GrindingGears

AI is just boomer fuel. The amount of boomers running around at our firm that have turned into AI bots is hilarious. Every solution, every question, "ai ai ai ai ai ai ai"

I enjoy making humourous pictures of them and their 9 fingered hands using AI. We've cranked some great memes out lately.

I'm not a fan of multiplayer either. The campaigns are usually good, but they get kind of trope-y, and they aren't very long. The franchise is starting to run out of steam. It also doesn't help that Activision Blizzard is whoring it out way too much, the ux is getting pretty bad.

RTO just means "layoffs" under a different branding. These gross companies know how to be extra gross. When they really want to actually do a big layoff, that's when they'll roll out the "RTO" policy.

User friendly I would agree. Definitely has the best UX. Not sure I would agree that it's the cheapest though.

Could someone (politely) explain why anyone who criticizes steam gets absolutely scorched?

I mean I'm a user, on the PC it's probably the platform I purchase on the most. I've also used Epic, GOG, and a few of the others. Like most, I'm getting pretty annoyed by having to load what seems like 15 different platforms to play a variety of games.

But I've never understood this blind absolute cult-like following of steam. What makes them absolutely beyond any reproach or criticism? Especially when at least Epic gives away lots of free games (like I think I've spent about $20 bucks on that platform, yet it seems like I have just about every game known to man in my library). Or others that don't mess around with DRM, etc. So what gives?

I think Persona 3 Portable on the Vita had a female protagonist too. I believe it was just a port of the PSP version though.

I always struggled with the Persona games. I had P4 Golden on my Vita, and that game was pretty strange, I got weirded out by it about 15-20 hours into it, and never got back into it. They had P5 on sale at Best Buy for PS5 awhile back, I almost grabbed it, but picked up FFVII Rebirth instead. Still haven't got around to opening it either. I always did love the style of the Persona games though.

I'm in a weird space with fall activities/work/professional development course work/etc., so while I'm in between games, I also don't really want to get sucked into something too involved at the moment. I bought Call of Duty Modern Warfare (2022) on sale on steam awhile back, and realized last week that I had never installed/played it. So I figured that was a good game to bide some time with. Until I beat it this aft, which sort of sucks because the campaign is never very long on these modern CoD games.

Nevertheless, I'm now in the mood for FPS's, so I loaded up the OG CoD tonight. It's been 21 years since this game first came out, right about this time of year in fact. I was in my freshman year of college, and we were obsessed with it. A copy or two floated around the floor of our dorm, and I swear pretty much the entire floor was playing it that fall term. It actually hasn't aged that badly either. I last played through it about 5 years ago, and I imagine I'll go through it again over the next week or two.

Considering it's made by Microsoft, I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest it's compatible with Windows. Specifically Windows 10 and 11 I believe.

I'm on a replay of the single player campaign, and since this update the map is laggy as hell, and it's dropping frames like crazy.

Monetary policy makes the world go round, unfortunately.

I believe the ICC does have a dispute forum. But when you get to these IGOs, it's unbelievable how many there are. Could probably bring the complaint forward in multiple other forums too.

Ah I get you, sorry, I stand corrected. Surely such a claim would come forward through the WTO though, would it not? Would the ICC (the Chamber of Commerce) have enough teeth as the forum for what's surely a monumental case?