PieMePlenty
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- Comment on What MMORPG are you playing, and why? 2 days ago:
Played many over the years and while playing think of how GW2 implemented this specific thing and become nostalgic for GW2 and start playing that again. New world was fun for a while, but I missed magic (literally), so I started gw2 again and went through two expansions over 4 months, burned out and am now 1.5 years MMO sober.
GW2 is cool like that. No subs, respects your time, many players drop in and out every few years. It’s getting old but I hope it never dies.
- Comment on I guess I'm just a cubicle monkey now 2 days ago:
Nah, you’d be on a field till your neck sweat reached your ass crack. You had to be born into nobility to be a knight… sort of like how you have to be born into riches to not be a [insert profession] monkey.
- Comment on Diablo 1 and 2 devs secure $4.5 million for a new ARPG: 'We're going back to what made those early Diablo games feel so awesome but taking them in some cool, fresh directions' 3 days ago:
T1 was enough to scratch an itch. T2 was the complete experience. Never tried T3. I remembe they made it an MMO at first but changed it later? No clue.
- Comment on The $700 price tag isn’t hurting PS5 Pro’s early sales 3 days ago:
Its a good machine for that but theres nothing unique about it (steam link on phones and natively on TVs as an app is theoretically free). I did play through the whole Days Gone (60 hrs to platinum) by streaming it from PS4 to deck in my bed. Good experience.
- Comment on The $700 price tag isn’t hurting PS5 Pro’s early sales 3 days ago:
The reality is, deck can handle most games out there in handheld mode. For the latest and greatest games, visual fidelity has to be sacrificed. While the deck has its used on the TV, it’s not a good choice if that’s all you will be using it for.
My deck, TV docked experiences have been with Mario Kart wii, doom 3, cuphead, SOMA, Scorn, Stray and a bunch of older 2d and 3d titles. I think it handled these games well. Not so sure it would be the same with “AAA latest and greatest”.
- Comment on Diablo 1 and 2 devs secure $4.5 million for a new ARPG: 'We're going back to what made those early Diablo games feel so awesome but taking them in some cool, fresh directions' 3 days ago:
I thought OG Diablo devs made Torchlight, which is an excellent game.
- Comment on Thief has a new spiritual sequel, built by the Deus Ex and System Shock devs 1 week ago:
Well… saying something is a spiritual successor to deus ex and then saying it is a multilayer title is doing what exactly? Clickbait? In what way is it a spiritual successor then? I dont mind mp, I mind being misled.
- Comment on NBC News Does Entire Piece Trying To Link CEO Shooting To ‘Violent Video Game’ 1 week ago:
Correlation is not causation. I agree that vidya doesn’t cause crime, but the correlation is not proof of that.
- Comment on Perspective 1 week ago:
“Instead of getting rid of the orphan crushing machine, they found out it was easier modifying it to accept CEO’s as well. Now it is an ‘orphan and CEO crushing machine’.”
- Comment on Reactor goes brrr 2 weeks ago:
Isn’t molten salt just energy storage? Heat up salt when you have excess of energy, take heat out when you need it. The worst disaster there is just the container melting.
- Comment on Binary search 2 weeks ago:
Aaaaaaagh, why cant you talk this way to people?! Life would be so much easier! Why didnt the argument go down well?! Is the cop stupid?! Binary search works! The guy was correct! God damnit, why must people be so unaccommodating, even when proven their accomodating would not take long?
- Comment on The first Pokémon TCG pocket promo set is almost complete with its latest release 2 weeks ago:
All games are like this. You spend real money for items you can only use in game and not be able to get money back. Gray market aside…
Diablo 3 tried a real money auction house and we know how that went. Crypto has potential in bridging macro economies to real world economies but that’s not going so well either.
The ironic thing is, we like it the way it is. Games want to spend money on items they can’t sell back. I dont understand why but it doesn’t matter. I dont partake. You don’t have to either. I play the new pokemon game and don’t spend real money. I get that choice, and for now, I’m happy not giving them anything.
- Comment on I wonder why people litter in the USA? 3 weeks ago:
I distinctly remember a few scenarios where I heard they do. Maybe it’s not can return policy but as scrap metal. This article mentions it, too.
- Comment on I wonder why people litter in the USA? 3 weeks ago:
All you need is a can return policy and some homeless.
- Comment on Persona vs Main Series 3 weeks ago:
I thought this game was about going to school and dating.
- Comment on Sony Working on Handheld Console for PS5 Games to Rival Switch [Bloomberg] 3 weeks ago:
What is interesting is that streaming gaming has not filled this market space and on device processing is still more favorable. If you think about it the ps5 streaming controller thing is already a portable ps5, they just have to move the processing to their servers. If anything, this tells us streaming is just not there yet for the vast majority and portable consoles will continue to do their own processing for the foreseeable future.
- Comment on This world is cruel… 4 weeks ago:
Never forget step 1.
