Auster
@Auster@thebrainbin.org
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Cons Officially Have A Pay-To-Press Button 3 days ago:
The Switch 2 is a ticking time bomb, a lot of its functions, including gaming itself if considering the "game key cards", being tied to services.
- Comment on Why is this community looks empty when looking from other instances? 1 week ago:
Additionally, someone in an external instance can pull older posts by searching their links in the search page, even if you get the link from yet another instance.
Only caveat is if the original post is unreachable, e.g. if communications were blocked ("instance defederated"), DNS or firewall is misbehaving at instance level, the instance is dead, etc.
Also, boosting, a microblogging thing, allows spreading posts further, though a bit more indirectly.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
@DeltaLima, a tip, when posting from Mastodon to a community, have as the first paragraph of the posts as something that works as a title, else it gets pretty ugly:
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Oooooooooh
Time for a GameFAQS rabbit hole to find scans of the Japanese covers then. e.e"
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Makes me think, maybe I'm getting gritty aesthetics of DMC mixed with the nasty aesthetics of the 2013 reboot, being several years since I played either, and because of that it wouldn't sound as off.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 8 comments
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
"It's not a problem for me therefore it's not a problem for other people". Considering it's true, rare are the people online or in person that have the patience for that.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Overposting makes people ignore the given posts, no? Also, that depletes what your contents pool too quickly. Need to strike a balance on how much to post to ensure a healthy feed.
- Comment on PSBLACKOUT (boycott of PlayStation) 3 weeks ago:
Having seem strong protests become meaningless for being one-offs, I'd strongly recommend, besides doing this initial boycott, to keep pressuring against them whenever you can. Get the games you're interested on competing platforms when possible, share the word of what they tried to pull, follow their competitors on social medias, etc. But don't let the dissatisfaction die until they correct course.
- Comment on Issues with AI Helper 4 weeks ago:
Wrong community? Sounds like there's context missing.
- Comment on Why does not LW have it's only little icon that can be seen across the fediverse? To let people know which area of the Fed we represent. I would totally put it by my name. 4 weeks ago:
Would the handle not suffice? The
@lemmy.worldpart of every user and community of the instance.Or, if that's what you are asking for, locally Lemmy doesn't show a handle, and looking at the settings of an instance I have an alt on, there doesn't seem to be an option to toggle the display of handles, for either local or external users/communities. In that case, using a function on that idea on Mbin, I'd second the idea of implementing on Lemmy.
- Comment on Is the Switch 2 a waste of money? 5 weeks ago:
I'm biased towards preservation, ownership, tinkering, analogue instead of online, and the sort, and it doesn't feel like it's worth the price to me.
Also in that line, I posted my reactions to using the console the console for the first time some weeks back for what's worth it:
https://thebrainbin.org/m/consolemods@lemmy.sdf.org/p/749690 - Comment on Contemplating on playing a controversial developer's bought game 5 weeks ago:
With the money already spent, I think it should be played. The nagging problem would be that the game, unless an emulated MS-DOS game, is tied by DRM to their launcher.
But still, in the line of not losing as much by not playing something you spent on, playing the game could be good at least to leave an in-depth review about the qualities of the game, the technical sides, the background of the company, price point, etc. And you could also post the review to NeoDB (part of the fediverse), Steam (if you have the game there), GameFAQS, etc.
- Comment on Can I make a second account while keeping my first one? 5 weeks ago:
Maybe make an alt on some Mbin or Friendica instance? They're meant as hybrid platforms focusing on integrating both communities and microblogging (e.g. respectively Lemmy and Mastodon), and by extension they can get posts from a lot more platforms, including Bluesky (through @bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy) and RSS feeds. That widens the amount of posts you can get and people to interact with quite a lot.
Also PieFed is working on a similar hybrid feature, but I still have to check how mature it is so far.
- Comment on Dead Estate - Console Release Trailer 5 weeks ago:
Twin stick shooter, was on Steam already and released for the Switch and the PS5.
