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Yeah, Biden's still there but as he's not as mad as Trump he's not as newsworthy outside the US so we're back to pre-Trump levels of US coverage it seems.
This weekend in Below Zero:
Did a bunch of base building on the Lilypad Islands and collected lotsa blueprints for upgrades which I then proceeded to craft.
After which I decided it was time to go deep again and see what was behind the big scary fishie. So I did.
Found more stuff. But the cave below is pretty confusing and the big scary fishie was making exploring it annoying.
So I decided enough was enough. Boarded my mech suit, equipped with drill and grappling hook, and brought the fight to it.
There is now one less big scary fishie.
Did a bunch of base building on the Lilypad Islands and collected lotsa blueprints for upgrades which I then proceeded to craft.
After which I decided it was time to go deep again and see what was behind the big scary fishie. So I did.
Found more stuff. But the cave below is pretty confusing and the big scary fishie was making exploring it annoying.
So I decided enough was enough. Boarded my mech suit, equipped with drill and grappling hook, and brought the fight to it.
There is now one less big scary fishie.
What is this lashman business about?
Sigh, garry's mod (and now s&box) garry chimed in, not looking good. Wonder if he can save it... Probably not, what adult can innocently wonder that bs in 2021?
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Anti-abortion beliefs goes against so many other moral compasses that it's almost impossible to convert anyone away from that belief, because it's become core to their vision of their identity. Like yea I would love to convince 40% of the population that vaccines aren't suddenly mind control water that's going to turn you into a frog (or whatever the current theory is) but I'm not going to. Having a discussion with someone on the internet will basically NEVER convince anyone of anything because it's not a conversation the way a real-world one is to many, many, many people.
I still counter with evidence and examples and ethics when I see someone that I don't think is just trolling but chipping away at the entrenched bigots, racists, and other extremists is not our job. Much the same way people should be shunned IRL for these unethical beliefs, they should be shunned in every way that matters. If they want to have a discussion about it, there is literally no end to the ease of getting real info about it or contacting an advocate.
I say this a lot but it is NOT HARD to be a good person and care about others. It's not. These people are choosing not to do that. You can't care about other people of any sort when you tell them what they should do and refuse to listen or learn about them. I am introverted even compared to other introverts and I still care about anyone who doesn't give me a direct reason not to care (like most of our right-wing politicians)
I still counter with evidence and examples and ethics when I see someone that I don't think is just trolling but chipping away at the entrenched bigots, racists, and other extremists is not our job. Much the same way people should be shunned IRL for these unethical beliefs, they should be shunned in every way that matters. If they want to have a discussion about it, there is literally no end to the ease of getting real info about it or contacting an advocate.
I say this a lot but it is NOT HARD to be a good person and care about others. It's not. These people are choosing not to do that. You can't care about other people of any sort when you tell them what they should do and refuse to listen or learn about them. I am introverted even compared to other introverts and I still care about anyone who doesn't give me a direct reason not to care (like most of our right-wing politicians)
We can't even start Monday morning without some nazis, anti-vaxxers, pro-lifers, Trumpers or Tim Sweeney ruining the day before it even begins. 
Anyway, good morning Meta~
Anyway, good morning Meta~
Nice to see one studio stand up to this jerk.
Mihoyo doesn't have a choice with Sony since they have to use their payment system to be on the Playstation at all. Genshin on Steam would be cool, but I am not getting my hopes up. It's is one of those games that just doesn't need Steam since it's already so big. I guess the only reason it's only EGS is because Epic doesn't enforce using their payment service as an option and as far as I understand, Steam requires F2P games to offer MTX through the platform in some fashion.
he's been MIA for more than a week, and I'm worried if something happened
I love how bleak Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous is, it's a completely different tone from Kingmaker.
I think this meme summarize my feelings regarding the plot so far:
I think this meme summarize my feelings regarding the plot so far:
Phoenix RISING
A phoenix always RISES!
Yes, Trump treated the presidency as his own personal reality show. Good riddance.
And as you can see from replies, there are people who support him voicing his opinion,
Americans believe that this country is the center of the universe and the sun revolves around it. So no, that dev was not thinking about international audiences to respond.
They were also thinking that because of freedom of speech, they would be protected from partner companies cutting ties. After all, Roe v Wade was effectively shot down by shadow docket, so anti-abortion is for all intents and purposes as legal as buying guns without any background checks (in TX).
He thought, if it's legal, there's no longer a stigma. Like gay marriage.
5 years ago:
3 years ago:
Now:
What a turnaround.
3 years ago:
Now:
What a turnaround.
lashman must have found several good anime games and now just unable to put them down.
