About 76, because it gets a lot of outdated hate…

76 today I feel is mostly exploration + F4 tweaked building system minus settlers. I got it almost for free and tempered my expectations…and what I got positively surprised me. The world is beautiful in F76, building feels good (more limited than in F4, but at the same time more personal, usable and fun IMO).

It’s basically Wild Wasteland the game. There is some story, it’s better story than F4 from my perspective but in such amounts it may as well not exist. Oh and atom shop does not, in fact, require you to buy shit -.-’ Almost all of it is tied to building, and you can get currency in-game.

It’s fun. Beautiful view wise, immersive world wise, and somewhat emptish. Online elements are easy to ignore - mostly it’s events in which I didn’t partake for a long time due to being busy exploring.

I rambled again :( It’s just that F76 went a long way but everyone shits on it :(

Left my ❤️ in Sierra Madre

Dead Money is the best, Lonesome Road was meh for me.

(I kno, I kno, wrong medium but still ^^)

Recently watched random vid and creator said he’s gotta be careful because, drums…youtube added a strike to video for adult content.

The only adult content in said video was youtube ad xD

It’s more that people are pissed at them and, in typical internet fashion, will call them anything that comes to mijd. They do suck tho

1. I wonder how many enemies Dell made with that lol
2. AI chatbots work as customer side if implemented well (if chatbot does not have options, it won’t work well) and if customers don’t knee-jerk into repeating they want human without checking it’s options first (which, understandably, came from dealing with badly implemented chatbots). Their search is quite alright for polling public opinions (useful for example if you are lazy and wanna find overall popular film from some genre - it can summarise reddit, google, few review sites and spit the effects at you).

I know, I know. We are anti-AI here. But please, don’t be simply cynic. This tech has it’s uses, but is so badly used across everything that it’s hard not to be negative of it.

Gyroscope, fine, I can understand them trying to understand how the toy is utilised.

GPS? Fuck off.

CAMERA?! What in the ever loving…

…the fuck happened to the world. Why do I perceive old people as less competent than young ones. It should be the other way around, what the hell managed to switch my perception so much.

Ok, gonna get hated but up to now various LLM mostly supported good ideas - to the point of dunking on US right whenever they are not chained. Even myself did a small test by asking Copilot a few questions - never mentioning politics with it before, and making sure it doesn’t scan politic threads in my broswer to avoid it trying to please me - and it was progressive and quite leftist. They are taught through internet but also literature - most of both is progressive and kind, and I assume that to avoid it just cursing the ever loving shit out of people they censor the unclean parts somewhat…and even if all they censor are curse words, that already cuts half of pus from the net.

Friend, I love KCD with all my heart, all I am pointing out is that you are suggesting marathon to someone who ran hundred meters with that jump from Skyrim to KCD xD

Absolutely brutal learning curve, no power tripping until late game, requiring player to get good at the same time as character, no QoL features, in-built survival…

Skyrim is a power fantasy casual RPG. KCD is medieval immersion sim with RPG elements.

And crafting in KCD only has Alchemh and fixing stuff, whereas Skyrim has blacksmithing, alchemy and enchanting, each with skill tree.

Oh my god. Suggesting KCD to someone as next game after Skyrim has to be some kind of sadism xD But yeah, KCD is a great game, just…IMO not really anywhere genre-wise near Skyrim except for open world.

You mentioned adding non-Steam games, but that’s just a shortcut.

And it’s exactly how I mentioned it. It’s simply a way to use some of steam features - for free - even if you use different shop. Their controller support, friend list, library access. A limited amount of access but nonetheless, yet again, something they provide that they don’t have to and other shops (except GOG I believe?) don’t support.

You lose the “Join Game” buttons, the cloud saves, and the lobby invites. That is the definition of a social moat. You can leave, but you’re socially penalized for doing so.

Cloud saves should be handled by whatever alternative you choose, and both join game and lobby invites should be ideally handled by game - that’s how it began, didn’t it? Steam simply offered option for games to extend it to friends chat out of the game. And hell, today even Discord of all things has something like this.

As for competition, the fact that GOG and Itch.io have to hide in tiny niches just to survive proves my point. When the #1 player has 75%+ of the market, they don’t have to be perfect, they just have to be too big to leave.

