Same here. I play strictly solo and it feels like about 70% or more of my encounters are with friendly people. Occasionally, people stab in the back or I get shot and killed on sight, then next game do the latter to someone else to mentally make up for the losses, but that’s not too common.

Same as NATO in that Russia has already attacked NATO countries via sabotage operations, having drones, planes and missiles in their airspace, and hacking, among other things, but never been met with any equal response.

Resorting to the damsel in distress trope in 2025. 🤦 But hey, it’s Capcom.

But Vlad said they have no cards!

Fortnite is much more than what non-players see it as though. There are now separate games within Fortnite, which play nothing like the Battle Royale. Lego Fortnite is like Minecraft but with Lego characters. Rocket Racing is an arcade racing game with cool tricks from Rocket League, kinda like what I’ve heard of Trackmania. Fortnite Festival is a rhythm game from the creators of Guitar Hero, featuring countless licensed tracks. Ballistic is Epic’s take on Counter-Strike and Valorant. And so on.

The number of crossovers in Fortnite is also unparalleled. If nothing else, I’d be interested in it for The Matrix, Terminator, Alien, or Star Wars crossovers. You could play as the Terminator with a Star Wars backpack. Quite fun and unique, IMO.

As for Kill Bill, there are quite a few comments saying Tarantino did it for the money, but isn’t the same true for everything? Every top-tier filmmaker makes films in part for the money and wouldn’t do it if they were barely paid. That doesn’t mean they agree to anything or that their vision isn’t in the product.

The IMDB score is meaningless, as it’s very easy to abuse. I’ve read a story of a person creating countless accounts just to manipulate a score on Metacritic. Even if the platforms had a strict verification system so it’s one account per user, they’re still subject to review bombing from people who just disdain anything Fortnite, like Steam fans who hate Epic or Linux users who can’t play the game. It’s not like an exit poll of those who have actually watched the short film.

Steam is the one with monopoly power, and the Horses developer has said that publishers didn’t event wasn’t to publish the game if it cannot be on Steam. This argument isn’t applicable to Epic, let alone Humble, which ended up reinstating the game within the day.

To start with.

Yep, they’re already doing this in the occupied regions. The men there are sent to the same war.

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CNN reported on that article as well.

My favorite part is non-aggression having to be written into Russian law. Putin changed the constitution to rule forever, so why would the law have any meaning? Even if it literally said “Russia will never attack Ukraine”, which it won’t, they’d just use the same old self-defense excuse as they already have with Ukraine and Georgia.

Technically no PR. Their MO has been to let others do the work. Their games come from hired modders, with many skins made by the community. Their localizations are from the community. The game devs and publishers have to moderate their own spaces on Steam. The players do product promotions by using the social network of Steam. Valve is practically unreachable for the press, and their actual press releases are the rawest I’ve seen: infrequent, featuring no images and little information. Their press account is run by Kaci Aitchinson, the local Fox News host who was originally hired to present The International for Dota 2, but ended up doing a bit of everything, like many at Valve.

I usually avoid PvP games and I didn’t like ARC Raiders at first, but it has grown on me.

Unless you use the starter kit, you’ll always have at least one safe pocket slot, allowing you to bring back at least one item (or a stack) even if you get knocked out. Moreover, so often my stash is full even after multiple expansions, so the game encourages using those resources to craft weapons, which again makes it less of a problem if you get knocked out.

Later quests are not easily completed, but you can focus on completing the daily tasks for battle pass progression. There will be simple tasks like having to open containers or doing damage to the ARC robots, so you can just go out with the stater kit and do those, not worrying about losing your loot. With that mentality, at least sometimes (though often in my case playing solo), you’ll extract and get a lot of loot on top of your XP and tasks progression.

Another lesson on how authoritarianism and fascism target the most vulnerable or remote first but eventually come for everyone else.

*costume

NFTs are at least independent and won’t disappear if one corporation goes down. Other than that, they’re one and the same, and it’s insane that the same gamers who worship Valve are often the first to bash NFTs.

To me it still feels like a win for Putin. He’s asking for more to normalize the current lines being the bare minimum in any future discussions so that the least he gets is already more than what he had before 2022. Some talk about the loss of people and economic challenges as a setback, but I don’t think he cares. People are cannon fodder to him, while he’s going to be the last to be noticeably impacted by changes to the economy.

Calling it “a bit” disappointing is an understatement. There are people who lived in Crimea but had to lose their life’s investments in property after the 2014 invasion, then they had to lose family members, friends and neighbors, if not their own lives to the war. Getting the land back for a new beginning is at least some consolation for something that can never be returned, though after the irreparable losses, the people of Ukraine deserve plenty more than what they had before 2014.

That doesn’t say much though, as many of the other games on the list came to Steam after months and years of being available on Origin, so the highest concurrent player numbers were probably seen on that platform. A newly released game always attracts more players than an older one.