Very early on they had an actual player investible and influenceable stock market, in Online.
They shut that down quite quickly though.
Because you could make money too easily.
Shark Cards only baby!
Fuck our interesting gameplay mechanic, strip that shit out, MTX, make RockStar into the comically evil tech corpos they mock in GTA V’s own story.
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Keep in mind…
0 actual gameplay footage, so far.
Zilch, 0, Nada, None.
Also, … it wont even be capable of hitting 60 fps on a PS5 or Xbox series fucking whatever.
It might even be locked at 30.
https://wccftech.com/gta-6-skip-60-fps-entirely-insane-detail-ps5-pro/
… where the fuck is the baffled Jackie Chan meme when I need it?
Yeah this shit makes no sense to be excited for, unless you basically have oppositional defiance disorder, and you just enjoy being snide, in a group.
Literally… Back a few years ago when that idiot hacked into RockStar and leaked the alpha build of GTA6… (and was then immediately caught because he is an idiot)… thats it. Clips from that are the closest to actual gameplay anyone has ever seen.
The ‘everyone is 12’ joke-theory is actually just essentially true.
In the US, the average adult person in fact is no more literate or ‘numerate’ than a 12 year old, a 5th grader.
The average person literally is a tween, in terms of higher thought capacity.
Again… this is not a joke, it is just actually true.
Apply George Carlin logic to this.
50% of American adults are less mentally capable than 12 year olds.
AI as a cultural phenomenon has been truly exceptional at revealing the extent to which the privileged are just literally mouth breathing thumb sucking mental invalids.
We should be laughing in their faces, when they say shit this stupid. We should be pointing out that they must have failed highschool physics, mocking them, to their faces, with a little bit of accidental spittle to drive it home.
We literally have to shame these fucking morons or they will destroy human civilization.
Aha!
IGN waits 48 hrs to have an opinion, and they go with offensive.
No, that’s not hard enough, you fucking shills.
Its criminal. It subverts the entire concept of personal property rights. It is so offensive that to let it stand would be an ongoing affront to quite literally human rights.
If you allow a paradigm to exist, in an increasingly digital world and economy, that your digital goods can be evaporated, at whim, by the seller, after you purchased them, with no refund?
You get cyberpunk dystopia from this. You turn corporations formally into more powerful entities than most states.
The only reason you fucking morons describe this as baffling is because you are their second order PR agency. You’re idiots, its been obvious this was the plan for over a decade… you cannot possibly be surprised by this without being corporate cucks.
You fucking cunts dare to angle yourselves as sharing the same concerns as SKG, as Ross Scott?
Where the fuck were you a decade ago when Ross started talking about this? You’re a goddamned media company, you could have signal boosted him this whole fucking time… or even just mentioned it, maybe?
Fuck you Luke, you duplicitous bootlicking hack.
If Virginians aren’t surrounding the county government building, 24/7, with firearms…
Your fucking state motto is Sic Semper Tyranis.
Live up to it, or never be taken seriously, about anything, ever again.
You know what happened in Iceland in the 07/08 financial crisis?
Something like 1/3 to 2/3 of the entire population of the island surrounded parliament, literally with pitchforks, untill they actually prosecuted the criminal financiers for their actual financial crimes.
Iceland is basically the only Western country that didn’t bail out their bankster fraud artists, and sent them to fucking prison, instead.
Ya’ll gonna let your selves get outdone by Iceland?
Why… why are these nested… owwww my brain.
Oh my god. Its soo bad, it keeps getting worse the more I look at it…
I hate you but also, well done.
Man… Sweeney is starting to go from ‘contemptible’ to ‘pitiable’.
That is such a desperate and obviously stupid thing to say that I do actuslly just feel sad for him at this point.
So I was watching JoeFromSeattle and he basically has an observation/theory from repeatedly interacting with these people on Twitter.
… They literally do not count themselves as ‘gamers’, they use the word to identify others.
These are the people who buy Madden/FIFA every year, every COD, every Battlefield, and assume everyone does that, to the point of projecting it without realizing it and then not believing you if you say you didn’t do that as well.
… they are very often illiterate, cannot understand sentences above roughly Grade 5 complexity, always assume they are correct and work backwards to attempt to form a justification for whatever they’ve decided is corrrect.
… they’re morons.
Like just… complete fucking morons.
And that’s not an insult, its simply accurate.
Paintball markers.
Make Tippmann proud.
They need to lose their fingernails, one by one, then eyelids, then tongue, then ears, then nose, then eyes.
They’re ghouls on the inside, this is just … soul-type affirming care, or something like that.
