Katana314
@Katana314@lemmy.world
- Comment on A new PlayStation controller patent showcases a controller with no physical buttons 6 hours ago:
I’m reminded of a lobby quote in John Carpenter’s Toxic Commando (by your leader, an oligarchic energy company head)
“Note to self: Patents are cheap, and a reliable source of income.”
- Comment on What games did you sleep on for too long? 1 day ago:
To me it’s a case study in good presentation value and cinematic timing. I had a pretty good idea of what was going to happen, and still when it did it was deeply affecting.
Harkens back to old Shakespeare methods; where you would have the core story of the play told to you ahead of time and it was still a thrill to watch.
- Comment on Hell yeah. 1 day ago:
Books?
I can’t read. I go to my library for free comic books, access to digital streaming services, and printing.
- Comment on Game Pass Was Supposed To Save Xbox – Instead, It’s Killing the Company 2 days ago:
It’s true; Game Pass exists in part because Microsoft didn’t have a great inroad against Playstation. Playstation kicked PS+ features forward in part because Game Pass was eating their lunch at a time when subscriptions seemed like a critical market element.
But these days, if I see an appeals board reject a corporate merger, it seems like a failed measure regardless - that both parties are already colluding as much as possible.
- Comment on Steam Deck Sales Reportedly Plunge 80% After Price Hikes 3 days ago:
I have that for home networks, but I don’t think I could feel so confident in my security setup - even if Sunshine asks for a password or pairs devices, you’re giving Remote Desktop access relatively easily.
- Comment on I built a free game where you try to beat a couch at timing the market. Over 80k plays later, the couch usually wins. 5 days ago:
It’s a little scary to learn that the reason the stock market graphs are always so jagged minute to minute through the day is because of people like these.
- Comment on Best Joycon 2 alternatives recommendations? 5 days ago:
Out of curiosity, would theirs be any good for PC usage?
I thought a joycon might be a nice remote to play “low engagement” games like visual novels on a TV, where it feels odd to carry a heavy 8-button controller. But mine (Switch 1 joycons) have unpaired themselves during use frequently.
- Comment on Steam Deck Sales Reportedly Plunge 80% After Price Hikes 5 days ago:
I mean, if you’re playing super high-fidelity games, you won’t really absorb many details on that small screen. I get mine for indie games where I can turn down the wattage regularly.
- Comment on Is PlayStation Network Down Right Now? Players Report PSN Issues 5 days ago:
As far as I know, there was genuine nuance to that story. The short version is they set up license checks built to stop refund scammers who would buy a game, install it, go offline, and refund it.
If someone has confirmed otherwise, I’d be open to correction.
- Comment on Thirsty much? 5 days ago:
I didn’t say “shameful”, I said distracting. Human sexuality codes us to take an interest in other people. That’s fine in social contexts, of which going to the beach is basically one. But when people are visiting the gym for a task, taking targeted actions to distract them from it is just rude.
It’s also true that some people’s bare bodies are less appealing to look at. (That can include mine! I don’t mind admitting it) You’re setting a standard that can only ever work for attractive people.
- Comment on Me_irl 6 days ago:
Geforce Now replaying this meme as an ad
NO, NOT LIKE THAT
- Comment on so many guys, so many options😳 6 days ago:
My main evolution in the past decade is I don’t blame women anymore. I just blame toxic social culture and predatory dating apps.
- Comment on Thirsty much? 6 days ago:
I think that’s a bit dishonest. Revealing and sexualizing clothes like that are obviously going to be distracting. Hell, plenty of straight women could admit to be distracted by it.
- Comment on Thirsty much? 6 days ago:
What I don’t get is, the space addressing “censorship in media” is often ultra conservative. How on earth does that gooner crowd reconcile with spaces that are “Anti-sexuality”?
- Comment on MARVEL Tōkon: Fighting Souls appears to block SteamOS / Linux 6 days ago:
I somewhat expected this, because it’s a Sony game that was likely to use PSN
I didn’t. Helldivers 2 runs better on Linux for me than Windows.
- Comment on No ChatGPT for sexy time 1 week ago:
Sorry man, still busy searching for a source from when I said the sky is blue and a CCP asked me to prove it. I have a lot to catch up on.
- Comment on What are your favourite PSP games? 1 week ago:
Not sure why everyone skips a generation back to the PSP when the Vita was backwards compatible.
Uncharted Golden Abyss was a pretty decent Uncharted game, and even offered motion controls in some useful ways.
- Comment on Xbox Backward Compatibility on PC 1 week ago:
They are pleased to support these games from now until they fire the emulation team. (Sometime in the next month)
- Comment on Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital" 1 week ago:
I’ve brought up some of those same points in discussion, not because I “want to protect my dear precious widdle AAA publishers”, but because this is what lawyers do - they practice the most critically focused arguments their opposition will deliver when a confrontation goes to its highest court.
If you say a murderer stabbed someone, and I say “His lawyer’s going to ask you to show a murder weapon”, that’s not me covering for him, just pointing out what’s needed to deliver that conclusion.
Similarly, Chet has adequate experience describing what’s needed to keep a multiplayer game running, and if a AAA publisher brings their lawyers to court against SKG, they will absolutely deliver those same arguments - which makes the movement’s flexibility position on how servers run a critical subject to think about. I don’t blame anyone for feeling doubtful about how game makers can share servers, since it’s a very tricky subject.
But to lend credit to your stance, if not that specific argument: Someone did share a different preserved YT link that I think portrays him as an opponent of SKG more clearly. I’m a bit disappointed in that stance, and I think he overstated Ross as being totally inflexible. The fact that he deleted it may at least indicate he changed his mind a bit, but it’s hard to say for sure.
