/v/ - Video Games

>>295068 (OP) 
>A question that's been sitting on my mind, how do these girl-centric franchises with a six gazillion girls and essentially no men canonically deal with reproduction? For example Touhou or Kemono Friends (which is technically a videogame foremost), where many different different species of cute girls inhabit the same time, and some still have relatively short lifespans. In Kemono Friends I believe it's a fantastic substance that reacts with animals in order to produce cute girls, and that transformation can revert back, as well as it is implied friends live very long lives. However, once morphed into girls, they're girls right? Do they reproduce? I'd like to know. This is videogames, at the end of the day.
They just happen to hang out withn their friends is that just so hard to believe? that's basically been true for most if not all of history until recent where women tried to attach themselves to men only for it to back fire and men avoid them entirely.

>>295069
Sure but then what? They're hanging out, but hanging out will last until they're dead. Who will hang out then? Don't they know they have to reproduce?
Even the anime said something about Friends dying. Do they know about reproduction?

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>>295070
>Who will hang out then? Don't they know they have to reproduce?
>Even the anime said something about Friends dying. Do they know about reproduction?
Anon... anime waifus don't get husbandos until they're fully grown if they aren't divine figures.

>>295071
But we're talking about girls who live +1000 years. When's the age then? When they sex?

>>295068 (OP) 
>last pic
I'm clearly not a gamer because I don't know references besides katawa shoujo, can any gamers™© explain them to me?

>>295073
never because they're not real
>>295075
All of those are /v/ greatest hits so I'm not willing to spoonfeed, but to throw you a bone I think two of them are Hotline Miami.

Waifus operate differently than conventional "real life tm" 

They exist sort of as an essence and each person who has the waifu has their own customized individual version of her as his own, and (any true) waifus are virgins in their essence, and it's only after the customized unique splitting to their owners do they then sexo, not touching or corrupting the original essence of the waifu. 

It's simple meta-waifuism.

>>295075

I too am wondering.

>Janitor told me
<Hotline Miami
>Melted ice caps
<Civilization 4?
>Space station
<Space Station 13?

>1
I didn't know porn was allowed unspoilered

>>295068 (OP) 
The vast majority of 2hus are mythological beings in the form of cute girls who rarely "reproduce" like humans do if at all, and the few ningenhus are small in number while also hanging out with their girl friends as >>295069 said.
Men do exist in the Human village according to the spinoff Mangos but they're not given any focus outside those because 2hu is gaem about cute girls shooting boolit while flying around.

>>295123
Some members of the mammal class are known to grow large scales to protect their bodies from danger. This joint crouching gesture is just a natural conclusion to cooperative survival mechanisms :^).

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>>295068 (OP) 
>A question that's been sitting on my mind, how do these girl-centric franchises with a six gazillion girls and essentially no men canonically deal with reproduction? For example Touhou or Kemono Friends (which is technically a videogame foremost), where many different different species of cute girls inhabit the same time, and some still have relatively short lifespans. In Kemono Friends I believe it's a fantastic substance that reacts with animals in order to produce cute girls, and that transformation can revert back, as well as it is implied friends live very long lives. However, once morphed into girls, they're girls right? Do they reproduce? I'd like to know. This is videogames, at the end of the day.
Pic related.

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>>295068 (OP) 
>world full of magic
>can't comprehend where babies come from

>>295167
how is prangent formed?

>>295174
Step 1. Get Greg
Step 2. Get net
Step 3. Pragmatic

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>>295174

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>>295148
What does aphantasia have to do with his   birds and the bees boggle?
>>295068 (OP) 
A gay stork is rare in Japan. When they do show up they often get attacked by furry wizards and fall into a world of monsters. It's unlikely that an androgymous dinosaur will save the gay baby so there's less men when isakai'd.

*androgynous

>>295121
I think "stomped on a bikers head" is GTA V

>>295245
Don't think so johnny's girlfriend practically disappears as soon as she appears. Only game with a biker I can think of outside of that is hotline miami.

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Is Azumanga Daiou basically the Family Guy of anime? Aside from both being old-ish episodic comedy shows, Azumanga is also very present in western zoomer meme culture in a way similar to Family Guy.

>videogames
Uh, there's a mahjong Azumanga game for the PS1 or something...

>>295286
No, Azumanga Daioh is heartwarming and wonderful, Family Guy is offensive and awful. Think of modern retards as repeaters: They pick up whatever signal happens to come by. Don't bother looking for a pattern. They've got no immune system, the only pattern is "a signal was sent".

>>295246
The fuck is this retard on.
>>295310
This.

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Help me pick between Dead Rising 3 and Dying Light? I'm really craving a good zombie game and I've already played the first two Dead Rising games + OTR, L4D2, Prototype and Plants vs Zombies.
I've tried to get into Dying Light a couple times previously but the first third is just so slow and boring that I almost always drop it and to be honest I'm not sure Dead Rising 3 keeps what I enjoy about Dead Rising either. If you have a better recommendation, please let me know. I keep hearing that the zombie genre was "oversaturated" yet there's less than half a dozen good games.

>>295406
Without a doubt of the mind Dying light it does take a few hours to get into it but
Dead rising 3 Legitimately killed anything  Dead rising had going for it and sucks.

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>someone asked for a mirror for the SSH doujin album Blast from the Past on a past QTDDTOT thread
>post a high quality rip myself with flac files
>much time later change OS
>didn't save the album I once posted in high quality here
Please post a download link back. I used to listen to it on the daily.

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What did they do now?

>>295559
IDK but it's evident steam forums should be removed

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>>295559
Censorship of dialog and pantsu even in Japanese.

>>295561
Wow what fags

>>295561
>they even changed the nip version
I hope they get cancer after taking their covid booster.

>>295563
This is what happens when you take NISA's money, you get infected and eventually fall to ruin.

>>295559
Why did you censor that screenshot?

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How do you make RPGs more tolerable? E.g., when you have to grind for hours, when you have to spend an hour between hunting sessions dealing with inventory management.

>>295634
I avoid RPGs that require grinding.

>>295634
>How do you make RPGs more tolerable?
Turn back time to when you were a kid.

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>>295641
There's an option that's more feasible than time travel, and gives you even more free time than a kid has.

>>295634
git gud

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>>295634
Make your own RPG.

>>295634
For me, i played a lot of games for much longer than i should have because i played them on a couch, on a big ass TV, and also with a second TV that had cable. I can't quite seem to get into games now as hard as i used to, because i'm constantly tabbing to windows or other programs, checking this and looking at that. Maybe find a way to isolate yourself so it's a pain in the ass to do something that isn't just playing the game, assuming you aren't already gaming in a maximally comfortable position.

>>295704
This is an attention span issue Controller helps.

>>295634
Game speed x2 x4 and watching something in the background while grinding so that it's not really viewed as an waste of time.

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i like the themes of a game but hate its gameplay and how tedious and unneccessarily difficult it is, specially considering that there are games in the same genre that are way better and more enjoyable, is it ok to just watch a uncommentated longplay to get the gist of it and then use the themes in my own personal projects? i just don´t have the motivation to do any of this shit anymore and im tired of people yelling at me online i also may have undiagnosed derpession, but i wouldn´t know because i am still on a waiting list for the shrink and i am relying on the public health system because i am dead broke picture not related

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>>295733
Hell yeah, go for it anon.
I believe in you.

>>295733
Don't force yourself to do something (You) don't enjoy, that's 駄目。

>>295737
but i feel humilliated from walking away + how can i draw inspiration and themes from a game i can´t quite play, its like that meme "Huge X fan excited about playing X thing for the first time"

>>295738
At that point you've got your priorities mixed up; games aren't supposed to be a chore. If you don't feel like playing it don't do it, neither do it to draw >inspiration from it. What are you even trying to do here?

>>295738
That game's themes were probably inspired by other game or media. Maybe try find and chechking out those sources. Maybe you will enjoy them more and find similar inspiration for your project.

