No.105911[Last 50 Posts]
Nu vidya thread, soyim
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>>100279 No.105913
>>105912A better not-Silent Hill game than Silent Hill F.
No.105918
https://www.h3.gg/Website for watching Heroes of Might and Magic 3 games featuring the biggest nerds in the world lol heh
>you have to make a (free afaik) accountJUST No.105923
Finally got around to playing BG3. Maybe I'll give a more in depth review later, but I overall think it's pretty good. I don't like 5e's rule set very much, and I was surprised by the incredible lack of feats. Part of the reason for this is things that used to be feats in earlier editions are just something all classes inherently get. You don't need to take weapon finesse, because DEX is always applied to finesse weapons if your DEX is higher than STR, and you don't need two-weapon fighting because every class can just dual-wield like a pro with any light weapon they're proficient in, which is silly. As a result making characters that are a "jack-of-all" trades has become easier, while making ultra-specialized builds depends more on your character stats and gear choices than anything else.
Arcane spell-casters feel like they've gotten the shaft here too, since they have fewer equipment proficiencies, they have fewer casts per day than in earlier editions, and spells aren't as potent as they used to be. A big reason for this is that you can't stack a lot of spells now, because they require concentration and if you cast another concentration spell it cancels the last one. To try and make up for this power decrease they've added cantrips, which are infinitely free to cast, and unlike Pathfinder cantrips, they're about as strong as a standard weapon attack and the damage scales with your level, unfortunately that doesn't amount to much, and casters don't get an extra attack like all the warrior classes do. These balance changes make casters feel useless a lot of the time, especially when you realize that any class can use scrolls with no skill or feat requirements. What were they smoking when they made that decision? Doesn't matter if you've got a dumb as bricks barb, there's no "use magic item" skill in 5e and that means all scrolls get cast with a 0% failure rate by anyone. Yes, your spell casting DCs against enemies will be poor, but there are ways to mitigate that and for a lot of spells it just doesn't matter.
So what's fun about the game? While I bitch about 5e, and I could go on, I don't find it awful, just worse. I think it's strength lies in how the game lets you interact with the environment. Just about any object in the game world can be manipulated, carried, or destroyed. As a result you are given a lot of options for how to handle quests and encounters.You could kill every NPC you meet and then talk to dead bodies or animals for information if you wanted to. There's really nothing stopping your progress, and you're given plenty of tools to experiment with. Both with in-game dialogue and outside of it, I never felt like I was being railroaded. The No.1 complaint I've heard about this game is that it's "woke" and you can fuck a literal bear. While I'm pretty sure the bear-fucking was a bug resulting from a transformed druid, I will say regardless of your character's gender every party member is going to hit on you, and sometimes it isn't immediately apparent that they are and what you're walking into by continuing the dialog tree. And if you ignore every advance and stay single, the skeleton NPC that exists just so you can respec will have the audacity to chastise you. Most of the writing isn't that bad, but I don't think I've ever seen another game where the characters are so forward. Usually romance in an RPG is something initiated by the player. That said, you have the option of recruiting mercs for party members or going solo if you wish to avoid stuff like that, and it doesn't persist much after the first act.
No.105925
How you fucks can manage to play video games well into your 20's is beyond me. I stopped playing with I was 15 because of an overwhelming spiritual urge that there was more to life than fantasy.
No.105926
>>105925In my case I'd largely abandoned games over the past 10 years, even now I probably spend less than 100 hours a year immersed in games-I cannot easily assuage the pangs of guilt I feel subconsciously when I play them because there was a time in my late teens and early 20s you could have probably added a zero to the end of that and then some.
However, I'd also realized that never participating in the creativity of others as expressed in games-or even shunning all forms of entertainment such as books and movies as a spartan ascetic would and I kind of did in the same time frame-ultimately did nothing to advance my own goals and may have even harmed them. It's okay to enjoy certain things in moderation, the less degenerate or subversive the better, of course.
