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Come on now, I think everyone’s tried the ol’ teeth-with-pliers trick at least once in their life.

Depends on why they’re so anti-AI. AI slop replacing artists isn’t the only harm it causes.

Seasons 5 and 6 were noticeably worse than the first four, but I still enjoyed them. Season 7 was bad, but not show ruining bad. Had it gotten even a decent season 8, I think it would have been an amazing show all around. Not flawless 10/10 material, no, but still a great show.

Season 8 was honestly impressive in just how many plot points it threw down a well. Jamie’s redemption? Nah, screw that noise, he changed his mind. And I don’t think I’ve ever felt so deflated after S8E3. 8 years of buildup and that’s how they end it? What a monumental waste of time it turned out to be.

If they didn’t try to subvert expectations by royally fucking up season 8 so badly that it ruined the entire show for me, it would have been Game of Thrones.

So instead I’ll say Avatar the Last Airbender. Honestly an amazing show, and to this day its the only show I’ve managed to rewatch without getting bored and dropping it.

Perhaps, but my only point is that the CEO likely isn’t pro-trump. I’ve seen zero evidence for that aside from him publicly supporting a single decision the guy made.

A lot of it, I’m sure… 2025 had plenty of huge releases. Just off the top of my head, we’ve got the aforementioned Silksong, Expedition 33, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, Nightreign, ARC Raiders, and Dispatch.

Only 2% new releases for me. Literally just Peak and then a couple of trials for games like Trails in the Sky, all of which individually account for <1% of my total play time this year.

I didn’t pick up any new games this year that I can think of despite how good of a year it’s apparently been for new releases. I almost exclusively play multiplayer games with lots of replay value, so I don’t mind going a few years without a new game. I’ve mostly played a lot of Helldivers 2, Phasmophobia, Remnant: From the Ashes, Risk of Rain 2, Terraria, and Tabletop Simulator.

Risk of Rain 2 in particular has been a lot of fun recently. It got a new DLC about a month ago, so I guess I did technically get something new. It’s easily the best DLC for the game yet, and the new boss fights are a massive step up in quality compared to any others in the game.

The only singleplayer game I’ve been playing a bit of is Minecraft. I picked up GregTech: New Horizons, a minecraft modpack, a bit earlier this year just to see how far in it I could get before getting bored. GT:NH apparently has a ridiculous average completion time of 2,500 hours of active gameplay for experienced solo players, and I have quite literally never touched a tech mod in my life, so I have no delusions about ever actually finishing it. But it’s been fun so far.

Andy Yen (the CEO) supported one single choice trump made, because he felt it would be good for little tech and bad for big tech. He never stated he supported trump or even the republican party as a whole. The whole thing got blown out of the water by redditors attacking the comment with no regard to context because every single thing a republican (and especially trump) does has to be evil, even if it’s good for us. Ignoring the fact that Proton has publicly criticized trump on a number of occasions and donates millions to liberal organizations.

Here’s a great analysis made with sources and reasoning provided throughout the whole thing, with the author ultimately concluding that they believe Andy is far more likely to be a liberal than pro-trump or MAGA. Again, with actual sources and reasoning rather than one context-less tweet.

I would never call HD2 an extraction shooter. Extraction is a completely optional objective at the end of the mission, as you succeed with or without successfully extracting, and even still get all of your rewards aside from samples. It’s such a minor part of the game that the store page doesn’t even mention it once as a feature. So sure, while you do shoot things and try to extract, for the same reason HD2 isn’t an RTS just because you need to make strategic decisions in real time, HD2 is far removed from the extraction shooter genre and fits significantly better into the team horde shooter genre.

And honestly, the rogue-like/lite distinction is a lost cause IMO. Even people into the genres will continue to call games like the Binding of Isaac a rogue-like until the end of time.

I agree there’s no way to know how this will turn out with what we know. At the end of the day, it’s all speculation about something we have no info on.

Rogue-likes/lites and horde shooters are entirely unrelated genres with very minor overlaps, so I don’t see why you think that.

And yet, more than a few people were happy to engage with it. Maybe you should take your own advice; not every thought needs to be commented.

All six of my characters are worth only 1!

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Stadium is pretty fun. Once it came out, I played it exclusively from then on. I eventually uninstalled OW a few seasons ago, I just don’t have the self control needed to play that game as a Mercy main, lol. I’m a sucker for cosmetics, especially now that I could actually see the skins in 3rd person thanks to stadium.

The studio themselves admitted to it about a day ago.

I’m not disagreeing with you, the publisher didn’t have this info yet when they made their decision after all. I just wanted to note they definitely did use AI. And looking at their other games, the usage of AI is very obvious. Which makes me wonder if the publisher is just being insincere about actually caring about AI being used.

I mean, look at this shit… https://store.steampowered.com/app/3642560/SCP_Control_Error/

I like the way you think.

An interesting test, I guess. I got scored as 80% explorer, 40% achiever and socialite, and 17% killer. While the killer score being so low is pretty spot on, I can’t really agree with the rest. Many a time throughout the test, I had to pick between two options I would never do. For example, one of the questions was (paraphrasing):

“Somebody PK’d you. Do you want to find out why and convince them not to do it again, or do you plan your revenge?”

My answer would have been neither. I got killed in a game with PVP, that happens, I’ll just move on. But I had to pick the top option, despite how ridiculous the idea of finding out why a PKer just PK’d me is. Which I imagine pushes me further into the socialite category, despite quite literally never socializing with random people in games.

I don’t think they would try to kill java edition. It’s not like the past decade of mods are going anywhere, and java players aren’t exactly known for being afraid to play on older versions. The most popular modpack is for 1.12.2. Hell, I recently found out most modern features have been back-ported via mods to at least 1.7.10 with older version inspired retextures and all. I don’t see why that wouldn’t continue to happen, even if Microsoft stopped officially updating this version of the game.

And I doubt most of the people still playing on Java have any interest whatsoever in the bedrock marketplace. So they’d lose all of their goodwill with a massive chunk of the community, and for what?

I mean, it’s not like people were miraculously born with the knowledge of what CP meant. That had to be learned just like CSAM.

God, it’s been years since I’ve done that.

I had Minecraft on the Xbox 360 when I was younger and would get up to all kinds of shenanigans with my friends, usually involving TNT. Like building the most impressive boat or castle we could, and then launching TNT at each other to see who could destroy all of the other players’ cannons first. If we had 4 players, each team would have a bowman trying to slow down the person shooting TNT.

Once creative mode was added it was a game changer, but even before that point we would dupe hundreds of stacks of TNT with a glitch I can’t remember (though I do recall it involved a furnace).