A_Random_Idiot
@A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
- Comment on AAA Dominance Is Eroding: 56% of PC Gaming Revenue Now Goes to Games Outside the Top 20 12 hours ago:
i mean, its also sears, premium store premium pricing.
I bought FFVII on launch day from Best Buy for 49.99.
- Comment on Ancient Proton Calendar prophesies End of World in 2038 19 hours ago:
fuckin farmers alliance taking what would have been a brilliant retro gaming domain
- Comment on Ancient Proton Calendar prophesies End of World in 2038 22 hours ago:
Can we change the integer to an 8bit one, so we can get the apocalypse over with already? I’m tired of being doomedged.
- Comment on AAA Dominance Is Eroding: 56% of PC Gaming Revenue Now Goes to Games Outside the Top 20 22 hours ago:
This is whats wrong with gaming.
idiots being too eager to throw ever increasing amounts of money at companies, to get what they used to get for 50, with zero self awareness that they are the cancer thats killing everything.
- Comment on Why is gaming becoming so expensive? The answer is found in AI 1 week ago:
Yeah, and you are conveniently skipping over the most relevant part.
Lowest price history for cyberpunk 2077 is 20 bucks. 20 bucks for a 5 year old game is ridiculously overpriced.
Grand Theft Auto never goes under 15 dollars, which is over priced for how old the game is.
I personally wouldnt consider borderlands AAA games, but congratulations, you found the one game that had an actual legitimate sale and age related price drop with Elite: Dangerous, with the base games lowest sale price recorded as 2 bucks. WIth it currently on sale for 5. for a 11 year old game. Which is what the prices should be for an old game, and what all the other games should be doing once they are out of their content window.
Also, you don’t have to be so goddamn dismissive and hostile. I gave an example of my argument. Did you expect me to spend 3 weeks researching so i could produce a scientific paper detailing every game that is over priced?
- Comment on Why is gaming becoming so expensive? The answer is found in AI 1 week ago:
Brother, this isnt 2004.
AAA games rarely go on sale anymore, Dragon Quest Builders 2 is like 7 years old, and still 50 bucks, and last sale it went down to 25. 25 for a 7 year old game is just brutal absurdity.
and I just use that as an example, its the same almost across the entire board.
The only saving grace in gaming right now is indie games. Which are typically affordable.
- Comment on Why is gaming becoming so expensive? The answer is found in AI 1 week ago:
a humble bundle subscription pays for itself a dozen times over, too.
- Comment on I choose hating your job in unconventional ways. 2 weeks ago:
i get the hunts pasta sauce in a huge fuckin can for like a buck. Raos is definitely for people that think a banana costing 10 dollars is cheap and affordable.
- Comment on Jensen Huang says gamers are 'completely wrong' about DLSS 5 — Nvidia CEO responds to DLSS 5 backlash 4 weeks ago:
I’ve said this before, and I’ll say it again.
Nvidia is destroying gaming.
They started the destruction with the idea of 4k gaming.
When they realized native 4k gaming wasnt going to be feasible… They knocked gaming to the ground and started kicking it in the ribs with this upscaling bullshit, because who doesnt live a 1080p picture shittily stretched to 4k?
And they curb stomped it by making video cards cost more than what most people make in a fucking month.
and they’re beating its unconscious body with bats over this DLSS5 AI obsession bullshit.
and at every step of the way, the gamers were there to deliver dumptrucks of money because they don’t give a fuck about ruining everything as long as they can have their new shiny. Being in the cool kids club by having a new shiny is more important than the havok they are wrecking with their decisions to support this shit.
But don’t worry…They’ll still go online and cry about the unfairness of it all.
- Comment on When people recommend Brave browser. 4 weeks ago:
This makes me think that the people who install brave, are the people who, 15-20 years ago, would have a IE install that was half toolbars.
God…remember all the scammy toolbars for IE? and how they could take up half the damn screen on some peoples machines?
- Comment on When people recommend Brave browser. 4 weeks ago:
Whats going on with RetroArch? I havent really paid attention/kept up since I set up my last Raspberry Pi.
- Comment on When people recommend Brave browser. 4 weeks ago:
I thought people gave up on Tor years ago when it was revealed that it wasnt anonymous at all due to all the entry and exit nodes controlled by governments and spy agencies.
- Comment on Antiwoke Straight of Hormwin 4 weeks ago:
Oh god they are trying to do Plowshare 2.0.
- Comment on Xbox just revealed Gaming Copilot is coming to "current-generation consoles" later this year 4 weeks ago:
I just wish the end would come already.
Tired of watching the goddamn preamble.
- Comment on Why are public school teachers so underpaid in the US? 4 weeks ago:
because education teaches kids how to think and to know right from wrong.
Which is why the cabal of fascist pedophiles have spent the past 50+ years trying to demonize it.
