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Post by Dantes » Wed Dec 14, 2022 11:47 am

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Post by s. goblin » Tue Dec 20, 2022 12:46 pm

Epic Games to pay $520 million for privacy violations, dark patterns

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/g ... -patterns/
Epic's decision to enable real-time voice and text chat communications by default for children and teens also allegedly put them at risk of bullying, harassment, and other forms of harm.

Besides the $275 million record civil penalty imposed through a proposed federal court order, Epic will also be required to make text and voice communications in Fortnite an opt-in feature for children and teens that can only be enabled with the parents' affirmative consent through a privacy setting.
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Post by Rylinks » Tue Dec 20, 2022 12:59 pm

"that's not remotely legal, letting people talk to each other"

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Post by haplo » Tue Dec 20, 2022 6:20 pm

a lot of that definitely felt like "everyone does it, but we can get a lot of money from this if we target the most popular game" but I do remember the auto-buy/refund stuff and EVERYONE internally said that was terrible, I don't know why we did it that way

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Post by Khaos » Tue Dec 20, 2022 9:02 pm

what is auto-buy?

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Post by KingRamz » Tue Dec 20, 2022 9:55 pm

Khaos wrote:what is auto-buy?
That'll be $40,000

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Post by Ashenai » Tue Dec 20, 2022 10:04 pm

lol

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Post by Crunchums » Tue Dec 20, 2022 10:26 pm

Ashenai wrote:lol
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Post by haplo » Tue Dec 20, 2022 11:36 pm

Khaos wrote:what is auto-buy?
when you're viewing a store item, if you press a button it buys it immediately with no warning. I think it was like that for a month or so, then they kept it the same but added the ability to refund accidental purchases, and then eventually they changed it to hold to buy. although iirc Korea or something had a way to "undo" an accidental purchase for about 30 seconds, but it was because of a law there

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Post by haplo » Tue Dec 20, 2022 11:38 pm

there was also a bug where if you held the button down too long on the store page to view an item, it would still consider as pressed when the item page opened and would auto-buy it. that was fun

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Post by Ashenai » Tue Dec 20, 2022 11:39 pm

haplo wrote: Tue Dec 20, 2022 6:20 pm I don't know why we did it that way
have you come up with a guess

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Post by Skeletor » Tue Dec 20, 2022 11:42 pm

i want people to be able to buy any item they want in 3 clicks. 1 to buy it accidentally, a 2nd to refund it, and a 3rd to buy it on purpose
wow, [you]. that all sounds terrible. i hope it gets better for you

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Post by Ashenai » Wed Dec 21, 2022 3:16 am

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Post by Ashenai » Wed Dec 21, 2022 3:17 am

it looks like something timmy, age 12, puts on nexus mods on day 2 after release

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Post by Crunchums » Tue Dec 27, 2022 7:23 am

https://planetbanatt.net/articles/contradictions.html trying to rank melee players is an interesting problem
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Post by Crunchums » Sat Feb 04, 2023 3:40 pm

impressive effort on the video imo
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Post by Blissful » Sat Feb 04, 2023 4:35 pm

unfortunately they reused two player typefaces so the entire video is ruined nothing i could do thats the rules
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Post by Blissful » Sat Feb 04, 2023 4:35 pm

thatse a good effort for real tho
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Post by Crunchums » Sun Mar 05, 2023 6:54 pm

got my friend to play outer wilds and he beat it
I really liked the game. Incredible intention to detail in world building. Beautiful music. Intriguing mystery.
What I didn't like was how complicated it could be to solve puzzles. But any time I got frustrated, I just looked up how to do something.
Like I'd get all the clues, but piecing it all together was too much for me sometimes.
For example
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warping to the ash core
. I had the clues, but that solution is ultra convoluted and easy to mess up, and if you mess it up once without looking it up, then you probably move on thinking the correct solution is incorrect.
Game definitely left an impression on me. It's got a lot of heart and there's something tragically beautiful about it.
it's video game news
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Post by Ashenai » Sun Mar 05, 2023 8:08 pm

(possibly NSFW?)

lol, mad respect for them going full throttle with the unsettling/erotic S&M vibe. I like it when designers have a vision and pursue it without shame or restraint. I have no idea if this game is any good, but it does have the stones!

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Post by pterrus » Mon Mar 06, 2023 3:55 am

Crunchums wrote: Sun Mar 05, 2023 6:54 pm got my friend to play outer wilds and he beat it
I really liked the game. Incredible intention to detail in world building. Beautiful music. Intriguing mystery.
What I didn't like was how complicated it could be to solve puzzles. But any time I got frustrated, I just looked up how to do something.
Like I'd get all the clues, but piecing it all together was too much for me sometimes.
For example
Spoiler!
warping to the ash core
. I had the clues, but that solution is ultra convoluted and easy to mess up, and if you mess it up once without looking it up, then you probably move on thinking the correct solution is incorrect.
Game definitely left an impression on me. It's got a lot of heart and there's something tragically beautiful about it.
it's video game news
I did end up getting no man's sky while it was on sale and the ship controls are such utter dogshit compared to outer wilds that it kind of soured me on the whole thing.

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Post by pterrus » Mon Mar 06, 2023 3:59 am

Also wtf how do you mess that part up, it's not tricky at all.

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Post by Crunchums » Mon Mar 06, 2023 4:31 am

that was literally the only part of the game that i got stuck on :lol:
i don't think it's ultra convoluted, but i tried the correct idea once and somehow it didn't work
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the second warp pad went to the thing like i thought originally, just had to hide in that little nook and fire the scout launcher to see that the warp was active. which i had tried already, but i guess i wasn't firing the scout launcher frequently enough and didn't notice
and then it's like well guess that's not the right idea
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Post by haplo » Mon Mar 06, 2023 7:28 am

I heard they made multiple patches to try and explain/hint that part more clearly. It was hard when I played it on the original release.

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Post by pterrus » Mon Mar 06, 2023 11:29 am

I guess I stand corrected then

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Post by Doug » Mon Mar 06, 2023 3:06 pm

pterrus wrote: Mon Mar 06, 2023 3:55 am I did end up getting no man's sky while it was on sale and the ship controls are such utter dogshit compared to outer wilds that it kind of soured me on the whole thing.
Outer Wilds is wonderful

Did you have to use a controller? So many PC players say they can't play Outer Wilds with a keyboard. I played it on console, so I wouldn't know
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Post by pterrus » Mon Mar 06, 2023 8:34 pm

Doug wrote: Mon Mar 06, 2023 3:06 pm
pterrus wrote: Mon Mar 06, 2023 3:55 am I did end up getting no man's sky while it was on sale and the ship controls are such utter dogshit compared to outer wilds that it kind of soured me on the whole thing.
Outer Wilds is wonderful

Did you have to use a controller? So many PC players say they can't play Outer Wilds with a keyboard. I played it on console, so I wouldn't know
Huh, I actually can't remember. I played it on PC. I think I used controller?

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Post by Crunchums » Mon Mar 06, 2023 8:38 pm

i played with a keyboard and the controls for moving around felt very difficult
also there's one part where the fact that your thrust is on/off as opposed to a spectrum sucks
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Post by Hyphen-ated » Mon Mar 06, 2023 9:35 pm

my first impression was that a controller for the flying seemed way better, so I thought I was going to be swapping between keyboard and controller, since no way am I going to do the walking around fps sections with a controller.
but then I quickly realized that keyboard for the flying actually felt fine so I just used kb+m the whole time

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