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Anonymous Robot posted:Boy, Hypnospace Outlaw is...kinda dull, isn’t it? I know it’s a comedy game and from what I’ve seen it gets pretty funny eventually but I played it for an hour or so last night and unless you count 90’s web design as a joke, there just weren’t any. 
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So far it occupies a weird place where it’s like, showing me things I remember from the 90’s and I’m like, yeah that was goofy, ha ha. But it doesn’t add anything- there isn’t a punchline. Like, one of the sites is just straight up reviews of fictional albums, and sure, one of the artists is named “chowder man,” but it isn’t really a joke of any kind. Remember when the Barkley 2 demo dropped and it was all po-faced misery about concentration camps and that was just sorta all there was to it, like that was supposed to be absurd enough to be funny on its own? It’s similar to that.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hY8S6mF6evQ
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I didn't find Hypnospace Outlaw to be very funny myself, usually just interesting to explore.
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Anonymous Robot posted:So far it occupies a weird place where it’s like, showing me things I remember from the 90’s and I’m like, yeah that was goofy, ha ha. But it doesn’t add anything- there isn’t a punchline. you're just not getting it dude
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Anonymous Robot posted:So far it occupies a weird place where it’s like, showing me things I remember from the 90’s and I’m like, yeah that was goofy, ha ha. But it doesn’t add anything- there isn’t a punchline. If you're not liking a thing you can stop trying to force yourself to. I am an immense hypocrite for posting that considering some of my video game history but still.
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Internet Explorer posted:I am running into a similar issue with my Shield TV Controller and Steam Link on the Shield TV. Was looking into it as well, but haven't had time to test. Definitely an issue with the Android base code, I think - just tried the iOS app on my iPad with the same Xbox pad, no issues with Start button at all.
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Sep 1, 2020 18:49
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Nvidia has finally unveiled its new GPUs. It's perhaps not super pertinent to the thread, but it looks like a pretty big leap in many areas and their super big 3090 lets you play at 8K 60FPS.
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Sep 1, 2020 19:02
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It's on sale, has anyone tried Genesis Alpha One before? It was supposed to be like a mix of FTL with No Man's Sky, but it was in EA for ages.
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Sep 1, 2020 19:05
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i only watched a minute of the thing on twitch but apparently the new 3070 will be $500 and outperform the 2080ti
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Blattdorf posted:Nvidia has finally unveiled its new GPUs. It's perhaps not super pertinent to the thread, but it looks like a pretty big leap in many areas and their super big 3090 lets you play at 8K 60FPS. The key takeaway here is the 3070 will offer better than 2080 Ti performance at less than half the price: $499.
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Sep 1, 2020 19:06
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MZ posted:The key takeaway here is the 3070 will offer better than 2080 Ti performance at less than half the price: $499. 3070 is the new 1070.
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Sep 1, 2020 19:11
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most important thing to know about the new GPU is that CEO Jensen did the presentation in his kitchen and everyone in the GPU thread screamed for him to take the card out of the oven and near the end of the presentation when all hope was lost he loving DID IT.
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Blattdorf posted:Nvidia has finally unveiled its new GPUs. It's perhaps not super pertinent to the thread, but it looks like a pretty big leap in many areas and their super big 3090 lets you play at 8K 60FPS. Finally working 6 days a week since March is gonna pay off.
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https://www.humblebundle.com/games/ic-publishing-bundle The $12 tier looks tempting to me. Fell Seal is a good game, if not somewhat overlong, but if you like SRPGs, it's one of the better ones on Steam. The DLC is pretty good too, especially if you want to do a pokemaster run. How are Deep Sky Derelict and Conglomerate 451 (and I guess the other games in the bundle)?
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Blattdorf posted:Nvidia has finally unveiled its new GPUs. It's perhaps not super pertinent to the thread, but it looks like a pretty big leap in many areas and their super big 3090 lets you play at 8K 60FPS. The 3080 is a huge jump over the 1080 for real. Here is the DF look at it https://youtu.be/cWD01yUQdVA
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GrandpaPants posted:https://www.humblebundle.com/games/ic-publishing-bundle
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RBA Starblade posted:It's on sale, has anyone tried Genesis Alpha One before? It was supposed to be like a mix of FTL with No Man's Sky, but it was in EA for ages. I literally just did the tutorial/opening stuff for 21 minutes and it NAILS atmosphere. you're a clone on a ship full of clones and you basically build a modular ship and assign clones to bays as you run around and also do stuff. Scan/explore/tractor beam in stuff/shoot aliens/land on planets for tiny missions to get stuff/etc. I'm digging it a lot but I have only just touched the surface so I can't speak to more than general impressions. Would play more now but I'm making my dog mad by writing this post instead of taking him out like I should be
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Vlambeer, developers behind Nuclear Throne and Downwell, is dead. And to celebrate (?) they are doing a really good sale. https://store.steampowered.com/sale/vlambeer10
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I'm literally just about to upgrade from a 970 to a 1080 as part of a new build. I don't need these temptations.  Also it'd be neat if they managed to re-implement spears in the Amalur expack.
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GrandpaPants posted:https://www.humblebundle.com/games/ic-publishing-bundle Fell Seal for $12 makes it worth taking a chance on whatever else is in the bundle.
