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[–] scops@reddthat.com 4 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

Was there some fallout from this video? Or do you just mean the terrible experience she had at the hotel?

[–] scops@reddthat.com 82 points 1 day ago (10 children)
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[–] scops@reddthat.com 27 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Doesn't always work. I had to do a lot of technical writing for docs that ended in a table for acceptance signatures. I eventually figured out how to drop the blank page at the end, but I'm not 100% convinced I didn't summon an elder god at some point when I was fiddling with it to get there.

[–] scops@reddthat.com 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Outer Worlds is way closer to a Fallout spiritual sequel (or beat Starfield to the punch) than an Elder Scrolls game.

Did they ever fix the reputation system? I managed to instantly piss off an entire city while I was in the middle of it because I accumulated one too many "We don't like you" points in the middle of a quest. Completely ruined my immersion and was a hard stop for me.

[–] scops@reddthat.com 8 points 1 week ago

To clarify, the FTC is being urged to craft this regulation. They have not recently urged for this regulation. Gotta love the English language.

[–] scops@reddthat.com 5 points 1 week ago

I also don't buy his take that the game started development in 2016, this is what was big culturally in 2016, and the team just retreated into a bunker until launch and didn't have any way to course correct.

That's not how game development works. I guarantee the headcount for this project didn't peak in 2016 and stay steady. This was a low-priority item on a few people's kanban boards for a couple years, probably had multiple starts, dead-ends, and reinventions.

I have to think Sony saw the writing on the wall, pushed the project out the door because they didn't think it would get any better barring significant reinvestment, and braced for the impact. I credit them just a tiny bit for not writing it off on their taxes and canning the project like Hollywood has been doing lately.

[–] scops@reddthat.com 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Mostly unrelated, but I was curious what the other series were featured in Secret Level and found this list.

Ooh, Unreal Tournament. I would love it if this generated some buzz and brought Epic back to the Unreal franchise.

Also oof, I thought God of War was getting a whole episode based on the trailer, but it looks like it's going to be part of a Playstation mix-up. Because who wasn't dying to see Kratos trade quips with Nathan Drake.

[–] scops@reddthat.com 11 points 1 week ago

That's not at all surprising. PvE game design is almost always about making the computer less competent in fun and/or believable ways. If you've got a computer that can simulate every item and skill in an enemy team's arsenal and game out the best combination in milliseconds, the player is going to be dead by Turn 1 or stun-locked and dead by Turn 2.

[–] scops@reddthat.com 12 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Yeah, it sucks. I still think we have a better shot at pressuring her to take a harder stance on Israel while in office than Trump, so I'm still gonna vote for her.

[–] scops@reddthat.com 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah, my introduction to her music was riding in the car with my late fifty-something year old coworker and he had her album playing.

[–] scops@reddthat.com 5 points 2 weeks ago

Imagine 12 2-liters of soda. It's a lot.

 

It’s time to talk about something Star Wars has been avoiding for some time: recasting its original trilogy characters. There have long been calls for the likes of Luke Skywalker to be portrayed by new actors (Sebastian Stan, anyone?) but it has, by and large, been something that the franchise hasn’t needed to properly confront – until now.

 

From Steam's self-published stats.

Baldur's Gate 3 could not be preloaded and weighed in at 125 gigabytes on disk, so when the game left Early Access at 11am US Eastern yesterday, Steam's bandwidth utilization shot up 8x over a span of 30 minutes. I know personally, I saw my download hit over 600 Mbps across a 1 Gbps fiber connection.

Kudos to the system engineers at Valve. It is mind-boggling that they have built infrastructure that robust.

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