Notices by Dunkag (iffine@varishangout.net), page 2
Dunkag (iffine@varishangout.net)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jun-2024 00:08:42 JST
DunkagFairies, while not quite lacking conscious thoughts when performing their actions like a certain girl, still don't quite think before they act. If something interests a fairy, she will often go and see what it is, and possibly interact with it before even thinking about why it's interesting or if it's safe. The same applies to how the fairies perform pranks, though strangely they seem to always prank more human men than any women or other races. https://invidious.varis.social/watch?v=xC7zekNq5gU
@Ronnie21093 :flan_laugh: How did they fuck it up so bad anyways? Still no EN launch (after promise it would launch this year), and the JP launch was scuffed in terms of overall content and generally disliked by most players. Apparently a KR launch was planned and has been indefinitely delayed too. Over-reliance on gacha for cosmetics too, which for a game like blue protocol is the majority of reason you'd want to keep playing. I'm honestly amazed it's still running in Japan, but then it's clear from the state of Bandai Namco Online there that it's not doing good at all.
Dunkag (iffine@varishangout.net)'s status on Sunday, 23-Jun-2024 02:44:31 JST
DunkagSorta a pet peeve of mine over time, the overuse of comparisons to mobile games. Instead of using the comparison where it's apt, games clearly made only for moneymaking that are overly simplistic in nature, people throw the term "looks like a mobile game" around for anything that doesn't look like the newest CoD trailer in terms of budget and graphics. Problem is, phones are getting more powerful day by day. We're already up to the point where, with enough tweaking and optimization, you can get mobile games to look like high quality last gen products, and I'm sure in a few years this current generation of systems will be able to be compared to phones. Hell, with some work, you can even play PC games on a phone not even looking half bad (though often running like shit because of how little work there is on that front). It's likely not too far off in the future that most consumer phones will be able to run a VM for some PC OS, and run games there pretty well. People misunderstand and think a game not being UHD 4K 240fps means that it's clearly made for mobile devices, not the other way around of mobile devices doing their best to become that level of resolution and power. Mobile games just don't work as a comparison point like this because of how far they've gotten. A stylized game can look pretty damn good, but because it's not got enough bloom, god rays, and water reflections, it's a "mobile game." This brings back, there's a place where an apt comparison can be made to mobile games though. Cheap trash thrown to market just to make a quick buck on micro-transactions and the like. All these live service games are clearly inspired not by actual games, but by the mobile market's success. Besides this though, my personal pet peeve with this statement. I hate games that set their goal towards looking perfect on a 3090 card. I hate graphical quality focus in general. All too many people seem to keep thinking that graphical quality is the only tell for quality in a game. This isn't a demand that I want to play indie games that "go back to the good ol' days" by importing clearly way too high poly model into unity/unreal project and add a CRT filter to the options. No, I want games with limitations, games that have lowered graphics. I want to see a game made in the modern day, where the dev used tools from the PS2 to create his game. Give me something proper that doesn't just "vaguely invoke nostalgia" but instead is time period appropriate, with any modern technologies being limited to improvements from porting the game.
@Kyonko802@Tamamo Re:Zero's deaths would be a lot better if most of the deaths meant anything. Most of his Subaru's problems just end up with him whining or being an idiot for 20 deaths, then he finally remembers he should be doing something and kills himself like 3 times to accomplish it. It just felt like he took too long to learn anything in any one scene, and immediately he forgets it in the next.
@rlier23 By nature of keeping with """"""""existing cannon""""""""" it's fucked by default, thanks to capcom refusing to admit they overlocalized and ruined ace attorney. The amount of nearly unsolvable puzzles they created just to throw in their bad jokes and remove evidence of Japan.
@DarkMahesvara Not hard to beat Niji in terms of restraint when their form of restraint is restraining the talents to shit conditions and nothing more :cirno_laugh2: But in some seriousness, I feel you on the saturation aspect. I get why they do it, because idol culture demands always having more idols in case some get too old, or groups retire. Not that it makes all of this more interesting or fills me with interest.
@poopernova Honestly I don't see Pretendo getting fucked since their main focus is the Wii U. While Nintendo gets overprotective of successful systems, they hardly ever give a shit about what goes on for failures. But then they also proudly advertise this on their progress page with "perks" for donating so they're a very easy target. Not at all surprising considering the main team has at least one furry, a troon(? might just be a troon supporter, still has dyed hair though and flags everywhere), and your flavors of other less than aware internet folk who don't seem to realize how bad of an idea putting the donations tied directly to their main website is.
Dunkag (iffine@varishangout.net)'s status on Monday, 17-Jun-2024 12:03:58 JST
DunkagI thought I would try playing Splatoon 1 on Pretendo Network because I figured it'd be neat to check out. Turns out, Pretendo Network is one of those extremely anti-piracy fan servers, requiring you to buy a Wii U, modify it, and create an account for the network on it (and people are starting to overcharge on Wii U systems because of "modding potential" for a system that most people would rather just use a PC instead of trying to mod for emulation). Only then are you allowed to dump said fan server account files with use for emulator. The alternative is buying pretendo accounts from shady third parties who can at any point delete the account from the Wii U, thereby deactivating it. What a great ""archival"" service of Nintendo's online features.