Stillhart

joined 1 year ago
[–] Stillhart@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

I don't hate ABP, it used to be the main one everyone used, including me. Problem is it stopped working well at some point so we all switched to uBlock Origin. I'm glad ABP is working well again, but I'll keep recommending uBlock Origin as long as it keeps working.

[–] Stillhart@lemm.ee 28 points 1 year ago

What's X? Oh right... he's still sticking with that huh?

"I told you, my name's not Steve anymore. You have to call me Dragon Master!"

[–] Stillhart@lemm.ee 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So fully blocking ad blockers other than the most popular one? I guess we should be glad they weren't this bad at programming 18 years ago when they launched Youtube...

[–] Stillhart@lemm.ee 23 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I am in shock at the number of people upvoting positive comments about this scam project. Until they refund all the people they defrauded to get the project off the ground, they will continue to be dragged down by their own fucking karma.

Suckers want to spend money on it now, knowing everything we know now? That's on you. But plenty of us didn't know we were being conned at the time.

[–] Stillhart@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It was absolutely the latter. And I absolutely would sue if I didn't have serious health issues (hello, cancer!) to deal with instead. It takes a lot of time and effort to deal with something like that, and that's just not in the cards right now.

[–] Stillhart@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Speaking as a relative linux noob, Mint is probably the most recommended distro I've seen now that Ubuntu jumped the shark. Not sure how anyone could think it needs more recognition.

[–] Stillhart@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago (4 children)

They found out what? Their business wasn't affected at all as far as I can tell. They should have been broken up and shut down but instead they got caught doing the same thing AGAIN.

So yeah, not sure what Tesla is going to find out other than "money means you can get away with anything", which Musk already knows well.

And just to be clear, I own a Tesla. I just got it back from the shop after ELEVEN MONTHS because those fucking tools would rather sell more cars on false promises than divert some parts to repair the cars they've already sold. I love that car but I'm selling it. Nobody should go anywhere near Tesla cars until they get their supply chain shit together.

[–] Stillhart@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I didn't pay for a spaceship sim. I paid for the next Wing Commander and Freelancer game. Whether I enjoy it or not, the product they're making isn't the product they sold me. Perhaps ~~wasting your money~~ buying the "game" now gives you a better chance of receiving the product you think you're paying for, but I wouldn't bet on it. They've already proven themselves to anyone paying the slightest attention.

[–] Stillhart@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, probably not my cuppa tea, but I will keep an eye on it. Space ships blowing each other up has potential, even if it's not my favorite style of said activity.

And I bet it releases before Star Citizen for a fraction of the price!

[–] Stillhart@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Well to be fair, X4 isn't my favorite of the bunch because of its (lack of) similarity to Wing Commander. It's not really that kind of game. But it is fun and scratches the space economy itch more like a Freelancer or Eve.

I hadn't hard of Nebulous. I see what they're going for graphically (Homeworld style). I'll have to keep an eye on it. But yeah the fleet combat part of X4 never quite got me interested beyond "if I make 100 fighters, I should be able to take out pretty much anything". Controlling large fleets was always a weakness of the game, one of the janky bits. But Building stations, setting up an economy, piracy, and all that stuff is still fun.

[–] Stillhart@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I played Elite for a little bit, maybe a month or two, before it got to the point where it just felt like a job.

I love the X series. I have hundreds of hours in X4. It's definitely my favorite of the bunch.

Everspace 2 was fun, but never hoked me for some reason.

The most "Wing Commander" game in recent memory was Star Wars: Squadrons, IMHO. Shame they decided to make it CoD in space though... I'm not big on the multplayer aspect and the single player campaign was super short.

Starfield was a huge disappointment. etc etc

I believe they said the last expansion for X4 was the last one. Here's hoping there's an X5 coming.

[–] Stillhart@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (8 children)

According to the game’s original pitch on Kickstarter, it would be a space sim with a co-op multiplayer game, an offline single-player experience, and a persistent universe. It’s since become a massively multiplayer online game and a separate single-player game with first-person shooter elements called Squadron 42, which RSI originally pitched as “A Wing Commander style single player mode, playable OFFLINE if you want.”

This is what bugs me the most about this whole fiasco. I paid into the original Kickstarter because Wing Commander through Freelancer were my favorite games and I wanted more of that.

The current project, even if we were to VERY charitably call it a game and call it playable, is nothing like Wing Commander or Freelancer.

If they were still making an actual Wing Commander type game after all this time, my copium might still be in full effect. But this current... THING... isn't even the game they promised in the first place. It's so disappointing.

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