Well to be honest both of these tend to artificially bloat the lenght of their videos. Bellular in my opionion just does a better job in that sense with usually repeating related news or by providing more industry insights, structured format and nuanced takes. YongYea tends to go much harder with the commentary and speculation.

As one of the developers on Alien Blackout I was also in the receiving end of Yong Yeas takes once. He went on an on about how the game would be full of microtransactions, compared it to Diablo Immortal etc. The truth was that the game is/was basically a spin-off, premium mobile game with no ads or microtransactions by developers who would have also loved to see Alien Isolation 2. This kinda took the mask off from many Youtube influencers for me and made me question a lot of their speculation.

In my opinion Game theory has degraded quite a bit, partly because they grew too big and started bumping out more and more content on multiple channels which in my opinion saturated quite a bit. It doesn’t help that there exists now long form video essays that go much more indepth in certain aspects of games and other forms of entertainment. MatPat leaving did also leave huge void that they can probably never fully replace.

Jimquisition or now rebranded as ‘Stephanie Sterling’ channel has also degraded quite a bit albeit there are some highs here and there. I liked their game coverage and loved the “Squirty Plays” and “Jimpressions” where they played and made fun of numerous sloppy games but they seem to no longer make them (maybe twitch? but I don’t watch Twitch). But Jimquisition has become quite repetitive with its ramblings and I don’t really care all that much about any of the LGBTQIA+ or wrestling stuff. Still following the channel though for those better videos that do occasionally pop up.

Similarly YongYea is one of those channels I’ve started to watch less. It’s one of those channels that try really hard to please the audience by telling them what they want to hear instead of having more nuanced takes. Not only that many of his videos are overly long while providing very little substance. Nowdays I prefer Bellular News and Second wind more, and If I ever watch YongYea i’ll ususally just jump a head in the video immediately when I hear him start rambling instead of focusing on actual news.

This may be hot take but Hbomberguy has degraded not necessarily in the quality but in the quantity department. I’d much more prefer smaller more concises videos more frequently than 1-3 hour long mega essays that get realeased like every other year. While many of these can be bangers I am not sure if they’re overall worth the wait. These could at least be split to multiple smaller videos to spread out the content a bit and make them easier to digest. It’s also huge risk if the topic is not something that doesn’t interest you all that much. Similar could be said about ActionButton a.k.a Tim Rogers who took more than 2 years? to make 9 hour video about La Noire? Which I can’t be bothered to watch because it’s age restricted in youtube which would require me to log in.

Not in the typical sense, but I do use mods that may alter the vanilla experience to be less grindy.

For example in Sacred 2 remaster I use mod that doubles the quantity of enemies making it more challenging but also more challenging.

In Incredible adventures of Van Helsing I made set and godlike items drop from special mobs with 1/10th of chance of epic items or something as without mods you’d have to grind for keys to open offline lootboxes.

I do also like exploits that may trivialize the game. Especially in rpgs where they may allow mevto create ridiculously powerful builds.

Joku aika takaperin tuli myös artikkeli Forbesilta siitä miten Microsoft joutui myöntämään ettei voi taata sitä, etteikö yhdysvallat voisi halutessaan vaatia pääsyä muualla maailmassa varastoituun dataan.

• Forbes - Microsoft Can’t Keep EU Data Safe From US Authorities
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Tälle tuli nähtävästi jatkoa: Meren rantaan rakennettiin musta hissitorni, ja nyt asia saattaa edetä poliisille – Turku esittää tutkintapyyntöä

Turku päätti aikaisemmin syyskuussa keskeyttää hissitornin rakennustyöt, sillä torni on vajaat kolme metriä korkeampi, kuin rakennusluvassa on määritelty. Lisäksi sen sijainti, korkeus, väri ja katon muoto poikkeavat myönnetyistä rakennusluvista.

Eikö tämä ollutkaan jo ihan funikulaarin myötä vakiintunut kaupungin tapa?

