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- Comment on What challenge from a game isn't worth completing and what challenge from a game is worth completing? 1 day ago:
If the collectibles aren't satisfying to obtain on their own, I don't think putting an unlock behind them makes them retroactively better.
A good collectible is something like Strawberries in Celeste, each one requires you to take a more difficult path or do an additional screen. They're fun to go for, and I think it actually would've detracted if some unlock made them feel like a required task rather than a bonus challenge.
- Comment on How do you think a socialist President would win the 2028 election? Would they use the exact methods used by Zohran Mamdani which earned him the office of Mayor of NYC? 6 days ago:
I would prefer to have it come from someone who... is not Andrew Yang.
- Comment on How do you think a socialist President would win the 2028 election? Would they use the exact methods used by Zohran Mamdani which earned him the office of Mayor of NYC? 6 days ago:
Mamdani won by focusing his campaign on the most pressing issue to voters today: affordability. The cost of living keeps going up, wages stay the same, and everybody's scared and frustrated looking for someone to promise they can do something about it. And he had answers.
In increasingly uncertain times, we can win voters over by appealing to their fears and frustrations and promising change that will directly address their needs. This is, in a way, how Trump won. He told voters, "I know you're upset and scared in a changing world. Well it's the immigrants' fault, it's trans people's fault, it's whatever target I tell you to hate next's fault, and when I own the libs, I'll bring the price of eggs down."
Of course you and I both know Trump was full of shit. But as long it sounded like he was addressing their fears, the most frightened people struggling to make ends meet latched onto whatever false hope he gave them. And I believe we can win people back by speaking to those same fears, but this time we offer real solutions.
However, there is a very important catch. Do not ever say the word 'socialism'. The legacy of McCarthyism has ensured that that word is still political suicide on the national stage today. You can get away with it in a city as deeply blue as NYC, but not in a general election.
But it's really only the word that's the problem, not the ideas behind it. People really are fed up with capitalism, they just don't know that that's really what they're fed up with. And as long as you avoid the word, I think you'd be surprised what you can get people to agree with.
Look at Obama in 2008. He ran his campaign on universal healthcare as his main issue, knowing that healthcare in America is a major problem voters wanted addressed. Detractors called it socialized medicine, but as long as he never said that word himself, voters just understood that he was offering change and they wanted to try change. They were fed up enough with American healthcare that red scare tactics didn't stop them from considering change.
I believe a viable next step that could work in 2028 could be to campaign on universal basic income. The job market is becoming increasingly unstable, especially with the AI bubble. People fresh out of college can't get jobs because everything that claims to be entry level wants three years of experience, and they can't get that experience because they don't have experience. We're coming to a point where it's time to rethink one of the fundamental flaws of capitalism, that everyone must work or else they starve and die, as this is about to break when too many people lose their jobs. But don't use the c-word, don't use the s-word, just talk about UBI as its own issue and I think people will warm up to the idea.
- Comment on Learning Japanese 6 days ago:
About as weird as calling Nihon "Japan".
- Comment on Pet Peeves with Games? 1 week ago:
Miyamoto says: If the player is not locked into a succession of inescapable and slowly plodding text boxes where they're offered neither choices nor agency, it must mean they're not sufficiently engaged!
What Miyamoto game is this describing? If anything I'd say he's got a reputation for being anti-text.
- Comment on Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period 1 week ago:
Did you have a modded console? Without modification, the 10NES lockout chip prevents PAL cartridges from running on NTSC or vice versa. But it is possible to disable the chip to get around this.
- Comment on Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period 1 week ago:
The real point here is that they don't have the ability to manufacture at the scale of the big three. It literally can't be in direct competition.
- Comment on Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period 1 week ago:
I don't think that's had much of an impact when Nintendo sold more Switch 2s at launch than Valve has manufactured Steam Decks over its entire lifespan. The Steam Deck is still an enthusiast product for a niche crowd, and will likely never be in direct competition with the big three.
- Comment on Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period 1 week ago:
NES and SNES were region-locked. In addition to an actual lockout chip, they even had different cartridge shapes so you couldn't physically fit Famicom or Super Famicom games.
Handhelds were not (until DSi and 3DS), but I specifically said home consoles.
- Comment on Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period 1 week ago:
It's early and there aren't a lot of heavy hitters yet. But for me, Kirby Air Riders alone was well worth it, I waited 22 years for this sequel and it delivered.
- Comment on Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period 1 week ago:
That was always the case for Nintendo's home consoles, not like it was a new thing that started with the Wii. Switch was the first one to be region-free.
- Comment on Does Nintendo ban Nintendo accounts opening up eshop from a hacked 3DS / 2DS? 2 weeks ago:
You should be safe. There were banwaves in the past that resulted in players getting blocked from online play, but those were tied to the console, not the account, and there is no 3DS online play to ban people from anymore. And after those banwaves happened, CFW started getting smarter about covering its tracks so Nintendo likely can't detect you as long as everything's up to date.
Given that the 3DS has been long discontinued, Nintendo's not going to bother cracking down on anyone now.
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- Comment on How TF2 Still Makes Millions (With No Updates) 2 weeks ago:
There hasn't been a major update since Jungle Inferno in 2017.
- Comment on Arc raiders is a horrible game 2 weeks ago:
It sounds like you're upset that a game that clearly put a lot of focus on PvP in its design, has PvP in it. I'm not sure it's fair to blame the game because you expected something else.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I think this just a sign of changing times regarding how games are made. We've come a long way from the days when one programmer added multiplayer into Goldeneye at the very end of development, that could never happen today. And those are the footsteps Halo 1 followed in, they didn't even have Xbox Live until the sequel.
