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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • Article title is click bait. They are not referring to the starting price, but the fact that more recent consoles don’t drop in price within a year or two like the older ones did.

    Also, I disagree with the premise because modern consoles tend to start at a lower relative price which could mean they are more accurately guessing the market value up front or maybe the older ones were priced to gather as much income as fast as possible on the original release and the cost drop was to get rid of excess stock.


  • City stuff can be fun or frustrating!

    The tall buildings can block orbitals, line of sight for large stuff can make killing shots a lot more difficult than on most maps, and trying to cut through buildings can lead to walking right into a horde of infantry type stuff. On the other hand, watching the human support teams get a kill or two before dying can be pretty entertaining!






  • Pretty sure you could narrow down the individual reviews displayed by language, but the calculated rating were still all reviews or by time frame.

    Some games may have translation issues, specific cultural references and so on. Valve feel this language-based review score will help to capture these issues and that “Calculating a language-specific review score means that we can better distil the sentiment of these different groups of customers, and in doing so, better serve potential customers that belong to those groups”.






  • They could easily identify the worst hackers just based on the game play data without needing to actually confirm that they have cheats installed.

    Snapping between spread out people to get a half dozen head shots in a quarter second? Hacking.

    Locking on to someone behind a wall? Hacking.

    Hacks that nullify recoil? They should be able to tell by unrealistically precise counter movements.

    Sure, games can occasionally have network issues that result in these kinds of things but if someone does it regularly then it isn’t a networking thing.



  • The last game that I remember that needed a disc to play was Battlefield 1942 and I made a virtual drive with an ISO so I didn’t need to put the stupid disc in every time and listen to it spin up. Current PC doesn’t have a drive at all.

    While I think a lot of the old box art was neat and all, I don’t miss the physical requirements that took up space and all the manual updates and whatnot. Absolutely love steam’s digital store and if that ever shits the bed and there isn’t an alternate I will just stop PC gaming because the effort to manage all that stuff isn’t worth it any more. Music and movies are the same, the physical media was nice for its time but I don’t need to interact with it to use it anymore.





  • The driving is just fun, both the open world and the races are a blast. The map could be more varied, but still has enough variety to play around both on and off road. It looks great and they did a great job of adding content over time.

    I thought the story stuff was cringy and painful to listen too, but other than powering through it to unlock races and other things that doesn’t get in the way too much and doesn’t take that long. Turning off the character voices was the best setting change!