The Miscellaneous PC & vidya Games Thread

[Syt]

Ok, yeah, I will wishlist this.

[Syt]

Oh, and Diablo II is on Steam, adding a new class:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2536520/Diablo_II_Resurrected__Infernal_Edition/

I loved D1 and played that tons, but I never got into D2 at the time. I kinda liked the simple dungeon delve of the first game much better.

[Syt]

Been playing some American Truck Sim and Euro Truck Sim on the weekend. In US, I took quick jobs, driving from Hutchinson KS, to McAlester OK, to Council Bluffs IA, Cape Giraredeau MO, Jonesboro AR, and Columbia MO. (I usually take the next quick job from where I ended the previous one.)

Lots of green. St. Louis outskirts a bit dilapidated along the I-70. Missed an exit near Oklahoma City on an interchange and had to go a silly detour. Admittedly, driving around those states was a bit less exciting than driving along the highway on the California coast or taking a prefab home through Rocky Mountain passes.

In ETS2 I downgraded the version to 1.57 to download the latest Promods map overhaul. I kept it close to home. Starting in Vienna and going Graz - Amstetten - Ostrava (CZ) - Krakow (PL) - Banska Bystrica (SK). A lot more diverse driving, more curves , and the European trucks feel a lot more nimble (and the roads narrower). And driving into Vienna coming from Amstetten was uncanny. On the autobahn I recognized some spots and it feels very familiar. Driving into Vienna, where you enter along the Wien river also felt familiar, as well as passing Schönbrunn Castle. But then you're a few streets later at the Urania on the Danube canal, skipping half the town (and Ringstraße/Schwedenplatz nowhere to be seen ). It feels familiar but also wrong, more like a dreamscape, fast forwarding between familiar spots connected by less descript roads (which I assume all cities in these games will feel like if you know them - more trying to evoke the feel of a place rather than recreating it accurately (a one to one scale would probably not feel fun if you want to do a 500km drive The game time moves faster outside cities when driving overland and slows down to realistic levels in towns; I think it's a 1/17 or 1/15 scale). And I think Vienna was also reworked (i.e. improved) by the ProMods team (who also added e.g. Amstetten and tons other small cities).

[garbon]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czd831elpz5o

Call of Duty advert banned for trivialising sexual violence

An advert for a Call of Duty game has been banned by the UK's advertising regulator for trivialising sexual violence.

The commercial for Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 featured fake officers at an airport security check - as the real ones were too busy playing the game.

Viewers complained the video, which included a man being told to strip down while an officer put on gloves and said "time for the puppet show", was "irresponsible and offensive".

Gaming company Activision Blizzard UK Ltd said the ad promoted the 18-rated video game and was therefore targeted at adult audiences only, who had a higher tolerance for irreverent or exaggerated humour.

The spot ran on YouTube and video on demand services, including ITV and Channel 5, in November 2025.

It was one of several used to promote the latest game in the Call of Duty series.

The campaign featured the idea that replacements had to step into different job roles, because the original staff were playing Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 instead.

The ad in question featured an airport security setting, with one actor explaining they were the "replacers".

A man was then told he had been randomly selected "to be manhandled" before being told to remove his clothes down to "everything but the shoes", while the female officer put on a pair of gloves.

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) received complaints from nine viewers who believed the ad trivialised sexual violence.

Activision Blizzard UK Ltd said the ad had been reviewed by Clearcast, which provides pre-clearance of TV advertising, and had been approved with an "ex-kids" timing restriction.

It added it was not broadcast during or around children's programming or content likely to appeal to under-16s.

The company claimed it depicted a deliberately implausible, parodic scenario that bore no resemblance to real airport security procedures.

According to the firm, the ad in question did not sexualise the act of performing searches - and that the humour referred to discomfort rather than sex.

It added that even if some viewers inferred innuendo, it did not contain explicit content or objectifying imagery.

'Irresponsible and offensive'
The ASA said the story included a non-consensual, invasive search of a man passing through airport security.

However, it acknowledged the video did not include explicit imagery and the man remained clothed for its duration.

But the watchdog noted the humour was "generated by the humiliation and implied threat of painful, non-consensual penetration of the man".

The ASA concluded that the advert trivialised sexual violence and was therefore irresponsible and offensive.

It therefore ruled the ad must not appear again in its current form.

Two further complainants also questioned whether the ad encouraged or condoned drug use, due to a scene where the replacement officers picked up a prescription medication container and winked.

This complaint was not upheld by the ASA.

It is not the first time an advert for the video game series has been banned.

In 2012 an advert for Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 which showed armed men firing at a lorry was given a daytime ban by the ASA for scenes of violence and destruction which were "inappropriate" for young children.

 

[The Brain]

Anal exams aren't obviously sexual acts in normal countries, but I get that this is . Trivializing violence should be enough.

[garbon]

Anal exams aren't obviously sexual acts in normal countries

I hope in Sweden that they are at least performed consensually without an aim to cause pain.

[The Brain]

Anal exams aren't obviously sexual acts in normal countries

I hope in Sweden that they are at least performed consensually without an aim to cause pain.

Depends. You probably want to avoid those cheap fly-by-night basement anal exam clinics.