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>>295739
>At that point you've got your priorities mixed up; games aren't supposed to be a chore.
you´d think so but that does not seem to be the actual belief considering other threads in this very board and game forums overall, it is somewhat disingenuous to state this when Tryhard cliques exist, i still remember when people shilled Dark Souls out the wazoo
>neither do it to draw >inspiration from it. What are you even trying to do here?
like i said before
<i like the themes of a game but hate its gameplay and how tedious and unneccessarily difficult
i like the story of the game but hate everything else, but if i take stuff from the game and/or read up about it feels... wrong? like reading the plot summary of a movie or something, second-hand, cheating, call it whatever you want

>>295741
This may surprise you to hear, but many people find Dark Souls to actually be fun.

>>295759
I always feel like you need to quantify [fun]. I look at Dark Souls, and i think it looks like an adventure, an experience, a struggle, which would make it thrilling and moving, but i'd hesitate to say [fun], since i reserve that for things that are fast and colorful, like most N64 games. Even FF7, the greatest game of all time, isn't 100% fun and has terse and emotional moments inbetween the really wacky shit like arriving in Costa Del Sol for the first time. You can enjoy a game for reasons other than [fun], and if you want to suggest Dark Souls to people, i'm not sure you should call it [fun] outright, they way you could, say, Sengoku Basara.

>>295760
It seemed like the guy I responded to was using Dark Souls as an example of a game that is a chore but people still praise. I wanted to point out that it isn't a chore to everyone, whereas I would find something like FF7 a complete chore and I can't make any real progress in that game without dropping it. 

In my opinion, something like Darkest Dungeon is a huge chore, a game that punishes you and gives you setback after setback even when you do well at it. It always feels frustrating to me.

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>>295733
Unironically that ad makes me really want to play that game. Anyone else play it and can recommend it or not?
>>295705
This is a good tip, and clarifies some of my issue...
>>295704
Ha, I actually do this a lot. Weird history lecture on audio while I grind inna RPG is peak kino.
>>295660
I struggle with the writing, of all things.



>>295652
You know, I think I can better explain my issue now. It's about...how I play that I suppose I'm asking for advice on.

Take NetHack for example. I end up trying to loot EVERYTHING and packrat to the goddam extreme, even when I'm being swarmed and NEED TO FUCKING RUN. This leads to either early death, constant encumbrance issues, or spending an hour every play session just managing inventory slots. I do this shit instinctively in every goddam RPG because I never know when I'm playing a game that rewards me for 100% keeping and finding every little thing.
Or just overall trying to over optimize the shit out of everything, which leads me to reading menus for a goddam year. dot Hack is the worst at this, because there are 8 different element types x ~3 different equipment types x ~4 different class types = 128 different types of equipment to horde, read through the stat pages of, and I only have ~100 storage slots, and then there are also special one-off armors and equipment and...
Or constantly making 35 different save files because, "Wait, a dialogue tree, I better save here in case 247 hours later in my game I needed to answer Y instead of X."
Or...
It's OCD behavior bullshit. That's how to summarize it. Autistic fucking OCD behaviors that end up ruining my fun every time. I get caught up in all of this shit and never play the goddam game and read menus and stat pages for hours wishing I could stop already.

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>>295759
that is not the point, the point is "Games are supposed to be fun/not a chore" type of self-help advice isn´t really real, people like to pretend gatekeeping, brigading and elitism aren´t real, i think i posted about this on /b/ there is this movie called "Revolver" at the end of the movie in the director´s cut you have a bunch of shrinks talking about how "there is no external enemy" and everything is just a projection, this is a luxury belief, the truth is some people outhere just want you dead for breathing, again, in this very board there are people yelling "git gud" like a mantra, there are entire communities and subcultures based around laughing at people and telling them to kill themselves, an entire school of tryhardism that predicates that every game should be played at max difficulty, the Lolcow phenomenon, etc...

i simply cannot take the "Do it yourself brother believe your truth!" advice because it is simply, not real, it runs on the (false) assumption that if i mention the game series that i dropped there wont be an entire brigade of people yelling at me and telling me to kill myself

>>295763
Knights and merchants is fun if you are into the Resource Management City building Settlers style of game, the fanmade Remake that is around there has Tryhard-level AI though, the base game is fun but it has a lot of levels that feel more like timed puzzles, im bad at management games though, but if you do like it you have the Settlers series and Cultures to go off

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Does anyone have a recommendation for an FPS that you can drop in and out of for multiplayer that has some arcade elements and isn't completely infested by either the modern jew or discord troons/niggers? All suggestions welcome.

Quake W bots  otherwise zer0

>>295804
TF2
OpenFortress
TFC2
Xonotic
Red Eclipse
Cube 2: Sauerbraten
Unreal Tournament
Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
Legions: Overdrive

>>295809
You forgot openjk

Day of Defeat: Source
Most Source games/mods in general

I feel like re-playing Metroid Prime. Should I emulate the GC or Wii version?

>>295846
Wii version comes with widescreen.

>>295849
I assume I can get widescreen working on the GC version too. Can I use a normal controller with the wii version?

>>295850
You can play the entire trilogy with a normal controller if you want with prime hack and 3 plays perfectly because the motion gestures are scripted to a button press.

>>295851
Isn't primehack designed for keyboard/mouse by poking directly into the camera system? That's what the "hack" part means.

>>295893
Originally that was the intent but they added controller support as well and if you really want you can use gyro as well.

>>295763
Then play smaller portioned roguelikes like one way hero.
Also I cant unsee the face on that pic.

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>>295904
I saw three tittys above the waist

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>>295904
Okay you got me.

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I apologize for being a fucking boomer about this, but...
If this requires to connect back to the internet at least once a week to allow you access to your games, and you can't have physical games with this device, then this device is a prime example of "You will own nothing and be happy." right? Not only that, but what exactly is the incentive of this over a PC running Steam? What exactly are you 'owning' here? You're purchasing a box to let you purchase leases? Isn't buying this an extremely bad idea in the long run?

>>295992
It's just a computer, you can use linux on it and pirate games, it's not a console with locked down os same as steam deck.

>>295992
>If this requires to connect back to the internet at least once a week to allow you access to your games,
Where'd you hear that?
By all current indications it's a custom-made desktop PC running SteamOS, which is an Arch Linux derivative with no hard always-online requirement for the system itself.
>you can't have physical games with this device
I haven't heard anything about SteamOS banning the use of USB disc drives???
And even if that were so it's extremely unlikely for Gay Ben to put in a gay secure boot-tier lockout to prevent the goyim from installing G*ntoo.
>Not only that, but what exactly is the incentive of this over a PC running Steam? What exactly are you 'owning' here? You're purchasing a box to let you purchase leases? Isn't buying this an extremely bad idea in the long run?
It's an SFF PC with a normalnigger-oriented gayman Linux distribution with Steam preinstalled and drivers+settings configured out of the box so the negro community doesn't get a heart attack upon turning it on.
The biggest criticism so far is the paltry 8GB of VRAM, but aside from being officially sanctioned by Saint Gabe the hardware itself is nothing special.

Honestly your post reads like you came from an alternate universe in which Microsoft made the thing.

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real ownership is having the game installs on your hard drive and being able to copy them and run them all you want. having some proprietary drm ridden cartridge or disk is not real ownership.

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>>295992
>a fucken black square 
I concur. 
>>295998
<it's just a computer
>later
>terminators everywhere connected to skynet recieving constant updoots

>>295992
Its a computer you dumb nigger.
And yes, a DIY computer is way better than that shit.
That shit was made for normalfags that can't into computer and are to lazy to even buy one premade with stuff that choosen by them.

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>>295992
This is what cuckchan actually looks like. Take heed, white man.
>>296010
Yes, but it could still carve out a niche if the price isn't completely insane, which it might not be considering 8GB VRAM is almost nothing to the AI bubble these days. We'll see, if it's 600 dobsons or more it'll be DOA.

>>296014
>We'll see, if it's 600 dobsons or more it'll be DOA.
If the price is right and the performance is better than mini pcs, it should sell i guess.

>>295999
> the paltry 8GB of VRAM,
If a game effectively cannot be played with 8GB of VRAM there's an bigger issue than the hardware. modern games are actual ass

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>>295992
It's just a "prebuilt" miniPC with Linux+Steam slapped on it, or at least that's what people say.

