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Pastel Hermit @pastelhermit.bsky.social · 15h

Tech fetishists are so primed to imagine a fantasy future that they skim right over how the thing is supposed to be integrated into society. Elon goes: 1. make thing 2. ???? 3. the future! and these dudes just uncritically go "wow future!". Same with self driving cars and wearable tech.

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Pastel Hermit @pastelhermit.bsky.social · 15h

Even if he's not lying, what's the actual use case for this? I can't say I'm familiar with many road systems out there that include ones that go upside down. What benefit would it even have? "just one more lane bro" but now they're stacked on top of each other?

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Pastel Hermit @pastelhermit.bsky.social · 15h

The Steam AI disclosure requirement is great for helping people be informed, but even it can't kill the nagging doubts of "what if they're just lying though".

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Pastel Hermit @pastelhermit.bsky.social · 15h

One of the worst things about AI (on top of all the other apocalyptically bad things ofc) is how it has made people constantly have to question whether the thing in front of them is real or not over the most minor of doubts.

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Pastel Hermit @pastelhermit.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Like I feel this attitude just leads to the mindset of "I would be pro, but all of my SHITTER teammates are keeping my stuck in silver" that makes matchmaking in these kinds of games so combative and miserable.

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Pastel Hermit @pastelhermit.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Being completely real I would say more often than not it is true, and that players who are preoccupied with trying to figure out who the MVP of the match is are exceptionally poor at evaluating the contributions of others.

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Pastel Hermit @pastelhermit.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I would argue that mobas as a genre more than pretty much any other genre need the game to step in and go "no, you are not the video game god, everyone on the team meaningfully contributed to your success".

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Pastel Hermit @pastelhermit.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Anyone chiding steam users for being "too lazy" to download a second launcher is getting chucked down the mineshaft to live with the things from The Descent.

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Pastel Hermit @pastelhermit.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Recontextualizing every time someone referred to Etheirys as a 'star'.

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Pastel Hermit @pastelhermit.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Do you have any good genre specific curators? I find that using Steam's "more like this" section or their tags are not great for finding specific genres like Diablo-likes or first person party-based dungeon crawlers like Legend of Grimrock.

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Pastel Hermit @pastelhermit.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Little Goody Two Shoes leeeeeeeeeeets go

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Pastel Hermit @pastelhermit.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Easy to translate from fighting game assets that is

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Pastel Hermit @pastelhermit.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Oh for sure, I just beat em up because it's an easy way to make a mode where people are playing with their friends rather than against them. Capcom could probably make their own Absolum within SF6 just by using World Tour Assets.

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Pastel Hermit @pastelhermit.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Given the rumors floating around that the Deadlock team is making a Risk of Rain style PvE mode, I once again assert that literally every modern fighting game should be expected to include a co-op side-scrolling beat em up mode like Granblue did.

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Pastel Hermit @pastelhermit.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

As someone who really doesn't want to learn a new moba anymore I've been absolutely addicted to Deadlock, but I'm also *only* playing Street Brawl, the 3/5 one-lane-only mode. I've got a few dozen hours in the game and have only played like two or three matches of the "standard" mode.

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Pastel Hermit @pastelhermit.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

bare minimum to complete content, that is

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Pastel Hermit @pastelhermit.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

An enormous part of it is that people see numbers that are a theoretical maximum and go "this is the bare minimum, gotcha". It's part of why I hate SABC or similar style tier lists, because they never communicate where the "minimum viable" line actually is.

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Pastel Hermit @pastelhermit.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

If you ever find yourself hand wringing about Valve having a "monopoly" on PC digital storefronts, please remember that it's entirely because the companies with the aspirations and resources to challenge them are filled with the dumbest people imaginable.

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Pastel Hermit @pastelhermit.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Also the fact that ff14 doesn't have to worry about talent builds lol.

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Pastel Hermit @pastelhermit.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I think it's one of the benefits of ff14's more homogenized job design and focused encounters. FF14 is a game that's almost exclusively different flavors of shotos, while WOW has freak picks like Hugo and Hakan, which, while cool, are also often bad.

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Pastel Hermit @pastelhermit.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Multiple different factions of players who think X expansion was the peak but Y expansion killed the game all trying to influence Blizzard on what they think wow "should" be on top of the fact that the game's identity is literally built on confrontational tribalism

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Pastel Hermit @pastelhermit.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Given how many big games have had serious optimization issues over the last several years, I'd honestly prefer devs to make games as if tech is *regressing*, especially given that prices are going up and purchasing power is going down.

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Pastel Hermit @pastelhermit.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Playing on a PVE server is like playing without invasions in Dark Souls, by which I mean it was integral to the experience 15 years ago but these days I just want to play in peace without getting randomly ganked by someone named ButtMaster67.

