catloaf
@catloaf@lemm.ee
- Comment on Metal Gear Rising is seriously overrated 2 hours ago:
Oh, you should look at their post history.
- Comment on Marvel Snap is banned, just like TikTok 20 hours ago:
LAN play
- Comment on Marvel Snap is banned, just like TikTok 1 day ago:
You have it backwards, oligarchs are controlling the media
- Comment on Marvel Snap is banned, just like TikTok 1 day ago:
They invested money, I don’t remember hearing that it got them any share of the company.
- Comment on Investigating USB-to-Ethernet Dongles With “Malware” Claims 1 day ago:
Both chips have an external SPI Flash option, which is used with the USB side to present a ‘virtual CD drive’ to the user when the dongle is plugged in.
Ah, the bad old days of device drivers. I don’t miss them at all.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Dev Fuels Nintendo Switch 2 Direct Fever With a Picture of a Chocolate Cake 2 days ago:
It’s marketing, and they do it because it works.
- Comment on After shutting down several popular emulators, Nintendo admits emulation is legal 3 days ago:
No shit, it’s been case law since the 90s (Bleem, Connectix). The recent cases haven’t been about emulation, but decryption keys lifted from the BIOS.
- Comment on Report: Switch 2 Announcement Expected This Week 6 days ago:
Only if I have to for Metroid Prime 5, if I can’t play it on Switch or emulate it.
- Comment on Nintendo Responds to Leaks: "Not Official" 1 week ago:
You can be backwards compatible without just being a hardware revision. Look at the Wii, while it’s definitely built on the GameCube, it has many more features
- Comment on Doom in an art gallery 1 week ago:
Isn’t this an art gallery in Doom though?
- Comment on Nintendo Responds to Leaks: "Not Official" 1 week ago:
Nintendo has never really cared about their competitors.
- Comment on Sony shows off conceptual immersive gaming tech that lets you stand in a TV box and sniff The Last of Us 1 week ago:
The sense of smell is very powerful.
- Comment on Naughty Dog Co-Founder Reveals Why They Were Acquired By Sony 2 weeks ago:
Money (to stay in business, not for personal gain). Saved you a click.
- Comment on Balatro dev shares an excellent list of his favourite indie games of 2024 2 weeks ago:
Because it’s taking the piss from the drag events, not genuine.
- Comment on Is Half-Life Opposing Force still known to current gamers, or is this a side game that's fallen through the cracks. 3 weeks ago:
It’s always been a lesser known side game.
- Comment on Guy never bought a game on the Epic Store... Owns 200+ 3 weeks ago:
Or Playnite (MIT license) which aggregates all your libraries, not just Epic.
- Comment on China's internet is upset that a knock-off of its darling video game, 'Black Myth: Wukong,' is listed on Nintendo's store 3 weeks ago:
Open source licenses also depend on copyright. The opposite of copyright is IP anarchy.
- Comment on China's internet is upset that a knock-off of its darling video game, 'Black Myth: Wukong,' is listed on Nintendo's store 3 weeks ago:
That’s true, I would prefer the people doing the most work get the most reward. But currently they’re getting none, so I would settle for some.
- Comment on China's internet is upset that a knock-off of its darling video game, 'Black Myth: Wukong,' is listed on Nintendo's store 3 weeks ago:
Sure, at the cost of the people doing the work to design the product not being compensated for their labor.
- Comment on A fake Nintendo lawyer is scaring YouTubers, and it’s not clear YouTube can stop him 3 weeks ago:
YouTube certainly can, they just don’t care enough.
- Comment on Video Games Can’t Afford to Look This Good 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, but you can’t make a TV ad about good writing.
- Comment on What MMORPG are you playing, and why? 4 weeks ago:
Wildstar was cool. I got a free shirt and Logitech keyboard out of their booth at PAX one year. (Never played the game, though.)
- Comment on Like Elon Musk, 1 in 3 bosses admit they are pushing RTO because they're so upset about wasting money on all those empty desks 4 weeks ago:
Anyone who does not understand the sunk cost fallacy should not be in management.
You’ve spent $x on office space. You can:
A. Use it, and make your employees hate working for you or
B. Let it go unused, and your employees are happier to continue working for you.
The money is spent either way. The only difference is morale, which does in fact directly contribute to your bottom line.
- Comment on What game surprised you with their length? 5 weeks ago:
Nethack.
The first few dozen times I played it, it felt like it took forever to get anywhere. The most recent time I played, it felt quick and easy to get to the bottom. (I got stuck on something, though, and haven’t been able to continue past the valley of the dead.)
- Comment on Javier Milei ends budget deficit in Argentina, first time in 123 years 5 weeks ago:
Meanwhile, unemployment and poverty have skyrocketed.
- Comment on The Talos Principle gets "radically overhauled reawakening" in new definitive edition 5 weeks ago:
It hasn’t got it yet. The release is still months out.
- Comment on Funko gets community noted 5 weeks ago:
It’s good, but it’s too negative. The PR folks would never let it fly.
- Comment on Funko, BrandShield speak out about itch.io takedown 5 weeks ago:
Lawsuit liability.
- Comment on The Talos Principle: Reawakened | More Than a Remaster | Coming Early 2025 5 weeks ago:
Lasers are my favorite! Worlds better than the replays. I also enjoyed the teleporters.
- Comment on Beyond Good & Evil 2's troubled development due to "passionate managers" not getting along, says creator Michel Ancel 5 weeks ago:
The article seems to say that “passionate” is code for “toxic”.