>>296009
>square
It's a CUBE.

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>>296037
>Kube

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>>296037
Unironically would be better than 90% of the current market.

>>296034
Wheres the murder cube?

>>295992
Valve really dropped the ball not having some sort of physical media component. With even normies gushing about owning worthless plastic, people would be all over it.
All they would have to do is put some proprietary port on there that will fit a cartridge with a small SSD in it, people would pay the premium.

>>296187
>Expecting physical media off of someone whose entire purpose was to get rid of it

>>296188
I'm just saying there's a market out there for it and no one is catering to it on PC.

>>296189
The market has shrunk considerably over time.
Doesnt help that I can't think of a good format for physical media on PC anymore. Discs are extremely outdated and Blu-Ray is on its way out.

>>296190
Blu-rays are still being pressed in large quantities, flash storage is cheap (not as cheap as it was 6 months ago but still), and they're literally making their own hardware to compete with consoles. They could of easily incorporated their own cartridge-like format or just added a small disc drive.

>>296191
>could of

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>>296191
>could of
Niggers?! On my ZZZchan?!

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>>296197
ayo bih dont diss my homie down cuh
you all puffed up till I mug your goofy ass I deadass

>>296191
I'm pretty confident the system will work just fine with USB disc drives. My Linux machine does.

>>296231
The point is mooter than a dead imageboard because you don't >buy hardware designed to lock you into account-based rentals and expect physical media to be a thing.

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>>296250
What the fuck is going on in the Japanese magazine industry?

>>296261
It seems they know how to have fun. The last time I read a magazine was like... before the PS4 was going to be released... And the thing I remember the most is an article that said that No Mans Sky was going to be the best game ever made lmaooo

Anyone have experience with 3DS homebrew, specifically GBA stuff?  I can't seem to figure out why GBA games in open agb firm (which uses the 3DS's native GBA hardware) seem to have less screen brightness than GBA games emulated through GBArunner2.

>>296191
>has USB-A
>has USB-C
>has microSD slot
>"no, it needs its own cartridge-like format"
are you retarded?
fuck off

>>296298
SD cards aren't meant for carrying games and besides it's only acceptable on older systems because the read writes are lower
>Anon is too retarded to notice
>backups mean nothing if they require the same account with the loiscense to be played

>>296299
>expecting a digital game store that has never done physical game releases to suddenly invest in production line, logistics and shipping of physical games and create their own proprietary cartridge to cater to an unestablished market for their experimental device
this is too dumb, I can't do this, I'm sorry

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I know this is really oldhat and obvious to say, but...goddam Touhou's music is so good. It feels like a Tim Follin game where they made a game to sell the OST.
Even all the Comiket remixes are really fucking good, e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLJ4a9J3dKg .

>>296314
Forgot the qn: please share favorite vg music?

>>296191
>Blu-Rays
Completely irrelevant outside of consoles and Hi-fi enthusiasts due to the still-bloated prices of BD drives and increases in Internet bandwidth making them questionable data carriers for video games right from the get go, unlike DVDs which during the glory days of the PS2 had enough capacity to service the majority of games but also existed during a time when many gaymurs both on PC still used 56k modems or sub-200kbps DSL/Cable to access the Internet.
>flash storage
Relatively cheap yes, but we're no longer in the 1980s in terms of dedicated proprietary cartridge formats and I highly doubt Gay Ben would want to make some car manufacturer-tier super speshul encrypted SD card copypasta complete with a proprietary kernel driver for the otherwise OSS Steamy Dong line.

>>296291
Screen or color brightness?

>>296315
Thread over at >>25002

>>296311
They could just use a middle market publisher/distributor like LRG (who unfortunately soiled their reputation), Play-Asia/Eastasiasoft, or TheIndieBox for that sort of thing

>>296355
But why would they want to? It's a Steam machine. They want you to use it to play games you buy through Steam. Putting data on any kind of non-digital media is the exact opposite of that.

But let's say they do sell blurays with games on them. Game gets updated, because modern soydevs can't into finishing games on release. So now they'd have to:
-Add functionality to their store to deliver updates for your bluray (more work for them)
-Pay to produce the physical product in the first place, when just making you download costs them basically nothing
-Verify it's a legit copy somehow (yay more DRM)
Or even worse you need to both have the disc and activate a code on Steam (thus making the disc mostly useless, can't resell it for instance). Basically removing any benefit of owning physical media, you still don't own nothing goy, but with the added benefit that if you lose the disc you're also fucked.

>>296379
>Or even worse you need to both have the disc and activate a code on Steam (thus making the disc mostly useless, can't resell it for instance). Basically removing any benefit of owning physical media, you still don't own nothing goy, but with the added benefit that if you lose the disc you're also fucked.
That was my first experience with steam
>Bought an copy of just cause 2
>Disc
>Does not contain the actual game
>it's an steam installer
>paper with cd key
I since then have lost that account and have made a new one and only have one game on it.

>>296354
>thread over
Thanks.

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‘There is no longer a need to protect her’: Farah may be stronger in Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake, leak suggests
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Are you ready to buy the new prince of persia game, sar?

>>296495
Can´t Jewbisoft die faster? Would give them praise for making an accurate depiction of a pajetta. But SoT being one of my childhood games just makes all things related to the demake depressing.

>>296499
Nothing dies, only gets bought out by something bigger and worse.

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>>296499
The ps2 looks better, the demake one is basically ue5 slop, and characters obviously look uglier because is jewbisoft... but they're more niggerish, like... the game is called prince of PERSIA. those characters are not persian/irani, they're pajeets and niggers. 

The image I posted is a random picture of how persian women look, the ps2 did it properly, but these jews have always to make ugly niggers.... Even sandniggers get the nigger treatment it seems....

>>296500
From my limited knowledge of what I understand, even if these studios give only losses, Blackrock can afford to maintain them, because in their ETF system, they mix corporations that give profits with ones who don't, so they can use these entertainment corporations to create propaganda, because maybe the investor is still buying the stonks just for the fishing or oil industry, for example, and ubisoft or disney can afford to produce slop, because they're the 0,001% of the ETF.

>>296509
It will work until more companies give losses than profit. Then they will be insolvent and need bailouts (QE). Hyperinflation kicks in and the whole thing burns. Basically only the collapse of ZoG can end it.
Of course, that doesn't mean you have to subject yourself to it.

>>296509
>The ps2 looks better
O.k., in all seriousness, do I just have nostalgia goggles, or is it really the case that videogame graphics really have just kind of stalled in the past decade?

>>296509
Farah was always a pajetta (a idealized one). At the beggining of SoT they are invading her kingdom somewhere in India.
That no excuse for making her uglier, of course. They will probably use the excuse of "historical accuracy" for making the prince a shitskin too. Despite the fact persian are actually like you posted in the pic and that medieval muslim rulers basically bleached their sons and heirs by taking whites, slav women mostly, as wives. So blue-eyed prince is probably more accurate than any nigger they want to shoehorn.

>>296522
The original games kind of a semi-cartoonish style that made age very well. AAA studios, specially the western ones, has replaced any talented artists and devs capable of bringing that art to life with AI, cheap hacks and third worlders only able to code shit in UE5.
Part of this is also because devs started to not make their own engines. Probably because they are too incompetent to do it.

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>>296522
>O.k., in all seriousness, do I just have nostalgia goggles, or is it really the case that videogame graphics really have just kind of stalled in the past decade?
It's not "muh nostalgia" as retards would say, the art style was better despite the outdated hardware the original game played on.
And yes, graphics didn't really improve in the past 10 years.

Worse than stalled, graphics have stagnated. Obviously some lighting effects are more "realistic" and polycounts are higher, but the former usually comes with a lot of drawbacks (like blurriness or ghosting or plastic-y materials or uncanny lighting that's simultaneously too bright and too dark and has exhausting transition effects when you turn around) and the latter is mostly thanks to stronger hardware rather than better renderers.

