jordanlund
@jordanlund@lemmy.world
- Comment on Let's discuss ideas how Game Pass should be structured and priced 2 days ago:
Personally, I think GamePass is a terrible idea.
The money developers get for GamePass “sales” isn’t enough to keep them in business, look at Tango Gameworks, who did Hi-Fi Rush. Great game, well received, lots of players.
Studio closed 4 months later.
If someone like Tango can’t survive on a game like Hi-Fi Rush, it doesn’t speak well for the business model.
So what you end up with are fewer games and lower quality games, it’s a race to the bottom.
Also, the push to digital only reduces the footprint in stores, so when people go to buy consoles, all they see are a bunch of old games, or (worse) no games at all, as we see in the Xbox section in Target and Walmart recently.
So GamePass encourages fewer games, lower quality games, a reduced footprint at retail, and ultimately, lower sales.
- Comment on Xbox Game Pass Ultimate Price Update - Xbox Wire 2 days ago:
How much was it before it was $29.99 a month? 🤔
Looks like it was $19.99 a month until they raised it to $29.99 6 months ago.
Still an extra $3 a month though!
- Comment on Top-selling video games ever (2025) 4 days ago:
If you’re going to include pack ins like Wii Sports then Windows Solitaire and Minesweeper smoke everything…
- Comment on Amazon started hiding ratings for some products 5 days ago:
For what it’s worth, I’m in the US Amazon app on Android and it states “96 customer reviews”.
Once I unchecked the box requiring verified purchases, it does in fact show 96 reviews.
- Comment on I realized 'Xbox One S' is one of the cheapest 4K player 1 week ago:
#1 reason I skipped that machine and waited for the Xbox One X. LOL.
- Comment on I realized 'Xbox One S' is one of the cheapest 4K player 1 week ago:
PS4Pro is Blu Ray only, the Xbox One S and X are both 4K UHD.
- Comment on I realized 'Xbox One S' is one of the cheapest 4K player 1 week ago:
Yup, but if you like gaming, you get more bang for your buck with the Xbox One X.
Plays Xbox One games with added enhancements that are not possible on EITHER the One S OR the Xbox Series S.
- Comment on The person who mounted a spice rack into the fucking studs so a fridge won't fit there 1 week ago:
I’ll get my mace.
- Comment on The person who mounted a spice rack into the fucking studs so a fridge won't fit there 1 week ago:
Step 1: Re-hinge the fridge doors so they open the other way.
Step 2: Back the fridge into the corner first, then pivot to the right until seated.
You can tell by the cabinetry, they had a fridge in there already, possibly one taller than this.
- Comment on Please just stop 1 week ago:
I was disappointed they didn’t mention Deadpool and Wolverine even once, but checking the date, the article was 2023 and the movie 2024…
- Comment on Game franchises you like, but wish were anothet genre of video game? 1 week ago:
Quite a few games as a service games look like they could have been turned into interesting single player story based games if, you know, someone bothered to write a story for it.
Brink for example had fantastic art assets and back story, but no actual story.
- Comment on Does the engine a game uses factor into your decision to buy it or not? 2 weeks ago:
More important is if the game looks and runs well.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
4K = 2160P
- Comment on How long until the rise of games with mods turns into user created games. 3 weeks ago:
Aliens: Total Conversion - 1994:
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
See that’s the thing, I’m not generally opposed to NSFW content, just certain categories aren’t my thing.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I remember my first trip to “All” going “Wow, that’s a lot of furry porn, anime porn, and furry anime porn…”
Then, just when I blocked all the requisite communities, someone started setting up dozens of AI porn communities… (sigh)
- Comment on What was the first game you ever bought ? 3 weeks ago:
Well, bought FOR me… Atari 2600 Combat (came with the system). I think I was 8 or 9? Totally worth it!
- Comment on I'm thinking of putting my cat on an all vegan diet. What are some good veggies and plant based proteins for cats? 3 weeks ago:
Cats are obligate carnivores. They can’t NOT eat meat of some kind.
If you don’t comprehend this or do but aren’t comfortable with it, then you should not have a cat.
www.britannica.com/science/nutrition/Herbivores#r…
“Some carnivores, particularly cats (family Felidae), are obligate carnivores, meaning they cannot obtain all the nutrients that they need from the plant kingdom and bacteria. In particular, obligate carnivores lack the enzyme needed to split carotene, obtained from plants, into vitamin A. Instead, these animals obtain vitamin A from the liver of their prey. Obligate carnivores are similarly unable to synthesize some essential very-long-chain, highly unsaturated fatty acids that other animals can make from shorter fatty acids found in plants.”
