Flamekebab
@Flamekebab@piefed.social
- Comment on Vape packaging and flavouring face restrictions under UK plans to reduce appeal to children 6 hours ago:
Tracing it back then, I don’t get the appeal of cigarettes either!
- Comment on Vape packaging and flavouring face restrictions under UK plans to reduce appeal to children 9 hours ago:
I do feel like an alien walking around looking at so many people vaping. I cannot fathom the appeal at all.
- Comment on MPs urge Labour to ditch £330m Palantir software contract with NHS 1 day ago:
I’m reminded of the mockup of the government’s response to every petition.
- Comment on PIP assessment process is 'dehumanising' and 'degrading', government's Timms Review finds 1 day ago:
It seems like such false economy having all these systems and awfulness to reduce fraud. Of course, that’s not why they’re there, but still, the justification is dumb.
- Comment on Guess the game (#006) 1 week ago:
Battle Beast. A friend had it when it was new and the art style always stuck with me.
- Comment on If Steam were to shut down tomorrow how much money would you have lost in total on games / DLC ?? 1 week ago:
I think we’ve found one of those mythical people that reply to questions people ask online with “I don’t know”.
- Comment on If Steam were to shut down tomorrow how much money would you have lost in total on games / DLC ?? 1 week ago:
I’ve had an account for nineteen years. I think some of the stuff I’ve got is irreplaceable due to its obscurity.
- Comment on If Steam were to shut down tomorrow how much money would you have lost in total on games / DLC ?? 1 week ago:
Is this thread really for you then?
- Comment on End of an era? 1 week ago:
You’re allowed to swear here.
- Comment on Microsoft Announces Significant Price Rises for Xbox Series X and S, 2TB Model Discontinued 2 weeks ago:
Cool, I’ll adjust the number of Xboxen I’m buying by the same percentage.
0 * ~0.8 = 0
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 2 weeks ago:
That’s unfortunate. Expected, but unfortunate.
I like gaming. That like is not strong enough to extend to that price point.
- Comment on Electronic Arts has launched EA Advertising, a way for brands to integrate ads in games 3 weeks ago:
I was thinking the same - i hadn’t realised that it ever went away (as I don’t play the genres traditionally associated with in game ads).
- Comment on The Russian Neo-Nazi Network Pushing ‘White Lives Matter’ Division in Britain – Promoted by Tommy Robinson 4 weeks ago:
A bit of Nazism, as a treat.
- Comment on Polanski warns UK food system is close to collapse 4 weeks ago:
The fact that we don’t treat food as a strategic resource and instead it’s a capitalist instrument is wild to me.
Put money in, get food out ❌
Put money in, get food and MORE MONEY out 💯
- Comment on Ken Levine's Judas Could Slip Nearly Three More Years, Putting BioShock Successor Eleven Years Deep in Development 1 month ago:
BioShock Infinite took long enough and the finished product was significantly less interesting than the previews. This looks like it’s going to take twice as long. I don’t see that working out.
- Comment on Half of UK adults say they spend less than three hours a week outside in nature 1 month ago:
That makes sense for me. Weekends are often consumed by catching up with various errands and chores, as well as hopefully at least something fun. During the week loads of us work full time. Sure, there’s time in the evenings for some of the year, but for a decent chunk of it darkness sets in before work is over.
Fitting in an hour of being in nature, three times per week? That’s a big ask, I suspect.
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 1 month ago:
Does the other person’s reply not appear for you?
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 1 month ago:
I don’t think I’ve encountered a magic system that doesn’t annoy me, unfortunately.
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 1 month ago:
Basically anything focused on fantasy dungeon crawling. I spend my life indoors without enough daylight. Why would I want to do that but with even less light and more stuff trying to kill me?
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 1 month ago:
I can’t tell if this is a joke comment or not. I don’t know what the letters stand for and as such it could be about almost anything.
- Comment on UK ‘built for climate that no longer exists’ and needs urgent changes to survive global heating, report warns 1 month ago:
It hasn’t made much sense to have air-conditioning for the week a year where it’d make life a bit more comfortable. Our summers aren’t that hot. London is probably awful given that it’s all concrete and glass but the rest of the UK isn’t quite so urbanised.
- Comment on 60% of PC gamers have no plans to build a new PC in the next two years — AI pricing crunch on RAM and other components paralyze enthusiast market 1 month ago:
For me “too much” was a long time ago. The price of graphics cards went insane at some point and it stopped being worth it. The last time I bought a graphics card new was in 2009 and that cost me, adjusted for inflation, £220 (Why do I still have the receipt..?). It was an nVidia GTX 260 and at the time was a fairly decent midrange card. Looking at graphics card pricing now, uh, nope, that wouldn’t buy me anything comparable - it looks like we’re talking ~£380 for midrange stuff, so a ~70% increase in price.
Whilst obviously the hardware is a lot more capable now than it was then, the amount of enjoyment I get out of gaming hasn’t gone up. If anything I enjoy gaming less now than I did then, although that’s more due to me getting older.
I’m constantly baffled as to how anyone can justify the cost of a decent gaming PC these days.
- Comment on How getting young people into sport could save the UK millions 1 month ago:
A great many of us spent our childhoods with terrible associations with sport. To this day I dislike it, despite not wanting to.
I’m hoping I can make it more fun for my daughter so she can walk a different path.
- Comment on What gaming console you owned disappointed you the most and why ? 1 month ago:
The PSP was both amazing and awful. So much squandered potential. So few developers did anything cool with it.
- Comment on What was the last physical retail store game purchase you've made? 1 month ago:
Until recently I was buying second hand games for my Xbox One. Then I got a Steam Deck and that was that.
- Comment on Nintendo is raising the price of the Switch 2, blaming 'market conditions' 1 month ago:
What about Starfox 2?
- Comment on London Marathon: Choir dropped by charity Scope over founder's gender-critical views 2 months ago:
“lawfully held” - when your go-to argument is “it’s not technically illegal” then you might want to consider your stance.
- Comment on McDonald's boss on abuse claims: 'I don't want to talk about the past' 2 months ago:
Lauren Schultz told the BBC what had happened in recent years was “unacceptable” but said “we have drawn a line under it”.
Wait, that’s a thing we can do? I wonder if the missus can write off her student loan like that.
- Comment on Metro 2039 - Official Reveal Trailer 2 months ago:
The “open world craze”? I get disagreeing with design decisions but that seems a bit of an odd angle, given how long open world games had been popular at the time of release.
I’ve not played an open world game that was anything like Exodus. It was an interesting blend of sandbox and tight narrative.
I couldn’t really get into the early games, despite liking the concept, but loved Exodus. I could see how it wouldn’t suite someone who preferred the style of the previous games, but I think I would argue that “a third helping of the same” rarely takes a game series anywhere interesting.
- Comment on Hot Take: most modern games are designed to purely kill time 2 months ago:
A great many of the games I grew up with were descended from coin-op design principles and so were designed to delay progress as much as possible.