But the biggest damage has been done to design and efficiency. Artists are just way worse at making appealing art and all the DEI mandates to make characters ugly aren't helping. Developers are much less competent and obsessed with bad global illumination techniques, so you need 5x better hardware for 0.5x better graphics, and if you downgrade the settings you get 5x worse graphics for the same hardware as in the past.

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>>296540
Tangentially related but one of the things modern devs are obsessed with nowadays is refusing to work on diffuse textures any further than a plain color for a character's skin, for instance. They seem to believe normal maps, the model's geometry light maps will carry the model itself, except most modern games I've seen don't use such deep shadows or strong lightning to remedy for their laziness, which Tekken 6 and funnily enough FEAR as in the gif above got right 20 years ago.
>>296536
>in 12 years
>2005 to 2013
Come on now.

Did metroid prime 4 leak? Switch games usually leak a week or two before release

>>296562
0 to 1 is 1, and 3 to 5 is 2, thus 12 is perfect math, I don't see the problem.

:^)

My dad--in his 70s--suddenly told me he wants a new game console and games. The last thing he played was Super Mario Kart for Wii with me probably rounding up two decades ago. Idk where this is coming from, but what should I suggest to him?

>>296592
You could probably just give him wii sports resort and tell him it's cutting edge, if all he wants is to play a new game. I'd need more details about his personality and his reasons for wanting it to build a case study, if you want me to give a better answer.

>>296592
He probably would be happy with one of the portable android emulators you can get for around $200-300 and since he has no experience with modern games he'd probably be happy the alternative is buying him a steam deck but I doubt a old man like him would be happy with modern indie shits.

>>296593
Sports and party games are the only things he pulls out. Thinking it over more, I think he just wants something to do with grandkids when they come over, that doesn't seem "too old" or something.

>>296592
Give him a cheap ps2, you can get one for 100 bucks. Is the ultimate videogame console, has everything, for games you can burn DVDs (cheap as fuck) or for the sophisticated, get a memory card on aliexpress with Free McBoot and OPL and put the games iso with USB, a external disk or an internal HDD (but using burned DVDs is just easier).

Maybe a ps3/xbox360... so kids can play black ops 2 and old men dead or alive xtreme 3. 

If he wants a handheld.... maybe a DS/3DS, you can play tetris/puyo puyo on it... every old man likes that.

My father never played videogames asides some rally games, but once saw me playing dark souls 3 and wanted to try, ended up being better than me...

>>296599
>Never played video games aside some rally games
>playing dark souls 3
>ended being better than me
Ouch.

>>296596
That is very wholesome. If he already knows Mario Kart, why not just a Switch/2 and Kart, and toss in some party games? Or maybe set him up with something like a SFF PC running batocera that can do emulation, give him something he can see on the TV. can play newer games, but also more fun arcade/party games not locked to one certain console?

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I've noticed something when I browse the used game store looking for rare unknown gems:
>Cheap game.
>Check the back.
>10/10 Kotaku/Polygon/game journo
>Indie game award of the year
But MOST of all:
>"Made in Canada"
Usually tells me that the game is ABSOLUTE _DOGSHIT_.
But if I see
>Cheap game.
>Check the back.
>No accolades.
>No awards.
>JUST the game bio.
It's usually a hidden gem.

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What makes a good game?

>>296737
A Jewish guy I met once told me that it was mentally stimulating and made you think. He played only retro games and liked JRPGs, suggested I should play Xenosaga.

>>296740
Have you introduced him to VNs and books?

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>>296740
wtf anon, I'm not jewish
I just really like y2k vidya with alot of PLOT and sexy robot girls. And I also really hate paying scalper prices for retro vidya. 
Seriously, you would have been able to buy used PS2 vidya for 20 bucks a pop or less in the late 00's and you're telling me they're now worth $100+ in the current year where I can emulate them for free?
Also fuck Xenoblade.

>>296779
>emulate
Get a FreeMcBoot and HDD if you want to play on hardware

>>296773
Couldn't it was a quick chat and leave because of the scenario I was in.

>>296780
I have that, but I still play on the PCSX2 emulator because my PS2 fat makes so much noise... And my CRT has overscan on the PS2, on the PC i can fix the overscan of the CRT via the nvidia settings. My OCD hates the overscan...

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Xenoblade 2 was fun.

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>>296780
The hardware isn't even worthwhile outside of the controller today unless you are a purist... But even so getting a working Playstation controller today that isn't worn out to hell is an challenge in it self unless you'll accept modern Sony pads which have degraded in functionality as a whole. 
>Analog buttons are gone
<Original analog buttons are degrade over time and use
<No replacements
>Touchpad you'll never use
>Pointless LED light sucking the life out of the controller
>Battery life is garbage
>Meme vibration triggers that don't work without third party software and mods
>Literally only one positive 
>Analog triggers while using gyro
Ever since Sony got taken over by muttmericans nothing good has come out of it literally nothing Bloodborne was just a fluke.

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>>296808
>Woman LARPers suddenly think self inserting into various virtual game characters that clearly looks like women but has the text "tranny" stamped onto them somehow makes them less of a man for fake validation of their fake crossdressing LARP identities
Damn these mentally ill fuckwits are so silly and in vain

I think Niggerpill is going senile.

>>296812
>touchpad you'll never use
It's ok for some Wii U games :^)

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>>296818
>spoiler

>>296812
What happened to your old controllers? 
Ps2 controllers feel so good, I only play like once a year for like 100 hours max so I'm set for life on just one controller.

>>296833
Age and terrible terrible siblings.

>>296833
You know, I am pretty sure in my case it's the wires in the cable that are frayed. I've got it now so I have to bring the cable straight up immediately as it exits the PS2 to work.
...now that I think about it, I shoulg be able to fix that somehow, right?

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>>296812
Get yourself one of these for games that can do with a PS1 controller, it Just Works™.
Pressure sensitive face buttons are gay and stupid, glad they were phased out.

For those who’ve played it, what are your thoughts on Signalis? I’ve heard a lot, mostly that it has a rather cancerous yuri-obsessed fanbase, and from the little gameplay I’ve seen, I wasn’t all that impressed. Is it worth trying, or should I just forget it exists?

>>297102
If you haven't looked up the creators already... Forget that it exists.

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>>297102
Okay game, recommend it if you want something in the vein of Resident Evil/Silent Hill and got an afternoon to spare
>yuri-obsessed fanbase
Just ignore them, there is nothing of any worth gained from being around that cancer

>>297074
I would imagine if the pinch point or whatever has enough wire before it to tie and electrical tape wrap around the wires inside should fix it. 
I can't imagine a ps2 controller has that many little wires in it.

>>297102
I played it at release, noticed it during e3 stream and took a note, reminded me of nokia games. Completely blind I really liked it. You better forget it exists, consider experience ruined. I didn't even know it had fagbase until you made me look it up.

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hello frens
since russia has banned roblox now, im going back to hosting my own servers and not depend on some bullshit central servers anyone can just drop on a whim. i already setup murmur/mumble on my home server so me and my buddies can do encrypted voice call like it's 2010, but i havent done minecraft server since probably 2012, so im out of the loop about current meta for pirated mc servers. i know about launchers like ultimMC, but i need to know what you need for server infrastructure, preferably on embedded linux
thanks in advance, frens

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How do you manage your inventory in old school RPGs? Particularly the ones where you have extremely limited slots. Do you actually spend forever trying to minmax every character's equipment screen and spend endless time fretting about whether you can stop hoarding that extra widget from three dungeons ago?

>>297256
I usually sell old gear, but ever since Breath of Fire 3 where you need like 30 different weapons for one master to accept you, i've gotten kinda packratty about it as a bad habit. I'd probably just hoard shit until i needed space, i'd sell all those fucking useless arrows but i am KEEPING Cecil's last dark knight gear set, i might meet another dark knight at some point.

>>297256
>Do you actually spend forever trying to minmax every character's equipment screen and spend endless time fretting about whether you can stop hoarding that extra widget from three dungeons ago?
Pretty much, yeah

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Anons...
...hori shitsu.
It's comming...

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What videogame has the best plot?

>>297444
Can it really get better than the story of metal gear solid 2 really?

