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I don't think it's entirely necessary and depends on the game. Most nowadays seem to mix them, like fortnite has most weapons as hitscan except for the sniper rifles, or overwatch leaves certain characters as hitscan for balance reasons. I usually prefer projectiles overall tho. The main reason I focus on sniper rifles is because being hitscan leaves the skillcap too low due to how powerful they are. If someone's actually capable of using a hitscan sniper rifle near its potential it becomes extremely unfun for everybody else, much more than any other weapon. Making it a projectile raises the skill cap to pretty much be unreachable, movement just adds too much chaos for near perfect play so even though there ARE some amazing snipers in the battlefield games for example, they aren't as oppressive to play against. It also encourages better play imo, it's more difficult to camp in battlefield now than it used to so recon players are pushed to actually play with their team and use their gadgets. (tho there are still some who do camp like that, people usually recognize them as being dead weights)
United Kingdom should rule Singapore again
Toontown Online was fantastic satire of capitalism
Pretty ironic too since it was made by Disney.
I don't enjoy the US influence in Europe nowadays. Recent actions of our western ally across the ocean have made me doubt about our alignment with US and made me into an anti-americanist myself. I don't mean stuff like "let the US burn" or "US should be balkanized". I just want to have our basis of relationship between us changed. I do not want to have any US army stationed here, I do not want them to build any of this Trump fortress nonsense, it makes me feel like Europe is a playground of influence for US, much like it was during cold war. Then there's NATO that feels like it benefits US's interests only. Remember Iraq Invasion? Afghanistan invasion? Why were we dragged ito the mess that US started. It was not our decision to attack those countries, so why did our men die on the Iraqi deserts, when we weren't threatened? It was US's political play to secure sphere of influence in Arabian Peninsula. Europe should leave NATO and create their own, european based pact that would satisfy our needs and serve us and our interrsts, mostly in defensive areas. It is very possible for the whole of EU to outmatch Russia's strength, if some war was to break out. Or at least hold the line before Americans arrive. But that's not to say we should cut ties and stop supporting US, and likewise. US-Europe alliance is needed, I just think it should be changed to give more sovereignity for Europe in military aspects, to "declare independence from the US". We shouldn't support American ambitions in other parts of the world. This is, why I like, what Macron is doing. He's slowly making Europe rely on themselves and not on the US.
Distrub's cover of the Sound of Silence is tries way too hard to the point of melodrama and comes off as cheesy and self-indulgent.
At least you can tell Disturbed respects the original. And at least their frontman doesn't butcher the whole thing. Unlike some bands... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-EdCNjumvI
I find it to be a nice mix of poignant/understated, to later very moving and not overdone. Idk
That old show ReBoot was so cringy to look at.
I think that Riot games lacks the moral high ground to be complaining about toxicity to begin with, in light of what they themselves were doing all along.
Unpopular opinions, not straight facts.
Dropping a nuke on San Francisco or DC would probably make the world a better place
How about we just drop a small on on your house instead? That'd probably do a lot more towards making the world a better place.
I live in San Francisco so yea I agree.
I know what you're talking about. I actually hate auto-tune in general. There are very few songs where auto-tune is used to complement a good singer, not just used to cover up a bad singing voice, such as the chorus in this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32kYH6XZrIo
I think it sounds like the mallcore equivalent of a celebrity who thinks adding random, held notes to the national anthem makes it sound more emotional.
"It's just a game" is one of the worst things to say in an effort to cheer someone up. It doesn't sound reassuring or calming, it sounds condescending and snide.
Pineapple pizza is bleh.
I agree, needs jalapenos to be just right 👌
Rubato is a slowing of rhythm and is pretty common in classical music. I actually like hearing people's renditions of music that aren't in the original sheet music. I accept that you weren't necessarily deriding the concept, but the notes they add aren't really random, otherwise they'd sometimes be in the completely wrong key.
I disagree, I thought it had clarity and cohesion. Nothing in it felt arbitrary to me
Didn't mean *they* were adding random notes, just that it as came off in that same "I'm gonna kick the sentiment up to 11!!" spirit that makes people fit 20 syllables into "Oh say can you see."
It's just their interpretation of music. You should hear Gould play some Bach or the difference between Horowitz and Rubinstein interpretations of Chopin.
Intentionally bad and/or boring games are still bad and/or boring
I don't think that opinion is going to be very unpopular.
that's probably true, but i've been seeing that excuse used a lot more lately.
The game industry's focus on 4k isn't worth it and it's be much better if they were to push for 120/144hz instead 1080p is still fine for games and framerate actually impacts how the game plays/feels
I like some of the checkerboarding solutions some games present and on normal gameplay circumstances, I'd love to see that balanced with high framerate. For consoles I think a good sweetspot is a 1440p checkboarded rendering solution while aiming for 60fps. Otherwise maybe even a checkboarded 1080p to push for those huge visual step ups and graphical fidelity on most console exclusive games do but target 60fps rather than the usual 30fps on a native 1080p/900p resolution. Maybe form a choice too between 4k checkboarding/native 30fps and 120fps/60fps checkerboarded 1080p/1440p too, like an extension of how some games that support PS4 Pro/Xbox One X features. On that note, I wish PC games would introduce more of chekerboarding solutions as well, it's a really neat way to get more performance out of a game without sacrificing too much visuals. Watch_Dogs 2 and Siege, and somewhat to an extent Titanfall 2 are one of the only PC games that I know have something similar to checkboarding, but the way they work is pretty nice. Really makes it possible to attain that 120/144hz target even at max/near max settings. Plus it also presents good scalability on less powerful hardware.
I'm actually gonna disagree here. I was totally blown away with how good 4K looked on my monitor. Yeah, it requires great GPUs, and is a big investment, but the difference is staggering, so much so that I'll even run games below ultra to get a higher resolution at 60FPS because it looks great. I've never used a 120/144hz screen and I imagine that's great, but we need to push boundaries in multiple directions so technology moves forward.
The more I dwell into Artifact's business model and economics the more I think Valve's decision is sound and beneficial to the consumer. If it only costs upwards to ~$80 for a full base collection I think it would be the ultimate premium pricing model for anything digital collectible game, but someone at Reddit estimated it to be around $200~300 in which will ultimately label Valve as greedy demons. They made the right call but only if it turns out to be significantly cheaper than estimation. I'll unfortunately be mostly restricted to playing draft and pauper format. @ me for more details
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