AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor
@AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Great plan 6 days ago:
I have 7 weeks of paid leave yearly to use as I please, however, my autism makes taking more than two weeks of pause together a struggle. I need my routines, even the work one. I found that taking small breaks of 2-3 days often (save for the 2 weeks I take in summer) works much better for me than taking a long pause. Longer pauses screw with my routines and they are actually worse and more draining than small and frequent pauses.
Of course this is because I have to work, if work weren’t a necessity, I’d be perfectly well without it because I’d create routines to occupy the time I spend working.
- Comment on Nintendo Is Already Punishing Switch 2 Users Over Piracy ‘Suspicions’ 1 week ago:
Tbf, I hope nintendo keeps going this route and punishing more and more its customers. After all, if you keep supporting a company that hates you so much, you deserve what you get.
- Comment on As ChatGPT Linked to Mental Health Breakdowns, Mattel Announces Plans to Incorporate It Into Children's Toys 1 week ago:
Whatever could go wrong?
A kitchen toy that tells the kid to prepare a pizza using glue mixed with the mozzarella?
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #19 2 weeks ago:
Oh that’s so kind of you to say! I have to say, I’ve been pretty down about it all, but writing this up made me so very happy. I really love Lemmy for how easy it is to share these long-form posts :)
Happy to read this (the part about writing this making you happy I mean!!).
Lemmy is great for sharing long posts, much like reddit was before the enshitification. It’s good to see long elaborated posts here among all the memes and other low effort content. And in the case of your posts, they are also a nice read in my mornings because of all the possitivity and joy you can feel when reading them. You really pour a lot of that in your posts and it feels!
Sounds wonderful, I’m looking this up now! It sure sounds weird, but the longer the gaming industry runs and ruins great things, these odd little different ones just make me happy!
I love “'weird” or unconventional games. And right now, it’s the indie world that provides these gems. In an industry that looks for the short-term profit like the “mainstream” videogame one, they rarely innovate anymore. They just pick a formula that works and copy it until they find a more profitable one, so innovation now happens mostly in the indie world, giving birth to games as odd as this one, a yo-yo player bat that goes around a city beating corpo suits to recover a monopoly! You won’t see EA making this kind of game, ever.
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #19 2 weeks ago:
I was waiting for this post, thank you! Since I discovered this “series” I’ve been hooked. It’s nice to read some long content in a non clickbaity way (that seems to be the norm in the industry nowadays).
I’m really sorry about your nerve damage and hope you recover as soon as possible!
As for what I’ve been playing, right now I’m going through Blasphemous 2 (i loved the first one too) and a nice surprise: Pippistrello and the cursed yo-yo. A zelda-like adventure in which you play as a bat with a yo-yo fighting industry magnates to help your aunt recover the monopoly on energy she built to keep a grip on the city (I know! The setting is original, to say the least).
The gameplay makes you think of 2d zelda games, but the yo-yo makes combat (and even movement) a completely different thing of other games, I suggest you to try the demo!!
- Comment on We really did 2 weeks ago:
I miss that. I remember it was normal seeing people on the side of the road, checking the map before continuing their trip.
- Comment on TechCrunch: Reddit sues Anthropic for allegedly not paying for training data 3 weeks ago:
The enemy of my enemy is not necesarily my friend. However, when two of my enemies start killing each other, I can’t help but to cheer for both of them, hoping for one to kill the other.
- Comment on Research reveals “non-existent” enforcement of industry-led standards on loot boxes 4 weeks ago:
While I agree regulation must be enforced, let’s not forget that if a kid is playing on a phone that has a credit card saved, is enterely their parents’ fault.
And same if the kid has access to the card itself.
Laws to regulate lootboxes are a must, and I believe this kind of products should be treated as gambling. But FFS, it’s your kid, take some responsibility on what they play and what they buy. A 10 years-old can’t open a bank account or a credit card by themselves, so the card is their parents’. You are doing something very wrong as v parent if your kid can dispose of your credit cards unchecked and freely.
