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Quoting: WoodlandorI have fond memories of playing Baldur's Gate when it first came out.
When I got it home and opened the box and saw it was 5 CDs :shock:
That was complete craziness at the time lol

Yeah, Baldur's Gate is a great series of games, I'm actually surprised they made a BG3, I thought that ToB ended things pretty conclusively. It's gonna be interesting seeing a really high level campaign now that CHARNAME is a deity (or at least at the power level of one).

AFAIK, it's not another tale of the Gorion's Ward. Tho, it seems Minsc returns (I mean at this point Gorion's Ward is just a cardboard cutout and the party is the topic, with Minsc being such a character he remains today no matter what)

Maybe good, maybe not, unlikely to really be a BG and more another game of the studio. Seems fine. I'll likely play it so.

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I finally got into Xenonauts and looking into Xenonauts, but the Trese Brothers pulling a new game out?

Sign me up.

Because the previous games were more than solid. Really devs worth supporting, so I'll keep that in the back of my mind.

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This merger will not prevent Bobby "Please don't draw horns on my head because it ruins my love life" Kotick from staying. Even if he was kicked, he'd be with such a paycheck he'll just get to another CEO position.

Consolidation is such a nightmare. Well, I'm going indies all the way down for years now, I guess there is no redemption for that kind of structure anyway.

Quoting: wvstolzingSpeaking of a$$hole companies, did you all see this?
https://www.suse.com/news/SUSE-Preserves-Choice-in-Enterprise-Linux/ [External Link]

Wait, SuSE is actually picking to have competition over stagnation ? That's nice. Looking a bit harder at it, I guess it's wait and see again, sounds pretty opportunistic.

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Happy Birthday and thanks you for your time Liam!

I'm pretty happy to hear you are seeing such a big number of visitors. I didn't thought it was that many, it's nice.

Hope to see you keep on going.

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I don't really get it.

I mean, the point about an underage character being a mascot of panty shots, I do, it's pretty bad actually.

Removing the nazi-like symbols of the bad guys? Doesn't it give off that great of a vibe for me. I mean, they are, bare the BBEG of the game, the baddies. It's not like it's put midly, they are the baddies.

Like taking out the issue of a character? I don't know about that either, does it actually keep the story intact? Does it make the character more generic? I'll be honest, I stopped playing that a while back, I don't know the specifics here.

At the end of the day, it sounds more to me like a moronic move to try to make the game "safer" (again, not the panty shot issue, like I don't even know why it was there to begin with...) over trying to tell the best story with the more possible range (All in all it's a fighting game, that it has some story is a strong point). But it's also an absolute turd flinging fight to review bomb the game for those changes.

At the end of the day, it'd have just been better to have a toggle for that and just alternative arts and let the people pick if it was that bad.

Also for people thinking it's about removing the nazi symbols because the people are a bunch of nazi. Just check out the rule 34 of the game, you'll know where the players heart (mostly) is...

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This is actually some cool news.

I like this game, but the company have been working on fixing some aspects of the game (including it's overall bugginess) is still amazing.

No matter how terrible this game can be (morally speaking), it's amazing how it's postal game (also put against the first Postal game).

It's one of those experience, like sure it's janky, but it's not something you'll get elsewhere.

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One of the issue Valve is going against when coming out publicly with that is the community echo chamber that Valve isn't doing shit on Dota. It is, I believe, still important to show some of it happening. If banning with this technique is anyway revealed by taking action, one can even use it for flexing out. Don't forget that cheating nowadays is a business, and can kill a game.

To those claiming it has no effect, shall we be reminded that to enable an account, one has to drop $5, and to get into ranked, one has to play 100 games.

Those clamoring for hardware bans, IP bans and such should just google how to spoof or change either, and just try a few methods that comes up first page. It's a 5 to 15 minutes issue, a hour if you never ever done so, with a decent video about it.

Those going on about VAC being userspace should look up what is happening to Valorant, a ring-0 anticheat, well, it still has cheater, and I'm definitely not OK to give a ring-0 access to a tool that has to scan what's going on on my computer and ship (some) of that data off to some remote server. It is also unbreakable until it is broken. Riot got hacked last month [External Link], let's not centralize even more worth into targeting a company. In theory it is safe. Now, reality will likely differ from that.

Forcing people into making another account is putting some requirements, which increase the efforts one has to recover from to play again. It is a good way to lower the amount of cheating, in the same way small increase in defences will enhance security of a system : people would rather cheat somewhere else.

I'm not found of the idea of non-permaban here, simply because of the amount of players that'll refuse to change their way. But I do agree there is an issue with going nuclear at first offence. At the same time, not locking steam inventories is a mistake here. It can soften the blow massively by letting people sell the banned account items from a new one (still need $5 to enable the feature, but this is piss easy)

Now, there was one proposition that'd be amazing to see to some extend, was shadow banning into a cheaters only queue.

Quoting: ElectricPrismSometimes it feels like this generation has lost their balls and their fight, like they'll just roll over and take whatever comes. I am hopeful hard times will reignite standing up for hard working consumers to be respected instead of simply subjugated.

I'll call this out. I do agree on a bit of the "let the community have their own servers and allow / manage their own blacklist for cheaters / persona non grata. And considering how easier can get, the issues isn't some lack of fight. It's lack of choice first, gaming becoming centralized makes the few services that run servers and rent them have less room for using sheer number of consumers to play on pricing as a competitive tool. The hassle it impose make it extra hard to get into it.

And hard times won't solve shit. For me, you do sounds like those out of touch people, here, we depict them, especially the older ones, as claiming "[young people usually being the topic] need a good war!". It's not just a bad take, it's some make-believe take.

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YEEEEEEES a game with a non-plot!

Please live up the expectation of actually being about the people and solid themes! For what I care, it could be a game solely about the ambiance of la campagne (think Postal : gameplay is super simple, plot is non-existant but the game is chock-full of ambiance).

Just, for the sake of all that exist, I hope it doesn't go full point-and-click and have some moon logic puzzles.

I guess it goes on my watchlist.

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Quoting: TermyThat doesn't sound like it to me. Well, they want the money, sure - but they really don't put in anywhere close the effort needed to be worth it.

Allow me to quote someone with the one true line about companies going away from steam to their own client without working on some kind of interoperability: They don't want the money, they want _all_ the money.

Shame it's a ubisoft type of game, I'd have tried Watchdogs if it was someone's else game. I'm definitely done with those open-world games with the whole liberation district-by-district system which was such a staple of ubisoft.

Good that it run on deck tho, hope it is fun still.

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Quoting: NanobangSometimes all we can do is be kind, supportive, and friendly. It's not money, but it can make all the difference in someone's day, week, or even life.

Very true, also help offset the assholes going left and right harassing devs. Without any relation to the previous sentence : AetherSX2.

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