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- Comment on Netflix puts AI ads in paid tier: pirate EVERYTHING at this point... 🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️ 14:55 1 week ago:
Free is always less expensive than Netflix. But convenience is still king.
There’s plenty of pirates that stopped pirating music and started paying for steaming apps because the apps made following new music a hell of a lot easier than piracy for a while.
I was a pirate before I used Netflix for this reason, because there was a time when it was more convenient.
That isn’t the case anymore. I now pirate everything again except music (because my family uses YouTube premium and music is included) and games, because gog and steam are great apps and games constantly go on sale.
- Comment on $80 for Borderlands 4 too costly? Randy Pitchford says, "If you're a real fan, you'll find a way to make it happen" 1 week ago:
Lol Randy actively taking the winds out of his own sails.
I hope he rots in piss.
- Comment on $80 for Borderlands 4 too costly? Randy Pitchford says, "If you're a real fan, you'll find a way to make it happen" 1 week ago:
He’s too busy collecting child porn to bother with running his business.
- Comment on Avowed Director Leaves Obsidian For Netflix Games 1 week ago:
Avowed? Really?
- Comment on The AI revolution is underhyped: The arrival of non-human intelligence is a very big deal, says former Google CEO and chairman Eric Schmidt. 25:37 1 week ago:
Guy with vested interest in AI says AI isn’t hyped enough.
- Comment on NO STEAM DATA - Valve confirms alleged data breach was "not a breach of Steam systems" [Debunk] 1 week ago:
I’m gonna have AI make fake datasets of stolen accounts and scam scammers.
- Comment on Musicalized youtube comments : If you're homeless, just buy a house. 1 week ago:
I hate these AI songs.
- Comment on ‘Doom: The Dark Ages’ DRM Is Locking Out Linux Users Who Bought the Game 1 week ago:
If only buying games actually supported devs anymore. Devs seem to get fired for any reason nowadays.
Bad game? Fired. Good game? Also fired. Popular game that people loved? Believe it or not, also fired.
- Comment on ‘Doom: The Dark Ages’ DRM Is Locking Out Linux Users Who Bought the Game 1 week ago:
Well cool, now I know not to pick up the game yet.
- Comment on Tekken 8 lead has been trying to contact Waffle House for a collaboration for the past year - to no avail 2 weeks ago:
Waffle House desperately wants to distance itself from the 'fighter diner’s image.
- Comment on On the prospect of an $80-$90 GTA 6, former PlayStation boss says 'it's an impossible equation' for big-budget studios to keep their prices down 3 weeks ago:
If you really want me to pay $100 for a game, you gotta raise the bar to the fuckin stratosphere compared to what we’re getting now.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto 6 release date has been announced, but the game has been delayed to 2026 | VGC 3 weeks ago:
So to all those other publishers who have already pushed their games release date out to avoid GTA6, you got a new date to avoid.
- Comment on Recommendations for "girly" games? 4 weeks ago:
Check out Flower by ThatGameCompany
- Comment on Do you think Square Enix should remake other Final Fantasy entries? 4 weeks ago:
If Square decides to do another FF remake, they’ll either skip over 8 and do 9 instead, or they’ll go back and do 6.
- Comment on Next gen PS and Xbox consoles scheduled for 2027, tipped by cancelled Blade Runner game 4 weeks ago:
But they barely released anything for the current generation of consoles.
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 | Review Thread (92/100 OpenCritic) 5 weeks ago:
This game popped up on my radar a few months back. Definitely gonna check it out.
- Comment on Star Wars Zero Company | Official Announce Trailer 5 weeks ago:
Gameplay starts at 1:54
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ Series And Graphic Novel Nominated For Hugo Awards 1 month ago:
You’re absolutely right. If you’ve seen all of Star Trek, repeatedly, there are so many Easter eggs and nods and references. I love it.
- Comment on Roblox CEO tells parents that “if you're not comfortable, don't let your kids be on Roblox”. 2 months ago:
Sure. Seems fair. But they could also stop the pedophiles on their platform too.
- Comment on Six ways Microsoft’s portable Xbox could be a Steam Deck killer 2 months ago:
They couldn’t do it 5 years ago either.
- Comment on Why Are People Buying iPods Again? 2 months ago:
Didn’t watch, but I assume it’s because some people like to own their music.
- Comment on The Simple Act of Buying a Graphics Card Is the Defining Misery of PC Gaming in 2025 2 months ago:
Intel b580 still showing out of stock everywhere I normally look.
- Comment on Why the Left needs to watch Star Trek: It has lessons for today's techno-optimists 4 months ago:
Old trek. Not new trek. Those lessons are mostly gone from the newer series.
- Comment on After the catastrophe of Concord Sony is reportedly cancelling other projects including a God of War live service game 4 months ago:
But hear me out. Battle passes and FOMO.
- Comment on Day 177 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 4 months ago:
I enjoyed this game way more than I thought I would. You’re right though, it’s more akin to a Mario 3D world than it is to a LBP game.
- Comment on FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH - PC Features Trailer 4 months ago:
Well you do have to give it to him, three graphics options (low/med/high) is more than the two graphic options (low/high) that came in the previous game.
- Comment on Nvidia Announces RTX 50's Graphic Card Blackwell Series: RTX 5090 ($1999), RTX 5080 ($999), RTX 5070 Ti ($749), RTX 5070 ($549) 4 months ago:
Rebirth also says it requires 12 gigs of vram, my 3080 is crying.
- Comment on NVIDIA DLSS 4 Introduces Multi Frame Generation & Enhancements For All DLSS Technologies 4 months ago:
Oh cool, more AI crap instead of real performance.
- Comment on 2025 will be a make-or-break year for triple-A video games as we know them 4 months ago:
Well somebody better tell Ubisoft to delay Assassin’s Creed Shadow till 2026 then.
- Comment on IGN Brazil Interview: 'Final Fantasy VII Rebirth' sales don't disappoint but they can't be exclusive to a single console anymore 4 months ago:
If Sony is willing to put up a bunch of money to get a game made with a 3rd party company like Square, and I’d Square wouldn’t have been able to do the game otherwise, the. This being an exclusive could be the only reason it exists.
Similar to Alan Wake 2, which I still haven’t played, it’s possible that this game owes its existence to the exclusivity agreement giving the necessary upfront funds to get the game development going.
But this isn’t like the previous generations of exclusive consoles. These consoles are significantly more expensive, development on video games is significantly more expensive, and the profit margin that you could make from being exclusive to just a single console is significantly lower.
This is a combination of ballooning budgets, expensive hardware with lower sales, and the PC gaming market looming over Sony and Microsoft’s shoulders.
Does this mean exclusives will go away? Probably not. If it’s financially beneficial to go exclusive, they’ll do it again.
But it does mean that the gap between the potential lost revenue of going exclusive and the potential locked in revenue from the exclusivity agreement is currently looking razor thin.