Notices by beard :meru_dab: (beardalaxy@gameliberty.club)

me: inzoi's graphics suck, it's hard to play
also me: ooooh mario except it looks like rusty condom

@matrix :emoji_cope:

@alyx the free version of proton is speed limited but probably not enough to notice during regular browsing. you also can't do any p2p with it.

lol

tl;dr inZOI is an empty prototype that focuses way more on AI technology than anything fun or meaningful, don't buy it right now. maybe when the game fully releases it'll be better but the direction seems kind of flawed from the start.

this game is extremely early access.
think of sims, except instead of a team of people very deliberately putting lots of stuff together for tons of different contexts, it's all run by a shitty AI.
the foundation is fine, and i do like some of the ideas the game is going for, but it really seems like they focused way too much on random AI features instead of making an actual game.
the graphics are also pretty on the surface, but completely fall apart in motion. no matter what settings you're playing on it's going to look bad. i really, really hate modern rendering techniques. sims 2 looks better than this shit because it's actually a stable image and it's pretty clean too.

definitely DO NOT BUY until they really get more stuff here. there's barely anything to do and there are only some extremely specific things you can interact with. going to school is a rabbithole, which is horrible when you consider that the in-game time even on the fastest setting is ridiculously slow. i've got it set to 48 minute days, the lowest one, whereas sims 4's default is 24 minutes. if it could be sped up more that would be fine, but it still goes by really slowly especially when there's like nothing to do. NPCs seemingly never talk to your character, you have to initiate every interaction and they'll often just walk away after you say one thing unless you queue things up.

it does kind of feel like this game is leaning way more into AI features than being a life sim, like why in the absolute fuck did they spend so much time developing AI that can track movements onto a character? there's no point whatsoever.

played for not even 5 hours and yeah, it just made me want to play sims instead. there's really a whole lot of nothing here and that's a pretty good way to describe it. there's a lot of shit, it's just that none of it is actually meaningful or valuable at all.

paralives can't come soon enough.

this is what inZOI looks like without any anti-aliasing, DLSS, or raytracing in 1080p. high settings. completely unacceptable. all of that crust rapidly flickers, too.

@xianc78 @picandor @Lemonid @tomie probably too retarded, he would only go after stuff that popped off

@xianc78 @picandor @Lemonid @tomie there was someone pretending to be a lawyer that no longer worked at Nintendo for years, kaze did a video about it a while ago

@xianc78 @picandor @Lemonid @tomie dude like half the shit nintendo c&ds is not even nintendo. it's people who either want to start shit or they are such insane nintendo fanboys that they will go to the lengths of shutting down fan projects for them.

THIS IS WHAT I SEE WHEN I OPEN KIRSCHE'S STREAM

@madonline bye diregoy :feelsbadman:

@alyx @matrix technology connections and who else

All the way back in 2018, some friends and I went out to some abandoned buildings in order to get audio/video/photo reference, as well as some inspiration, for the horror game we were making.

That game is the next thing I'm working on as a personal project. Shadows of the Mind. It takes place in an abandoned building in the middle of nowhere. Fitting. It's a survival horror game, heavily inspired by Silent Hill. It's also a sequel to a horror game jam entry I made in 2013. It'll be cool.

:meru_sweat:

@icedquinn we definitely will see

@icedquinn my hope is that mods really blow the lid off any restrictions, because the base game is a really solid foundation and it seems to perform pretty well too.

Bought inZOI and played it for about 3 hours. 99% of that time was spent making one character. You can really go pretty in-depth with it. It does need a LOT more clothing options but given that it is early access, I think those will come over time. They have said that all content updates during early access will be completely free, so we'll have to see what gets added.

I popped into gameplay for a tiny bit and it seems VERY much like the Sims but with a few extra things. You can control your selected character directly with WASD for instance, and you can play around with the overall "vibe" of the town with sliders that affect things like crime, relationships, health, and more.

I was watching someone's stream of it and from what I can tell, it does appear that at least currently, the only way you're able to have a child is if you're married. NPCs have established sexual preferences, and you can't enter bathrooms that are for the opposite gender.

I'm going to keep playing it later, I'll let you guys know how it goes!

@Possummachine ぼくわセックスだいすき！
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Pgl-JC2sgk

virtual game cards are one the more stupid things nintendo has come up with
like bruh everybody has had REAL game sharing since 2006 and you come to the party with probably the worst system for it i've ever seen

SPEND 30 MINUTES A DAY MAKING SOMETHING OR LEARNING SOMETHING SO THAT YOU CAN MAKE SOMETHING. IT'S FUCKING WORTH IT YOU FUCK.