Kirp123
@Kirp123@lemmy.world
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Halo of Duty sounds pretty cool as a title for a game.
- Comment on Why are games priced in € (EUR) quoted the same as $ (USD)? 1 week ago:
Yes, game prices include VAT. In Europe any displayed prices be they in a supermarket or on an online store always include VAT. It’s not even allowed to advertise prices without including VAT.
- Comment on DSP clears Wolverine's motorcycle section without player input 1 week ago:
The only people watching him are just people that are looking to mock him. And even they started to kinda get bored of it. DSP keeps complaining about declining viewer numbers and income from what I heard.
- Comment on Why does Australia tend to censor games A LOT despite a copy having a foreign classification rating? 2 weeks ago:
Each country has their own laws determining what is or isn’t appropriate. So just because a game has a certain rating in one country doesn’t mean it will have the same one in a different one.
Australia is also very strict with depictions of certain things. For example they have a law that says your game can’t show real life drugs giving you bonuses and power-ups. You can see this with the modern Fallout games where Med-X was initially supposed to be called morphine but the Australians word have banned the game from sale if it shipped with that. Do they changed it.
- Comment on Do you have a favorite Caves of Qud build? 2 weeks ago:
The game is pretty hand-off an can leave you feeling lost at the start.
The game is procedurally generated but there are some things that are always there no matter what.
Try talking to all the NPCs in settlements. They are all either merchants or quest givers. NPCs can be very varied in what they are. They can be your run of the mill humanoids but they can also be monsters, trees, plants, robots and a lot of other things. The quest giver NPCs offer two types of quests, procedural generated quests where the quest, quest target and rewards are basically random and fixed quests. Fixed quests usually are very similar between runs but they can also have some random parts.
Settlements are also procedural and fixed. The fixed settlements will show as a landmark on the world map while the procedural ones won’t. Settlements can also stretch across multiple screens so don’t be afraid to look around.
The main quest line is a great introduction to the game and will offer you but early, mid game and late game goals. I suggest you start with the recommended village instead of a random one. The mayor gives you a quest to kill a creature that is like a few screens North of the village. There is also a tinker that gives you a quest and a merchant. Once you finish the tinker’s quest the plot proceeds from there.
Otherwise just explore, look for cool things and have fun
- Comment on Why was Concord DoA upon launch? 2 weeks ago:
Because it was a soulless designed by committee game. It somehow managed to put out some of the most boring and dead designs in a game of its type.
It was a live service game at launch so it expected people to put in time to progress and grind but any of the rewards for that grind was just eh.
So people saw it for what it was and just didn’t bother with it.
- Comment on *Eyeroll* 4 weeks ago:
Yea, I was looking for him too. I guess Donnie forgot about him.
- Comment on How high would my blood alcohol have to be to impair/kill a mosquito? 4 weeks ago:
If it’s high enough to kill a mosquito it’s high enough to kill you.
In a recent article on Popular Science, entomologist Coby Schal, from North Carolina State University, pointed out that a human who had knocked back 10 drinks might have a blood alcohol level of 0.2%. But if the mosquito drank that person’s blood, the effects would be negligible – the mosquito is drinking such minute amounts that it’s the equivalent of diluting those drinks to 1/25th of their strength.
- Comment on Experimental Build Of Nvidia’s DLSS 5 AI Slop Filter Leaks And Turns Beloved Video Game Characters Into Uncanny Valley Weirdos 4 weeks ago:
Agreed
- Comment on Experimental Build Of Nvidia’s DLSS 5 AI Slop Filter Leaks And Turns Beloved Video Game Characters Into Uncanny Valley Weirdos 4 weeks ago:
Cloud looks like they’re transitioning. Good for them.
- Comment on Rich people don't understand us at all. 5 weeks ago:
Just choose to be born healthy to a rich family. DUH
- Comment on one step closer to 100%'ing life!! 1 month ago:
Sometimes no matter how much parents try their kid will still end a dumbass.
- Comment on unfathomable 1 month ago:
One of the reasons they were banned was also because it made them more attractive to children and teenagers. That’s also one of the reasons a lot of places don’t allow fancy designs on cigarette packs and it forces them to show those gruesome pictures of throat cancer and stuff.
- Comment on What are some cool/decent PC games that are not on Steam? 1 month ago:
There is quite a lot of game and there is a solid modding scene as well. It is worth the money.
- Comment on More People Are Pre-ordering The $100 Edition Of GTA 6 1 month ago:
However in their earnings call they reported smth like 1 billion in revenue, and, while I wasn’t clear on whether it’s everything or just GTA6, that would still mean people placed anywhere between 5-14 million preorders.
