Oxygen Not Included - after binging ONI videos all month I finally decided to give actually playing the game a go. Turns out watching lots of high level gameplay does not make you a good player! The struggle is tons of fun though.

Stationeers - A second super complicated game, I just had to hop in and play with all the new robotic arms they just added! Or rather, I would if I could make a functioning station in the first place... Time to go refactor the atmospherics again!

Satisfactory - The hat trick for brain melting games this week, with the release of 1.0 I've started up a brand new world and I can't wait to mess around with all the new toys we've got! Unfortunately I've been hit with a nasty post-release bug but hopefully they'll fix it right away and I can continue my factory adventures!

Astro Bot - A game to help unwind after the stress of the other three games, I genuinely cannot comprehend the amount of heart that went into this game! I seriously find myself grinning from ear to ear every time I boot it up, and I'm always looking forward to my next chance to play!

Started up a new world after not playing since like... update 5 I think? Already having a blast with it, though I've ran into a bug where coal miners won't take coal from belts unless you have coal in your inventory and I think I'm gonna have to shelve it until that's fixed unfortunately...

All the new QoL features are amazing though, and I'm crazy excited to see all the new late game content and what insane production lines I'm gonna havr to think up!

That's totally fair, Monster Hunter is infamous for its utterly terrible onboarding process. If you ever decide that you want to really figure out Monster Hunter, there's two options I always recommend.

The first is incredibly simple: get someone who knows the game to play with you. They can walk you through what does and doesn't matter, and help you get used to the game with someone there to keep you engaged.

The second option, if you don't have a MH friend or don't want to play with other people, is a simple process you can follow which I've found tends to work for getting people through the early game confusion:

First, ignore the constant tutorial popups. They'll be there in the hunter notes in your menu at any time, and most of them don't matter until after you figured out how to literally play the game at all.

Second, find your weapon. Every weapon type in Monster Hunter plays very differently. The weapon that sounds the best to you might not be the weapon that feels the best to you. Once you unlock the training area (I think it happens before your first quest even) just go in there and pick a weapon from your box and start slapping shit. If you don't like that weapon, pick a different one and rinse and repeat until you've found the one that speaks to you.

Finally, just start playing! I find things make way more sense when you actually experience them rather than just reading about them or watching someone else experience them. Just start playing and eventually all those complicated systems will click and you'll wonder why you ever had a problem!

A common joke in the Monster Hunter community is that everyone loves monster hunter, they just haven't played it long enough to realize it yet! I hope you give the series another chance someday because it's really something special!

Regarding the movie, as a terrible movie fan I agree, it was a fantastic watch! As a Monster Hunter fan however, ohhhhhh boy was I screaming at my TV! WHY did they give gore magala a beard?!?!?

lets goooooo, my favourite franchise of all time! Techbically, my first monster hunter game was tri on thr wii, when I was a wee bab. I say technically because I was a tiny idiot and I did not know how to do quests so I just spent hours wandering around moga woods in free roam, just hanging out. I still had an absolute blast doing it though!

The game that really got me into the franchise though, and my favourite game, would be world! I just love the incredible attention to detail, and the clear love that went into designing everything! I have more hours in rise because that's the game my friends all play, and it's a phenomenal game no doubt, but I always find myself creeping back to World.

The next game, Wilds, is looking like it will far surpass World for me though, the 2025 wait is killing me! The gamescom previews really showed that they have been listening to thr community, and are making the monster hunter game we've all dreamed of.

That's one of my favourite things about the monster hunter teams in fact, that they clearly know how to learn from their previous works! I would readily argue that every generation has been an overall massive improvement over the previous one. I say generation rather than game, because comparing Rise and World is rather unfair. They're two different games made by different teams for different hardware with different goals in mind, and if you ask me they both achieved their goals spectacularly, no matter what some nerds will say about Rise... Grouping them both into 5th gen and looking at the series by generation, each one has so far been an improvement in nearly every aspect, and I think that's an amazing track record. That is why I am willing to put my wholehearted trust in the monster hunter teams that they will absolutely deliver with Wilds and any games after that.