No.105935
>>105923>I overall think it's pretty good<actually let me tell you about how much it sucks
>>105925It helps that society is collapsing, rendering life as having no meaning, and as life is meaningless there's nothing to work towards because the future is fucking dead, which makes playing vidya that much more possible.
No.105937
>>105935><actually let me tell you about how much it sucksIf I thought it sucked I would have written at least 3 more paragraphs of complaints. I've put 90 hours in over the course of a month, so I would consider it above average. I only play a handful of games a year and I rarely stick with anything new.
>>105925I don't advocate investing into low-effort time-sinks if you have no desire to do so, but I am sure you will reach a point where you cease to enjoy whatever it is that's currently occupying your time, and when that happens you will probably understand.
No.105987
>>105958I've heard it's basically a capeshit game, except you sit in a cuck chair and watch other people do hero stuff.
No.105995
I can't play anything past 6th gen and if I do then it's a retro inspired game.
No.106511
Starsector is goat.
No.106513
Hollow Knight was great. Iconic soundtrack
No.106514
>>106513Still working on that one a bit. Felt it was overrated at first but as you unlock more abilities and are countered with more obstacles and enemies that challenge your ability to employ them I feel it starts to really shine.
While quite a bit different I will strongly endorse "Death's Door". Its gameplay has a bit more in common with an older zelda game but at a Diablo-like isometric perspective. Very, very good gameplay-wise and its soundtrack is an all-timer for me.
No.106518
>>106514How far have you gotten in Hollow Knight?
No.106525
>>106512>Steam MachineI think the market is too saturated for it. Why would someone who already owns either a gaming PC, Steam Deck, PS5, Xbox Series S/X, Switch or Switch 2 want to buy this?
Maybe I'm underestimating the number of Valve cultists who'll buy it anyway, like the Apple cultists who have to buy every new iPhone generation.
No.106611
>>106544People have been referring to Sif as a girl for as long as I can remember. Don't know why.
No.106615
>>106611Sif is originally the name of a Norse goddess. Other than that, I don't think there is anything else to indicate what sex Sif is either way. Doesn't seem like enough to determine it's female to me. It could've drawn inspiration from the wolf in Princess Mononoke, which is a girl, since Artorias' story is about fighting and succumbing to corruption and that movie is about humans corrupting nature. Guess it doesn't matter, just used to calling it a dude with other people when I played the first Dark Souls a lot. Nobody was enough of a nerd to correct everyone.
No.106648
>>106518I don't remember rofl
Last thing I remember is rescuing some boomer bug knight but I may have hit a couple of milestones thereafter. I was jumping between a stage with Jellyfish and one with mantis like bugs but I may have cleared that one
No.106667
Contemplating buying Look Outside
No.106671
>>106667dont do it
pirate before you buy it
No.106677
Wake up Anon, you're old
>>106671It's $10 nigga
No.106680
>>106677That's 10 bucks you could spend on something valuable. Do you go around burning money often?
No.106682
>>106671Where do people pirate things now? The only actual safe place I know in 2025 is Vimm's Lair but that's purely for retro emulation. Internet Archive and TBP are sussy
No.106684
>>106677It's self-debasing and immoral to hand over your shekels for anything developed or published by a public corporation (a crown-sanctioned international cartel of cutthroats, who are far more dangerous to you and destructive to soyciety than just a small group of merchants or craftsmen) if it can be pirated.
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Devolver_Digitalhttps://www.zoominfo.com/pic/devolver-digital-inc/358055878Shareholders, like bankers and landlords, be scoundrels whose goal is to plunder, "enshittify", "quota-ize", "AI-ize" and feudalize everyone and everything. They'd murder you and other h'white males if they could, spit on your grave and replace you with pajeets and somalians for half the grog ration. If their games can be pried from their monstrous ships, it's not piracy, it's justice. Let their goods walk the plank into our bay. Yarr!
>>106682rutracker.org (search on yandex.com with site:rutracker.org followed by game title) or 1337x.to. Sometimes you can find smaller games on archive.org. Recommended to install something like simplewall, turn on load on system startup, and use it to prevent unnecessary things from having internet connections (e.g. single-player games, random PowerShell scripts that pop up if ever, etc.) to eliminate keylogging risks.
