Shitty Corporate Game Promises to Keep Shitting On You Regularly

There is an absolute difference between ‘Han Chinese people all suck’ (they don’t) and ‘Mainland Chinese culture sucks’ (it does). I tried to make that clear, but I guess falling back on calling that ‘racist’ is all you can do because the latter is 100% true.

It’s got absolutely nothing to do with being ‘of Chinese descent’ and everything to do with mainland Chinese culture which only cares about money money money and ‘art’ is just a hammer you use to make money. Taiwan makes fine games. People of Chinese descent in the US (and elsewhere) make fine games.

How the hell did this guy manage to get 130 hours into a new Bethesda game without a gamebreaking save error / quest error? Since he’s an exec there must be devs willing to fix the worst bugs for him.

It’s because they’re both Chinese. Chinese game makers are amazingly good at making astoundingly pretty clone games with absolutely no soul. They get the shell polished to an amazing degree but there’s nothing underneath it because they’re just mindlessly going through the motions. You just have to look at Kantai…

‘I thought that things will change for the better after Kotaku’s EIC removal from her position’

Look, I am ‘pessimistic’ because of what a fucking piece of shit CP2077 was at launch. We ‘looked forward to’ that, and got slapped in the face and crotch repeatedly for it. If we ‘look forward to being right about how negative we were’ it’s because AAA games now routinely launch completely fucking broken because the…

> Did the switch hold back the industry?

It’s absolutely no Witcher 3 or Persona 5, but given the lack of this kind of game I found CP2077 to be pretty fun (after waiting a year for it to be fixed). And from what I’ve seen I’m absolutely looking forward to Phantom Liberty. If nothing else, it’ll only be 1% as bugtastic as Starfield. That’s going to need a…

Yeah, this was doomed to fail. Luna 24 landed on the Moon (and returned) in.... 1976! This was back when Russia (aka USSR) could actually make things. Now in 2023, ~50 years later, the only thing Pooty Poot’s kleptocracy can do is destroy nice things (it’s the national character) - and one of those nice things Pooty…

Well of course. The entire business model for Roblox is making children your bitches for the sake of their parents’ credit cards. That is undeniable. Once you’ve gone there then every form of exploitation, though not officially encouraged WINK WINK, is helpful to the profits and stock price, and so of course Roblox is…

CA Licenses are the same size as a credit card, your insurance card, costco membership card, i.e. the same size as everything else. It’s zero problem to carry one if you’re our age.

This is nothing compared to ARK: Survival. Base size with nothing is about 60 GB, but with DLC and all the maps installed can go 3-400 GB. And you need nearly double that for updates, so might as well just put it on its own separate 1 TB drive.

Yeah, it just needs someone to WANT to go after them in the first place.  Usually the DA is in bed with them.  But not always.

Since he’s a cop, he’ll be back in about a year with full back pay under union rules as long as he wins a single appeal, and he can appeal again and again and again. This is what happens with most people ‘fired’ from police jobs. Or they just move to the next town over.

Dang, a lot of Call of Duty players could have 8 strikes in less than a day.  I really doubt they’ll enforce this much.

So a creepy company with a super creepy name (‘Embracer’?) that’s trying to buy up every independent game studio had a deal with a country that has journalists it doesn’t like murdered and dismembered, hates women and gay people, and helped with 9/11, and that fell through. OH WELL.

I’ve noticed (I’m now watching) that sometimes I don’t get the shove action, but I can still do three attacks and then shove most times (monk).

Another tip: You essentially get a free ‘shove’ every turn! Use that to shove mobs off ledges, into fire, into acid, you get the picture. Just do whatever you’d normally do (maybe position yourself with shove in mind) then when you have no more actions, use shove.  You’ll need to roll a success vs athletics, but if…

White Rabbit is yet another case of cryptobros* desperately looking for some use - any actually useful use - for NFTs other than ‘pure speculation’ and settling on a solution that’s already done better and easier without them. Like in this case ‘only the $10/mo and up members of my Patreon get to vote on the plot’…