A_Random_Idiot
@A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
- Comment on The land before time 1 day ago:
until they start having drone malfunctions that result in concussions, sliced throats, and decapitation.
- Comment on The land before time 1 day ago:
Yep. There were many wrongful death lawsuits as well, i think which resulted in millions of dollars of payouts to families, and all the coverage really hit domino’s reputation to the point they finally dropped the half hour guarantee in the mid 90s because of the financial blows from reputation loss and settlements.
Though I wouldnt be surprised if they try to bring it back via drone deliveries.
- Comment on The land before time 1 day ago:
and the reason they stopped delivering within 30 minutes was cause it led to reckless driving and many, many, many traffic accidents and losses of life.
- Comment on Killing ownership is the method, killing the secondary market is the objective. 6 days ago:
Thats bullshit.
Gamestop killed physical stores. They bought out who they could, and did everything they could to crush the rest and push them out of business, until nothing but gamestop was left. and gamestop is an awful fucking company.
So, of course, perpetually online idiots decided to worship it and turn it into a meme stock that brought in unfathomable amounts of undeserved money.
- Comment on GOG seemingly shares that they are considering physical PC 'big box' games. Maybe? 1 week ago:
Yes, thats my point.
You have maybe a year, if you’re lucky, on a flash drive… and very few’d probably make it that far, and the ones that did would be egregiously expensive.
on optical media you have time that can be measured in decades, possibly even a century if proper storage practices are used.
That is a significant difference in stability
- Comment on GOG seemingly shares that they are considering physical PC 'big box' games. Maybe? 1 week ago:
you used to get all kinds of really cool and amazing shit when you bought games, maps, manuals, pewter figures, and more.
- Comment on GOG seemingly shares that they are considering physical PC 'big box' games. Maybe? 1 week ago:
You do realize that flash drives are not near stable enough for long term storage, much less archival storage, right?
- Comment on US Energy Secretary Chris Wright: “I'm thrilled to report that after 35 years, on July 4th, we will end the subsidies for wind and solar projects” 1 week ago:
Yep. Wind and Solar will generate power for the next 30-50 years.
a lump of coal will generate power for…what? 15 seconds?
- Comment on End of an era? 1 week ago:
No, this is just playstation continuing to hate their customer base.
They’ve always hated their customers. Between Sony, and Nintendo, I dont know who hates their customers the most… but they both certainly try.
and it doesnt matter, because they both have enough fanboys that strip off their clothes and gleefully dance naked and joyous in the rain of shit both companies sputter out of their assholes and down onto their customers.
- Comment on Newsflash pal 1 week ago:
Exactly the same thing.
- Comment on Newsflash pal 1 week ago:
And fiber really needs to be recognized as the essential nutrient that it is.
- Comment on Newsflash pal 1 week ago:
Every time you cook in a cast iron skillet.
- Comment on "influencers" are setting us back 1 week ago:
No, don’t just blindly believe professionals either.
Cause some of them a assholes who try to sow discord for their own personal profit.
Like Andrew Wakefield, who started the whole “Vaccines cause autism!” fraud, because he wanted to sell his own brand of vaccine and thought undermining faith in existing medicine would be a great marketing ploy.
and theres been tons of famous, formerly reputable doctors since, that have put down their ethics and picked up the snake oil since then. Like Mehmet Oz.
- Comment on Operation enduring algae 2 weeks ago:
Now I heard about Alex Trebek. That one made me sad.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
free advertising that they’ve been paid to make, cause that second hand game wouldnt exist if they hadnt already gotten their pay from someone buying it.
Used games are basically the companies getting paid, to advertise their games to others, who then… as long as they are a half decent company, would more than likely pick up more customers in the future than they would have had otherwise.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
True, but, and I dont want to be in this position, but its a little bit different having their game on their service, and epic going out and paying other companies to drop their games off steam before release so they can have timed artificially exclusivity on epic.
