Katana314

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's a cancelled game you really miss?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the thing though; it has most definitely entered Duke Nukem Forever / No Man’s Sky levels of development hell wherein the result will never be satisfying. The best we can hope for is a Halo Infinite result where it’s “kinda fun” but inevitably comes nowhere near the hype.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo ‘warned to expect 145% tariff on Nintendo Switch 2’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  My understanding is this has been the price of thousands of gaming communities enacting a “No politics” rule - people want to keep it external.

  “This fucking piece of actual trash! He’s using the most broken character this game has ever put out, and trash talking over it like he’s ever fucked a woman. Literally eat a dick. What do you think, chat?…Oh. Holy shit. Sorry, I just saw some stuff about Trump, listen, I’m sorry, but we don’t talk politics here. It can get really toxic.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's a cancelled game you really miss?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Beyond Good and Evil 2.

  I’m not even mad that we didn’t get the multiplanetary open world new-tech live-experience cooperative second coming. I’m mad we didn’t even get a simple, short singleplayer experience living off of the charm of the first one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo ‘warned to expect 145% tariff on Nintendo Switch 2’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  In future history books: “…But the biggest exodus from the United States was after it was announced the Switch 2 would cost $1000 exclusively there.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ex-PlayStation exec argues 'only the dog can hear' differences between consoles and gaming PCs: 'They're all quite similar'⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The Xbox once did have a version of Internet Explorer on it, I remember.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ex-PlayStation exec argues 'only the dog can hear' differences between consoles and gaming PCs: 'They're all quite similar'⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Its supporters claim that in some ways it’s meant to make development easier; that it simplifies many lighting tricks devs handle manually.

  I don’t necessarily think it’s a strong enough point since it’s often throwing hardware at a creativity/effort problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Switch 2 GameCube controller is only compatible with GameCube games, Nintendo says⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  “We are also pleased to announce that, next year, we will be adding support for Gamecube games other than Super Smash Bros. Melee.” /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games Media Can't Ignore BDS Xbox Boycott.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I regret to be taking no action on this - because I already started my boycott of Xbox back when they fired Tango Gameworks.

  You had ONE Game of the Year, all year, Microsoft!

  But uh…yeah, funding genocide is also extremely bad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't Afford A Nintendo Switch 2? Buy A Switch 1, Nintendo Says - Insider Gaming⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Although we still number consoles, in a lot of ways we did get our “tiered” console structure.

  Take most people’s daily plays, and I’d say about 90% of them or more have an edition available on the prior gen console. And it makes sense when so many of those games have relatively basic graphics - and when game engines have gotten better at scalability.

  So, those consoles are neatly serving as a low budget option for a lot of gamers that can’t follow all the latest and most expensive games. Yes, some newer releases will be fully excluded; but even then, getting a brand new or used Switch or PS4 can introduce someone to a huge number of games if they haven’t been exploring options.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should we boycott games with loot boxes?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think your voice could actually be better than your wallet on this.

  For one, these games are free. So, are you harming the world by playing them and just not buying loot boxes? Minimally, at best. I also advise people enacting boycotts to represent vocal action around them. For instance, I called Target directly about my boycott when they ended DEI hiring.

  You can also help lobby politicians to make clear how you feel on the issue. That can put a lot more panic on publishers. Politicians don’t have a strong reason to defend them - often it only gets ignored because they don’t think voters find it a significant issue. Even if you don’t get a federal ban, sometimes you can get state laws like limiting physical advertising; which can also sometimes spread to other states.

  Basically, boycotting as a form of inaction, especially when it makes your days boring, isn’t necessarily an effective approach.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Panic! on the trade floor⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You talked about needing consequences so that people make more informed decisions. I was trying to illustrate to you how the current path of consequences is built to dismantle informed decisions.

  There are millions of Americans being asked “Regretting your choices yet???” and answering “wdym? Everything is fine. You read too much of the news.”

  So if your motivation for accelerationism is spite and anger, nothing to criticize. But if you’re in favor of the harm caused because you think it will lead to people changing their minds anytime soon, you are grossly misreading the current path.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Panic! on the trade floor⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s where you messed up. The current administration of chaos is extremely efficient at putting the horrors outside of people’s direct vision. Comparatively, very few people are going to arrive home to find their neighbor on fire and feel compelled to act.

  Better social safety nets and better education can put people in stable enough circumstances they can become socially aware of problems beyond themselves. By that point they don’t even need to be pushed into it. And Democrats - not all of them but plenty of them - have championed those policies. But they’ve been thoroughly crushed now by “both sides” mentality because they don’t have a violent expulsion reaction to being crushed by accelerationism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo president responds to Switch 2 price increase fears amid Trump tariff fallout⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Tip: The price comes down If Trump gets impeached.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BDS calls for boycott of Microsoft and Xbox gaming products over alleged Israeli military connections⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This whole thing has erupted on my radar in the past month ever since they abducted the girl from Tufts.

  HOW does this genocidal state have such an insane stranglehold on our country?

