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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to be Xbox, bit as I became more and more of focused I ended up building a pc for the livingroom, with steam big picture and a controller. Rdr2 is a big TV game for me, weird to play at a desk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah got it. Sorry to be pc master race but that’s why I didn’t notice. Although their hdr implementation leaves a lot to be desired

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI chief scientist warns no-one is prepared for consequences of AI⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Do we have a term for this yet? Saying your product is scary because it is TOO powerful simply to manipulate the market?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US diesel prices hit a record high, pushing up transportation costs for a long list of goods⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Which could have been mitigated if the big railroad monopolies had electrified their rail like other large freight railroads but noooo no investment only squeezing profits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Miami wants to turn parts of the city into a real-life GTA Vice City, but sheriff opposes the plan⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Grand Theft Auto is a video game franchise built around criminal activity," Cordero-Stutz said in a statement (via the Miami Herald). "Its fictional world includes murder, robbery, drug trafficking, carjacking, violence against law enforcement, and other conduct that the men and women of the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office work every single day to prevent.

  Ah so he would be equally upset promoting movies or tv shows who show any crimes. Nuance and satire are not a thing for this man. See now Hollywood, Miami doesn’t need anything filmed in their city.

  Such an obvious ploy to try and convince the oearl clutchers to vote for him for mayor. Even though this is a very unique thing to bring in tourists.

  But no a train and plane wrap, and a place for selfies and influencers will bring Miami into chaos.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll be honest, does rdr2 need a next gen update? Or is this a specific release for ps5 or something?

  Personally I don’t play GTA 5 online, but I like how Alana Pearce put it. I don’t like it, not my thing, but it’s just a money printer that lets rockstar make whatever they want to with near unlimited budgets. So thanks to those who buy shark cards and micro transactions so we can have masterpieces like GTA and rdr

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Fully agree. It’s the zeitgeist right now, it’s the biggest gaming moment in a long time, and while the hate of crunch and union busting is real, rockstar has a solid track record of near perfect games. Few of them, but near if not actually perfect. Guaranteed most people here complaining will pick it up after a while and justify it to themselves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s that it’s not downvoting at this point. It’s brigading. That’s what I’m really annoyed at. It’s not that people disagree, it’s that everyone dogpiles on because GTA bad must hit downvote to send it to -1000. That ruins it for those who do want to enjoy it and makes it harder to see, and then we can’t have an honest conversation about it until someone posts “hey it’s kind of annoying that it’s being brigaded”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I actually do agree with you. I am tired of people only complaining and brigading on anything GTA. Its so cringey to me, they could simply ignore the content, but instead have to make sure everyone knows they’re on the Lemmy bandwagon. They’re hipsters, plain and simple. They are too cool for the next star wars and biggest game of the decade, and they have to make sure eeeeveryone knows this. I am excited for the game and wish I could engage more with that side.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve seen way way way more here on Lemmy bitching about GTA 6 than I have seen actually about it. The complaining about rockstar and GTA 6 is probably 80% of all the rockstar content I see here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reckless quads on the streets of Birmingham, almost knocking someone down⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t give a shit what they’re on, killing them slowly vs quickly is still killing them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reckless quads on the streets of Birmingham, almost knocking someone down⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And it’s crazy we just accept that! It is not normal to simply accept that people die on the streets every day!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reckless quads on the streets of Birmingham, almost knocking someone down⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No. They almost killed a pedestrian. Let them go kill themselves if they want to rebel like that alone on a private dirt track.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reckless quads on the streets of Birmingham, almost knocking someone down⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks like 4 douchebags who think they’re the main characters

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘We’re plausibly close to crossing the line’: are warnings of uncontrollable AI coming true?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looks like Cyberleek is selling the full ISO. Any of y'all willing to bite the bullet?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  We would also have a ton of random YouTube videos that they’d be copy streaming left and right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony Implements New Customer Harassment Policy Following Backlash Toward Its Plans to Stop Making Physical Game Discs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that’s what I’m trying to say though, is rockstar is one if only two that actually may be worth it, and that’s only if they meet a red dead 2 level of relplayability.

  I break things down by hours of enjoyment vs cost. So let’s say a movie ticket is 2 hour a for $20 now. So $10/hr. Pretty high. Ubisoft games are $60 and it takes about $60 hours, but I’ll only play it once probably. So $1/hr. Much better than a movie theater but then there’s red dead 2. $60 originally, but I’ve played now 5 times at 120 hours a play through, so 600 hours. (I did not plan for the math to work out that easily, but it’s accurate). So 600 hours, so $0.10/hr. So to me and my personal math, $100 is justified, even twice, if I will be playing it over and over.

