I’ll let you onto a little secret about Europeans: we don’t don’t give half a shit about the US and their “politics”.
You may well argue that we have your bases in our territory, NATO and your social networks influencing our lives, but I see that as our internal problem of still having to grow a proper pair, rather than an interesting consequence of whatever medieval situation you’re brewing in there.
And you wish you were in a cyberpunk dystopia. You’re in a boring one.
I think this could have been the normal evolution of the social network under anyone else than Musk. I repeat, it has always been built this way, for broadcasting. And I am sorry to fire on the Red Cross, but Mastodon is just the same: the only reason it is somewhat better than what Twitter was is that it is novel and barely populated and therefore elicits what in Italy we call mountain path courtesy.
I don’t really see a difference in Twitter pre- and post-Musk. It is literally built for this, for broadcasting with minimal discussion afterwards. I left Twitter a bit before Musk got it because I realized Reddit was better for discussing and obtaining informed opinions. And now I left Reddit.
You guessed it, I am not American.
Nor I have time to spend following the domestic politics of a country that was decadent when it was founded by terrorists (according to its own Constitution).
I am surprised still because this is 2023 and you are behaving literally medieval de facto instituting a new kind of feudalism gibing power to these people.
What’s surprising is that the US does nothing about it
I play it regularly all over again. The amount of variability they where able to pack in it makes it incredibly fun and replayable. The characters are well thought and balanced and in custom maps are usually good quality. Plus it is a blast in multiplayer and holds perfectly well online.
Broforce
End how?
My guess is I have way fewer friends than you
I stay away from driving simulators mostly because I hate cars in general, unless it’s Quarantine or Carmageddon.
Making something VR compatible games pushes towards certain design choices that empoverish the desktop experience.
I have heard great things of Senua’s Sacrifice, but I downprioritized it for years now exactly due to that design aspect.
The problem is the kind of stuff the industry tries to take shortcuts on.
I decided to apply some filters in my choices and quality of entertainment went up by a lot:
Other than that, I am a patient gamer, I play all kinds of genres, just a bit less on the RPG and strategy side, and I like to support Indie developers by paying their games full price and kickstarting them.
I am ok with playing short games if the experience and polish is there and I never do completions. I also buy very few DLCs and only if they add single player campaigns.
Do this and I am quite sure you will fall in love with gaming again.
Journalist really need to acquire the knowledge of Arabs being also a Semitic population. The exclusive use of the Semitic label for Israel and the Jews in general is just one more disgrace in this whole story.
Half-Life, Half-Life 2, Day of the Tentacle
Let’s offer a sacrifice to GabeN, preventively.
Double Fine Productions
Brütal Legend II NOW!
Because that’s not the question.
I strongly doubt it can be a defining game as the other 2 were and are. Plus, for me, there is attrition in the need to use a non-polished control system.
I don’t how old you are, but the first one was the first very big implementation of scripted scenes. To see something happening in an FPS as in a movie was mind-blowing.
The second one is just absurdly well designed. And the visuals are imbued of this Eastern European architecture and vibe that right now, walking the streets of Warsaw, I am gladly breathing in.
Half life or Half life 2.
My “politics” is because I don’t think that any politically relevant (especially for the rest of the world) decision in the US is taken in or by the appointed institutions. And recent events, including the news we are commenting on here, are confirmation of this.