Everything posted by Lexx
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Cinema and Movie Thread: coming 2 a theater near u
It's probably just another metaphor for america. 😄
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The All Things Political Topic - What's Going On...?
He was a business man who also held regular parties on his island. A lot of the people on the list could be nothing else but actual temporary visitors without any (morally?) evil intentions. It really doesn't mean that everyone on the list did something. However, if there are people on the list who were flying very regularly, you can probably guess from that. That said, the horse is beaten so dead by now, nobody would trust any list anyways. Like, how hard is it to just build a fake list? Take off some names, add some names? You can't trust what Trumps people release, or anyone at this point, tbh.
- The All Things Political Topic - What's Going On...?
- Random video game news... RNG is your friend!
- The All Things Political Topic - What's Going On...?
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What are you Playing Now? - the man sez Video games are bad for you - fight the man!
I've played hundreds of hours of Zomboid and made some very popular mods for it as well. Got burned out later because the community sucks ass and I just didn't want to deal with it anymore. Game is ok. Imagine The Sims but there's zombies around you. One day you'll do some farming, next day you beat some Zs and on the third day you'll wash your clothes. It's kinda like that.
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The TV and Streaming Thread: That's Entertainment!
It's been a day since I wrapped up Squid Game and now I feel kinda angry about it, lol. Can't go into it without spoilers, but it's pretty much what I wrote above already... I'm disappointed.
- What are you Playing Now? - the man sez Video games are bad for you - fight the man!
- What are you Playing Now? - the man sez Video games are bad for you - fight the man!
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The TV and Streaming Thread: That's Entertainment!
Finished Squid Game season 3. Generally not bad, but...
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Cinema and Movie Thread: coming 2 a theater near u
Somehow I didn't like James Bond movies since.. ever. Goldeneye is kinda cool I guess, but all I remember from it is that tank scene. Mission Impossible on the other hand is actually quite a bunch of fun movies.
- The All Things Political Topic - What's Going On...?
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What You've Done Today...or yesterday...or what you are doing RIGHT THIS MINUTE!!!
Oh. Well, close enough, I guess. 😄
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The All Things Political Topic - Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence
Nah, you need to work more. This is your life. Work 3 jobs until you die. Do it, make rich people more money. Just earlier today I've read that apparently half of the "middle class" in america requires food stamps and stuff. Isn't it amazing? Now go back to your amazon warehouse and don't forget your pee bottle, because you already used up your pee break time today and Bezos will cry if your productivity goes down 0.1% or something.
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What You've Done Today...or yesterday...or what you are doing RIGHT THIS MINUTE!!!
Isn't it more about honoring the dead generally now? Doesn't sound too bad to me. Also sick outfits, kinda wish we had that here in germany. 😄
- The All Things Political Topic - Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence
- What are you Playing Now? - the man sez Video games are bad for you - fight the man!
- What are you Playing Now? - the man sez Video games are bad for you - fight the man!
- The All Things Political Topic - Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence
- Random video game news... RNG is your friend!
- Random video game news... RNG is your friend!
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What are you Playing Now? - the man sez Video games are bad for you - fight the man!
The engine is totally fine. In fact, I really like it - always did. It's amazing to work with and the gameplay is not as bad as people make it out to be. They improved a lot in most areas, except maybe ai pathfinding and such. But that's not really the fault of the engine either. Starfield even has acutal ladders now! The only thing I always have issues with, is the quest design in their games. It is just terrible. You have all those cool ideas but then you dive into it and... yeah... why expect anything else than a linear corridor. Some quests have multiple ways of doing them in the way that you can be an ass or an ass kisser. The end result is - at best - just different loot rewards. There is one quest where you have to find a dude and collect money from him. You can shoot him and loot his weapon and stuff, or you pay the bill for him and he will gift you his weapon. Amazing. Yeah, sure, you will get negative reputation or whatever, but why would I care if literally nobody else in the game world does. Really, it's just sad. Funny thing is.. I was just thinking that a Starfield made by Obsidian probably wouldn't be that great either. They are so formulaic in their quest design by now, that it gets lame as well, just in the other direction. 😄 Guess the tl;dr is ... everything is so predictable. /Edit: Oh boy, I have more to complain about 😄 Generally I like how the settlements and outposts look, but... why is everything so small again? You have whole planets to work with!! Can you not make something like.. I don't know.. a farming planet, where everything you can see is just fields of crops? Unlike Fo3, there's actual farming and plantations now at least, but still.. why not scale it up? Work with what you have!!111
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What are you Playing Now? - the man sez Video games are bad for you - fight the man!