Those are two entirely different piles of bullshit.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Hence GTA Online, where whales can keep spending hundreds of dollars for shark cards because they cant hope to play the game enough to stay infront of FOMO with all the new cars and other shit they constantly release.
- Comment on GTA 6 Price Finally Confirmed, Features a 'Single-Player Experience' at Launch 2 weeks ago:
Yep.
Preorder the most expensive version, then cry about the state of gaming that they helped create.
We already went through this with videocards, where idiots paid scalpers ridiculously insane amounts of money for scalped cards cause they could not go without new shiny for 5 minutes… And anyone with a brain said its going to hurt gaming and video cards in the long run, because its showing amd and nvidia that people are willing to spend 2000 for a 500 dollar card.
and wouldnt you know it, card prices magically skyrocketed as soon as stock stabilized, and suddenly now the prices are unfair and insane.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
i doubt very seriously someones gonna pay 100 dollars for a 128gb ssd thats read only, to try to make it usable, when they can go on amazon and get one for 20 bucks
- Comment on Operation enduring algae 2 weeks ago:
Wow, i genuinely didnt know.
How the hell did he pass without there being a big hullabaloo over it.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Oh no, no no no. HL2 was far worse than that.
HL2 made you install the full game, off of 5 CDs, and it installed steam as well.
Then after the installation was complete, you had to register a steam account, and log in, so steam could decrypt your installed game, Which if you had a computer that wasnt bleeding edge in 2004, that your computer would be locked up and unusuable for a very long time. Mine was locked up for almost a full day processing the decryption.
And I still say, to this day, that steam is bullshit. That I shouldnt be forced to run steam for single player games, but back then at least steam was just a server browser/matchmaker. It wasnt the big pseudo-wannabe digital walmart+facebook that it is today… so you at least had an excuse to run it to play multiplayer games like HL2 deathmatch and CS:Source.
But requiring it for any single player game is the height of bullshit.
I wager most the people you find eagerly sucking off Valves cock as if its gods gift to gaming, are people 21 or under, who did not know a world before digital downloads, and who didnt know valve at their worst, before lawsuits and countries forced them to be marginally better.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
except no you cant, because the download keys already been used and registered.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Yep. Nevermind the fact that the second hand market is fantastic advertising for the companies and the quality of their games, and a surefire way to manufacture future customers.
I cant tell you how many brand new games I bought over the years, because I picked up a previous release used.
Hell, Final Fantasy is a fine example… I got FF4 used from a garage sale… which lead to me buying 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15… some of those games multiple times for new platforms.
One used game, translated into additional sales of almost every game that followed.
- Comment on GTA 6 Price Finally Confirmed, Features a 'Single-Player Experience' at Launch 2 weeks ago:
Always gotta be someone to white knight.
Won’t someone think of the poor companies, they are making record profits…but we should be paying more because they’re not making enough record profits!
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
HL2’s original release came on 5 CDs, so yeah, games used to be multiple disk. its no big deal. Course, thats in the before times, from the long long ago… When gamers werent so spoiled with broadband internet and instant gratification.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
20 blurays?
If the game is 500gbs in size, and costs 100 fucking dollars, then goddamn yes it better include a fucking dedicated SSD.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Even if the disk was in the box, it wouldnt matter.
It’d probably just be some basic files. You’d still have to download a bunch online and use the code in the box to activate it.
So, while I applaud giving the finger to rockstars exploitative bullshit, this seems more performative than anything.
- Comment on Operation enduring algae 2 weeks ago:
Not only did the chemicals turn the damn frogs gay, it turned them rainbow too!
- Comment on Operation enduring algae 2 weeks ago:
Dear God.
We need to pull Sean Connery out of retirement to save us from The Rock and hardplace we find ourselves stuck in between.
- Comment on GTA 6 Price Finally Confirmed, Features a 'Single-Player Experience' at Launch 2 weeks ago:
We saw the same thing for GTAV.
And singleplayer immediately got dumped and ignored the second Online came out and the idiots with more money than sense started dumping texas sized dumptrucks into rockstars lap on the daily.
