TommySoda

@TommySoda@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The developers of PEAK, explaining how they decided on pricing for their game. ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but what about $7.99?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube sponsorship starter pack⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, their advertising obviously worked. We all recognize those names even though more than half barely even do sponsorships anymore or not at all. Instead of making commercials look like memes they just flooded the internet and let us make the memes for them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games that have now or will be turned 40, 30, 20 and 10 years old as of 2026⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s something I do that helps with “feeling old” when people point out things that happened 20 or so years ago.

  The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion came out 20 years ago, but what was I actually doing 20 years ago? I was like 10 or 11 years old in middle school and my brothers friend let him borrow the game over the weekend. I’ve basically lived two thirds of my life since then. My first job, moving out of my parents, my first apartment, getting my drivers license, my first car, my first real girlfriend, all of my neices and nephews being born, going to an amusement park for the first time, going to a movie theather for the first time, and basically everything else I can think of because I sure as shit don’t remember much before I was 10 years old. So pretty much everything important that has ever happened in my entire life was between the time of Oblivion coming out and now.

  So yeah, we are definitely getting older. But that doesn’t mean the time in between was just nothing. It feels like 2006 was yesterday because we often gloss over everything in between and don’t really focus on what was actually going on in our lives at the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As player numbers fall, Highguard makes the actually-quite-good 5v5 mode permanent⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like 75% of the hate for this game is literally just because they had a trailer at the end of the game awards that nobody liked. I kinda feel bad for the devs. The game isn’t amazing, but it doesn’t this much hate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ai generated logo⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder what the actual price comparison is for hiring an artist to do your logo or paying for a premium image generation service. At least an actual artist wouldn’t write “I just farted” all over the logo so there is that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Switch 2 sales stumble over Christmas⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, yeah. I already have one. My company gave me a $500 Amazon giftcard for Christmas even though I never use Amazon so I spent it on something I didn’t really want that. Besides that, even my neice amd nephew weren’t excited about it and were like “it only has like two games.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Its so transparently disgusting how ICE is occupying northern states where illegal immigration is hardly an issue. The aberration of slavery has never gone away in the USA.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, slavery was only abolished about 161 years ago in 1865 and the Civil Rights act was only about 62 years ago in 1964. A lot of the older people in our government were in their teens when the civil rights movement was going on. This isn’t some kind of past that we’ve left behind, it’s literally the present as our elected officials have carried their prejudices into old age. And these same boomers could have even had great grand parents that owned slaves.

  Yes, it’s generational hate that they’ve passed onto our generations. But that implies that those exact same people aren’t around anymore which they very much are and are running the government and making the rules. I mean, Trump was almost 20 when the Civil Rights Act was signed and I don’t think he was someone that was on the right side of that fight.

  Obviously I’m writing this from the perspective of a white person and what I’m saying sounds pretty ignorant, and I get that. But at the same time this seems to be something people with privilege seem to forget. We’ve definitely made a lot of progress in a short period of time but it’s barely been half a century. I’m sure most people of color have a family member that had to fight for their rights and were told about it when they were growing up and already understand everything I just said. Realistically we didn’t even make it past a couple generations before we went to… This. And it’s kind of pathetic and disappointing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can they????⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  As a feet guy, I will never forgive people like him that have turned the foot fetish into the joke it is today. Makes us all look like creeps and it’s almost impossible to bring it up in conversation in any serious way anymore.

  Also he’s kinda just an awful person. Most of the time he adds himself into his own movies it’s so he can be a creepy perv or so he can say the n word.

