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RightHandOfIkaros

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  • New Life is Strange Game Spotted, And Yes, This One Will Finally Bring Back Chloe

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  • Every game after Before the Storm sucked. Even Before the Storm was only okay, not a good as the first game, but holy moly was every game after total garbage.

  • The... CIS will rise again...?

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  • I mean... they're not wrong. The Republic was corrupted by Palpatine. That was literally a major plot element of the prequels. History is written by the winners of war, not the losers, after all.

  • Steam adds official support for game version-specific Workshop mods

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  • As a Stellaris Mod Enjoyer, this is extremely helpful. No more game saves breaking because all my mods updated to the newest version of the games, hopefully.

  • Anticipation

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  • That supposed to be planetary rings on the right side?

  • Ubisoft Closes Canadian Studio After It Unionizes

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  • I hate Ubisoft, but I actually do think this was decided to happen before they unionized and is just bad timing.

    Decisions to close studios like this never happen so quickly and usually take multiple months between the time the decision is made to the time the actual closure takes place.

    It is possible that the studio caught wind that they were being closed and decided to unionize in order to capitalize on the bad PR. But this is all speculation since we don't know every detail, and both sides will leave out various details to give themselves an advantageous position in the conversation.

  • The Empire Never Ended: Philip K Dick, Valis, and the Psychopathology of War

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  • "We still talk about you..."

  • NVIDIA DLSS 4.5 is now available to all NVIDIA RTX owners

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  • I'd rather get whatever the newest/best I can afford when I need to upgrade. The 1080 Ti is tired but it still works well, so I don't feel enough pressure to spend the money yet. Ive been looking at the 5070 Ti, but the price is still too high having only just dropped to MSRP in my area.

    Also, I never trust second-hand GPUs like I never trust second-hand hard drives. Too much money in it for someone to lie about the condition, or whether they smoke or not, etc. Less hassle when I buy new, especially if I need to RMA, even if it is a higher initial cost.

  • NVIDIA DLSS 4.5 is now available to all NVIDIA RTX owners

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  • I'd love to have an RTX card if they weren't so overpriced. My 1080 Ti is getting tired of skipping upgrade year due to absurd overpricing.

  • Serious Polka (by Hyde)

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  • Looks like if Aya Brea cosplayed as Polka

  • 'Backtracking Development Again Was Out of The Question' — Nintendo Says Metroid Prime 4's Open World Hub Was a Victim of The Game's Lengthy Development

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  • Breath of the Wild was a mid game, and a bad Zelda game outright. It ditched nearly everything that players had come to expect from a Zelda game. Tears was way better, but still lacked the feeling of being a Zelda game. If you removed all the Zelda assets, would anyone be able to truly call it a Zelda game? With Link to the Past all the way to even Skyward Sword I certainly could.

    But the effect the games financial success has had on Nintendo as a whole has been devastating. Nintendo is the kind of company that will learn all the wrong lessons and none of the right ones. They are literal Monkey Paw thinkers. They saw the PS1 outpace the N64 and thought "people want disks, okay lets pick this really odd format disk with a tiny storage limit instead of using normal ones." And then when the Gamecube failed they said "oh, people must not want powerful hardware I guess, lets just sell people the same hardware again so its underpowered this time but add a motion control gimmick."

    So when BotW was a financial success, they immediately believe that all of their big games need an open world, or need to be vast departures from what players expect from each series. It is truly tragic.

  • World's Video Game Companies

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  • Because they would make Nintendo look tiny by comparison.

  • European lawmakers will study a ban on 'loot boxes' and addictive features in video games

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  • Okay, but if we take care of the problem that people have, legal regulation would not be necessary. We wouldn't have to have a trillion laws stipulating all the various minutae of what we should or shouldn't do because of how harmful it is or isn't, people would be able to figure this out on their own. Less laws in general is better, when the population is intelligent enough to understand that you don't drink bleach because a computer screen showed those words to you in that order.

    Opiates wouldn't need to be illegal because people would be intelligent enough to know how harmful it is and thus wouldn't use it. A law wouldn't need to be created listing every known or unknown opiate derivative that is banned or for whatever use. People would just be smart enough to know.

    Basically, too many people aren't using their own brain. AI is definitely a helpful tool, but not if you're an idiot and believe it to have any actual intelligence. Its not there to replace your doctor or teacher, it is there to help you with word processing, pattern recognition, or other such language based tasks. AI used as a tool is queried for things like "check this passage for overly repetitive terms and suggest improvements that keep the same meaning." AI used by an idiot is queried for things like "what do my lab results say about my health?"

    I suppose this is too far advanced for humanity at this point. Laws are important, but too many laws begins to speak about a general decline in intelligence.

  • European lawmakers will study a ban on 'loot boxes' and addictive features in video games

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  • To be fair, much of the memetic hazard posed by various technologies is not actually the fault of the technologies, but a fault of the person having no self-control, no accountability for their own actions, or having some form of undiagnosed medical issue they are unaware of.

    Its like saying video games cause school shootings: the problem isnt the video games, its the person. The video games are an excuse to shift blame and accountability away from the person.

  • Didn't realize how hard MGS4's Disc Swap joke hit until I backed it up

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  • Japanese games primarily designed for use with NEC PC-88 and PC-98 computers that came on floppy disks had an even worse problem:

    In order to save your game, you have to write to the floppy disk, usually wash disk needed to write somesort of data. Unfortunately, this means that the disk cannot be read-only protected. You probably see where this is going, but this sadly led to some players having uncompletable copies of games because they wrote to the wrong disk and accidentally ended up overwriting game data with save data.

    Some games came with manuals that warned of this, and some games spent the cost of disk space to store actual in-game warning screens to try to prevent this.

  • Ars Technica’s Top 20 video games of 2025

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  • Honestly this list reads like the person who picked the games doesn't actually play games and just listed the most popular/ most talked about games, but to make it not that obvious they asked that one "weird" person groupchat they were invited to once that is full of actual gamers to provide like 3 games for the list lol

  • What is the longest anime episode of all time?

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  • No, no. You've got it wrong.

    Endless Eight was certainly only a single episode. I would remember if it was more.

  • Looking for anime with at least three of the following criteria: short, 80s-90s, cyberpunk, hyperviolent

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    • Bubblegum Crisis, and its shorter sequel Bubblegum Crash.
    • AD Police Files (the OVA with 3 episodes)
    • Parasite Dolls
    • Angel Cop

  • Looking for anime with at least three of the following criteria: short, 80s-90s, cyberpunk, hyperviolent

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  • Same with Bubblegum Crisis. Ignore Tokyo 2040.

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    YSK pills are a scam (reposting bc mod accidentally removed it)

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  • Yeah, I don't think the mods removed the last one by accident.

    Not only is this wrong, it is harmful. This is not something anyone "should know," and infact everyone should know the opposite.

    Medicine is real, and when taken properly, is good for you. Medicine is designed to help your body with functions it may be deficient at, either temporarily or permanently, or in some cases to stop your body from being too proficient at something to the point it could lead to harm. Refusing medicine without reasonable grounds, such as religious beliefs or allergies, goes beyone ignorance into negligence.

    Sincerely, an American that hates having to see doctors and take medicine. I may hate it, but I still recognize its benefit and value.