dormedas

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Now You Can Buy In-Game DLC And Pay It Off Later⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  If everybody has to finance their purchases, something might be fundamentally wrong with the economy…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Subnautica 2 studio begs rioting fans for benefit of the doubt after leadership axed by owner Krafton: 'The team that has been working on the game day-to-day ... remains completely unchanged'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oops, they just admitted that leadership doesn’t really DO anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Death Stranding 2' proves more video games need to get weird, experts say⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Just about. I did an audit and about 90% of Sony’s games eventually hit PC. The largest one which has not made the leap yet is Astro Bot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Portable Network Graphics (PNG) New Specification⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  JPEG-XL is only really in limbo because Google chose to kill it in Chrome in favor of AVIF. Had that not happened, there would have been far more demand for it to be properly implemented everywhere. Sucks, but you’re right that we’ll have to stick with AVIF/HEIG/WebP.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Portable Network Graphics (PNG) New Specification⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I said in a previous article that this is great, but we should be adopting JPEG-XL as it is current and can now compress pixel-perfect / lossless images better than old PNG. IIRC this revision of the spec doesn’t improve compression yet but it’s coming.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Robotaxis VS Reddit: Users Collect 11+ Videos of Tesla Robotaxi Incidents in First 36 Hours⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As if Tesla stock is traded rationally…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony faces another class-action lawsuit over PlayStation Store prices and monopolistic practices⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree with your argument overall, but I think it would be reasonable to say they are broader-purpose computing devices now, and are not yet general-purpose. Consumers don’t have an expectation to reach for their game console to do an arbitrary thing. They generally can expect their phone or laptop to.

  “There’s an app for that” just isn’t true for huge swathes of apps on almost all consoles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony faces another class-action lawsuit over PlayStation Store prices and monopolistic practices⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t have explicitly what you’re looking for as I am not a lawyer, but game consoles aren’t a general-purpose computing device (despite theoretically capable of being one if appropriately jailbroken), and as such, prior case law for PC doesn’t apply.

  iOS/Android tend to be classified a general-purpose computing device because it does all the same things a PC does (or did) and more. It plays games and does banking and plays music and browses the web and displays pictures and movies, etc etc. For some, it’s their primary and only computing device.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nexus Mods Sale Sparks Concern in Modding Community⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Best I’ve got for you is this

  Post in thread ‘Nexus Mods site has been sold’ www.resetera.com/threads/…/page-2#post-141554013

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Things I reference with friends⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can’t just say perchance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MindsEye - Official Launch Trailer | 2025⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mad world remix in a trailer is just …. So samey

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Switch 2 Teardown: Still Glued, Still Soldered, Still Drifting⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re just saying “hey look this isn’t more repairable and probably expect drift to happen.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Former PlayStation exec says "$70 or $80" games are a "steal": "As long as people choose carefully how they spend their money, I don't think they should be complaining"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That is what my analogy suggests and I suppose how you define wealthy matters, but that’s not strictly what I mean. I just mean prices are starting to striate.

  AAA game devs are spending more on games every year and then suddenly finding out their market isn’t as wide as they hoped. High upfront cost + low demand sounds like a luxury product then, no? In the before times, they would release for $60 and squeeze hard for money. They can still do that, but now - since the price dam has broken - they can release for $80-100 and get more cash per super fan and then drop price aggressively to catch others who balked at the initial price.

  I’ll be clear that the problem is the AAA industry spending too much on games when they don’t need to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Former PlayStation exec says "$70 or $80" games are a "steal": "As long as people choose carefully how they spend their money, I don't think they should be complaining"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Nobody rightfully complains when Lamborghini sells their luxury car for hundreds of thousands. Gamers have been conditioned for far too long that indie games cost less than 60 and everything else costs 60. This was the fault of the industry to be sure, but it’s clear the barrier is being broken by necessity and expensive-to-make games are going to climb the price ladder and prices for games overall will stratify like many other markets.

  Interestingly, that’s all Shuhei is saying here. Pay for the games you think are worth it. Games still provide a significant amount of value for their cost, even at higher price points. This is obviously true as we’ve had a decade of base game $60 and ultimate edition $90-100 with people purchasing ultimate editions and such.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hideo Kojima says he’s left staff a ‘USB stick of game ideas’ for after he dies | The Metal Gear creator says he wants Kojima Productions to continue creating original games after his death⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe, but I really doubt it. The only reason his ideas even remotely work is because he has a history of wackjob narratives inside otherwise (metal gear) solid games + complete authorial control over the entire product. Give one of his games to someone else to produce and they need to be exceptionally strong and resilient in the face of a team and investors that will naturally - as a part of development - be asking “what about this, people won’t like it, or it doesn’t play test well.”

  The “why” for every little part of the game concept needs to exist or whoever is left in control will have a very difficult time explaining what the value is when that question is raised.

  All this is perhaps superseded if Kojima names an heir in addition to passing along a bunch of ideas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hideo Kojima says he’s left staff a ‘USB stick of game ideas’ for after he dies | The Metal Gear creator says he wants Kojima Productions to continue creating original games after his death⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If he thinks any studio is going to pick up his ridiculous ideas for a game without having Hideo can-do-no-wrong Kojima at the helm of the studio, then he’s as self-absorbed as I think he is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hideo Kojima says he’s left staff a ‘USB stick of game ideas’ for after he dies | The Metal Gear creator says he wants Kojima Productions to continue creating original games after his death⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Cuz it’s egomaniacal behavior. He thinks he’s so cool and unique and innovative that his ideas are worth something even after he perishes, sometime in the next TWENTY or so years. It’s not like he’s bedridden right now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PS5’s three best-selling digital games in April 2025 were all Microsoft titles [VGC]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Console exclusivity of games is a way to provide an incentive for purchasing your console.

