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  • AlanF5AlanF5 Registered User regular
    I was looking forward to Forspoken a year ago, but after trying the demo and seeing some of these reviews, imma hold off for a sale, I think. From this, though, the character models look pretty good? Except maybe some of them have weirdly low-res textures? And the overall game length/open-world-ness can vary a lot depending on how much of the side stuff you chase.

    This is, by it's nature, a more technically-focused review, but they do touch on art direction and story a bit. No spoilers, I think.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mFQQVFZXxE

  • djmitchelladjmitchella Registered User regular
    Shadowfire wrote: »
    I got a yoyo for Christmas from my wife this year.

    Which one? From time to time I'll try to get into 1A but my skills are too much from, like, 30 years ago when it was a very different world. (ie, I can sort of do half of 2A badly)

  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    edited January 2023
    I really loved the Forspoken demo and the combat genuinely gets pretty good for me in a way that I really enjoy.

    I tooled around with the movement a bit and thought "Hmm, this feels a bit prototype like, maybe if I approach the combat like prototype and use lots of movement to setup my attacks so the enemies can't hit me?" and bam smashed the game to pieces, became a god.

    But, sadly, nothing else really grabbed me, and my hands started hurting more recently, and I need to save money for something right now, and it turns out the PC version which I was gonna use for all my disability support needs sucks, so while I was gonna get it and play it at launch I'm not gonna do that anymore.

    Morninglord on
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  • ShadowfireShadowfire Vermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered User regular
    Shadowfire wrote: »
    I got a yoyo for Christmas from my wife this year.

    Which one? From time to time I'll try to get into 1A but my skills are too much from, like, 30 years ago when it was a very different world. (ie, I can sort of do half of 2A badly)

    It's a yomega of some kind. Comes with two different bearings so you can do either returning tricks or sleeper tricks, though the sleeper bearing seems to never come back. It's fun, but boy do I suck with it. Same as you, been about 25 years since I was any good with them.

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  • durandal4532durandal4532 Registered User regular
    Hey I just had a weird thing happen, and I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced it and knows whats up: my Game Pass is showing exclusively EA Play games. It also is no longer showing any of my installed games besides Halo and Minecraft. I literally was playing Deathloop like an hour ago, no idea what the hell's up.


    Also: Deathloop is pretty cute! I like it. Though it's not nearly as ambitious and cool as it could be, and the Eternalists are a bit too dim to actually make it fun to decide between stealth and action because you can do both so easily that it's not really a problem after you get your first few upgrades. I would be much more into it if it gave you a bit more space to play with setting up and knocking down stuff, like not even tons of things, just some fun ways to set up shit that will take care of a given Visionary for you without needing to do it in person rather than a single correct playthrough.

    And the invasion stuff started as very tough and frustrating, then got incredibly easy and satisfying when I got ahold of a great shotgun with a 28-round magazine, slow-on-hit, and gave it a ton of accuracy upgrades that mean all I do is teleport within 50 feet of a Julianna player and blast wildly.

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  • djmitchelladjmitchella Registered User regular
    Shadowfire wrote: »
    Shadowfire wrote: »
    I got a yoyo for Christmas from my wife this year.

    Which one? From time to time I'll try to get into 1A but my skills are too much from, like, 30 years ago when it was a very different world. (ie, I can sort of do half of 2A badly)

    It's a yomega of some kind. Comes with two different bearings so you can do either returning tricks or sleeper tricks, though the sleeper bearing seems to never come back. It's fun, but boy do I suck with it. Same as you, been about 25 years since I was any good with them.

    yoyotricks.com has a lot of helpful videos about tricks and stuff and a reasonable order to learn them in, for what it's worth.

  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    Coinage wrote: »
    If I wrote XMen Magneto's dialogue would focus a lot more on how he always knows what direction North is, like a bird.

    I honestly thought @Endless_Serpents wrote this post and had to double take

    Ideas hate it when you anthropomorphize them
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  • DarmakDarmak RAGE vympyvvhyc vyctyvyRegistered User regular
    edited January 2023
    Shadowfire wrote: »
    Shadowfire wrote: »
    I got a yoyo for Christmas from my wife this year.

    Which one? From time to time I'll try to get into 1A but my skills are too much from, like, 30 years ago when it was a very different world. (ie, I can sort of do half of 2A badly)

    It's a yomega of some kind. Comes with two different bearings so you can do either returning tricks or sleeper tricks, though the sleeper bearing seems to never come back. It's fun, but boy do I suck with it. Same as you, been about 25 years since I was any good with them.

    yoyotricks.com has a lot of helpful videos about tricks and stuff and a reasonable order to learn them in, for what it's worth.

    The unresponsive bearings (the sleeper one) need you to do a trick called a bind to get it to come back, you can't just do a regular tug. It's supposedly not hard to do, but I never got deep enough into yoyoing to bother putting on the unresponsive bearing and learning a bind. I just liked to throw it, let it sleep for a bit, then bring it back.

