there are benefits to fixed hardware for devs... sorta
games
Thursday, March 5, 2026
but they'd be better off outsourcing the entire concept of video game consoles
rather than having 1st party ones
Replying to polu #polutropos I would rather give a kid a console than a computer. I've seen the shit my nieces and nephews get up to and they need more restrictions. (edited)
don't worry Polu, California will require full rectal scans for age verification soon
Max had this concept that I've kinda come around to, that we are trending towards just having a sperate kid-internet
network the .edu workspaces that Microsoft/Amazon/Google already curate
and essentially lock devices (school chromebooks) at the point of sale as "kid devices"
I personally don't think kid internet access is a problem if you're a good parent, but seemingly parents WANT this sort of locked-down shitty experience for their kids so... give it to them imo
I think parental controls are a crutch in almost all cases too
I remember kids in high school who still had intrusive internet monitors and the like
pincodes on TVs, screen time managers on phones, etc.
see, good parents
if you don't want to be involved in your kids life and what they're doing, then you can offload some of it to built-in parental controls or these meme age verification things that are getting pushed now
but it's just such a nothing measure to take, and in the end it probably prevents the vast vast minority of kids from gaining access to whatever you're keeping from them anyway
there are plenty of effective ways to gatekeep kids (or whatever demographic you want)
but it's certainly not any of this
Friday, March 6, 2026
yeah nobody leave any steam reviews either
no lol
Why the hell did they remake poker night at the inventory in the current year
I just learned of this
Replying to Phijkchu_Pikachu #klombak Why the hell did they remake poker night at the inventory in the current year
Saturday, March 7, 2026
There's 2 loudest groups I've seen are:
1) People who really like Bungie and want to support them
2) People who are anti-Gamer or anti-chud, and want to obnoxiously promote this game to be contrarians
After that, there are people who just really want NewCompetativeGame™ that they can nolife and have picked Marathon to be that game
I really did want Marathon to be good, I like Bungie well enough and don't hate that they took an old IP and made it a MP game
But their entire game direction was scuffed from the start, they did minimal improvements after delaying it, and then pushed it out to die
Fundamentally, they don't want the game to be social nor do they want the solo experience to be good,
which is a wtf sorta mindset to take when making a MP game
And then every layer on-top of that is just bad:
no ability customization for each hero (and numerous anti-fun abilities), scuffed loot/equipment, nothing meta progression, shitty quests, extremely limited pool of maps/heroes, no real visual character/weapon customization (paid recolor skins only), and a lack of interesting interactables on each map
It has the sole benefit of being the only real AAA FPS that feels new to release in a while
The Finals (2023)
XDefient (2024) was shutdown
and Delta Force (2024) sorta
Sunday, March 8, 2026
Monday, March 9, 2026
Thursday, March 12, 2026
Nakwon
what a name
Polu, since you're the playtest king
this one goes live in a couple days
Saturday, March 14, 2026 7:00:00 PM
I will be there and also be perhaps square
Saturday, March 14, 2026
Polu
we are so fucking in-sync
Servers are open 8 hours daily:
🕓 PDT: 16:00 – 00:00
🕖 EDT: 19:00 – 03:00
🕗 BRT: 20:00 – 04:00
these devs are retarded
this 100% is just spun up on AWS, and they chose the cheap timeslot only
when configuring their hosting
3/14/2026 7:00 PM
Sunday, March 15, 2026
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