You're right, there are, but my point was that private MMO servers are significantly harder to host and moderate than a private server in a match-based multiplayer game like say Team Fortress 2. An MMO that relies on private servers is almost certainly doomed to fail, so it must have some form of official server, which then will need some form of cheating prevention.

The issue is that that's only a solution for a certain type of multiplayer game. MMOs and battle royales for example cannot feasibly implement community servers as their main form of multiplayer connection, because very few people have the capabilities to host such servers, much less moderate them at such high player counts. Heck, there's even arguments to be made for the value of public matchmaking, despite how often it gets blasted in spaces such as this. Private servers are unfortunately not a one-size-fits-all solution.

I used to hate playstation controllers because they always felt really weird to hold. Even the PS4 controller was terrible for me. With the Dualsense PS5 controller though they just made it an xbox controller with playstation gimmicks and that was such a great move! It doesn't look too ugly either, since it's just the same basic shape as an xbox controller. It doesn't have the nice weight that an xbox controller has and I definitely prefer the joystick layout on xbox, but the haptic triggers, the hd rumble, the trackpad, and the gyro sensor are all things I don't think I can do without anymore!

I think it's mostly nostalgia, and the fact that it was kind of the first iteration of the design all controllers use now. The 360 controller was good but it was really only the start. In my opinion each xbox controller has been a massive improvement over the last.

The series x controller is probably the most well refined controller I've used, and the only reason it's not my pick for best controller is because I'm a sucker for all the fancy tricks of the dualsense.

It's not specifically about roads per se, but I HIGHLY recommend Jacob Geller's video "After a City is Buried", which touches on how surprisingly common it is for us to just build new stuff directly on top of old stuff.

sweet! now my sandwiches will be even tastier!

it's a tumblr joke about appollo hitting you with the dodgeball of prophecy, used when you make a bad prediction that somehow comes true.

because they're right, tumblr is somehow the best remaining corporate social media simply because they've stayed the same while everyone else got shittier

Thinking about that post about how conspiracy theorists would make amazing fantasy writers if they just stopped pretending their bullshit was real...

Here we go, this was my main in sunbreak. Doesn't look like they brought back the ridiculously overpowered instablock, but that's probably for the best lmao. I'm loving all the new shield moves I'm seeing though!

looks like it might be a new spider monster or something, absolutely gorgeous!

impossible. they don't call him mancubus for no reason 🥵

supposedly there's some super being that absorbs emotions, and when it absorbs extremely strong emotions it generates a new being to contain those emotions. dark matter was the result of it absorbing hate, while kirby was the result of it absorbing love.

staring at this image trying to figure out the difference between deuteranomaly and normal vision before I remembered I'm an idiot

ok but as a colourblind person those traffic lights are SO much better damn

then again maybe someone who is part blue colourblind might feel differently

seconding this! Crosscode is an insanely good game! IMPORTANTLY before you go in though! there are two main criticisms against the game, which to me are both incredibly strong positives, but it's important to know what you're getting in to!

First is that the dungeons are very long. we're talking an hour minimum, often even longer. You are spending time in these locations.

Second is that there are a lot of puzzles, and they are not always baby easy action game puzzles. This game is an action/puzzle game and it does not slack in either regard. Expect to be utterly stumped sometimes. Also fights are puzzles too, and if you're struggling on a fight try to see if you can figure out its puzzle, I promise it will make it a lot easier!

nah this is hella good. we cannot forget that the people we are arguing with are also people. we still need to argue with them and fight against them when they try to take our rights but the whole time we still gotta remember they are people just like us. and that's gonna make us feel like shit about it sometimes when we're getting pissed at other people, especially when they're our community members, but that's just a reminder that we have empathy and that we are able to care about our fellow man.

