The fryers at all the McDonald’s locations I work at are on wheels. You can detach the gas line. I have to regularly pull them out to clean spilled oil and shit from under and behind them (and all the other big appliances as well, which are the same). It sucks worse than cleaning the bathrooms.

I have not been let down by Ssethtzeentach on YouTube. He only seems to cover super deep, complex games; most of which ends up being indie games. How I found out about Kenshi and that Earth Defense Force is way deeper than it looks.

Since they count DLC in the mix, it’ll probably be Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree.

Even the small print on a physical disk’s packaging said that.

There used to be a couple… Back when the default skin for Steam was just that ugly green shit? There was a couple different 3rd party clients that offered customizing the look before they added that function officially.

The only one I think might still be relevant is the one centered around filtering shovelware from the store. And I don’t know if you download that, or if it’s just a web client, since it is focused on the store and not much else (I also never used it personally).

Elden Ring is still a stuttery mess on PC and barely hits 60 fps on consoles, even the $700 one, yet it’s beloved.

I have an old ass PC and a PS5 with the game on both and they run smooth as shit unless you’re using raytracing, which literally doesn’t even change the visuals in the game; it just makes it slower.

Stalker 2 is a busted mess. The performance issues have been fixed mostly after 3 patches, but the game itself shits itself once you get to a certain story mission. Literally nothing works beyond that point. The A-Life system does not work, scripted events are all jacked up, IDK if anyone else is getting this but every now and then I have my secondary weapon replaced with a random other weapon that I didn’t even have in my inventory, sound effects don’t play properly, the hud completely disappears, and so many more things that make me glad I’m only playing through GamePass and didn’t actually buy the game. There’s a good game under the mess, somewhere. But they should have just bit the bullet and delayed it another month or two instead of releasing what they did for the holidays.

The reason they sold so many copies though, is because pre-ordering. People bought them before they ever saw the game in action. And games like Stalker 2 are the reason why you shouldn’t pre-order. Because the chances of getting burned by busted-ass shit like this is increasingly more common. Again, because people pre-order the fuck out of games.

I definitely don’t see a fixation of performance lol

The reliance on AI upscaling and frame generation, while the entire game takes up half or your entire SSD shows that optimization is an after thought. These solutions make everything look pretty and smooth, at the cost of how it actually feels to play (input lag up the fucking ass that makes the game feel way worse). Couple that with the myriad of performance issues the majority of AAA games have at launch.

The focus is entirely on making something visually good looking that will sell millions in pre-orders alone.

This was the first game I ever played that had severable limbs, which was pretty fuckin’ cool back in the day.

Riiight… The streamers are the toxic ones and not just every player of the game.

I remember when the Wherehouse Music that used to be here was selling Duff “beer.” It was just generic root beer in the Duff can.

I miss that game… And real arcades. All the “arcades” around here have nothing bullshit mobile games you can literally download and play for free on your phone, and they want like $1-2 per play at the cabinet now. I ain’t paying any money to play Angry Birds or Flappy Bird.

At least they still have skeeball and the basketball things…

As for light gun games on PC, the only things I’ve ever seen are emulated. Either arcade games like that Terminator one with the machine guns that actually have kick to them, or NES/SNES games using the zapper/super scope 6. The emulators do support the actual hardware if you have it and a way to connect it, and there used to be light guns made for PC, but I don’t know if they would be USB or serial port (they were from the 80’s and 90’s).

The only language I tried to learn that I actually thought was hard in and of itself was Ruby. Fuck Ruby.

The lack of static servers and prevalence of random matchmaking has made multiplayer gaming so bad. At best nobody talks. At worst, the people talking are toxic as fuck. Who cares, right? Never gonna see these players ever again. Nobody accepts friend requests either anymore because 9 times out of 10, they only wanted to add you to talk shit.

It’d be cool if controllers could just be adjustable size. Hand sizes are wild. My fingers are pretty short; my best friend has E.T. length fingers. We are otherwise about the same height and build.

NGL: I hope that is not the final design because it looks rather cumbersome to actually hold.

Some people do. And that game exists. My sister has been playing some MMO exactly like that.

I, too, like simulations. Though, I want to simulate fake shit so I don’t know if that’s quite the same because I totally understand the realism vs fun design aspects and I’m not necessarily looking for realistic but believable based on real physics. Dwarf Fortress is the only example of what I mean that I can offer.

Idk… RimWorld feels less genuine when they anthropomorphize the RNG, so it feels like it’s doing shit to you on purpose (because it kinda is).

Fuck you, Randy! I bet you thought that destroying my colony with 137 manhunting Boomalopes was pretty fuckin’ funny, you sick son of a bitch.

Over here in Denmark they costed almost as much as a full price game at one point

That sounds insane… They’re mass produced vinyl and plastic bullshit lol

Can’t really do anything with the super high detailed figurines of Solid Snake and the like, either. They’re just decorations. But those good ones are hundreds of dollars. A Funko pop is, what? $6-10? If you don’t think they’re ugly as shit like I do, I could see why they would sell.