I love MCC, but I don’t like competitive FPS games at all. I’m in it exclusively for the campaign, and occasionally custom games. That said: playing any FPS with a controller is an incredibly frustrating experience. I know what I want to happen, but my hands can’t make it happen.

Yeah! I really like the combat in KotOR. It’s like a normal turn based CRPG, but faster.

Vimm’s Lair probably has whatever PS3 games you want- google should find that site easily. I have no clue on DLCs- I don’t think I’ve ever emulated a PS3 game that had DLCs so I can’t really help.

RPCS3 is very user friendly as far as emulators go so you might be surprised with what non-techie people can do with it. AC4 multiplayer is listed as compatible with RPCN so you could probably play it multiplayer, it’s just a question of actually finding people playing it.

As for Xbox 360 emulation: again, you can get files from Vimm’s but I’d suggest you let that cook. Xenia is the only 360 emulator I’m aware of. It definitely works, but it’s still in rough shape right now. Needs more time. I know OG Xbox emulators exist, but I’ve never looked into them personally.

I actually have, it’s an extremely obscure Celtic god. I first heard of him in Smite, though.

That’s why I don’t really use them myself. I’m not willing to spread misinformation just because ChatGPT told me it was true, but I also have no interest in going back over every response and double checking that it’s not just making shit up.

Well, the primary thing is that you can ask extremely specific questions and get tailored responses.

That’s the best use case for LLMs, imo. It’s less of a replacement for a traditional encyclopedia- though people use it like that also- and more of a replacement for googling your question and getting a Reddit thread where someone explains.

The issue comes when people take everything it spits out as gospel, and do zero fact checking on it- basically the way that they hallucinate is the problem I have with it.

If there’s a chance it’s going to just flatly make things up, invent statistics, or just be entirely wrong… I’d rather just use a normal forum and ask a real person that probably has a clue whatever question I have. Or try to find where someone has already asked that question and got an answer.

This reads like one of the results on a personality quiz.

being a dick

Yep, almost entirely!

I got the notification for this earlier, first time a Fredrik Knudsen video has been something I actually have some prior knowledge of so I was very interested.

Man, did I miss a ton of drama apparently.

That’s weird- I played BF6 with friends I would expect would have Valorant installed. Nobody had any issues. Maybe they uninstalled at some point. I don’t exactly keep up with everyone’s library.

If you’re only interested in a single file, ProtonVPN has a free tier. The speed should be plenty for a single ~600mb file.

I think I’ve done like three playthroughs, two I finished. It branches a lot with the dialogue and everything, there’s a lot of room for replay value considering it’s a relatively linear action RPG.

And it’s an absolutely fantastic game, too.

People have different tastes? I find Superman incredibly uninteresting most of the time. I get why people like him, and if it floats their boat I’m happy for them but it ain’t for me.

Punisher is basically just “what if Batman had less of a moral code, and wasn’t a billionaire in his off time.” That’s got the potential to be an interesting character, even if it’s not for me personally.

Basically, the devs of Subnautica 1 were working on Subnautica 2 but got bought by another company- Krafton. Krafton promised a very large bonus to the lead devs assuming the game was released by a certain time. They were on track to meet that deadline, but Krafton was insisting the game be delayed and when the developers resisted that they got fired. Now the people that were fired are suing saying that Krafton fired them to avoid paying them the bonus rather than for cause.

I might have gotten some details wrong, I’m not following this incredibly closely myself.

Well, shit.

Z-Library isn’t really research oriented, but you could try it. I have no idea how much scientific content is on it, not why I’m there, but FMHY says it has ‘educational’ content just like Anna’s Archive does, and I’ve seen textbooks on there before.

I’m not supporting what you’re condemning. I’m just arguing that it’s not 100% black and white. I disagree with “all live service games bad.” I certainly agree that some are predatory and a problem, and the entire genre as a whole needs much more regulation.

I couldn’t really grasp spending that amount of money on a video game, even cumulatively, so no I didn’t consider it from that angle.

Nothing inside a video game should cost real money. Ban the entire business model.

Is most of what I was referring to. I don’t mind things in games costing money, as long as the game itself doesn’t costs money. I also don’t mind live service games, at least in concept. They’re very rarely good games, but good examples do exist.

A lot of what I think you’re talking about is based on player trading, is it not? Maybe I don’t know the games you’re talking about. I don’t think Valve sets the prices for hats, and I don’t think DE sets prices for rivens. They’re tradeable, so a market forms. To be clear, I think paying $1000 for a hat is absolutely insane, but I also don’t see how it’s functionally different than paying an absurd amount of money for a trading card you have no intention of using.

Are there games actually asking $1000 for literally anything in-game? Not a player set price, to be clear.