No.106685
>>106682Vimm's lair got shut down actually.
Here anon:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/wiki/megathread/Here's a great big list of pirate sites. goggames is good. The emulation sites on there are good. I also use igg-games and thepiratebay and rutracker, because I'm not a pussy but they have been known to have malware. For books, I like z-library and oceanofpdf.
No.106686
>>106684>It's self-debasing and immoral to hand over your shekels for anything developed or published by a public corporation (a crown-sanctioned international cartel of cutthroats, who are far more dangerous to you and destructive to soyciety than just a small group of merchants or craftsmen) if it can be pirated.I'd extend this to any corporation. Public, private, they're all tentacles of the same octopus.
I fundamentally don't understand why people feel smug about buying (a licence for) video games. You aren't even getting a cd or whatever it's just permission from daddy gaben to play a game.
No.106690
>>106684>yes goy always pirate games from the gentile-owned <50 employee micro corporation Devolver Digital that's helped fund multiple bangers such as the aforementioned Look Outside, Katana Zero, Ruiner and BroForce-as well as redpilled classics like Serious Sam and Shadow WarriorI'm on to you, moishe
>>106680$10 is a small price to pay to avoid having to ever have the slightest worry about bitcoiner miners, keyloggers and ransom wear on my sh*t tbh
No.106691
>>106690All those games except Look Outside were published before Devolver Digital "went public" (sold out to the devil). Public companies explicitly operate under continuous infinite growth, as opposed to merely being profitable. The only way you can achieve that is through enshittification. They ought to go bankrupt before they're allowed to ruin shit and scam victims in the future.
No.106695
>>106690>$10 is a small price to pay to avoid having to ever have the slightest worry about bitcoiner miners, keyloggers and ransom wear on my sh*t tbhMindless, ignorant cowardice then. You're more likely to get malware with something legitimately purchased, in the form of denuvo or something similar.
No.106696
>>106690>gentile-owned <50 employee micro corporationShareholder owned. 50 employees, unknown number of shareholders, all of whom want nothing more than quarterly growth at any cost to make the stock price go up. The company making money doesn't matter, the company being viable in the long term doesn't matter, only that stock price because nobody invests in companies and holds nowdays. It's just a casino for jews. Devolver Digital most likely won't even exist in a few years. Its ips will be swallowed up in some corporate buyout after all value has been sucked out of it by parasitic shareholders.
Your ten dollars aren't going to the people who made the video game. They've already been paid, and were probably already fired and replaced by jeets. The money is going to a pile of jews and middle men who have probably never even
seen a video game in their lives. The people who made the game don't own the rights to it. It was stolen from them, and now you have the opportunity to steal it from the thieves like robin hood. You have a moral obligation to do so.
No.106715
>>106696Why do these companies go public to begin with, you have to wonder. The fact an offer is even being made implies that the company is healthy and profitable and will continue to be so under its current trajectory. It stands to reason that a private company will yield its founders (the people most able to determine whether a company should stay private or go public) greater returns in the long term than an injection of quick public investor cash would. Gabe Newell would be a (relatively) broke ass nigga if he'd made a public company out of Steam years ago, but there would be a lot of these as-described mysterious wealthy middle men.
No.106721
>>106715It's just selling out. They hype up the company for an initial public offer, then sell the shares, take the cash, and bail.
No.106739
Soon.
>>106729God of War 3
No.106747
>>106739Isn't that a profoundly anti-white series where some soy guy kills all of the European gods (who are mocked clown versions of their normal selves)?
No.106749
>>106739I just saw the announcement for Timesplitters Rewind. Very based, though the game doesn't hold up to modern shooting conventions it's still a genuinely good game for those with an open mind. It's as good as the "Goldeneye" mechanical formula has ever gotten
No.106750
>>106729Dragon's Crown is probably the best beat-em-up game ever by any objective metric. Including
circumference lol heh
No.106754
>>106747It's not soy until after 3.