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 2 comments
- Comment on Time to bring back physical media on PC? 1 month ago:
Personally, so long as it's DRM-free, physical, installers or zipped files sound like a good idea.
And like with vinyl, if it comes back, it's to be expected that it isn't as big as it once was. But being there, it's another option for the preservation and ownership folks.
- Comment on Game suggestions: Downvote any game you've heard of before 1 month ago:
Name was familiar but had to look up, so I guess it counts as an upvote?
- Comment on Game suggestions: Downvote any game you've heard of before 1 month ago:
F2P (not gacha) but pretty good imo: https://store.steampowered.com/app/802930/The_Rainsdowne_Players/
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
But in the case of the China gov. cracking down on anything, I can't help but to think, did someone get in the gov.'s wrong side?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Consoles games burned onto CDs/DVDs in mine mostly.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Usually LLMs don't meander as much. With how it's written, sounds like a journalistic piece indeed, but drafted in a language other than English and then machine translated. And I'd further guess it's LLM-translated specifically given an element used a lot in the OP's writing/"writing".
- Comment on PlayStation Is Deleting 551 Movies From Customers’ Accounts, Reminding Us Nothing Digital Is Ever Truly Ours 1 month ago:
DRM-free and contractual recognition of ownership though?
- Comment on What is your favourite gaming console you have played? 1 month ago:
PS Vita or PS2.
PS2 mainly for the games, so many fantastic ones I still play and replay decades later. Keeping track per platform the owned-played ratio and how many liked games in absolute numbers each has for me, the PS2 is still king in both. Even lesser known games I generally have a blast with.
On the Vita, its library isn't as strong as the PS2's, even if many of my favorite games were found through the Vita. But it compensates at being a fantastic console to mod. While I know people modding consoles do it for playing ilegitimate copies of games, if you ignore that, its mods still give you a lot to use the console for, possibly risking seeing the console dying in your hands while you read an ebook on it, try some homebrew ROM from Itchio, play with PSP homebrews, etc. Also it's a bit of a learning curve and technical information on it is sparse, but learning how it ticks makes tinkering second nature (...unlike the PS3 =.=").
- Comment on Sonic Game Recomendation? 1 month ago:
Only played the earlier games as they were included in some super old collection (Sonic Mega Collection Plus), but of these, all were pretty fun.
A tip: in one those earlier games, if a moving barrel never seems to fully move enough up or down, stay still and hold the directional button to the direction you want.
- Comment on Can we use offensive language like slurs against race and sex and the disabled? Because I thought it would be fun on c/askhistorians to do a couple questions on where and why the words exist? 1 month ago:
Titles aren't meant to be as long, and if it's not a bait, try to interpret whether what you write is not a provocation.
- Comment on Game Reveals kind of suck now .. 2 months ago:
Might I suggest game shows for indie games? Usually those don't have the budget to hide contents behind cinematic games, and usually they seem of a better quality than AAA games.
- Comment on What’s your favorite video game that most people didn’t like ?? 2 months ago:
Ah, another game that comes to mind: Persona 3 FES
Dunno how not liked it is, but I always see people getting scared away because of the difficulty, and that trying to convince people to play that version for the good part of a decade now.
But just saying, learning the ins and outs of the game makes it far more manageable, and even gets mechanics of P4G and Persona 5 to make sense.
Also, pinning a god-like being to the ground for ~50 turns and making another god-like being slap itself to death thanks to marakarn and tetrarn, both due to exploiting mechanics to my benefit, were certainly high points of the game. =D
Even Mitsuru was useful for a single battle in my whole 170h save because of having to exploit the game's mechanics
- Comment on What’s your favorite video game that most people didn’t like ?? 2 months ago:
Arcane Labyrinth is fantastic. Adds much to the game, both in lore (which the base game barely has so it needed) and in challenge. 👌
- Comment on What’s your favorite video game that most people didn’t like ?? 2 months ago:
NES FFII.
