This post has no objective educational or instructional value. It's just me bitching, so by all means ignore it.
But man, I knew on an intellectual level reddit had been turned into a hivemind, but having not been there for a few years, I had no idea how bad it's gotten or how far it stretched.
I skipped Cyberpunk 2077 back when it came out because I heard about all the bugs and garbage optimization. By the time any of it got "fixed", more details about CDPR getting captured by the communists had gotten out, so I forgot about the game. Well, a buddy gifted me a copy on sale, so I figured I would finally get around to at least checking it out so as not to be a dick to him about it.
Apparently it doesn't have third person view, and never got it. Weird, but alright. I fire up an old reddit throwaway and just ask on the CP2077 sub if anyone knows if there's a mod that gives you third person view.
Holy. Fuck. I had no idea that such an innocuous question about a technical aspect of an old game would cause such a shitstorm. I got people ranting for paragraphs about how a third person mod wouldn't be respecting the creator's vision of the game, to how it's impossible to really "get" the narrative of the game if you aren't locked into first person because so much of the emotion wouldn't carry over if you didn't feel like it was you looking through the MCs eyes, to of course being accused of being a sexist misogynist gamerbro because I must only want it so I can make a female character and stare at her ass. No one even answered the fucking question about whether a mod exists or not for that (it doesn't, not one that works apparently). Just a dozen angry rants about why I'm a bigot for even asking.
For a viewpoint change mod for a game.
I knew reddit has a list of approved opinions for shit like Trump or BLM or faggots and all the rest. But it's become such a perfectly tuned machine for creating flawless echo chambers that its flowed over into everything about every topic. You just are not allowed to exist there if you don't already know of and completely agree with the "correct" stance on absolutely everything. I wouldn't be surprised if you would get banned for racism asking about the wrong color of wood stain on a carpentry sub.
Anyways, just bitching. Reddit still sucks, even more than it did a year or two ago. I used to be in that "well as long as you go to the niche subs to just act technical questions and leave politics out of everything, it's still kinda ok". Nope, apparently not even that anymore. I just deleted the thread and the throwaway account. Like forgetting something in your fridge for two months, cracking open to take a peak, and then realizing what a mistake that was before throwing it away.
As for CP2077. It's meh. As I'm sure you all knew about 3 years ago. Even in the fixed state it's kind of boring. Probably a lot to do with it lacking the fantastical aspect of Witcher 3 and only having human enemies outside a few bots. Even if CDPR hadn't been taken over by blue haired front holes, it's kind of mediocre. I don't hate some of it, that's really the only praise I can give.
Reddit is the opposite of what the Internet is about.
Information wants to be free, Reddit wants to make sure that it isn't.
And worse yet, it's pious about it.
That's what Internet 1.0 was about.
Internet 2.0 is a dead Main Street where all the small businesses have closed and been replaced by a few soulless corporate chains.
I know, brain, we'll make another Internet.
I will never not be convinced these people are the ones that cannot picture an apple in their minds.
It's why they freaked over the NPC meme.
It hit far, far too close to home.
Wait, there are people who can't picture an apple in their minds?
There are people with no internal monolgue -- legitimate NPCs
No internal monologue, no ability to visualize, and unable to even conceive of a simple hypothetical where they ate something different for breakfast.
Imagine living like that. An empty receptacle just waiting for other people's thoughts.
At this point the biggest argument against eating insects might be that it's practically cannibalism for the bugmen.
I am literally stealing this right now.
No. Well maybe someone in a vegetable state or with severe brain injury. Someone without internalized thoughts would just be talking constantly. It would look like severe autism with ADD. We would notice.
That 'factoid' is a psyop meant to dehumanize the other side.
How would you feel if you didn't have breakfast this morning?
We wouldn't have to dehumanize these near-chimps if you all refrained from humanizing them in the first place.
1 it's true, 2 the other side loves to dehumanize us, and 3 there's plenty of RW NPCs too.
Also, "but I did have breakfast this morning"
Reddit is crawling with bots anyway.
And shills, there are a lot of "conservatives" saying they would vote for Kamala or for no one because Trump was convicted 34 times on the so called conservative subs.
I guarantee you it's one or two shills with several sock puppets, if not bots.
If you mean conservative over there, it's completely censored. Several subs are setup where all your comments are shadowbanned by default, and they only appear after moderation. And they allow those leftists. They don't allow most of what I have tried to write. So take from that what you will.
100%
"Kamala Harris now leads Donald Trump in seven national polls"
"Hulk Hogan posing with a neo nazi"
You weren't kidding. The worst part about Reddit being 95% bots is that 5% of them are not bots.
Did anyone call you weird? Since it became the new buzzword, it's their go to insult.
I think they're over that one already, since it didn't work.
