ICastFist
@ICastFist@programming.dev
Just your typical internet guy with questionable humor
- Comment on Shart of The Deal 23 hours ago:
I recall a political cartoon back when Gaddafi was killed, it was Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (then president of Iran) and Kim Jong Un watching the bombing of Lybia under USA flag, with one asking “What message do you get from this?”, and the other replying “Build more nukes!”
- Comment on Shart of The Deal 23 hours ago:
2mil yuan is roughly 292k dollars. No idea how much that is compared to other shipping costs
- Comment on Shart of The Deal 23 hours ago:
Prolly the same reason mainstream media “forgot” to mention Operation Cyclone back in late 2001 and early 2002, or how they intentionally swallowed the screamingly obvious bullshit of “Iraq has WMDs”
- Comment on Does the engine a game uses factor into your decision to buy it or not? 1 day ago:
If I see it’s Unreal 5, I fully expect it to look like shit and perform weird, so it has some weight on my decision.
- Comment on Apple's chips are winners, but Windows fails help it most 1 day ago:
Even a “cheap” macbook neo is way out of my league in regards to price. 7299 BRL, which is over 1400 USD, for the cheapest option (256gb drive. The 512gb version is 8499BRL, 1635 USD). With that much money, I can buy a laptop with a GTX 3060 and still have some money left.
- Comment on Rough time to be a woman. ☕ 1 day ago:
Must be “Clown Car Vagina”, only because it reminds me of an old demotivational poster
- Comment on The best defense 2 days ago:
That newt is all wet, too. What a slut
- Comment on Why are Clark and Lois such terrible people and parents in Superman & Lois? 3 days ago:
Failed to give proper education, it seems
- Comment on Wrong answers only - what is this? 6 days ago:
It’s a midi keyboard for beginners
- Comment on A Game Pass for indie games: meet Indie Pass, a $6.99-a-month subscription launching with 70 titles 6 days ago:
No, thanks
- Comment on Anon makes a big mistake 1 week ago:
a place with a ton of freedom to say what you liked would have more creative people?
Grave mistake, especially when you’re dealing with anons. You don’t even need 4chan anons, any place with complete anonymity and zero moderation will devolve into a horror show of the worst humankind can offer
- Comment on What was the worst movie to game adapation you've played? 1 week ago:
Shit, I keep forgetting I had that game, the controls were fucking awful. I think I only ever managed to get to level 4 once or twice. It came with my console (along 13 other games, I think, including Crash 3, Mega Man Legends and Gran Turismo)
I only watched the movie some 3 years after first playing the game, when it aired on local TV. It was weird. I also recall reading somewhere that some movie game deals were made before the movies’ script was finished, so that would explain the game being completely “out of place”
- Comment on What was the worst movie to game adapation you've played? 1 week ago:
I learned to avoid those early on, so I haven’t played many games based on mives.
Of the ones that i actually played, it must’ve been Batman Forever on SNES. I never figured how to get past that part in the first fucking level, where you’re expected to press up + select at a very specific spot
- Comment on Anon wonders what went wrong 1 week ago:
There are mental effects at play, too. Men can get too anxious or, as I find more probable in anon’s case, too used to getting a lot of different visual stimulation
- Comment on Anon wonders what went wrong 1 week ago:
Anon probably discovered he can’t get hard for actual sex during one lucky opportunity
- Comment on Utroba Cave in Bulgaria 1 week ago:
That would explain the shape
- Comment on 7 words you can’t say, then and now 1 week ago:
That’s a lot of no-no words for climate stuff.
I wonder what MSI is supposed to be, I only know about the computer parts company
- Comment on 7 words you can’t say, then and now 1 week ago:
Falconing*
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Be careful when dismounting, you might end up yeeted at mach 5 in a random direction
- Comment on If someone opened a store and just sold stuff at cost, which undercuts every other competitors by alot. Would this not for the big corps to come way down on their prices? 2 weeks ago:
The difference between you doing that and a megacorp doing that (amazon) is that the megacorp has a lot of money to keep doing that for years
- Comment on it really do be like that 2 weeks ago:
SOMTING ME DOIN?
- Comment on What's the weirdest argument you've gotten into with someone? 2 weeks ago:
“Because the people had to be awake to change channels, so you could tell” - I recall him saying something along these lines
- Comment on What's the weirdest argument you've gotten into with someone? 2 weeks ago:
Had a RPG colleague try and argue that getting data on TV viewers’ habits was more reliable than what Netflix could have on their own users, because “[Netflix] doesn’t know whether the person is actually sitting down and watching, or sleeping on the couch”. I couldn’t get through his thick skull that TV viewers’ habits aren’t magically measured, only a small percentage of homes, usually only in the largest metropolitan city no less, have (or had, in the past) some specific equipment that tracked which channels were being viewed, while any internet service can get super accurate info on their users.
- Comment on Why Everyone’s Picking Up a PSP Again in 2026 (my article!) 2 weeks ago:
Man, I gotta check how the battery for my PSP3000 is, and the microSD card on it. The internals work perfectly, those two things are the only ones that seem likely to give out anytime soon. My little buddy is 14yo now. I don’t think I ever played any of the 3 UMD games that came with it, I immediately jailbroke it after purchase
It’s not “retro” in the same way a much older console is. It’s closer, more relatable, and maybe more importantly, more usable. It still fits into modern life without needing to be explained.
I think this is something extremely important. Looking at stuff from 20 years ago was much different when the current year was 2006 - we’d be looking at the mid 80s. Computers of the 80s and even the early 90s became obsolete fast, whatever you had in 2006, even if it was 4 years old at the time, felt light years ahead of anything from 1986 and would be internet capable.
Games from the 80s were also comparably “archaic”, as the hardware limitations were much more significant and several then current games could never happen in that old hardware (NES, C64, ZX Spectrum, Amiga 500), and that’s ignoring graphical complexity. Meanwhile, a number of current day games could exist in 2006, so long as the graphics were appropriately scaled down (Total War games being a perfect example).
- Comment on Why Everyone’s Picking Up a PSP Again in 2026 (my article!) 2 weeks ago:
Are there decent microSD to their proprietary card format adapters? Because there are plenty of cheap microSD-MSduo for the PSP
- Comment on Why Everyone’s Picking Up a PSP Again in 2026 (my article!) 2 weeks ago:
One of my favorite, unexpected gems was Kenka Bancho. You’re a bancho (high school delinquent badass) and you have 7 days during a school trip before graduation to punch other school banchos into submission to prove you’re the best of all banchos. A real shame that only one game got localized, there are several others in the series.
I was also sad that Maverick Hunter X didn’t get sequels, so it became the sole 3D remake of Mega Man X, but it’s really good and you can even play as Vile. Speaking of Capcom, you could also play Monster Hunter 1, 2 or 3 on your PSP. I spent a significant amount of time on 2 and got nowhere near the mid game. I kept getting my ass handed by some bosses. Kushala Daora became my arch nemesis. On the other hand, beating Basarios was a piece of cake with bow and (piercing) arrow
- Comment on Give it 6 months 2 weeks ago:
Day 6, I’m starting to think that Suleimania is a much better sounding city name than Alexandria
- Comment on What are your hallmark games? What games have shaped how you view games? 2 weeks ago:
Doesn’t look like it goes into the millions of damage per hit, which is what I recall seeing back then
- Comment on That's how the world works. 2 weeks ago:
Good thing I have a couple of acquaintances that have small farms and produce, so if shit goes downhill, I know where to offer my labor
- Comment on Babe, what's wrong? You haven't even touched your..... 2 weeks ago:
