel like should be basic functionality (batch selecting items, setting minion reactions by zone). it's also kind of buggy. for example, i'll set it so my minions are supposed to distract the good guys, but they'll start fighting for some reason, then once the good guys kill 1 minion, they see the body as something suspicious, so now i have to kill/capture all the good guys before they leave
they have a season pass so i'm hoping they will do more work on it. i would suggest watching some gameplay videos to get a sense of it, or waiting to see if they revamp some of the systems
Pretty big Dick too.
I've managed to survive, but I've gone into hiding in my volcano lair.
Evil Genius 2 does feel a bit rough, but then again so did the first one. It fixes some of the problems of the original, but it doesn't really build anything new off of it.
Twitter user is a member of the Cree
This game was already giving me bad vibes, but HOO BOY
EDIT: Oh god, later tweets in that same thread show even more damning screenshots. Wow.
Karl May is a German author who had never been to the US but wrote a series of novels about a German cowboy and his "noble savage" sidekick/blood brother.
The books remain a cultural institution over there, and there's still between 40,000 and 100,000 people across Germany who participate in "Native hobbyism," which means "dress up like the Hollywood stereotype of what Native Americans look like and host 'pow wows' and have tomahawk throwing competitions and other shit like that"
I learned about this like a decade ago and it's just mind-blowing to me.
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Oh, I know alllll about that motherfucker.
The Karl May museum has indigenous remains, and it has consistently and refused requests to repatriate them. Motherfucker never stepped foot on US soil, but it's just super important that folks' ancestors lay on display in a German museum.
The "thoughtful reply" comment was sarcasm right?
Oh fuck, the thought of these dipshits trying to execute their idea of ceremony just gave me full-body chills
Just the scene from Peter Pan thrown into a game.
We don't have any indigenous people on staff but we do in our community is an incredible statement just to start things out
But We're excited about Native American culture that has been shown in books and movies in our childhood is just like a nuclear bomb
Something I really like from the Disco Elysium endgame:
It's not even worth putting on the videogame PR bingo card any more, it comes up every time.