dormedas

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony is raising all PS5 console prices in the US by $50, starting tomorrow⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty sure the dollar weakened by 10% over it being harder to trade with the US.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony is raising all PS5 console prices in the US by $50, starting tomorrow⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, that’s tariffs for you. Completely expected, though a ~10% bump on the PS5 doesn’t adjust for all the tariff increase IIRC.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A List of Open Source Game Clones⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  OpenMW is a full engine, not just a rendering engine. And as of the recent release, for those that may not know, it’s technically capable of launching levels and worlds in Bethesda games up to Fallout 4, though of course they’re just loading maps, not scripts or other non-MW logic. (Yet, we might see that in the future)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube's ID Verification Has BEGUN!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Totally. It’s network effects, really. People will only leave if the content or people they follow leave. And right now there aren’t many good platforms which comparably pay creators based on watch time / play count of static media, so the creators won’t leave.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube's ID Verification Has BEGUN!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m all for using other things, but the reality is that YouTube has a de facto monopoly on video hosting on the internet. If you want reach on the internet, it’s YouTube or basically nothing. Therefore YouTube is the best place to get YouTube users upset at YouTube.

  Other companies which could compete with YouTube on scale host porn and choose not to make a “clean” version to compete.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PlayStation 6 Console And New PS6 Handheld ‘Canis’ Specs Leak, It’s Claimed - Insider Gaming⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m just adding historical context that those games were exclusives. If them being exclusive meant “the ps5 has games” then timed exclusivity didnt really help in this case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PlayStation 6 Console And New PS6 Handheld ‘Canis’ Specs Leak, It’s Claimed - Insider Gaming⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The handheld PC and things like SteamOS have crossed the moat that console games used to have as a defense. The PC is coming to the living room, attaching to your TV, and playing games controller-first. The question will be how well will those games play and will they be exclusive

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PlayStation 6 Console And New PS6 Handheld ‘Canis’ Specs Leak, It’s Claimed - Insider Gaming⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  FF7 Remake, Rebirth and FF16 were timed exclusives, though both have since left and Square Enix said “never again, it wasn’t profitable enough.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG and game publishers launch FreedomToBuy.games to raise awareness on censorship in gaming – GOG Pressroom⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Valve relies on Visa/Mastercard to process billions worth of transactions occur every year. They’re not going to rock the boat unless they want to risk the whole business.

  Their (relative?) silence, to me, is indicative of just how bad this duopoly is, and that Valve sees no alternative worth publicly mentioning at this juncture.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RPGs that are optionally pacifist?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fairly certain the NPC in Morrowind could theoretically be killed by a combination of his own drain health spell reflected back at him and/or - once he’s out of magicka - dying to fire shield.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a alternative platform to roblox for players and gamedevs?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No. Distribution is left to the developer.

  But the silver lining is that you’re outside of a walled garden and outside of a company’s control.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BYD has caught up with Tesla in the global EV race⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Technically just a neural net, but yes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BYD has caught up with Tesla in the global EV race⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  BYD uses lidar, so yeah, Tesla

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Now You Can Buy In-Game DLC And Pay It Off Later⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As if Tesla stock is traded rationally…

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

  You can’t just say perchance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MindsEye - Official Launch Trailer | 2025⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Switch 2 Teardown: Still Glued, Still Soldered, Still Drifting⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.