- Comment on DOOM: The Dark Ages Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 1 Million Copies 5 weeks ago:
No shit! 80€ for a game that’s a fake physical edition on consoles is outraging. As much as the price on pcs where the physical is not even a possibility.
Good thing, I hope the sales keep low for a while to serve as an example of what to not do.
- Comment on The Telegraph has deleted the seemingly made-up article 5 weeks ago:
That’s so sad… I almost feel sorry for them. Almost.
Wish they had to live with 10% of that money each year.
- Comment on A year later, Apple Vision Pro owners say they regret buying the $3,500 headset 1 month ago:
If you could buy this thing at their asking price it means that you either had spare money to spend on it as if it was nothing or you were dumb enough to buy an item you didn’t need for an amount you couldn’t afford.
And in both cases, I don’t have sympathy for you.
- Comment on CD Projekt exec says "the right thing to do" is release a real Nintendo Switch 2 cartridge for Cyberpunk 2077, not a game-key card, in message to other studios: "Do not underestimate the physical edit 1 month ago:
It’s even worse. All the people who defend the physical editions do it because when servers close, they can still play the game. A game key card is just a glorified digital release. When the servers close, you’ll have a piece of plastic.
- Comment on Trump announces 100% tariffs on movies ‘produced in foreign lands’ 1 month ago:
He’s just giving Netflix and the others an excuse to raise prices on their plans, probably globally.
- Comment on Former SIEA President Says Players Will Pay $80 For Switch 2 Games 2 months ago:
Lucky you it’s only $80. In Europe they are going for 90€, so I guess we’re passing the 100€ barrier on any game with dlc.
And people will pay. These are the fanatics that can’t live without a mario game.
- Comment on Spiritfarer devs release 33 Immortals, the early access co-op hellraiser that plays like an MMO raid 3 months ago:
And that’s another game I’m not getting (even though I LOVE the concept) because there is no steam.
Oh well, their loss.
- Comment on The Devil's Panties doesn't miss 4 months ago:
Apparently we’re not oppressing them enough.
- Comment on Trump Suggests No Laws Are Broken if He’s ‘Saving His Country’ 4 months ago:
- Comment on CNN Freaks Out Over Elon Musk Changing His Name On X To “Harry Bölz” 4 months ago:
Rules for thee, not for me. Or something.
You can’t expect them to be coherent or logical or anything; they voted for trump.
- Comment on Lord Sugar tells workers to get bums back into the office - BBC News 4 months ago:
This is wonderful and I am saving it for future uses if you don’t mind.
- Comment on Lord Sugar tells workers to get bums back into the office - BBC News 4 months ago:
- Comment on Why do so many UK electrical sockets have an on/off switch next to them? 5 months ago:
In my work, I’ve learned that when you see a safety measure that looks overkill and that “no one can’t be that stupid” to do what the measure keeps you from doing is because, in fact, someone was that stupid.
- Comment on Why do so many UK electrical sockets have an on/off switch next to them? 5 months ago:
So when the dumb person tries to insert a fork in the plug, they don’t die electrocuted.
- Comment on Criminal migrant LASHES OUT during ICE arrest: 'F--- Trump!' 5 months ago:
You do understand that fox news is basically trump propaganda at this point, right?
I’m sorry but I can’t trust a source like this one.
- Comment on BDSM 5 months ago:
I always thought there’s a line people draw when they do bdsm so the fun doesn’t become torture.
You just crossed it using a 6m pole in order to land as far as possible from the line.
- Comment on BDSM 5 months ago:
Could have been worse, he could have installed Vista
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
Not that shocked.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 publishing director thinks GTA 6 might have the "clout" to normalise a $100 price tag 5 months ago:
Oh well, looks like it’ll be another gaming gen in which I will buy zero AAA games.
- Comment on I sure hope these pills lower my rent so I can afford to have only one job 5 months ago:
I laughed more than I should have.
- Comment on Hold on! 5 months ago:
I am human! nervous dromaeosaurid sounds
- Comment on Are there any games like Starfield? 5 months ago:
Given the history of these guys, I am not gonna believe it until I see the game released and in the stores. Until then, as everything around star citizen, this is vaporware aimed at milking the whales that keep giving them money.