I didn't work because people started posting pictures from gay pride parades (you know, dudes in the streets with their dicks out waggling them at children) and captioning them with "This guy thinks JD Vance is weird".
I swear I've seen video prototypes of a third person mod for cyberpunk years ago. I guess the project died before finishing maybe?
[Edit] There it is, supposedly fully functional. Reddit is garbage.
https://www.nexusmods.com/cyberpunk2077/mods/669
Allegedly latest update made it phantom liberty patch compatible, albeit it's still pretty rough around the edges, with a fiddling with the in game console necessary to even draw your weapon and a frequent T-pose bug you gotta jump to fix.
Reddit is a shit hole. I still post there. It's the intellectual equivalent of entering into a third world war torn shit hole run by a dictator. You have to enter into it knowing you're doing contract work and have to lay low and only attack in rare cases
Oh, I would if I thought I could get away with it.
People really use the "the creator's vision" argument against 3rd person mods? So are they just opposed to mods in general? If something wasn't originally in the game then how dare anyone add it! I remember seeing "creator's vision" as an argument against emulators, too. I remember seeing shit like "If Miyamoto san had meant for people to play Super Mario Bros. on their computers it wouldn't have been a Nintendo game" on usenet back in the day. I wonder how those people felt about Nintendo putting out Super Mario Bros. on handheld devices. Must've blown their minds.
Death of The Author only applies to authors they want dead.
I was banned from a gun subreddit of all places for an extremely benign comment after someone kept harassing me. Then, in typical Reddit fashion, it turns out that person was a Mod lmao. Reminded me just how soft and pozzed the place is.
It was always a hivemind for consoomed products.
The death of sequential posts was the death of there being anything more than a singular opinion in online forums.
Good point. I think voting works around here because everyone likes to argue about everything anyway.
Reddit shows how human society can quickly start brainwashing itself with minor incentives and encouragements for the jannies.
After every murder/news event The European subreddits have the same obsessed people commenting- people like TheImpossible1, but if his obsession was acceptable then he would end up being a major commenter.
Poor imp. He coulda been a reddit mod in another life.
If his fetish was anti-men he would be a supermod by now.
With all the pay and glamour that comes with that kind of position (none and none)
There's no reason a cyberpunk setting should be boring, but they refused to innovate the combat and gave us the same FPS gameplay since the first Call of Duty. Gameplay standards have stagnated over the last decade.
I will read any and all posts bitching about reddit. I started my account in 2011 and it's a tragedy to see how far it's fallen. Just recently I found a support-group type sub and wanted to join, but I was denied because I commented a handful of times in the "hate group" The Donald...like 4 years ago now? Fuck me for wrong think.
Woke cunts having extremist meltdowns in the name of "artistic vision" and "MUh ObJEtiFICatiOn tHeORy" when you least expect it is why the fuckers all deserve to die.
Similar bullshit happened to me when I complained about a shitty design choice with GIMP while asking about how to disable it, non woke people would just say if the garbage can be disabled or not, and I would not be surprised if the woke cunts insulting and mass reporting me were just too stupid to actually answer the question instead of saying "learn to code" type garbage.
Haven't played it, mostly for the same reasons. It had all the bugs and then it came out they were going woke.
As for Reddit, meh. It moved from an echo chamber to a containment zone some time ago.
Cyberpunk 2077 and Baldur's Gate 3 are easily some of the most overrated games in existence and their fandom is equally cringe, you are completely justified in your ranting. By the way, I have seen similar behaviour towards people who simply criticise BG3's RNG which let's be real is pretty bad even if you're somebody who enjoys a bit of RNG in your game.
Once decent game studios have very much embraced the leftist hive mind which is why their games have gotten so shit and weird in terms of their art style and storytelling. I defended Larian Studios for example initially because I've played their games before and enjoyed them but they've got the exact same problem. I bet a lot of these people don't even know about Divinity Dragon Commander and would probably tell Larian to scrub it from their development history if they knew about it.
One thing I will give the mob is Cyberpunk 2077 was definitely not a game developed with third person in mind. At the same time though the controls aren't exactly well thought out. They still have a massive problem in their game where the vehicle controllers they've tweaked are idiotic and uncontrollable in a lot of cases so you have to poke around and find vehicles that don't spin about at the slightest touch among other things.
Which is a joke, because these days vehicle controllers are some of the easiest things to code.
Yeeesh sorry you had to come across so much faggotry about CP2077. That's currently my favorite CRPG for many reasons.
All I can add is that I did try a 3rd person mod for it and as of things right now, it's not very good. It's fine when walking around and jumping/parkor. It's even a little fun. However the problems come up with weapons. Your character arms get desynced or turn massive, or disappear. It gets really weird when you try to aim.
If 3rd person ever works proper for that game, I'll gladly have another excuse to play it again.
Why? Get off reddit. Make babies.