jordanlund
@jordanlund@lemmy.world
- Comment on Pet Peeves with Games? 1 day ago:
Happened with me in FFVII back in the day… Doing well, had to take a 2 week business trip, got back… “Wait, did I just GET to this town or was I LEAVING this town?” No clue what I was doing, I may have just started over…
- Comment on Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period 1 day ago:
Even in the days of memory cards you could back up saves to other memory cards…
- Comment on Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period 2 days ago:
Yeah, but you don’t give pirated goods as gifts. 😉
I still have the OG Advance Wars carts for my GBA.
- Comment on Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period 2 days ago:
I picked up Advance Wars 1+2 Reboot for my kid for Christmas. $60 still after coming out in 2023.
nintendo.com/…/advance-wars-1-plus-2-re-boot-camp…
(* “My kid” - He’s 29, he should br buying his own games! LOL.)
- Comment on Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period 2 days ago:
The Switch 2 is the first console I’ve just outright skipped in… well… years now. I guess since the Wii U?
Just every piece of news about it as it was coming out made it sound less and less appealing…
$70 games (that never get discounted because Nintendo.)
Games aren’t “games”, they’re download keys.
Special SD cards that are more expensive.
Microphone support requires a subscription after 1 year.
Charging $10 for a hardware demo that should be included, like Desk Job on the Steam Deck.
And, like you say, the remote detonation option, which is burning legitimate players:
gadgetmatch.com/nintendo-switch-2-lawsuit-bricked…
Generally with new hardware it’s “Hey, what’s not to like?”
With the Switch 2 it’s more “What is there to like?”
- Comment on Capital i and lowercase L look the same in pretty much any sans-serif computer font 2 days ago:
Like “O” and “0” in some fonts. The O is slightly fatter.
In the case of Il, the l is slightly taller. Don’t get me started on |.
- Comment on Arc raiders is a horrible game 1 week ago:
The mere presence of griefers eliminates this from PVE:
ign.com/…/we-just-started-i-have-nothing-retired-…
Until they come up with servers where PvP is prohibited, PvE isn’t worth discussing.
- Comment on How Are You Guys Handling This? 1 week ago:
With current pricing, it’s going to be tough and that’s no joke.
Even the new Steam Machine is being predicted to be around $1,000.
indy100.com/…/steam-machine-price-cost-release-da…
The era of $600 gaming PCs is 1-3 years ago now.
(NGL - I still want a Steam Machine. :)
- Comment on How Are You Guys Handling This? 1 week ago:
I’ve consistently refused to buy in to Game Pass. I still buy physical games where available. If it’s only digital, I’ll get the Steam version for my Steam Deck.
- Comment on New Year's broadcasts behind paywalls 1 week ago:
CNN is not a broadcast network.
- Comment on Ars Technica’s Top 20 video games of 2025 1 week ago:
Yeah, weird how he skipped the universally acclaimed game of the year.
- Comment on Ars Technica’s Top 20 video games of 2025 1 week ago:
It’s not #1, it’s alphabetical. 😉
- Comment on "i can hear the difference" 2 weeks ago:
Rebadge them with a fancy name and sell them for $20 to the gullible. 😉 “Toroid Choke Core”.
- Comment on I have an idea ☝️ 2 weeks ago:
This was actually a thing in Hogwart’s Legacy, you had the option of capturing and breeding animals.
- Comment on "i can hear the difference" 2 weeks ago:
My favorite story along these lines…
Someone compared Monster cables to un-bent coat hangers.
gizmodo.com/audiophile-deathmatch-monster-cables-…
“Seven songs were played while the group was blindfolded and the cables swapped back and forth. Not only “after 5 tests, none could determine which was the Monster 1000 cable or the coat hanger wire,” but no one knew a coat hanger was used in the first place.”
- Comment on Video Game Physical Software and Hardware Sales Just Had the Worst November in the U.S. Since 1995 - IGN 3 weeks ago:
And more significantly, the Switch 2 is for kids. There’s no sizable youth market for the Steam Deck.