  Imagine you’re a business and you spent millions on the R&D, manufacturing pipelines, shipping logistics, marketing, etc for this cool new console but you’ve got nothing on it by default that people can’t get elsewhere. In this situation, the first console to launch in a given generation would win. If you profit off of the console (you should), any exclusive that converts a user is price of console + price of game gross revenue.

  This helps explain why we’ve had exclusives, but the winds are changing. These game companies which make both games and consoles see the short-term profits from your aforementioned wasted opportunity as more valuable nowadays while largely ignoring the fact that a lack of exclusives will make their consoles less desirable.

  IMO the PC is going to basically cannibalize the console market (everything goes there and goes on sale, emulation included) and PC hardware can be made to last for a very long time despite a higher initial investment. If Valve can get a Console-like experience that’s plug-and-play with a TV, then Sony and Microsoft are in a bit of a bind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Millie Bobby Brown, the Netflix algorithm queen who lives on a farm far with more than 45 animals⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It didn’t even look like Simon’s work to me. The Electric State as painted is very banal. “Sure robots and megastructures exist alongside us but I still have to go to work, or farm, or play in the fields as a kid, and so do some robots.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cyan (Myst, Riven) to lay off 12 people, "roughly half the team"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Would love to see more of the developer providing good information for those laid off so other companies can more easily ingest possible hires.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pokémon Legends Z-A - Nintendo Direct 3.27.25⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Looking alright. It’s a Pokémon game so I know what I’m getting into but it looks fun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Upscaling is actually good (as an option)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a game developer and I will 100% confirm that studios have already started and will continue assuming the user has DLSS/FSR/XeSS enabled because it turns out rendering half as many pixels can get you across the finish line.

  It was already fairly standard practice to try as hard as you can for performance, and when that fails to bring you to native resolution, just cut some resolution (for example, to 900p from 1080p).

  However, I do want to add that DLSS/FSR/XeSS is great technology for the low end of the market who can’t afford insane rigs but do get to have a slightly sharper image than previous upscalers could accomplish.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cybertruck Crashes in Light Snow as Driver Shouts "NOT AGAIN!"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck the cybertruck but I agree. To me, it looks like a firm layer of ice and a distinct lack of tires which can handle ice or chains failing that. Cybertruck’s weight is doing it no favors here either, and the load helped pull him down the hill. Chains would have made a huge difference in this condition.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google’s Sergey Brin urges workers to the office ‘at least’ every weekday⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The science actually says that 60 hours a week, when maintained, is less productive than 40. You can gain productivity in the short term by mandating overtime, but the limit is around two weeks. You also pay for it in lost productivity the following weeks anyway, so it’s more a shifting of productivity.

  If he actually cared about productivity (which is related to service/development and eventually profit), he wouldn’t be saying this falsehood.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 214 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing until l forget to post Screenshots⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m working my way up the generations and I need to replay Alola in the Ultra games since I only had Pokemon Sun before and had different livingdex rules when I played it. A bit unfortunate for time-sake, but I really liked the Alola games. Good luck on your dex!

  To add some naming inspiration, my friend and I like dumb nicknames like:

  Blingo Splorp Gunch Slizbop Boizo

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Playing Dragonsweeper because of Ars' article. Did I have any way out of this without guessing?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You sort of need to keep track of creature count but I feel like the game should do that for me, and not in a menu.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The PlayStation Network outage proves PC gamers were right to resist its mandatory sign-in requirement⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I read an article testing the same disc drive in multiple PlayStations and they continued to work. My guess is that Sony pays for console X to be able to use a disc drive when one is inserted, and then pays for console Y when one is inserted. They probably can check the ID of the disc drive, but they also probably don’t care that much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The PlayStation Network outage proves PC gamers were right to resist its mandatory sign-in requirement⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  but just like installing a PS5 disc drive, a PSN outage would have prevented first-time setup of something that simply does not require an internet connection.

  I want to address this section by the author. Should any old disc drive work offline? Yes. Do PlayStation’s? No.

  In the interest of saving money, Sony doesn’t pre-pay for the Blu-Ray Disc Association License, so they use the internet to know when to pay the license fee on behalf of the user. So from a legal standpoint by an entity which does not want to get sued, their course of action to save money requires this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSN Is Still Down After 14 Hours And No One Knows Why⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This would basically be my reply as well. Companies are in the game to make money, and setting up all this infrastructure, not to mention maintaining it, is NOT cheap.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSN Is Still Down After 14 Hours And No One Knows Why⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You apparently can transfer saves on PS4/5 offline. For PS4 they can be copied to a USB drive, but more to your point here, the only way to copy PS5 saves around (besides PS+) are to do console backup and restore processes and then during that process say you want to take save games wholesale (and then restore them wholesale). That’s definitely greedy bullshit.

  I don’t know what more to say, consoles are walled gardens that consumers pay to be in. Within those walled gardens, the company dictates the rules. There’s plenty of good arguments for using a more open platform like PC. Not the least of which is that PlayStation has had an abysmal console cycle for trying to prove their console is worth purchasing - what with it having basically no exclusives that won’t eventually come to PC, first-party or otherwise.