No.106805
Tried of zoomers praising H.R. Giger-inspired walking-simulator indie slop.
No.106809
>>106798based and cute pilled
No.106924
>>106824Beat it. I think it captured the character of the AA games fairly well but it was lacking in some of the gameplay gimmicks that make AA such a standout series. It's more like a walkthrough VN for better or worse, but an enjoyable one nonetheless
No.106927
Played some of the Dawn of War Definitive Edition today. Same game with marginally better graphics, it's nice to revisit it-cheesy voice acting by the legendary Scott Mcniel and all-and it still holds up pretty well
No.107033
>>10701533 is the most famous masonic dogwhistle. Of course freemasons won the fake award show
No.107044
>>107033 (masonic dubs)
It's also a deliberate rip-off of Xenoblade 3 plotwise, apparently.
No.107047
>>107015Dogwhistles or no dogwhistles, by it's self the game is okay. It looks lovely, the plot is pretty good, but it has its issues. Mainly balance problems and the plot moving into Act 3. One of the main characters dying and being instantly replaced by somebody who looks exactly like them was definitely jarring, and going into Act 3 with the cute little burnt girl needed to collect corpses to grow stronger than daddy was just brushed over. Instead of fleshing out the third act they just have a cutscene of her doing it. The quests for the side characters was oddly paced. I get that there could be an excuse that Act 3 is for all the hidden stuff but that's kind of a shitty excuse when there was an obvious bare minimum they could have done and simply didn't. It felt rushed and incomplete.
tl;dr: Clair is a good game with good graphics and a good story but it falls short of being great because of inbalance and rushed ending.
No.107054
I want a WHITE French GF and I want one NOW
No.107056
>>107055Ehrm...that's a Bayan, not an accordion. Gosh
No.107071
>>107047I remember reading somewhere the protagonist is internally referenced as Noah in the game files, which is a smoking gun for the plot being lifted from Xenoblade 3 because the protagonist of that is called Noah.
>>107054>White>FrenchPick one.
No.107078
>>107056Bayans are visually identical to any other kind of accordion, the differences are entirely internal, you tryhard zigger faggot
No.107135
>>107127Terraria is an action game
No.107140
>>107135I like making little houses for the npcs heh.
No.107166
>>107142AI claims yet another victim
https://www.vice.com/en/article/half-life-3-reportedly-delayed-due-to-steam-machine-price-leak-claims/https://www.pcgamesn.com/steam-machine/half-life-3-rumors
>The dream of a new Half-Life game launching alongside the Steam Machine lives on, although you might be paying a high price for the latter.>The recent DRAM price explosion is being driven by AI data centers buying up all the supply of RAM, and has seen the cost of PC RAM more than triple, causing prices for all sorts of other PC tech to rise, too. No.107170
How's BlazBlue compare to other fighting series? Contemplating downloading Central Fiction
No.107179
>>107166The fuckin' thing is going to be like $1,200 now isn't it JUST FUCKING FUCK MY SHIT UP
No.107180
>>107170It's mid tbh but Taokaka is cute lol heh
The fighting game genre was perfected by Street Fighter 4 tbqph
No.107187
>>107180Not seeing any hot anime bishes in Street Fighter 4. NOPE
No.107206
>>107205I'm not surprised, but I didn't think he was a troon. I thought he was just some dude that was using a cut character from DS2 as his channel's avatar.
No.107211
>>107206Hope BonfireVN isn't a tranny too. I actually watch that channel unlike Zullie the Witch. Something about the commentary on this channel always seemed autistic in a tranny sense. Sick and tired of degenerates shoehorning their grotesque autogynephilia fetish into everything.
No.107214
>>107207Might just buy some stuff for family. I'm not very impressed by any deals so far this sale. Dead Island 2 is cheap. That game might have shitty reddit writing, thoughever. Maybe I'll buy some old FF games I don't have copies of anymore.
Also 100% Orange Juice is free to permanently add to library for the next couple of days.
