Tattorack
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- Comment on 'Oh god': There's a buried Steam help page that shows how much money you've ever spent on the platform, and you may not want to know 1 day ago:
Humble Monthly is awesome.
- Comment on Dune Awakening shares new screenshots and confirms the ever-present threat of the Sardaukar | Massively Overpowered 3 days ago:
Unless I’m mistaken, this game should basically be Conan Exiles but Dune (hopefully with improvements over Conan Exiles).
If this is indeed correct, then it should be possible to play the game offline single player, or set up your own server to play with your friends.
- Comment on Anon is a statistic 5 days ago:
Hmm…
This is some combination of right-wing gun-toting and sexism. A very… wonderful combination.
- Comment on Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version 1 week ago:
I’m tired of all the pixel art indie card games.
- Comment on I really need these games ported to Steam. What do y'all have on your lists? 1 week ago:
Crash Nitro Kart. Still stuck in exclusivity hell. Also salty Toys For Bob got canned for no good reasons.
- Comment on Clean butt 2 weeks ago:
Bottle of water. Wash with hand.
- Comment on Anon is worried about men 2 weeks ago:
I remember a picture of a train from “the good old days” where everyone was with their face in a newspaper and not interacting with anyone.
I remember reading about complaints against younger generations spending too much time reading novellas rather than living in the real world and interacting with people (was around the time the industrial printing press was invented).
- Comment on First-party Switch 2 games—including re-releases—all run either $70 or $80 2 weeks ago:
Hmm… I’ve heard a few things about Sonic All-Stars too. Guess I should give it a shot.
Would be cool if Crash Nitro Kart isn’t still a PlayStation exclusive…
- Comment on First-party Switch 2 games—including re-releases—all run either $70 or $80 2 weeks ago:
Can’t wait to wait 2 years and then pirate it.
But besides that; are there any good PC kart racers?
(Emphasis on “good”, because I already know about Super Tux Kart, used to play it a lot more than 10 years ago, but today it feels very… Clunky and dated).
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 Launches on June 5th Worldwide; 1080p Screen With 120 FPS and HDR Support, Docked Mode 4K Resolution Support Confirmed 2 weeks ago:
You can download and keep the installers forever in your personal storage somewhere, and install them without the need of Internet connection.
When you buy a game from GOG you’re buying without DRM and have all the installers available to download as backups. Regardless of what the fine print may say, this is effectively owning your games forever.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 Launches on June 5th Worldwide; 1080p Screen With 120 FPS and HDR Support, Docked Mode 4K Resolution Support Confirmed 2 weeks ago:
Yup. Install either Heroic or Lutris (though Heroic is a little better). I think there’s also a plugin to allow you to access Heroic through the Steam frintend, but in Desktop Mode, when installing a game through Heroic, it’ll add it to your Steam library, which means you can access it in Game Mode too.
- Comment on The Switch 2 Nintendo Direct Will Be 60 Minutes Long, Nintendo Confirms 2 weeks ago:
For the past 20 years that also included fun gimmicks. They sometimes fail, as with the Wii U, or were good but… Kinda just a gimmick, like the 3DS. But Nintendo has been making their consoles pretty unique from every other console. The DS format and the Wii are still very unique consoles. The Switch 2… Not so much…
I don’t doubt the Switch 2 will see success, but how it’ll stand out from everything else like the Switch originally did is still a question.
- Comment on The Switch 2 Nintendo Direct Will Be 60 Minutes Long, Nintendo Confirms 2 weeks ago:
That first part really resonates because I experienced the DS lite. I didn’t see many phat NDS consoles, but kids everywhere had a DS lite. Mariokart did insanely well on that console, but not just because it was Mariokart, but also because of the download play feature.
It seems like Nintendo wants to replicate something like that through it’s virtual game card sharing feature. But it also seems like it’s a feature on the original Switch, so I wonder what new things they’ve planned.
I too will be surprised if the Switch 2 does better than the Switch. The 3DS, arguably the real sequel to the NDS, as opposed to the DSi, didn’t really touch the same highs that the DS lite did.
- Comment on The Switch 2 Nintendo Direct Will Be 60 Minutes Long, Nintendo Confirms 2 weeks ago:
I’m honestly curious is the Switch 2 will follow in that success.
Credit where credit is due; lots of kickstarters and small private companies have tried making something like the Switch for years, but very few people knew or cared about them. Then Nintendo pulls it off, which leads to the Steam Deck, which then compells a whole market to spring up for similar format devices.
Now there is a market, with competition from all sides, and Valve seems to be the one most are talking about for this format. Besides crushing emulators, how will Nintendo compete?
