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Making Open Worlds Fun

Around the time RDR2 was popular, it seems there was some breaking point that got reached with open worlds that even the fans couldn't stand anymore. The games were just too long, too boring, too dull. It felt like the majority of your time was spent on horseback going from place to place doing pointless shit. But what if we lived in a different universe, one where this dumb shit was fun? I dunno, let's consider how we can make that a reality. Open worlds really kill my soul. There was actually a time pretty recently that I thought playing videogames was pretty worthless, I mean aside from the fact that it technically is but you know what I mean,...

On Consumers Making Art

There is this idea picking up steam, particularly in regards to animation and video games, that the reason for the percieved drop in quality across a medium is as a result of the consumers who have supposedly done nothing in their lives but interact with their medium picking up the tools and creating something that is simply a bastardization of every piece of fiction they've seen so far. A lot of god awful remakes that feel like little more than rehashes have only solidified these thoughts. I heartily disagree. The core of this argument comes particularly from two individuals. The first is Hayao Miyazaki, prominent animator, who said something along the lines of otaku animators making garbage. Forgive me for...

Spec Bullshittery

PC specs have been getting more and more demanding every damn year. It almost seems like every time Nvidia releases their new bullshit graphics card, suddenly every single game has that as the recommended spec and last year's cards are the minimum. Is it really worth spending hundreds of dollars on the brand new epic gamer hardware every single time a new one gets released? The answer is obviously fucking no but I mean you knew that already. It used to be back in the day that PC users would shit on consoletards for their incredibly low quality products. This came at a time when consoles were undergoing the pretty rough transition to the "HD era" we all know and...

Startup Pages

Startup pages are the pages that open when you open your web browser, or open a new tab. For most people this is just whatever generic shit the web browser has in mind, typically a search bar on an otherwise empty or ad-filled page, but did you know you with a slight bit of tinkering you can basically just set the startpage to whatever you want? I did, I've been doing that for a while and I'm gonna talk about it here. First off, the startpage itself. This is just an HTML file. If you're on Nekoweb, you should be familiar with what one of these is by now. What you want to do is basically have your browser open...

Steam vs EGS

The war of the vidjergaem selling platforms. One is the old fogie who's been winning battle after battle against the toughest opponents. One is the newcomer on the block trying out brave new strategies like halving its own cut to raise profits to the developers that choose to stay with them. In the end, only one will survive. Right now, that one that's going to survive is Steam and in spite of its efforts EGS still barely has any marketshare. Why is this? Let's find out. I'm going to preface this by saying that I'm not a Valve shill in any way and also that I fucking despise them at this point. Software wise, the last good game they made...