carotte
@carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Hello! I’m Chloé, a nerdy ace transbian :3
This is my Lemmy account that I don’t use super often. However, I am active on the microblogging side of the fedi at @carotte@toot.cat :3
pronouns are she/her
- Comment on Nintendo says users voluntarily paid higher prices, have no right to tariff refunds | Nintendo says Switch buyers got what they paid for, urges court to dismiss lawsuit. 1 day ago:
i think it’s a combination of two things:
- these people had an emotional attachment to nintendo and it’s games growing up, or knew someone who did, so thought very highly of it. when faced with the reality that nintendo is just like any other corporation, aka they only care about their profits and nothing else and will act accordingly, the fall from heaven was brutal.
- the main targets of nintendo’s shittiness are its own customers and fans. microsoft may be helping mass murder of people in Palestine, ubisoft is protecting the sexual abuse of their employees by management, rockstar is doing union busting… but gamers are none of these people. gamers are “consumers”, and highly lacking in empathy. so, in their eyes, nothing is worse than being “anti-consumer”. like, ask any gamer if they like ubisoft and, if not, why. they won’t talk about the sexual abuse, or crunch… they’ll talk about bad overpriced games and microtransactions.
- Comment on Nintendo says users voluntarily paid higher prices, have no right to tariff refunds | Nintendo says Switch buyers got what they paid for, urges court to dismiss lawsuit. 1 day ago:
Possibly the worst video game company.
microsoft aids israel’s genocide and ubisoft management protected serial sexual abusers…
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
oh yea even the site itself reeks of vibecoded
- Comment on Has there ever been a game whose name was intentionally suffixed with "2" despite no original game? lol 2 weeks ago:
it was a mediocre fighting game for the nes. it’s original title was mike tyson’s intergalactic power punch, but after the aforementioned mike tyson was arrested for sexual assault, it was renamed power punch II despite power punch 1 never existing.
the rumor goes that it was originally pitched to nintendo as a sequel to punch-out, but either because it was kinda crap or because of mike tyson’s arrest, it was rejected. but this is debated.
- Comment on France's left-wing presidential candidate has opinions on GTA 6 and the discless PlayStation fiasco 3 weeks ago:
France’s left-wing presidential candidate
it’s mélenchon, for those who were wondering
- Comment on Time to bring back physical media on PC? 3 weeks ago:
yea gog can fuck off but the way they do games distribution is how it should be for everyone imo
- Comment on Time to bring back physical media on PC? 3 weeks ago:
we need offline, drm-free installers and games that are not tied to the storefront you bought them in
- Comment on End of an era? 3 weeks ago:
that’s what i hate the most about this. “retro gaming and second hand” works now because everything was physical back then, and could be preserved. what will the people of the future have of us? nothing but memories of what will then be a digital graveyard. most of it unpreserved, even through piracy, because consoles are getting harder and harder to hack and emulate and companies are getting more and more litigious.
- Comment on End of an era? 3 weeks ago:
we can only hope
- Comment on End of an era? 3 weeks ago:
any company born after 1993 can’t make good products… all they know is exploitation, fire their workers, enshittify, be pink capitalist, eat hot cash & lie
(yes i know sony was founded before 1993 thank you)
- Comment on Sony Signals It’s Not Prepared To Sell PlayStation 6 ‘At Significant Losses’ 3 weeks ago:
what would even be the point of a ps6 really? in terms of graphics i feel like we’ve reached diminishing returns…
it’s just new hardware for the sake of it, to enable games that are even less optimized and look (& most importantly, play) almost identical to games released 10 years ago on hardware with a fraction of the power (and a fraction of the energy consumption…)
- Comment on #StopPayingGames 3 weeks ago:
that’s because it’s a company that’s mostly liked by people on lemmy (and presumably op), meanwhile those on their post are mostly hated. this post is just a way for people here to feel good about themselves for not buying the games they already didn’t care about by pretending it’s activism, but don’t you dare point out the shitty practices of the companies they like!!!
basically the entire video games industry* is based around the idea that you don’t own your games. this is obviously awful and needs to change, but i’m sorry, “just boycott the bad guys!!” won’t work when the bad guys is everyone, so to boycott them essentially means to stop engaging with gaming entirely. there’s a reason Stop Killing Games didn’t do a boycott, they did a campaign to get laws passed.
* except gog i guess, but they seem to like sending neonazi symbols to people’s inboxes so. pick your poison.
- Comment on Is Ace Combat 8 (Deluxe) worth getting for ¥11,990? 4 weeks ago:
in general, don’t pre-order stuff. wait till it’s out and then judge wether you think it’s worth it.
especially a digital game. pre-ordering a physical product can make sense if you’re afraid it’s gonna be out of stock, that’s not a concern with digital games. please don’t pre-order.
