Dark Arc @ Dark_Arc @social.packetloss.gg

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I don't think live services need to be banned.

CSGO, Fortnite, Hunt Showdown, Apex Legends, etc are all long running multiplayer games that just don't work outside of some version of the live service model. Only the top of the top games have the numbers to keep people buying a new version of basically the same game over and over again without fragmenting their player base to the point where the series dies.

Live service games (when done right) effectively let those that have more money pay for stuff they want and people that don't want to pay more than an initial entry fee (if anything at all) don't have to pay.

I think the better thing to legislate is that if you have a live service game (like Hunt Showdown) if you shut it down, you must make it possible for third parties to continue to offer service. i.e. you must at least provide a server browser, private server executables, and disable any anti tampering software that prevents the game from being modified.

That would be pro-consumer in that it would keep the game (in some form) working for many many more years. For game developers that do run successful, profitable, live service games that people like, they can keep doing what they're doing for years to come. For game developers that keep pumping out live service as a way to milk extra money from players that already bought a full priced game ... they might think twice.

I mean, if you vote for the GOP their platform is literally "me doing less work is good for you."

Imagine if you hired ANY professional under those terms "hi, yeah I'm Jack, the plumber. Listen, you don't want another bathroom, you want fewer bathrooms. Can't have the whole house smelling like shit can we? You understand."

Interesting, I used ZeroWater for a while ... and know others that do. But yeah, searching around it seems it's only ConsumerLabs.com that came up with that result and all other filters were removing (at least some percentage of) microplastics.

I'm not sure how much I trust that ConsumerLabs.com test: https://www.consumerlab.com/methods/water-filters-review/water-filters/

Repeatability isn't really established by testing one device, one time. I'm not an expert either, but that result seems quite surprising.

I have a reverse osmosis system now personally...

There's a difference between high quality plastic performing filtration while it's cold plastic and cold water vs crap plastic that's regularly exposed to high temperatures during transport and storage with the same water contained the entire time.

I think the point is, it doesn't have to just be for Excel anymore.

I can actually play hunt showdown on my 13" Ryzen framework laptop. That's insane. This is saying it'll be a lot better on the upcoming chips, that's even more insane.

Well I can!

I think DOOM Eternal is my favorite in terms of sound design. I wish they'd make a co-op campaign DOOM game. I'm still a bit peeved that Bungie used what has to be a hedge trimmer for the chainsaw sword... That could've been a seriously mean sounding weapon, and I do like it, it just sounds ... less terrifying than it should lol.

I'm with you on avoiding PvP these days. I mentioned in another comment I'm colorblind... and all the effects and stuff, I just can't ever tell what's going on and whether or not something is friendly or unfriendly. The amount of times I've literally walked into an enemy nova bomb or witherhoard AoE is ... too high to count.

Props for attempting to solo dungeons, those are quite difficult... IIRC, I've come close to soloing spire of the watcher but the giant danger chicken at the end has prevailed. I can't say I'm particularly excited to try and get that far solo again 😅

Yeah :/ The actual missions are good but all the "filler" is just ... kinda disrespectful of our time/not particularly fun.

Like I will say, this expansion was significantly better than the strand one. The missions actually felt like they were significant, the areas were varried, they added some new enemy types, and they did a decent job of "sucking me into the story" that the strand campaign just couldn't do.

That said, it kinda feels like they need to drop the "MMO" idea, add an actual global difficulty modifier, and then find a way to make enemies that are strong not just because they've got a lot of health and hit hard. I think DOOM and Remnant have done both of those things particularly well in their recent releases, it goes from "everything is really hard" to "it kinda feels like a dance as I slaughter everything in this general area" in both games once you get the cadence down/practice how to fight the event type enough.

The mission itself is really good. If you don't have someone you know on mic it's going to be a frustrating experience.

Yeah I've got a friend who was still very much into grinding out the game. He was the one encouraging me to do it because he wanted to unlock them. The unspecified requirements for unlocking the mission to begin with is where all the problems are coming in. Honestly it's a major pain point with destiny in general. I wish they'd follow RuneScape's lead and build an actual "quest list" that shows the content available, what you need to do to unlock the mission, and (if it's something you've already done) gives the ability to look back and see what you did (so you can help friends).

After all that I've been doing the usual stuff, chasing rolls of guns, red borders, catalysts

Yeah the new grenade launcher, hand cannon, sword, and rocket launcher are definitely appealing to me.

I wish they'd dump more exotics and catalysts per expansion. One thing I did really enjoy for the first year or two was just finding more and more exotics and trying them out.

At this point I've got most of the exotics and most of the catalysts.

The actual unlocking process. I have no idea about farming additional drops (I have yet to unlock the ability).

I could definitely see grasp of avarice with some new folks being a fun time haha. That one was pretty great.

I wish I could get into Destiny PvP... I think it's the colorblindness that screws with me. The abilities just result in so many colorful effects and I can't see the red hints they add to say "danger" so it turns into "run away from every ability."

I've finished most older content as well... I have nearly every exotic and every catalyst for it with the exception of raid content. My group of friends technically has enough people for a raid, but they're never all on at the same time, and several folks are fairly casual gamers (which is fine, but makes difficult content like that extra difficult).

"Someone things I'm wrong, therefore I'm right."

Yeah I've got literally nothing left to say to you.

Yeah, I only recently tried the spear myself, but that sucker FLIES!

a Democratic House Rep

You say that like there haven't been thousands of house representatives that have predicted an election incorrectly (or like being a house representative gives some special insight).

This defeatist "Trump already won" stuff is driving me crazy.

Trump's greatest strength is to push through with solidarity. Biden has a bad debate and "it's all over, just give up if he doesn't drop out guys."

That's a profoundly ignorant perspective. Yeah, MAYBE cell phones play a role, but they're hardly the only thing that's changed about society.

I feel like I looked into that once upon a time and it was illegal in my state (Ohio).

I have seen something like that though, at times it's a bit too much IMO. I've seen some that trigger for pretty gentle braking so there's just a strobe light distraction in front of you over relatively minor things.

I try (if I have time myself to do it without hitting someone and am just in front a mess) to "wake people up" a bit by rapidly tapping the brakes before hitting them hard (to hopefully make my brake lights flash).

Probably hoping to crowd source the engine development to reduce costs, but honestly no idea.

tldr; the developer of Eve ("CCP") is going to open source their engine

I mean, okay fair enough, this is a longstanding thing that's happened though. It's pretty rare for incumbents to be challenged within their own party (and this is normally not a controversial thing).

It's also less that "nobody could" and more "nobody [with a remote chance of winning] did."

There's no "right to rule" here, that's entirely a retroactive facade that's contrary to the facts.

(EDIT: Bit more info https://www.vox.com/2023/9/12/23868230/biden-democratic-primary-challenge-polls)

Are you actually advocating for the assassination of political rivals as a means to restore abortion rights? That's a pretty hot take if so.

Or are you just pointing out that congress "does stuff" that congress agrees with (i.e., that presides should not be able to assassinate political rivals? -- I haven't seen news of such a bill FWIW).