MentalEdge
@MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
Eskating cyclist, gamer and enjoyer of anime. Probably an artist. Also I code sometimes, pretty much just to mod titanfall 2 tho.
Introverted, yet I enjoy discussion to a fault.
- Comment on Sony blocks Stellar Blade on more than 100 countries 1 week ago:
They are countries that do not have PSN access. As Sony wants to make PSN accounts mandatory on PC, they got in hot water for selling their games in countries where you can’t legally even have a PSN account.
In response, they blocked sales in all those coubtries.
- Comment on I just realized the only way to get new gamers to care about Jak is to release a "remastered" version, which sucks. 1 week ago:
Sure they do. Just not often enough.
- Comment on I just realized the only way to get new gamers to care about Jak is to release a "remastered" version, which sucks. 1 week ago:
Ok?
I’m saying is that modern game engines and rendering tech allow a lot of the things that are good about these games to be turned up to eleven, both in terms of gameplay and art.
- Comment on Sony blocks Stellar Blade on more than 100 countries 1 week ago:
Helldivers is still blocked for those countries. They just dropped the PSN requirement.
- Comment on I just realized the only way to get new gamers to care about Jak is to release a "remastered" version, which sucks. 1 week ago:
I don’t entirely agree.
Say what you will about what it did with the characters, but Sly 4 took the level design and art to new heights, and that was thanks to modern advancements in graphics.
Rift Apart does the same for Ratchet and Clank.
- Comment on Final Fantasy Sephiroth Magic Crossover: A Glimpse into FF7 Remake Part 3 1 week ago:
Sure, but if they keep trying to go bigger, they WILL hit a ceiling. And they have yet to show a willingness to go smaller with a subsequent project when one ends up too big to pay for itself.
Squenix does not seem to know how to match a budget to the size of the market that actually exists, and only ever goes smaller in scope when something is a “side project” adjacent to a main product.
And the signs that they are finally starting to make the same mistake with FF are beginning to show.
Intergrade was not as big as main FF installments, but it was well received by a lot of players. As a result they immediately scaled up Rebirth to be as big, or bigger, than anything they’ve done. And lo and behold, players love it, but it didn’t magically mean a bunch more people bought it.
- Comment on Final Fantasy Sephiroth Magic Crossover: A Glimpse into FF7 Remake Part 3 1 week ago:
I’m referring to Squenix’s habit of overspending on a franchise the moment it gets traction, and then not selling enough games to recoup cost, because there was never that much demand to begin with.
If they make money on this cross-over, then ok. But as someone with zero interest in MtG, but plenty in the new Final Fantasy games, this just feels like yet another expensive marketing stunt that will not get an actual return.
They lost money on Tomb Raider and Deus Ex, because they couldn’t stop themselves spending almost as much on marketing as they did development, expecting a fan base orders of magnitude larger to materialize out of thin air.
And then, instead of reducing scope to match the number of fans and thereby sales they could expect, they just axed the franchises.
- Comment on Final Fantasy Sephiroth Magic Crossover: A Glimpse into FF7 Remake Part 3 1 week ago:
I like the remakes, but I really wish Squenix would just stop making things weird.
Whenever they get a taste of success they immediately blow up the budget, overspend, and then blame the market for not showing interest to match.
- Comment on Deadlock - Shop Rework Update 2 weeks ago:
!deadlock@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on 🔪🔪🔪 3 weeks ago:
I’m not sure whether you are making a joke?
The vast majority of bees wasps, ants and any other hive insects you’ll have seen, are infertile drones. With each hive housing only a single female individual capable of sexual reproduction, which does not leave the hive after it forms.
Fertile males only exist for a short time during swarming season, and they do die after doing their thing.
- Comment on The hills are alive with the sound of music! 🎶🎵 3 weeks ago:
You’re thinking of seeds.
Pollen is only the male half of the genetic material required for sexual plant reproductin.
Hence, jizz.
- Comment on After Years of Struggle, Blizzard Has Found Itself in Uncharted Territory: Overwatch Players Are Having Fun Again 3 weeks ago:
FFS. Literally no free fun allowed. Bare minimum to appease players.