  Some of his movies are pretty good though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think Google execs keep a secret un-enshittified version of their search engine and LLM?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It doesn’t take a lot of tech skill to be an exec for a tech company. My guess is they fall into the same category as those that see the AI overview on Google and think “wow this is so much better” and never second guess the results.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Larian CEO Responds to Divinity Gen AI Backlash: 'We Are Neither Releasing a Game With Any AI Components, Nor Are We Looking at Trimming Down Teams to Replace Them With AI'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They honestly should have expected this given peoples visceral reaction to anything AI. Personally, I have huge problems with AI and refuse to play most games that have used it. I think it’s poisoning every creative industry and replacing important jobs while using vague the excuse that it makes things “easier.” I’m willing to give Larian the benefit of the doubt simply because of their previous games being amazing, but imma wait for the reviews on this one. This game is still going to be in development for another 4 years and none of us will no what’ll happen between then and now, but for now I’ll remain hopefully optimistic

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Maker Promises ‘Divinity’ Will Be ‘Next Level’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  With the money they made from BG3 they have the means to make Divinity the best it can possibly be and I couldn’t be happier for them. The first two Divinity games were great, don’t get me wrong, but they were basically low budget when compared to the money they got from Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast to make BG3. I imagine they basically have “fuck you” money now and can do whatever they want. I can’t wait.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American exceptionalism⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah but I just wanna eat cigarettes. They make my mouth all tingly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American exceptionalism⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, nicotine is a nature pesticide made by tobacco plants. It’s kinda the same with capsaicin and humans love that shit. In a life or death situation this would probably be preferable to dying, at least.

  Realistically this is probably an older manual and shouldn’t be followed to the letter. You should not be eating less than 2 cigarettes a day.

  No, seriously, don’t eat cigarettes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Introverts Rock⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, as someone that is an introvert and had social anxiety, the mixup does get a little annoying. Being an introvert with social anxiety when growing up was a absolute nightmare in my experience. Especially because I wanted to socialize but couldn’t bring myself to do it. It’s a constant back and forth between “I need alone time” and “I wish I could talk to people” and it made me hate myself for being introverted. Luckily I’ve managed to mostly get over it as I’ve gotten older and now I’m happy with being an introvert. Now I’m in your boat and most people don’t even realize I’m introverted until they get to know me more personally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fresh dystopian hell from Samsung fridges with ads.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but some people didn’t opt into it. I’ve worked on a lot of new construction in my state and they buy these appliances for every new apartment complex they build. I know people could choose a different apartment, but most people don’t have any other option and saying “no” to a decent apartment because of a refrigerator isn’t a luxury people can afford.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MAGA, splitting hairs.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t understand how they can even defend it. Best case scenario they are saying that raping women is perfectly fine as long as they’re old enough. I get that with some of the extreme MAGA out there really do believe this kinda shit, but I’m sure bullshit like this is why we see more and more people leaving MAGA every day. It’s no surprise that Republicans are getting absolutely destroyed in almost every election lately when you see what they act like and I feel like that will be their eventual downfall. They see these echo chambers online and believe that is an actual representation of what all republican voters think. A lot of people seem to forget, but most people still sit somewhere in the middle especially outside the internet. There’s still an argument to be had about how ignorant people were when it came to the election last year, but bitching about what already happened is never going to get us moving forward.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump Accuses Democrats of Sedition, ‘Punishable by Death,’ Over Message to the Military⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is coming from the actual president. The line between this being rhetoric and an actual order is very thin. The only difference is that this was a tweet, and we’ve already seen that can be enough for his people to act.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Coffeezilla] Exposing the Gambling Epidemic⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone that absolutely loves gambling and loves going to casinos to waste money with friends, I would never touch any of the shit that gets pushed on us on a daily basis. Unfortunately, a lot people that enjoy gambling do not have the forethought or impulse control to think “maybe I shouldn’t put the slot machine in my pocket” and instead think “you mean I can just do it from my pocket?” I’m not saying this as an insult to those that fall into it and I’m not saying that I’m better than them. There are definitely times I have considered it. Even now I’m fighting the urge to download an app and I don’t even watch sports!

