I just checked payday 2 has 25k people playing now and 33k peak

And I was thinking about getting it after my last exam

!g*mers I'm looking for a strategy game that's built on interactions with the AI. Where diplomacy is truly meaningful to the game and not just tacked on. Civilization and Total War are far too simple, to provide examples of what doesn't work for me. I've always heard Paradox games are good for this but I'm looking for more niche recommendations (plus that dlc shit expensive)

I'd like diplomacy to be more important than any fighting mechanic (though I'm not saying war can't be in the game) or internal management (like settling uninhabited land by yourself in Civ) I'm also looking for AI that's capable of actual deals. In simpler games AI will never give you a fair trade or sell you territory and they're always asking for handouts they would never give you in a million years. Something like the Louisiana Purchase is impossible in a lot of games because the AI would never give up that much land to a nation it was only on okay terms with no matter how much money was offered. Real life humans are selfish yet history is filled with alliances and deals and quid pro quo. I'm tired of AI that has toddler levels of spite and greed. I want diplomacy you can work with.

Recommendations don't have to be 4X but I am looking for strategy and not something like a Telltale story.

Thanks @kaamrev!

as you may know BG3 fans are currently some of the most cringe on earth ( ). the game has been out for full access for 6 months now and that means that many of them have had time to get truly godawful tattoos. here are some of my favorites.

since Astarion is the winner of the Fujo's Choice Award 2023 we have a few different ones to admire.

S*X SLAVE TATTOO

i just chose one of these at random, there are so fricking many. for those who haven't played the game, Astarion is a huge heauxmeaux who was held captive in some sort of vampire s*x dungeon for 200 years(?). and his master () carved these runes into his back to sell his soul to the Devil? idk i'm still on Act II. anyway so many women have gotten this as a tattoo, which i remind you, is a rune meant to turn you into a mindless s*x slave and then send your soul to heck. i scrolled past like 10 of these while harvesting.

BLASTED

decent work but this could never be covered up. honestly lots of the Astarion (and Shadowheart) girlies got some really good work done and so i have to respect the quality of the art if not the taste. but this is just way too much man.

ON THE OTHER HAND

what part of the body is this. need i say more

GHOST KARLACH

who the frick is this lmao. idk i think they made a couple mistakes. she has two horns yes but also appears to be armed with a floating Bound Battleaxe and weighs 110lbs. also i think she might kill herself soon.

HEPATITIS ORB

Gale is a character in the game who has this same mark due to having a bomb in his chest. except in the game it was done by powerful magic, not by Bubba from the next cell block over.

THE COOMERFOID MENACE MUST BE STOPPED

i have to credit the moids on this one because try as i might, i could not find a single Shadowheart, Lae'zel, or Minthara tattoo that came even close to this level of explicit. gale's peepee is on her fricking forearm lmao. imagine having some fricking bideo bame tentacle peepee cleavage just on display at your next job. your wedding day. your funeral.

thread is over because i got bored. hope you like it

YO WE GOT AN AUTO GENERATED TAG FOR MONSTER TAMING LOL

It's empty right now, keep tagging all your favorite steam games as "Monster Taming".

Don't do "Monster Tamer" because steam, just changes it to creature collectorhttps://t.co/zEllmwG6I3

— Gym Leader Ed (@GymLeaderEd) January 27, 2024

Context: Creature Collector was for ANY game involving having more than a handful of creatures. This means even games that have nothing to do battling or taming like catching bugs or farming sim games were attached to it. This is nothing like the Monster Taming genre which are basically pokemon-likes or taming adjacent games like. So if you wanted a taming game you'd have to search through a sea of non-tamers and check them all individually. Now, you don't but it's generated by brute force so now we need people to tag games properly.

