A_Random_Idiot
@A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
- Comment on Game prices should have increased with every new generation, former PlayStation US boss says 5 hours ago:
You don’t consider reviews influencers because you are a sane person with two functioning neurons to rub together.
- Comment on Game prices should have increased with every new generation, former PlayStation US boss says 5 hours ago:
You DO realize the entire point of a review is to influence others, right?
No, the entire point of a review is to inform others.
But keep trying. I’m sure you’ll get it one day.
- Comment on Game prices should have increased with every new generation, former PlayStation US boss says 1 day ago:
Cant even rely on reviews anymore… I forget what game it was, but there was a game had a massive pay to win scheme in the game… that was only added on launch day, so the reviewers copies didnt have it… So they gave glowing reviews on the gameplay, without the game having the pay to win store and all the gameplay nerfs that encourage using it.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
subscribing to humble monthly is also a good way to amass games on the cheap. not as cheap as free, of course, but still better than most sales.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
Everyone is.
I don’t buy new releases anymore.
Why?
Cause the prices are getting stupid. Cause its all digital downloads with no physical product. Cause my “ownership” can be revoked at any time by the platforms whims or the platforms shutdown.
What happened to digital downloads being cheaper, anyway? Thats the promise we were sold 10+ years ago. That by sacrificing physical products, Publishers/Devs wouldnt have to pay for printing, manufacturing, shipping, storage, etc, so they’d be able to sell AAA new releases for 30 dollars, and Pub/Dev would still make more money.
And now we’re supposed to be paying 60, 70, 80 dollars or more, for these digital download games… that we don’t even own?
Fuck that. Amazing how the only promise fulfilled on moving to digital download was that pubs/devs would get more money… and they get that by skyrocketing the costs, not because of the sacrifices we made to give up boxes, disks, manuals, and ownership/
- Comment on Did you have one of these? 1 week ago:
always wanted one of these things.
great for lamps that are otherwise a pain to get to to turn on/off.
- Comment on hygiene 1 week ago:
Yeeup… That kind of shit (in both the literal and figurative meaning of the word) is why I hate any public/shared/not my at home shower.
- Comment on hygiene 1 week ago:
I am glad to have, now, a permanant place of residence within the warehouse of your trauma. 💩
- Comment on hygiene 1 week ago:
5 bucks says he doesnt wipe his ass after shitting, or wash his ass in the shower, so has a perpetual skidmark, possibly even full blown melted toblerone.
- Comment on hygiene 1 week ago:
yep, if showers smell like shit, its cause theres shit somewhere.
- Comment on hygiene 1 week ago:
There are an awful lot of men that are so insecure and terrified that they think touching their own ass to wipe/wash it makes them gay… So they don’t wipe/wash their ass at all.
And thats why they, the things they touch, and the areas they congregate, always smell like shit.
It smells like shit, because it IS shit.
- Comment on Mastercard release a statement about game stores, payment processors and adult content 2 weeks ago:
Now this is the kind of movement I can get behind.
- Comment on Slurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrp 2 weeks ago:
its some serious cyberpunk 2077 shit.
I can see someone slinging a cyberdeck pinging a drink machine to infiltrate the LAN.
- Comment on Slurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrp 2 weeks ago:
And it still should be.
Cause its stupid. This is even dumber than walgreens replacing freezer doors with LCD screens that don’t let you see whats inside.
- Comment on The Steam controller was ahead of its time 5 weeks ago:
That sounds super useful for simulator games.
- Comment on The Steam controller was ahead of its time 5 weeks ago:
whole new buttons or just remap face button functions?
- Comment on If I found voter irregularities in my home district do I have to hire a lawyer to prove it.? Or just let it go and the Florida Orange win? 5 weeks ago:
Pointless.
You’d need 500 signed affidavit to be taken seriously.
- Comment on If I found voter irregularities in my home district do I have to hire a lawyer to prove it.? Or just let it go and the Florida Orange win? 5 weeks ago:
A lawyer would be if you were harmed
A lawyer can also help guide you through the legal and procedural issues. Lawyers are not for just if you are harmed.
It would probably also you a bit more legitimacy, if you can get a known lawyer helping you… Cause any crank can make a claim, but a known lawyer wont risk their reputation/license/job on happenstance with little evidence.
- Comment on Venmo overdrafted my bank rather than use the balance in my account 1 month ago:
No thanks, I prefer cash. Credit cards and debit cards can be disabled at a whim. Prone to being fucked up by computer error, don’t work when the internet is down, or during a disaster with no power.
Cash always goes through, though. Cash will always remain king.
- Comment on Venmo overdrafted my bank rather than use the balance in my account 1 month ago:
ATM networks are typically for withdrawing money without a fee.
I dont think I’ve ever seen one that lets you deposit your cash at, for example, a gas station atm or anything… Feels like there’d be way too many liabilities… but who knows, maybe there is one that lets you.
- Comment on Venmo overdrafted my bank rather than use the balance in my account 1 month ago:
Online banks have one major drawback, and that is the difficulty they typically have with getting cash into them.
Checks/Transfers/Etc? no problem.
But cash is a big PITA.
- Comment on Young men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman 1 month ago:
Seriously. I’d love some free healthcare.
I’d probably be able to be more functional if I had proper healthcare.
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale 2025 has begun! 1 month ago:
i remember one year there was a game i wanted all year
and it came up on flash sale finally for like 95% off, and steam shit the bed for two hours and I couldnt check out, presumably from the crush of purchase attempts.
I emailed and asked if they’d honor the price given the issues on their side, and they said no, I missed the sale. Not gonna lie, that kinda heated me up quite a bit, cause I didnt miss the damn sale, I wasnt able to check out cause their end shit itself.
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale 2025 has begun! 1 month ago:
discounts were much deeper. because devs/publishers were more willing to give a 90% discount to their newer games if it was for 2/4 hours.
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale 2025 has begun! 1 month ago:
they were easy to get if the game was a scam or if you had serious unresolvable technical issues, but not so easy if you just impulse bought a game and regretted it.
Australia sued Valve due to their refund policy and Valve changed the refund policy to what it is today.
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale 2025 has begun! 1 month ago:
“WAH, WAH, HOW DARE PEOPLE LAMENT THE FACT THAT THEY USED TO BE ABLE TO AFFORD THE ONLY ESCAPE FROM THE HELL THAT IS REALITY!”
- Comment on Signatures skyrocket for Stop Killing Games campaign after big youtubers take up the cause, resulting in 100k signatures in 2 days. (Details on how to help in text body of post) 1 month ago:
looks like GamersNexus is covering it on their consumer advocacy channel
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale 2025 has begun! 1 month ago:
I’ve only had 3 refunds.
2 on the old system, 1 on the new system.
All were accepted, because all were for technical issues that made them literally, factually unplayable.
So Yes, because it wouldnt change anything for me.
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale 2025 has begun! 1 month ago:
Summer Stale.
I miss the old sales, when games had deep discounts and the deals cycled like every 2/4/6/8 hours.
- Comment on The end of Stop Killing Games [Accursed Farms] 1 month ago:
and he acts like a 12 year old hopped up on meth and red bull.