Tbf, they’ve been doing that with a reasonable amount of success with Rainbow Six Siege.

Honestly, if we’re talking modern games I think games that don’t utilize multithreading to at least some degree would be a significantly shorter list.

I too despise the obsession with making videogames look like they were filmed for some inexplicable reason lol.

GAMMA has faction questlines. I’m not sure how good of an experience they are because that is very much not why I play GAMMA, but they definitely exist.

Also: if you install GAMMA and are initially utterly disgusted by the depth of field, don’t panic you can turn it off lol.

TIL. I didn’t realize it started in the browser originally.

Warframe can be super overwhelming, though. There’s a billion things to do and it’s hard to know where to start. I had issues with that when I was getting back into the game awhile back, and I’d already completed a ton of the content. If you actually want tips on how to manage it: set short term goals and long term goals, and just go for those. Shut out anything that isn’t relevant and focus on specifically on whatever you decided was your goals. My long term goal, for example, was to complete all the story quests. My short term goals were basically a checklist of things I needed to do to start the next quest lol.

Plus, the game being almost entirely PVE means that in my experience the community is great. If you have questions or need help just ask, and someone will probably be willing to help. There’s an excellent Warframe community over on the dormi.zone instance. It’s reasonably active and they’re helpful over there. Plus Q&A chat is just in the game.

Fair enough- I find leveling stuff is fine if I either do it passively via either just equipping a weapon I don’t intend to use or just specifically focus farming leveling. But Warframe is very firmly not for everyone.

Web Fishing is just outright paid, is it not? The game is $5 on steam.

There’s a few examples of F2P games with good monetization. Warframe comes to mind immediately. I’ve heard Path Of Exile is also a solid example of F2P done right, but don’t have personal experience with that one.

I think ‘premium’ in this case is synonymous with ‘not free to play’.

A (rumored) $40 live service battle-royale… outlook bad for this game.

ngl I stopped listening to A7X shortly after Nightmare, seemed like after Hail To The King they dropped off the face of the earth for me. Might have to get back into them.

‘Retro’ in a gaming sense is often used interchangeably with ‘Vintage’, as far as I can tell.

The subreddit r/Retrogaming even has this gem on their sidebar:

Retro Gaming: Reddit’s home of vintage gaming

… yeah, I’m aware AI isn’t a person. I’m not sure why that’s a question? Maybe I phrased things badly, but I’m not- nor have I ever- been really mad about AI usage. It’s mostly just disappointment.

It’s just a technology. I largely dislike the way it’s being used, partly because I feel like it has a lot of potential.

Why? AI doing one good thing doesn’t erase the dozens of bad ways it’s utilized.

I’m interested to see AI used on a larger scale in really specific ways, but the industry seems more interested in using it to take giant shortcuts and replace staff. That is going to piss people off, and it’s going to really piss people off when it also delivers a shit product.

I’m fine with DLSS, because I want to see AI enhance games. I want it to make them better. So far, all I can see is that it’s making them worse with one single upside that I can just… toggle off on my end if I don’t like it.

Fink is the founder and CEO of BlackRock which means it’s assets are his assets.

It’s a publicly traded company, so no. It’s assets are not his assets.

Is everyone just blatantly lying then? Because according to a google search, Elon Musk is worth 300+B, and Larry Fink is worth… 1.2B.

Are you taking the 10 Trillion number from

Founded in 1988, initially as an enterprise risk management and fixed income institutional asset manager, BlackRock is the world’s largest asset manager, with US$11.5 trillion in assets under management as of 2024.

Because “assets under management” and “money that Larry Fink personally has” aren’t the same thing.

Or is this some conspiracy theory shit?

There are dozens of us! DOZENS!

What do you use as your primary platform? If you don’t mind my asking.

I’m tryna diversify a bit more.

Also some genres lend themselves better to one or the other. I prefer controller for platformers and fighters, but prefer TB + KB for almost everything else

Yeah, I agree. I use a controller for platformers, fighting games and racing games. Also sometimes action RPGs- I’ve played Dark Souls with both input methods.

My only absolutely hard line is using a controller for any kind of shooter. I just can’t, and trying is a very frustrating experience.

There are a lot of different preferred styles, as an example: eSports tends to higher DPI (dots per ich) since every millisecond counts but the precision falls behind which can be trained.

This is accurate, yeah. Sometimes pros use 400 DPI, some use 1000 DPI. There’s probably at least a few madlads using 2000+ dpi or some shit.

Personally, I use 1600. I don’t have a particular reason for that- I might actually try turning it down- it’s just what feels comfortable.

Frankly I’m shocked a CPU that old could run the game anyways.