Anddroiden

Anddroiden

@anddroiden.bsky.social

he/him 34 year old with autism and ADD. Talking about games such as FFXIV, NieR, Hollow Knight and many more. Also posts about culture and politics. Socialist and vehemently anti-GenAI.

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God the Ethan Klein drama is some of the most deliscious drama i have ever imbibed in, because it is the total social death of one of the now worst guys on the internet and his harrasment community. That said i am only indulging this weekend, because it gets toxic when you keep being in drama.

Rolled credits on the good ending of Castlevania: Belmont's Curse. First it is very much a 8-9/10 game, so all my critiques are about squandered potential, not about it being bad. It did everything it needed to do right, combat, exploration and progression.

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So yeah for pure gameplay, 8 or 9 out 10. But for impact, for meaning, for having a point it fails, i have a hard time giving it a 1/10. That's not that the story is bad, it is just that the story exists to justify a game and has no message.

Rolled credits on the good ending of Castlevania: Belmont's Curse. First it is very much a 8-9/10 game, so all my critiques are about squandered potential, not about it being bad. It did everything it needed to do right, combat, exploration and progression.

However it also just felt kinda meh. To put it bluntly, i do not understand why the game exists, it has nothing to say, which unfortunately also translates into the areas feeling wildly disconnected, because they exist as setpieces for gameplay rather than to communicate something.

I said early in the game this could be the best mmetroidvania and i do believe it had the potential to be that, but it just did not know what it wanted to do. Also it had a weirdly limited boss pool, which feel strange for a metroidvania.

How did GenAI go from being the next hype shit after the metaverse to being metaverse 2.0, jesus christ.

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NVIDIA CEO JENSEN HUANG SAYS HE BELIEVES MOST PEOPLE IN GERMANY WILL MOSTLY WORK INSIDE A DIGITAL TWIN OF THEIR COMPANY, BUILDING DIGITAL CARS WITH DIGITAL BRAINS, WITH AI ROBOTS BUILDING ROBOTIC CARS INSIDE ROBOTIC FACTORIES

My youtube shorts feed has been full of Deadlock character interactions and genuinely Deadlock might be the best written ensemble game ever made. Every pair has 3 lines and usually one or two of them have deep lore under the surface or express the absolute breadth of humanity.

I wonder if i have reach to ask a question for the de- and recompilation people. I am seeing a lot of people complain about using GenAI for the work and i am wondering if there's a unique problem with using GenAI for re- and decomps. GenAI sucks, but i am wondering if there's something additional.

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What the fuck does LARP even mean anymore, pretending you're a fan of something you're not? Because i am starting to see a ton of people using it as basically "engage with a community without being fully invested", it has been overused. It used to mean pretending to be someone/thing you're not.

Just had one of those "oh here's another thing to be annoyed at" moments. Politics in gaming, or rather the right wing chuds who complain about "politics". Because we kept gaming apolitical for a good 1-2 decades and now they use that ceasefire as "evidence" that gaming is right wing.

I was skeptical about the whole "right wing bots dissapeared after a Russian data center was blown up" thing. People are great at tricking themselves into seeing patterns that don't exist. But fuck, even my youtube shorts feed feels better than before. Russian bots genuinely destroyed the internet.

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The Headline people should use. Tim Sweeney confirms that moving to all AI slows down game development

The most "1st world problem" problem i have with starting to lose weight and getting in shape is that i now walk at a faster pace, which means when i go for walks i have to walk much further than i plan because i base it on time rather than distance.

Been playing Last Defense Academy and god damn the game just opened up in a way i did not expect. Thoughts below with spoilers, because SPOILERS.

Suddenly it is no longer "bad guy" Danganronpa with TRPG elements, it is VLR with choices and i think multiple timelines. Sure the game was interesting initially, but like a solid 7 for a visual novel and this has given it a massive potential.

Well i was curious about the Malfoid trend and if it had a broader implication. Turns out if i had just waited about 2 days from that post i would have seen that it is basically a right wing psyop.

I am seeing a "Malfoid" trend, basically Malfoy from Harry Potter, but genderbent. And i don't know how to feeel, i genuinely just want the HP franchise to go away at least as long as Rowling is alive. However transing Malfoy has to piss Rowling off, which makes it at least better.

If you are trans or know someone who is who has a more thought out opinion on the topic, please let me know, because i would at least like to hear.

