I call it the depression portal.

That was indeed the joke.

Not enough Guinness I guess :)

Imagine what the Guinness people are thinking about this...

Would you rather travel riding Mitch or a Boeing plane ?

I would pick Mitch any day.

You should probably not call all reforestation as bullshit projects just based on a John Oliver video.

There is this interesting blog post on Ecosia :

https://cariki.co.uk/blogs/the-green-road/is-ecosia-legit-or-fake#:~:text=Ecosia donates roughly 59%25 of,using their transparent financial reporting.

I understand this is just a blog but there is good sources in there. Ecosia looks like a serious initiative and the fact that they got a B corp rating in Germany is impressive.

Fuck this.

There will be literally ads everywhere soon.

Ads in the street, on TV, on the radio, in magazines, on the internet, in games (including in VR)...

It's a nightmare it will be completely impossible to go through one minute of your life without being sold something.

It's not really something new but it saddens me because gaming was one of the few space that was mostly spared by advertisers. One of the last place you could get out of your reality for a little while.

Now this is over. Just like Netflix people will go up in arms against ads and then still get Free2Play games showing ads and normalize that practice.

The dualsense controller is pretty good.

My issue with it is that the trigger buttons quickly got a bit mushy and loose. Didn't help to play a ton of Rocket League on it but still it's not a very durable controller.

Also, the battery was completely fucked up by the fact that I was playing it wired on PC. It was all the time charging when I was playing and then apparently discharging when the computer was off. Support is also pretty poor on PC and you often get games that are not compatible.

I'm interested in replacing it eventually by a good hall effect third party controller. Probably the Gamesir T4 Kaleid or something similar.

Meanwhile Larian studio reminding everyone that a good way to make money and avoid layoffs is to be nimble and make good games.

Big Corps sees nimble and good studio making a good game, starts layoffs immediately.

The real murderers are the people that sell their studio to a big publisher. They immediately seal the fate of their teams. They will have layoffs eventually...

I was more thinking of investing the money on the markets like your bank does with the money in your bank account.

It's never just money sitting in an account, it's an opportunity for some banker to invest money they don't own to get richer themselves.

Honestly think it's almost impossible this money will be returned.

You wouldn't seize that much money to return it years later. It would be essentially an admission of guilt to return it. Nothing to win there politically.

The only scenario where the money could be returned would be if Russia somehow won this war and managed to patch things up with the EU. Very unlikely.

Thank you.

Now I don't want to eat for the rest of my life.

A long time ago I used a CLI download manager that could download from different mirrors at the same time.

I think it was a tool called axel and it worked very well.

I suppose it's better to make the money work and use the extra money than use all of it and not get any interest?

Just speculating but it would.be fairly logical especially if you plan to do it for a while.

First would you mind telling me where I defend Sony ?

It must be very subtle.

This conversation already starts in bad faith. You are trying to undermine my comment by declaring I'm taking side with Sony. There is nothing in my recent comments that says Sony has done something right or that I agree with their move. Nothing.

Am I allowed to genuinely think this account issue wasn't that much of a big deal ? Or do I only get to choose if I'm a Sony shill or not ? I have seen my favorite game franchise getting shat on for years by their developers (EA) and I have seen things thousands of time much worse from EA than this account requirement from PS. Still right to call out Sony for this but this is not a "this game is unplayable" issue like we had many times on other games. So yeah I have a nuanced opinion on this and didnt immediately accept that Sony murdered Helldivers 2 and that the game is dead.

My suggestion is not complicated. Stay truthful in your reviews. That's not rocket science. A lot of these reviews are rating or presenting the game as much worse than they really think it is. Most of these players will review bomb and will play hundred of hours just after that. I'm fucking French I understand what protests are and that being an annoyance is kind of the point. But review bombing on steam and telling a naive player that would definitely enjoy the game that the game is trash will never be cool. You can say in your review that you don't like that aspect of the game but if the point is only to be negative and untrustworthy this is not the way. Again if you truly suddenly think that game is "the worst game ever" after playing hundreds of hours and learning of the PS requirements then fine but I doubt it's what happens.

Also did you stop to think what is your comment bringing to the table here ? It's just an unnecessarily aggressive comment and doesn't either provide anything beside telling me I'm wrong and it's a bad take.

It’s a bad take to tell people their only means of effective protest is not going through proper channels.

Steam review bombing is absolutely not the proper channel to voice discontent. It's a review. Not a forum, not a dev support channel. It's a review. You are giving your honest feedback on a game. The good and the bad. Not just "the thing everyone told me is bad" and nothing else.

This is not cool to tell devs their game is trash on the steam page if you don't really and truthfully think so.

Absolutely despise th fact that devs have to constantly read their game is trash in steam reviews because some higher-ups decided to go full greed mode.

So yeah Steam REVIEWS are NOT the proper channel to voice discontent. Almost any other forum or social network is. Just not a steam review page.

So you are asking other players to review bomb and try to kill a game you never bought yourself?

Fascinating.

Edit: I think the above conversation is a good example of why I don't think Steam Review Bombing is the best solution. You get people delivering fake reviews sometimes for games they don't even play themselves. I understand why they do that I just don't think that's the right way to do so. And also thinks it's not fair for the actual devs working on the project.

No problem.

Legit question: Did you completely stopped playing Helldivers 2 ?

Is it uninstalled?

Did you ask for a refund ?

Because if you still play the game and at the same time say it should be trashed that's a lot of hypocrisy.

It can't be both. You can criticize the game that's fine. But if you still play it and you are so vocal for its demise then you are definitely part of the problem here.

Sure let's destroy this game all together because of this issue.

A well thought out and mature reaction is to pretend the game is bad in the steam reviews even though you clocked 100+ hours into it.

I mean there is a ton of things Helldivers does better than any other games and we are gonna trash that because of a PSN account requirements ?

I understand this is a valid issue for certain players but is it a proportionate response to this situation to trash the game on steam? I don't think so.

That's what pisses me off with the steam review bombing.

If that's the only way to express discontent then that will fucking sucks for everybody involved in game development.

If at least review bombing was a last resort but now it's the norm. These reviews will have a lasting effect on the game even though the drama bubble has now popped.

The EU can't even pay for fediverse servers?

(•_•)

Why using crypto for the donations? Why XMR in particular?

I think these are not blocked by default by sponsor block because it's an ad for the creator's products.

But anyway it's far too long.

Felt like a LTT video...