I remember at some point hearing a therapist say something along the lines of "I've been in hundreds of rough situations. I've seen hundreds of cases of abuse and trauma, and the day I start feeling numb towards them is the day I stop being a good therapist." that's hella paraphrased of course but I think it gets the point across that sometimes you gotta feel like shit because that lets you know you've still got a conscience working in there somewhere.

expanding a bit on this point, one thing we have to remember is that these people do not go away if we get our way. these people still need to be accounted for in whatever new world we want to make, and if you want the same world as I do, where everyone is treated with respect and cared for, then you also gotta be ready to treat these people with respect and care for them. That doesn't mean you gotta tolerate them when they're being an intolerant shithead but it does mean that the whole time you're throwing their shitty ideas out the door you're still treating them like a human being. remember that dehumanization is nazi shit and we wanna stay far away from that.

I guess I also got a little rambley here but fuck it the internet is for letting your thoughts out whether anyone's gonna read them or not so I say let it flow

damn that's crazy to know. It's wild how stuff like this is possible, I guess that means coyotes and dogs are basically the same animal already.

the reason all domestic dogs are canis familiaris is because they're all the same species. They can all have non-sterile babies with each other, which is the most commonly accepted definition of a species. A domesticated coyote would still be its own species and get its own scientific name because it would not be able to breed with dogs, at the very least without having a sterile baby.

I'm not worried at all about the wounding. Tenderizing sucked because it was this mandatory chore you had to do every few minutes. "Oh, the part isn't tenderized anymore, time to pull out the clutch claw again."

The wound mechanic is a much more natural reward for good gameplay. If you hit the monster in the same location enough you get a chance to do some massive damage. That's a really nice way to incentivize players to focus on a single part. Plus they get to add a bunch of wicked cool new attacks to capitalize on the wounds!

I just think the shiny red glow on parts looks silly in such an otherwise hyper detailed artstyle lol, that's honestly my only complaint with the whole thing

right, ideal use case would be a spear brace where the mount can stop any charging enemies while the halfling is in ideal position to crossbow those who get too close

of the three new videos this was the one that mattered. it's great to get a good explanation of focus mode, and to finally see some new weapons! I still don't know how I feel about the wound highlighting (it looks kinda goofy to me) but it's a lot better than what I expected it to be (a bunch of red scoutflies flying around a part kind of like the qurio cores in sunbreak)

I worked at a cannabis dispensary and it was probably the best job I'll have ever worked for a number of reasons, but one of them was that the cashier got full control over the music. Whoever worked the till got to choose exactly what music was playing, exactly how loud, or if they even wanted music at all. It was such an incredible blessing.

damn I might have time to finish a tenth of gregtech new horizons now!

It's an amazing update but goodness is it taking me a while to get used to working with the new eevee! Very excited for how much more powerful it is now though!

yup that's the artist. You also might have seen centurii-chan's art around. they do similar stuff and have collabed a couple times before

Wish I had anyone to play co-op with lmao T_T

Super excited for the improved physics though! The physics traps were always my favourite and it sucked that they were almost never the optimal choice.

hell yeah! OMD is such a good series, I'm so ready for this!

OOP is not the only person lmao. I was also really hoping for a super pumpkin :(

can it stop my songs from stopping after a minute of the screen being turned off

https://youtu.be/YVSEAFdFfUg?feature=shared&t=35

people have been calling literal pathfinding algorithms in video games AI for decades. This is what AI is now and I think it's going to be significantly easier to just accept this and clarify when talking about actual intelligence than trying to fight the already established language.

no that's pretty much it. I was just making a joke over the fact that people love to hate on knowyourmeme, so maybe i should warn them before they accidentally visit the site they hate so much.

That odogaron had it out for you. The insane disrespect!

The Talos Principle 2 dropped an expansion out of nowhere. It hasn't even been a year since the game released! The puzzles so far are really creative and cool, and of course it wouldn't be The Talos Principle without a healthy dose of philosophizing about the human condition!

absolutely! Genshin is actually a surprisingly good game as a f2p player! If you're having a lot of fun with it, I'd highly recommend checking Honkai: Star Rail! It's somehow even more f2p friendly, and it's clear they learned a LOT from Genshin when making it. It is a linear turn-based RPG though, so quite a different game from Genshin.

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