The more i see of current American politics, the more i want to say this before it seems like pretending. I have privately said that i believed that Trump would be removed as president between the midways and early 2027 and right now that prediction looks pretty spot on.

Reality keeps trolling me today, i keep seeing The Knight from Hollow Knight is going to be in Fortnite and because i frequent the Silksong subreddit, my aanimal insticts are trained and the silkposts fail to troll me. EXCEPT THE KNIGHT IS ACTUALLY COMING TO FORTNITE WTF?

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Video Games are for everyone. PERIOD. No matter what the color of your skin, gender, etc. Don't give any attention to the nobodys & grifters that say otherwise. They're not worth the time of day & just ignore their toxicity and bullshit. As long as you're having fun, that's all that matters. 😎🎮👍🏾

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my adhd is so fucking stupid. i’ll play a game for 30 minutes and think “wow, that was amazing!” then sit in bed for three hours thinking fondly about how much I want to play the game again despite the console sitting next to me.

There's something i am noticing on youtube right now, which is the people who initially liked the Wolverine game coming out and basically saying "yeah the reviewers were right, it is repetitive and not great". Almost as if reviewers generally know what they're talking about.

There's the chuds who think the issue is "Sweet baby inc" which is literally the dumbest idea as they are a consultancy agency who have literally no impact on game design and likely extremely minor impact on the writing, consulting just means not accidentally doing bigotry.

I sometimes see people who are "neutral" on GenAI say something like "it is the future" and "it will be in all games eventually". I will always continue to boycott games that use GenAI. I know there will continue to be enough indies that don't use it that i will always be able to enjoy gaming.

And additionally there's plenty of games made that i want to play, so worst case i have the longest backlog and i will continue to use that. All other things aside, it is worth saying, if companies continue to use GenAI, i will not be able to afford the hardware to play their games.

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A lot of trans people who previously had a sense of stability in their lives have found that suddenly ripped away from them, folks who've had gainful employment suddenly pushed out, facing hostile policy changes. The stress of living through this anti-trans panic is a crushing weight that piles up.

I don't quite know how i feel about not playing Blizzard games right now. They're part of Microsoft and so targets of BDS so i am not touching them and my personal opinion of Blizzard is in the gutter because of how they treated their players back when i did play.

But they have announced some cool things and part of me wishes that could choose to check out the projects and games and expansions without feeling it would be immoral. But also also Blizzard has burned me so much i have no faith they will deliver good and consistently good products.

Blizzard announcing their new Starcraft, possibly shooter, "Dominion" game with a fantastic cinematic trailer that is at least great quality is impressive. The punchline is of course that it is announced for 2030. If premature etrailerlation was a thing, this would be the prime example.

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You really should keep your twitter account going, posting how you are so amazing because you aren't watching a kid's show you fucks The clearest thing about people still on twitter, there is no line for you that is too far unless it affects you personally www.erininthemorning.com/p/elon-musks...

erininthemorning.comElon Musk’s PAC Drops $100 Million On Anti-Trans Ads Targeting Dems Who Already CapitulatedAnti-trans capitulations didn’t stop Musk from spending big to attack these Democrats.

Saw a video that mentioned people believe AI will acheive "AGI", Artificial General Intelligence and i just need to vent this out. GENAI CANNOT ACHEIVE AGI, THE MODEL IS UNABLE TO THINK. God calling this timeline the dumbest is starting to sound like a compliment.

God my most anticipated list is looking wild these days - Jet Set Radio 3, Hyperfunk, Slash Zero, Gundam: Rouge Orbit, Danganronpa 2x2, Final Fantasy: Resonacne and Apothecary Diaries. Good luck trying to figure that out without about my autism.

Apothecary Diaries is getting a game on Switch 2, which is actually frustrating to me, because i am beyond a sucker for the franchise and if it is exclusively a Switch 2 game, then there's another point or 3 in the "buy a switch 2" camp.

I am seeing some steam "critique" again because of a leak and i just want to remind people that there's likely an anti-steam psy-op happening because they require disclosure of AI, which is something a lot of companies dislike. And no this is not "love steam" it is be careful with outrage.

I see a lot of people talk about how new games are declining in sales while old ones aren't per a steam report. I want to add another reason: hardware. I can afford to buy new games, but i cannot afford to upgrade my PC enough to make them enjoyable to play.

I was definitely among the "i don't like the art of the new OOT reamke" but seeing the world and not just LInk sleeping, i can see the cision and honestly i looks pretty damn good and could potentially be a foundation for a new look in the larger gaming industry.