I've gotten really addicted to Tale of Immortal while waiting for Tales of Arise.
ToI is an great role-playing game especially if you're into xianxia genre since I think it simulates the whole concepts of the genre very well.
Gameplay wise the game is slow since progression will take a while. The game is a constant loop of cultivate for exp, upgrade your martial art/elements by getting fruits, finding and learning new skills, farming materials to breakthrough to the next level, go to next region. Combat can get a bit repetitive after a while and fighting someone on a different level just feels bad since stat difference makes fights between different levels almost impossible. You do get quite a few character slots so you can role play different characters so you can experiment around a bit.
For me though I've enjoyed the game because my gameplay loop of never-ending quest for power began like this:
Someone tried to steal from me. I defend myself and now we're enemies.
They get a powerful family member to try to attack me.
I lose.
I get more powerful than that family member.
I end up having to defend myself from family member again.
I win and now we're enemies.
They have a family member that is more powerful than me.
Quest for power begins again.
I'll be on top. One day. Then I can finally end this feud with some thief I encountered in the first region.
ToI is an great role-playing game especially if you're into xianxia genre since I think it simulates the whole concepts of the genre very well.
Gameplay wise the game is slow since progression will take a while. The game is a constant loop of cultivate for exp, upgrade your martial art/elements by getting fruits, finding and learning new skills, farming materials to breakthrough to the next level, go to next region. Combat can get a bit repetitive after a while and fighting someone on a different level just feels bad since stat difference makes fights between different levels almost impossible. You do get quite a few character slots so you can role play different characters so you can experiment around a bit.
For me though I've enjoyed the game because my gameplay loop of never-ending quest for power began like this:
Someone tried to steal from me. I defend myself and now we're enemies.
They get a powerful family member to try to attack me.
I lose.
I get more powerful than that family member.
I end up having to defend myself from family member again.
I win and now we're enemies.
They have a family member that is more powerful than me.
Quest for power begins again.
I'll be on top. One day. Then I can finally end this feud with some thief I encountered in the first region.
[HIDEPOSTS]I finished all three King's Field PS1 games 
All my complaints are pretty much technical
In terms of non technical parts of the game I disliked, the color scheme is so drab, everything is a shade of grey and so many areas just look the same. These are games I would actually like to see get remade because I loved the actual dungeon design and the atmosphere, but everything else felt like a test in aggravation that I assume were present due to the technical limitations of the PS1.[/HIDEPOSTS]
All my complaints are pretty much technical
- The controls are jank (thankfully can rebind on emulators to be less crappy)
- Low Framerate/Unstable Framerate. Some Enemies/Bosses move too fast if it gets up t0 30FPS. The first and third games had lock framerates. So hacking the game to play at a stable 60FPS makes the game impossible because everything moves too fast.
- Low FOV
- The textures warble, especially when turning - holy shit, in conjunction with the FOV and framerate, this was making me severely ill due to motion sickness to the point where I had to play in short bursts, and go lie down after playing.
- Slow as molasses turn speeds
- Clunky/Awkward combat that pretty much ends in you trying to strafe around and stun lock your opponent.
- Enemy Hitboxes. It felt like you had to but up against them, and even then you could swing through them.
- Getting stuck on the environment, mostly corners
In terms of non technical parts of the game I disliked, the color scheme is so drab, everything is a shade of grey and so many areas just look the same. These are games I would actually like to see get remade because I loved the actual dungeon design and the atmosphere, but everything else felt like a test in aggravation that I assume were present due to the technical limitations of the PS1.[/HIDEPOSTS]
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Oh yeah, I got this too of course since I got them all. lashman
I don't usually even pay attention to the monthly challenges because they generally are for new games and I very rarely own new games these days.
Well I reached another personal milestone, I lost 15kg in past 4 months 
Oh wow I just noticed that MuvLuv mangas are being sold as DLC for the game, this is interesting, I kinda wish more publishers did this, put that stuff in my wishlist definitely gonna grab the bundles in the next sale
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That Tweet from the Tripwire guy is disgusting. My wife is a midwife in a big hospital, so I'm hearing plenty of stories why abortion is the right thing to do.
I won't buy another game from Tripwire as long as that guy is on board. Since Tripwire is fully in bed with Epic, that's no big loss...
I won't buy another game from Tripwire as long as that guy is on board. Since Tripwire is fully in bed with Epic, that's no big loss...
Same. I even ignore the publisher on Steam so I will not see their games anymore.
To think I even purchase killing floor 2 at full price to support them previously .
After adding Tripwire to my ignored publishers list, I went through my ignored games list on Steam.
It's amazing to see the development of Steam in chronological order when you look at the list ignored games.
