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I don't know what 'stumble into a grey area of wokeness' is supposed to mean.

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CADE FOSTER posted...

another flop for ms damn

This is a multiplat game so you don't need to be a fanboy over this one.

Previews overall seem pretty glowing.

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TheGoldenEel posted...

on one hand Im extremely excited, on the other this game had such troubled development that Im not sure if I can have high hopes

The last few years were spent adding content they were originally going to remove due to lack of budget as far as I know. The Microsoft purchase gave them the extra time to develop the game they wanted to make.

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Remember when Tom Clancy games meant they were military sims?

In the last generation it gradually went from;

• Post apocalyptic looter shooter
• Alien coop shooter
• Class based hero shooter with 'punk rock' aesthetic

All it means now is "This is a shooter from Ubisoft that isn't Far Cry."

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I just remembered I had like a frying pan or something to blend in as a cook which I don't think I used.

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Doom_Art posted...

This isn't really true lol

"Giant open world" is a big genre nowadays but I can't think of another game that is similar to BotW's approach

BOTW and Death Stranding are the only two games where I feel like traversing and exploring the open world is an integral part of the gameplay design and even both of those have drastically different interpretations of it.

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Wii_Shaker posted...

I wonder why they never considered making a non-portable version of the switch.

I imagine it would be cheaper to design and manufacture than a console with a screen.

I'm sure it exists in a Nintendo building somewhere. I think they're saving it as a budget model for when sales slow down which hasn't actually happened yet.

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I think it was the letter L

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https://twitter.com/NintendoCoLtd/status/1416986988658397185

They're probably lying but then again Steam Deck didn't go for an OLED screen so maybe it's a very expensive part lol.

Then again lying about a higher profit margin to investors seems pretty baffling so I dunno.

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I am a road crew worker. This is my stop sign.

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Played through this level for the first time. I know I've read "The Milkman Conspiracy" over the years but didn't really know what to expect. God damn. What a trippy and surreal ride this level was. Voice acting and character design was great. Wouldn't surprise me if this gave kids nightmares back in the day.

Playing this game is really making me excited to see what they're gonna deliver with the sequel after all of these years. Seeing this concept with modern tech is gonna be so good. This game already seems to get better and better as it goes on.

I cracked up at one of the secret agents saying "When everyone gets a mobile phone this job will no longer be relevant" and remembering this game came out before smartphones.

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DespondentDeity posted...

im obviously not not angry at that? I just dont like the TCs attitude of treating all of this like its not a nuanced issue? But I guess Im the bad guy for understanding that theres more to unpack with this whole issue than being like lol America + guns m i rite

An 8 year old has lived through two shootings. Where's the nuance you want him to talk about?

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DespondentDeity posted...

then shut the fuck up

Imagine getting angry at the TC instead of the fact that an 8 year old has survived two separate shootings.

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Antifar posted...

I do like the music in the recent Hitman games, but I rarely see it in this sort of discussion. Why 2 specifically?

I have a feeling he means Silent Assassin.

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I think people are really taking a deleted scene in Space Jam 2 a bit too seriously. Pepe is still a character they use. It's not like he's blacklisted.

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Is it a coincidence that the one Nintendo protagonist who had Mario as a villain has been missing for two decades? Sounds like Mario buried his shady past.

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The original Donkey Kong is now Cranky Kong. He is the grandfather of the modern Donkey Kong who wears the tie. So that must mean Donkey Kong Jr is his father.

But his last time appearing as a playable character was 21 years ago in Mario Tennis.

His last appearance seems to be Tropical Freeze which has an image of OG Donkey Kong holding up a Game Pad with an image of Donkey Kong Jr. Is he looking for his son?

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Graycap posted...

Some attractive people do fine without these skills. And besides, you can be good at other types of socializing but just not not approaching and escalating with women.

The attractive people you're envying have social skills.

The better social life you have the more you interact with women and the more opportunities you have to make a connection with someone. We haven't all approached our girlfriends and wives as total strangers in a bar with a cheesy pick-up line.

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Graycap posted...

In some guys' cases there's nothing more they can do. If you're permanently shy and awkward and need to be approached to get anywhere, not being attractive is a death sentence.

Being able to approach and talk to people is a standard skill people need to learn to actually succeed at life. It goes beyond dating.

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HylianFox posted...

Yeah, I was gonna say the movie clearly takes a "being popular is bad" stance, what with secularism and worldliness and all.

True Christians(TM) are hated and oppressed. Never mind self-fulfilling prophecies because they act like asshats.

It's ridiculous due to how much the US Government already panders to Christians. Such fragile babies. Is this movie even based on anything or are they writing fan fiction on being oppressed?

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Zikten posted...