  It’s also why I truly laugh and shame ubisoft for thinking they deserve the same. There’s absolutely no way it does. It’s 1/10th the value of a rockstar game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony Implements New Customer Harassment Policy Following Backlash Toward Its Plans to Stop Making Physical Game Discs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If I go that route it won’t be day one, which means some reviews will come in. This is looking like it may be near RDR2 levels, if it is and reviews confirm it, I could see then deciding to and buying a second copy on PC later.

  I would only do that for rockstar and cdpr, honestly because both have made games previously that have been worth it. I get downvoted to hell, but honestly a game like rdr2 is worth $100, even twice over. It’s a masterpiece. Same with cyberpunk for me. If the reviews come in and people say it’s truly a masterpiece, I could be swayed. But that is a pretty high bar.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony Implements New Customer Harassment Policy Following Backlash Toward Its Plans to Stop Making Physical Game Discs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been thinking that actually, but they’re overpriced now. But maybe a month or two after release, we’ll see

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Upcoming Changes to XBOX Cloud Gaming [time limits]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve learned that’s just kind of Microsoft’s thing. Whenever they have a product that might actually be a “disruptor” they figure out a way to shoot themselves in the foot.

  • iPod landed but lacked video. Microsoft makes the Zune and it was awesome, but clunky software and a boxy shape made it fall, and they killed it before a needed v2.
  • Xbox & Xbox 360 had Microsoft riding high, and then they ignored gamers and threw away their target market with the Xbox One
  • Hololens promised true AR gaming, and they threw that out before they even made a consumer version.
  • Mixed Reality followed Hololens, was genuinely a cheaper VR alternative, had one myself. Then they silently killed it before reducing the hardware to ewaste a couple of years later.
  • Windows 7 was their best OS after XP, so of course they change everything about it to make Windows 8
  • Skype was the only video calling service that people regularly used, and they bloated it and enshittified it, causing it to collapse just a few years before Covid, allowing Zoom to take over.
  • Cortana had genuinely more functionality than Alexa, but they stopped investing in it, forced it down everyone’s throats, then sunset it, leaving ewaste speakers.

  (and so many more)

  They either come up with a good idea and half ass the execution, leaving the consumer disappointed, or they kill it off before it ever has a chance to take off. Google I guess at least let’s a product get to it’s highest peak making sure they disappoint the maximum amount of users, but Microsoft just makes sure that the users never even arrive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony Implements New Customer Harassment Policy Following Backlash Toward Its Plans to Stop Making Physical Game Discs⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  We weren’t talking about Rockstar’s issues, but okay. I agree, I dislike the disdain towards PC players, but I also think they make some of the best immersive games out there, and so far haven’t disappointed. So yes, I was willing to buy into their hype and marketing, but Sony ruined it for them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Upcoming Changes to XBOX Cloud Gaming [time limits]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow they’re really efficient at enshittification now. They don’t even need to wait for buyin or for the service to be successful! They just enshittify it early now

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony Implements New Customer Harassment Policy Following Backlash Toward Its Plans to Stop Making Physical Game Discs⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  “Due to the decisions we made, we now fear our own customers”. You know, companies that make good products don’t usually fear their customers.

  I was literally ready to buy a PS5 for GTA6, money set aside and all. PC gamer through and through but GTA has always been my game. Sony completely ruined that, and I have no interest in it. Unfortunately others are buying them at inflated costs and wiping my personal refusal out, but still. One less playstation sold, Sony.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He didn’t see that coming⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WTF is happening to Reddit⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If you don’t like videos then why are you in the videos community?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Youtubes algorithm decided we all need to see this 20yo vid today⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Fantastic. Never seen it before.

  This is rock 'n roll

  Correct sir. Very correct.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Olive Branch MS mayor refusing to lower flag for Dolly⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Mayor wants flags lowered when they die, and want to make sure it’ll be special for them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Close but no cigar⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ironically he ran, looking like it pained him. If he would have walked casually and acted like he was going to a car or something might have gotten away with it. Instead he looked suspicious from the start

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tempe turns off its Flock license plate reader system, citing privacy concerns and potential for 'misuse'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  let’s gooooo let’s goo get more turned off! Call them up and cheer for them for doing something good!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh I really liked GTA 5s campaign, I replay every couple of years