BlemboTheThird

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[–] BlemboTheThird@lemmy.ca -3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Leaving it to rot for 15 years was far more unjust than a slightly less "revolutionary" game. And the concepts they show in the new doc are cool as hell! I would have loved to shoot at blobmonster! They just decided singleplayer FPS games weren't as profitable, and that's fine, I guess. They're a company, they want to make money. But pretending they were somehow doing us a favor by leaving the cliffhanger for so long is utter nonsense. Especially since they wound up simply retconning it so the whole wait was pointless anyway!

Edit: y'all they literally said in the doc that if they'd kept working on it for 1-2 more years they would have been able to complete it, but they were more interested in multiplayer games and went to go work on that. But if you really want to drink the self-aggrandizing bs that Newell spouts, go right ahead

[–] BlemboTheThird@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 week ago

They've admitted to cancelling ideas before, getting to various stages of production before going back to the drawing board, but always (and appear to still) insist that it is in development on some level. That's why Newell's responses to questions about hl3 are usually some form of "we have nothing new to share." Valve doesn't like sharing until they're in the final stages of development, and hl3 has never made it that far.

[–] BlemboTheThird@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

When I look at the steam store Portal has a price tag of $9.99.

Portal didn't come out until 2007 with the orange box, which also had hl2: episode 2 (and tf2), but the base game of hl2 came out standalone in 2004. This giveaway is a celebration of hl2's 20th anniversary, so maybe they'll do a portal giveaway in 2027.

[–] BlemboTheThird@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 week ago

Oh cool, good job waiting until AFTER the election to do this incredibly basic and easy move, everyone. Jesus fucking christ

[–] BlemboTheThird@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] BlemboTheThird@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago

I think most of them simply opt to not use the Internet as often

[–] BlemboTheThird@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

99% sure Lemmy has a higher average age than any social media other than maybe facebook

[–] BlemboTheThird@lemmy.ca 130 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Roll with disadvantage, the NPC is fucking pissed at your genie logic and desperately wants to kick your ass

[–] BlemboTheThird@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago

About as often as they actually release anything

[–] BlemboTheThird@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I wouldn't get too excited. Supposedly the next headset is internally called Deckard, and it's been "about to release" for like 3 years now? Pretty much everything people think they know about it is conjecture based off code Valve has tucked away in SteamVR; zero public statements of intent.

As for VR on Linux... kinda? I've only read terrible things about it online. I have an Index and tried to use it with Mint a few months back, and while it mostly worked without any configuration issues, there was a weird white ring around the edge of the screen that I couldn't figure out.

[–] BlemboTheThird@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 months ago

They literally already tried and failed with the phoneification of windows when everyone shat on 8. I guess some ahole UI designer still works there and is bitter that people didn't like their ideas.

[–] BlemboTheThird@lemmy.ca 90 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Just 3 days ago I had to use the control panel to access the settings I needed to get my parents' printer to work right. Even tried to use the regular settings menu for maybe 10 minutes before remembering how to access the settings I needed. Here's hoping my parents never run into printer issues again (lol).

FUCK YOU, MICROSOFT!

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