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• I believe you mean Romani. Your choice of word is a slur

  on AI staff 'genuinely frightened' for humanity's future, ex-Anthropic researcher tells BBC in c/technology@lemmy.world · 5d ago

• This did better than Tokon? That makes me pretty sad

  on Insomniac's Wolverine hits 1.9 million sales despite controversy, becomes Sony's top first-party game of 2026 in c/games@lemmy.world · 5d ago

• He’s kind of a pile, so I’d never support him by watching him, but he’s one of those where every few years I check in on the drama. The man has: Masturbated on stream Gotten a girl in a relationship to travel across the country to fuck him, without abandoning that relationship Got that girl to move in with him, at which point she dropped her old guy Declared bankruptcy, due to spending 5 figures a month on a pay to win mobile game Steadily alienated his viewers to the point that he does more begging for money than playing games. Last I heard, he was down to one whale of a paypig keeping him afloat.

  on DSP clears Wolverine's motorcycle section without player input in c/games@lemmy.world · 5d ago

• They’ll keep going until it’s above the price of hardware ownership (a lot, these days), but fed in small enough increments that it’s more affordable to the poor

  on Upcoming Changes to XBOX Cloud Gaming [time limits] in c/games@lemmy.world · 4 Sep 2026

• There’s a lifetime subscription? Maybe I should be considering that too

  on YouTube Premium is getting yet another price hike for users across the globe in c/technology@lemmy.world · 26 Aug 2026

• Completely agreed. Rapture WOULD AND SHOULD have collapsed under the weight of it’s own misguided ideals, that was kind of the entire point of the first game. It just really undermines that message fundamentally when instead

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  an all knowing demigod comes to specifically fuck up your society on a whim.

  I do also agree that, given the contradictions between 2 and infinite, we as players get to decide what the prime canon is. It’s kind of damaging to anything that might show up moving forward though unless a brave writer comes forward going “okay sure but fuck that, it didn’t happen”

  on 'Bioshock Review' - MandaloreGaming in c/games@lemmy.world · 24 Aug 2026

• Absolutely agreed on the “wouldn’t it be cool if…” But not thinking out style of design. That’s not terrible, but it’s better suited for something completely over the top like 40k, rather than a more grounded setting like bioshock. And yeah, they really did just nail the worst version of multiversal story, in the general sense.

  We’re celebrating this victory!

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  Even though the player character is a literal demigod that exists amongst all timelines and is deciding, based on relatively little, that she should abandon that power and die to save one person, at the cost of thousands.

  on 'Bioshock Review' - MandaloreGaming in c/games@lemmy.world · 24 Aug 2026

• Oh yeah also

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  Because Elizabeth causes the civil war and gives the ace in the hole to Fontaine, prompting the entire plot of Bioshock 1 by setting up Jack, and then she goes out of her way to save Sally, because she sees Jack will eventually save her and the other little sisters, once again undermining the original game’s other original message about player agency, that Jack starts with no agency but breaks free of his conditioning and gains that agency back to choose the ending, but actually, no, Jack was always destined to do things one way only and never had any agency. On top of that, really weird that Elizabeth decides that her own death is okay because Sally would eventually be safe, given that she condemned all of Rapture to death along the way.

  on 'Bioshock Review' - MandaloreGaming in c/games@lemmy.world · 24 Aug 2026
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  You may recall that in the original, Ryan believes that Rapture can stand on it’s own ideals and grows increasingly paranoid that the only real threat for the society is outside interference, such as from the CIA destabilizing it. We see that these delusions are baseless and rapture collapses under the weight of its own misguided ideals. However, in Burial at Sea part 2, Elizabeth frees the imprisoned Fontaine, who had been presumed dead, attacked by Ryan’s forces for his increasingly rebellious behavior. This, in effect, means that Elizabeth is solely responsible for enabling radical revolutionaries to start the Rapture civil war, resulting in the collapse in the style of a CIA backed coup.

  There’s a lot more, it decanonizes Bioshock 2 while being internally inconsistent with it’s own story telling in the same spaces, and the Daisy Fitzroy plotline doesn’t really make sense, in a way that cheapens that, as well.

  on 'Bioshock Review' - MandaloreGaming in c/games@lemmy.world · 24 Aug 2026

• He promises a subsequent Bioshock 2 review, but I really hope he makes it to the Infinite DLC. Without spoiling anything, that dlc fully undermines the entire message of Bioshock 1 and leaves Andrew Ryan 100% correct and justified in all of his actions.

  on 'Bioshock Review' - MandaloreGaming in c/games@lemmy.world · 22 Aug 2026

• Yeah this is a wild comment to downvote given how direct Microsofts support of the Israeli genocide has been. They’ve literally been the ones enabling the surveillance that identifies targets

  on Compulsion Games pulls off management buyout and separates from Xbox in c/games@lemmy.world · 21 Aug 2026

• Worth noting the devs have since released a sequel, Robotniks Ring Racers, but it does it’s own thing in a way that does less for me personally in terms of nostalgia, and is also generally more complicated, and thus harder to pull random friends into. That’s not to say it’s worse or bad, it’s just got very different appeal

  on What are some cool/decent PC games that are not on Steam? in c/games@lemmy.world · 16 Aug 2026

• SRB2K, or Sonic Robo Blast 2 Kart, is a mod of SRB2, itself a doom mod, that is an absolute love letter to the classic days of Mario Kart (I’m thinking super mario kart or 64). Full of small QoL changes, and with a forum full of mods for any character you can think of, it’s an easy pitch if you’ve ever wanted to play a kart styled game thats better than the original, with online play

  on What are some cool/decent PC games that are not on Steam? in c/games@lemmy.world · 16 Aug 2026

• Had the same issue with their controllers. Got one, was busted on arrival. Got replacement, was busted within a week. I’ve never had such a bad experience

  on 'To own a Razer Artisan Keycap is to display one’s allegiance, a mark of belonging within the Cult of Razer' says the PR nonsense behind this $90 coil of snakes in c/games@lemmy.world · 15 Aug 2026

• Ah yes, Space Station Silicon Valley, published by take 2 (now known as the gta publisher and not much else) and one of very few (maybe the only) games for N64 that don’t work with the expansion pack. If you have the extra ram, it just won’t run at all

  on Guess The Game (#012) [Solved - See Comments] in c/games@lemmy.world · 13 Aug 2026

• There’s a lot of reasons, but the big thing you need to keep in mind is that the average gamer buys less than 2 games a year. That’s who you’re targeting if you wanna sell a million billion copies of a game. Where most years that’s probably going to be a sports game or cod, GTA is a cultural phenomenon that will have millions and millions of dollars of advertising behind it. First buying the game will be social, a way to engage with cultural phenomenon, then it’ll be a good value proposition (typically they’ve had a lot of hours of gameplay per dollar thanks to open ended sandbox gameplay and breadth of features), and then it’ll be social again when GTA6 Online drops, and again when the PC release happens. This is all staggered out to maximize sale and resale and stay in the discourse to the point that it’s what an AI would say a CEO should do for a big release. After that they’ll be targeting whales because old GTA Online still makes over a million dollars a day in 2026 but that’s drifting away from the why

  on More People Are Pre-ordering The $100 Edition Of GTA 6 in c/games@lemmy.world · 11 Aug 2026