- Comment on Nintendo has lowered its Switch forecast after sales fell 31% 1 month ago:
When it comes to playing Hades, Balatro or Brotato, I have had zero issues with the deck. It is literally a console experience there. Verified (green) games will just work and are indictive of a console experience. Playable games (yellow) dont represent a console experience. Small text, having to bring up a keyboard manually, launchers… these things arent something you’d see on a console. Unverified games and emulation require the most tinkering and thats when you really get to experience it as a PC.
In its default state, playing only verified games, only in handheld mode, without external controllers - the deck is a fine machine and offers a console experience. Dock it to a TV, start using more controllers, fiddle with yellow games and that experience is gone. I absolutely appreciate I have the option to do so and not be locked out of it - thats why im a Deck person and not a Switch one.
My point is the deck cant replace a switch and the switch cant replace a deck. They complement each other fine.
- Comment on Nintendo has lowered its Switch forecast after sales fell 31% 1 month ago:
Because it’s a console, not a portable PC.
The switch offers a console experience. Everything just works and works well.
The deck offers a console-like experience. The majority of PC games work, some may have issues, some may not be suited to the form factor. You can play console games on it but not out of the box.
I say this as someone who doesn’t own a switch and uses their deck every night. I absolutely see the type of person who would buy a switch and the type of person who would buy a deck. They both have valid points for doing so and I’d never recommend the other device to them.
- Comment on A Video Game Flopped Harder Than Anything At The Box Office This Year, And The Mainstream Press Barely Noticed 1 month ago:
They story should have been how a $200m investment into a live service game failed. An investor who knows jack shit about games reads that and now thinks live service games are a risky invetment strategy.
- Comment on PS5 FPS preferences 1 month ago:
If you are into the classic battlefield games at all, maybe try Battle Bit?
- Comment on Is Lemmy an effective alternative to Reddit? 2 months ago:
Heres the thing, this is what huamns are. A shithead may be a shithead to one but a golden god to another. A truly open forum will reflect that. Moderation effectively splits different views and both can thrive without interaction with one another (echo chambers). I personally dont mind extremist views because it reminds me they exist and I am of sound mind to ignore them. However, I know not everyone is and I know the dangers of letting extremest views go unchallenged. I doubt technology can help us here. Education can probably do a lot more. We need to be better humans, accepting of others and critical of ideas instead of people.
- Comment on Tough Shit 2 months ago:
I one held a shit in for a week. Literally 7 days. I was in the hospital and forbidden from using the toilet and using the portable bag toilet in the room with 6 others was not gonna happen so I held it in. Nurses gave me laxatives because they were concerned but I beat them too.
After finally being allowed on the toilet, I basically filled the bowl to the top and clogged the toilet. Yes, it hurt. I now know why and I’m never doing it again.
- Comment on What We Don't Talk About in "Spec Ops The Line" 2 months ago:
- It’s been overhyped a bit.
- It’s not getting any better with age.
You should probably just play it when you get a weekend to yourself. It’s not that long and it’s worth playing through.
- Comment on You're not you when you're dooming. 2 months ago:
One more plastic wrapper for the fire!
- Comment on Why does the PC gaming industry still use such deceptive pricing? 2 months ago:
I don’t know how to feel about Nintendo pricing. On one hand, all of their games keep their value long after release, but that also means they are hard to get cheaply. I know when I sold my 8 3DS games a few years ago, I made about 230 eur which was pretty good for some used games. I dont play their games anymore but I’m not sure I’d even want to now since they never drop in price.
- Comment on Stop killing games 2 months ago:
From what I gather, you want specifics in an initiative. You are getting ahead of yourself. What this initiative signals is the need for change and legislation in video games. If passed, the next step is sitting down with representatives of both consumers and video game producers where specifics are drawn.
You don’t start an initiative with specifics. If you start an initiative that way, you are presenting a one-sided list of demands where the only representation is the consumer. Unless people start dying over shutdown video games tomorrow, this is the only good shot at actually getting some consumer protections in this industry.
If you want change, you will sign this petition. If you don’t, you won’t. It’s as simple as that.
- Comment on Anon tries smoking for the first time 2 months ago:
I quit cold turkey for a few years, but missed it the whole time.
Sounds like addiction. This is what i dont want. I dont want to miss something that isnt good for me.
- Comment on Steven Spielberg is ‘a big PC Gamer’ — loves shooters, and insists on keyboard and mouse 2 months ago:
Mouse for aim, wii nunchuck for movement.
- Comment on Ubisoft comes crawlin' back to Steam 2 months ago:
And those “reasons” were plentiful. Most importantly is their market share. From a purely business perspective, if a distributor has 200% more users and charges 100% more while offering the same features, they will be the better choice - purely from en economical perspective. 30% is ok because you will reach a larger audience and if so many publishers disagreed with Steam’s cut, they wouldnt all come crawlin’ back would they? In other words, the market dictates the price and the market has decided that price is 30%. It doesnt matter who does or doesnt defend it. Thats what it is.