Katana314

@Katana314@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You did it. You broken the conditioning.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes.

  Everyone loves positing moral dilemmas and then leaving them for other people to answer, with a finger poised to their lips ready to say “Interesting” and point out some weak level of hypocrisy.

  I’m just gonna answer simply, and correctly: Yes. If someone is a repeated threat to the safety of others and there is any reasonable risk of the justice system failing to incarcerate them, it is better to end their life.

  I wouldn’t even make that claim against one-time murderers, but some people go far over the line.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rumors of Sony Acquiring FromSoft’s Parent Company - GAMESCENSOR⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This may have been my thought.

  I was never so deeply in favor of the acquisition, but I did find the focus on exclusives hypocritical. Microsoft had already made many of their games available cross platform, while Sony had not at the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your favorite 1000+ hour games?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Garry’s Mod. Basically a gateway drug to hobby animation, and in some ways not so far off from the modding tools used to make it.

  If you’ve watched stuff like Heavy Is Dead, they’re usually made with it. Some more professional-looking stuff is instead made in “Source Filmmaker”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half-Life 2 RTX | Half-Life 2 20th Anniversary Tribute Video⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I tried out Portal RTX, found the room where the light ball is casting shadows all around. It looked nice; but I also felt like I’ve seen the same effect imitated with regular rendering. Sure there might be slight differences, but I wouldn’t have spotted them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is a Quest 3 really worth it?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Much as I trust Sony more than Meta, part of the issue is that 80% of the cool stuff from VR comes from indie teams running an ItchIO page or Patreon, not established publishers.

  Supposedly, PSVR2 can work with PC now but I don’t know how refined that integration is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PS5 Pro is struggling to improve some games, despite its power advantage⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I still see the PS5Pro as a bit dumb, but also not sure what Sony could easily do around this problem.

  We’re at the graphical plateau where any improvements become extremely expensive, and increasingly hard to notice. Sure, we have 4K TVs and we’re not quite able to play all our games at 4K 120fps, but very few people care about that level of detail. Honestly, I don’t even know what Sony may be planning for the PS6 while still keeping it at a reasonable price.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Covfefe⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  But you need coffee in order to make coffee…ahh, the ultimate quandary!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I chose the penguin⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean…isn’t this something Word does well?

  It continuously autosaves to a temp document, so if it crashes, next startup it finds the autosave and presents it as an option to you.

  Like, I’m all for criticizing Word, but pick truthful critiques. Its Find bar has a broken scroll, the OneDrive sync feature often crashes silently, and half its menus are stuck in 1999.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half-Life 2 peaks at 52,000 concurrent players, 20 years after its release⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The way in which Half-Life maintained a continuous viewpoint over long stretches of gameplay and landscape was always so immersive to me. Games like God of War and Dead Space did something similar, but Valve had an additional challenge.

  They almost never take player control, instead relying on mere hints of where to loo; they even have the character sequences scripted for wherever the player was standing. That all usually took a lot of their effort.

  I could be biased because I even enjoyed toying with their choreography tool, which let you layer simple gestures together; so without making a new animation, you could have someone both lean forward and nod right, and point their thumb right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half-Life 2 peaks at 52,000 concurrent players, 20 years after its release⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  On enemy variety, I see the critique of games like Zelda: BOTW and even realistic games like Hitman. Something those games have in common is very well-made enemy AI that presents you many ways to defeat them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half-Life 2 is currently 100% for its 20th anniversary⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
  Half-Life: Alyx spoilers

  It’s gonna be wild watching Valve try to explain that Eli was brought back from the dead in a prequel game that took place years before Half-Life 2, that 90% of their fans couldn’t play.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are most mobile games trash?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not that it succeeded long term, but I salute Apple Arcade’s venture on this. It’s a subscription service that aimed to highlight iPhone games that had no monetization, and were usually small indie games with a fun idea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 7 and 8 now dead for gaming, as new Steam update pulls support⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If you hate Windows 11 and don’t mind tinkering, I’d almost think Linux would be a better option especially if your preference is for retro games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo sues a streamer for streaming ten games before their release⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No, was not directed at you. I was agreeing; Nintendo is stupid and trigger-happy with its lawsuits, but going after this guy makes sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft sued for shutting down The Crew⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I imagine a lawsuit would likely bring up the topic of how hard it would be for a developer to keep the game around past purchase.

  For instance, imagine a massively multiplayer online game; everyone playing the game is acutely aware of how much server hardware is needed to maintain that online presence, and it’s unrealistic to assume it would exist forever.

  That’s probably why attention was pushed onto The Crew. It’s a racing game that shouldn’t need much from a server, so it’s arguably unfair to tie it to that access and take it offline.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo sues a streamer for streaming ten games before their release⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It annoys me how often my standpoint on topics on Lemmy has been “I hate the same people you do, but your reasoning for hating them makes so little sense.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PlayStation Uses Safety Concerns To Defend Steam PSN Account Requirements⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think “Disclaimer: Product may explode and take out your eye” only goes so far in terms of warning consumers. Better to actually have something protecting them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Serious statement: I don't understand the argument that not voting for Harris was the morally correct thing to do, because of Gaza. Why does anyone believe this?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My own argument to these people has been that I’d prefer they go out and cast their (wasted) votes for a third party, rather than simply stay home. A lot of Lemmy disagrees with me on that, focusing on the (true) realization that their third parties won’t get elected.

