TimothyOilypants
@TimothyOilypants@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital" 1 hour ago:
And you booted it up and played it straight away?
- Comment on Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital" 4 hours ago:
Bean soup?
- Comment on Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital" 4 hours ago:
When was the last time you got a fully up-to-date playable title on physical media?
- Comment on EA VP Urges Companies To Think About In-Game Ads During Development: ‘That’s A Huge Opportunity’ 3 days ago:
CDDA is full of real.world brands…
- Comment on EA VP Urges Companies To Think About In-Game Ads During Development: ‘That’s A Huge Opportunity’ 3 days ago:
Bullshit. What do you play, Pitfall?
Advertising (which includes product placement) is so ubiquitous there’s essentially zero chance you’re avoiding it, you just don’t notice it…
- Comment on EA VP Urges Companies To Think About In-Game Ads During Development: ‘That’s A Huge Opportunity’ 4 days ago:
There are more people making independent video games today than at any point in history.
I just don’t understand the all-or-nothing perspective that video game social media pundits have.
Personally, I absolutely prefer indie art films generally, but my preference doesn’t mean that Michael Bay blockbusters shouldn’t exist, or that Universal Pictures should go out of business…
Not everything needs to be for everyone, and most things created aren’t created for ME.
- Comment on As Xbox and PlayStation flounder, Steam is reportedly having another record year 1 week ago:
Nothing worse then wanting to play a game you haven’t played in a while and then having to redownload it…
Not even Dermatobia hominis? Or anthropogenic climate change? Or like, genocide?
- Comment on The End of Ownership. Sony’s announcement has fans worried they might never truly own their beloved games. 1 week ago:
You could have protected your account info in the first place…
- Comment on The End of Ownership. Sony’s announcement has fans worried they might never truly own their beloved games. 1 week ago:
That you think strips of paper, or numbers on a screen have an equivalent value to your time and labor is not Sony’s fault…
- Comment on The End of Ownership. Sony’s announcement has fans worried they might never truly own their beloved games. 1 week ago:
“My home builder is totally useless! I left my door unlocked and stole all my shit!”
- Comment on 1 week ago:
You better keep your promise.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
As soon as you said you have employees, your perspective and respect lost all value.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
BAAAA!
- Comment on 1 week ago:
…non-exploiting capitalist.
Did you read that term in a fairytale? 😂
Is your business structured as a worker cooperative or are you the owner?
If you take home a single penny more than the other people in your company, you are an exploitative capitalist and a labor thief. Take your market fundamentalist virtue signaling somewhere else…
Your “gotcha” reply just killed any credibility you might have argued on this topic. You are no better than the companies you’re criticizing, you’re just less successful at it.
I don’t need to advertise my contributions to strangers on the internet, and rationalize my behavior to satisfy a guilty conscience… The people in my community know what value I add.
Do better.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Because >20,000 children have died in Gaza since 2023 as a direct result of the same exploitative capitalism, and selective outrage over video games seems ignorant, performative, and wasteful of my energy…
Because every moment you spend advocating for the “rights” of 1st world consumers is an affront to millions of lives lost so you have the comfort and privilege required to care about something so fucking stupid…
- Comment on 1 week ago:
The only thing I am challenging is your claim that console has ceded market share to PC.
“Market share” has a defined meaning. Revenue for console and PC have both increased, one more than the other, but neither have gained any market share.
Maybe you just used the wrong metric to illustrate your point?
- Comment on 1 week ago:
And see what, that no one has physical media and no one cares?
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Selective outrage; got it. 👍🏻
- Comment on 1 week ago:
PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo users can’t do that. They are forced to pay hefty prices for their games and then still get locked out of their games.
Based on the instance you’re on, you should know this statement is completely untrue…
- Comment on 1 week ago:
…the console market has ceded market share to PC over the past few decades…
That statement is untrue; both have lost market share to mobile.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Again…
From 2006 to 2026: *Console market share dropped 24% *PC market share dropped 22%
PC isn’t “cannibalizing” shit… They are both losing to Mobile.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
It’s very clear that PC and Console have remained relatively flat and comparable, while Mobile eats BOTH their lunch. PC has not experienced the runaway capture your intentionally vague wording implies it has…
- Comment on 1 week ago:
…Nespresso, SodaStream, Swiffer, HP, Gillette, Glade, Brita, Oral-B, Cricut, GE, Keurig, iRobot, Dyson, Shark, Breville, Weber, Traeger, Pentair, Ring, and Tovala enter the chat…
- Comment on 1 week ago:
The actual data does not support your conclusion.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
There are an estimated 3,600,000,000 active video games players worldwide…
Why does it never occur to anyone in these threads that YOU might just be an insignificant but vocal minority?
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Yeah, stick to the companies that really care about the consumer like Intel, Gigabyte, and NVIDIA! 🤡
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
It’s like anything… Think about how many people ride bicycles. Now go to ANY online community where people talk about cycling; it will likely be the most insufferably pedantic asshole you can imagine.
99% of people who buy video games don’t identify as “gamers”, they don’t read gaming media, and they certainly don’t interact with gaming discussion online.
As both an industry professional (former), and a self-identified gamer, I stopped giving a shit what “core gamers” had to say 10 years ago.