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Dude, chillax. It's a space. A space in a name that, for technical reasons, when it was originally set up couldn't have a space in it. Each word in the compound is capitalized, suggesting the intent is two words. If I were referring to the guy by name I might use a space too. You sound like some millennial who came along so late in the username scene that you think the three or four digits and lame leetspeak substitutions are actually what are supposed to make up an online name. For the rest of us, we
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PUBG documentary, etc. (Score:5, Informative)
Noclip has a good documentary on how PUBG was created.
Who is PLAYERUNKNOWN? - Noclip Profiles [youtube.com].
PUBG is suing mobile games over a frying pan [rockpapershotgun.com] --- while they CONVENIENTLY forget that TF2, L4D2 and other games had used a frying pan a decade earlier.
Ironically, Bluehole has been debating suing Epic [polygon.com] -- yeah the guys who make the ENGINE that Bluehoel is using for pubg.
And then you the parents making excuses [kotaku.com] for their Little precious Johnny. (14-Year Old Video Game Cheater Sued, Mom Says He's A Scapegoat)
Even the mainstream news media is jumping on the bandwagon [kotaku.com.au] saying the game has too much violence. HELLO. You are only 30 years late, "Current Affair"!
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Minecraft survival mode is the only true Battle Royale, is it not? :D
Creepers gonna creep.
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PUBG is suing mobile games over a frying pan [rockpapershotgun.com] --- while they CONVENIENTLY forget that TF2, L4D2 and other games had used a frying pan a decade earlier.
The best bit is the frying pan is there as a nod to battle royale but in battle royale it was a pan lid.
Re: PUBG documentary, etc. (Score:2)
And The Ship*, released in 2006 by Valve, a year before TF2's release. It appears it's not such a unique weapon choice after all.
* A cooking pot was also an option.
Fortnight or biweekly? (Score:4, Funny)
Would be a better poll, Whipsplash.
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Yeah people use the bi-weekly wrong all the time. They say bi-weekly is every two weeks but then if you ask them what bi-monthly means they get confused!
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It's worse than that. Biweekly [merriam-webster.com] now holds *both* meanings due to decades of misuse. Thus, the sentence "we'll meet biweekly on the proper way of billing out biweekly timesheets" can mean any of four different things (though from context it most likely would be translated as "we'll meet semiweekly on the proper way of billing out fortnightly timesheets").
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The old joke:
Tri-weekly
Try weekly
Try weakly
Missing option (Score:2)
I prefer games that aren't infested by bots and cheaters, you insensitive clod.
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git gud, nub
Re: Missing option (Score:2)
Play single player games then like Civilization II.
Destiny 2. (Score:2)
Destiny 2, despite its problems.
I played the original for a few hundred hours over its three years. Previously I'd play games like Halo through the campaign, maybe a little PvP, then stop. The simple layer of MMO that Destiny added to the genre - while simple compared to something like WoW - was enough to keep me coming back.
The feel of Bungie shooters is second-to-none, the campaigns are engaging enough, the variety of weapons means there's always something new to experiment with, weekly milestones are som
Call me old fashioned... (Score:2)
Re:Call me old fashioned... (Score:4, Funny)
How about a nice game of World Thermonuclear Warfare?
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WOPR
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Nice try. [imdb.com]
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YOU ARE IN A MAZE OF TWISTY LITTLE PASSAGES, ALL ALIKE.
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But yes, I wholeheartedly agree. Rogue-like games, such as Nethack, are the grandest of all geek-games.
It seems to me that Factorio now holds that crown. Heck, are any of the rogue-likes even Turing-complete?
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Factorio is a real-time strategy game
Only in the simplest analysis. Factorio is a game about complex process engineering, with enough depth in simulation to be Turing complete. Roguelikes are about hitting stuff in the face with an axe.
