Topic: The Chit Chat Thread

@nessisonett lol

The NL chat was awash with anger at TLOU Part II's clean sweep.

It's still weird to me how every year, we have some new group of movies/games/etc. that get thoroughly swept up in the culture wars.

@Ralizah The comment section on NL’s article about it is getting somewhat dicey but then again, I’m not exactly surprised. I also just don’t really get why people are calling it ‘woke’ and stuff. Like I understand there are guys out there who seem to think having any sort of woman in a game is political but it’s not like these people are calling the first game ‘woke garbage’ despite it being made largely by the same people in the same setting. It just seems a strange one to railroad as ‘the worst game ever’.

The new Abe game looks so good from the trailers. I really hope it turns out to be fun.

Also from last night;

@crimsontadpoles I'm glad you're enjoying what you're seeing so far of Cyberpunk 2077, also, I wonder if you made your chilli con carne with beef and not lamb mince, which do you prefer? I think lamb is supposedly better for you but I prefer beef myself, I like meatballs made with beef mince as well. Do you like meatballs? I think that they're excellent when some sort of cheese, preferably parmesan ,is cooked into them.

For those of you that have played GoW 2018

@nessisonett you know what i notice about NLife?

nintendo is known to be the all inclusive family friendly game developer where everyone has a place.

nintendo fans over on NLife seems to be the very opposite of what nintendo stands for. racism,sexism,biggotory and blind hatred is everywhere in that place.

@Draco_V_Ecliptic I always use beef mince. Can't remember the last time I did lamb mince, so not sure what it's like. Meatballs are nice, though I tend to just use mince instead since it's easier.

@Draco_V_Ecliptic We actually have veggie chilli most of the time now. One tin of kidney beans and one of mixed beans.

Not quite as good as with beef but just as easy to cook and good to have as one of our meat free meals.

I had a dream last night that antdickens scolded me because I didn't offer someone help (their thread was stupid and made no sense) and everyone started having a go at me.

I don't even engage in the community much here, let alone interact with Ant. What's wrong with my brain?

@RogerRoger Haha. I can't ever fall asleep now. He'll get me.

@Kidfried I don't know why I sat through that whole thing. I love Geoff, as a person, and what he's trying to do for the industry but I really didn't need to be there for that. Sleep is much for important.

@RogerRoger @Kidfried @TheIdleCritic Another one here that just couldn’t stay with that show beyond about 20 minutes. It didn’t help that once I tuned in it was a bunch of e-sports awards that I couldn’t care less about and the epitome of bloat — Stephen A. “Hyperbole Incarnate” Smith was a presenter. Click. Turned it off and decided to use my time playing some God of War instead.

I watched the whole thing without touching a drop of alcohol. I somewhat regret my time sink.

@Th3solution I really do want it to be good, for Geoff's sake, but it's just not worth it. Especially currently living in the UK, I can't be doing with staying up until 3am when I need to be up by 8.

@RogerRoger Lots of "Twitch's best streamer", "best esports team", etc. Yawn.
It has the opposite problem from the Baftas and other film awards ceremonies where they don't showcase some smaller but integral positions within a crew, and relegate them to the website list or a quick rundown during the credits - whereas TGA needs to show less!

@RogerRoger To be fair, the e-sports awards were divvied out in pretty quick succession, and a presenter who kept it flowing and had a pleasant cadence and appeal, although it was enough to put one into a deep slumber. Then they put on Stephen A. to make the next e-sports award presentation and he started off with his ridiculous pandering to the e-sports crowd and his preacher style ranting and I just couldn’t.

So, it’s very possible that I just happened to tune in at the wrong 20 minute section. But based on the comments, it apparently just went from bad to worse.

@nessisonett

Cyberpunk's fanatical subreddit has turned into a hate sub at the moment lmao

@Ralizah I have to say that I really didn’t see this coming. Considering that this year has essentially been defined by staunch unwillingness to change opinion in any sense or admit failings, both in gaming and outside of it, I would have thought there’d be more people defending CDPR until their dying breath. I can’t wait for the exposé to come out though, the internal conflict in CDPR sounds like an absolute mess.

@nessisonett I feel like the game's failings are so profound that even the Cyberpunk community couldn't ignore it. But, you're right, kudos to them for rising above the tribalistic instincts currently swallowing American society whole.

Given the state of the A.I. in this game, I feel like everyone must have known this was a year or so away from being fully baked. This is reminding me a whole lot of the debacle with No Man's Sky, honestly. Hopefully that stays true in terms of persistent post-launch support to fix the game up.

@Ralizah Yeah, graphical glitches aside, it’s the shoddy AI that’s turning me off. I can deal with animation glitches and the like as they can be funny but AI where cars follow predetermined paths? Where everyone has the same reaction to being ‘scared’ by doing the same pose? It’s just kinda mad considering how long this game was in the oven, how badly the staff were overworked and how many times it was delayed.