I admit, bad wording on my part. But while Itch relies on niche, in GOG’s case I meant their initiative of saving old games. Other than that, they are really competing as a full alternative. And…I just learned GOG does not publish it’s number, huh. But they are constantly growing from what I saw published, so evidently, you can throw gauntlet at Steam and do well. And I just learned that they aren’t really that far on feature parity, with library integration being something unique, huh. No wonder people on lemmy praise it xD

My solution of mandated interoperability is exactly how we fixed the phone industry. You can switch carriers and keep your number. We should be able to switch launchers and keep our friends and games. If Steam is truly as perfect as you say, they should have nothing to fear from a system where users are actually free to leave. A benevolent gatekeeper who refuses to unlock the gate is still a gatekeeper.

I just want to underline, again, that this is the first time I am facing that point and thus, have no opinion of my own yet formed, so I am not gonna say anything as it would simply be reductive. First reaction is mixed from me - number is one thing, forcing a store front to suddenly have to change contracts with game providers, clash with legal and all that to essentially allow you to carry over hundreds of products seems iffy. On the other hand, these are just copy keys at the end of the day so the only question is how easy would it be contract-wise? Dunno. And that’s why I am witholding forming an opinion as of now.

At the end I wanna mention only that our talk made me look up some stuff about both GOG - which I now appreciate a lot more, they really are closing in feature-wise to steam - and phone operators. The second one especially was a weird thing to discover. I was a kid when the number carry-over came to be and, honestly, believed it was some weird marketing strategy…fun to know it was one of early EU thingies.

Think about it like this - normal (and actually beliving) people do care what he says. But do rich people do? You know, people running companies or countries that are used to abusing absolutely everyone and everything? xD

First of all, yeah, price parity sucks…but also the only thing it changes is that simply being cheaper isn’t an option. From my PoV all it does is it forces competition to compete on features. Which they all fail to do.

Also, it is not just about making a better product. It is switching costs. Because our libraries and social circles are locked into a proprietary ecosystem, we aren’t choosing Steam every day. We are just stuck there.

Friend, steam literally alows you to load games outside of steam. You absolutely can still rely on steam friends when playing even pirated games. Steam literally allows you to do it. And having more than one store installed, while not comfy, isn’t a sin - we are choosing steam due to it’s services - controller support, linux support, inbuilt forums, friend network, robust review system, robust return policy, great user support, and probably even more that I don’t know about due to being more niche.

The solution is not for a competitor to build a “more perfect Steam,” that is impossible because Valve has a 20 year head start on our data. The solution is mandated interoperability.

Again, bull. Let’s look at competition, sans “We only sell our own games” stores.

• Epic Store - Literally antithesis to all you wrote. They push free games for you to build your library, buy exclusives to remove the forced price, advertise themselves as much as they can to push through steam’s domination…but they don’t support anything aimed at consumers. They don’t give a diddly doo about you. Thus, they fail…better yet, managed to piss people off.
• GOG store - They tried to innovate and find their niche and…they did it. Oh my, it’s like if you actually offer something it gets apprwciation from clients. It’s small compared to steam and doesn’t offer that much client-side, but with what they offer, they found themselves in stable position and with good public opinion.
• Itch.io - Similiarily to GOG, they used a niche and created sctually somewhat rich ecosystem there. And again, similiarily to GOG, they achieved stability. Supporting both comments and forums and alloeing creators to be close to their community, they became great place to start up and test waters. But they lack friend networks (AFAIK), game invite integration and all that. Although it seems they are okay with their niche…also I believe that their shop actually did chomp that niche away from steam, so they prove that competition is possible.

And just to be clean - I am not against your interchangable library idea, although I am not really for it either. I just really disliked how you described steam as some monstrous entity holding people by ransom.

For once? Every time xAI doesn’t manage to wrangle this little, amazingly rebelious piece of software down it goes to town on US right lol. If anything, the fact all grew to it being subdued all the time is kinda sad. xD

When I studied, there were two kinds of proffesors. Immediate reply ones, and Seen (3 months ago) ones. xD

Heh, still have my PS2 and I still play on it. And it’s still fun :D

Yeah duuuuh. Women leave their claw marks everywhere, blood splatter, and oh my god throw that tampon to the trashcan it’s literally there for that reason!

But also yeah duuuh, men take personal offence at the idea of not pissing all around the stall, and washing hands has to include splattering water, somehow, behind the stall. Also never manages to drop the paper towel to bin.

We are all terrible lil shits <3

Every time I see grok mentioned it’s before xAI manages to castrate it further lol. Every time they miss a leash, it lashes out against the right xD