Actual engineering > RPG
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Dude, just compare: https://youtu.be/jjtXHsv5E6M?t... [youtu.be]
Star Citizen (Score:1)
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It could be a nice game but its developers are the biggest obstacle - too afraid of player interaction in order to create a living and breathing virtual universe. Instead of that we get a game with shallow interactions between both players and the environment that leave you with a disconnected feeling once you're done with the 'level process'. There's little dynamics going on in their world that may draw you into it in any meaningful way unless you create them in your own mind. But
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Presistent NPCs don't exist and all of them are computed on your local hardware. That's why you can observe rubberbanding NPCs now and then in super cruise and normal spac
No (Score:2)
I am too old and slow to play online multiplayer FPS and I think that after 400 hours, I am done with Fallout 4.
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Oh god, I didn't realize that it was 3rd person, I won't even bother to try them then. :D
I wouldn't have spent one hour on Fallout 3-4 if I couldn't play as first person.
I trust Cowbow Neal absolutely & unconditional (Score:2)
My selection of the Cowboy Neal option subsumes some of the other options that might be more relevant. I barely know what PUBG means, but I trust Cowboy Neal to know. I almost never play computer games these days, but if PUBG is worth playing in Cowboy Neal's sole and unimpeachable judgment, then I should consider playing it. One does play it, right? It is a thing of the playable domain?
Wait! What is this fortnight thing? Fortnite must be a typo?
Save me, Cowboy Neal!
Don't know (Score:2)
Which one works best under WINE, assuming no native client?
Slashdot is now, mostly, old folk (Score:1)
I doubt I speak for all of us, but I suspect I speak for most, when I say, we don't have time for online games anymore.
Those of us who do still game, likely single player, story driven stuff, a nice enjoyable little package with a start, finish and an arc.
Multiplayer stuff like this can be fun, of course, but it's awfully time consuming.
Being a nerd site, I'm sure we still have some players of online MP games, but less than 20 years ago.
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I didn't have time back in the 00's. I'd played Starcraft back in the 90's with friends and that's about it. I got online with Command and Conquer I think it was, beat some guy in Michigan, and was then beat like a rug for the next several months. I just didn't have the time then and don't have the time now.
Now it's practicing guitar and playing in my band, setting up Kubernetes clusters on my home VCenter cluster, playing board games with friends, and reading.
[John]
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I'm old, and I play PUBG with my 16 year old son for a few hours a week lately. I can't really say that I enjoy it, however it has kept me curious about trying different strategies. Like many other popular games, it is easy to pick up, and it seems to have a good balance of skill and luck needed. Experienced players can get better at it, but can't constantly dominate. Sometimes you end up in the middle of the all the circles and right under the air drops, and sometimes you are doomed from the start. Al
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Educational, hilarious and difficult.
Addictive
plunkbat! (Score:2)
Nah, don't play either of them. I just like the reaction to PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds being abbreviated to Plunkbat.
I had my fill of 'Last man standing' online gameplay in the early 90s. Ah, Tron, that was a mud.
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Yeah, plunkbatters are funny.
Both are not that great (Score:2)
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Quake III Arena (Score:3)
On this day and age there's still some good 'ol Q3 servers out there [cromctf.com]
No games (Score:2)
Meh (Score:2)
I picked "I don't know what you're talking about" but that's not entirely true.
I have heard of Fortnite although I have no idea what it is.
I do sometimes play games, but I have no idea what PUBG is. Googling it I think the graphics look a little too slick. I prefer lower resolution stuff. It's just simpler that way. I still regret not buying that Asteroids game I saw at a pawn shop a few years ago.
And why is it that I only see these polls before I log in?
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After you log in, hover your mouse over the silhouette in the upper right corner. Click on Options. Under slashboxes, you need to check Slashdot Polls.
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Taking up guarding your lawn recently?
#oldman
Neither (Score:2)
I play plunkbat...
Forknife? (Score:1)
Neither - Oldskool doom still rules (Score:2)
Plenty of awesome multiplayer mods for regular original Doom/Doom II which have far better gameplay/replay value.
Like Complex Doom Invasion.
Too busy with the new Internet 3 VR stuff (Score:1)
I especially like the remote telepresence surgery games.
Oh, sorry, you call them "simulators".
Dang, coded another one ...
Baby food (Score:1)
it depends (Score:1)
Remember when it was written as "CowboyNeal"? (Score:1)