- Comment on After Years of Struggle, Blizzard Has Found Itself in Uncharted Territory: Overwatch Players Are Having Fun Again 3 weeks ago:
Even better.
- Comment on After Years of Struggle, Blizzard Has Found Itself in Uncharted Territory: Overwatch Players Are Having Fun Again 3 weeks ago:
Wait. Loot boxes are back?
- Comment on It must tremble 4 weeks ago:
They are right about the drama. Making the toy act like it’s trying hide/run for it’s life makes my cat immediately interested.
- Comment on Hardware recommendations 4 weeks ago:
The standby power of a desktop is not that massive. Especially when you don’t run a GPU or display. That windows 8 machine you have is probably fine as-is.
An ATX PSU doesn’t suck down 500 watts at all times, just because the sticker on it says it can. How much power your machine will use will depend much more on the CPU.
So just slap linux on it and have at it. If nothing else, you’ll get familiar with the software involved, and be better prepared if you end up wanting to buy new hardware for this.
There’s not really any lock-in with linux. Almost any piece of software you might run can be run on almost any distro you might consider using.
- Comment on Find a circle that is going places 4 weeks ago:
What?
The last one is like only one me and my friends get up to.
- Comment on I can't believe it let me do that 5 weeks ago:
Oh hell yeah, doing it right now, too!
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Smh. Right doesn’t show off those abs nearly as well.
- Comment on S p i n o s a r u s 5 weeks ago:
It’s a Spinosaur.
Do you have ANY IDEA what happens if you don’t treat it right?
- Comment on Anon gets outed 1 month ago:
It’s a good come-back.
But laughing at someone and making them feel unimaginably belitteled, over something like whether they’ve gotten laid, wouldn’t have been cool in any scenario.
“I was molested” just jolts everyone into reconsidering what just happened.
- Comment on ooo.ooo 1 month ago:
No, he choose to make it orange with spray-tan.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Something something fuck Ted Faro
- Comment on Mini Metro -- surprisingly simple but compelling game mechanics and fantastic UI design 1 month ago:
Or steam, for PC.
- Comment on Mini Metro -- surprisingly simple but compelling game mechanics and fantastic UI design 1 month ago:
I don’t know about mobile but on PC it’s just straight up on steam.
- Comment on One wrong invite and now there is drama in my life 1 month ago:
Most of my irl friends know my lemmy handle.
- Comment on How You Doin? 1 month ago:
In Finland, if you ask “miten menee” (how is it going) you’ll either get to hear someone’s life story, or a single word reply “menee” (it’s going).
Or, if someone is having a genuinely good day, you might get a few sentences explaining why things are looking up.
Hence, most people will go with literally neutral statements. An example, my go-to farewell is “päivänjatkoa” which is literally just “may the day continue”.
- Comment on FOREX is not for the faint hearted 1 month ago:
Most modern exchange services are semi-scams.
Most banks will let you use your card in other currencies, directly, and just do the exchange on their end.
And it’s usually really favorable too. If you’ve used your card abroad “like normal” for stuff like a restaurant meal, then you’ve used your banks currency exchange service.
It’ll still add up if you make a ton of small purchases, and it would be good to check what your bank actually charges for exchabges.
But, lots of places will pretend to offer to do the exchange for you, at sky-high rates, when really you can just charge your card directly, and get a much better rate via your bank.
Once saved a friend like 50 bucks when she bought an leather jacket on the expensive side during a cruise. The shop offered to do the exchange for her, as if that was necessary. I saw the rate and immediately told her to refuse, knowing our bank charges almost nothing for foreign currency charges. She would have fallen for it.
- Comment on FOREX is not for the faint hearted 1 month ago:
The guy you’re replying to, is saying the opposite.
Using an ATM usually gets you your banks exchanging rate, which depending on your bank, can be damn near free. (If the ATM tries to do the exchange for you, refuse, let your bank do it).
Same goes online. Paying with paypal, I never ever use their exchange service. Charging my card directly with the foreign currency is ALWAYS a better deal due to how good the exchange rate provided by my bank is.
- Comment on we are type 2 1 month ago:
That is not the aspect that differentiates the types.