artyom
@artyom@piefed.social
- Comment on Xbox Nano Controller announced 4 days ago:
I totally get the pushback on the “you will own nothing” but also a lot of times, I don’t want to. I spend $1500 on a new PC every ~5 years and spend a bunch of money on games I don’t play, and miss out on others that I don’t want to spend the money on. I almost never go back and play those games ever again, other than maybe the top 1%.
In theory I might explore an option like this, but in reality I have experimented with it and it’s completely unplayable.
- Comment on Xbox Nano Controller announced 4 days ago:
The explanation is that XBOX is basically doing the opposite of Steam. They’re transisitoning from a hardware platform to a software platform. “Everything is an XBOX” refers to 2 things:
- Xbox on PC. No more dedicated hardware. As we’ve seen with the XBOX Ally, it’s just a Windows PC and Xbox is just a game mode.
- XBOX cloud gaming. Don’t have enough power to run your own XBOX PC? Stream games from a server.
I don’t really know why this isn’t very clear to everyone at this point.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
Interesting! Thanks
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Well that’s an interesting theory, do you have a source for that? Im not seeing anything in search.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Yeah, they whine and complain and keep fucking buying it.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Someone like Walmart would just stop carrying their product if they’re getting a raw deal out of it
But they’re already getting screwed. Better a $10 price increase than no product at all?
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Why wouldn’t they just increase the prices on physical copies to compensate?
- Comment on 1 week ago:
And how is this contributing to “revenue per user”?
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Sony must surely have some alternate motive for this, since it’s clearly going to cost them a fuckton in sales.
- Comment on DERELIKT - Official Demo Trailer 1 week ago:
LOL came here to say this
- Comment on Hackers steal millions of Discord IDs and email addresses in "deliberate, multi-stage attack" on security service Double Counter 1 week ago:
Basically, it’s the worst Discord hack via a third-party service provider since the last Discord hack via a third-party service provider, which occurred almost a year to the day ago – spooky!
LOL wow that thing that everyone said would happen, happened. Again.
- Comment on Skate has been de-live serviced by ReSkate, a modding platform downloaded 350,000 times—devs say they will comply if EA's lawyers come knocking 1 week ago:
I’m not going to argue about the semantics of anonymity on the internet
You just did. Those things are not anonymous. And are subject to EAs lawsuits and likely to be taken down.
- Comment on Skate has been de-live serviced by ReSkate, a modding platform downloaded 350,000 times—devs say they will comply if EA's lawyers come knocking 1 week ago:
Yes what about it
- Comment on Skate has been de-live serviced by ReSkate, a modding platform downloaded 350,000 times—devs say they will comply if EA's lawyers come knocking 1 week ago:
You should probably think a little more. Public code repos are not anonymous. And torrents require some form of advertising to even know they exist.
- Comment on Skate has been de-live serviced by ReSkate, a modding platform downloaded 350,000 times—devs say they will comply if EA's lawyers come knocking 1 week ago:
How are they going to distribute something while being anonymous?
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I think I spent probably 20+ hours playing Control Resonant this weekend. Crazy good game.
- Comment on NYC is now the first city in America that bans sketchy subscriptions- the city's click-to-cancel rule has taken effect, which requires making it as easy to cancel a subscription as it is to sign up 2 weeks ago:
Let’s see of anyone makes me mail them a letter to sign up for their service…
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
They bungled it so bad that people still use “twitter” now
I wish that were true.
- Comment on Discord gives more advertisers more tools to target its users 2 weeks ago:
I didn’t even realize there were ads on Discord now. That’s pretty disgusting. I’ve been very happy with Fluxer.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I haven’t noticed any examples of people refusing to refer to it…?
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
This is like Twitter renaming themselves “x”.
Not really a good example, seeing as they were pretty successful, even if it a terrible name.
- Comment on New Mexico jury finds Facebook liable for over 43 million violations of consumer protection law—and Meta could owe over $200 billion in penalties 3 weeks ago:
MOAR
- Comment on New Mexico jury finds Facebook liable for over 43 million violations of consumer protection law—and Meta could owe over $200 billion in penalties 3 weeks ago:
Mostly they wanted to push the responsibility onto someone else.
- Comment on US being left behind in EV charging speeds as China goes sub-5 min to 70% 3 weeks ago:
Yeah it’s not hard. Most companies don’t do it because it destroys the battery. You see exactly the same thing in battery electronics. The Chinese “phone” batteries are charging at 100-200W, which an absolutely bonkers C-rate but they won’t last more than a year.
- Comment on DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why. 3 weeks ago:
They could have just spent that $1.4M improving conditions for their contractors…
- Comment on ShinyHunters claims FBI hack: 'This is NOT financially motivated' 3 weeks ago:
So they can release The Epstein Files, then?
- Comment on DSP clears Wolverine's motorcycle section without player input 4 weeks ago:
You should see the driving in 007 First Light. You just hold the steering wheel and when you’re about to hit something “steer assist active” comes up on the screen and it just steers away from it automatically.
- Comment on Insomniac's Wolverine hits 1.9 million sales despite controversy, becomes Sony's top first-party game of 2026 4 weeks ago:
Well…they won’t buy Concord.
- Comment on Marvel's Wolverine motorcycle section and quicktime events are getting the wrong kind of attention because "the game plays itself" and "you don't have to press anything" 4 weeks ago:
I mean, I’ve always thought these scenes were very stupid. Pushing a button that’s on the screen isn’t really very satisfying anyway.
- Comment on The Steam Frame Is More Than Just Another VR Headset - Aftermath (Chris Person) 4 weeks ago:
I’ll probably just get another battery and keep it plugged in and in my pocket a la Apple Vision