They are. The movie is going to say the majority are wrong and evil and the noble Christians are the oppressed outnumbered good guys

So according to Christian Protagonist only Christians are 'the people' heh

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Attractive people having an advantage in social settings isn't anymore shocking than outgoing people having an advantage.

The problem is they use it as an excuse to give up.

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It's always one of those games I want to play but never get around to it. I think it's gonna happen soon though.

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If the evil politician and his buddies have an 83% approval rating how are they not working for the people?

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Streets of Rage 4
Half-Life Alyx
Yakuza: Like a Dragon

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https://twitter.com/Xbox/status/1416132855927816192?s=19

They gave GameCube more love than Nintendo does


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CADE FOSTER posted...

looks like i may get the 399 one need a new pc and this seems like the best bang for the buck since every thing else is super expensive and xbox series and ps5 are not available at all

Just be sure your expectations are in the right place. This isn't gonna run games like a next gen console. It's still gonna be compromised by being a handheld in some form.

It's perfect for emulators, indies and last gen games (the newer the game the more you'll need to compromise on settings and framerate) so if you have those expectations and actually want to play those games on a portable you'll have a great time.

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If they can figure out a way to easily scale Xbox Series games to it then yeah sure I guess.

Probably a tough endeavor but maybe it'll happen one day.

Turbam posted...

Wait...steam handheld should be able to get gamepads, right?

Yes. Although it'll probably need some tinkering. You'll need to go out of your way to install Windows on it I think.

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Alpha218 posted...

Meanwhile the people that make these claims probably eat up all of the samey pixel indie games

Eh I'd say it's more from people who look down on indie and 2D games.

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After The Night Manager Tom Hiddleston would be great. But time on that one is running out if it hasn't already.

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Trumble posted...

Yeah, whoever made that failed maths big-time. 18.2 * 2 = 36.4, not 29.8. (If those measurements are right in the first place, which I'm not sure either way about.)

Or in other words, it's much closer to one and a half Vitas than to two Vitas.

Haha yes you're right. Teaches me for looking at the pretty picture instead of the numbers.

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Big boy

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People saying this device kills Nintendo when you can buy first party Sony and Microsoft games on its store smh

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RedWhiteBlue posted...

I'm not sure how the touch pads will revolutionize anything, if that's even the intent. But lots of PC games have more unique control options than console games. For example, an MMO might have dozens of key bindings for a massive action bar + controls + chat + shortcuts + menus.

What I rarely ever see is a game that allows for keybind combinations, even on PC. Something like Shift+F for PC, or RB+A for controller. That would be a very strong solution. The only game in recent memory that has done this for consoles is Destiny 2, albeit fairly limited in some ways.

You can bind shotcuts like that on the Steam OS.

Although playing an MMO on a 7 inch screen sounds horrible. A lot of games aren't going to be ideal for this. That's unavoidable with a system like this.

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RedWhiteBlue posted...

Can we just get a damn handheld that actually works by having double the buttons? So many developers struggle to get a good control scheme working when there are only a few buttons to work with. We need to move on from the same setups with every handheld.

What do you mean? It has all of the same buttons as a modern controller and two touch pads and rear buttons on top of that.

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EmbraceOfDeath posted...

Lmao this reminds me of when PSABR was coming out and the Sony fanboys kept insisting it would be the Smash killer.

Remember when TemTem was gonna kill Pokemon

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The IGN does a better job selling it than the Steam page.

As long as people don't expect it to be like the Switch and instead a literal portable PC I think they'll like it. I'm curious to see how smooth it is to use for games that aren't on Steam.

But considering this isn't even launching in Australia and I doubt Steam will manufacture a lot I think it's gonna be a long wait for it to even be an option for me.

I also think this sort of form factor would be perfect for Xbox considering they've already got that lower spec Xbox Series S profile. Maybe in a few years that'll be possible.

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Alpha218 posted...

Uh, that is the point of a new console revision unless its explicitly meant as a budget alternative

Well typically the OG model would get a price cut (or have already had one) and the new version would be the future standard model to maintain the price. In this case the OG model has no price cut and isn't being replaced so this new one is even more expensive model even though it barely has any improvements and costs only $10 more to manufacture.

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My problem with emulation and I'm like this with whatever platform I'm on is that I spend a chunk of time organizing the library, checking several games to see how they run and then I just stop and never actually play through a game.

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2-8 hours of battery life? Oof. The most random games will probably guzzle it too.

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Damn_Underscore posted...

The Wii U was just a major marketing failure, if they had called it anything else it could have been successful.

The Switch is just Nintendo going back to what they did with the Wii, DS, and 3DS

Switch is actually more successful than both the Wii and 3DS. It already outsold the 3DS. IIRC they're more profitable than they have ever been currently.

