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I just know they’ll put a completely normal amount of thermal paste on the CPU.

They do, yes. /srs

You’re thinking of Mac users. /j

I found the drop rate pretty reasonable in 2 considering that the legendaries had dedicated drop sources as well as just random world drops. So you could actually farm a legendary. As opposed to bl1 where all legendaries were random world drops.

Legendary drop rate was tuned waaaaaaay too high. There was basically no reason to have anything non-legendary equipped past level 10 because even an underleveled legendary still performs better than your on-level blues or purples (except for uniques) and by the time it doesn’t, you’ve replaced it with another legendary because of insane drop rates.

I found the effects fine, tbh. Some had fun gimmicks to build around, some had powerful effects, some had niche effects, and some were nice gags.

Cliche catchphrasey dialogue/plot points. “He’s behind me, isn’t he” “did I just do that, with my freakin’ mind?” type stuff

I mean they made a lot of pop culture jokes in borderlands 1 and 2. But they weren’t about “current” stuff. It was, as I said, evergreen things, like lord of the rings and tmnt.

Maybe they could go back to some of the rough, fun storytelling they nailed with the first two games? Instead of marvel-esque storytelling from the third game. Toilet humour has a place in borderlands, its filled with dumb humour and always has been, but its been in a way that feels almost natural.

A skibidi toilet reference isn’t going to fit, because that’s a passing meme. But shit like the ninja turtles quest in bl2, all the dumb jokes in bandit weapon names, face mcshooty, scooter’s entire existence throughout the first two games, tiny Tina’s character, thats all fucking awesome because we’re all in on the joke and the only pop culture references are evergreen ones.

What I really want from borderlands is for them to get back to the anti-corpo/anti-capitalist messaging that was rife in the first games. Borderlands 3 felt so hollow because I almost felt like I was part of one of the corps. The ragtag group wasn’t a ragtag group anymore, we had similar influence to maliwan for fucks sake and were flying all over the place dropping on planets and exerting our might. Where’s the scrappy mad max vibes?

Reform: the part where the apartheid regime was overturned

I guess if I try to shoehorn it into this analogy, it would be a reform of the healthcare system in America

It hasn’t been released

Goes to jail for 27 gruelling years and comes out to a reform and becomes president?

Idk about that. You can get a fully formed opinion about customer service quality based on 1 interaction, depending on how good or bad that interaction is. My internet has been spotty and below the advertised speed? If the customer service rep gives me helpful answers regarding the probable cause and the likely time to fix, I’m gonna be blown away. If they wave me away and tell me that their engineers will look into it and ask if I’ll fill in a survey about my experience which will only take a minute of my time, I’m probably not gonna feel too positive about their cs quality.

Whoa - hyprland is made by a transphobe?

Edit: whoa it really is. I joined their discord and saw like, very strict anti-lgbtqphobic rules and thought that they must be good. But looking into him… Turns out the rules are there because he’d let it fester into a 4chan toxic hellhole

I hope disco elysium and tunic are both in the rankings, because they’re probably two of the most perfectly crafted experiences in the last 20 or 30 years, never mind just 1 decade.

I mean this person seems to be not doing it maliciously. As they say, if it wasn’t them, it would be someone else. Pushing archive to improve their security is great for everyone. As long as this person doesn’t do anything actually malicious, they’re in the clear as far as I’m concerned.

The nonsteamlaunchers dev going straight to defending against allegations of racism and bigotry is suspicious. Was the (alleged) harassment of that nature?

Eh, I gave you the benefit of the doubt but it doesn’t seem you’re here to have a good faith discussion.

People have every right to criticise whatever they want. I never said they didn’t. Goodbye, troll.

There’s nothing in this conversation that you could even consider a strawman, yet, so I don’t know what you think that word means.

However, I must just assume you aren’t part of a minority community if you haven’t been affected by people constantly bitching about how some piece of media is too woke now because it had a woman/gay person/trans person/person of colour existing in the content. Yes, they are a vocal minority. But it is by no means uncommon to encounter them.

You may see substantially less of it on Lemmy since it is a predominantly left leaning space in general, and the left tends to be more accepting of non cishet white male presence

That’s a great thing! You’ve managed to avoid the torrent of awful people spouting those ideologies.

Genital Jousting. Its a perfectly fitting name for what the game is. But its deeply unsettling.

Hey how about we don’t give Grummz the time of day? Ubisoft are a pretty trash company and the monetisation director is off base but Grummz is an awful human being.