Gmod is essentially Roblox’s father. It’s limited in what you can do but is still really good and has a shockingly active community.

The best Roblox alternative is S&box, but it’s not out yet. It’s a spiritual successor to Gmod that aims to be a gaming platform that’s developer friendly and good to consumers. There’s a developer alpha you can join to start making games in it, but the community is not there yet and it’s likely a few years away.

It’s called UEFN (Unreal Editor for Fortnite), not Fortnite the game specifically. From what I understand it’s a watered down version of Unreal Engine and is really good to use, lets you publish your games straight to the platform.

According to articles I can find, this has nothing to do with recent censorships?

https://www.benzinga.com/markets/equities/25/07/46593164/visa-hit-by-japans-first-ever-antitrust-action-against-credit-card-industry

Japan’s Fair Trade Commission has taken its first administrative action against the credit card industry, targeting Visa Worldwide Pte Ltd., a subsidiary of Visa Inc.‘s Singapore operations, over suspected monopolistic practices in the authorization system market.

[…]

The investigation centered on Visa’s November 2021 terms changes that rendered credit card companies managing merchant outlets ineligible for commission discounts in certain industries unless they adopted Visa’s authorization system.

Minecraft is better and has a massive community with a huge selection of mods. Luanti is free & open source but that’s about it, it’s neat but is ultimately just another Minecraft clone.

M4 Max on a high-end macbook pro is roughly equivalent to an RTX 4060 in terms of performance, but is behind on raytracing. It stutters in intense scenes but can hit 1440p 60FPS with metal upscaling.

Seems like they’re headed back into a more grounded, serious tone which is great. I hope this is good because I loved BF4 and BF1.

The name is a little stupid, but I find it makes a lot of sense too. Metroidvanias are games where you explore and slowly unlock the means to reach new areas and explore more. Metroidbranias are the same idea but you need knowledge to progress rather than collecting items

And it won’t happen because companies won’t allow them to ban a trillion dollar industry, you knob. Banning adult games isn’t remotely comparable. Most video games rely on violence and it’s too big of an industry to fail, adult games have a tiny following and were an easy target.

They banned adult games?! That means they’ll ban all violent media! They’ll eventually come for all media, they’ll come for our computers, they’ll trap us in cages! It’s a slippery slope!

They could move to new payment processors

This is way harder than you can imagine… You can’t just swap out a payment provider overnight, and even then moving to less popular providers on such a big website is risky.

They’re not going to ban 90% of video games, not everything is a slippery slope

Direct link to their statement rather than reading an article talking about it: https://itch.io/updates/update-on-nsfw-content

They lowered the price from $80 to $70, but I’m sure they’ll fire more developers regardless

OSRS has a free version that lets you access most of the game, but the paid premium version nets you more content

I found Final Fantasy XIV easy to get into. The full game requires a monthly payment but there is a “free trial”, which contains the entire base game and the first expansion for free and can last you at least a few hundred hours.

I tried old school runescape a while ago again but did not enjoy it. It’s a very grindy game, and unless you like clicking on a tree for 30 minutes then you aren’t going to like it either.

…No. It’s because Lemmy content and users are duplicated into hundreds of instances. Websites are ranked independently and because they’re so split, none of them are popular enough to be on search engines. There are plenty of ad-free sites that show up on page one.

some speculate that because the content is the same across all these instances, Lemmy might be getting caught in the spam filter too.

Are you surprised your aggressive comment got removed after I reported it?

Removed by mod

If you can read you can probably find a written review yourself instead of commenting on a video essay that you don’t like videos

Good luck, you’ll need it

Opposite experience here. I liked part 1 because it was mostly linear and had decent pacing, even if I wasn’t a big fan of the story. Part 2 is 90% fluff and a useless ubisoft-style open world. It’s also way too goofy while trying to act like a serious story I should care about.