- Comment on The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Remake – Coming 2026 1 month ago:
no, now they’ve moved on to “re-[word that’s kinda linked]ed”
pvz replanted, epic mickey rebrushed, patapon 1+2 replay, more recently rayman legends retold…
- Comment on The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Remake – Coming 2026 1 month ago:
props to them for just calling it its name instead of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Reocarinated or whatever like all other remakes these days
- Comment on 1 month ago:
you could always wait till it’s over and then look at a summary. or look at every game you’re interested in afterwards.
there’s no point in watching ~40 minutes of ads lol
- Comment on Gog Promotional E-Mail Containing Nazi Symbols Goes Out to Subscribers 1 month ago:
to me it’s pretty clear that it was intentional. like ffs, they explicitly chose to send the email with that title everywhere except germany because it’s illegal to have nazi symbolism there. so obviously they knew! they realized what this came across as!
idk if it’s an edgy representative, and now they’re defending that rep or something (or maybe the rep is the one writing the shitty non-apologies)… but yea, i’m downloading all my offline installers and if they don’t have a real apology and commitment to not fucking do this again then my account is gone.
fuck GOG. the ai shit was bad enough, this is fucking unacceptable. i’d rather put up with steam’s drm than give money to neonazis.
- Comment on Google Has Decided My U.S. Spectrum IP Address is in Mexico 1 month ago:
because their developers are anglobrained and think all countries all monolingual blocks
- Comment on Valve has raised Steam Deck prices in the US 1 month ago:
have literally made personal computing unaffordable
…not if you buy our XBOX GAME CLOUD!!! and WINDOWS 365!!! rent forever and own nothing! the future is looking bright 🤑 /s
- Comment on Valve raises Steam Deck prices by more than $200 1 month ago:
even the base model is 1130$ without tax now 😭
i wished the steam machine would be below 1000$, but at this rate it will be over 2000 lol
- Comment on Nintendo is raising the price of the Switch 2, blaming 'market conditions' 2 months ago:
it’s called the Switch 2 because people who aren’t rich have to Switch 2 a different hobby
- Comment on 🐙 Octopus is Octopus 🐙 2 months ago:
2π: two pi
π: one pus
- Comment on Chocolate - The World's First Wii U GamePad Adapter for PC 3 months ago:
and with vanilla, you can use your computer as a gamepad, meaning you can connect your computer to your computer! truly exciting times we live in
jokes aside, this is really cool, and even using vanilla i could see it be possible to use any handheld console as a gamepad for your pc, that would be awesome for wii u/ds/3ds emulation especially!
- Comment on Killing the intellectual future of Iran. Science has no borders. 3 months ago:
one thousand new hamas’es, so they can continue to have someone to point to while they do their genocides
- Comment on Sources: Nintendo is planning a new Star Fox and a major Zelda remake this year, but no 3D Mario | VGC 3 months ago:
well yea, but we haven’t been starved on mainline mario content either. we had bowser’s fury in 2020, mario wonder in 2023 (not a 3d game but still mainline), and dk bananza apparently has a lot in common with 3d mario (tho i couldn’t tell myself, i didn’t play it)
- Comment on Sources: Nintendo is planning a new Star Fox and a major Zelda remake this year, but no 3D Mario | VGC 3 months ago:
- Comment on Switch 2 demand appears to be flagging as Nintendo reportedly lowers production 3 months ago:
it doesn’t, in fact the switch 2 seems to be cheaper in the us than anywhere else (except maybe japan)
msrp is 450$ usd in the us, 630$ cad (458$ usd) in canada, 396£ (530$ usd) in the uk, 700$ aud (487$ usd) in australia, and 470€ (545$ usd) in france
i don’t think the tariffs are having much of an impact, or more likely nintendo is charging everyone to cover them
- Comment on What's your opinion on post-game content? do you do it? or are you done with the game when the credits roll? 3 months ago:
i think it depends on the game, imo post-game stuff is especially cool in sandbox-y games where there’s many things to do, whereas games that are more linear don’t really need it
but what i hate more than anything is a game that won’t acknowledge you finished it. credits roll, you load your save and you’re back in front of the final boss. i hate that, it makes me feel like the game is in a perpetual state of never being completed. at least put a pretty medal on my save file or something
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 4 months ago:
it doesn’t look “more realistic”, it completely changes the character’s appearance: hair that looks dyed, redder, fuller lips, more prominent cheekbones, a more defined chin, and eyes that instead of kinda looking away avoidedly, now stare at your soul through the screen (although that one might be just the lighting, idk)
basically this except more subtle, but the idea is the same, make her look more attractive under the guise of realism. it’s gross on its own, but the implications are even worse imo, just giving gooner chuds the tools to turn any game into the porn of their dreams, fuck art amirite? it’s literally turning everything you see on the computer into slop
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 4 months ago:
oh i’m sure the “hire fans lol” gamer chuds will be over the moon about this
