I’ll be one of the “horde” (albeit more tame) but personally I don’t think developers should make their games easier or change their vision in order to broaden its audience. It kinda reminds me of the “rated R” debate. Certain people want movies like Oppenheimer to be rated PG-13 over being rated R so it can reach a bigger audience. But I don’t think Nolan should be changing his vision of the movie just so it sells better

Ehh I disagree with using RDR2 as an example, but I think QTEs in general are probably my least favorite game mechanic. I actually quite like walking around in RDR2 during the missions. A huge aspect of the game is just immersing yourself in the map/world and listening to the NPCs. I can see it getting old during replays but for me it’s a hell of a lot better than watching a cutscene and being prompted to hit a button. I vividly remember fishing with Dutch and Josea for at least a half hour just listening to them chat with Arthur

RDR2 has one of, if not my favorite, inventory systems. Your own ‘backpack’ that had a weight limit and could only carry smaller things. Big things you’d have to lug onto the back of your horse or find a cart. All of your equipped weapons are displayed on your person. If you want to swap weapons you have to run back to your horse and exchange weapons at your saddle bags

I also love the kbinaut one! Requesting #4 in an astronaut helmet too!!

Really need some kind of mobile app that isn’t the native web app one for kbin. Experience is just not great and is mostly keeping me off when I’m mobile

+1 for the Artemis team

I don’t think enough people realize the demo is literally just the game’s prologue. It even says if you buy the game it will pick up where you left off in the demo

World of Warcraft, Undertale, Stardew Valley, Sonic Mania, Halo, Hollow Knight

Nintendo is cheating

I’m just gonna come out and say it because I think people don’t realize and it may be specific to US - if kbeans sticks we will be called “kbeaners” by trolls until the end of time, as it includes a racial slur aimed at hispanic/latino people

Honestly I bet a fair amount of people will even unintentionally use it without realizing. And if we have the ability to choose, I’d rather our nickname not be something that invites people to easily combine it with a slur

Been here since just before the blackout and I’m not big on kbeans. First of all it sets us up to have a derogatory nickname, likely even unintentionally so. Secondly it has nothing to do with kbin other than vaguely resembling the word ‘bin’

I’ve been partial to kbinaut. No one will question where we’re from. Keeps kbin in the name. And a bit more on theme as the ‘fediverse’ kinda has a loose space vibe to it and with kbinaut resembling astronaut

Honestly I won’t get one but I’m fine for Elon to break into it. I kinda feel like that’s the only thing he does well. Funnels money into concepts people believe are impossible. Fail until there’s some small success and let other, more competent people learn from those failures. I think I’d rather have that than stay stagnant and/or have the Russian brain chip become the standard

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And what company would you currently trust to make brain implants?

I believe this is extremeRate’s full shell replacement. Actually pretty affordable, about $40 after tax. I’ve heard it takes 2-3 hours to do though. Personally I’d keep the black dpad and buttons

ProtonDB for Decky is a great tool to check how compatible a game is with Proton, even gives it a score

I’d definitely pick it up during the Summer Sale. With the DLC coming out soon and rumors of it being a soft relaunch of a lot of stuff, it’s likely they’ll keep it out of deep sales for a while

I think a lot of it was because Trekkies were waiting for years to have another traditional episodic series and were excited at the prospect of one getting a big budget. Discovery came out after a long drought and was different and seemed like it was trying to appeal to a broader audience. I think most Trekkies can admit it’s a good sci-fi show, it just soured longtime fans as they wanted something more like TNG but with modern VFX

Also I think this RLM skit sums it up pretty well

Tears of the Kingdom without a doubt so far. Enjoyed every second of it.

Honorable mentions are Hi-Fi Rush, RE4 Remake, Diablo 4 - even Jedi Survivor (especially if it didn’t run like shit).

And I fully expect Starfield, Spiderman 2, and Baldur’s Gate 3 to give TOTK a run for its money. Honestly a great year for gaming despite some shitty PC ports.

You’re confusing “do not massively defederate” with “do not defederate at all”

We should defederate from obviously problematic instances. We should not defederate in the fashion that beehaw is

Defederating from problematic instances that are promoting illegal activity that would attract the FBI is a bit different from “Defederate, massively”.

Intentionally or not you’re making it sound like if we don’t follow beehaw’s lead the FBI is going to be after ernest, who lives in a different continent and even has the project partially funded on a grant

I disagree. I really think closing ourselves off to a bunch of places goes against the spirit of the fediverse. I want to be getting content from a lot of places which I can then filter out and control myself, and I feel like kbin supports that mindset well. I understand why some would want to defederate and close themselves off, but I don’t want kbin.social turning into beehaw. If you’re looking for a more controlled instance, join them

These platforms are still pretty early in their infancy and I don’t think they were quite mature enough to take on this sudden influx of users (through no fault of anyone). There’s going to be some growing pains but we’ll get through it and this platform will get better from it