There’s too many anime gacha games with puddle deep RPG mechanics to even begin to guess which one he had.

The last time I remember something like this happening was from mobile users complaining in mass that their $100 phones couldn’t play games and they pulled the mobile app because of it. In that case, probably dealing with thousands of actual children yelling at them on Discord or wherever.

They could definitely do more to distance themselves from these groups of massive (literal) babies, but I think the insufferability of the mobile and Arch communities are well known enough to others that I totally understand.

They offer downloads in Flatpak (think this is removed now) and Appimage. They are upset that people are having problems with third party packages for different distros (mainly Arch) and reporting those bugs as if they’re the developers fault.

It wastes a ton of time and resources to filter through these vs. legitimate bugs for something the developer doesn’t officially support anyway.

you fundamentally agree with fascists like these people, you just nitpick the details.

I think that a million versions of “Sex with Hitler” add zero value to the platform or humanity as a whole, while making things like this easier to accomplish. That’s all. I’m not anti-porn (especially drawn/written) on principle.

EDIT: I think Valve overall has a bad track record of doing any effort to protect any community on their platforms (including developers) due to their “no moderation” stance. We can disagree that removing a lot of the porn slop on the platform would have helped, but ultimately I think they don’t do enough to protect people using their services, and part of that is content moderation (to not invite groups like this to target them for low hanging fruit) and community moderation (to not allow them to speak), which literally every other platform does to some capacity, even here.

It’s possible with how rabid these groups are already, but I don’t think Valve has done anyone any favors with their ‘open platform’ strategy. I think it’s a version of the Nazi bar where they’ve allowed themselves to become the targets of and used by bad faith actors by platforming some of the worst examples those groups use to start their campaigns and doing essentially 0 moderation other than ‘is this illegal?’. If it was just one game, like for example Hatred, then they wouldn’t have as much leverage. But they can say “look at these THOUSANDS of games” and it’s a lot easier to catch stuff like LGBTQ+ content in that wide net.

I think a more realistic scenario is that Valve finally starts doing their job and hiring content moderators to appease the payment processors and keep off any actually egregious content, per their new policy. I fully believe that it would not have gotten to this point if Valve took even an ounce of responsibility and policed their own store and community pages. They left the gates open for this group to worm their way in by using the cover of removing disgusting gooner games nobody cares about that shouldn’t have been there to begin with. And because Valve is the largest storefront for games, that allowed this group to leapfrog to other smaller platforms that suffer because of Valve’s negligence.

Like someone else posted last week, I’ve been trying to get into Guild Wars 2. I have a set of half-ascended and half-exotics on my Engineer/Scrapper and the class is pretty fun and a lot more survivable than my Holosmith was. I was also wearing crappy Soldier grear that old level boosts used to give you though.

Theoretically, it should be everything I want in an MMO, because I hate how character-specific most stuff is in MMOs and almost everything being account-bound is great. The only thing that would make it better is a non-static class, but the ease of leveling and gearing alts with that account-bound stuff sort of makes up for it. I will basically never play an MMO that makes you repeat content ever again.

As cool as the game is though in some ways, it still feels like I’m playing a hollow collect-a-thon that is forever trying to keep me on the dopamine treadmill. I deleted my WoW account years ago and haven’t been able to get into an MMO since because in the back of my mind, it’s always saying “None of this matters, this game will die and you will never finish it”, but like even moreso than any other game that at least I can say I ‘finished’ and had a complete experience with. I can’t care about gear skins anymore or anything like that.

Aside from that, I started playing Abiotic Factor with some friends on a private server with just a few of us and it’s been kinda fun. Game is like a mix of half-life and a base builder/survival crafting game. My room is in the bathroom and I’ve laid trip mines at the entrance for the next time anybody logs in to try and use it as a bathroom. It’s my room now, they can go downstairs to the porta potty. Or suffer the consequences.

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I literally just re-installed GW2 after not touching it for like 5 years. I stand by that it’s one like one of 3 MMOs that actually have good movement mechanics, along with FFXIV and WoW. Everything else is jank.

Because it’s so fast paced though, I’ve never been able to get used to the combat. I used to raid mythics in WoW and am totally fine with tab targeting, but weapon swapping being part of your rotation just breaks my brain. So does needing to dodge attacks with actual dodges and not just stepping out of the way.

I always feel overwhelmed with how much stuff is on screen and that I’m supposed to pay attention to. I did find this website that tries to create things like low APM builds to accommodate different cognitive and physical abilities. Obviously these won’t let you blend in with the sweats, but it’s a good start if it helps anybody else.

I started playing Tainted Grail: Fall of Avalon. It’s like a slightly less polished (now, not at launch) Skyrim. Not quite as open world, since things are sectioned into 3 areas/acts but you can sequence break if you really wanna.

Its got very cool lore and vibes because its a dark Arthurian setting which I don’t think I’ve seen too much in video games. The game boots up with a Danish and Old Norse chant and a background of King Arthur on top of a pile of corpses.

Very unexpected but its got a lot of interesting tension between Kamelot, the prosperous kingdom, and the other lesser subjugated regions and indigenous tribes who had their lands stolen. Picts and other made up tribes of people get a lot of screen time and importance in the story so far.

There’s also an ongoing plague and wyrd myst that turns people into creatures.

The gameplay is not really that complex but its a lot more intense than something like Skyrim with parries and dodges.

Its also automatically a GOTY conteder because its one of like 5 games that let’s you dual wield shields and it isnt a meme. Theres talents that support it.

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