ter_maxima
@ter_maxima@jlai.lu
- Comment on Researchers announce babies born from a trial of three-person IVF 13 hours ago:
I don’t think eugenics can be prevented by preventing scientific progress. It’s an ideological problem, just like nuclear bombs.
- Comment on Researchers announce babies born from a trial of three-person IVF 13 hours ago:
Really hope we can have this for polyamorous relationships soon. Powers of two are more convenient though :
4 people make 2 “fictitious ancestor” cells, which are induced into meiosis. The resulting gametes are assembled, and here you go ! A child that is genetically related to all 4 parents (who are technically their grandparents)
- Comment on Steam is cracking down on porn games, to keep Payment Processors happy. 14 hours ago:
Doing the right thing for the wring reason if you ask me. I don’t think it was ever a good idea to sell incest games in the first place, but banning them because they make payment processors uncomfortable ? Fuck that.
I don’t want payment processors to be the arbiters of what we are allowed to play !
- Comment on Since we're doing magic eyes now... 3 days ago:
These are all backwards. The eyes are reversed so everything that’s supposed to be a hole looks like a bump and vice-versa.
- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 1 week ago:
Publishers are cancer. Self publish whenever possible !
- Comment on The Steam controller was ahead of its time 1 week ago:
We really need a new version
- Comment on Founder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts sales 1 week ago:
Maybe it says more about me than about game pass, but even at 5€ a month it would be significantly more money than I spend on games every year.
Not that I couldn’t afford it, but I mostly play games that are at least 5 to 10 years old, either on second-hand physical copies or heavily discounted sales/keyshops. The most recent game I’ve bought is Elden Ring, even then only recently because I found a cheap physical copy.
- Comment on Founder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts sales 1 week ago:
Game Pass is the same scam as Netflix was back then, and I’m not falling for it twice.
Netflix used to be too good yo be true as well. 10€ a month for literally everything ! Now they don’t even make blu-rays anymore and you spend more time looking up which service has the thing you want to watch than watching it, so people are pirating again.
I’ll stick to physical games and GOG as much as possible.
- Comment on 'Xbox Hardware Is Dead,' Says Founding Team Member, 'It Looks Like Xbox Has No Desire — Or Literally Can't — Ship Hardware Anymore' - IGN 2 weeks ago:
While this is bad for the market, it’s also entirely expected.
Xbox have been producing sub-par hardware with names no one can remember and barely any exclusives, it was only a matter of time.
To other Europeans : do you know anyone who owns an Xbox ? I’ve only ever had one single friend in middle school who had a 360. I’ve never seen any other model outside of an electronics store.
Their current gen is hamstrung by the existence of the Series S, and the utter lack of features in their controllers (no gyroscope or any motion sensors ? No advanced rumble ? No touchpad ?). No one who is serious about controller gaming buys an Xbox controller, especially because of the lack of gyro.
Their dedication to digital-only and pushing the games pass also alienates anyone who wishes to play physical games and/or offline.
- Comment on Day 347 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 weeks ago:
They kinda murdered the game for me when they made it so easy to switch servers during play and avoid ever fighting anyone…
- Comment on Hytale, once touted as the Minecraft killer, is ceasing development 3 weeks ago:
I love reading a basic text article on the modern internet…
