PatheticGroundThing

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World of Warcraft lead thinks the MMO will still be "kicking" in 10 years, but despite having ideas for "the very long run," Blizzard is currently focusing "on the next 5 years" in c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca
[–] PatheticGroundThing@beehaw.org 1 points 1 week ago

Combat is 90% of the game, if those visual aid and info mods don't work in it then they might as well not exist.

Flotsam, an exploration city-builder where you scavenge the oceans and explore the flooded remnants of the old world with your floating colony, released on Steam. in c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca
[–] PatheticGroundThing@beehaw.org 2 points 1 week ago

Not apart from the theme. This is a singleplayer city-builder / colony management sim, not a first-person co-op survival-crafting-basebuilding game.

ID photos of 70,000 users may have been leaked, Discord says in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] PatheticGroundThing@beehaw.org 5 points 2 months ago

From https://www.theverge.com/news/797051/discord-government-ids-leaked-data-breach :

Of the accounts impacted globally, we have identified approximately 70,000 users that may have had government-ID photos exposed, which our vendor used to review age-related appeals.

So they only demand your ID if they've somehow decided that you're underage and you want to appeal that.

Diablo Devs Unionize Following Layoffs And Dissatisfaction With AI, Pay | Aftermath in c/gaming@beehaw.org
[–] PatheticGroundThing@beehaw.org 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's just a journalist thing to replace an 'and' with a comma. The devs are dissatisfied with AI and pay.

Would you rather stop playing a game than lower the difficulty? The First Berserker: Khazan devs reckon you would | Eurogamer in c/gaming@beehaw.org
[–] PatheticGroundThing@beehaw.org 8 points 4 months ago

I would if I could, but Dying Light didn't have that option. It also didn't have the option to let me quit a mission after I got softlocked behind a room full of bullet sponge enemies, having run out of every resource because those stay gone for good even when you die and reload.

So yeah, I quit that game.

'Friendslop' Isn't Real, But People Love Posting About It Anyway | Aftermath in c/gaming@beehaw.org
[–] PatheticGroundThing@beehaw.org 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

These games can be good, but I've always felt that selling a game primarily on being "fun with friends" is an extremely weak point. Everything is fun with friends. Watching grass grow is fun with friends.

Phil Spencer Will Allegedly Retire as CEO After Next-Gen Console Launch in c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca
Gooner game of the year Stellar Blade's mods are 41% smut, ensuring gamers will never see the light of heaven in c/gaming@beehaw.org
[–] PatheticGroundThing@beehaw.org 22 points 6 months ago (6 children)

Would be nice if this place could refrain from sliding into reactionary conservatism even ironically.

Hideo Kojima says he’s left staff a ‘USB stick of game ideas’ for after he dies | The Metal Gear creator says he wants Kojima Productions to continue creating original games after his death in c/gaming@beehaw.org
[–] PatheticGroundThing@beehaw.org 18 points 7 months ago (1 children)

any studio

This is one with his name on it.

Depending on how detailed the material he leaves behind is (or how detailed they want to pretend it is) they could likely still get some mileage out of it. We might end up with a Tom Clancy situation.

Why Steam can be considered a monopolistic platform? in c/gaming@beehaw.org
[–] PatheticGroundThing@beehaw.org 16 points 10 months ago

I live in constant dread of the day Gaben kicks the bucket and Steam is carved up by bloodsucking profit-chasers

UK Orders Apple To Break Encryption Worldwide While World Is Distracted in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] PatheticGroundThing@beehaw.org 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm sure the majority of people literally do not care.

NHS hospitals gear up to get cyberattack systems back online • The Register in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] PatheticGroundThing@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago

Also hospitals in general are loath to replace any digital system that still works. That's time that their already overworked personnel have to dedicate to learning new systems, potential new bugs and quirks that might have actual severe consequences for patients, etc.

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