  Now I’m getting YouTube ads to demonize Hamas; apparently their effort to “pull people back” and get people sympathetic for October 7 hostages. I AM sympathetic to the hostages!…So why is Israel bombing them??

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Quite a Ride: Official Reveal Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Between trains and large ships, I love the feeling of operating large vehicles with multiple rooms. Bonus points if one large vehicle can carry a smaller vehicle.

  Examples: Sea of Thieves, Subnautica, many JRPGs with airships, even something like The Last Express.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I know of that site, but in many ways I can’t stomach following trial-and-error debugging steps to try to get a perfect experience. Very rarely has it been one command line option and then the game runs as perfectly as Windows.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drug Dealer Simulator publisher launches an investigation against Schedule 1 creator. The game is supposedly “violating company’s IP”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, if they find actual artwork, audio, or code stolen, much of which goes into UI development, that would definitely make for a fair case. I’d presume that Schedule 1 devs would never do something so stupid though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Switch 2 Rollout Was So Convoluted It Made Us Want A Steam Deck.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The game pricing argument goes back and forth for me. Yes, on paper, you could say that inflation suggests games should go up in price, especially considering how many more developers are needed to put out high-fidelity games. BUT, on the other hand, the minimum wage has not raised significantly in all of that time. As a result, a significant number of gamers genuinely can’t pay more for games than they could 20+ years ago. The reason these larger studios exist is because of gaming’s expanded reach in that time; and many of these new target territories similarly can’t pay for the equivalent of $80USD.

  There’s maybe only about 1-2 games I’ve ever even paid the $70 price tag for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Important information about compatibility of Nintendo Switch games with Nintendo Switch 2⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How will those old joycons charge? Is the Switch 2 able to have S1 joycons slide in without using the magnet?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Switch 2 Launches on June 5th Worldwide; 1080p Screen With 120 FPS and HDR Support, Docked Mode 4K Resolution Support Confirmed⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  120 and 4K are often claimed on console specs but are rarely achieved within games. At best it will be capable of that when playing Netflix or streaming.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Switch 2 Nintendo Direct Will Be 60 Minutes Long, Nintendo Confirms⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m curious what other people’s main gripe is (likely emulation fights?) For my own, it’s when they enacted an assault on Garry’s Mod assets.

  That domain never did anything to harm their brand and was a source for tons of fan content. Emulation has its murky arguments about capitalism, but going after GMod was just litigation and harm for its own sake.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Terrorists⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You could also make this point with illegal immigrants.

  With ICE simply looking for “Anyone they can excuse grabbing”, all violent/gang-affiliated immigrants have to do is exercise basic caution, and ICE will miss them completely. If they have enemies, or witnesses in immigrant communities that could testify against them, all they have to do is leave ICE a tip against that person.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Road crews carry the world on their shoulders. They just aren't given enough to do what needs doing.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The increasing size of American cars has done a lot of damage to our roads. They’re less safe for the roads, for pedestrians, and even sometimes for the occupants.

  Tangentially, thanks to red light structure in the city, I often make just as much forward progress as the cars around me on my bike.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why aren't there mass protests in the USA?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Especially since far-right groups have been falling for Musk’s same bullshit in Europe.

  There’s been reports that Germany’s AFD party fell out of favor after their news got to see how Trump played out. I seriously hope that ends up being true in their next election.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why aren't there mass protests in the USA?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  50501 refers to “Fifty States, Fifty Protests, One Movement” (originally “One Day”). While some states have more presence than others, it has 50 chapters for the 50 states.

  I don’t think there’s as much presence on Lemmy, but lots of media gets posted to Reddit at www.reddit.com/r/50501/.

  Their website also links to social media accounts covering more of it: www.fiftyfifty.one

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Assassin's Creed Shadows | Review Thread⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This might be a dumb idea, but I may buy this game just to make up for all the baseless hate it’s been hit by. Maybe just to avoid shareholder claims of “See, people prefer historical accuracy. Hence black people are banned in all future games.”

  I haven’t really even tracked much of Ubisoft games for a while, and I recognize usually they’re pretty mindless open world fun - personally I’m often fine with that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Split Fiction Developer Already Started Working On Its Next Title, Calls It An "Exciting Thing"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow, you mean they didn’t make a successful game and then immediately triple their staff and try to start pumping out formulaic games at double pace?

  But what about company growth??

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If we let republicans set the bar, we will be buried in no time.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I had a guy in my Discord following some insane moon logic about how ranked choice voting has some concerns because people could “tactically put their preferred option second to game the system”. He tried about five times and still could not convince us that water is dry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam is a ticking time bomb.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve even wanted to bring up Valve in some recent political discussions on corporate governance. With the blatant exception of CSGO child-focused gambling, it is otherwise the “shining ideal” of a good company: They invented a product that people like and enjoy, maintain it well to please their customers, and pay their employees well without growing excessively or finding ways to cheat customers out of their money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Next Xbox Rumors Surface; No Devkits Available to Developers Yet (aiming for 2027)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If we got a Gyroscope on Xbox, then all major controllers would have it - allowing for the possibility of cross platform games where people can use gyro ironsights to aim. That would be awesome.