MS has 15 game studios without counting behesdia and Activision. Those 15 studios made 2 games, forza, Minecraft legend (age of empire 4 wasn't even made by ms game studio) so if we count those 2 behesdia game ms made 5 game in 2023. While Nintendo has 10 studios and they released more games

In last night's community livestream, 343 Industries announced that Halo Infinite would be ditching seasonal cycles and adopting the smaller "content updates"

my heart is telling me !g*mers dont you love modern gaming

ok so Compare this to why it was called Infinite in the first place

“Halo Infinite is the start of our platform for the future,” he said. “We want Infinite to grow over time, versus going to those numbered titles and having all that segmentation that we had before. It's really about creating Halo Infinite as the start of the next ten years for Halo and then building that as we go with our fans and community.”

AHAHAAHHAHA

No wonder why it has been re-released so many times. They want to make sure to expose the younger people to the ritual. Also reason why it's one of the most popular games amongst the speedrun & Twitch communities.

I haven't used steam for 8 years, it feel like another life, last time I used steam I was still in school and I only played dota.

Checked one person profile it had 20 page of comments hating him and calling him a Nazi scum

I knew how to pick good friends

Need a mobile game version of palworld so I can play at work pic.twitter.com/oRJi3UiHzF

— Cyrex 🍔 (@your_welcone) January 26, 2024

soys have won the culture wars lmoa

evidently the SanFran and Silicon Valley bases of Jap international companies have large/final say when it comes to localization, especially within burgerland

no more porn waifus you degenerate Jap mysoginists

Back to the drawingboard - MAKE THEM UGLLIER

Japs have to sometimes redo shitloads of work if gets offended

How many dramatards also ended up getting T8? I got it for 44€ on a key site

I wanted to test the waters again and check to see if holding the rDrama Week 1 Tekken 8 Tournament™ is even worth it, because if it's only a couple of us there's no point

If enough people are down, I will set up the tournament and make another post about it this weekend. If not, then

Poll:

I'm down to fight (aka bought the game) - 3 votes

I'm a scared little cute twink (aka didn't buy the game) - 3 votes

Chad isn't straight or gay or bi.

Chad fricks everyone in the party.

Chad is a dom top.

You never frick Chad.

Chad fricks you.

Tried making a character without reference art, so I used ai to clean up and do shading on things like a skirt or a generic hat, then drew/bashed the details in

Uh oh, it's a me, Mario. Looks like Nintendo or Sega has some explaining to do, eh? 🤦‍♂️ pic.twitter.com/BPqwAEtrds

— Az 🏴‍☠️ 🐙 (@4z07h0z) January 22, 2024

CONTEXT: SR5 sux giga donkey ballz

A bunch of SanFran Wokesoy fricks made the new reboot protags into the most mild unganglike losers ever to feature in any crime-drama media ever created. It was like the fricking directors didn't comprehend the Saints, didn't understand the themes, didn't realize the Saints still are the badguys even if they are the protagonists, and probably literally didn't even play a singe Saints game before undertaking the R*PE of the franchise.

The story was insipid, the uni strags were losers, and the villains as shallow as wet pavement

https://www.denofgeek.com/games/saints-row-backlash-controversy-reactions-explained

https://old.reddit.com/r/SaintsRow/comments/pelrd5/i_dont_get_it_saints_row_reboot_controversy

The premise is utterly r-slurred

The new protags are literally the soyjack hipster

r/SaintsRow had constant slapfights between oldguard and newstrags about the quality of the game, which made the Starfield fights seem tame.

Once again a bunch of wokes tried to colonize a subculture and telling everyone how much the past games sucked, and how the new trash isn't so bad, no really you guys

https://old.reddit.com/r/SaintsRow/comments/193rkrf/the_saints_row_reboot_permanently_ruins_saints

Today's slapfight is started by OP saying "Tbh the Saints Row Reboot permanently fricked up Saints Row's reputation" redditors react

https://old.reddit.com/r/SaintsRow/comments/193rkrf/the_saints_row_reboot_permanently_ruins_saints/khbgbgp/?context=8

anyways lots of people upset and posting

One goes: "Well I enjoyed it!"