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Det_no posted:Vlambeer, developers behind Nuclear Throne and Downwell, is dead. And to celebrate (?) they are doing a really good sale. The messages I see on twitter indicate the devs have sad but good feelings about it all, so hopefully they've got it all figured out and this is just a necessary goodbye.
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My hope, not just because I don't wanna replace half of my basically brand new computer but also, is that devs pick up DLSS implementation or whatever other kinds of that tech come along as a standard, because then the 2000 and 3000 generations of cards will last a very, very long time with how powerful that stuff is.
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John Murdoch posted:I'm literally just about to upgrade from a 970 to a 1080 as part of a new build. I don't need these temptations. I mean you're probably gonna get your hands on a real cheap 1080 at the very least.
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Black Griffon posted:I mean you're probably gonna get your hands on a real cheap 1080 at the very least. Tbh I’d be on the lookout for a 2080. The 1080 is still a good card but it’s a little long in the tooth and DLSS is pretty sweet.
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But then if you wait a year you get the 3070 Super
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Black Griffon posted:I mean you're probably gonna get your hands on a real cheap 1080 at the very least. It's been installed in the new machine for the better part of 4 years at this point. (It's a long and stupid story.)
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John Murdoch posted:It's been installed in the new machine for the better part of 4 years at this point. (It's a long and stupid story.) Please do go on.
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Orv posted:Please do go on. Yeah I’m curious now...
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Blattdorf posted:Nvidia has finally unveiled its new GPUs. It's perhaps not super pertinent to the thread, but it looks like a pretty big leap in many areas and their super big 3090 lets you play at 8K 60FPS. So big that it needs new psu connectors? https://wccftech.com/nvidia-geforce-rtx-30-series-ampere-gaming-graphics-cards-12-pin-power-connector/
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DeadFatDuckFat posted:So big that it needs new psu connectors? Only the Founders Edition (reference) cards are using that new 12-pin connector, and they will come with an adapter The cards you get from MSI/ASUS/EVGA/etc all use the same old 8-pin connectors
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DeadFatDuckFat posted:So big that it needs new psu connectors? The new connectors are not an absolute requirement of the new cards, so there's strong speculation that the new connectors might only be on the Nvidia foundation cards, and 3rd party board vendors are free to use the new connectors or go with the old style.
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Hardware manufacturers delight in watching people struggle for hours to put in tiny little screws and plug in all the little motherboard connectors. It gives them great pleasure.
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exquisite tea posted:Hardware manufacturers delight in watching people struggle for hours to put in tiny little screws and plug in all the little motherboard connectors. It gives them great pleasure. Building my new PC while sporting long nails was a massive mistake.
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Awesome! posted:if the old ones are fine why bother with a new one? Mostly aesthetics. The FE cards have a weird new design where the PCB is shorter than the card, and the second fan blows straight through the card https://twitter.com/NVIDIAGeForce/status/1300874778044030977 That means the power connectors need to be in the middle of the card (where the PCB ends) and having 2x or 3x 8pins jutting out there would be ugly as hell Instead they have a single 12-pin mounted at a 45 degree angle so it can neatly wrap around the card repiv fucked around with this message at 20:22 on Sep 1, 2020 |
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Det_no posted:Vlambeer, developers behind Nuclear Throne and Downwell, is dead. And to celebrate (?) they are doing a really good sale. The writing's been on the wall for a long while now, but I guess the indie revolution is truly dead. Vlambeer's just the latest to pack up and leave. When the mobile space got too crowded, Steam Greenlight (in the distant year of 2013) became the lifeboat for all important indies of the time because its public curation system ensured anything good was given a fair shake. Then the floodgates were opened and anyone and their uncle could now be on Steam, overcrowding the space 'til nothing relatively unknown can be found these days. The Playstation Vita ecosystem then offered a bit of space to many of the more serious indies since that system had a ridiculous attachment rate among its users in spite of being a commercial flop. Then there was a moment when the Nintendo Switch showed up (2017) and its eShop was so bare while its users were so loose with money that indies started making really good money again, but even that didn't last long because eventually it overflooded and now indies have to resort to tricks like having constant 80% sales to even show up. There's just not enough room in this hobby for the ridiculous amount of indie games out there. You needed only to get that itch.io BLM bundle with over 1000 games from a couple of months ago to realize there's so much out there that it's impossible for each game to get enough attention and followers. And those 1000+ games are nothing compared to what comes out year after year. For every runaway success like Shovel Knight, Undertale, Hollow Knight, Nights in the Wood, or FNAF there were a million other games that fell through, many deservedly so, but not all. And it's only got worse with time. Every week, Fanatical does a new indie bundle full of games nobody ever heard about. Humble Bundle tries to fill their monthly offers with whatever they can find. Those are the "lucky" ones, the ones that get paid fractions of cents for every purchase. Everyone else just fades away. Sorry for going this long, but this topic has always been personal to me. I grew up during the micro-computer craze in Europe where anyone could be a game developer/publisher. That pretty much died out during the 90's and most of the 00's. 2008/09 and onwards sort of restarted that trend and I liked it a lot. I mean, there will always be indies, but there was a time that Jeff Minter was the exception to the rule, not the standard, and I imagine we are now heading to a time where only the future Minters will bother to remain around -- with all that's good and bad about that.
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