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Does hoi4 run well on Mac?
I have an old-ish Macbook and I was wondering if it would run ok on it and if so, does it also work well with moding? I want the play tfr

HAI! ITS ME ERVA!
Im prob gonna get my post removed and banned again for this, but I have no friends and I must yap!
I like l4d like alot, be wary tho; I play with stupid amounts of mods, so much in fact that Im trimming them down as of late, I intend on getting rid of half of them.
Most of the mods, like pretty much all of them are server side, so you dont need to do anything.
Other games are allowed too.
AND FRIENDS ARE AWESOME!
I also really want to play halo/terraria with someone!
discord:
erva5073

Not sure if this is the right place, but since this is the gaming tab, I say why not?

Back then, GamerGate was the start of something fresh, something edgy, something that was actually rebellious against both the bourgeois moralisms stifling the internet and the feminist hegemony that no western male could escape from. It was an escape valve, in other words.

But of course, I was wrong as GamerGate later on mestatized into being another wing of the current right-wing hegemonic ChudIntern. Indeed, GamerGate was merely an exercise in online reactionary activism, but we should actually try to analyse it as opposed to dismissing it as chuds being chuds.

It’s won’t give you the kind of analysis that has probably been done to death here, such as the alienation of young men, the rise of white upper-class female idpol and the HR-style managerial culture that preceded online censorship and SJWs’ political correctness, journos forming email groups as part of a coordinated attack on the median gamer, the MSM’s double standards towards female-exclusive spaces vs treating male-only spaces (such as gaming) pathologically, etc…

This is a good summary of the event from a gamergater’s POV: https://wolfsheadonline.com/how-wikipedia-and-molly-white-rewrote-the-history-of-gamergate/

Instead, I’ll say this: The rise of the gooner chuds that you see today is a product of GamerGate, itself being downstream from the left’s rejection of sex-positivity and and pathologisation of any form of assertive male heterosexuality to heed the demands of the feminist bourgeoise that held a stranglehold on the left.

Obviously the online right isn’t really sex-positive as much as being pro-sexual hierarchy and has been the case within the western right since the days of the Nazis and even before then (e.g., Annunzio’s enterprise in Fiume). It’s just that their vision of sexuality makes enough space for male heterosexuality to attract young men (the most revolutionary demographic) into their fold. The left’s response? It’s either dumb Puritanism as shown by puriteens who think Euphoria (that show starring Sydney Sweeney) is rape culture, or bastardised “trad Marxism” about banning porn and prosties cuz muh exploitation even tho Chinese games nowadays are heavily gooned out + the Soviet bloc was lax on non-comPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

1.0.0 of the Twilight Princess Decompilation project has been released.
LINK (heh): https://twilitrealm.dev
Github: https://github.com/TwilitRealm/dusk/releases
>da fuq is dis?
It's a PC native version of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. You need to provide your own ISO/game dump in order to make this run, and I ain't gonna provide you one neither. If you use this it is presumed that you dumped your own version of the game.

Anyway, check it out, it comes preloaded with some quality of life improvements, including:
>unlocked frame rate
>higher resolutions up to 8k
>improved post processing effects
>instant transformation by pressing a button combination, instead of having to interact with Midna every time you want to transform
>ability to disable the stupid rupee cutscenes, so that you don't have Link stop what he's doing every single god damn time he picks up a rupee
Among other things.

Bikini Armor is something of a staple of chud discourse and many gamers will refuse to play games that don't feature it, but at this point it is something that future game devs predicting a pro-chud vibe shift will include in their games. Especially games being developed in 2024 where chuddery was at it's most potent. Yet somehow I still think that bikini armor propaganda will still be a potent force in future politics now that even centrist men will berate you for not having hoes in bikini armor.
I frankly think it has a place in games, but only where it really makes sense and I might as well get some male cheese cake as well

With the amount of shill threads about Stellar Blade I kept seeing on 4chan /v/ saying it was a "decent action game" I ended up buying it along with some other games for my brother's birthday last year (at great expense as it's a modern video game and all). He never touched it so I finally gave the demo a go myself to see if it was worth the hype.

It was a Sekiro-like. and not even that great a one. It almost seems like it was hyped to shit because it had attractive girls in skintight suits and almost only because of that. I had more fun with Devil's Third of all games.

Post examples of different systems for crafting and discussions of crafting mechanics. Most games just do the simple "collect enough materials and click on the thing you want to make," even the ones that are ripping off minecraft, which actually was pretty novel with its 3x3 grid.

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Anybody playing ebb esoteric?
Obvious inspiration from Disco Elysium and DnD, with more overt political tones.
I haven't played much past the intro, but the socialist path seems to be just social democracy, whereas the revolutionary path is as a bourgeois revolutionary

Materialist explanation for Videogame voice acting STILL being fucking shit even after decades?
American dubs of Japanese games are probably the worst offenders of this.