    I also tried to learn 2a for a few weeks. Shattered both yoyos at the same time against a wall on accident (misjudged the string length) and never tried again lol

    Darmak on
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  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular

    In 2021, Blizzard, a unit of Activision Blizzard Inc., implemented a process called stack ranking, in which employees are ranked on a bell curve and managers must give low ratings to a certain percentage of staff, according to people familiar with the change who asked not to be named discussing a private matter. Managers were expected to give a poor “developing” status to roughly 5% of employees on their teams, which would lower their profit-sharing bonus money and could hamper them from receiving raises or promotions in the near future...

    Birmingham goes on to say he can’t work under a system like this, which he and other managers (who were asked to keep it a secret!) had managed to “circumvent or skip” for the last few years but which had recently begun to be enforced. He reportedly told staff he would be leaving the company if the policy was not reversed, but shortly after the email was sent he was called into HR and “terminated”.
    https://kotaku.com/blizzard-manager-fired-policy-wow-classic-terminated-1850021036

  • SLyMSLyM Registered User regular
    holy shit

    My friend is working on a roguelike game you can play if you want to. (It has free demo)
  • durandal4532durandal4532 Registered User regular
    For fuck's sake that's the shittiest idea

    Take a moment to donate what you can to Critical Resistance and Black Lives Matter.
  • ChicoBlueChicoBlue Registered User regular
    I know you are working really hard and are producing good stuff, but according to company policy, no you aren't.

  • I needed anime to post.I needed anime to post. boom Registered User regular
    honestly compared to how blizzard's been in the news usually that's almost quaint classic executive management incompetence

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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    Perverse incentives? What are those? This system is clearly mathematically perfect

    Ideas hate it when you anthropomorphize them
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  • DepressperadoDepressperado I just wanted to see you laughing in the pizza rainRegistered User regular
    Darmak wrote: »
    Shadowfire wrote: »
    Shadowfire wrote: »
    I got a yoyo for Christmas from my wife this year.

    Which one? From time to time I'll try to get into 1A but my skills are too much from, like, 30 years ago when it was a very different world. (ie, I can sort of do half of 2A badly)

    It's a yomega of some kind. Comes with two different bearings so you can do either returning tricks or sleeper tricks, though the sleeper bearing seems to never come back. It's fun, but boy do I suck with it. Same as you, been about 25 years since I was any good with them.

    yoyotricks.com has a lot of helpful videos about tricks and stuff and a reasonable order to learn them in, for what it's worth.

    The unresponsive bearings (the sleeper one) need you to do a trick called a bind to get it to come back, you can't just do a regular tug. It's supposedly not hard to do, but I never got deep enough into yoyoing to bother putting on the unresponsive bearing and learning a bind. I just liked to throw it, let it sleep for a bit, then bring it back.

    I also tried to learn 2a for a few weeks. Shattered both yoyos at the same time against a wall on accident (misjudged the string length) and never tried again lol

    I read a D&D book where the main character used a primitive Halfling yoyo as a weapon and so I gave my sister a black eye while we were practicing yoyo combat

  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular

    Lightspeed Lina, a 3D platformer that pays homage to a series staring a character that rhymes with tonic is looking fast and furious without the blue erinaceinae.⚡️⚡️

    The mechanics and sense of velocity look soooo good!🥹

    Can't wait to dash it up!

    twitter.com/i/status/16143…

  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    mrpaku wrote: »
    Will always remember my fourth grade best friend and I getting into a heated lunchroom fight over whether Gambit or Jean-Paul Valley Batman had the best superhero costume, circa 1995

    What a decade for comics

    I'm sorry, who?

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    I see.

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  • Fig-DFig-D Tustin, CA, USRegistered User regular
    Comic books in the '90s were here to sell toys and chew bubble gum, and there was a multi-decade shortage of bubble gum.

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  • PoorochondriacPoorochondriac Ah, man Ah, jeezRegistered User regular
    Pouches n' Abs

    Abs n' Pouches

  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    Pouches n' Abs

    Abs n' Pouches

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    hell yeah

  • I needed anime to post.I needed anime to post. boom Registered User regular
    mrpaku wrote: »
    Will always remember my fourth grade best friend and I getting into a heated lunchroom fight over whether Gambit or Jean-Paul Valley Batman had the best superhero costume, circa 1995

    What a decade for comics

    I'm sorry, who?

    l6teiawd7w2l.png

    I see.

    you know, Azrael

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  • PerrsunPerrsun Registered User regular
    honestly compared to how blizzard's been in the news usually that's almost quaint classic executive management incompetence

    I’m taking HR Management classes, and this was like, Week 1 or 2 “examples of bad ideas that you should avoid”

  • ShadowfireShadowfire Vermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered User regular
    Shadowfire wrote: »
    Shadowfire wrote: »
    I got a yoyo for Christmas from my wife this year.

