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Outer Worlds was a big honking pile of poo poo and i can't believe it got good reviews. Sci Fi New Vegas my rear end!
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Gaius Marius posted:The ad economy of the internet is a parasitic farce. And any able person has a duty to divorce themselves from it as far as possible so we can finally kick out the rotten beams holding it up. Quoting because I truly believe in this. I go so far as to install ublock origin on all computers I come across, even other colleagues.
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Aug 1, 2021 02:59
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Suspicious Lump posted:Quoting because I truly believe in this. I go so far as to install ublock origin on all computers I come across, even other colleagues. I've been using adblock since forever. Don't ublock do something better/different or is it basically the same?
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Aug 1, 2021 03:01
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Dark Souls 2 is so much. Theres just an overwhelming amount of content and the thing often feels disconnected random zones and areas which is part of the theme, but that doesn't make it great to play per se, theres some weirdness rolling, and it has the worst remaster I've ever played. Dark Souls 3 is someone way over course correcting and producing a sequel slavishly devoted to the original to the point where it feels unsatisfying and what new it brings to the table it seems embarrassed by. Both games are in story and in design ruminations on what it means to be a sequel to Dark Souls and neither one is going to wholly satisfy for disparate reasons.
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Aug 1, 2021 03:05
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runnypoops posted:Outer Worlds was a big honking pile of poo poo and i can't believe it got good reviews. Sci Fi New Vegas my rear end! The thing I've noticed about Obidian's games is they really, really refine the gently caress out of what has already been established by other developers. But...it really doesn't leave anything new to see or do and while their games aren't bad it's like eating a burger and still being hungry. My point is Outer Worlds is Sci-Fi New Vegas which in and of itself is "more Fallout, you'll play it we promise nothing more". Then cue the gamers going "oh, but they were screwed by the publisher!" not noticing this has been a trend for them for like 17 years across multiple publishers. At some point one needs to put two and two together and maybe see it's been them all along. Justin Godscock fucked around with this message at 03:08 on Aug 1, 2021 |
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Aug 1, 2021 03:06
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Meme Poker Party posted:I've been using adblock since forever. Don't ublock do something better/different or is it basically the same? i really didn't see any ads with ublock to the point where if I went on a browser that didn't have it everything looked real hosed up I got a RaspberryPi and set up something called PiHole that blocks all ads on your whole network. i hate being advertised to.
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Aug 1, 2021 03:06
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Barudak posted:Dark Souls 2 is so much. Theres just an overwhelming amount of content and the thing often feels disconnected random zones and areas which is part of the theme, but that doesn't make it great to play per se, theres some weirdness rolling, and it has the worst remaster I've ever played. power stance dual greatswords and tell me Dark souls 2 is bad
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Aug 1, 2021 03:07
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Meme Poker Party posted:I've been using adblock since forever. Don't ublock do something better/different or is it basically the same? ublock origin is the only one that is opensource and doesn't have a dodgy whitelist. Nearly all other adblockers allow for ad companies to pay for the rights to be included in the whitelist. ublock origin is also insanely good, doesn't slow down your browser (scientifically proven! see the link below), doesn't hog ram or cpu. The author doesn't accept donations of any kind because he wants to keep it above board. ublock origin is the best ad blocker. https://www.debugbear.com/blog/chrome-extension-performance-2021
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Aug 1, 2021 03:09
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if you really hate ads there is a militarized version of ublock origin called AdNauseam that silently clicks every ad it blocks
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Aug 1, 2021 03:11
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WILDTURKEY101 posted:power stance dual greatswords and tell me Dark souls 2 is bad Its bad. Its better than Dark Souls 3 no question in my mind, but the remaster especially is so awful I'd never recommend it to a first time player and theres no other way to buy it new now so...
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Aug 1, 2021 03:14
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poverty goat posted:if you really hate ads there is a militarized version of ublock origin called AdNauseam that silently clicks every ad it blocks This doesn't do anything helpful, the click won't be counted.
