tuckerm

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

copy-pasting what I posted on !pcgaming for some that are $5 or less:

A few super cheap, not-new games I've played that aren't on the main promo banner:

  • Aragami - $3 - Pretty challenging stealth game. The sequel is also on sale, but I hear it's more action-oriented, less stealth-oriented than the original.
  • Anomaly: Warzone Earth - $2 - Strategy game.
  • Bastion - $3 - Same developer that made Hades.
  • Mount & Blade: Warband - $5 - Sid Meier's Pirates, but with horses. (This is not the newest game, Bannerlord)
  • Sid Meier's Pirates - $2.50 - Mount & Blade, but with ships.
  • X3: Reunion - $2 - Sid Meier's Mount & Blade, but in spaaaaaaace. (I've only played the sequel, X4. But this one looks kind of similar, and is two dollars.)
  • Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six - $2.50 - Tactical FPS. Been a while since I've played it. Was definitely cool when it came out.
  • Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon - $3 - Ditto. This one probably holds up better.
  • Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell - $2.50 - Who do you think would win in a fight, Tom Clancy or Sid Meier? I think Sid Meier.
  • BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger - $1.50 - Fighting game. Combos are not as timing-sensitive as games like Street Fighter or Tekken.
  • Rayman 2 - $1.50 - 3D platformer.
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

And if you do run into any problems, the Steam overlay should solve any compatibility problems, if you're OK with launching your games through Steam. I end up doing that with all of my games (including the ones I didn't buy on Steam) since I think its controller mapping UI is the best.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Might finally be time to get Cyberpunk 2077. But looking at my unplayed Steam library... I don't need it. I don't need it. I definitely don't need it.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 5 months ago (10 children)

This may not work out the way I want it to, but I'm actually a little excited about these tech companies making a bunch of anti-consumer decisions all at once. So many mainstream users will be looking for alternatives, and it's going to provide a great opportunity for non-profit open source projects. It's already happening with the fediverse suddenly becoming a viable place for discussion in the last 1.5 years. After Windows Recall was announced, I've seen more people talking about switching to Linux than ever before. Part of me can't wait for unskippable Youtube ads.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 months ago

That's Metal Gear Solid Y for those who are more familiar with the Xbox layout.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

I've never been excited for DLC before, but Street Fighter 6 adding Terry and Mai, from King of Fighters, was very unexpected. I think that was my favorite.

I've been playing Capcom vs. SNK 2 whenver I have a few minutes to spare these days: https://saltylike.us/@tuckerm/112482256002789207.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Bleh, I really hate to side with Google, especially when releasing this documentation benefits users and hiding it benefits Google.

But it seems weird for this new license to be legally binding. If someone committed this to the wrong repo, and that person didn't have legal authority over the original content, then how can they have legally relicensed it?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Aw, I was looking forward to this one. But also, meh, my unplayed backlog is huge.

I'm gonna put on my casual-observer-business-analyst hat real quick: it seems weird that Sony is making so many decisions that they know will piss off customers with their brand lately. Microsoft has been striking out hard with underwhelming exclusives, whereas at least Sony has had a few hits. Sony could take advantage of that and use this generation to crush the Xbox brand pretty hard. The payoff would be huge later on.

Business execs always fancy themselves as military generals; I'm sure they've heard that Napoleon quote, "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." Instead, they seem to be taking advantage of Microsoft's blunders to just knowingly make their own blunders.

Like, even from a cutthroat business exec mindset, there is a profit-motivated reason to just chill out with the anti-consumer stuff right now. Your biggest competitor has been absolutely unloading a clip into their own foot for like two years. Quit drawing attention to yourself.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I think the the previous post was sarcasm. :)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

They have a kickstarter going right now with 18 hours to go! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mirlo/mirlo

I bought a few songs from Mirlo just last week. Very nice to see some non-VC-backed alternatives to Bandcamp.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (6 children)

From the article, emphasis mine:

also found that 56% of Republican registered voters said the case would have no effect on their vote and 35% said they were more likely to support Trump

Far more of them like that he paid off a porn star to keep quiet about the fact that he cheated on his wife.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Their Infinitybook models -- both the 14 and 16 inch -- disappeared from their site recently. It was their slim, lightweight model, and I thought that was their flagship computer, too. I'm wondering if the Stellaris Slim is the new Infinitybook, or if there's a new Infinitybook coming that they haven't announced yet.

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