u/ElectricGhostMan

I thought it was interesting to see this kind of phenomenon happen to a woman centered gacha game. I'd seen a few Video Essays about this kind of harassment of developers by a disgruntled base for a bunch of Gacha games in South Korea mostly by Men and very biasedly thought this was something only guys would participate in. I have seen in other places that a lot of the complaints from the game's Chinese Base were that the character looked "gay," was too "dark-skinned" and was made to appeal to a "Western Audience," pejoratively. It doesn't sound very different from a lot of what grifters say about a variety of games, series and characters that are produced in the "West."

On one hand I think it's somewhat cool to see that these problematic behaviors are not exclusive to just men, grifters and their bases in the West. On the other hand I do wonder if this just shows how problematic something in our society has become where gambling for virtual personal interactions are sweeping up so many players. I do play Pokemon Pocket and have played Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links in the past but these kinds of gacha games and what they cause people to do IRL seem really different. I also do laugh at how I see all the characters in this deepspace game and think all the characters including the new guy look very same-y but then again I guess it shows the difference between Male and Female gaze focused designs.

Steam Machine sold out in a day. People already buying phones for almost $1K-2K every year on financed plans. Multiple sold listings of Pre-Orders for GTA VI on Ebay. It's just hard for me to believe that $1000 consoles are going to be some final straw for gamers at large.

I think the only time I remember seeing a true adverse reaction to sticker shock that resulted in a meaningful and true price cut was with the 3DS getting slashed from $250 to like $180.

I'm not trying to be some anti-treaterlite or anti-consumer guy because I know at the base level we all do just love games, but it does feel like the worst people just get to exploit the masses at large yet again and after seeing SKG starting to fall apart, the most I or a lot of people can do is just yap and cling to old games/platforms.

For people who looking to see some cool indies. Dioxide and Paperhead definitely have my attention out of this. Some of the horror games towards the end like Feed It, Broken Lore: Don't Lie and Un:Me also have me excited to check them out when they drop.

Thought this was an interesting enough video that fully encapsulates a lot of what I and I'm sure many others deplore about gaming discourse on social media. While I think SecondWind does a good job of identifying the issues, giving multiple examples of the worst cases from just the past few months and how they comb their own community, I feel it doesn't go far enough because it stops short of how to widely correct the problem.

Would a block list or similar kind of passive order to avoid a group of content creators work? just something to reduce the sway or impressions of a lot of the professional hater and engagement farming creators. I guess it's not super dissimilar from the dei/woke/sbi detected type of game lists but I really am clueless as to what else can be done about these creators and influencers who profit off infighting and degeneration of the gaming space.

When clean installing drivers what do you prefer as a driver removal tool? After the past year of driver related issues from both windows updates and adrenaline installs, I've resigned myself to do complete Driver Reinstalls after doing a DDU and I don't think my PC has ever ran better since adopting this practice. I've recently learned about the AMD cleanup utility and was thinking about giving it a try just to see for myself. Yesterday, two of my friends both used AMD Cleanup Utility and one was totally fine while we had to spend 2 hours on a call to troubleshoot with him after it "nuked" his display drivers. For those who have used both, which do you prefer?

AC Shadows was the first AC game that had garnered enough interest in me to check out since I dropped the first game about half way through when it came out back on the 360 almost 20 years ago now. While playing it off the Uplay+ subscription service to beat it within the month, I did mostly enjoy my time with it but could understand how many may have developed open world fatigue from repetitive tasks over the previous entries and felt the ending was bland set up to be sell a real ending as DLC later on. Truly a 7/10 of a game which I think should be respectable but just not for $70 and I think if I didn't play it for $20 I'd probably feel more slighted about it.

Throughout my experience with Shadows a lot of my friends were telling me to just drop it or forget it and play Ghosts of Tsushima now that it had launched on PC. Personally I just don't like the idea of paying for the Sony PC Ports for more than $30 because while the art is timeless they are treated as products and by the time they launch they are old and quickly go on sale and you can find the physical PS5 editions for under $20. I made the exception for The Last of Us Part 2 because after years of internet discourse, I'd really wanted to play it to form my own opinion of the game. I recently was able to find a key for Ghosts of Tsushima from one of the authorized key sale sites for under $30 and picked it up.

After about 5 hours, I think it's an interesting give and take between the two titles. I personally scale games on a binary from toy to art and Ghost of Tsushima is much further on the art side than Shadows. While I think Shadows does a good job with it's characters and the detail of it's beautiful world, there's a level of cinematography and art direction even with the lower fidelity that transcends Ghosts even just that bit ahead of Shadows. For Shadows credit, I think it's just a more mechanically developed game and the higher fidelity adds to it's experience. It could just because I'm very early in Ghosts but I also feel the various weapons in Shadows, the wider array of move sets and varied challenges made playing shadows more mechanically satisfying to play.