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- Comment on Epic Games unveils Launcher V2 in re-attempt to topple Steam, says redesigned storefront is up to 6.5x faster — promises player profiles, user reviews, universal controller support, and much more 2 hours ago:
It’s claiming to be 6 times faster, and then it’ll turn out to be an Electron app.
Don’t get me wrong, I hope otherwise…
- Comment on Epic Games unveils Launcher V2 in re-attempt to topple Steam, says redesigned storefront is up to 6.5x faster — promises player profiles, user reviews, universal controller support, and much more 2 hours ago:
I’ve only been getting comics from bundle sites since they give you epubs and PDFs. Kind of a necessity for a non-Amazon eReader.
I appreciate my Kobo eReader though, and it’s possible their online store will be DRM-free? Or, it could be per-book; when I put my own up, they had a checkbox to turn on DRM which I left off.
- Comment on The thrill 2 hours ago:
I use the pancake to seal the wound!
Sure, he’s dead, but we can at least get started on a nice-ish embalming.
- Comment on I want a new retro Final Fantasy 2 hours ago:
Unfortunately, the non-spoiler story summaries I’ve seen suck.
Twists like in FF7 where a certain person is killed, or an bad guy suddenly helps you, are big and valuable - they get you really invested in the character impact of the plot. Anything that starts and ends with “big evil god wants to destroy the world” feels dull and unsurprising. It’s part of why I never understood Dragon Quest hype.
- Comment on What is a game that you know is bad but really enjoy(ed)? 1 day ago:
Something key to remember is that when a game gets “Mixed” on Steam, eg 50/50, that still means half the people who play it enjoyed it. Half is not nothing.
For instance, Aliens: Colonial Marines. To my knowledge, AI was kinda shit, but could be fixed in a text file, but apparently a lot of people still enjoyed it otherwise.
So there’s probably a lot of these that have niche appeal to people.
- Comment on EU Commission meets behind closed doors with Ubisoft, other corporations, and exhibits blatant corruption. 1 day ago:
I wrote a Python script that says “lol” last week.
50 years from now, it’ll still be runnable, and it’ll still say “lol”.
Unless I update it to say “Ubisoft sucks dick”.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO says "YouTube monetizes Xbox better than we do", ahead of expected layoffs | Satya Nadella bemoans performance of Xbox 3 days ago:
I think the difference is, Sony and Nintendo build their exclusives through close support, while Microsoft and Epic have just tried buying them in.
Amazon and Google have essentially tried the same thing, and gave up because pouring money in isn’t a full business plan.
- Comment on I'm a dev who has been working on my game for 2 years and my game title got stolen on Steam and they plan to release before I do. What should I do? 4 days ago:
Jesus Christ, now I have to make a new account to double downvote you; one for the shitty take, and one for unnecessary single-letter censorship.
- Comment on Ubisoft Shuts Down Two Studios in Canada and Serbia, Hundreds of Employees Affected 5 days ago:
While I praise the approach of careful hiring and not laying people off, Japan unfortunately also has plenty of employment trends no one should imitate.
- Comment on Grandma Needs Rest 6 days ago:
My dad used to be the one to fix the family’s computer; now he associates Google search directly to the browser, and doesn’t even know what Chrome is despite using it each day.
- Comment on Spong bob 6 days ago:
One of my favorite episodes in Love is War (anime) is the sketch they had about loose earbud cables. It’s pretty ridiculous.
- Comment on World Map 1 week ago:
Sometime this year, there was an interesting article about African governments premiering an altered sphere projection map of the world that more accurately showcases how much of Earth’s landmass is in Africa, rather than Russian/US/Europe regions.
They even pointed out it has social implications towards how much aid Africans get.
- Comment on Dutch gamers file €220 million claim against Valve, operator of game platform Steam 1 week ago:
Why not go for a bigger company first?
Apple does the same thing with ebooks. When I put my book up for sale with Apple, the terms stated that I could not list it for a lower price at another store. So no, that is not a new form of price fixing.
Also interested to hear what other digital goods stores charge less than 30%, aside from Epic who definitely wouldn’t maintain that if they had the monopoly position.
- Comment on PC Games like Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 1 week ago:
That’s where it’s good to get an SD card; and set it up so that other flatpak apps install there (might need to mess with Flatseal to configure filesystem permissions)
- Comment on PC Games like Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 1 week ago:
Look up the “Twintail Launcher”. Pretty easy entry point for several anime games. Theres even a version of proton, dwproton, that’s recommended for several of them.