No.107226
>>107207Just looked at steam because of your post and saw absolutely nothing appealing
No.107254
>>107212What's Vintage Story heh
No.107255
>>107254Like a more autistic version of Minecrap.
No.107256
>>107254It's a standalone continuation of terrafirmacraft, an extremely autistic minecraft mod. It's really good actually. TFC is decent but was always held back by being attached at the hip to minecraft. Somehow vintage story manages to be even more obtuse which is appealing.
No.107276
>>107269Mormonism is even more obviously bullshit than conventional Christianity
No.107278
>>107276B-but muh golden dicks no one else ever saw. There is something about most Mormons I have met where I had a feeling they were specifically either Jehovah's Witnesses (obviously not the door-to-door salesman uniformed variant) or Mormons without them making any direct reference to Mormonism. I'll say their women (men too, but who cares) are much better mannered than most christcuck sects. Anyway, mulling over Van Buren makes me wish Joshua Graham had a larger role in FNV instead of being confined to a DLC area. The original Burned Man was one of the first people you meet, finding him crucified and having the option to let him down. It was always a cool concept for a character and I still think Joshua Graham is cool, but maybe not as cool as I like to imagine the original Burned Man could've been had Van Buren not been canned. Also, it's nice how Mormonism is integrated into FNV even if its adherents are quacks. The shit is really big in Utah, which shares its entire western border with Nevada.
No.107279
>>107269New Vegas is less cringe than Avengers, however
No.107282
>>107269For a lot of zoomers he was their first interaction with a faithful person who wasn't some retard baby boomer screeching about harry potter being satanic. Despite him being a fictional character, I could see that being a powerful message for people who don't have any connection to anything beyond themselves.
No.107405
>>107396No. Blizzard north were legends. It would have been great.
No.107409
>>107405D2 is a bit shit compared to D1 in my opinion. Not near as bad as the jump from D3 is of course.
No.107413
>>107395I wonder how good 1998 photoshop and 3ds max are compared to modern? They look almost the same gui wise. Could even be better tbh.
No.107414
>>1073961999-2008 were the glory years of blizzard. Everything they touched turned to gold. I played the cancelled "warcraft adventures" game that was canned because they thought it wasn't high enough quality to do the licence credit I guess, and it is absolutely miles beyond anything post activision blizzard created in terms of pure soul and love.
I have complete faith that this would be been amazing.
No.107417
>>1074133ds Max before 2012 just had longer workflows. Previous versions did not have the Peel toolset for the Unwrap UVW modifier which really speeds up the UV unwrapping workflow. Also previous versions can't run properly on Vista and newer due to viewport rendering bugs. After 2012 there wasn't really anything major added to 3ds Max for modeling, UV unwrapping, texturing, rigging, skinning or animation, I think mostly just additions to rendering, physics stuff and other niche things I don't care about.
For Photoshop, there are a lot of people that swear by CS6, but I think all the little changes to the UI improving general workflow and major additions like content-aware fill or preserve details 2.0 upscaling algorithm up to CC 2019 make it best. Newer versions I don't see any changes I care for and probably make it more bloated. I'm not sure if versions before CS6 run properly on Windows 10. If you're still on an HDD (I still can't justify buying an SSD especially with current prices, I'll wait for the Chinese to finally get their heads out of their asses and figure out NAND production given the US-led trade war instead of relying on the SK Hynix-Samsung-Micron oligopoly), having both CS6 and CC 2019 installed might be a good idea since CS6 starts up faster, however I don't bother, 8 second startup time for CC 2019 isn't a big enough deal to bother installing CS6 or buying an SSD. On another note, texturing for 3D models is nowadays done with Adobe Substance 3D Painter, it's a much faster workflow as you're painting right on the exported FBX model.
No.107426
>>107409Agreed. D1 has a very unique feeling of slowly descending into hell. No other game has anything comparable
No.107428
>>107417I did not expect such an answer. Thank you anon.
>>107426I enjoy the roguelike feel of D1, and I appreciate that you can't run. It makes the gameplay more tactical rather than just sprinting everywhere. As a warrior, ranged enemies are far more dangerous for example when you can't just run into them. You need to dodge and weave a bit.