Maybe he sprayed himself with a bit too much of that fentanyl laced cat piss.
If you do not get the reference… he previously said that he’d like to be able to dispatch drones that would do that to basically anyone who annoys him.
Somehow more camp and pathetic than an actual comic book supervillain.
A significant number of games on Steam can literally just be ctrl c ctrl v’d into another directory, snd still more or less work, or be made to work if you … configured Proton through Not-Steam,.for them.
Mostly only games on Steam that have some kind of always online DRM are going to throw a shitfit in that scenario.
People seem to forget that Steam and Source were built from the ground up to support what is I guess now the ‘old school’ way of modding a game: you just literally throw more shit into the game directory, edit what is already there, etc.
You can add /any exe/ external to Steam, to Steam, and run it via Proton. … /any exe/.
I’ve managed to get fucking Cascadeur working on Linux, via Steam/Proton, lol… there are a few games I tinker with where the model or anim ripper scripts only work on Blender 3.6 for Windows… So, download Win Blender 3.6, add to Steam/Proton, run, install Windows only plugin. Voila! Bit of jank, but it does work.
Any game that somebody has figured out how to do the equivalent of… some kind of script extender, to enable mods to do more kinds of stuff?
The way those work is they basically hijack or replace the original game exe.
Any game that has been reverse engineered to this extent, you can get to run independent of Steam.
I’ve done it with CyberPunk 77, NewVegas, etc, toying with my own mod making attempts. Its not too hard to futz with configs and launch arguments to launch straight into the main CP77 exe, just skip the launch/loader thing.
You can actually just do this kinds shit for quite a lot of games.
And he has actually been using his super yacht to do actual ground breaking research on the biology of extremely deep sea creatures.
Not even joking, that yacht has a deep sea submersible, he bought the shipyard so he could direct the refitting of the super yacht to be able to carry and launch it… they’ve been mapping a trench near Japan, have captured high resolution video and bathymetry… they even appear to have discovered a or maybe a few new species.
https://www.geeky-gadgets.com/gabe-newell-inkfish-unclassified-ocean-creature/
I mean yeah, having a super yacht is … pretty extra.
But, there are certainly worse ways one could be using it.
I’m fairly certain every platform offers an SDK with mostly the same things.
Just objectively, factually incorrect.
Making mods only available inside a closed ecosystem so it’s easier to charge for them and grab a cut isn’t actually a good thing for instance.
So you’re fed up with NexusMods bullshit too eh?
Err… were you talking about something else?
There’s also the fact that valve could easily offer all that and only grab like 3%. 90% of the cut is there to cover Gabens new boat purchase, not for the features.
Fact? You have detailed access to the internal financial records of a privately held company that is generally not obligated to report them?
You could be correct, but you’d need to provide… you know, evidence that that is the case.
I’m not trying to clown on you to be an ass, I’m trying to point out that you just seem to know a bunch of things that are false, that you almost certainly can’t know, that apply equally or moreso to alternatives to Steam/Valve.
… radio scanner swapping through signals, till it clears up and then…
Was it cast for the masses who starve and toil?
Or for the vultures who feast upon the spoil?
Yes a spectacle, monopolized
They hold the reins, stole your rye
All the pesticides, the bulldozers and chains
Who stuff the land with their poisoned gains
More for Monsanto and the corporate throne?
None of the above, fuck it, plant the sword
Gloves on! Guerrilla gardening!
Dig that shit up!
Gloves on! Guerrilla gardening!
Dig that shit up!
At this point it is extremely obvious that the corporate and government powers of the world are just big fans of ‘Whose Line Is It Anyway?’.
The rules are made up, and the points don’t matter.
Yep.
Used to be an expectation that this was an involved hobby where you would need to identify and fix problems, because computers are complicated.
Then that got eviscerated by a flood of doe eyed consumers that demand convienence and not having to be burdened with the cognitive weight of thinking about anything.
Which is ironic, given that original understanding of a video game is specifically that it is a kind of puzzle, a kind of problem, that is enjoyable to try to solve.
They can if they code on that physical DVD requires some kind of online DRM check to be passed before it allows the rest of the data on it to be unencrypted.
A box you cannot open, with a lock you don’t control… is not very much of a treasure.
Conversely:
A very large subset of Steam Games?
I can copy and paste them outside of the Steam Directory, run them, and they will still mostly to entirely work.
I can then burn those onto a DVD or copy them to a thumb drive or sd card or whatever, and they’ll be capable of working on any compatible system.
Thou Shalt Always Kill