>>297445
I think ultimately MGS2's artistic execution of the plot was what made it good and semi-coherent. Perfect blend. Kojima is literally a psychic or nwo schizophreniac and i think by pure chance or someone in Konami was holding him back at the time. 

Without those artists the plot would have never been that good. Snake eater was fun but compared barely passable and all that came after was pretty much trash, playable but will never live up to MGS2.

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>>297444
Eternal Darkness is up there.

>>297445
>>297451
Glad to see MGS2 is now revered. I remember getting it not long after it came out inna bargain bin for like $5, and everyone on the internet back then hated it. They complained about Raiden like he was Shinji Ikari, they complained about getting 'baited' by the tanker section, and I felt like they never gave it a chance.

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I've been playing Echoes of Wisdom. Just in general, I've been playing a lot of "kids" games/watching "kids" shows recently and I must ask--
Is adult media depressing on purpose? Like do they put all the demented, twisted, Satanic, depraved, depressing, sadistic shit in adult media purposefully as a giant psyop? As a form of suppressing the adult population?

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>>297728
Judging by the adult-oriented media the G*rmans produced during WW2, yes.

>>297728
Because as the saying goes
"The only innocent people in this world are children and those who live long enough see through the veil unless they are ignorant" Or in other words ignorance is bliss.

>>297741
I guess it depends, countries that were defeated are depressing and want depressing endings in their stories and countries that win are optimistic.
But it could be the jews, I don't know.

>>297728
Yes, Demoralization.

Soap box below:, there is a marked cultural point of being an "adult" but the coming of age story and what "adult" means in ZOG world is gloomy and dark, when adulthood should be even more fun and fulfilling than childhood. 

I also hate the popular idea of when you get old you get less energetic and more cynical, I know people in their 70s who are stronger than most men and happy, they also are more "childlike" and positively oriented.

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>>297728
>Is adult media depressing on purpose? Like do they put all the demented, twisted, Satanic, depraved, depressing, sadistic shit in adult media purposefully as a giant psyop? As a form of suppressing the adult population?
No, it's simply that you have a lot of angry people that are angry with the world, and so want to spend all of their time destroying the world and dragging everyone else down. They're the kind of people who absolutely cannot stand up and start laughing after taking a tumble because they're too busy cursing the ground that made them stumble.

>>297728
>Is adult media depressing on purpose?
Not at all, it's simply that you're living through civilizational collapse and most adults can see it.  Only a small fraction of deluded freaks who live in perpetual childhood bubbles try to convince others (mostly children) not to believe their lying eyes and that the world's problems can be resolved by just having a cheery disposition.

>>297745
>countries that were defeated are depressing and want depressing endings in their stories and countries that win are optimistic.
Anon, the film the webm originates from was released to German theaters in 1944.

>>297753
Anon, you do remember they "lost" the first WW, right?

>>297755
...have you seen the film in question?

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>>297748
So much this. I used to be a little more carefree until around 2014, when I realized where things were headed (note: 2014 is when the rapefugee invasion ramped-up in Europe, along with much violence). But even before that I wasn't as childlike as before 9/11 and its aftermath of war and power-grabbing like the PATRIOT act. Every little bit more oppressive bullshit they inflict on us removes more of the innocence and naivete, a bit like that old meme where the young girl starts out at "LOL 9000 Internets" and ends up much worse off down the line.
And then I learned more about the financial world, and how fucked everything really is. So I dumped all my savings into gold and silver when the bankers went after the canadian truckers and their supporters. And I didn't stop there, I just kept stacking non-stop, but now that prices have more than doubled, I've turned it more into a hobby where I buy interesting older silver coins near spot price (instead of paying higher premiums for new bullion).
And I also learned about how every hardware and most software is infested with botnet, so I bought older hardware and got rid of systemd and other bullshit. But that only goes so far. My intent is to go back to the much older and simpler systems from the 1980's that I grew up with. That is the real fun for me! Back then the scene was more hobby-driven, and you can see that yourself if you read old magazines like this one. They used to have programming tutorials and program listings to type in, even hardware projects. But if you look at the later issues of this magazine, it basically became just a game review rag with no more creativity or inspiration. In other words, no fun!

>>297746
>I know people in their 70s who are stronger than most men and happy, they also are more "childlike" and positively oriented.
I bet you that's a survival bias that proves your point: people with that disposition being more likely to survive.
>>297748
Is the purpose of art mimetic (+) or escapist?
(+)Because I know there'll be at least one reply that'll do this: mimetic!=memetic. Mimesis as in Aristotle's thesis on Aesthetics.


Anyways, I'm having a really great time playing Echoes.

>>297761
>And then I learned more about the financial world, and how fucked everything really is. So I dumped all my savings into gold and silver when the bankers went after the canadian truckers and their supporters. And I didn't stop there, I just kept stacking non-stop, but now that prices have more than doubled, I've turned it more into a hobby where I buy interesting older silver coins near spot price (instead of paying higher premiums for new bullion).
Rather than agaonize about it, how about talking with other people about what we can do so that we're not all fucked? The /biz/ thread on PLW is practically baren aside from a Mudslime who's fedposting and Trash/finance/ is dead for all intent and purposes. Even More/biz/ is just a knock-off of r/GME. No one wants to actually discuss how to get ourselves (Personally, fuck trying to "save society") out of this mess.

>>297764
>discuss how to get ourselves ... out of this mess.
I don't think you'll like the answer.

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>>297765
Starting a revolution that is (At best) going to not change a fucking thing or (At worst) place me under the rule of an even worse government system? Yeah, fuck off. I've had this discussion dozens of times and it doesn't go fucking anywhere aside from just wasting my time as you constantly trying to deny how you're "totally" not a glownigger.

>>297766
What? no, you already said
>fuck trying to "save society"
So of course revolution wouldn't be your answer. What you'll have to do to survive is physically band together with other like-minded people.

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>>297766
Are you trying to tell me the glowniggers aren't ALSO willing to defuse revolutions they aren't already in control of my downplaying their worth?

>>297768
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>>297768
Why "defuse" a competing group instead of using them to your advantage?

>>297770
Trump's government cutbacks, obviously. Can't fund full psy-op mindfucks anymore.

>>297771
>Can't fund full psy-op mindfucks anymore
Yes, they can. There's always another buyer. Why do you think The Chinks and the sandniggers are buying up everything? Or why they're begging that the European and Japanese governments expand subsidies towards entertainment companies? It's all the same bullshit, just from a different source.

>>297770
Too many competing groups to do this effectively.

>>297756
No.

>>297766
Nobody wants a revolution/civilwar/whatever because they are comfy in the state they are and don't care the govemernt is fulll of satanic jewish pedos.

>>297809
>they are comfy in the state they are 
That' less and less the case each day, but normalfags don't do anything unless dragged by a charismatic leader.

>>297728
As I understand it, it comes down to three factors:
>the endless misery spiral among staff caused by cultural marxism, hedo-nihilism, and narcissism
>america's sophomoric obsession with "maturity" requiring all adult media to constantly reaffirm that it is indeed "mature" media
>anything that isn't hollyjew being generally viewed as a lower art form than hollyjew

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>>297728
I blame the industrial revolution, french revolution, free masons and kikes, I'm not saying the past was superior or easier, but was clearly spiritually hopeful compared to the post french revolution world, there is more food and supplies, but, it feels worse for some reason, also children grow up under the influence of the kike propaganda, when they reach adulthood reality hits like a train hits a pajeet.  
>you can do anything, just try
>women will fight for you
>a college will magically make you rich like in the movies
>the dork guy will get the hot girl
>learning another language means you will always be employees
>they are immature because they are young, one day they will grow up
Age doesn't change people, some people are assholes, cunts and immature regardless of the age, college and a second language does not guarantee a job, finding a good partner is almost impossible, college in the post 2000s is not the same as in the 70s or 80s, you won't be the next Bill Gate because you don't have the proper connections with the government and the market already has competition, this feel good propaganda is completely bullshit and parents should not tell this to their children.
>but anon, it worked for XYZ people and it worked for me, you are wrong
Survivorship bias.