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Kloe_Rinz posted...

anyone who thought about it for a few moments

I think you're forgetting how little confidence people had in Nintendo 5 years ago.

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Rain_Dust posted...

Then use any controller?

That seems to defeat the purpose of using it as a portable system?

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Switch is so damn successful they are confident in increasing the price for the new model instead of decreasing it. Who would have predicted this in 2016?

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UnfairRepresent posted...

No its firmly established that the timeline has no good or evil morality, it Is set out this way to ensure there is no ultimate showdown of ultimate destiny.

It's firmly established that The One Who Remains established the prime timeline.

UnfairRepresent posted...

Think about it for 2 seconds. Not only does the show say this repeatedly, the dude lives alone in a castle, bored and miserable. Thats not a perfect life of a ruler

He did all this to save life yet allowed Thanos to wipe out half of the universe he vowed to save... why?

Because he had to. Every one of those people would be variants.

This timeline is not one he wants it's one he constructed to ensure the survival of life itself. The ruler was a miserable puppet who welcomed death.

He doesn't care about Thanos. He just prunes timelines to stop other Kang's from existing. He explicitly says this. His final warning is that they'll see them soon.

You're making up stuff that wasn't said in the show. He offered Loki and Sylvie a chance to do what they want and make their own timeline. There was no indication he was lying. Loki specifically says he wasn't lying.

Fundamentally a multiverse war only exists if there's a multiverse. A prime timeline can be whatever the 'keeper' deems it to be.

UnfairRepresent posted...

Exactly. They have to ensure this timeline works out in exactly the right perfect way to ensure no one can threaten life itself.

Nope. Just the alternative Kangs.

UnfairRepresent posted...

You listened to this dude for 30 minutes and your takeaway was that he was a Dong Zhuoesq giddy happy despot dictator living the perfect life in the perfect universe he hand crafted to be exactly the way he wanted out of his desires and joy?

He won the multiverse war, lived an eternity, knows literally everything and is bored of it. There's a lot that's still unknown about him. I doubt he just sat in the citadel and did nothing after he established the TVA.

UnfairRepresent posted...

*And just to add to that, FemLokis psychic powers which are so weak they don't work on Loki because his mind is too strong

But work on the Langolier. That's how weak its mind is

It's a mindless beast so yeah.

It was stuck in the void of time as a way to protect the citadel. The multiverse being open again presumably means new ones can come back yes.

Like the TVA have rods that destroyed timelines. It's not some super special thing in the context of this show.

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UnfairRepresent posted...

No he can't. as the dude explained the perfect timeline had to ensure 0 more variants

The calls he made weren't what he wanted, they were to keep the timeline. If Loki decides to keep Asgard around, then that will create more variants.

Again they establish this in the show. Any alterations to this one perfect timeline will create more variants which will result in the war continuing, the timeline where only one dude remains on top is specific and has to be maintained

The 'perfect timeline' according to He Who Remains. The one where he is in control. It's perfect to him. Nothing was said that this had to be the only timeline where this method works. Again Loki and Sylvie were offered a new timeline.

There just needs to be one timeline. Whoever is in that position can make the timeline into whatever they want it to be. Loki could make the timeline into whatever he wanted. There can't be variants without multiple timelines. Without multiple timelines there's no multiverse war.

If it was a perfect timeline there'd be no need for pruning. But they had to prune constantly.

Loki could even fuck around and prune any timeline he messed with. The person on that position has infinite knowledge and power and the resources to remove any consequence of they're willing to prune entire timelines and universes.

UnfairRepresent posted...

Castle dude literally whined about how tired and bored he was, he had nothing. That was the point, he talked for so long you literally forgot what he was saying

Because he knew everything that was going to happen. Not because he was stuck in a room doing nothing.

UnfairRepresent posted...

That "cosmic space dog" is literally the entire focal point of how the characters in the show achieve their goals.

And there's no mystery with it. You just don't like the explanation. A cosmic beast spawned due to a multiverse war and eats timelines. Sylvie found a way to control it just like He Who Remains did. It's not that important.

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I am assuming after they're done with FFVII Remake (whenever that is) they'll look at other games to remake.

Even Final Fantasy Origin: Strangers in Paradise is supposed to be some sort of remake of the first game right?

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Questionmarktarius posted...

There was some TV show where John Goodman became a buff twenty-something dude, and it got cancelled on a cliffhanger.

Twin Peaks explicitly ends things on cliffhangers without the intention of ever actually revisiting it again lol

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Yeah the entire point of a cliffhanger for a TV show is to get you to watch the next season to see what happens lol

Some of you guys must have got really angry at Lost season finales lol

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Aliens has Halo and Metroid
Matrix has Max Payne and any game with bullet time
MCU has the current studio logos for Xbox and PlayStation

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