- Comment on What does the acronym MAGA stand for? (wrong answers only) 4 weeks ago:
Molesting Adolescent Girls Anywhere
- Comment on Artist whose work was used in Marathon without permission now has a credit in the game 5 weeks ago:
They better be getting a fuckin paycheck too.
Don’t get to steal peoples work, then go “oopsie”, slap their name in credits, and think alls well.
- Comment on Avocado. Is it really so untasty or I am doing something wrong? 5 weeks ago:
are you not even putting salt and pepper on it?
Cause thats the most barebones way to eat it… Its okay just by itself, but it really needs at least salt and pepper, if its not part of a larger recipe or something.
- Comment on I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion. 5 weeks ago:
and every forum had rules against bumping, typically only once in 24 hours, and only like once or twice. It was never a problem, much less as egregious as you try to paint it to be.
and I’d still take that any day, over the toxic miasma of gamification, advertising, and multibillionaire control we have now.
Honestly, I dont know how anyone can say that the days before gamification, before adpocalypse, before billionaire hijacking of the internet for their own personal ends, is worse than what we have today. It borders on either lunacy, or propaganda.
- Comment on How did internet viruses spread before the internet was invented! 5 weeks ago:
You would get a floppy disk that had a virus buried in it in addition to the game/software.
It’d infect your computer, then embed itself on every floppy you’d make, some of which you’d inevitably trade with friends or whatever, thus infecting all their systems, so all floppies they’d write were infected, and they’d eventually trade with others, and so on and so on and so on.
- Comment on I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion. 5 weeks ago:
I am one of the few people, it seems, that can not for the life of me remember my ICQ number… but I was there, using it.
Anyone remember Trillian? Having your Yahoo, AIM, ICQ, Messenger, etc all in one program…
- Comment on I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion. 5 weeks ago:
upvotes and gamification of human interaction ruined the internet and are directly responsible for the extremity of discourse today.
The internet was so much better before that shit.
Which is also the era before social media, because as far as I’m aware, social media introduced those addiction driven gamification mechanism for what should be, by now, clearly obvious reasons to even the most thick skulled individuals.
- Comment on Xbox as a platform is officially dead 5 weeks ago:
Yep, and I wager the steam machine is probably going to be, at minimum, 50% more expensive than valve planned it to be, which more than likely will kill it on arrival as far as price/performance goes.
Will there be die hards who buy it no matter the price? yeah… but i wager it’ll see a fraction of sales that the deck did, due to ram and storage price bullshit thanks to AI fucking everything up.
- Comment on What do you think might happen if Luigi Mangione isnt found guilty? 1 month ago:
he’ll be swept up by ice for existing, spend 3 weeks in a Totally-Not-Concentration-Camp™ before being deported via airdrop to somewhere in the middle of the Sahara, to far from towns and travel routes to get help before dying of exposure.
- Comment on Your teenager AND your husband 2 months ago:
- Comment on Would the United States actually risk a Tiananmen Square incident? 2 months ago:
Would the United States?
No.
Would Trump?
I don’t think theres a single thing that Trump wouldnt do, he is such a infantile, reactionary, egomaniacable manbaby that I can see him doing literally anything, if it makes him feel powerful or if he thinks it’d give him some kind of edge/opportunity.
- Comment on Trump audibly loses control of his bowels during a press conference - via Forbes Breaking News 2 months ago:
Didnt the recent epstein dump reveal he shits himself because he got stabbed in the ass by one of his epstein victims or something?
- Comment on If the color of the Sun was orange, wouldn't the clouds and everything white also be orange? My friend is adamant that 30 years ago the "real" Sun was orange but got replaced with a white LED. 2 months ago:
I’m not being reductive.
You’re just being an ass.
This is the equivalent to someone asking what color is the sky. Someone saying its blue, then you coming in spending hours flailing your arms desperately screaming “THE SKY ISNT BLUE, IT ONLY APPEARS THAT WAY DUE TO THE COMPLEX NATURE OF THE INTERACTION OF SOLAR LIGHT ON THE MOLECULAR COMPOSITION OF THE UPPER ATMOSPHERE TO MAKE IT APPEAR BLUE”, Then getting big mad when someone goes “So its blue then, thanks”
- Comment on If the color of the Sun was orange, wouldn't the clouds and everything white also be orange? My friend is adamant that 30 years ago the "real" Sun was orange but got replaced with a white LED. 2 months ago:
So yes, LEDs are hot.
- Comment on If the color of the Sun was orange, wouldn't the clouds and everything white also be orange? My friend is adamant that 30 years ago the "real" Sun was orange but got replaced with a white LED. 2 months ago:
Literally all I said is large LED arrays get hot. I did not say that there is nothing hotter in the world than LEDs. I didnt say LEDs were the only source of heat in the universe. I said nothing, but that LED arrays don’t run cold as the original commenter thought.
You’re the one thats spent this entire time trying to “Well ackshually…” and wring your hands in desperate argument to prove a point that no one was making or even talking about.
And you want to call me an idiot for it.