  In this election’s current aftermath, much of the blame has been stating that voters were just lazy or unmotivated. The only thing this message encourages is to repeat more rallies, make more promises by demographics and region so people know to get out and vote.

  If you vote third party, it sends a message that you are motivated to vote, but you are not pleased with the current messages of the party. That results in a very different change of action.

  Unfortunately, this whole practice is extremely long-term-focused. Many people in this election have been desperate for short-term solutions, like the Ukraine/Gaza wars. Ideally, this kind of reaction would have started in 2016/2020 - but third-party votes have been miniscule in those elections too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Metaphor: ReFantazio's success is further proof that politics are good in videogames, actually—no matter what reactionaries tell you⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No matter how many times I reread this comment, I don’t see how this reasoning would convince anyone - including yourself - of its position. The point about translation, for instance, not only feels like a non-sequitor but ignores the wealth of subjectivity that inherently goes into translating text to other languages.

  I’m not trying to reject you just out of spite; I genuinely don’t think internet arguments like this are ever “winnable” for anyone. If you come up with a better description for what it is you oppose, feel free to mention it, but otherwise, I’d say do some self-reflecting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pocketpair Confirms Which Patents Nintendo And The Pokemon Company Are Suing It Over⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I hadn’t realized the court was within Japan. Does Palworld conduct business inside the country? I’d think if it was never released there, Japan would have no basis to pull them into a foreign case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Metaphor: ReFantazio's success is further proof that politics are good in videogames, actually—no matter what reactionaries tell you⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Naughty Dog’s most famous games (containing humans) are based around white male leads. It’s basically just Uncharted Lost Legacy and TLOU2 that have diverged from that, and not by very much.

  Literally the only game of Insomniac’s I can find (outside of anthropomorphic games like Ratchet&Clank) that even leans to minorities is Spider-Man: Miles Morales, which is based on a comic character that was already popular. Even the games based around Peter were going to acknowledge he’s the type of person to work at food banks and embrace New York’s diversity; that’s the pre-existing character.

  Nobody complained when Assassin’s Creed had Leonardo da Vinci hand you a tank or a glider, or a female Spartan mysthios fight mythical gods, or have London gang runners that fight in hoods from rooftops. Assassin’s Creed has always ventured into the unrealistically cinematic extensions of common historical myths, and they’re not even the first to turn Yasuke into a samurai. Netflix put out an animated series on that a while back and it was awesome.

  I do not expect an answer, but I genuinely think you should quietly ask yourself the question: Are you a racist?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Metaphor: ReFantazio's success is further proof that politics are good in videogames, actually—no matter what reactionaries tell you⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d even consider the possibility he’s right, but not for reasons that support his argument.

  Games and media present transgender and minority groups in an unobtrusive way, and bigots create 17 articles complaining about their basic inclusion for the sake of “DEI”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Metaphor: ReFantazio's success is further proof that politics are good in videogames, actually—no matter what reactionaries tell you⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t really get this sentiment.

  Elves being racist towards dwarves is acceptable in a game, but white humans being racist towards hispanic humans is “pushing agendas”?

  I fault Bioware for a lot of things, but failing to invent a fantasy equivalent of the concept of gender is not one of them. Not everything needs to be moved to an otherworldly analogy just to avoid hurting the feelings of bigots.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Metaphor: ReFantazio's success is further proof that politics are good in videogames, actually—no matter what reactionaries tell you⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What is wrong with Californian views on identity politics, when it’s not just bad writing? Is it the acknowledgement of people that are gender nonbinary?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Warner Bros. Admits MultiVersus Underperformed, Contributing to Another $100 Million Hit to Revenue in Its Games Business⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Now that I think about it, this idea was probably a good one for standard release, not live service. People get enticed by IP rights even if they don’t necessarily devote hundreds of hours to a game like this.

  It works for things like Injustice. They see a Batman/Superman fighting game even if they aren’t going to hit Gold rank in competitive. Even if they only hit 10 hours, they paid the entry price.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Post-election blues⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Down the street, a guy’s house burned down. Of course, we all blame him for it - and his failure to find a message that resonated with the firefighters, to motivate them to come save the building.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't think it's possible for me to complete this Steam achievement⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Still a fan of the player mocking in The Stanley Parable around achievements.

  One example has the narrator taking you on a chain of complaints starting with “…Are you seriously just doing this for the achievement??”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Today has been a learning experience.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Excuse me. They’re called bats.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Confirms Backwards Compatibility for Switch Successor!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My final straw was giving takedowns to assets used in Garry’s Mod. Those uses are generally associated to pro-Nintendo artistic messaging, and don’t go towards any game piracy.

  I decided from there I was done with Nintendo, haven’t given them a dime since. They need to downsize their law department before I consider them again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Democracy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Imagined” is perhaps the right word considering he wanted to raise taxes for low income people, and lower taxes for rich people.