Chud replies: " "

2nd soy states: "Let people enjoy things!!!!!"

Anyways the devs screwed up before anyways when they created a game called Agents of Mayham.

A game which I literally didn't know came out, and was even in the SR franchise, until fricking ZP reviewed it, it literally flew under the radar because it sucked. It literally didn't even have the zany customization of the previous games

So the company probably was gonna be shitcanned if their second game bricked

You can now get tears of slime AND MAGIC BOXES from the mine too and I think level crystals are now the most valuable commodity hot dog

I went from Heaven II 9-1 to Heaven III 1-10 just with the perks from the new slime and filling out most of Aku's evolution tree

And now I need to start leveling HP again because H3 hits much much much harder and it's no longer a race against the clock to dps bosses before time runs out

Look how many fucking loser snitches exist on the internet holy shit

— FearOfBees (@BeesFear) January 25, 2024

finizen and palafin, the exact same thing except the latter has a 'hero form'. the original/zero form is the EXACT SAME DESIGN AS ITS PRE-EVOLUTION!!!

the titans are just totem pokemon repackaged but change the colors and add a bit extra to make them NEW!!!

it has 41 single stage pokemon.

the names are LAZY. tarountula??? they changed it with 2 letters. wiglett and wugtrio??? THEY CHANGED ONE LETTER. FLAMIGO. THEY REMOVED ONE LETTER AND ITS JUST A FRICKING FLAMINGO NOTHING SPECIAL. THEY MADE A DUNSPARCE EVOLUTION EVEN THOUGH WE HAVENT HAD ONE FOREVER AND THEY NAMED IT DUDUNSPARCE. SHIT SOUNDS LIKE DUN DUN DUN. NAMING 4 POKEMON CHINESE NAMES LIKE WE'RE CALLING OUT NI HAO KAI LAN. A REGIONAL VARIANT OF SINISTEA EVEN THOUGH IT WAS ONLY ONE GENERATION. THEY CALLED IT SINISTCHA BECAUSE OF MATCHA TEA EVEN THOUGH MATCHA IS A TEA???? A REGIONAL VARIANT OF APPLIN WHICH ALSO RELEASED LAST GENERATION. AN UGLY BUTT TENTACOOL VARIANT THAT LOOKS MORE LIKE A TERATOMA THAN A WATER POKEMON. MASCHIFF?? MASOCHIST!! VAROOM GET IT BECAUSE A CAR GOES VROOM VROOM!!! TINK A FRICKING TINK. TINK TINK TINK. MUNKIDORI LIKE HUNKY DORY. BAXCALIBUR EVEN THOUGH THERES AN OBVIOUSLY BETTER POKEMON THEMED AFTER EXCALIBUR!!! ANNIHILAPE. AN EVOLUTION OF A PERFECTLY FINE GEN ONE POKEMON BUT NOW IT SOUNDS LIKE THE NAME OF A MALE FEMINIST. A GIRAFARIG EVOLUTION THATS NAME MAKES NO SENSE!!! WHAT IS A FARIGIRAF??? FLUTTER MANE LIKE FLUTTERSHY BUT NO ITS MISDREAVUS WITH WINGS.

UGLY DESIGNS!!! GHOLDENGO WHICH IS SUPPOSED TO BE SOME TYPE OF COIN THING LOOKS LIKE THE STRING CHEESE MASCOT

"ANCIENT POKEMON" THAT DONT MAKE SENSE!! MISDREAVUS "ANCIENT FORM" WITH WINGS EVEN THOUGH IT FLOATS. SANDY SHOCKS WHICH IS MAGNETRON FROM THE ANCIENT PAST EVEN THOUGH HORSESHOE MAGNETS WERENT MADE UNTIL 1821!!!

gen 9 rant over. pokemon sucks now, hoping they get their act together for the next game