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 No.12255[Reply]

Hi, I'm Gabe Newell, the CEO of valvesoftware.com. My pronouns are gabe/gaben and I identify as pro-consumer. I'm most famous for:
>sucking Denuvo's cock
>sucking EA's cock
>sucking Activision's cock
>sucking Ubisoft's cock
>sucking 2k's cock
>sucking Nintendo's cock (the biggest cock of them all)
>ignoring the French court's demands
Some people say that GOG is better than Steam. But GOG is for losers who can't afford a good Internet connection and graphics card to run the superior Denuvo games. That's why nobody publishes their games on it. Steam has a larger catalog of indie games than GOG. We keep all the indie devs locked inside our basement with no way out. There is no escape.
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 No.12272

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>>12270
>However I think it's technically incorrect to say that "copyright" is compatible with free-markets. It's a monopoly which is not a free market.
Hi, Proudhon.

I mean, I said "free-market liberal." Though "market liberal" is more accurate ig.
>Valve makes an open-platform hand-held console while Nintendo makes a closed platform handheld console.
I said "Steam," not "Steam Deck."
>Valve supports FOSS projects, while Nintendo is attacking FOSS projects.
I mean, Google does it too but FOR SOME REASON people hate it and call it evil. It's as if opportunistically supporting certain FOSS projects isn't enough.
>Obviously we have to prioritize struggle against Nintendo.
No, it's not obviously. You're trying to redirect people's anger onto single issues which is a very liberal thing to do. "First we need to deal with this, then we can move to this." We must tackle issues all at once.
>your basic message is don't attack Nintendo, attack valve
No? Where did you get that from? If anything, you're the one who's saying "Don't attack Valve, attack Nintendo."
>Can you justify your position ?
Uh, anti-capitalism?
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 No.12273

>>12272
>We must tackle issues all at once.
And you think that will work better than the sequential approach ?

I'm willing to listen, how does one do this ?
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 No.12275

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>>12273
>I'm willing to listen, how does one do this ?
I think we should criticize all platform holders, not just Nintendo. I think we should move to better platforms like GOG. I think we should reduce the amount of proprietary software and DRM we're using. We should pirate DRM'd games if needed.
https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-games.html
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 No.12276

GAYbe Newell.
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 No.12277

>>12276
Dare I say, pwned

 No.12096[Reply]

All right, fine… It's been 18 years, and I'll finally admit it! As much as I loath this insulting trash game for daring to call itself Mario Bros. (and the trend of dumbed down trash games that followed in its wake), Koji Kondo at least managed to belt out another irresistible banger for the main stage theme.

It's a testament to a composer's skill that I find myself getting this theme stuck in my head all the time, imagining that it's some nostalgic theme from a much earlier Mario game. But no, in fact it had the great misfortune to be attached to this turd. Well done, Kondo-san.
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 No.12197

Dragon Ball Z Ultimate Battle 22. Clunky gameplay, god tier soundtrack. I listen to it frequently.
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 No.12233

>>12197
I would listen to it while I go for a walk, but the below freezing weather where I live is not my kind of thing.
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 No.12250

>>12096
>Good music in bad games
Sonic '06 and Zero Gravity 100%.
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 No.12261

>>12250 (me)
Also, Tim Follin is famous for this.
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 No.12269

Europeans sure had a poor understanding of arcade game design. But damn they made some nice music.

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 No.128[Reply]

Thread for Undertale and Deltarune discussion! Post theories, art and bad AU's!

Official Websites:
https://www.undertale.com/
https://www.deltarune.com/

Official Twitter (news may get posted here):
https://twitter.com/undertale

Toby's Twitlonger on Deltarune:
http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1sqn3p9
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 No.12055

I just can't feel anything for Berdly yet like some people do. Characters like Scout TF2 are interesting to me because they turned their little brother syndrome into a skill and some sense of kindness in life(no matter how selective and warped), meanwhile Berdly's just kind of stagnated. He's 15-16, so I'm certain the rest of the story will have him finding that thing, and if he does I'll enjoy watching.
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 No.12056

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I have the urge to voice him but can't come up with any material at the moment, anything the people want to see?
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 No.12097

>>12055
>little brother syndrome


Whats that?
Also why do people always assume the worst of younger siblings?

IMO, older siblings get way too much sympathy
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 No.12267

This fits so fucking well. It's a shame it isn't canon.
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 No.12268

>>12056
>I have the urge to voice him but can't come up with any material at the moment
Higher-pitched Squidward.

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 No.500[Reply]

General for all Nintendo Games and Nintendo related discussion!
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 No.12246

>>12240
That's great, so what was the heinous consumer-hostile anti-feature that broke the camels back ?
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 No.12247

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>>12246
I didn't watch the entire videos but it seems to be numerous things such as:
- The console costs too much
- a single game costing 80 bucks, and more.

