“He uses League of Legends as an example. Pirate Software suggests there is no good way to make the game playable without its client-server structure.”

I can’t watch PS’s vid right now, but how? How is it different from Counterstrike Classic or Quake being played by local parties? Is it because LoL would need to make all content available for free in the offline version? Capcom didn’t seem to have a problem when making offline MegamanXDive. In fact, multliple other examples PS brought up fall flat because of that one. I can envision a singleplayer offline Pokemon Go, or one ran by fans. It doesn’t matter if it’s far more trimmed down.

“Pirate Software then admits that if the game [The Crew] had a single-player component to it that was shut down with the online component, that would be unacceptable.”

That’s literally what happened though. The Crew has a solo mode. It’s innacessable now. It kickstarted the movement.

Being a consumer, not a dev, has nothing to do with it. We already have legislation against microtransactions, even if the devs only lose from it, because consumers deserve better treatment.

Also, PS allegedly has benefit in going against SKG because he’s developing a live-service game. I don’t know the name, and I don’t even care, because even without that his arguments are shoddy.

Lastly, he was just disrespectful and called the initiative ass off the get go, throwing insults, and refused to engage in discussion. If he’s mad about people treating him the same, well, you reap what you sow.

Does it still give you the ranking at the end for achievements? Or just seeing how much I got KO’d?

Which ones? Animal Well is still at -15% after a year, it’s holding on.

I was a bit surprised to see Steamworld Dig 2 at -94%, but then I realised it’s 8 years old.

Depends on which you did hear of. Spelunky you probably did, but is Octodad niche enough?

Ooh, try Full Metal Furies. I personally mostly played single player, but I think co-op should be cooler, though I only played a few stages.

One of the devs boxed, and while I can’t find a source, I heard the walking is supposed to give the same feeling as stepping into the ring. Which is pretty neat.

But I started turning on Youtube as early as after the 2nd boss…

I already bought them a week ago, but Furi and Blasphemous since a friend got them, and we already beat Furi together. Gorgeous game, though the walking sections make me not want to play again, especially since my Furier difficulty save reset.

Also Bloodstained to go with Blasphemous in a bundle, since I was thinking about it for a while, and Beastieball, since I saw some posts from one of the devs on Bluesky a while back and they seemed cool. And the game seems to have great reviews.

Sheik exists… so it checks out?

Because it sometimes makes me feel better about there potentially being some purpose to us if we were created intentionally, provides a placeholder explanation for what’s out there besides the universe, makes life more fun, and does not harm anyone (I’m not religious).

TIL, I thought we usually kill the older animals first.

Yeah, but the living ones are not asking “hooman, what happened to Stacy?”

Considering that negotiating with livestock would be a hassle, probably just pretend we can’t understand them

I only really like STALKER I think, because it’s generally compressed and dense rather than stretching out over nothingness. It’s technically multiple levels than being overworld I guess.

I didn’t get Breath of the Wild.

The character designs are better than I remember, but thet still seem a bit generic. Maybe it’s just because we didn’t see their character yet though.

Despite common sense I bought The Hundred Line at launch, but thankfully it is indeed a very solid game. To the point I spent 25 hours playing it over 3 days. It’s more or less a Danganronpa game, so it might be too cringy for some people, but having gained enough tolerance to those things it’s wonderful. Probably better than DR, but it’s apples and oranges in some aspects.

One “problem” is that the game is really easy, and the whole SRPG part is mostly to enchance the story. It’s still really fun, I think that like with Kirby they intentionally wanted a game that anyone can approach. And though I’m just getting started it also does indeed appear to have 100 endings, I ended up on the romance route from my first set of decisions…

I don’t follow the genre, but I heard that apparently Steam is also very inconsistent in terms of banning visual novels. And the fans seem to be pretty dedicated to them, so you have an example right there.

I’m personally all for “everything goes”, since the adults only settings exist, which might as well double as “disturbing content” filter. At the same time, it’s Valve’s choice what they want to host, and I don’t know a good balance of “reputation vs freedom”, which they realistically have to keep.

I’d imagine Russians opposing the Ukraine war would especially be targets, maybe you misread the comment and the “bad take”? Trump would be eager to get rid of pro-Ukraine speakers for Putin.

(A source would be nice too)

Ah, an Israeli newspaper. That doesn’t sound good for a start, but it doesn’t matter anyway because I can’t read the damn thing, and I’m not looking up how to bypass that.

Regarding OSCE, I looked it up a bit to understand what it actually was, and besides the fact that the ceasefire has been broken for years (since Russia took the region without Ukraine’s will, and the reason the “ethnic Russians were genocided” was because Russia wouldn’t stay put in 2014), OSCE themselves condemned the Russian invasion.

https://www.oscepa.org/en/news-a-media/press-releases/2022/osce-parliamentarians-condemn-russian-military-action-in-ukraine-call-for-de-escalation-at-vienna-winter-meeting

And lastly, nobody denies all those 1/1000 nazis in Ukraine, there are facsists everywhere. Russia itself is halfway to being a facist state by the Wikipedia definition, if it isn’t already. I say we genocide them, actually. (That’s not what I think, but it’s how you sound right now.)

I genuinely can’t find whatever the fuck you’re talking about. Banderites apparently refers to the group all the way back in WWII. Are we still supposed to hate Germany now?

I suppose you didn’t believe in Putin invading Ukraine either, or is that a different case to Europe?

Nobody mentioned Yakuza? Any modern game in the series? (Edit: Ok, one guy did)

A guilty pleasure of mine is Majima Construction from Yakuza Kiwami 2, which is one if the few RTS I like. It’s unbalanced, and not even functioning properly, but it’s simple fun. I associate most RTS with commanding large squads of units and resource management, and a watered down version with few specific characters and one/two resources felt like a less overwhelming entry point into the genre.