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- Comment on Spotify’s 3rd price hike in 2.5 years hints at potential new normal 3 days ago:
If you do want to use Spotify then find 5 friends who also want to and set up a family plan
- Comment on Question about the Switch 2 port of Civilization VII: does it support multiple controllers for local multiplayer? 5 days ago:
Some of them still are! I played some Golf With Your Friends recently, that has the classic hot seat experience. The Jackbox games are different but also good for a party.
- Comment on Xbox 360 superfan amasses all 1,353 North American discs after two‑decade collection spree 1 week ago:
It sounds more fun if you read it in an Aussie accent
- Comment on Discord's IPO could happen in March 1 week ago:
Depends what you use it for. I see people use it for group chats, video calls, and forums, all of which would have different replacements.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Pottering? Or is this the long-awaited golf expansion?
- Comment on World's Best-selling Video Game Consoles 2 weeks ago:
More than things like the Phillips CD-i which makes the Wikipedia list, so they’re at least distinguishing between consoles and PCs
- Comment on World's Best-selling Video Game Consoles 2 weeks ago:
Wikipedia seems to think they are. I’ve seen “home consoles” used when you want to exclude handhelds, what makes you say that they’re technically not consoles?
- Comment on World's Best-selling Video Game Consoles 2 weeks ago:
Looks like the data is a little out of date, seems the PS5 has outsold the 360 now. Also why are handhelds missing?
- Comment on After getting Silent Hill 'back on track,' Konami wants to make it an annual franchise 3 weeks ago:
Nothing screams quality like releasing to an arbitrary schedule rather than when the games are finished, eh?
- Comment on Google sues web scraper for sucking up search results ‘at an astonishing scale’ 4 weeks ago:
Ah but you see every youtube user granted full rights for google to do whatever they want with their videos by uploading them, it’s all totally legit of course!
- Comment on Steam winter sale is now live 4 weeks ago:
There were three steam games posted in !freegames@feddit.uk yesterday!
- Comment on Tencent ‘Horizon clone’ pulled from stores as Sony settles lawsuit 4 weeks ago:
Seems a bit mad that with all their money and a game already made they couldn’t be bothered to file off the serial numbers a bit more. I imagine this happens all the time with licencing deals, I know for instance Warcraft was originally written to be a Warhammer game.
- Comment on What are your gaming highlights of 2025? 5 weeks ago:
Depending on the system it can be really easy to dump/rip your own discs. Hacking a Wii for homebrew requires jumping through a few hoops but then you can dump Wii, GameCube, and even Gameboy games. You can dump WiiU games by inserting an SD card and going to a single web page in the browser!
- Comment on 🍺 🍻 5 weeks ago:
Entomologists reserve the term bug for Hemiptera or Heteroptera, which does not include other arthropods or insects of other orders such as ants, bees, beetles, or butterflies. In some varieties of English, all terrestrial arthropods (including non-insect arachnids and myriapods) also fall under the colloquial understanding of bug.
Sounds like those entomologists should have tried a bit harder either in educating the masses or choosing names!
- Comment on 🍺 🍻 5 weeks ago:
Does “bug” have a technical definition? If so then it’s news to me and everyone who uses it to mean pretty much any small invertebrate (or microorganism, or software defect).
- Comment on Question: Is it possible to put Linux on an x86 Chromebook? 1 month ago:
I’ll second this, seemed to work without any issues. You can even install ChromeOS Flex on it if you still want to use a Chromebook after they stop getting updates!
- Comment on [Android] How is Florisboard not popular? 1 month ago:
They both seem to cover that fortunately
- Comment on [Android] How is Florisboard not popular? 1 month ago:
Oh that’s cool
- Comment on [Android] How is Florisboard not popular? 1 month ago:
Not something I have any interest in using, so afraid I’ve never tried it
- Comment on [Android] How is Florisboard not popular? 1 month ago:
I tried it out recently but the gesture typing seemed way worse than heliboard
- Comment on Timesplitters Remake 1 month ago:
Excellent news!
- Comment on Fifo's Night - An Excellent (Free) 3D Platformer 1 month ago:
Why no link to the actual game?
- Comment on Timesplitters Remake 1 month ago:
I’ve been hurt by every TimeSplitters announcement I’ve seen for the last 20 years, do I dare to believe that it’s once again time to split‽
- Comment on 1 month ago:
This is the key thing that everyone comparing it directly to consoles seems to be completely missing. Even if you’re only buying new steam games the costs are going to be way lower, but you could buy this and just play free giveaways or emulate your own old console games, and suddenly it’s a bargain (like any PC).
- Comment on Classic text adventure Zork is going open source, but I'm side-eyeing Microsoft's announcement about it hard 1 month ago:
Did we really need an article saying “I think this other bit of text might be written by a robot”? Of all the things you criticise Microsoft for, that’s the one to go for? Or perhaps it’s the other side of the coin, Microsoft unusually did something quite nice so the author had to find something about it to criticise?
- Comment on Top 200 Most Common Passwords | NordPass 1 month ago:
You didn’t fill in the survey when the password inspector sent you that email? Rude!
- Comment on Top 200 Most Common Passwords | NordPass 1 month ago:
Can’t run the risk of being fingerprinted, privacy and anonymity first!
- Comment on In 1982, a physics joke gone wrong sparked the invention of the emoticon - Ars Technica 1 month ago:
“After all, when using text-based online communication, we lack the body language or tone-of-voice cues that convey this information when we talk in person or on the phone.”
This quote is from 1982 and yet we all still fall into the same trap today
- Comment on The story of a crazy Half-Life 2 bug, as told by former Valve dev Tom Forsyth (Mastodon thread) 1 month ago:
This is actually an incredible coincidence; I love reading these stories but it’s usually in the context of a speedrunner exploiting them rather than a poor dev asking “how did this ever work!?”
- Comment on What is your favorite Metroidvania? 1 month ago:
I recently played the original via Primehack, a fork of Dolphin Emulator which (among other things) modernises the controls