ConstableJelly

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago

Is that a Trump "Tim Apple" reference? I wouldn't have even noticed if you hadn't called it out.

 

How an off-hours project, a rising YouTuber, and a unique Discord-driven release strategy came together for a game-of-the-year candidate.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

OSS 117

A goofy, Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker-adjacent spy spoof from France. Stunningly, the same director and male and female leads wouldater collaborate on 2011's Oscar winning The Artist.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Demo still doesn't actually seem to be on the store yet, if anyone else was looking.

Update: Hadn't been able to find it in the PS App but it is downloadable from the store directly on the playstation.

 

I heard about this game on Reddit a while ago, maybe a couple years. I've been keeping an eye on it, hoping it captures some of Subnautica's magic. The developers in that reddit thread excitedly claimed Subnautica is a huge inspiration for them, so I'm eager to see what comes of it.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago

A while ago, like mid-to-late aughts maybe, it was in vogue to joke about Ben Affleck being a shitty actor. I haven't seen all his roles and granted I'm sure he's had his duds, but the existence of the Dogma parking garage scene was always evidence enough to me that he had the chops.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No judgement on his skill as a producer but Kinberg sucks as a writer from what I've seen of his. He strikes me as a studio-friendly hack, and this is a dumb move to keep the franchise "safe" rather than trying better to make it interesting.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

I suspect he didn't remember what it was and took a gamble on the reporter's qualification that Johnson had voted against it and Trump opposed it, rather than sounding uninformed. Otherwise it's just an extraordinarily stupid thing to admit in this situation.

[–] [email protected] 130 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

Many noted a striking similarity to the case of Savita Halappavanar, a 31-year-old woman who died of septic shock in 2012 after providers in Ireland refused to empty her uterus while she was miscarrying at 17 weeks. When she begged for care, a midwife told her, “This is a Catholic country.” The resulting investigation and public outcry galvanized the country to change its strict ban on abortion.

But in the wake of deaths related to abortion access in the United States, leaders who support restricting the right have not called for any reforms.

My country's aptitude for remaining entirely unmoved by preventable tragedies that utterly upend political trajectories in other nations has become one of our most globally defining traits.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Video clip of the comment and aftermath during discussion (via twitter): https://x.com/Acyn/status/1851085909435039789

"Are you a supporter of Hamas?"

"Are you a racist, violent person inciting violence against me?"

 

Sad but fairly deserved ending for one of the greatest media failures in recent years.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, what happened. They take it down?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

So close to great. I wish more developers were making environmentally detailed, high production value, single player linear games like Callisto Protocol. Just that little bit better executed to round out the total package.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh, I meant to mention the map, I know a lot of people take issue with it. It's certainly unusual and makes hundred-percenting item collection challenging. There are some maze-like areas with different levers you have to pull in certain orders that I'm undecided if they were improved by having less information.

Definitely a point of contention though, to say the least.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

With dynamic pricing, ad partnerships, add-on fees, etc., terms like "cheapest" mean nothing to me. Which, I assume, is why the word is in quotes in the headline to begin with.

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Really disappointed in this response. I've got a soft spot for the first Greedfall, and Steelrising holds a prominent spot in my backlog. As they're a "AA" studio, I've had this idea of them as a scrappy, passionate team, but this response is tone-deaf and contentious, lacking any compassion for the concerns of the workers, favoring lukewarm platitudes ("we are determined to maintain an inclusive and stimulating working environment in which every talent can flourish and of which we can all be proud”) and even a clumsy advertisement for Greedfall 2.

 

Has anyone played the Enotria demo? I played about 15 minutes, getting just outside the tutorial area. I've been playing Elden Ring a lot lately and...Enotria just feels bad to play. Credit to the developers for the interesting setting and concept (masks and loudouts), but it's frustrating that it's such a direct copy of the FromSoftware formula. The combat mechanics, UI, enemy behavior, sound design, and level design are so egregiously imitative that its comparative shortcomings in all those areas are hyper-noticeable.

I haven't played many non-FromSoftware soulslikes like Lies of P or Steelrising (or even, candidly, most of the actual Souls games - just BloodBorne, Demon's Souls Remake, and Elden Ring), but I'd hope they were more taking inspiration and doing something meaningfully different that you can't get from a brand-name Souls game, rather than settling for what feels like a Kidz Bop version of the real deal.

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