Well from what I see on their website they put out their Q1 2027 earnings report which reports 1.534 billion earnings for the quarter. Q1 ended on June 30th so it only includes 5 days of GTA VI preorders. It’s also lower that their earnings in Q1 2026 which wouldn’t be the case if they had a really big boost of preorders.
For Q2 2027, which ends on September 30th 2026 and would include most of the GTA 6 preorder period, they predict revenue of 1.62-1.67 billion. Q2 2026 was 1.774 billion.
You’re telling me that for one of the most expected game releases in the last decade they are expecting to make only 100 million in pre-orders. That’s like 1 million 100$ pre-orders, now way they would sell that few.
So yea I think the CEO may be talking out of his ass.
- Comment on More People Are Pre-ordering The $100 Edition Of GTA 6 1 month ago:
The source being Take Two’s CEO. I’d take this with a large grain of salt.
- Comment on Why put data centers in space? 1 month ago:
Trains underground? What you mean like subways? There are actual reasons why you would want to do that, like making public transport infrastructure in dense urban locations where you can’t just demolish buildings to make space for your train tracks.
- Comment on Anon is 23 2 months ago:
The effects of sitting on your arse can be mitigated with 30 to 40 minutes of daily vigorous exercise. There are a bunch of studies showing this. It’s not remotely the same thing.
- Comment on Anon is 23 2 months ago:
Why is learning a trade only considered a last resort?
Because a lot of trades are pretty bad for your health. They require getting in potentially unsafe environments, dealing with substances or byproducts that can lead to cancers or other occupational diseases. They also require a lot more physical work. So of course people would prefer a cushy office job to trawling through crawlspaces lined with asbestos to plug in a light. Not to mention that a lot of trade jobs are not that great paid when starting out, the good pay comes with years of experience and until you get there you have to suffer through all the above. Sure some office jobs don’t pay well starting out either but you just sit on your ass in a air conditioned office instead of nailing 2x4s in the hot sun for 8 hours.
People always ask this question but they never consider that there are actual valid considerations that make trade jobs unattractive compared to other jobs.
- Comment on Valve says there's no end in sight to the memory crisis, and prices are only going to increase: 'Honestly, it's still getting worse' 2 months ago:
There is a guy on YouTube doing it and making videos about the process. He turned his shed into a clean room lol.
- Comment on hockey team owner selfishly engraves his whole family on the Stanley Cup 2 months ago:
Don’t they remove the strips and add blank ones? Or was that a different trophy.
- Comment on Data from the 2023 Insomniac leak showed that most first party Playstation games sold more physical discs than digital copies 2 months ago:
Some beancounter at Sony realized that they could increase margins by a tiny amount if they removed physical disks. I bet they haven’t factored in the reputation loss from doing so and in the end it will come out that the margin gain will be overshadowed by the loss of sales.
- Comment on my own personal Chatgpt 2 months ago:
Bro discovered thinking.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
They’re not completely wrong, a lot of gamers will buy anything that has a large company’s name on it then complain they were sold shit.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Yeah, I was honestly surprised Sony paid that much for them when I saw the sale news.
- Comment on GTA 6 will cost £70 - and physical edition will not contain a disc 2 months ago:
Sure but you can get a cheap second hand PC or a laptop or a console to play that 5 dollars game and it’s a one time purchase.
Shit you don’t even have to pay 5 dollars, there are plenty of games that are free. I’ve been playing Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead for hundreds of hours and haven’t paid a cent since it’s a free game, it’s updated daily and it can run on basically any PC since it’s an ASCII game. This is like complaining that it’s too expensive to get into woodworking because you have to buy a hammer.
And if you want to play the latest title with your friends, it’s going to be 1-2k on the hardware before you can even launch the game.
Get friends that don’t ask you to spend 1000 dollars to hang out with them.
- Comment on GTA 6 Price Finally Confirmed, Features a 'Single-Player Experience' at Launch 3 months ago:
Probably because they get fat bonuses from console manufacturers to release there first. Then they can release on PC later for full price and people will still buy it.
- Comment on Why is leadership valued so much over expertise? 3 months ago:
Because at some point expertise is worth less than leadership. One person with expertise is still just one person, they can’t usually achieve anywhere close to the same results as a team of people with good leadership. Leadership is a multiplier of expertise.
- Comment on What's the evolutionary advantage of very long hair on human heads? 3 months ago:
Something doesn’t have to be an evolutionary advantage to persist in a population. If long hair doesn’t impact fitness then it won’t get selected against.
- Comment on Anon is a child prodigy 3 months ago:
He was smart but emotionally he was a kid. He was prodigiously intelligent for his age but emotionally he was developing at the normal pace for a kid. He was an 11 old kid surrounded by 18 year olds and older. The university faculty even pushed back against him being admitted so young but his father pushed for it until they admitted him.