swen vincke looking at the husk of an industry that gamergate completely killed: "i think we should be able to automate the gamergates from here on out"

it is insane to say "games reviewers need to be humbled and show some restraint" when, and i mean this so kindly because it's a systemic issue and a "i don't want life-altering harassment" issue, but holy fuck dude you can visibly tell the ways that most major site reviews pull their punches

it's a 5700X3D, so not perfect but i'd hope i could at least hit 60fps on minimum draw distance for a game that is not visually demanding lol

i tried every single setting and literally nothing made it get over 51fps - being almost maxed with DLAA was 31-45fps and everything on minimum and ultra performance DLSS was low fifties with massive stuttering too

i really think that 99% of the dawntrail discourse in all forms - be it jobs, writing, dungeons, anything - would've been avoided if the entire population of people who hopped on during covid hadn't spent the last five straight years playing it and got irrevocably burnt out as a result

like i do think there is a meaningful difference between the inherent and often unhealthy emotional bonds people form with games (and The Gameplay Loop is often addictive in some form intrinsically) and "we made these patterns after working with psychologists specifically to keep people on"

i think it's bad when a game intentionally has a compulsion you have to consciously break like that, and dailies/treadmills if nothing else will foment an insane amount of burnout that manifests as toxicity of all kinds - not just pvp

calling it the 36th Chamber of Shaolin kind of goes crazy actually

announcement 1.1

it being a 54mm portafilter is gonna drive me crazy man, both too small to benefit from the zillions of 58mm baskets and dose sizes while also being too large to benefit from the step-down meta that's all the rage and a legit argument for its main competitors

there's basically no actual pitch for this that isn't covered by either the Robot or the Rok but also, bunnybunnybunny

huggg

i thought the provincialism where every single part of Minnesota was called Minneapolis was bad but I'm already seeing people alternate between calling The Capital City Of Iowa a college town or suggesting that a consistently blue metropolis is itself pro-Trump, and i need coastal people to stfu