Yesn’t.
Gaben said stuff to the effect “of steam were to shut down we would take steps to allow your library to stay offline forever” but that is nowhere in the tos and also doesn’t really mean much for the fear that steam will stay and progressively enshittify.
Some of my faves in no particular order.
Co-op:
Terraria, Raft, It takes two, A Way Out, Conan exiles
Vs:
any fighting game you both enjoy, lethal league, nidhoggr, Windjammers 2
Wasn’t one of the Witcher 3 expansions already either nominated or even a winner a few years back?
they’re just screwing us out of possible remakes
Bro don’t make me like them T~T
Ayyy I know that reference. Good story that one.
Because it’s pressvertising.
Veilguard has had a year (at least) of relentless, shameless astroturfing, ever since BG3 got GOTY, because EA knows it’s not gonna be even close to competing with it and they (rightly) fear Veilguard will get shat on, especially since Bioware is on a 2 games abject failure streak with Andromeda and Anthem both failing horribly and Inquisition having at best a mixed reception with how buggy and repetitive it was at launch.
As a rule of thumb: if an article comes out before a game’s actual release, it’s positive about an aspect the game or franchise is known to be lacking in, and it sounds like John Oliver’s parody of a corporate shill? It’s pressvertising.
It’s access-for-coverage, a trading of favours that stays undisclosed because technically no money changed hands; however, in the past we’ve seen what happens to outlets that don’t kiss the ring and use the access to actually speak negatively of the product, or even neutrally, so we know there is an implicit (and explicit if you know the history of these dealings) pressure to be positive at any cost.
So in short: it’s a bad article pretending to analyse the content they have early access to when really they’re just advertising the game uncritically. It’s literally just source-washed marketing material.
Here’s to a multi-year long process to port the campaigns from BG1 and 2 into 3.
Disco Elysium, which plays really well on deck even with very low TDP, great for long lazy days.
I mean, would you? It looks like the most generic checklist driven product I’ve seen yet.
It’s so spineless it may be more lobster than game.
If anyone’s got a code they’re not using I’d happily take it off their hands 😇
Henry and Hans are going on a lads holiday. Awesome.
In reality you should be able to get an anonymized reference number to show your vote was tabulated correctly though.
The reason there is no such thing in elections, is to prevent vote buying/extortion.
In Italy it’s such an extreme problem that any ballot where the party is not marked with a cross on the party logo and (if present) a block capital name next to it on the provided line, is automatically discounted, because stuff like writing a name a specific way or using crosses, checks, dots, or other symbols was used to track vote buying/voter intimidation in mafia controlled territories.
Some vote counters and polling station overseers would be on the take and keep track of if the votes they expected to see showed up when counting ballots and report back.
If you were able in any way to prove something beyond the equivalent of an “I voted” sticker it would immediately be used to ensure people voted a certain way or to exact some sort of backlash on those who didn’t.
That’s not the modern far right, that’s just the current right until Trump.
People like Lang and Moldbug are the fathers of the modern neoreactionary movement, the architects of the new fascist right, not the economically ultraliberal socially conservative right of Reagan.
LMAO way to assume shit about me.
I only go by steam reviews and gameplay videos/demos, if the games aren’t recommended by someone I know personally.
Game journalism has always been essentially marketing, the publications are way too tied to the industry and way too dependent on advertising from the same companies and products they’re supposed to be criticising, hence why big titles that get less than an 8 are equivalent to normal games getting a 2 or a 3.
Good games will rise to the top organically, some might get lost in the shuffle but it won’t be the perennially 2 weeks late big budget crap apologists at whatever game “”“news”“” publication you care to name to fix that.
“Eccentric” is a weird word for the man whose writing inspired both Nick Lang and Mencius Moldbug.
I rarely use the word because it cheapens its impact but the man is a modern protofascist and should be identified as at least the forefather of the modern right wing anti-liberalism movement.
That’s all mainstream reviews have been for AAA games for the last decade+ anyway.
+1 for this, would be nice to have proper lemmy style spoilers.
Can’t have clever satire reinforced by mechanics, people might be too stupid to get it!
I fucking hate that we successfully fought the right’s obsession with media being meant to be emulated only to get the left’s version of the same.
He’s objectively not that important of a person.
He’s the EIC of a tiny journalistic outlet that basically lives off of one or two of its content creators’ clout (one of whom was Frost), and a terminally online asshole on his own time.
Good for Frost for getting rid of that albatross, basically; Calandra is about as useful as a sawblade made of dicks, his survival in the public sphere is entirely predicted on people wanting to work for him, and any one person deciding not to is a step in the right direction.
It wouldn’t, playability is related to actual frames, generated frames don’t take input.