Unfortunately, I cannot fully agree with you because it would mean agreeing with friecel, the most obnoxious pedophile I've ever seen on the internet (yes, including chemfag). D2 is the superior game.
No.107432
>>107428Being contrarian and projecting just because someone made you butthurt months ago makes you look very pathetic.
No.107433
>>107426The pseudo-open-world aspect in lieu of the single mega-dungeon detracted from it a lot, yeah. Also the endgame grind autism more than anything. ARPGs that attempt to ape the mechanics of D1 are generally more enjoyable than ones which try to copy D2. All that being said, there are aspects of D2 I really liked. Being a more long-term commitment isn't bad until a certain point and making some build-defining drops so rare that retards are willing to pay exorbitant amounts of real money for them is well past that point.
Unrelated, I remember treating early D3 like a soft side-gig, made a nice bit of cash (relative, it was something I came home to play and I enjoyed the gameplay at the time more than my job at least). Retards all complained about it being jewish or something despite offering an official channel for loyal and talented players to directly monetize their playtime of a Blizzard game. Blizzard has gotten so jewish that even GDKP on WoW is bannable if openly spoken about. I wouldn't be surprised if it has survived on dicksword.
t. didn't play Season of Discovery because I've been done with their bullshit for years.
No.107481
>>107480I wonder if he moved in with his parents again and/or if one of them had a clot shot induced heart attack; seems he's been free to game a lot. IIRC his dad was an asshole and would beat him up over not understanding/acting on verbal demands efficiently enough.
No.107488
>>107480What MMR is this shitstain?
No.107526
>>107481he never moved out and gets tismbux
>>107488i thought you loved smiley
No.107541
>>107526When did I imply that? I don't think about him much besides remembering retarded stuff he has said once in a blue moon and laughing about it.
No.107846
>>107526smiley got his tismbux frozen
>mintboard.org/vichan/bone/res/1017343.html No.107856
>>107537Smileberg wants to be the Sasha Grey of 4chon but Avid beat him to it lmoa! All he can do is seethe!
>>107855 (checked)
He's over 30 and has never worked-- who would hire him?
>>107846>Will smoke DMT and hang myself in protest outside the ODSP office though if they won't get me the gibes backI look forward to seeing CBC coverage of this.
No.107857
>>107856>who would hire him?He's got gardening experience, send that man to a greenhouse.
No.107858
>>107846Can't post there. Cell dynamic IP range is "permabanned for spamming musclegirls". Interesting person in my region it seems
No.107969
I kind of want to support GOG because I appreciate their efforts to restore older games and such but perhaps ironically I'd have to run a lot of the games I purchase from them through steam/proton because I'm not on a Windows computer as often these days. LOL
No.107993
>>107969The owner of GOG is a billionaire like Gabe. While GOG has a better offering than Steam for being DRM-free only, if your goal is to maximize retro PC game preservation and proliferation, "voting with your dollar" on storefronts like GOG much less Steam isn't the most efficient way to donate. There are more direct ways to allocate your dollars to such causes, specifically to the autistic nerds actually doing the work.
Donating directly to emulator projects & archivers:SoftGPU (GPU accelerated driver for Win98 on VirtualBox)
https://github.com/JHRobotics/softgpuhttps://ko-fi.com/jhrobotics86Box
https://86box.netRuffle (Flash player emulator)
https://opencollective.com/ruffleFlashpoint Archive
https://opencollective.com/flashpointarchiveDOSBox-Staging
https://www.dosbox-staging.org/get-involvedWine
https://www.winehq.org/donateProbably some others I'm missing.