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Pastel Hermit @pastelhermit.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The major thing I'm taking from this weird mishmash is that it hopefully this deconfirms any speculation of a season of just Fantastic Four characters.

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Pastel Hermit @pastelhermit.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

There's also Joint Assault aka X2, which sucks major booty but has an incredibly funny mission where you do a canyon run in a 747, and Ace Combat Advance, which might be one of the worst games I've ever played, but is absolutely fascinating in its badness.

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Pastel Hermit @pastelhermit.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

His reload might be the coolest reload animation in a shooter. He even gets unique board states if you increase his max magazine size.

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Pastel Hermit @pastelhermit.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Asking AI to make a GTA game set in your own home town feels so weird and uncomfortable. Like the vibe I get is "this person seriously considered shooting up their high school at some point".

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Pastel Hermit @pastelhermit.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Obviously you can do this in 14 as well, but wow gives you more of a reason to do so since you can get really nice gear doing their equivalent of FATEs, the maps are built to let you really clump up some big mob groups, and most classes have ways to smoothly zip from one pack to the next.

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Pastel Hermit @pastelhermit.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I think one of the key differences is that 14 never really gives you an opportunity to flex how powerful you are. Like in Wow you can gear up and then run around the overworld killing a dozen mobs with a single aoe and you're like "I AM A GOD, FEAR ME"

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Pastel Hermit @pastelhermit.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Most mmos (and rpgs in general) have the joy come from killing, where in ffxiv the joy comes from fighting. It's like when a fight in DMC ends before you can really get a nice flow going and you're like "fuck I was about to really start styling".

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Pastel Hermit @pastelhermit.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Gear in ffxiv feels like it's less a means to get more powerful, and more a way for the game to have a "you must be this tall to ride" sign, and ensure that people who go into a fight have been playing long enough that they should be able to handle it.

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Pastel Hermit @pastelhermit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Characters in WoW cutscenes talk like they're in a trailer for a cutscene you never actually get to see.

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Pastel Hermit @pastelhermit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Basically any Ace Combat game before 7 as its own package. I ain't any kinda lawyer so I don't know the legal hoopla, but it would be cool if they could just redo the licenses once for a single collection of like 1-5 (including the jp version of 3). I'd pay 60usd for that.

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Pastel Hermit @pastelhermit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"Write what you know" and all that

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Pastel Hermit @pastelhermit.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

They're pretty pedestrian, but they get me hype so I think at the very least they accomplish the job they set out to do. I've certainly banged my head to shittier lyrics (namely like every Hammerfall song lmao)

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Pastel Hermit @pastelhermit.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The LGBT agenda is actually to hatch every egg on the planet with exposure to quirky and affordable indie games.

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Pastel Hermit @pastelhermit.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I won't lie I got a bit of multi-phase fatigue by the end of Lies of P, but phase transitions in a fight are still in like top 5 coolest things that happen in video games and would be worth it for that alone.

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Pastel Hermit @pastelhermit.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

They have to give Xbox infinite rope because otherwise they would be forced to admit defeat to Japan, which the western games industry boys club is loathe to do.

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Pastel Hermit @pastelhermit.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If fucking Art of Fighting 3 can get new characters nothing is too old to get new content.

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Pastel Hermit @pastelhermit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Seven: you have a pillow. Rem: cuz I'm gonna sleep! Seven: I see the patron looks to test my patience today. He's so great. He's also catty as fuck sometimes, like in his conversations with Mina.

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Pastel Hermit @pastelhermit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

That new hairstyle looks really cute, especially with the hat on

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Pastel Hermit @pastelhermit.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If you're bad at shooters (like me) Graves' gun is a beam that locks on to whoever is vaguely closest to your reticle

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Pastel Hermit @pastelhermit.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

End of 8.1 msq, or just 8.1 release?

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Pastel Hermit @pastelhermit.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I was not expecting as much male nipple-based humor as there was, but it was welcome! A really wonderful time, this movie convinced me that Dreamworks could make a new Shrek movie and actually have it be good.

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Pastel Hermit @pastelhermit.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I say the above as someone who likes both vanilla and retail

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Pastel Hermit @pastelhermit.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Also that the wow fanbase is full of genwunners that think everything after vanilla was downhill (with varying levels of validity), and want to live in a world where none of those expansions ever came out

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Pastel Hermit @pastelhermit.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It's a combination of retail wow and vanilla wow's design philosophies being the complete opposite of each other so they can't really exist as the same game

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Pastel Hermit @pastelhermit.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It's one thing to try and bring awareness to specific circumstances when making really broad statements, but I think literally anyone could tell you that saying "buy something" comes with the implication of "if you have the money to do so".

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Pastel Hermit @pastelhermit.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I hate when people argue it's immoral for the less fortunate to pirate things, but casually suggesting people buy media they want to experience ain't that I think generally if your argument involves moralizing someone with an equivalent of "there are starving kids in africa" you need to touch grass

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