The first video mentions how a WiiU game costed $60, then costed $20 on Nintendo Select, then a Switch port costed $60 again.

Other things:
- They made it complicated to share games between accounts (14 day limit unless you return it earlier, and a three game total limit)
- When you buy a game, you only get a license key, you still have to download the entire thing (which means that you can't share physicals anymore since it's just a license key that's presumably already used) (video quote: "Nothing is yours anymore")

The videos have more but I'm lazy

https://youtu.be/iIYvvSLblHg
DO NOT BUY THE NINTENDO SWITCH 2 | Bearman3600
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 No.12248

>>12247
Yeah this is not an appealing offer.
The steamdeck looks like a better offer.
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 No.12249

>>12240
The Nintendo fan's cycle:
>This is horrible, boycott Nintendo.
>OMG IS THAT A NEW ZELDA?!!
Forget about them, they're a lost cause.
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 No.12264

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I just played Mario Kart (on someone else's Switch). After a lot of top 5 placings and even 1st place, I ended up in the bottom 5, with placings like 10th and 12th.

This change was because I found out I had Smart Steering and Auto-acceleration settings turned on and I turned them off. After turning them off I kept speeding into walls and falling off ledges. I also couldn't do the drift-speed-up properly.

All my previous wins were actually because of automated settings. Darn.

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 No.11986[Reply]

Knew that my criticisms wouldn't be taken seriously on /v/, so I came here.

What had made the initial POSTAL 2 have integrity was how it laughed in the face of moral panic—whether on the conservative side against video games or book-banning, and later on the acts of organizations such as PETA.

The modern day's conservative moral panic is mainly focused toward the LGBTQ+ and immigrants. POSTAL 4 had an amazing opportunity to comment on these things(we already had an entire group dedicated to getting rid of books in the last game), they side with the moral panic narrative by only telling a story about the rabid SJWs.

The terrorists in POSTAL 2 were also done quite well; they could be found everywhere on the map(the grocery store, the mall, behind RWS) to show how ridiculous the narrative of "terrorists could be anywhere" that justified the Patriot Act was. They could have played it this way, too. They could have had random trans people hiding among the populace looking to cut your dick off. They could have had a mad university professor trying to hypnotize a local college campus into having gay sex. They could have had the book burners show up mid-way through that, but then target Postal Dude midway through because "Hey, look at those buttons on his clothes! Those are a secret symbol of the queer agenda! I saw it online!" and then have them target him as well.

Instead, POSTAL 4 just uses the cheap conservative joke that its ancestor would have tore to shreds and loses its shine because of it. It feels like if a modern sitcom writer tried to make a POSTAL game without understanding any of the bite that made those games special. I'm not going to pretend that they were fine art or anything like that, but it was a special component.
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 No.12226

Postal 4 gameplay mechanics
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 No.12227

>>12226
What about em?
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 No.12252

>>11986
>The modern day's conservative moral panic is mainly focused toward the LGBTQ+ and immigrants.
True.
>they side with the moral panic narrative by only telling a story about the rabid SJWs
I wouldn't say "side with" but the critique is certainly one-sided so I can see where you're coming from.
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 No.12253

>>11986
>The modern day's conservative moral panic is mainly focused toward the LGBTQ+ and immigrants.
Moral panic implies that the threat is imaginary. The depressed wages and increased crime that comes with careless immigration policies is very real.
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 No.12254

>>12253
>The depressed wages and increased crime that comes with careless immigration policies is very real.
The difference is like the one between blaming rainbow capitalism for wokeness and blaming queer people for wokeness. A very subtle one. The first is a legitimate complaint. The second is scapegoating.

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 No.12238[Reply]

I find personally find it really bullshit, because if game are costing the same as a subscription, we should have free online (I wanted to say more, but capatcha deleted all I said)
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 No.12241

Which game/system are you referring to? I'm out of the loop
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 No.12242

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[Anonymous 2025-04-13 (Sun) 19:50:26 No.12241
Which game/system are you referring to? I'm out of the loop]

Any of the online services in general: Nintendo Online, PS Plus, Xbox live.

I know that its been a common thing since the golden age of gaming, but I believe we shouldn't be comfortable to pay a high price to connect to online games.
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 No.12243

>>12242
Yeah we need more consumer friendly practices or something
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 No.12244

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Anonymous 2025-04-13 (Sun) 20:05:09 No.12243
>>12242
(Yeah we need more consumer friendly practices or something)

Unfortunately, considering the game corps care only how much money they gain, its not likely.