  Gambling is being injected into every facet of our lives at this point and it’s genuinely hard, if not impossible, to avoid. People like to think that only stupid people fall for this but that’s not really the truth. Desperate and vulnerable people fall for it. People that want an easy way out of the financial hole that we’ve been put into. Unless you are upper middle class or higher, $100,000 would literally be life changing. And it’s pretty fucked up that they’ve made us all this desperate while they rake in millions of dollars off of us on a daily basis.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BattleBit Remastered is surprisingly alive - a huge Operation Overhaul update test arrives in November⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Last I heard there was a massive problem with cheaters and are planning a lot of microtransactions. Like, I’ve heard that in some cases every other lobby has a cheater. Not sure if that’s still an issue, but if it is imma still avoid it. It was definitely fun when it first came out and I hope they do something about the cheaters or already have done something about the cheaters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This was probably on the back burning and barely being worked on until they saw if Oblivion Remastered would be successful or not. They’re under Microsoft now and they could get shut down for any and every reason. And especially so if they waste money on developing a game that wouldn’t be profitable.

  As much as I hate the idea of remastering all their games instead of just making another fucking game, Fallout 3 is incredibly unplayable on modern PCs. You have to spend 5 hours modding it just to get it to work properly and even then it will still crash 4 times in the span of one day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Following Microsoft's mass layoffs, former Elder Scrolls Online and Blackbird devs form worker-owned studio⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is just a hunch I have, but I’m pretty sure the reason why so many high-end and very well made indie games are starting to outnumber triple A games is a direct result of layoffs like this. It’s not like all these thousands of people would choose a different career just because they can’t work on one specific company. And if we can get more games like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, I’m all for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Employees regularly paste company secrets into ChatGPT⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So what you are saying is that if I went to ChatGPT and asked super nice what [blank] company secrets were it would know the answer? There would be no way to fact check it, but I do find that incredibly funny.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EA CEO says company values will 'remain unchanged' under the new ownership of Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushner's investment firm⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I played it too and I 100% agree. However, I feel like it’s always a good thing to keep in mind is that the best time to play an online shooter is when it first comes out. That way you get to at least have fun before all the casual people move on to other games and the sweaty people are the only ones left. My friends convinced me to try Fortnite just a couple years ago and all that happened was I got stomped every match and was like “this is fun for you guys?” I’ve been playing Overwatch since release and it’s basically impossible to get a match I’d consider “fun,” so to speak. I just wanted to get in on the fun for Battlefield before it turned into all sweats. Now I’d prefer to just avoid it all together.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EA CEO says company values will 'remain unchanged' under the new ownership of Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushner's investment firm⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not gonna lie, I was pretty stoked for Battlefield 6. Haven’t played one since 3 and all my friends were gonna get it. Guess I’ll just go fuck myself and keeping playing Overwatch or something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chairman Comer Invites CEOs of Discord, Steam, Twitch, and Reddit to Testify on Radicalization of Online Forum Users - United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Who are the ones really celebrating his death? The ones that thought he was an asshole or the ones that are using his death in every way possible to push their own personal agendas? I betcha in private these people are laughing their asses off and being waaaay more disrespectful than any of us have been.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford Tells Borderlands 4 Critics To 'Code Your Own Engine,' Calls It a Game For 'Premium Gamers'⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Bro you didn’t code your engine either you just used Unreal Engine 5.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Streamer found dead in bed after '10 days of torture and sleep deprivation'⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Appreciate it. I’ll look it up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US | Republicans investigate Wikipedia over allegations of organized bias⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s why I just downloaded Wikipedia. I’d take an out of date one rather than an “approved” one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Streamer found dead in bed after '10 days of torture and sleep deprivation'⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are so many questions I have that the article doesn’t answer. Was the torture part of the stream? They vaguely mention “extreme” with zero context on what he actually did, so was it deliberate on his part or did someone do this to him? If this did happen on stream, why did nobody say anything until it was too late? I’m so confused about what this article is trying to convey.