That final painting is beautiful. That rendering and the texture of the whole piece is stunning. Meanwhile, that AI-generated stolen copy is awful. Everything’s too smooth, her hand is a spindly monstrosity, there’s no sense of where the light is coming from whatsoever (why is there a random strand of hair in a darker…

I knew something was fucky with that video. You don’t get legs like that in VR without full-body tracking, whether it’s something like the Vive trackers or SlimeVR.

obvious troll is obvious.

I really feel the same way about Dig. I think it’s got a fun core, but the level, enemy, and boss design is incredibly punishing. I get that it’s a roguelike, it’s supposed to be difficult, but a lot of the time I can’t even make it to the first boss. There’s also some times where the design is completely ridiculous,…

I don’t even think Blankos was an NFT game initially. For some odd reason, I signed up for the email list when it was first revealed a few years ago and it made no mention of NFTs or anything crypto whatsoever. Now seeing this gameplay, it just looks ugly, like a knock-off Funko Pop Roblox.

That stuff’s just great in general, it’s really handy to have around the house.

I’d sub to Defectaku day one too. I’m tired of the bullshit management that screws over good games journalists.

Well, it’s not the worst monetization in the world, but adding microtransactions to games that didn’t have them in the first place isn’t great. When will Microsoft learn that sometimes good press is worth it over monetization?

Netflix isn’t happy with anything unless it gets better viewer numbers than Squid Game or Stranger Things, which is impossible unless you’re the next season of Squid Game or Stranger Things.

Social VR can be amazing, it’s just that Horizon is a terrible example. When I’m hanging out with my friends in VRChat, it feels great to be in the same virtual room as my friends from across the US, in the UK, Canada, and Colombia. You know that everyone else is actually there in the moment, not like a Discord call…

Cloudflare needs to shut KiwiFarms down. People have died because of them and people will continue to die because of what KF does. I really fucking hope Joshua Moon is held legally liable for something.

This is the exact reason why I’m afraid Facebook is gonna own all of VR. Everything’s gonna be made to be some bullshit corporate homogeneous crap. It’s not like VRChat, Neos, Chillout, etc don’t have their issues (cough cough VRC putting an anticheat into a social game), but at least you can actually be what you want…

Exactly. The whole seasonal model weaponizes FOMO, and that’s why these boycotts won’t work. Most players will just go “oh yeah, huh” and then get back to grinding their battle pass.

This is why I dropped Destiny last year. I got into it a little before Beyond Light dropped and stopped playing a bit after Season of the Lost kicked off. Just keeping up with bounties and the seasonal story was so much of a grind. If I took a week or two off, I’d be behind on practically everything. Destiny has this…

It really isn’t. If you’re not familiar with TAS runs, they’re hosted on completely different leaderboards. This is more like if scientists modeled how fast a human could possibly run the 100 meter dash and someone got within half a second of that theoretical fastest time.

That’s one of the reasons I’ve started to go physical with some things. I love the movie Summer Wars, but it seems like the streaming rights are shuffled around like a hot potato and I didn’t want to buy it on Vudu in case it gets yanked from there as well. Sure, the Blu-ray was 3 times as expensive as buying it…

Digital without DRM is the way to go if you’re worried about physical media quality or storage space, but it’s getting increasingly harder to buy DRM-less media. For DRMless platforms, I can think of Bandcamp for music, GOG and sometimes Humble Bundle/Store for bigger games, itch.io for indie games, and I know some…

Banning mods doesn’t even make it harder for rippers just because of how the game works. Since it has to download avatar and world files to show them and caches them so you don’t have to reload your friends’ avatar over and over, a ripper can still find the files and convert them into a “usable” form then post them…

I’m not even a mod user, but I’m looking into how to port my avatar and get started in Neos. VRC suddenly announcing a total ban on mods and being really stubborn about it reeks of “We need to start turning a profit soon and we don’t want people to mod in features we’ll lock behind a subscription or mod out ads and…