Today, I think trying to make a game do a little bit of everything may risk struggling to stand out against titles that focus all of their development resources on just doing one thing really really well. You do have a point that having solo content to fall back on is at least a safety net, but does the opportunity cost of implementing that solo content make it even harder to succeed as a multiplayer game in such a competitive market?
- Comment on The highest-rated games and what the people say 2 weeks ago:
I'd argue that if a game doesn't have anything to nitpick at, it probably wasn't doing anything bold enough for me to truly fall in love with either.
- Comment on fediverse reference 😱😱😱 3 weeks ago:
The only reason I'm here on Fedi is because Miiverse is gone.
- Comment on Day 528 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 weeks ago:
It's a purely narrative game, the original version (this is now a remake of a remake in a new engine) was made in RPG Maker but without any RPG elements. Walk around, talk to NPCs, watch the story unfold.
The one big thing it has in common with Undertale is that the less you know going in, the better. If the art style and vibe is enough to get your attention, go ahead and give it a shot, go in blind.
- Comment on Do you preorder games? 3 weeks ago:
Physical copies, yes. If it's a game I absolutely know I'm definitely buying and I want it badly enough to spend full price and I want to play it on day 1, I'll preorder to ensure it ships on day 1. Because if I actually ordered it on release day, it'd take a few more days to ship. Last game I preordered was Kirby Air Riders, and I'm very happy with that purchase.
As for Early Access, my criteria is to just evaluate the game in its current state - if it offers enough to be worth buying now, I'll buy it now.
- Comment on Whats the best free to play anime gacha game if at any at all? 3 weeks ago:
There is no good gacha. But at least Mahjong Soul only uses it for cosmetics, so I guess that.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
They're kind of just really damn bad at being currencies. Transaction times and fees make them too difficult to use for anything short of money laundering. But actually decently suited to that one purpose since other forms of laundering are usually even more expensive.
Even worse though is the deflationary nature also disincentivizes ever using them as currency. They're instead being treated as speculative assets, people buy crypto not because they actually want to use crypto, but because they expect to sell it to another bagholder later. But of course the only way to profit off crypto in this way is for someone else to lose. And yet people still try to pretend it's a currency even when no one will ever use it as such, because it sounds more legitimate that way.
And this in turn has made crypto an incredibly attractive target for scams and grifts. Pump-and-dumps are everywhere, but even when people know this they still try to get in hoping they'll be the one to win this time.
Crypto really is just a solution in search of a problem, and every now and then you'll see cryptobros insisting they have the next big thing in NFTs, smart contracts, whatever bullshit they're pushing next. But none of it has ever been anything more than a vehicle to try and find a new way to rip someone else off. They just need to convince you they have something to sell here so that you'll be the next sucker.
Bitcoin has been around since 2008, and in all that time, it's still not amounted to anything more than one big grift.
- Comment on What free to play games can run smoothly on my old laptop? 4 weeks ago:
The person I replied said Nintendo wasn't making their old games playable at all. You're complaining about something else.
- Comment on What free to play games can run smoothly on my old laptop? 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on What free to play games can run smoothly on my old laptop? 4 weeks ago:
Bit of an odd example to cite since both Golden Sun games are officially available on NSO.
- Comment on Anon reality checks your fantasy 4 weeks ago:
Anon's making it sound like this isn't something that's been touched on many times before in fantasy. They even used an image of Marcille, a character traumatized by the loss of her human father and living in fear of the knowledge that she will lose everyone else around her too.
- Comment on What is the moral jurisdiction behind not wishing who're rich and in executive positions to die? 4 weeks ago:
The top reason being that they don't like the idea of life being taken away.
Well then it sounds like you know the answer to your question. Are you actually asking to ask, or just to soapbox?
- Comment on Why are there so many Christmas songs, yet hardly any New Year's ones? 5 weeks ago:
Does "We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year" count for both?
- Comment on What are your gaming highlights of 2025? 5 weeks ago:
Attending Combo Breaker is the highlight of my year every year. In 2025 I was able to fit Frosty Faustings into my travel budget too. Managed to make top 16 in Mystery Bracket both times, and they were very wild bracket runs. I saw Gyakuten Puzzle Bancho and turned to my opponent to utter a sentence no one wants to hear in Mystery: "I'm sorry, I know how to play this game." Also at CB I was able to make it out of pools in Under Night In-Birth II, and it was a hella stacked bracket so I'm pretty happy with that one.
Been focusing more on my mahjong career, attended Riichi Nomi Open and Philadelphia Riichi Open as my first two tournaments. Didn't do so hot though. But of course, when I win it's because I'm skilled, when I lose it was just bad luck.
New arcade opened up near me with modded Maimai, Wacca, and Chunithm cabinets. I told myself I'm never going back to Round 1 again, though R1 does have the new official international Maimai now so I guess that's something. I also got back into Dance Dance Revolution a little, but I'm still not very good.
As for actual new releases, Deltarune is obvious. Kirby Air Riders is a sequel I waited 22 years for, and it was worth the wait. The original is one of my favorite games of all time and I'm blown away by how much higher they raised the bar. Online City Trial is everything childhood me ever dreamed of. And I have to shout out Rhythm Doctor finally exiting Early Access, the final chapter is a wonderful conclusion that gave me a lot of emotions.
- Comment on What are some good games to play while sick? 5 weeks ago:
Visual novels would be good if you're looking for something low-energy.