Hosting seedbox(es) to seed retro game collection torrents (which come with pre-set emulators & frontends):https://www.retro-exo.com/exodos.html (638GB)
https://www.retro-exo.com/appleIIGS.html (9.4GB)
https://www.retro-exo.com/win3x.html (372GB)
https://www.retro-exo.com/win9x.html (282GB)
https://flashpointarchive.org/downloads (2.28TB)
They also provide a launcher to make the above eXo torrrents compatible with Linux:
https://github.com/exogui/exoguihttps://www.retro-exo.com/linux.htmlWith dediseedbox.com it would cost $35/mo to have a seedbox uploading all those torrents above. DSB is located in Netherlands (NL is the only Western country that ignores DMCA takedown requests). Russian would probably be a little cheaper but I don't know of any app-only seedbox Russian hosts. I'm not sure if the above need any more seeders, I haven't checked, maybe it's not even necessary. You can probably find all those games on archive.org and such anyway. Still more efficient for proliferation than giving cash to middleman storefronts.
No.107994
>>107993This is a good post that will go ignored. Buyfags are pathologically compelled to purchase games.
No.107995
>>107993I'll also add that a lot of indie devs have kofis and patreons which directly fund their work, rather than funding gaben's third yacht. For example:
https://www.patreon.com/Frankiesmileshow/aboutThis is the patreon of the guy who made look outside. Giving him a dollar here and then pirating the game would end up with more money going toward the dev than purchasing the game on steam, which would result in numerous middlemen dipping their hands into the money before he even sees it (steam itself and devolver digital at the least).
No.107997
>>107993>RuffleI wonder if they fixed the castle cat games yet heh, it was a little disappointing to try and replay Weisi (RIP)'s games on Newgrounds only for the character to fall through the ground plane instantly, smheh. This is a good suggestion in particular though and I will be acting on it
>>107995I know Steam takes 30%-a considerable sum for sure. I wonder what Devolver demands as tribute for supplying the funding to help get a game off the ground? Honestly associating with an established publisher seems like an extremely bad, even ruinous move especially if you're a one-man dev. Devolver will never stop taking a cut, whereas alternatively a personal loan's principle could be paid off.
No.108000
Looks like the Ruffle fund is doing pretty well all things considered ($175k over 5 years), not saying it isn't worth supporting (I will likely be joining the $5 tier minimum) but it feels like the money is being squandered a bit if it's not being used to employ further help than the current roster of three devs.
I support a few artists on Patreon (n-no, none of them are THAT kind of artist, aha) but I don't think I'll be giving $5 a month to someone who's made one post on their Patreon in 11 years, LOL. Between you and me I bought his game for probably a dozen people or so. I'm not happy that at least half of that money went to Steam and Devolver believe me-but it was also only half of a day's wage to share my appreciation for my favorite game of last year with people who 100% wouldn't have bought or even pirated it themselves lmoa.
Back to Patreon though. Why do artists have zero business sense? Having a "free" tier on your patreon is not some enticement that's going to get you more exposure (that's what your twitter or whatever is for) and make you more money, it's a pit that you're leading someone to who'd otherwise be giving you $7 a month without thinking about it for the rest of their natural life. A sub-$5-tier is just as bad imho. Anything less than that and you're not really supporting shit, especially these days.
No.108001
>>108000>Looks like the Ruffle fund is doing pretty well all things considered ($175k over 5 years), not saying it isn't worth supporting (I will likely be joining the $5 tier minimum) but it feels like the money is being squandered a bit if it's not being used to employ further help than the current roster of three devs.If that 175k is divided by 5 years then divided by three devs, there's a big difference in productivity between a dev who has to work a full-time job to cover bills (unless he lives somewhere cheap like India or Paraguay) and then spend an hour or two a day on a project versus the project being his full-time job because its donations can cover bills. This is why projects like Yuzu were successful in a short time. A smaller set of full-time employees for specialized cutting-edge reverse engineering (that means ChatJeetPT can't help them much) are usually much more efficient than dozens of unpaid uncoordinated volunteers who have a cursory understanding only able to make minor changes. But yeah I agree for such few donations it would be more efficient to only employ South Asians and Latin Americans, first world employees are obsolete especially for low-budget ventures due to purchasing power differentials. The only way you can fix that problem in the first world is through civil wars followed by violent revolutions with a lot of guillotines or firing squads, to establish new nations with new economic structures with globally-competitive devalued currencies. That's what China had to do to get where they are now.