But out of all the handheld PCs, the Steam Deck is #1, so that should give you some idea about the sales on the others. 😉
- Comment on Video Game Physical Software and Hardware Sales Just Had the Worst November in the U.S. Since 1995 - IGN 3 weeks ago:
I was looking at getting a Switch 2 MicroSD card for a gift and shit’s bonkers, yo.
I get they changed the standard for the Switch 2, but $300 for 1TB?
- Comment on Video Game Physical Software and Hardware Sales Just Had the Worst November in the U.S. Since 1995 - IGN 3 weeks ago:
I say this as someone who loves their Steam Deck… Steam Deck sales are insignificant compared to consoles.
6 million in 3 years:
birchtree.me/…/steam-deck-sales-numbers-are-in-an…
The Switch 2 has sold over 10 million, June to September. 3 months. There has been another 3 months since then.
- Comment on Picture test for how old you are 3 weeks ago:
I don’t like this.
- Comment on Video Game Physical Software and Hardware Sales Just Had the Worst November in the U.S. Since 1995 - IGN 3 weeks ago:
If the disc exists, yes, but I’m talking about going to a store on launch day and not being able to find the big new release.
- Comment on Video Game Physical Software and Hardware Sales Just Had the Worst November in the U.S. Since 1995 - IGN 3 weeks ago:
Yup!
- Comment on Who Thought Bob Odenkirk would become action hero 3 weeks ago:
I missed “Nobody” until “Nobody 2” came out, both great flicks that likely opened this action door for him.
Nobody:
Red Band trailer:
Nobody 2:
- Comment on Video Game Physical Software and Hardware Sales Just Had the Worst November in the U.S. Since 1995 - IGN 3 weeks ago:
If it goes all digital next generation I won’t be bothering. I didn’t leave gaming, gaming is leaving me.
Cool, cool, plenty of backlog to get through…
- Comment on Video Game Physical Software and Hardware Sales Just Had the Worst November in the U.S. Since 1995 - IGN 3 weeks ago:
This is about physical sales, not digital.
- Comment on Video Game Physical Software and Hardware Sales Just Had the Worst November in the U.S. Since 1995 - IGN 3 weeks ago:
For physical software, it’s super hard to buy it if stores aren’t stocking it.
The Xbox section doesn’t really exist at Target, Walmart, or Costco anymore, and it’s on the way out at Best Buy. Naturally that’s going to have an impact on sales.
Further, Microsoft doesn’t seem interested in physical sales anymore. I probably would have bought Avowed if it existed in meat-space, it doesn’t. I had a really hard time sourcing Indiana Jones and Outer Worlds 2.
On the hardware side, I already have this generations worth of hardware (PS5, XSX, Steam Deck), and I’m not interested in all the baggage on the Switch 2.
Plus, hardware prices are up.
So the surprise would be if sales hadn’t gone down.
- Comment on ¡! FREE REFILLS !¡ 3 weeks ago:
“The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. And I knew we’d get into that rotten stuff pretty soon. Probably at the next gas station. We had sampled almost everything else, and now— yes, it was time for a long snort of ether. And then do the next hundred miles in a horrible, slobbering sort of spastic stupor. The only way to keep alert on ether is to do up a lot of amyls—not all at once, but steadily, just enough to maintain the focus at ninety miles an hour through Barstow.”
Hunter S. Thompson - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- Comment on My kid got me a part time job for Christmas... 3 weeks ago:
That’s not a bad idea. I’ll need to measure the space once the shelves go up to get a better idea. Thanks!
- Comment on My kid got me a part time job for Christmas... 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, the pattern makes it intentionally hard to tell. It’s a vacuum formed plastic square with 4 circles.
- Comment on My kid got me a part time job for Christmas... 3 weeks ago:
I dunno if they’re transparent enough for that, would be worth looking into.
- Comment on My kid got me a part time job for Christmas... 3 weeks ago:
There’s an 10" gap between the bookshelves and the ceiling I’m trying to do something with. 😉