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I’m just a weird, furry, pan guy (cis he/him). I also have a big, blue username.

  • I always smell like smoke
  • Everything’s just a joke
  • I’m just wasting hope
  • I could not thread the rope
  • My pocket’s broke

And these are not even all of the infinitesimal things you can find wrong with me.

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Cake day: October 6th, 2024

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  • I think the term “open world” is mostly meaningless these days. Skyrim, for example, is called an open world game. But… It’s not? At least not by the definition that “open world” originally meant, which literally was just a continuous game world with no loading screens between areas.

    Now it just kinda means “game with big outside map.” Unless I can walk into a building without seeing a load screen, I don’t consider it to be truly open world.

    Dark Souls is a true open world game, even though it’s not big or has vast open fields, while, again, Skyrim is not because going into a cave, or a house, or even a major city, requires loading a new level, breaking up the world.






  • For DLSS/FSR/other upscalers: Unless the game is optimized like shit or your hardware is getting on in years, you can literally just not use those. They’re only meant to give you a little boost if needed. If you can run the game at high frame rates on the settings you want without them, they’re not even going to do anything but make the experience worse.

    DOF, motion blur Chromatic Aberration, lens flares, bloom, etc: These are the first things I would disable in any game, ever made to use them, because they suck anyway.

    I do hate how often in newer games, the only AA options are some bullshit that just smears vasoline on the edges of everything, though. But you could simply turn off AA in the game and force enable it via the GPU settings. Loads of standardized options are available from the GPU control panel on both AMD and nVidia cards and you can always force those and disable the game’s methods entirely.


  • Kingdom Come: Deliverance 1 and 2 have an awesome main story line with writing that makes me feel like I am playing video game sequels to A Knight’s Tale.

    But then it also has some pretty yawn inducing stuff, too, that might be interesting to history buffs since it takes place in real life, during real historical events in Bohemia. A lot of politics and nobility dick-waving. I skipped through a lot of random side quest dialogue because it was just an hour of discussing politics. 🤣

    Disco Elysium tho is hands down the best written game I’ve ever played. We need more video games to be written by actual authors. It also just has an insane amount of branching paths and differences in how you play that mostly appear in dialogue, but also just wearing different clothing can change things dramatically.