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Aug 1, 2021 03:15
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have you powerstanced dual greatswords
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Aug 1, 2021 03:23
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WILDTURKEY101 posted:have you powerstanced dual greatswords I powerstanced a bunch of stuff, can't remember if I did greatswords, but that won't change the infinite lighting deer in a snowstorm hell trek.
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Aug 1, 2021 03:24
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Suspicious Lump posted:ublock origin is the only one that is opensource and doesn't have a dodgy whitelist. Nearly all other adblockers allow for ad companies to pay for the rights to be included in the whitelist. ublock origin is also insanely good, doesn't slow down your browser (scientifically proven! see the link below), doesn't hog ram or cpu. The author doesn't accept donations of any kind because he wants to keep it above board. Checking it out, thank you friend!
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Aug 1, 2021 03:25
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The thing about Dark Souls 2's whole "everything is connected in a way that doesn't make sense if you think about it" is that it completely doesn't work as an intentional theme in video games. Games are already usually made up of a bunch of unique zones that barely join together in a coherent way, so it's hard to make it come off as an intentional design decision and not a post hoc justification for how they stitched things together. Anyway, DS1 > DS3 > DS2, although I played SotFS and I hear that may have contributed to my dislike of it.
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Aug 1, 2021 03:26
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My baseless theory is that everyone who hated Dark Souls 2 hated it because they rushed to play it at release and were hungry for more Dark Souls 1 and didn't get what they expected and everyone who loves it really took their time and waited till they were in the right mood and zone for a new but slightly Dark Souls experience
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Aug 1, 2021 03:26
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JollyBoyJohn posted:I have not played every single Mario game but I have played most of them and Thousand Year Door is the absolute low point of the series It's amazing how you can consistently have the worst takes in the bad takes thread. Kudos
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Aug 1, 2021 03:27
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Armitag3 posted:It's amazing how you can consistently have the worst takes in the bad takes thread. Kudos 
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Aug 1, 2021 03:28
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I mean one of my favorite moments in games ever was the first time I took the elevator from the Undead Parish and ended up back at Firelink and was like NO WAY and DS2 didn't have that kind of thing. But I thought the combat was fun, powerstancing owns, and it has the best spells out of all 3. As far as the lack of a connected world, I just interpreted it more like an older NES/SNES type game where you have individual levels, and then you run through them and beat the boss at the end and then you go to the next level. Dark Souls 3 is kinda hosed up though. I've beat 1 and 2 more than once, but never beat 3.
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Aug 1, 2021 03:30
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The disconnect of the zones wasnt a huge issue in DS2 for me but the theme of layered ruins doesn't really build perfectly so it feels really disjointed and post hoc a lot of times (which iirc it was due to messy development). Its also hard to get a grasp of what the "present" narrative is and what is the past and what the hell the time travel and all that stuff is about because again there is just so friggin much meat on the bones here. Thanks to sheer volume DS2 has a ton of zones I love. Scholar of the First Sin just makes everything worse for no reason and it sucks because I was super intrigued to play DS2 again with all DLC and just ugh ugh ugh regrets.
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Aug 1, 2021 03:35
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Barudak posted:This doesn't do anything helpful, the click won't be counted. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1873/IWPE17_paper_23.pdf posted:he AdNauseam extension attempts to realize three tangible goals
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Aug 1, 2021 03:39
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Without going any deeper on how the setup goes than that paragraph, with larger businesses I would expect the "proactive" part to not work given their setups to counter it. Not saying it won't achieve its goal of blocking ads, just the other part of disrupting the model isn't how its doing that. Hell even the businesses not insulated against this have often done the math to decide its not an issue since the final metrics of performance are non-spoofable
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Aug 1, 2021 04:02
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Meme Poker Party posted:I've been using adblock since forever. Don't ublock do something better/different or is it basically the same? adblock aint poo poo. ublock is good, noscript is best. combine for great results! e: yeah ublock origin
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Aug 1, 2021 04:03
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Westerners don't understand dark souls 2 because they don't understand Buddhism
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JollyBoyJohn posted:My baseless theory is that everyone who hated Dark Souls 2 hated it because they rushed to play it at release and were hungry for more Dark Souls 1 and didn't get what they expected and everyone who loves it really took their time and waited till they were in the right mood and zone for a new but slightly Dark Souls experience naw i played it again a few months ago and couldn't finish it because I just got bored of fighting 50,000 boring knight enemies copy and pasted all over in ugly environments. Some of the levels look like complete poo poo and the combat feels gross. Game was better when the lightning javelins were overpowered and you could just spam them.