No.108003
>>108001It's more that this retro nostalgia stuff is super niche and taken for granted. You're just not going to get a lot of donations for that like the amount of subscriptions an OnlyFans girl would get. The market (collection of normies) doesn't care about your autistic endeavors.
No.108004
>>108003Most women on onlyfans get like 20 bucks a month lol. It's a scam for them as well as you. Imagine selling your body for a cheeseburger, like randy from trailer park boys...
No.108006
>>108001China's not a good role model over anything labor-related. They have the term "996" to describe how they work from 9AM to 9PM 6 days a week, and are the largest producer of workplace death videos. If it's gonna take another 15 years for FOSS volunteers to get ruffle working, so be it. No need for the unhinged rant over civil wars and firing squads in the hopes of getting a flash emulator sooner, lol
No.108007
>>108006The existence of a flash emulator seems redundant to me when you can simply use the standalone flash player made by adobe.
No.108009
>>108008Yeah I've never had a problem running it with wine, even years and years ago when wine was considerably shittier.
No.108016
>>108004I'm convinced despite 0 hard evidence that top onlyfans models and twitch streamers are being funded by insiders to create the Fear of Missing Out phenomenon and/or impress political narratives upon the high double digit iq audiences of these websites
No.108017
>>108016I 100% believe this.
No.108021
>>108003>>10800450% of onlyfans accounts never receive a single payment so $0.01 a month automatically puts you in the top 50%, to end up in the top 10% you only need to hit ~$1000 and ~10k will put you in the top 1%
So Walmart employees earn more than 90% of OF creators.
>>108016Plausible. The entertainment industry has never truly been subject to the whims of the market.
No.108032
>>108016From what I've heard the current CEO of Twitch Dan Clancy spends thousands of dollars on Ewhores. That aside, it seems like an ultra minority of whales are always the ones doing the grand majority of the funding. They dictate a streamer's career in the same way they dictate the content of gacha games. They're like the retarded cousins of political lobbyists.
No.108034
Oh, "FrankieSmileShow"'s Patreon isn't 11 years old, I apologize. It's just that the one post he has on his Patreon is of an 11 year old video of his. Not much better but it is worth mentioning
No.108035
>>108016>>108017>>108021Keep being naive and believing there's some grand conspiracy instead of accepting there are a lot of shameless, fiscally-irresponsible down-bad dudes out there.
No.108036
>>108035>listen here, rubes, the truth is that the jews are telling the truth about everyone wanting the things they pushI was not ready for this level of realtalk! Someone get this guy a spot on Joe Rogan!
No.108037
>>108035It's not mutually exclusive, faggot.
No.108038
>>108036Manufactured desire. People want what they're told to want. It's the point of advertising and consumerism in general.
>>108037This. Obviously there's a lot of simps out there but a lot of these celebrity whores feel artificially propped up.
No.108047
>>108046Because that is why they're created.
No.108103
New open-source flash cart for the DS looks pretty cool. Considering buying it to replace my M3 Real flash cart. Still a lot of DS games I haven't gotten around to playing or finishing.
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005011575849540.htmlOr maybe I should just save up for an AYN Thor Max eventually. Then again Android makes it pretty limiting instead of something Linux-based.
No.108137
>>108046Denial of objectivity is a fundemental axiom of egalitarianism (and tikkun olam)
No.108178
I f*cking forgot to save in Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain and now I have to start at the beginning of the h*ckin' dungeonerino!
No.108180
>>108178I am a chronic saver in every game out of habit.
No.108193
>>108192>pvp raid shooter>mostly negative reviewsAnon... I am not sure I believe you.
No.108196
>>108192My brother mentioned that game was shit. I got it confused with the new Minecraft thing.
No.108201
>>108196Hytale? It looked sort of intriguing but vintage story just seems like hytale but better in every way.
No.108204
>>108201Yeah that's the one.
No.108207
>>108205Seems like an ok game. Smiley doesn't have bad taste, overall.
No.108308
>>108307Microshart is behind the times.
