madame_gaymes

Well hot damn, didn't know about it.

Still though, from the fact you had to send in 4 times means that replacing mine from the get go with hall-effect was much less hassle. Sounds like the new controllers will be exactly the same quality, joystick-wise, since you had such a great experience. Why change the process?

I dunno if this is what you're looking for, but clowncore may be close?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hT7x1NvGf5k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sR_rPd_ufK4

(potentially nsfw?)

ETA: Totally forgot about Jojo Mayer & Nerve, too. Might be a little more sane of a choice depending on who your players are, lmao

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpUynozoWhk

Is anyone surprised? Maybe the surprising part is that she's still alive and only got fired.

Yea, it's a tough itch to scratch, for sure. I only have suggestions for games that have similar mechanics, but nothing that could be considered a straight up replacement for XCOM2.

• Battle for Wesnoth. Open-source, been around almost as long as the XCOM franchise, and very similar but in a fantasy setting and 2D with hexagonal grids. You can train new soldiers, or level-up veterans. They can die and you lose all your spent resources on them, etc. Loads of community made campaigns, too.
• Wasteland 1/2/3. Out of all of these, this is probably the closest to aesthetics and mechanics, but not entirely the same thing.
• Baldur's Gate 3. Obviously more fantasy and diff rules, but the combat is close enough at higher levels of difficulty.
• Divinity Original Sin 2. Uses action point economy, but otherwise like BG3. Combat is close.
• Expeditions: Rome. There are other Expeditions games, but this is the latest. A bit closer to XCOM I think, but in a historical setting.
• Into The Breach. Not exactly the same, but not entirely different either. Different gameplay focus but all turn-based on a grid with RPG elements in between battles to level up your squad.

I don't know for sure if it was ever a thing in the USA. A cursory search only showed mention of Europe offering that repair. I didn't even bother checking and just went straight for the hall-effect replacement sticks when I had joy-cons that drifted, probably a bunch of other people in that same boat.

IMO, the profits from this would still come even if they offer repairs. I'd venture to guess many out-of-the-loop parents would just buy the replacements 'cause they probably think their kid is abusing it somehow. The good ol' "sigh 'n buy" phenomenon to keep the kiddos entertained.

Let's hope gulikit quickly puts out a hall-effect mod for the new versions (or the new versions still use the same joystick module as the original)

Indeed, CSAM no-doubt:

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Of course they will, they make too much money off people buying replacements. Since the games also got an increase in price, I expect the joy-cons bought separately will also be marked up by a non-trivial margin.

You are correct. I don't have a My2K account and I've been playing XCOM2 on Steam for at least 2 years now.

Even when I played online on the PS5, no account needed.

Maybe if we post news about Lemmy on Lemmy, it will turn more Lemmy fans into Lemmy fans?

Yes! I had the exact same thought after I got my Steam Deck and started using Arch again about a year ago. I remember it being clunky and awful, but now it's so smooth and simple.

Granted I don't do anything crazy, I pretty much just load a clip, SHIFT+R at a few time stamps, and render a new file. Maybe add a dissolve or fade. There wasn't really much that could even do this simple stuff well before KDEnlive beefed up, at least not that I used.

I once had a dream I was swimming in a river, and when I looked up at the night sky I saw something impact the Moon and shatter it, sending chunks down to Earth's surface.

Time to get that doomsday hype train rolling again for 2024 YR4! I don't even know how large an object would need to be in order to do something like that, probably larger than this is. I guess it'll just have to remain a dream, sigh.