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Aug 1, 2021 04:30
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What religion is Buddha a sequel to?
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Aug 1, 2021 04:36
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Outpost22 posted:What religion is Buddha a sequel to? bud 
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I wouldn't be surprised if internet advertising infrastructure is so poo poo it's impossible to sabotage.
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Aug 1, 2021 06:07
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Outpost22 posted:What religion is Buddha a sequel to? Hinduism. Gautama Buddha was raised Hindu, just like Jesus was raised Jewish
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Aug 1, 2021 06:41
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Barudak posted:Its bad. Its better than Dark Souls 3 no question in my mind, but the remaster especially is so awful I'd never recommend it to a first time player and theres no other way to buy it new now so... On PC you can still buy either version. My room temperature take is that most of the complaints about 2 apply just as equally to 1, but people have built up this insane mythologized idea that 1 is an unimpeachable 200/100 masterpiece and 2 is the B-team's disastrous folly. Also I honestly don't get why the only thing anyone ever says about DS3 is that it's nothing but callbacks, because to me those are easily the least of its problems. Heck, it actually does some cool stuff with a few of 'em.
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DS2 is tons of forgettable empty levels with forgettable bosses. I played it a few months ago and only remember the wharf. It's a nice game. For clowns to play. In a circus.
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Aug 1, 2021 07:27
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Anytime someone matter of factly calls Dark Souls 3 bad it's like a free pass for me to never care about their opinions on video games ever again.
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Aug 1, 2021 07:27
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Yeah i liked Dark Souls 3 a whole lot more than Dark Souls 2. Game doesn't have many viable builds though which is a drag.
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JollyBoyJohn posted:My baseless theory is that everyone who hated Dark Souls 2 hated it because they rushed to play it at release and were hungry for more Dark Souls 1 and didn't get what they expected and everyone who loves it really took their time and waited till they were in the right mood and zone for a new but slightly Dark Souls experience Post release belfry was so much fun. I beat it once and came back a month or so later and it was even better. veni veni veni posted:Anytime someone matter of factly calls Dark Souls 3 bad it's like a free pass for me to never care about their opinions on video games ever again. The more dark souls tried to be bloodborne in terms of speed the worse it got. Ds2, ds1, the lovely ds2 remastered version, ds3
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Aug 1, 2021 08:11
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I liked the very chunky slowness (and viability of shields over rolling) of DS1 and by DS3 where I was just wildly slamming my straight sword into everythings face I was having less fun. It doesn't help the twin princes is probably my least favorite fight in the entire series since for whatever reason on my playthrough their AI decided they weren't gonna do what they do for other people and I had a rouuuuugh time with the lock on. I think they got patched but I'm never going back to that game.
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Aug 1, 2021 08:23
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DS2 is by far the weakest Dark Souls game, which still makes it a good video game.
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Aug 1, 2021 08:33
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DS3 is the best one and the only one I actually finished but DS2 is a close second. I found DS1 to be both duller and more frustrating than the other ones.
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Aug 1, 2021 10:28
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KonvexKonkav posted:DS3 is the best one and the only one I actually finished but DS2 is a close second. I found DS1 to be both duller and more frustrating than the other ones. A post was worthy of this thread
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Aug 1, 2021 10:44
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DS1 is the only dark souls I've beaten
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DS2 I gave up on at the iron keep and I didnt like it cuz it felt clunky to me. DS3 I'm stuck on some late game bosses cuz I'm too proud/lazy to summon help
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