ryathal
@ryathal@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Sony Sues Tencent Over Horizon Lookalike 1 day ago:
There is also evidence that an out of court settlement happened between those companies. Notably moving away from cerebrates in SC2.
- Comment on hoarding 4 days ago:
Probably, and piss would be way better in those bags than gasoline.
- Comment on "Bringing your games to other platforms is how you’re going to win" - Circana 4 days ago:
Cross platform games aren’t a buggy mess, everyone else has figured it out. Nintendo could do it as well.
- Comment on "Bringing your games to other platforms is how you’re going to win" - Circana 5 days ago:
Nintendo is heavily reliant on physical media and traditional retailers, they aren’t getting anywhere near 100% of most sales. Brick and mortar takes around a 50% cut, Amazon takes a cut as well. Being on Xbox, PlayStation, and Steam isn’t a significant difference in what they would make.
- Comment on "Bringing your games to other platforms is how you’re going to win" - Circana 5 days ago:
They would still sell a lot of consoles, the super fans are going to buy Nintendo consoles. The people that actually own multiple consoles in the same generation aren’t actually that big of a group, especially compared to non-Nintendo owners that would consider buying a few games if they were available.
- Comment on "Bringing your games to other platforms is how you’re going to win" - Circana 5 days ago:
There’s a few titles that have relied on gimmicks that would be difficult or impossible to do on other systems. It would be a temporary learning curve to get games able to support multiple platforms, but everyone else has already done it and Nintendo consoles have been the least powerful systems so it should be easier.
- Comment on "Bringing your games to other platforms is how you’re going to win" - Circana 5 days ago:
How many people buy Nintendo for exclusives isn’t super relevant. The important questions are how many more games would they sell if they were multi-platform, and how many fewer consoles they would sell if their games were available elsewhere. They would very likely sell substantially more games, but also likely see a significant reduction in console sales. This would still likely be a win as the games are far higher margin than the consoles.
- Comment on energy 1 week ago:
Booby traps are a felony, so I’d stick to the one that doesn’t add manslaughter.
- Comment on Goddammit, what now? 1 week ago:
It’s pretty common with early access that haven’t had updates in a long time, or they “completed” the game with lots of missing or rough content.
- Comment on If you've given up on Civilization 7, Civ 6 is free with all DLC expansions for a limited time on Epic Games Store 1 week ago:
A crappy game for a crappy store.
- Comment on 7,818 titles on Steam disclose generative AI usage, or 7% of Steam's total library of 114,126 games, up from ~1,000 titles in April 2024 1 week ago:
AI is a meaningless term as weli. It generally has meant cutting edge computer research subjects.
- Comment on 7,818 titles on Steam disclose generative AI usage, or 7% of Steam's total library of 114,126 games, up from ~1,000 titles in April 2024 1 week ago:
Procedural generation is just an earlier form of AI that’s been demystified and commercialized as a positive thing. The current generative tools aren’t at that level of adoption yet.
- Comment on 7,818 titles on Steam disclose generative AI usage, or 7% of Steam's total library of 114,126 games, up from ~1,000 titles in April 2024 1 week ago:
It builds indifference to the disclaimer when it’s too general. The California cancer label is a good example.
- Comment on I really hate this... 2 weeks ago:
It’s a pile of child porn to get to the preteen porn
- Comment on Baby dies after California mom leaves him in car to get lip filler on 101-degree day, police say 2 weeks ago:
I’ve seen that as a bit by a comedian before as well.
- Comment on Baby dies after California mom leaves him in car to get lip filler on 101-degree day, police say 2 weeks ago:
After having kids I totally understand how it can happen by mistake.
- Comment on Anon likes a thing 2 weeks ago:
As I’ve become more casual I just stick to dubbed anime titles. It’s more likely to be something decent and avoids some of the more egregious problematic tropes of the genre.
- Comment on This is the dumbest idea ever 2 weeks ago:
Part of that is a legal issue. People over 40 are a protected class, you can’t discriminate against old people for being old. Young people can get fucked though.
- Comment on what 3 weeks ago:
There’s a lot of people that think 95% of what they paid is a good discount.
If you actually want to sell something mark it at 50% of retail, because that’s the area most things are worth.
- Comment on we are creators 3 weeks ago:
We killed our trajectory by shutting down nuclear investment.
- Comment on what 3 weeks ago:
I gave up on marketplaces years ago after looking for a reasonably priced PS3. The number of people who thought their original model with 7 Madden games was worth $500 was absurd.
- Comment on what 3 weeks ago:
In the offerers defense that is probably a price at or above current retail for a product with massive deprecation and in moderate to good condition.
- Comment on Game Pass will "either kill everyone else, or give up", says Dishonored and Prey dev Arkane founder 3 weeks ago:
I had a free trial for PC and came to a similar conclusion. It’s a good way to try some games, but the value proposition isn’t great for long term unless you constantly play new games. Also the download speed was atrocious.
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale 2025 has begun! 4 weeks ago:
Dread delusion claims to be like Morrowind, but it’s just on my wishlist soni can’t say how accurate it is.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
In the US, school boards and superintendents are a common source of political corruption. Many states allow for local control of districts, so these boards oversee the spending of tens or even hundreds of millions of local tax dollars and government grants.
- Comment on If one were so inclined, could you take your plot of land, parcel it up into 1-meter-squared (or smaller) sections, and sell each of those sections to different people/companies? 5 weeks ago:
No you can’t really do it. The government isn’t going to allow you to divide a plot into that many tiny ones. What you could do is have a company buy the land and sell lifetime leases for small parts.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Theft really depends on who the victim was or what was stolen. Most the time cops won’t do shit, unless there’s tons of easy evidence pointing to someone. For Identity theft, it’s probably even less common, unless it’s a relative or someone you know.
- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 5 weeks ago:
This is a great solution but it has two big problems that make it functionally impossible.
- To the left there is no non-toxic or positive masculinity.
- Feminism doesn’t actually support men, it’s a reluctant talking point. It only helps men if it happens to coincide with benefiting women.
- Comment on Does noise from different nearby sources 'add up'? Or do the different sources cancel each other out? In any case, please provide a formula and an example 2 months ago:
There’s a lot of things going with sound, but in general sound1 + sound2 is louder. You may not always perceive that, and if one of them is significantly louder, it’s not a significant difference. Active noise cancelling uses sound to make other sounds disappear, but this is just a trick, the pressure is still there (it’s why prolonged use of active noise cancelling can be bad for you).
When it comes to decibels, dB, it’s a logarithmic unit so adding them isn’t straightforward. You need to do logarithmic addition, so 5dB + 5dB = 8dB, and 90dB + 90dB = 93dB, but 70dB + 90dB = 90dB.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Not nearly to the same degree, and most colleges have no problem kicking out domestic cheaters.