    Which one? From time to time I'll try to get into 1A but my skills are too much from, like, 30 years ago when it was a very different world. (ie, I can sort of do half of 2A badly)

    It's a yomega of some kind. Comes with two different bearings so you can do either returning tricks or sleeper tricks, though the sleeper bearing seems to never come back. It's fun, but boy do I suck with it. Same as you, been about 25 years since I was any good with them.

    yoyotricks.com has a lot of helpful videos about tricks and stuff and a reasonable order to learn them in, for what it's worth.

    I'll check it out. Before I start looking there, though, I gotta remember how to just... throw and return. I am rusty.

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  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    you know, Azrael

    Not the Azrael in the Arkham games though, that's a different Azrael.

    Though in the comics I don't even know if that Azrael still exists, and Jean Paul Valley is apparently back somehow.

  • DelduwathDelduwath Registered User regular
    The Jean-Paul Valley Batman costume is one of the greatest comic book costumes. I am saying this without any irony whatsoever.

  • CarpyCarpy Registered User regular
    I think that exact stack system was what Microsoft used to use and Amazon does something very similar with it's mandatory PIP system.

  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    I like the prose in disco

    What is getting to me is more choice paralysis and the sense the game is judging me and making fun of me for making incorrect choices

    Your only mistake is thinking there are correct choices.

    Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
  • PoorochondriacPoorochondriac Ah, man Ah, jeezRegistered User regular
    I like the prose in disco

    What is getting to me is more choice paralysis and the sense the game is judging me and making fun of me for making incorrect choices

    Your only mistake is thinking there are correct choices.

    Every choice I made was correct

  • ChicoBlueChicoBlue Registered User regular
    How come?

  • PoorochondriacPoorochondriac Ah, man Ah, jeezRegistered User regular
    ChicoBlue wrote: »
    How come?

    With my genitals, mostly

  • ChicoBlueChicoBlue Registered User regular
    wtf!!?!

    Pooro!!!

  • DelduwathDelduwath Registered User regular
    The "mostly" is what's intriguing to me, here. It suggests that sometimes - not often, but sometimes - it is not with the genitals. Whole lotta mystery, here.

  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Delduwath wrote: »
    The "mostly" is what's intriguing to me, here. It suggests that sometimes - not often, but sometimes - it is not with the genitals. Whole lotta mystery, here.

    With your stomach.

    Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
  • 3cl1ps33cl1ps3 I will build a labyrinth to house the cheese Registered User regular
    Pooro is what you might call, a sapiosexual.

  • OghulkOghulk Tinychat Janitor TinychatRegistered User regular
    I have started playing Disco Elysium for the first time

    Yes this prose is quite delightful to hear

  • I needed anime to post.I needed anime to post. boom Registered User regular


    https://www.clockworkworlds.com/post-cringe/

    austin walker wrote about forspoken writing and the response to it!

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  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    Very good piece, lands on the point that I think sticks in my brain constantly with this stuff where it feels like the writing is trying to pretend it's above what is happening

    Like every line is winking at you and saying "Yeah, we know this is all dumb, we are also embarrassed"

  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    Maddoc wrote: »
    Very good piece, lands on the point that I think sticks in my brain constantly with this stuff where it feels like the writing is trying to pretend it's above what is happening

    Like every line is winking at you and saying "Yeah, we know this is all dumb, we are also embarrassed"

    Yeah, dont be ashamed of what you're writing... but if you are ashamed, maybe question why you're writing shit you're ashamed of instead of mocking it. Because you're as much just mocking yourself/tearing yourself down.

    The other thing is like, it can work if deployed cleverly - Age of Ultron is many things, but Hawkeye's line where he's commentating on being a guy with a bow, while the island is flying and there's robots everywhere? And then he just gets back to kicking robot arse because yeah, he's a guy with a bow. There's robots everywhere, who cares, he's got heroing to do. That's good! That's fun, that underscores things - you can draw attention to the absurdity of a situation to reinforce the stakes of the situation.

    Or to quote galaxy quest "This episode was badly written!"

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqVqxWU-Itg

    It doesn't undercut the stakes of the situation. They've still got to get through the chompers! It's horrible! What kind of asshole did this!? Drawing attention to it just emphasis the fucked upness of the situation and reinforces the stakes at hand, instead of undercutting it

    Also, you know, Galaxy Quest is a comedy and loves it's source material, so this doesn't feel cringe, it feels affectionate.

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  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    Incidentally, I had been thinking recently about the period around say, Iron Man 2008, and my recollection that there was this collective sigh of relief within the fanbase that finally, comic book movies weren't ashamed of comic books anymore

    And as time passed, I actually don't think that has ever been totally true, I think they just changed the vehicle by which they communicate that embarrassment

    (Sam Raimi's Spider-Man is probably the least ashamed of comic books)

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