Flamekebab
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- Comment on PS5 Price increase collapses PlayStation console sales in Japan, with Xbox gaining 23 hours ago:
Whilst it’s an oversimplification, if the old price only got Y sales then a higher new price was always only going to get a subset of Y.
Console sales go up over time in part because the price goes down, broadening the customer base. Sure, the library gets bigger over time too, but that’s barely happening either.
- Comment on Is the UK falling out of love with social media? 5 days ago:
Yeah, I use it for Marketplace and a wargaming group I admin. Its original use case for me is long gone.
- Comment on Confirmed: PS5 console prices are being raised by $100 | VGC 2 weeks ago:
I guess I’ll just have to buy even fewer consoles than I already am.
- Comment on Why Everyone’s Picking Up a PSP Again in 2026 (my article!) 2 weeks ago:
I should really get replacement batteries for my two PSPs.
- Comment on Why Everyone’s Picking Up a PSP Again in 2026 (my article!) 2 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t say “the worst” but the phrase “squandered potential” looms large.
- Comment on UK looks to emulate Spanish youth custody where inmates do art and play sport 2 weeks ago:
I do find it very strange how few systems are built based on outcomes. Brutalising people doesn’t result in less crime, it’s just spending millions to make the problem worse.
- Comment on What are your hallmark games? What games have shaped how you view games? 2 weeks ago:
Little Big Adventure 2.
It’s a massive game with both a 3D open world and isometric gorgeousness. Some character progression (not experience points), full voice acting, and a lot of character.
In many ways it set the bar for me in terms of how much a game should contain and the level of quality I expected.
- Comment on I started playing WH40k Rogue Trader and I'm digging it, but I know virtually nothing of Warhammer. Any super basic world info I should know going in? 3 weeks ago:
I’ve heard this said many, many times, but I’ve yet to see an actual source on it.
I collected Orks in 3rd edition. I have the big black book, I have the codex, I was subscribed to White Dwarf. I don’t recall seeing anything like that at the time.
- Comment on I started playing WH40k Rogue Trader and I'm digging it, but I know virtually nothing of Warhammer. Any super basic world info I should know going in? 3 weeks ago:
No idea, I was responding to their first paragraph.
- Comment on I started playing WH40k Rogue Trader and I'm digging it, but I know virtually nothing of Warhammer. Any super basic world info I should know going in? 3 weeks ago:
That Ork stuff is a meme. Their tech works, they’re not powered by imagination.
- Comment on Video game PEGI age-ratings are changing in Europe from June. Four new categories added to tackle elements of addictive design, unmonitored online communication and loot boxes 3 weeks ago:
As the parent of a tiny child this is great to see. I couldn’t give less of a shit about violent contents in games and ratings based on that sort of unproven rubbish. However games that deliberately implement dark patterns are literally designed to be dangerously manipulative and that I want to be able to make informed decisions about.
- Comment on Wealth Taxes Are Pointless While Tax Havens Exist 4 weeks ago:
I guess we’ll just have to continue doing nothing and see if things improve.
Or perhaps by establishing the principle in law we can then build on it to take various measures to combat the problem. A solution doesn’t need to be perfect to be better than ignoring the problem.
- Comment on South Devon farmers design proposal for UK’s first Basic Income for Farmers pilot 4 weeks ago:
The notion that farming is supposed to be profitable is wild to me. The idea should be that we put money in and get food out. Wanting to also get money out is insane to me.
- Comment on Trump: 'I am not happy with the UK' 5 weeks ago:
Best news I’ve heard all day. I’d be more ashamed of us than usual if he was pleased with us.
- Comment on 20th Century Studios will be releasing "Fight Club" on 4K Ultra HD on May 12 1 month ago:
Lots of things have a narrator when one isn’t necessary, that’s not all that weird for a film and doesn’t tell the audience much.
nor are they defined as any third party in-universe like a detective making sense of it.
I don’t think that comparison works here. Most of the film is a flashback, described by the narrator. He doesn’t give his name as he tells us what led up to the prologue but that doesn’t seem all that odd, it doesn’t seem pertinent. Marla asks what his name is but the scene ends without us finding out - it’s relevant information to her but we have no particular reason to care whether his name is Dave Smith or Lance Elbowbottom III. It’s only later, with the reveal, that it becomes interesting. The credits might as well call him “also Tyler Durden” but “narrator” works well enough.
- Comment on 20th Century Studios will be releasing "Fight Club" on 4K Ultra HD on May 12 1 month ago:
Sorry, I don’t follow.
- Comment on 20th Century Studios will be releasing "Fight Club" on 4K Ultra HD on May 12 1 month ago:
I really wouldn’t characterise that as referring to himself as Jack. He’s referencing articles that use that format, not saying that his name is Jack.
- Comment on 20th Century Studios will be releasing "Fight Club" on 4K Ultra HD on May 12 1 month ago:
I’ve seen some regions give him a name which makes the film worse. I loved the reveal that at no point had we actually learned his name.
- Comment on Deathloop 1 month ago:
I enjoyed it up to the end where it was revealed it’s connected to another game series that I do not care for. That immediately killed my entire emotional investment in the game.
- Comment on Deprived Areas Have 70% More Vape Shops, Bookies and Takeaways 1 month ago:
What is it with people and fucking high streets?
Neoliberalism killed them along with loads of other things. Unless someone feels like doing something about that then it’s just nostalgic wistfulness. Propping them up in some way doesn’t fix the system and too many arseholes made enough money to undermine our democracies to let things change.
Also fuck Reform.
- Comment on Average house price tops £300,000 for first time, says Halifax 2 months ago:
I think with some additional flood defence it’d be fine but I’d expect the price to reflect that.
- Comment on Average house price tops £300,000 for first time, says Halifax 2 months ago:
I’m reminded of a place near me that’s on a flood plain. It’s been on the market for ages. They seem perplexed as to why it’s not been snapped up for their ridiculous asking price.
- Comment on ‘You’d be ashamed to bring someone here’: The struggling billionaire-owned high street that shows Reform’s road to No 10 2 months ago:
It does amuse me that there was such a push for neoliberal capitalism and then it’s shocked Pikachu face all ’round when loads of businesses models don’t fit the infinite growth approach.
- Comment on UK proposes forcing Google to let publishers opt out of AI summaries 2 months ago:
Could we have the same for YouTube videos? I don’t want your stupid summaries.
- Comment on New study: No-alcohol and low-alcohol beers, and dry pubs, are on the rise 2 months ago:
It’s not tastier.
- Comment on Ex-Tory Home Secretary Braverman defects to Reform UK 2 months ago:
Is that like moving from the compost to the landfill?
- Comment on Rockstar still hasn't offered a convincing reason for firing over 30 GTA 6 developers 2 months ago:
That’s the thing though - I find that what it saves me in time writing it costs me in reviewing. I hate reviewing.
- Comment on Discord's IPO could happen in March 2 months ago:
If it helps kill the damn thing, excellent.
- Comment on Rockstar still hasn't offered a convincing reason for firing over 30 GTA 6 developers 2 months ago:
If so, is it any good?
I imagine if one writes janky spaghetti then it’s easy to think that LLMs will result in redundancy. My experience is that they’re like having an over-enthusiastic junior who doesn’t learn. Useful when one can’t be bothered to write something with very limited scope but is quickly out of their depth on anything involved.
- Comment on Rockstar still hasn't offered a convincing reason for firing over 30 GTA 6 developers 2 months ago:
So you think that 90-100% of programming jobs WON’T be replaced by AI within a decade?
Stop, stop, I can’t breathe!