Well, they don't really need to focus on that a lot since they probably make more money from just selling "creations" by third party creators / modders. Not gonna lie, playing this game and seeing all the wasted potential makes me start dreaming up a smaller quest dlc as well. Something that is better than everything in the game right now (not really hard to do, truth told). The only issue is that Bethsoft pays like 20% ... yeah, **** off. Considering how expensive game dev is, and how big of a risk this is, since you have to put up with all cost first, this is terrible. Even Bohemia Interactive pays 50% - that's far more reasonable. However, it seems Bethsoft doesn't even release patches, since I have found issues in the game that people posted about back in the release days already. Again, this is just typical Bethesda. The moment they change game engine and mods aren't possible anymore, is when their company will die, since the community can't fix their bull**** anymore.
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What are you Playing Now? - the man sez Video games are bad for you - fight the man!
God damnit, Starfield is such a typical Bethesda product, it's not even funny. You look at the world and stuff and it really feels like this could be something. I really like the visual design and even the way the gameplay feels, with exception of annoying bullet sponge enemies. But then at the end of the day it's still just a Bethesda game -- wide as an ocean and deep as a puddle. There was a quest with some collector dude that started out really interesting. You had to get an artifact from him in whatever way you want... yeah, right. Either you shoot him dead or you shoot him until he gives up and let him live. Great choices. If this quest were in an Obsidian game, you just know you had at least 3 or 4 ways to deal with the situation. Now I had a quest where you have to get some super dangerous top secret data from an archive. All the time on the way to that point people kept telling me how I have to be on my best behavior, how I can only access the data I need, how I am NOT supposed to look at anything else... Well, guess what... Once I was in the archive, I had to press 3 buttons to open a door, walk down a corridor and basically press another button. THERE WAS NOTHING ELSE. You couldn't do anything else, even if you wanted to. There is no way not "to behave", there is no way to look up any other data. Nothing. It's a linear corridor. I swear, the writers must have a word budget of less than 250 words per NPC, otherwise I can't explain this crap. In the main story I had to talk to one person from each big religious faction about some mythical mumbo jumbo. How does that interaction look like? Player can ask 3 questions and the NPC replies with maybe 2 or 4 lines. End of it is you saying "Hm yes, now I understand everything" - meanwhile I'm sitting here like wtf did just happen. EVERYTHING in this game is like that. What's the point of a gazillion quests if all of them are like this. Please just scrap 50% of them and instead make everything else 50% bigger... At this point, the only good quests in the game are the ones that are (almost) unmarked and entirely localized in small areas. Where you don't constantly fast travel from one planet to the next to a point where you lose the sense of scale in the world, because everything is a black loading screen away anyways. Man, it's such a shame. This could be so good, but it's... Bethesda. It's the same crap every time with all of their games. This is why I stopped bothering with Fo4 and why I would have never even tried Starfield if it weren't included in Game Pass. Deep inside, I knew this is exactly what the game would be like, and I can already tell you now that TES6 will be exactly the same. /Edit: My companion just told me she is part of House Va'ruun. NO ****. Please, man, don't insult my intelligence. That was obvious from the very first moment. She even wears clothes that are like whatever the Va'ruun guys are wearing and now I was forced to act all surprised and what not. If at least my character could be like "yeah, I kinda expected that" ... but nope... "wow, you lied to me, this is so disrespectful." ... bruh, just stop.
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What are you Playing Now? - the man sez Video games are bad for you - fight the man!
LoversLab adult alien mods is the only way to play games. No. I just like the aesthetics. It feels very NASA. Also I like that robot companion from the beginning of the game. A lot of the writing is really cringe and bad, but occasionally you find a little gem that is interesting and you'll start to actually like that character. Also I like those big town locations that I have seen so far. They look really nice and do feel somewhat alive. Not as alive as Cyberpunk 2077, but still.. a lot better than in older Bethsoft games. I've installed a bunch of mods already that fix issues and change things I don't like. There are bugs that Bethsoft still didn't fix yet.. and they are in the game since release a couple years ago. This is just so typical Bethsoft. They release something and then move on, not bothering about it anymore, because "the community will fix it" ... just terrible practice all around.