It’s a shame that I’m a quivering pussy, because I think the combat against the replicants in FEAR fucking rules. The shooting feels awesome, slow-mo karate is awesome, the game feels awesome to play.

…and then the game goes quiet after the shooting stops, and it delivers some of the spookiest atmosphere I’ve experienced even after two decades of age. A single light fixture moves suddenly, showing the shadow of something just behind me, and I jump out of my skin and have to take a break from playing.

The boring answer is that Mossad probably were the ones who convinced Hezbollah to move to pagers in the first place, likely through double agents, and likely also controlled the supply chain from the beginning. They probably also didn’t actually care about who specifically had a pager, and just made sure they were distributed thoroughly within Hezbollah.

Holy shit.

Is there like a documented list of all of these little tips? I feel like the longer I play, the more I realize just how incredible the controls actually are.

Thanks for the heads up! Not only was it better than the Epic Games Store, I ran into some crashing that required launch arguments to fix. I dunno if EGS even has that, but it was super easy on Heroic.

yeah but I’m not gonna buy the game again just to use a different platform lol

Oh shit, I went in on this game ages ago back when it first went into early access. I’ve been feeling some real gaming ennui lately, guess I’ll have to figure out the Epic Games Store long enough to give my life to a factory.

If you’re a fan of ARPGs and haven’t yet given Last Epoch a go, I highly recommend it. It’s probably the single best casual ARPG currently available, meaning you don’t need a galaxy brain to figure out your own builds. I’ve levelled 5 characters to endgame just kinda fucking around and putting together simple synergies.

I think the record still goes to Amazon’s Crucible, which was cancelled before release after a closed-beta that nobody played.

The extra A stands for Ass!

maybe a sauce with red chilis?

I have to interact with a lot of them for my job, almost is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.

People basically act like children until they’re in their 20s, and kids born in '07 are currently still in high school.

This really shouldn’t have been much of a surprise. From my limited work on modding, QA just isn’t a thing you can actually do. It’ll work on your machine, and maybe you can have one or two other people test something on their machine once or twice, but once it hits the wild you’ll quickly find bits that don’t work on thousands of machines.

I’m very excited for Fallout London, but I’m excited to play it in like a year, once things are stable.

The problem is that to argue this point, you have to start going through all of the facts like case conversion rates, the domestic abuse rates, the rates of racist attacks by law enforcement, and the membership overlap between law enforcement and white supremacist groups. Once you start bringing up that many numbers, the idiots get confused and their eyes roll out of their skull, whereas the centrists get too scared realizing that basically no cop is actually trying to keep the U.S. safe and try to shutdown the conversation.

Yeah, this sounds more like a win for handheld PCs than some sudden shift across gamers. The Steam Deck has done well enough to spawn a sea of copycats, it’s not surprising that it’s making a statistical impact now too.

I mean, reading that sentence, it certainly wouldn’t surprise me if they omitted it just to spite the British.

I mean, I don’t wanna undercut this accomplishment, but Bioware games have pretty much always had trash character creators. We’ll need to get our hands on this one to see, but the competition is Elden Ring and Dragon’s Dogma 2, which both have pretty incredible options that have allowed users to recreate tons of characters from real life/pop culture.

Yeah, it’s a bit of a let-down when you compare what’s on offer here with a previous Larian title like Divinity 2. That game lets you make full on campaigns.

The Sims 2 Castaway is basically the proto survival crafting game. It’s kinda cool to see the classic Sim stats get used in such a different way. I sometimes wish EA would return to those days of selling spinoff Sim games like Castaway and the Urbz, rather than just dumping every single new idea they get into one game as DLC.

Yeah I’m sure I’ve said enough stupid shit on the internet that my comments will also be AI poison.

What would be really fun is a tool like this that introduces AI poison, just fills your old comments with even more nonsensical information. Presumably, the more people who used the same tool, the more similarly terrible data the LLM would receive, and it would start outputting stuff even dumber than glue in the pizza sauce.

There’s also no longer any button on the mobile web client. Your options are to upvote, downvote, or click on the three dots to expand every other option, including reply, all at once.