- Comment on I just saw the Ocarina of Time Remake glimpse at Nintendo Direct 6.9.2026 1 week ago:
Also worth pointing out how many very popular games even today have visuals on par with the N64 game. Kids are fine with that; they just don’t want to set up yellow, red, and white AV cables of an N64.
- Comment on I forgot that AAA slop devs actually made fun games that didn't have money pits 1 week ago:
Quite often I feel like the internet is over-critical of AAA. Yes, on many occasions they put out manufactured slop, and it’s important to consider reviews from multiple sources for that reason.
Even Ubisoft games, when you ignore their little MTX menu, have some flashes of writing brilliance or interesting historical attention to detail. Other times, people manufacture their own forms of annoyance, like “Visiting every single icon on the map is boring!!” Yeah, no shit, that’s why they desperately try to stop you from doing that. FC5 even sleep-darts you to forcefully pull you into story missions, though that idea was derided.
- Comment on Valve to no longer offer physical gift cards due to scammers 1 week ago:
This kinda tracks. One time someone I knew bought a series of games on Steam at once, and his bank blocked them. In calling them, he learned that (in addition to some other circumstantial clue) their pattern recognition picks up on game purchases, since that’s an excellent target for someone who just stole a credit card. Scammers can often resell the games in some way, through some anonymity.
- Comment on Valve to no longer offer physical gift cards due to scammers 1 week ago:
That’s probably a big deal in Asia. I get the impression banking is not so smooth an experience out there (most specifically in Japan), and instead most people still work directly with cash; so any gacha game or online store will very much rely on convenience stores to stock their cards.
- Comment on The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Remake – Coming 2026 1 week ago:
Or just like…not pour dev resources into more remakes?
- Comment on Persona 6 Has Finally Been Revealed, More Than 9 Years After Persona 5 Launched 1 week ago:
It also came out 7 years ago. It also came out 5 years ago. Its spinoffs came out 6 years ago, 3 years ago, and 1 year ago.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
While the imagery initially seemed like it’d be a grim, story-based game with low excitement, I found myself surprised at how much environmental gameplay and cinematic setpieces the series has.
- Comment on FINAL FANTASY VII REVELATION - Reveal Trailer 1 week ago:
Same feeling. I hate the “eagerness” of game hate these days.
I’m disappointed in some of the time ghost decisions, but I can still praise the overall product as being a fantastic collection of work by some great artists, even if I don’t decide to play it.
- Comment on FINAL FANTASY VII REVELATION - Reveal Trailer 1 week ago:
I suppose a big part of it is: People don’t often finish games. Remake is obviously a very long JRPG on its own, so when Rebirth came out, maybe a lot of people thought “Oh yeah! I should finish Remake.” and then didn’t.
That does present an interesting idea to me though. Maybe I’ll just buy Revalations without playing Remake? I played the original - I already know the broad direction the story has gone. I could maybe just watch some cutscenes on YouTube to figure out whatever the hell they twisted the Temple of the Ancients story beat into.
- Comment on FINAL FANTASY VII REVELATION - Reveal Trailer 1 week ago:
It’s not quite what you wanted, but as someone with a lot of FF7 nostalgia, I ended up playing Trails in the Sky, another JRPG from that era, much later in life, and felt a lot of that nostalgia sense; badass characters with sensitive moments and big sinister twists. They remade that game very well, and the sequel (a bit of a necessary follow-on/conclusion) is out later this year. While it does add some brief action-combat, it’s only meant to give you an edge going into the traditional turn-based system (and bosses give you no action-combat).
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- Comment on FINAL FANTASY VII REVELATION - Reveal Trailer 2 weeks ago:
I’ve been long frustrated about the time ghost branching story effort stuff, but I’m still happy they’ve managed to put finishing touches on this trilogy. Maybe I’ll play it now.
- Comment on 1666: Amsterdam - Reveal Trailer 2 weeks ago:
69: Fuckersville
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
The drawn style takes long enough that it may be too much to expect it in even normal release periods.
- Comment on gen ATLAS | Reveal Trailer 2 weeks ago:
I might consider it on console, just to avoid Epic. I did that with Hitman 3.