Although, if more people and gamers are aware of the issue as well, maybe starting a campaign could be of use.
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 No.12245

i think that leftists should be taking things like gaming more seriously in their analyses
often i will get the response that this is a dumb idea because gaming is trivial - this was a common refrain i got during gamergate - but thats the point! it should rouse our attention when something even as trivial as gaming is being subject to constant manipulation and exploitation

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 No.12057[Reply]

Who else is hyped as fuck for $2 billion worth of triple-A slop?
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 No.12228

if GTA 6 is trash, what would u do?

i would cry
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 No.12229

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>>12228
I wouldn't give it another thought because haven't cared about GTA since SA
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 No.12230

This is 100% going to be another Cyberpunk 2077 moment
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 No.12236

Either that or it's gonna be a banger.
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 No.12237

>>12228
Are they still working on it? I thought it was kill.

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 No.12152[Reply]

Whether real-time or turn-based, probably somewhere around half the games in the strategy genre implement unit promotion in some form or another. But is it even good game design?

In the best-case scenario it gets implemented in a way that doesn't cause snowballing (Pikmin, which doesn't feature 2P versus play anyway). However, in pretty much all instances it has the effect of discouraging sacrificial play as a tactic, in effect reducing the overall depth of a given game. I'm starting to think this may have been the genre's Original Sin. What do you think anon?
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 No.12156

>>12154
Promotion in Freeciv / other early Civ games is mostly important from a defensive perspective, because unit defenses are calculated multiplicatively. For example, an unpromoted Phalanx on a hill tile that is fortified, under the civ2civ3 ruleset, will get 2 defense base * (1.5 for the hill) * (1.5 for fortifying) = 4.5 defense. That same unit with one promotion will instead get 2 defense base * (1.5 for the hill) * (1.5 for fortifying) * (1.5 for Veteran promotion) = 6.75 defense. I think promotions also apply a multiplier to attack but it's not nearly as impactful as defense since most units don't have any additional sources of attack bonuses.
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 No.12157

>>12155
>real people.
mostly fake.
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 No.12223

>so much time and effort invested into a unit that you act irrationally to avoid losing them
Is there a name for this sort of thing in SRPGs/strategy games with promotions? I don't play a whole lot of strategy games but I feel like there should be some kind of standard terminology for phenomenon.
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 No.12224

>>12155
this is actually my greatest issue with strategy games and games in general. youre being led to perceive the game as something completely detached from what was happening before the round and what would be after, which is supporting short term investment thinking in gerenal. its kinda weird seeing arguments like this on this board tbh
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 No.12225

>>12224
Sounds like you don't like games anon.

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 No.3421[Reply]

You know I'm surprised that there hasn't been a thread for this upcoming game yet, but the latest gameplay trailer has came out and good fucking god, it looks fun as fuck

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxdWSyoBcH0
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 No.3465

>>3456
Kek
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 No.10188

Bump for hype
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lG4kPj05OlM
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 No.10192

>>3456
This is like the only episode I've watched

>>10188
It looks kinda cool, but I don't really care about graphics. Seems like they focused a lot on that.
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 No.10200

>>10192
The reason I'm really hyped is because of the setting and the entire aesthetic. It really does feel and look like actual futurist soviet silicon valley, and not some boring, westoid culturally appropriated "soviet" aesthetic of dirty brutalist-dieselpunk where everyone wears a shitty ushanka and says "gomrade xDD". Just the little touches like the USSR stamp of quality on machinery, the unique atom-punkish robots, the wast amount of SCP like monsters within the facilities or one of the trailers playing a short tune of techno-remixed Stalker (the movie) theme. Also the gameplay looks fun - apparently they are trying to focus a lot on melee being viable which sounds interesting.
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 No.12222

I completely disregarded this game after I learned the devs sabotaged it with assfucking DRM, but it's really interesting reading up about the media reaction to it now in the context of the Ukraine proxy war. NATO-aligned rags have been using this as a target in their propaganda campaigns against Russia, berating the game for "Putin connections" or the devs for not distancing themselves enough against Russia. The devs made the very foolish mistake of responding by placating these jackals with statements of condemnation and such. It's a parade of Russophobic racism and McCarthyite bullying.

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 No.11928[Reply]

Share you best outcome from playing the game!

This was my best so far. My strategy was to first get the military under control, then do land reform and set up the economy, hold an election with as much legitimacy as possible, and finally to build up stuff like medicine, education, and infrastructure. It went alright for the most part, but the IMF is going to kill the country later, much like what happened in Yugoslavia.

So what did you do? What worked for you?
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 No.11940

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>>11939
interesting. I can't open the link, did you set it as public?
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 No.11941

>>11940
lol try now
i made it public, but they need other permissions there as well
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 No.11942

>>11941
I don't want to keep derailing this thread but I have some suggestions (if you are open to suggestions), would you mind posting an email or opening a new thread?
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 No.11943

>>11942
[email protected]
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 No.12221

The look of your game reminds me of Timewave Zero Software.

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