>>297826
>there is more food and supplies, but, it feels worse for some reason
It's because you're bored
Prior to the Industrial Revolution, most people were too busy trying to survive to care about anything outside of the immediate future. Now you have practically all your needs met at a touch of a button, and your don't know what to do with yourself.

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Is there a really bad game that has an airship? Why is it such a videogame-specific trope? Final Fantasy, Skies of Arcadia, Megaman Legends, etc.

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>>297847
I'd argue it goes back to steampunk and spelljammers, and i'd say it's in a lot of video games because they're fantastical and whimsical, as opposed to scifi where, generally, if you have planes and sky fortresses, why the fuck would you make them look like boats? Anyhow, Seven Samurai 20XX was shit and it MIGHT have had airships? I don't remember the setting that well, just the Jimi Hendrix boss fight where he dies by kneeling backwards.

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>>297842
How can anyone be bored, with all the endless bread & circus of clownworld? I'm basically never bored. I was sometimes bored when I was a kid and we went on vacation to visit some relatives, where there was absolutely nothing for me to do. I used to look out the windows for hours and walk around from room to room just to pass the time.

>>297847
Anon, you just posted one.  Mega Man Legends is garbage.

>>297859
>How can anyone be bored, with all the endless bread & circus of clownworld?
Because there's more to life than just sustenance and entertainment.

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>>297861
>Don'tdoitdon'ttakethebaitbethebiggermanDON'TTAKETHEBAITCOMEONMANJUSTHOLDONDON'TDOITDON'TTAKETHEBAIT
I'm barely holding on here.

>>297863
Do you mean to tell me you actually 'like' crawling around at a snail's pace through boring empty dungeons with tedious tank controls and hardly anything trying to kill you?  Is that what Mega Man is supposed to be about?

>>297864
Forgot to mention almost zero fucking platforming at all.  Ah... Mega Man.

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>>297862
Aren't most people working 2 or more jobs these days just to make ends meet? That doesn't leave much free time. Plus their brain will be mush after all that and they'll barely even be able to watch TV. I know the feeling because I used to work long overtime hours in corporate office environment and pretty much all I could manage to do is a bit of exercise 3x/week and cook my dinner. When I had some extra free time, I would sometimes play games, but this didn't always work. By that I mean I'd start the game and try to play, but my brain just wasn't willing to do anything at all whatsoever, and I couldn't get into it, because I had no energy at all. I was just totally drained and burned out. That's when I understood why so many people zone out in front of TV screen and/or become alcoholics or pic-related.

>>297866
>That doesn't leave much free time. Plus their brain will be mush after all that
How the fuck was humanity able to survive for the past more than six millennia that we have of recorded history, when things were MUCH harder?

>>297869
no jews

>>297869
Less brainwork, more bodywork. Also probably less management telling you to work yourself to death in the mane of bottom-line profit, as a general thing.

>>297871
>Also probably less management telling you to work yourself to death in the mane of bottom-line profit
Dude, what do you think slavery was/is?

>>297872
which is why i said 'as a general thing', nigger, now get back in that field before i put you in the hotbox

>>297872
A lot rarer than burger de-education would lead you to believe. Basically as soon as you have circulating money wage slavery (aka a job) becomes cheaper than chattel nigger slavery because your slaves manage their own upkeep and delude themselves into thinking you don't own them. For most of antiquity slavery was used mainly as a punishment, to pay off debts or to extract some value out of prisoners of war. For anything more complex than picking cotton slavery is hilariously inefficient and prone to disaster which the third reich and soviet union both learned the hard way.

>>297869
I would actually like an answer to that question.

>>297878
Because things weren't MUCH harder, and the difficulties faced were actual meaningful struggles that left tangible results and provided some level of contentment/accomplishment. Stocking shelves or making spreadsheets for 8-10 hours a day does nothing to meaningfully or directly assist you in meeting your own needs - you can only begin actually attending to yourself after meeting your goyimtime quota for the day. Moreover, almost every fucking job is make-work nonsense now, and everyone can kind of feel that gnawing away at them deep inside. There is no reason to ever engage in the vast amount of drudgery we do, it's asinine bullshit to keep us occupied, we have scant time to ever develop ourselves and grow as humans (lots of entertainment but barely any real hobbies, for example), and the entertainment dropped in front of us is intentionally meant to harass us, whether through agitprop, humiliation, or any other means of psychologically attacking your slave class. Add in neo-feudalism making the serf class even more impoverished each year, with more social instability, and mass racial replacement, and the question isn't how THEY were able to survive, but how WE are - and frankly, we're not, with plummeting birthrates and rising deaths of despair.

>>297894
>Stocking shelves or making spreadsheets for 8-10 hours a day does nothing to meaningfully
It is, you're making things available for other people to find. Or doing work that frees up other people so that THEY can do something else.
>or directly assist you in meeting your own needs
If you think you're not being paid for what you're worth, then ask for a raise or look for work elsewhere. And if people tell you to go pound salt, then prove them wrong.
>almost every fucking job is make-work nonsense now, and everyone can kind of feel that gnawing away at them deep inside
No, it's not. You'll find people agonizing about the exact same problem a century ago. And the century before that. And the century before that.
>and frankly, we're not, with plummeting birthrates
So is the rest of the world, jackass!!!
Even the "turd world countries" you're bitching about out of fear that they'll "replace" us are seeing their birth rates dropping like a rock. And before you bring up that they "still" have a higher birth rate despite that, even studies following immigrants leaving those territories and coming to first world nations see their proportionally "super fertile" activities practically vanish within a year.

Don't think you're so special, buttercup. Here you are prattling on about "agitprop", yet you're engaging in it as you're complaining about problems that are not new and acting like you're the only one in the world who's "suffering".

>>297874
If I was stuck with no light at the end of the tunnel (in real life not ((( christian ))) afterlife rewards which is built into the religion as a way specifically to motivate and make willing slaves as they have heaven to look forward to if they are good slaves) 
Then I would revolt even personally, I am in a good spot myself but a lot of wagies are just slaves with no future and yet they still slave away, ah the pathetic normie, if I was stripped down with nothing but waging away at shit-mart or whatever I would simply not tolerate it.
inb4 
>"you are just saying that! you would actually do it!" 
Cope and seethe that everyone is weak and submissive as you, faggot.

>>297907
>"wouldn't" ***

>>297842
its not boredom, modern world is completely fucked, everyone knows what is happening, even the ww2 vets feel this, remember the video of that vet crying because this is not the world that they fought for, and they are right, and if you cannot feel or see that means you are soulless automaton.

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>>297913
>even the ww2 vets feel this, remember the video of that vet crying because this is not the world that they fought for
Yes, it is. This is the exact world that came as a result of their actions.
NOT because they didn't fight the "wrong enemy" but because they stopped fighting. Life is not some fucking fiction that you can stop when you believe that the story has reached it's "conclusion". It's a neverending saga that started long before you your acestors were even born and will continue long after your bones have turned to dust. All these WWII vets and the baby boomers and all the retards of the past century created this fantasy in their minds that all they had to do was defeat this "one big bad evil" in the world and Earth would then forever be at peace. However never once did these idiots ever consider that "evil" is a part of life. It's an eternal struggle that you have to deal with every fucking day. But they don't get that, and they never got that. And so now they're bitching and moaning about how "This isn't the future we fought for" when the reality is that everything that created this modern world happened under their watch and with their approval. It's not the planet or God's fucking problem that they cannot handle the result of their actions, or more correctly their lack there of. And they cannot blame the Kikes, or the Chinks, or the WEF, or the bourgeois, or whatever class enemy you want to use as the scapegoat.

The one and only person responsible for anything and everything that happens in your life is you. Some things and events may be out of your control, but your how deal with them is still your responsibility.

>>297869
There used to be more oxygen on the planet, and we were 8 ft tall gigachad socialists who could kill a tiger from a mile away by throwing a rock through its brain.

>>297925
They also didn't have to worry about getting smashed by a fucking car.

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>>295068 (OP) 
What in the fuck switch got flipped in people's minds about Meet your Match that created so many retarded doomers about TF2?