Create a custom hugo template that you can maintain yourself however and whenever.

For my understanding its up to Valve to handle support for Windows unless you mean releasing games on steam. Attempts to block Steam would probably violate anti-trust laws and cause massive PR backlash.

Yeah, I’ve replayed TQ1 and Grim dawn numerous times so by trying out different builds I can probably get 15-20 hours from this version alone.

Bought it as the EA price was cheap enough to take a chance and early reviews where positive enough to signal that the game isnt completely broken.

Got maybe hour in this morning and had fun. Game performed pretty well with RTX 3070 albeit dropped settings to high to get framerate to around 80-100 with 1080p.

Bought the PS5 version at launch which is something I dont do with many games. Been fairly happy with the game but it does look a lot like Capcom is moving quickly towards enshittification with this much monetization.

The game is no world, but I do like it a lot more that Rise. There’s a lot more to explore, endemic life is more rich and combat feels more weighty.

Might give rise another go on pc later tough. Got bored with it on Switch near the end of high rank base game.

Oddly enough world base game felt fairly long. Took me quite a while to get to the high rank and even longer to get to the final boss.

Honestly lack of automatic traversal and bunch of busywork made it a lot more easier to get distracted and explore. Lack of artian weapons made it more rewarding to farm weapons made from different monsters.

Maybe the game just got too streamlined with Rise and wilds. Focus shifted too much towards making fights more of a spectacle and add in bunch of unnecessary narrative.

What makes this even more funny is that Android is more open than iOS or any of the gaming consoles out there.

Still good to see these anti competive practices come to light.

Could this be just clever editing? Does it need to be even 3 minutes of missing footage if you just cut entry and exit of some individual and replace them with fake or repeat frames.

Whole missing minute thing could be distraction.

No kieltämättä Suomessa on varmaan turvallisempaa vankilassa kuin Venäjällä sen jälkeen kun on julkisesti kritisoinut venäjän sotakoneistoa.

Todennäköisyys ikkunasta putoamiseen, itsemurhaan tai myrkytykseen aika paljon pienempi.

One does not even need to review bomb as a single update can easily ruin a game. After that it’s no longer comparable to the game one was playing for possibly thousands of hours.

Have to relate to this somewhat, it’s hard to find time or interest to practice fighting games with all the accumulated responsibilities of being responsible adult and a parent. While boomer reaction time checks are one thing, the bigger problem is having to practice against multiple different matchups in 3-4 different games. Probably should play these online a lot more, currently mostly playing on locals few hours once a week.

Oma vähimmäistoiveeni on tämän suhteen se, että harrastelijat yms. saisivat ihan lain nimissä vapauden korjata näitä pelejä vaikka toteuttamalla oman palvelinratkaisun tai offline-fixin näille peleille. Tietysti tämän vapauden pitäisi sisältää myös oikeus jakaa näitä korjauksia julkisesti.

Menisi mielestäni aika hyvin yhteen Euroopan ns. right-to-repair direktiivin kanssa.

Bought Baldurs gate: Dark alliance from g.o.g and playing that. A bit expensive for its age and its a direct port but at least no need to emulate it.

those who are into Pokemon, for the extra frame rate

Not just Pokemon, I am sure there are many who where hoping for Switch Pro before Nintendo crushed their hopes and dreams with Switch OLED. People have been testing Switch 1 games on Switch 2 and most of them seem to run on very stable frame-rate on Switch even without an upgrade pack.

This will lead to stronger console sales but not necessarily to game sales at least not in the short run.

A lot of players and local venues prefer PS4, PS5 and PC for fighting games. If you have licensed PS4/PS5 arcade stick it should work on all three of these platforms. Unlicensed ones might not work with PS5 games. Switch is mostly just for melee.

That being said game key-cards seem largely inferior to physical versions on other platforms even if you likely have to patch most games these days anyways.