- Comment on The Switch 2 Nintendo Direct Will Be 60 Minutes Long, Nintendo Confirms 2 weeks ago:
Maybe that’s the point. You begin the video, the host says “Hello, and welcome!”, then you immediately stop the video having just watched 15 seconds.
“That was a pretty interesting Nintendo Direct!”
- Comment on GOG seems to be considering paid membership option 2 weeks ago:
The only one that sounds good to me, perhaps, are the voting rights. I’d pay for that. Patreon artists and creators do this sort of thing, and if this is something GOG needs to do to get by, then fine by me.
Downloading offline installers/backups, however… That would be locking away a feature that exists now to everyone that has bought a game. That means locking away a feature from customers who have spent money on a product already… Likely for the explicit point of being able to get installers that don’t need an online connection. If they choose to do this, they’d be desfeting their own purpose.
For context; I bought most of my games on GOG. I don’t really buy games anymore, and my Steam library is low absolutely massive, however. Both of those reasons are because I’ve been subbed to Humble Monthly for a few years. But ultimately when I go looking to buy a game, my preference is to buy from GOG specifically because it’s offline and DRM free.
- Comment on Ubi, it's $70 and people are vary of your mile wide puddles that drop 75% in price after half a year 3 weeks ago:
It was not skillfully made or imaginative. It was a very basic toybox of exotic nonsense about Samurai wrapped around a premise similar to Dances With Wolves.
- Comment on Ubi, it's $70 and people are vary of your mile wide puddles that drop 75% in price after half a year 3 weeks ago:
It can be a bit of both. You can tell a good story that also stats true to the historical events. Not being being able to do that shows a lack of skill and imagination.
- Comment on Ubi, it's $70 and people are vary of your mile wide puddles that drop 75% in price after half a year 3 weeks ago:
Except The Last Samurai isn’t remotely historical.
Tom Cruise’s is very roughly based in a French admiral. That admiral got sent specifically to Japan to create political relations with a certain faction of Samurai to further French interests there. The French admiral was made samurai as honorary title and put into service of the household.
During the final battle (which was a castle siege, and both sides were using guns), the French admiral was released from service and sent home.
If a movie or a series were to be made of this, and if it were to be somewhat accurate, it’d be closer to a political thriller with some battles in between.
- Comment on Ubi, it's $70 and people are vary of your mile wide puddles that drop 75% in price after half a year 3 weeks ago:
I thought so too in the beginning. But the English character in that series is more of a… Useful tool that gets used. He has no agency and he never realises it throughout the entire series.
- Comment on Ubi, it's $70 and people are vary of your mile wide puddles that drop 75% in price after half a year 3 weeks ago:
Joke’s on you; neither are OK. The Last Samurai is only good to those with weird exotic ideas about Samurai, Japan, and that time period.
Would be cool if there was a series about the actual French admiral that movie is based on, and all the political miandering that happened in that time.
- Comment on Assassin’s Creed Shadows devs roast Elon Musk amid feud with Hasan 3 weeks ago:
This is… None of this is important.
Bloody hell, people in the comments getting worked over a social media altercation… On Twatter of all places…
- Comment on Devs of Monster Crown: Sin Eater a 2D monster taming RPG want to 'take that concept to its absolute limits' 3 weeks ago:
You know, when you combine the term “2D monster taming RPG” with “absolute limits” literally everyone is going to think taming and fucking.
Anyway, Cloud Meadow exists so they got competition…
- Comment on fetching bleach after this one 3 weeks ago:
The twitter LLM huh? I guess we’ll soon hear Musk throw a tantrum over this on his feed.
- Comment on fetching bleach after this one 3 weeks ago:
This… Gotta be a photoedit or an AI-gen, right?
… Right…?
- Comment on 6 years and 1 prolonged delay later, Xbox is still calling "incredible" Hollow Knight: Silksong one of its "upcoming games" 4 weeks ago:
True, but some pretty good clones have come out since Hollow Knight, so it’s not impossible.
- Comment on 6 years and 1 prolonged delay later, Xbox is still calling "incredible" Hollow Knight: Silksong one of its "upcoming games" 4 weeks ago:
It doesn’t have to be the best game of all time. It just has to be at least as good as Hollow Knight.
- Comment on SMH 4 weeks ago:
Hmm hm… And what preventable diseases did people die of? What was the percentage of child death? How many people died from infection due to injury?
Also, blaming this on “white dudes” is throwing every other civilization that developed medicine, farming, and housing under the bus.
- Comment on EA's Skate Gets Microtransactions Before Its Release Date 5 weeks ago:
So, EA as usual.
- Comment on Book now for 2025's most on-theme cruise destination 5 weeks ago:
It was at an odd angle.