- Comment on Only 7 PlayStation games have sold over 100,000 physical copies in the US this year, says analyst, as commenters demand discs without buying them 1 week ago:
What does that mean - that you will decide to include disc drives in your next console? But you don’t make one. Sony does. They’re the ones to convince. You not being convinced is irrelevant and doesn’t matter.
It’s more important to look at the sum of arguments and evidence and try to understand why this seems like a logical outcome to a greed-focused outside party, even enough to absorb the backlash and damage to preservation, than it is to “be convinced”.
- Comment on Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital" 1 week ago:
As far as I know, no one has produced technology to make disc streaming faster. You can blame console design for this, but even if an indie dev simulated this situation with a 50GB game containing compressed textures placed on a Blu-ray, he’d have the same design problem - loading things off that disc takes a long time, and installation is a far better user experience.
The Wii gets away with it because texture sizes back then were much smaller. If you can point to technical demonstrations of how the same process could’ve been achieved on modern games with much larger textures, I’d be interested to hear it.
- Comment on Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital" 1 week ago:
That is absolutely not true. Companies chose cloud gaming. But because no one saw it as useful, it didn’t catch on and Stadia ended up shuttering their services. Companies chose 3D TVs, but consumers didn’t. We are seeing the “choice of AI” in home computing, and it’s remarkable how long they have attempted to extend the effort of “forcing consumers to choose it”, but to their credit, there are at least some home AI afficionados that somehow love Windows 11 Copilot.
I can assume you were not part of the digital games zeitgeist, but I can assure you, a great many (perhaps non-vocal) gamers were, and were very much for it.
- Comment on Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital" 1 week ago:
I mean, I’m fully okay with settling for Heroic as my launcher until GOG gets it official.
- Comment on Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital" 1 week ago:
Whenever people make claims like “You have no natural right to intellectual property”, I’m very curious A) what is the fullest extent of the amount of IP they, as an individual, have worked to create, and B) how secure their living situation and finances are.
I find a lot of people shift their opinion after they’ve worked for years on something under genuine risk of it not doing well.
- Comment on Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital" 1 week ago:
While I don’t necessarily agree with your POV here, I can at least say it’s more interesting than people realize to look at the growth of the VHS player and how this ownership debacle played out in the video world when it first came around. There were big lawsuits around whether people were allowed to record a movie or show, and then play it in a living room of 4-5 people.
- Comment on Only 7 PlayStation games have sold over 100,000 physical copies in the US this year, says analyst, as commenters demand discs without buying them 1 week ago:
What makes YOURS facts? What makes an Insomniac leaker a 100% reliable, fully undeniable fact?
Take a step back. Your goal here is not winning an internet argument. Your goal is getting Sony, or the US Government, to change its tact. I’m only playing devil’s advocate here to get people to practice their arguments. Good thing, because you’re failing yours. Stating, with no evidence, that the opposition’s claims are fake news makes you VERY easy to dismiss in a courtroom or judicial hearing.
You could, absolutely be right that this analyst is lying. But nothing I saw in that link would convince a layperson. I’d still recommend proceeding under the polite assumption it’s true, until you have something showing a total dismissal of that person’s credibility.
And remember: Sony gets more detailed versions of these reports, not the bite-sized headlines. It’s doubtful they’re basing their internal business decisions on lies, which is why I default to assuming their raw numbers are, unfortunately, true.
- Comment on Only 7 PlayStation games have sold over 100,000 physical copies in the US this year, says analyst, as commenters demand discs without buying them 1 week ago:
Both of those are excellent arguments to add onto this, to convince undecideds. Though, I don’t think the second one actually demonstrates any lies in the article; just adds new context to the claim, which makes a lot of sense when you think about the dearth of high-profile AAA singleplayer games lately (the kind that would likely sell on discs).
Much as Sony is the opposition, you need to have a very good basis for claiming them to be liars, or you can’t pull non-gamers on board the movement. It’s much easier for people to mislead through skewed views of facts.
- Comment on Only 7 PlayStation games have sold over 100,000 physical copies in the US this year, says analyst, as commenters demand discs without buying them 1 week ago:
If you don’t give a fuck, that kind of makes it easier for Sony to not give a fuck in return.
They seem to be betting many of those 1/5th purchases will instead relent to digital if it’s the only option. Not all of them, but enough that combined with the other 80%, it’s a healthy business model.
I’m not a fan of the industry trend, but discussions have said a lot of times - companies are not your friends; even the best ones are out to make money from you. So to bring back physical or anything like it, we’d need a way of showing it’s actually worth it (or, say, legally mandatory) for them.
- Comment on XBOX Game Pass July 2026 Wave 2 Lineup - FullCleared 1 week ago:
Not a fan of game pass but I planned on playing Shift at Midnight. It’s so bizarrely interesting to be covering rounds of grueling grunt work at a convenience store, complete with snide remarks of human customers, with also blasting customers in the face with a gun when they turn out to be shapeshifters. Only for the next customer to file complaints about how there’s shapeshifter guts all over the floor.
- Comment on Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital" 1 week ago:
That seems like a massive oversimplification of his stance.
He’s discussing the intricacies of what’s needed to keep games running past end of life, and highlighting what he sees as pain points. I don’t see any flat rejection, mostly he’s pointing out the kinds of legislation that can be harmful to indies and easy for corporations to circumvent.
I can understand not agreeing with everything he says there, but implying he’s an opponent of the movement doesn’t seem practical just off that video.