carotte

@carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games that have now or will be turned 40, 30, 20 and 10 years old as of 2026⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  fun fact:

  Crudely made diagram showing the distance between Super Mario Bros and New Super Mario Bros is 21 years, and the distance between NSMB and now is 20 years.

  :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bears or no bears?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  kinda, not really

  arctic, from ancient greek ἀρκτικός did mean “of the bear” originally, probably as a reference to the constellation (cause i don’t think the ancient greeks ever went to the arctic to confirm if there were bears or not)

  antarctica doesn’t mean “no bears”, it means “the opposite of the arctic”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG now using AI generated images on their store⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  if it’s any consolation, some people at GOG don’t like it either, so maybe they’ll revert this and won’t do it again

  this sucks, still. to me this just sends the message that GOG doesn’t care and will not put much effort into what they do. that’s not a good message to send when you’re selling yourself as a games preservation platform…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG now using AI generated images on their store⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  "we care about games being DRM-free, and fucking nothing else this is our only value lmao"

  • GOG, presumably
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Me too⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  okay what’s up with everybody making the same joke and pretending it only applies to them lol

  3 examples of the same joke

  Les 11 saisons au Québec: Hiver, Printemps des fous, Deuxième hiver, Printemps des faux espoirs, Dernier hiver du tabarnak, Saison de la bouette, Vrai printemps, Été, Faux automne, Deuxième été (une semaine), Vrai automne Canada’s 10 seasons: Winter, Fool’s Spring, Second Winter, Mud and Allergies, Hope, Summer, False Fall, Second Summer, Fall, Hello Darkness My Old Friend 11 Seasons of the Midwest: Winter, Fool’s Spring, Second Winter, Spring Deception, Third Winter, Mud, Actual Spring, Summer, False Fall, Second Summer (lasts one week), Actual Fall

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft target audience when they play a good game⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  that makes sense. maybe the mod they installed causes steam to not count the hours.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft target audience when they play a good game⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  is the time shown on steam reviews accurate? cause i’d guess that it takes more than 12 minutes for a casual player to finish half-life 2

  in fact i checked and the world record in speedrunning is around 36 minutes lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Randezvous 📅⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  it is your fault (collective, not individual) you didn’t change the spelling

  rendez-vous’s spelling is perfectly regular in french

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pet Peeves with Games?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  i can confirm that pokémon is normal and lets you have multiple switch accounts with multiple saves on one console. which is actually a big improvement, because pokémon never let you have multiple saves on one cartridge, so on older consoles you did have to buy multiple cartridges! (thankfully you could share the console because the save was on the cartridge, not the console)

  on switch, animal crossing is the only game i can think of where there’s only one save per console. and even then, i think they added save slots in the latest update

  5 years later… meh. better late than never i guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘As usual, we do what Nintendon’t’: Peripheral firm ‘fixes’ Switch 2’s new Joy-Cons⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  to save you a click: the “problem” that was “fixed” is that the new joycons weren’t colorful enough. so dbrand (the “peripheral firm”) made decals with more prominent colors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  nintendo is having its PS3 moment

  a comically overpriced console with few interesting exclusives made by an arrogant company high on the success of its predecessor

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video games where you get to kill US soldiers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  if you wanna do that tho, keep in mind that they’re owned by microsoft, so pirate them if possible

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Best-Selling Video Games Since 2020⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  i’m wondering if the boycott had adverse effects and promoted the game in more gamer-centric spaces that otherwise wouldn’t have cared that much

  obviously it’s a harry potter game, it was always gonna sell well. but 2nd best selling game of the last 5 years??? ouch

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Among 2025 games with over 10K reviews, Deltarune is the most highly rated⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  honestly surprised so few people mentioned deltarune during the GOTY discussions

  maybe because it’s not technically fully released yet?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG is Getting Acquired By Its Original Co- Founder: What It Means For You⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  and what purpose would that serve lol

  dividing resources and confusing people just for what? so you can feel good having a store with the 3 retro pc games that haven’t been gobbled up by microsoft, ea or atari?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Speedy Delivery⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  clown-to-clown conversation

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s keep the comments civil folks and remember that none of this actually matters and nobody really cares lol

  then why make the video lmao

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Skyrim on Switch 2 ships with severe input lag and a huge 53GB file size despite being capped at 30FPS⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  tbf mojang is a special case, where they’ll release their game on a new platform, it works fine, and as updates come in it gets worse and worse

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Skyrim on Switch 2 ships with severe input lag and a huge 53GB file size despite being capped at 30FPS⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  yes but have you considered that:

  nintendo bad 😡

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨6🤷‍♀️7⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  its funny to see millennials and older gen z making fun of younger gen z and gen alpha for their brainrot

  …as if the nyan cat, rage comics, and vine clips weren’t pretty much the same thing lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Jamaican accent just makes me smile⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  i am aware of what creoles and pidgins are, yes. making fun of them is racism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Jamaican accent just makes me smile⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  i agree, and maybe in a better world it wouldn’t be racist (it would still be glottophobic tho, but to what degree that is considered problematic depends tbf, “haha french sucks” jokes are glottophobia as well and that seems fine by most people)

  but we do not live in this better world where racial & colonial power structures are irrelevant, so making fun of Jamaican creole and Pidgin (as another commenter in this thread did…) is still fucking racist

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Jamaican accent just makes me smile⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  are you saying this to bait me or are you so obtuse as to think it’s the translating part i have an issue with, and not the “haha look this language is so silly! 🤣 this is better than therapy! 🤣” part

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Jamaican accent just makes me smile⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah that’s just racism

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We can play that game too⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  opinion: individualism is a plague and the generational war is a distraction

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An unsettling indie game about horses keeps getting banned from stores⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  but can that content be removed without changing the game? they already changed her from a kid to a grown woman, because it fit the story and the message better, apparently. but would removing that entirely still work?

  idk, i haven’t played or analysed the game. i’m guessing that it’s there for a reason. but i do know that demanding content be changed because it makes us uncomfortable is not a good thing!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An unsettling indie game about horses keeps getting banned from stores⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  iirc the game was refused by steam before the payment processor thing, and even then, you don’t scrap your whole project because of one moral panic. not only is it bowing down to pressure, it’s also just a terrible idea financially

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh no!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  admittedly “charlie kirk stan” was maybe not the best way to describe it (i got this from other people), he hasn’t posted much about him (other than to mourn his death lol), but

  Screenshot of a tweet by @awesomekling: In recent years I’ve attended multiple software conference talks that had unrelated extreme political rhetoric in slides, such as “fuck [name]” and “punch [group]”. Whenever this happened, some of the audience would clap and cheer, I’d roll my eyes, and the talk would get back on topic. Fast-forward to today, and look at how many people in our industry are openly celebrating the murder of someone they decided was a “nazi” and “fascist”. Turns out these people were more serious than I thought. As someone who’s repeatedly been called a “nazi” and “fascist” myself for disagreements with far-left ideology, I know how easily those labels get thrown around. And honestly, this is making me seriously reconsider which conferences I attend. There’s a hateful rot within our industry. It shouldn’t be socially acceptable to cheer for murder. We need to do more than roll our eyes.

  apparently he thinks the software industry has a nazi-hating problem??? lmao