Shit, I won't even deny that TF2 is aging, or actually-losing it's playerbase over time, that's natural for video games. But for whatever the fuck reason, meet your match just turned people bum-fuck-retarded and they act like meet your match is the absolute most cancer of cancer and it kiled tf2 for good or whatever reason.

Did this many people really forget about community servers or completely fucking ignore that community servers basically CARRIED THE ENITRE GAME since it's release on the orange box?

But really, it's not just that, I just feel like that TF2 doomerism is just fucking beating a dead horse at this point. I don't know if it's angry overwatch superfans who want to see TF2 crash and burn like their game, or if it's terminally-online idiots who used to love TF2 who through the power of mental gymnastics, now want to see it die to validate their grief over losing "their golden age of TF2". It's probably just I've heard so much doomer-shit about tf2 that it just pisses me off now.

What in the fuck, man?

>>297942
The novelty wore off for the idiots stuck around and the people who left after the f2p update don't care. BTW at it's core TF2 is a console shooter and it's gameplay will never be balanced around KB/M they are incompatible.

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>>297942
>retard weapon balance to appease comps faggots like Uncle and B4nny
>3/4 maps pushed every season are absolute trash splitting the already dwindling population even more
>the gigantic map pool that splits the dwindling community into small islands of players
>game modes are abandoned, nobody plays certain payload races maps or medieval mode 
>shitty matchmaking system
>queue system that takes hours to find a match
>valve multiple attempts to kill community servers
>removing direct access to community servers from the quick play options
>refusal to update the interface to be more user friendly
>casual matches are just pub stomps
>lack of a instantaneous team auto balance
>team stacks, team stacks everywhere
All of this while Valve sell their trash keys, its not doomerism its just reality, modern TF2 is broken and boring, how do I know this, I've played on castaway a few times, you have no idea how depressing is to go back to casual TF2, I miss the old TF2, I miss caber knight, I miss og sandman, I miss the degreaser + axetingusher combo, I miss ambassador spies.
TF2 is proof that comp faggots are the most cancerous group of people in any gaming community, they have the ridiculous ability to take away the fun out of everything.
I just want the pre-Gun Mettle balances and QuickPlay back, that is it.

>>297942
TF2 died on September 30, 2010 and was buried on June 23, 2011. What are these niggers talking about?

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>>297949
>I miss cancer gimmick weapons

>>297951
FUN is more important than balance.

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>>297953
I never said anything about balance I said you were a niggerfaggot who only cares about the clown spectacle.

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>>297949
>valve multiple attempts to kill community servers
Wait wait wait wait hold up...

is there details to this shit?

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>>297955
before MYM, valve pushed an update that hid the ability for users to join community server via quick play window, this killed thousands of community servers across the globe and Valve knew this was going to happen, because Valve spends millions in experienced economists and analysts, then came MYM and it was the final nail in the coffin of many community servers.

>>297956
Wasn't that around 2013 when the game community servers were filled with nothing but bots and the only way to get real people was matchmaking? Either way I'm sick of you hat tards like just admit your game was aborted and move on. I don't deny PC FPS hasn't been dead since halo released but honestly anything else is delusional on the scale of believing half life 3 will ever happen.

>>297956
So it's last decade's "Microsoft changed the minecraft-bedrock UI to swap out the store with the options menu" shit.
>this killed thousands of community servers across the globe and Valve knew this was going to happen, because Valve spends millions in experienced economists and analysts, then came MYM and it was the final nail in the coffin of many community servers.
Okay. I understand the economists part. Now, is the "this killed thousasnds of community serves across the globe" something you personally witnessed or is this just mouthpiece hearsay?

I know this shit pissed you off, but I'm... I just can't help but still feel like it's overblown, TF2 has chronically had a particularly-whiny and unpleasable fanbase since 08' but I'm just not sure. I will agree that compfags are absolute cancer when it comes to game balance though.

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>>297960
What the fuck are you talking about ?
I've played TF2 from the F2P update to 2014, and never had a problem with bots, the bot crisis happened between 2020-2024.
>move on
Move on to where you fuck, Tribes Ascend is dead, everyone wants a pie extraction shooter battle royale market, there is no alternative to TF2, there is no chinkslop TF2 clone with anime girls, there is nothing close to TF2 and that is the problem, and I don't think there will ever be a alternative to TF2 because of the incoming regulations.

>>297961
Right now, there are 1551 active server indexed in this site, gametracker, out of the 1551 servers only 21 have a good player population, out of the 1551 servers only 79 have +10 players, that is around ~5.1% of the total number of servers you can join right now.
Anyone can see this is not a healthy situation for a game, there are more active hospitals than doctors and patients situation, which means the population is dead or being pushed into the casual matchmaking, probably a little bit of both.
>personally witnessed 
I didn't search for a snapshot of the server population from a pre-quickplay update, but I know from experience that I could find a match in quickplay and the MVM around 2013-2014 in seconds, now, it takes hours to find a MVM match or a non populated game.
>but what about the 50k active players
You mean the 50k players that never sleep, these are not humans, this is not the behavior of a human population, these are bot farms in unindexed servers, they are farming crates and items, the real TF2 population is around 5k-8k otherwise we would see spikes like we see in other games.

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>>297966
>just another revisionist who denies that when you joined community servers bots joined
Kill yourself.

>>297967
Its not revisionism because I never experienced it, you fucking nigger.

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>>297966
>there is no chinkslop TF2 clone with anime girls
In retrospect, people really should have downloaded Final Combat and reverse engineered it or something to  open it for english speakers to play with community servers and shit.

>>297968
It doesn't matter what year you joined you stupid hat nigger every year since f2p happened it was the same shit the only difference is bots got more subtle outside of 360 hs bots who spam nigger and gabe newell should be killed..

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>>297969
where the slutty nurse?

>>297971
iirc they added the that nurse after launch, that image I posted was made prelaunch and I couldn't find an updated group picture.

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>>297974
>they added the that nurse
...I should really proofread my posts before hitting reply from now on.

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Is the anon who made this edit around here? I would like the hand rubbing on a transparent background please.
I want in on shitty merchant edits too.

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>>297977
Give a lazy polfaggot an edit, and he'll be fed for a day, before coming back to beg for more.
Teach a lazy polfaggot to edit, and he can do his own damn shitposting.

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>>297966
>But what about the 50k players
Don't you put words in my mouth. I never said a damn thing about bots inflating steam numbers, I was bitching about people constantly complaining about the shoddy state of TF2 post-MYM and acting like it's the end of the world.

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>>297968
Bro what? I bought the orange box, bots were at their most subtle long before people started shitting up the servers with 360 ambot snipers.

00's to mid 2010s - Bots are used to imitate players and make servers look more active when they aren't. sometimes you find aimbotters and speedhackers, those people are usually human.
late 2010s to 2020 onwards - Bots are used en-masse and maliciously to actively harm the game experience, shooting any humans and refusing to shoot other bots.

>Hat tards
>Move on
You know what? Reread your own words to yourself and listen to your own damn advice. You both are exactly the kind of person I bitched about in my post. For fuck's sake already, come on.

Is TF2 in a shitty state? YES.
Will TF2 likely never go back to it's glory days? YES.

You have an idea of what TF2 should have been in your head, and you complain about TF2 because it's no longer exists as that idea.
And you people annoy me because all you do is bitch about days lost instead of finding something new, or digging down to fix the damn problem,

>>297951
You are huge! That means you have huge tummy!
Pat and Scratch!
Pat and Scratch your tummy!

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>>297917
>The one and only person responsible for anything and everything that happens in your life is you

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>>297917
>And they cannot blame the Kikes, or the Chinks, or the WEF, or the bourgeois, or whatever class enemy you want to use as the scapegoat.
I don't think you know what the word "scapegoat" means.

>>297994
That idea never existed because it was console shit.

VIDEO GAMES

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>>297917
>Tl;dr You, alone, are responsible for this.

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>>298057
V-VIDEOGAMES?!?

>>298063
On here the board of ZZZChan we stand up for the half life 2 triage at dawn anthem we hate video games and only averagely post about cinematic shit demos

>>298066
Same as it ever was

I was asking a bunch of Gen Z about what their favorite media was. All the videogames were fifth and sixth gen console games (N64/PS2 titles). All the shows were shows _I_ grew up with.
What gets me about this is I'm a generation older (or maybe two) than them, and this is the shit I consider to be _my_ childhood media. Has society really fumbled the ball so hard that culture basically stagnated this much? They've nothing to call their own?

>>298032
Sakura is a cutie, you have good taste.

>>298113
Take a look at the shit from the last 15 years and tell me that we have had anything worthwhile outside of valve titles in the west since bioshock. If you can find anything that isn't manipulative or just linear set pieces with no real game design. 
An empty sandbox with no real meaning. You win an award.

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But what do you guys think about AI shit being used to basically just get the general gist using review data of a game before you even buy it?

>>298117
Completely worthless, no better than metacritic for exactly the same reasons.

>>298116
Isnt there a whole thread for crpgs on this board?

>>298116
Prey 2017, Doom 2016.

>>298116
Game awards are aposematic. In this sense, they are somewhat useful.

>>298124
Both of those are okay, serviceable video games. But also both of those are just worse versions of games that came out over decade earlier.

>>297942
>But for whatever the fuck reason, meet your match just turned people bum-fuck-retarded and they act like meet your match is the absolute most cancer of cancer and it kiled tf2 for good or whatever reason.
The original quickplay system was functionally perfect because it channeled people into community servers and let them browse servers if they wanted to find a game manually. Even if you couldn't find a community server with fun mods and maps, you could still get a solid experience on a Valve server; joining one never took more than a minute and you could play for long periods of time without interruption or the looming shadow of commitment. There was a healthy, reliable stream of new blood pumped into community servers to ensure that player numbers remained high even as people drifted away.

MYM replaced this entire system with a modern lobby system, which forces people to queue up to play one (1) game on a map before disbanding. Not only does this encourage people to be flighty and rootless, but the system itself can't populate servers properly, so people join throughout a game in progress and get curbstomped by whatever team established momentum. There's no autobalance, so a player usually joins the game, immediately loses an unwinnable game, and then leaves the server to find another one.

Because the MYM system doesn't just restart the game on the same server - it reboots the entire server and finds players again for a new game, of the same map on the same server. It's something so retarded only Valve could create it. Compared to the boundless joy of quickplay, yes, MYM is objectively the worst thing that ever happened to the game for reasons that >>297949 explained.

You know what's even better? The game has been neglected for so long (as in there's literally one guy working on it pushing community-made bug fixes to the git repo) that when new stuff gets added it inevitably breaks something. The Halloween update had an item scheme update which caused VAC errors that broke the matchmaking system. Wasn't even the first time.
https://xcancel.com/DidTF2GetUpdate/status/1981859549171818972

>TF2 doomerism is just beating a dead horse at this point
It's more like the current culture of content creators and streamers have been infected by a wholesome heckin' redditoid mind virus that prevents them from speaking about the game in any negative way, lest they acknowledge the rotting elephant corpse in the room. There are guys who make a not insignificant income from streaming crate openings on Twitch, and if they ever break rank and speak up about the issues plaguing TF2, then the luster of vicarious gambling will fade.

Counter-Strike has the same problem, where CS2 was obviously a rushed product that removed CS:GO from practical access on Steam, but because the largely unregulated underage gambling economy is still going strong, Valve wants the loot boxes to move.

There's a Youtuber called Zesty Jesus who has documented TF2's ailings over the last few years, and he's been attacked by the Reddit/Twitter audience for daring to question the game (and for calling people gay one time or another, or saying something anti-tranny years ago). So the discussion around TF2 has become polarized since people have associated wanting the idea of TF2 to be good with the evil racist nazi transphobe chud MAGA voters.

Sound like a big, stupid mess? It is. Welcome to the modern internet. It won't be changing soon.

I think Zesty's two most important videos are these:
TF2: Nobody's Home [describing the scale of the bot infestation] - https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=2stmQfv93oQ
TF2: You Will (Not) Play [cataloguing the litany of the problems introduced by MYM] - https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=JNxg5stxlhk

The second one is ludicrously long, but it's an important time capsule that captures what it was like to play TF2 in its golden years from around launch to 2011.

>>297994
>don't you put words in my mouth
You didn't address any of the data or the points made in that post; latching onto an innocuous Socratic question and deflecting the substance of a good faith argument is pretty faggy.

To answer what you asked earlier in >>297961
>is the botpocalypse something you personally witnessed
Yes. I had checked out of TF2 somewhere around 2017-18; the bot crisis began in 2018 due to the Source 1 engine code leak (>>297966 says it started in 2020, which isn't true). When I poked my head back sometime around 2020 the bots were in full swing on all Valve servers, and the community server list had shrivelled into under 100 for the entire game. I ended up playing a few games on a Skial server that auto-muted me for saying nigger. It happened, and I saw it. It's a well-documented event.

>I just can't help but still feel like it's overblown, TF2 has chronically had a particularly-whiny and unpleasable fanbase since 08' but I'm just not sure.
I wonder if this is our version of a Mandela effect, because TF2's fanbase has consistently been among the highest quality of any I've interacted with. Back when I was playing the game regularly, most of the people I met and remembered were chill guys who enjoyed the game and were fun to be around. There wasn't (much) drama like you get with MMO guilds or CoD clans because the game itself was casual-friendly yet very deep.

TF2's artistic side - machinimists, animators, GMOD people - collectively make up one of the most distinct and influential waves of art in human history. Quite a lot of its early output was Combine soldiers and Snipers pissing into toilets, but Sturgeon's law applies as ever. I don't know if you simply haven't kept up with TF2 machinima over the years, but the stuff people are making in Source Filmmaker with character models designed when George W Bush was in office is staggering.

Valve used to interact with the community and promote this kind of creative output. Now they just push cosmetics and maps into the game a few times per year, dilute the map pool to the point of unusability, and make millions in loot crate sales.

>>298136
>I wonder if this is our version of a Mandela effect, because TF2's fanbase has consistently been among the highest quality of any I've interacted with. Back when I was playing the game regularly, most of the people I met and remembered were chill guys who enjoyed the game and were fun to be around. There wasn't (much) drama like you get with MMO guilds or CoD clans because the game itself was casual-friendly yet very deep.
It's not entirely false what he said basically since 2014 they became a bunch of whiny massive faggots.

>>298136
>TF2's fanbase has consistently been among the highest quality of any I've interacted with.
It took a cataclysmic dip in quality when it went F2P and the floodgates opened to room temperature IQ retards and literal toddlers. Half the userbase at that time didn't know how to play or communicate and I don't know when it ended because I stopped playing.

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muh raycism shirt aside, is No More Heroes III worth playing?

>>298196
Not really. Doesn't do anything that unique compared to 1 or 2 and just feels like it was made because they were forced to make it.

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give me some games to help with loneliness and a longing for love

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>>298227
Idolm@ster.

>>298227
Persona 4 Golden

>>298227
Nioh Complete Edition.

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>>298227
<Suicide path
Any dating sim that faux-fills the void. Katawa Shoujo or Persona as examples; repeat chasing the high each time the credits roll, until the highs don't hit as hard, the dread becomes crushing and you rope.
- Cope path
Pick up heavy objects irl, then put them down again. Repeat, if it's easy, increase the weight. Pair with planks and pushup variants, with some squats + dips. Then whatever game you feel like, because the suffering you inflict on yourself will distract you until it creeps back. Has a bonus of making life slightly easier by being stronger + more endurable.
>Distraction path
Fetch + Walk, because a dog will love you unconditionally, obediently and returns the investment you put into the relationship. Start with something small + easy, make sure you take care of it, and work through any behavioral issues early; instead of playing with it for 1 month, then locking it up on a leash alone as far away from you as possible for the rest of it's life because it got wet paws on your carpet a few times. Repeat every 7-12 years.

>>298231
katawa shoujo would make him wanna kill himself  he would be better off reading The fruit of grisaia and ignoring any sequels or Saya no uta. (Even when reality is shattered for the protagonist life gives him a reason to keep living)