- Comment on I choose hating your job in unconventional ways. 3 weeks ago:
As someone who did 10 years in retail, this is the normal state of any display after being open to the general public for 20 minutes.
- Comment on Spicy spicy 5 weeks ago:
Coins #2 and 3 are too large and need to be moved farther down and now I can’t unsee that.
But you know what’s WORSE?
Mismatched book spines.
- Comment on Highguard will permanently shut down on March 12th. 1 month ago:
I can’t help but think there’s money in acquiring all these completed assets and coming up with a story based single player game around them.
The creative part is already done! Pop it into a non-GaaS structure and see what happens!
I’d have LOVED to explore the world of Brink and it was set up to be another Assassin’s Creed Assassins vs. Templars vibe… and it all fell apart…
- Comment on Designer claims ‘most’ of Highguard’s dev team have been laid off, weeks after launch | VGC 2 months ago:
There’s probably money to be made in purchasing the IP of these failed live service games and using the assets and art to make good single player games with an actual story.
I’d play the hell out of an Assassin’s Creed ish game in the Brink universe.
- Comment on Is the Xbox One X a good console/4k player in 2026? 2 months ago:
Xbox One X is still a better choice than the Xbox Series S.
Let me explain:
It has more RAM than the Series S, so Xbox One titles and backwards compatible titles will run with Xbox One X enhancements that the Series S cannot run.
It has a physical disc drive for backwards compatible titles, DVDs, Blu Rays, and 4K UHD movies. The Series S is discless.
The only downside are newer games that are exclusive to Series S/X, but really, how many are there? Cyberpunk 2077 plays on the One X.
The new Forza won’t run, but the older ones should!
Source: Put the Xbox Series X and PS5 in the living room, moved the Xbox One X and PS4 to the bedroom. Still use it!
- Comment on Games you really want to play, but can't or won't? 2 months ago:
Heard all the good things about Disco Elysium and found it on sale for the Steam Deck… Could not stand playing a character with traumatic brain injury. I thought I did something wrong generating the character, no, fanbase assures me that’s the way it’s supposed to be… Refunded it in less than an hour.
- Comment on "AI is Theft, I Have to Use It, Otherwise I'll Get Fired": GDC Reports One-Third of Game Workers Are Using GenAI for Daily Tasks 2 months ago:
They can, but they also don’t meet the corporate dictate of “Everyone use AI.” 😉
- Comment on "AI is Theft, I Have to Use It, Otherwise I'll Get Fired": GDC Reports One-Third of Game Workers Are Using GenAI for Daily Tasks 2 months ago:
Not at all wrong, just showing what can be done with virtually zero effort and time.
I could most likely perfect it in a few minutes more, still a fraction of the time of doing it by hand. I’m not extending a proof of concept to win arguments on the Internet. 😉
But as I noted at the bottom of the comment, which apparently nobody bothered to read, there are ALREADY royalty free libraries for this kind of thing. So it also has to be faster than searching libraries that are already there.
Of course that action is it’s own time sink as anyone who has gone looking for “the perfect font” can tell you.
- Comment on "AI is Theft, I Have to Use It, Otherwise I'll Get Fired": GDC Reports One-Third of Game Workers Are Using GenAI for Daily Tasks 2 months ago:
It did get maybe 90% there in a minute which is faster than a person would do it. Not a perfect tile, maybe take a few more interations. But not awful for cobbled together in a minute, and if your job is to come up with 50 or 100 different textures, still better than doing it by hand.
But as I noted, there are also already royalty free libraries for this stuff as well.
- Comment on "AI is Theft, I Have to Use It, Otherwise I'll Get Fired": GDC Reports One-Third of Game Workers Are Using GenAI for Daily Tasks 2 months ago:
Well of course not, AI did it in 1 minute. 🤣
- Comment on "AI is Theft, I Have to Use It, Otherwise I'll Get Fired": GDC Reports One-Third of Game Workers Are Using GenAI for Daily Tasks 2 months ago:
I could see using AI for tasks that are so mind numbing and mundane it might actually be cruel to make a human do it.
“I need a perfectly tileable concrete wall texture for a video game, make it light gray with random spots of yellow and white paint.”
Took about a minute.
But then, if you’re going to do THAT, there are already royalty free libraries where it’s already done.
- Comment on sorting of Roman numerals 2 months ago:
The files are sorted by the numeric year first, up to 1950.
The two files for 1950 are together, as they should be.
But the letters are sorted alphabetically, so XI comes before XV. It doesn’t see that they are numbers, it’s reading them as letters.
If they want it sorted correctly, they should rename the files:
“1950 - 018
1950 - 019”That would work. Interestingly enough, so would:
“1950 - Eighteen
1950 - Nineteen”
