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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • I’ll be one of the “horde” (albeit more tame) but personally I don’t think developers should make their games easier or change their vision in order to broaden its audience. It kinda reminds me of the “rated R” debate. Certain people want movies like Oppenheimer to be rated PG-13 over being rated R so it can reach a bigger audience. But I don’t think Nolan should be changing his vision of the movie just so it sells better


  • Ehh I disagree with using RDR2 as an example, but I think QTEs in general are probably my least favorite game mechanic. I actually quite like walking around in RDR2 during the missions. A huge aspect of the game is just immersing yourself in the map/world and listening to the NPCs. I can see it getting old during replays but for me it’s a hell of a lot better than watching a cutscene and being prompted to hit a button. I vividly remember fishing with Dutch and Josea for at least a half hour just listening to them chat with Arthur


  • RDR2 has one of, if not my favorite, inventory systems. Your own ‘backpack’ that had a weight limit and could only carry smaller things. Big things you’d have to lug onto the back of your horse or find a cart. All of your equipped weapons are displayed on your person. If you want to swap weapons you have to run back to your horse and exchange weapons at your saddle bags








  • I’m just gonna come out and say it because I think people don’t realize and it may be specific to US - if kbeans sticks we will be called “kbeaners” by trolls until the end of time, as it includes a racial slur aimed at hispanic/latino people

    Honestly I bet a fair amount of people will even unintentionally use it without realizing. And if we have the ability to choose, I’d rather our nickname not be something that invites people to easily combine it with a slur


  • Been here since just before the blackout and I’m not big on kbeans. First of all it sets us up to have a derogatory nickname, likely even unintentionally so. Secondly it has nothing to do with kbin other than vaguely resembling the word ‘bin’

    I’ve been partial to kbinaut. No one will question where we’re from. Keeps kbin in the name. And a bit more on theme as the ‘fediverse’ kinda has a loose space vibe to it and with kbinaut resembling astronaut








  • It’s a plugin for Decky which is a free 3rd party plugin manager. Goto decky.xyz from your deck and download file, make sure to run it from your desktop. Then go back to game mode and hit the “…” button to access it

    This plugin is HLTB for Deck. They’re also using SteamGridDB to get the custom D4 art and the game’s metadata. Game Theme Music, vibrantDeck, and ProtonDB are all musts as well



  • Tears of the Kingdom without a doubt so far. Enjoyed every second of it.

    Honorable mentions are Hi-Fi Rush, RE4 Remake, Diablo 4 - even Jedi Survivor (especially if it didn’t run like shit).

    And I fully expect Starfield, Spiderman 2, and Baldur’s Gate 3 to give TOTK a run for its money. Honestly a great year for gaming despite some shitty PC ports.