It starts out with some ignored major games, in my case multiplayer games I never had any interest in and loads of DLC (Paradox/SquareEnix and a multitude of Saints Row 3 DLC).
One or two pages into the ignore list, suddenly the floodgates open. From the multitude of War Z ripoff games, to loads of games that are "Uninitialized" (probably all those hentai slide puzzle games that kept appearing), and later on all the low effort meme games, weird Russian Putin games and other stuff like that. And lots of hentai/anime-crap of course.
Steam really is filled with crap, but I would probably never have seen the games (and added them to my ignore list) if not for the Discovery Queue card quests during Steam sales. Outside of the Discovery queue, you really have to search for the crap to actually find it, as the front page mostly gives you interesting games.
It's amazing to see the development of Steam in chronological order when you look at the list ignored games.
It starts out with some ignored major games, in my case multiplayer games I never had any interest in and loads of DLC (Paradox/SquareEnix and a multitude of Saints Row 3 DLC).
One or two pages into the ignore list, suddenly the floodgates open. From the multitude of War Z ripoff games, to loads of games that are "Uninitialized" (probably all those hentai slide puzzle games that kept appearing), and later on all the low effort meme games, weird Russian Putin games and other stuff like that. And lots of hentai/anime-crap of course.
Steam really is filled with crap, but I would probably never have seen the games (and added them to my ignore list) if not for the Discovery Queue card quests during Steam sales. Outside of the Discovery queue, you really have to search for the crap to actually find it, as the front page mostly gives you interesting games.
I find that most of the people who complain about being flooded with crap games have a habit of seeking them out to see what crap games are available so the algorithm keeps showing them crap games. It's the same with Youtube recommendations, i get hardly any reccommendations i'm not interested in as i don't watch videos on channels or with people i don't wish to watch.
People shouldn't feel bad about buying Tripwire's games in the past before this came out as it's not the whole studio that have the same shitty views and opinions as the CEO. Also, hasn't Garry from GMod always bounced between having a bad opinion on something to having good opinions on other things? I'm sure i remember a couple of times in the past where he's said squiffy things, i just don't remember the specifics. I may be wrong.
Gizmo lol, have you not watched any King's Field videos or play throughs or played it before?
Most of those issues were present in the initial PSX release too. They were deliberate design choices by From Software to slow the game down and make it more deliberate and give it a sense of dread and it was a breath of fresh air at the time ... and it drove people up the wall at the time too but they were very critically acclaimed titles. Big but still niche.
You can definitely see the roots of a lot of the design, gameplay and presentation ideas in the "Whatever" Souls game series in the King's Field games though.
Terxture warping is a PSX limitation and so would be the locked to 30fps issues. It's still an issue now with console games on PC and will be for many years i reckon.
I think the editor is still available - "Sword of Moonlight" if you want to make your own Kings Field adventures!
www.swordofmoonlight.net
One of the few remaining King's Field Fan Games still available:
Reddit page:
www.reddit.com
One of the people still making KF games...
swordofmoonlight.itch.io
People shouldn't feel bad about buying Tripwire's games in the past before this came out as it's not the whole studio that have the same shitty views and opinions as the CEO. Also, hasn't Garry from GMod always bounced between having a bad opinion on something to having good opinions on other things? I'm sure i remember a couple of times in the past where he's said squiffy things, i just don't remember the specifics. I may be wrong.
Gizmo lol, have you not watched any King's Field videos or play throughs or played it before?
Most of those issues were present in the initial PSX release too. They were deliberate design choices by From Software to slow the game down and make it more deliberate and give it a sense of dread and it was a breath of fresh air at the time ... and it drove people up the wall at the time too but they were very critically acclaimed titles. Big but still niche.
You can definitely see the roots of a lot of the design, gameplay and presentation ideas in the "Whatever" Souls game series in the King's Field games though.
Terxture warping is a PSX limitation and so would be the locked to 30fps issues. It's still an issue now with console games on PC and will be for many years i reckon.
I think the editor is still available - "Sword of Moonlight" if you want to make your own Kings Field adventures!
Sword of Moonlight α Getting Started
Reddit page:
r/SwordOfMoonlight
r/SwordOfMoonlight: Help & News on making video games with From Software's "Sword of Moonlight" game-maker kit
www.reddit.com
KING'S FIELD 25th PROJECT by swordofmoonlight
King's Field II memorial demonstration of Sword of Moonlight (2020)
swordofmoonlight.itch.io
That's for KF2. I don't think any other Tripwire game is getting the same treatment.
Same treatment at a tiny scale.
