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Agent Karyo

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  • 'Anyone Who Doesn't Include Five Trans Characters...': Ori Studio CEO Defends Closure Comments

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  • Honestly this sounds like a guerilla marketing campaign of sorts.

  • Is a HDD still useful for gaming in 2025?

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  • Some indie games and AAA games from 10 years ago should be fine.

    That being said, SSD costs are low enough these days that you should be able to play off an SSD.

  • Leisure Suit Larry - Time for Larry to Retire (Just a Little Bit 😌🍹 - Steam News

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  • Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude features Larry's nephew studying in University.

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    First impressions: Dune Awakening is an MMORPG pretending to be a survival game | Massively Overpowered

    massivelyop.com /2025/04/25/first-impressions-dune-awakening-is-an-mmorpg-pretending-to-be-a-survival-game/

  • Why the Steam Deck still obliterates the Switch 2 (a response to Nintendo Life)

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  • I would assume a publication like "Nintendo Life" will promote Nintendo irrespective of what the issue is.

    And to my limited understanding, the people who buy/use Nintendo are either children (you are not going to tell them they have shit taste) or hardcore fanboys who on some level will defend any action by Nintendo no matter what.

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    TV tie-in MMO looter shooter Defiance returns for a free-to-play third shot at life and gigantic messy boss battles

    www.pcgamer.com /games/mmo/tv-tie-in-mmo-looter-shooter-defiance-returns-for-a-free-to-play-third-shot-at-life-and-gigantic-messy-boss-battles/
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    Crashlands 2, an eclectic top-down scifi RPG with a unique visual style where you crash land on a previously unexplored planet released on Steam

    store.steampowered.com /app/1401730/Crashlands_2/
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    Pax Augusta, a Roman-era citybuilder with a focus on realistic buildings and with Impressions Games style gameplay, released on Steam (demo available).

    store.steampowered.com /app/1989760/Pax_Augusta/
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    Entitled (in late early access), an RPG x lifesim/tycoon hybrid set in a medieval fantasy setting, releases a demo on itch.io

    shoutingmatchgames.itch.io /entitled

  • Flashing Radeon RX 9070 OC to RX 9070 XT (Possible but Not Quite Stable)

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  • With the price of GPUs what they are, who risks messing around with new GPUs like that?

  • Bungie won’t say how much Marathon will cost, but it will be a ‘premium title’

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  • It's almost certainly not going to have much connection to the Marathon series beyond the name and general thematic direction.

    I would love to be priced wrong.

  • Simcity 3000 Retrospective/Mini Review & Screenshot Walkthrough

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  • Simcity 3000 doesn't have NAM or anything similar. 😀NAM is a must install for Simcity 4. It's one of the reason I think Simcity 3000 is a bit more approachable.

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    Simcity 3000 Retrospective/Mini Review & Screenshot Walkthrough

  • Star Citizen has now raised over $800m, with still no release in sight

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  • I stand by what I say. It is clear that CIG are being dishonest in terms of what they have achieved.

    Server meshing is mostly a marketing project to maintain confidence in cash shop spend. Not saying people haven't worked on it, but the main aim is to keep selling JPEGs.

    Using your Dark Age of Camelot example, server meshing would be expanding the map using 2 different “gamespaces” and allowing players the ability to transition between those gamespaces seamlessly without any loading screens and without realizing that they even crossed a boundary at some point. It let’s you massively expand the area in which you can travel without loading screens.

    So a single dual core Pentium Pro CPU handles a shard of 4K players, with a comparable server CPU being limited exclusively to trading/transactions and another high end Pentium Pro being limited to (as per your description) a high traffic IRC server?

    Do you have any sources on this? I am genuinely curious. I am happy to learn more about Dark Age of Camelot's architecture (even if I am wrong), but I also won't take CIG marketing/propaganda at face value.

  • Star Citizen has now raised over $800m, with still no release in sight

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  • This is from an article on Dark Age of Camelot from 2003:

    The heart of Camelot, it turns out, isn't in the English countryside but in Fairfax, Virginia. There Mythic keeps 120 dual-processor Pentium servers running linux. Each group of six servers runs what mythic calls a gamespace—a virtual world inhabited by thousands of players. The idea is to create different gamespaces for different types of players.

    Design decisions also reflect the need to keep players happy. While each gamespace could conceivably handle 20,000 simultaneous players, Mythic limits them to about 4,000 players each, adding new gamespaces when necessary instead of increasing the load on the ones already up. "If you have too many people, the worlds get too crowded," says Denton. "The last thing you want is to be bumping into thousands of people."

    We also have multiple example of CIG trying to market common tech (serialized variable!) as some of milestone.

  • John Carmack Defends Microsoft's AI-Generated Quake II Level

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  • I knew he was an American-style libertarian (understable considering his lack of experience and sheltered life in the US), but I don't know he was into partaking in ShitCons run by local chauvinists.

  • Star Citizen has now raised over $800m, with still no release in sight

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  • One thing to keep in mind about the "$40-$45 is all you need" statements that litter almost every Star Citizen thread is that the math doesn't really work out.

    As per CIG, you have around 2.5 million paying accounts (with many of them being alts). 2.5 M. * $45 gives us $112.5 M, so just 14% of their revenue.

    It's clear that they will put the overwhelming majority of their resources into something that gives them 86% of their revenues; milking whales, selling JPEGs and power creep cash items (with the vast majority of the older cash shop items being either outright non-functional or abandoned).

    All you need to do is follow the money.

  • Star Citizen has now raised over $800m, with still no release in sight

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  • Server meshing being "unmatched" is mostly marketing BS.

    You have examples of MMO games leveraging server meshing (with Pentium CPUs) from 20+ years ago.

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    Nvidia 572.XX drivers are causing instability issues for RTX 4000 and RTX 3000 GPUs in new games

    www.notebookcheck.net /Nvidia-572-XX-drivers-are-causing-instability-issues-for-RTX-4000-and-RTX-3000-GPUs-in-new-games.990339.0.html

  • Samorost 3 - Amanita for Ukraine [Amanita Sale, all earnings will go for humanitarian help in Ukraine]

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  • Unfortunately, a large number of russian citizens are supporters of genocidal imperialism.

  • HP are interested in making a SteamOS handheld as the Windows experience sucks

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  • The handheld stops working if you don't have an active subscription for stupidly expensive HP brand screen wipes. This is marketed as being part of their eyesight protection feature.

  • AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT vs. Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti [50 Game Benchmarks]

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  • I doubt too many people are getting the 5090 primarily for gaming.

  • Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing [2003 worst game] coming Q2 2025 to Steam

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  • Funny how this game has almost gotten a cult-like status. One that it wouldn't have achieved if it was merely below average.

  • This city builder has the best brick-by-brick building system around—here's our review

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  • Agreed. I do add commentary in square brackets for such cases, but with this one I felt like I would have to almost change the whole title.

  • [Budget-Builds Official] Half Life 2 on 8MB of VRAM!

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  • The funny thing is, my first computer from 1997 had a S3 ViRGE with 4MB VRAM, and the content creator is running HL2 with 8MB VRAM.

  • 'It was a very depressing day': Palworld community manager reveals studio's reaction to Nintendo lawsuit

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  • Nintendo is a trash company.