exocrinous

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[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 2 points 7 months ago

Yeah but the thing is, Th4tguyII has the most upvoted comment in this subthread. Language is a democracy and the people have spoken.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's Xitter, pronounced shitter

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

You can play Helldivers on a mobile data connection. And besides, Steam is there.

Also lmao most of Australia, by landmass, is only phones or no internet at all. But PSN is in Australia.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Mate, Stephen Hawking was one of the smartest people on the planet, and I bet he preferred turn based over starcraft. Motor skills are not the same as strategic intelligence. Starcraft is a game with a solved meta, which prioritises motor skill over strategy. It's basically football as far as the intellectual difficulty goes.

And I say this as someone whose favourite strategy game is starcraft. Not because I think it's a well designed game, but because the Zerg are sexy and I want to fuck a hydralisk.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They can steal your data if you're logged into a PSN account, and down the line the plan (which they don't want to admit) is to get PC players paying for a multiplayer subscription like on console.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Choose the circular pattern on the pencil tool and set the width to your desired diameter.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 3 points 7 months ago

Well then Epic can make an actual profit on the game when they decide to put it on Steam.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 2 points 7 months ago

Outer Wilds doesn't have any combat, you're thinking of Outer Worlds.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

As opposed to Epic Games which literally has a contract saying only they can sell the game on PC. I like how you're "opposing" monopolies by defending anticompetitive exclusive licensing deals.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

isn't optimising the games extra costly?

These days compilers can optimise it for the hardware mostly on their own.

I can imagine the annoyance of getting bad reviews on steam because some Dingus is trying to play the game on a 10 year old PC.

Yeah, that's the great thing about PC. You don't have to upgrade your hardware more than once a decade, and you can give feedback to games publishers that chasing ever increasing graphics trends is alienating their customers. You console gamers have to take whatever slop you're given, but us PC gamers don't have to worry about a publisher not supporting backwards compatibility, so we have more market power. We can apply greater pressure on the industry to apply pro-consumer business practices.

Also, something like 30% of PC gamers pirate their games

That's definitely not true. I wish it was.

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