Red Orchestra 1 and 2:
Killing Floor 1 and 2:
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Shouldn't these reviews be flagged as off-topic and not affect the score? Didn't Valve add something to the system to that effect?
Assuming their blackbox flags it as a review bomb, yes.
Devs manually have to activate the review bomb feature iirc
My sincere apologies to Meta ! When everybody freaked out because lash had been absent for 2-3 days I thought you were overreacting hard.
At a week of absence, I'm now shitting bricks.
Please be well lashman
At a week of absence, I'm now shitting bricks.
Please be well lashman
I wonder if John is wishing he would have aborted that tweet right about now.
Another RPG release for September.
store.steampowered.com
store.steampowered.com
ATOM RPG Trudograd - ATOM RPG: Trudograd Release Date Reveal - Steam News
Dear friends! Finally the moment has come when we can announce the release date for ATOM RPG: Trudograd. This event will happen on September 13th, 2021. Until then we will use every minute available playtesting the game, fixing bugs, checking out different PC configurations and planning for...
ATOM RPG 2-in-1 Edition on Steam
I remember texhnolyze spoke highly of this game.Another RPG release for September.
ATOM RPG Trudograd - ATOM RPG: Trudograd Release Date Reveal - Steam News
Dear friends! Finally the moment has come when we can announce the release date for ATOM RPG: Trudograd. This event will happen on September 13th, 2021. Until then we will use every minute available playtesting the game, fixing bugs, checking out different PC configurations and planning for...
ATOM RPG 2-in-1 Edition on Steam
I'm going to dive in on Atom RPG Trudograd. It feels like I've been hearing about it for 84 years and i fancy a brutal RPG in my life at th emoment so i'll give it a whirl.
edit: Name changed to remove my stupid brainfart typing.
Also, in an attempt to appease the lashman, fingers crossed that hopefully he's got work and is super-duper busy!, don't forget that the new/next LiS is out in 4 days!
edit: Name changed to remove my stupid brainfart typing.
Also, in an attempt to appease the lashman, fingers crossed that hopefully he's got work and is super-duper busy!, don't forget that the new/next LiS is out in 4 days!
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so many cRPGs in such short timeframeAnother RPG release for September.
ATOM RPG Trudograd - ATOM RPG: Trudograd Release Date Reveal - Steam News
Dear friends! Finally the moment has come when we can announce the release date for ATOM RPG: Trudograd. This event will happen on September 13th, 2021. Until then we will use every minute available playtesting the game, fixing bugs, checking out different PC configurations and planning for...
ATOM RPG 2-in-1 Edition on Steam
- Black Geyser (Early Access)
- Encased v1.0
- Pathfinder 2
- Gamedec
- Wasteland 3 final DLC
- Death Trash (Early Access)
- Atom Trudograd v1.0
- Mechajammer
- Broken Roads
- Waylanders v1.0
and i havent even ebat the ones from few years ago yet
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Maybe a little mix up on your part (or not, it's not important, I just want to post), it's Atom RPG Trudograd. Atomic Heart is another game altogether, sort of a Russian Bioshock that some people seem to believe is vaporware.
Li Kao
True that, Atomic Heart was the game with the great trailers and music we were discussing a few months/weeks ago?
I've actually had my eye on Trudograd for ages, it's been in EA for a year and they had regular updates before that so it seems like an eternity i've been hearing about Trudograd and it's great to see it finally release and i can get my hands on it and see what the fuss is about as i don't think i bought Atom RPG as they announced Trudograd just as i was going to buy it and i thought... i can wait... skeleton
edit: Updated name because i'm merging game and song names by muscle memory and idiocy.
True that, Atomic Heart was the game with the great trailers and music we were discussing a few months/weeks ago?
I've actually had my eye on Trudograd for ages, it's been in EA for a year and they had regular updates before that so it seems like an eternity i've been hearing about Trudograd and it's great to see it finally release and i can get my hands on it and see what the fuss is about as i don't think i bought Atom RPG as they announced Trudograd just as i was going to buy it and i thought... i can wait... skeleton
edit: Updated name because i'm merging game and song names by muscle memory and idiocy.
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Did you play Atom RPG before Trudograd ? Are you looking to hurt my OCD by proxy ?
This engrish is killing me and this isn't even one of the most egregious examples I've found so far...
Ha, no but It is part of my own OCD breaking regime. I'm forcing myself to just get on with things rather than spend 6 months tracking down previous content that may not really be required... or i'm in my impatient phase and just want to play the new one NOW and didn't look to see if Atom RPG is required just in case it is lol, I'm not sure but i'm gonna jump in blind anyway! YOLO!
edit: Yeah, yeah, yeah, i get it. Corrected the name again... lol
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