paultimate14
@paultimate14@lemmy.world
- Comment on Hails 1 week ago:
I think you’ll find most satanists like Carl Sagan just as much or even more than Satan.
- Comment on Favourite controllers 1 week ago:
Tough call between the Dualsense and the Dualshocks 1-3.
The Dualsense has great features, but is large enough and bulbous enough that I’m forced to use a full palm grip. That’s good some of the time, but sometimes I like a lighter finger grip that the earlier Dualshocks allowed for. I think of it similarly to claw vs palm grips on mice. A full palm grip on either can get too sweaty over time. The Dualshock 4 is a bulbous mess that fatigues my hands. On all of them, the plastic feels premium and sturdy and really fits well together. Plastic molding is an art, and they are good at it.
I have a few 8BitDo’s and they are all good too. The Pro-2, SN30 Pro, and Ultimate C (their naming conventions are flour of control). A bit cheaper feeling than the Sony offerings, but still pretty good.
The Xbox Series controller is… Fine. The plastic feels cheap, the face buttons feel cheap, it’s too big and requires a palm grip, the R1/L1 buttons feel cheap, the d-pad is one of the worst in history. The analog sticks almost feel great except they’re too tall.
Shout-out to the Steam Deck for feeling phenomenal. Also shout-out to the RetroBit Genesis controllers- they feel really good, but the lack of sticks and fewer buttons than most modern controllers makes it hard to use for modern games.
The JoyCons are awful. Most 3rd party options are better but I still haven’t found one that I really like.
The GameCube and N64 both feel kind of cheap. I think the plastic is a bit thin, and the sticks and buttons rattle around slightly.
- Comment on Microsoft Closes Redfall Developer Arkane Austin, Hi-Fi Rush Developer Tango Gameworks, and More in Devastating Cuts at Bethesda 1 week ago:
What are you talking about?
Sony’s Japan studio’s own library was always gimmicky games that were basically tech demos- Ape Escape was for the Dual Analog controller, LocoRoco for the PSP, Gravity Rush for the Vita, Knack to be a pack-in for the PS4, and games for VR, Move Eye toy, etc. In fact it’s kind of hard to find games they did on their own because they’ve always been mostly a support studio even going back to the PS1’s launch lineup, and they are continuing that. There have been several studios that make original games that started as part of Sony Japan that have been spun off into separate teams too.
I’m struggling to think of many studios Sony has closed. Sony London studios was similar to Japan- mostly just games to go with hardware gimmicks like the EyeToy, SingStar, and Wonderbook. It’s even harder to find studios that Sony has purchased and then closed or turned into a support studio- I guess you could count that Psygnosis was purchased and merged into London studios back in the 90’s, but considering they went 20 years between that merger and closing I doubt there were many Psygnosis devs left there.
A quick search pulls up PixelOpus, a tiny studio Sony formed from 9 college grads with a couple of industry veterans to lead them They released 2 small games and were closed last year.
I don’t mean to be too defensive of Sony- they did close one of their own studios and laid off ~900 people this year. But it’s not really a comparison to Microsoft who now has a long history of buying 3rd party studios, mismanaging them, and closing them.
I’m also confused about your comment about Xbox making more single player games than Sony. First of all… I would expect that to generally be true. It looks like Sony owns 21 studios while Microsoft had 40 as of the Activision-Blizzard acquisition. And while a lot hasn’t been announcedwith release dates, we know of a handful of single player games Sony has in the works- Horizon 3, TLOU3, Ghosts of Tsushima 2, and new IP’s from Bend, Housemarq, and BluePoint. Plus Wolverine, and you could argue whether Physint should count or not since that’s a partnership between Kojima and Sony-owned Columbia Pictures. If you’re trying to imply that Sony is abandoning single-player games or something that’s pretty far from the truth.
- Comment on Microsoft Closes Redfall Developer Arkane Austin, Hi-Fi Rush Developer Tango Gameworks, and More in Devastating Cuts at Bethesda 1 week ago:
I wonder how many promises Microsoft made to the FCC and other regulators about how their mergers and acquisitions wouldn’t result in layoffs?
- Comment on Day one and done 1 week ago:
Local pizza places are usually both cheaper and better than chains, at least in every neighborhood I’ve lived in. I think they are better than frozen pizzas, but also about 2x the cost. Both vary from place to place though.
Aldi’s pizzas are my go-to for value. Usually around $6 a pop now (they were $3.29 pre-pandemic). I add extra cheese and toppings to remind myself I’ve made it in life.
- Comment on All three remastered Mass Effect games and their DLC are 90% off on Steam 2 weeks ago:
Incorporates 3rd-party DRM: EA on-line activation and Origin client software installation and background use required.
I’m good thanks
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
There was a C-tier PS2 game called Airblade that was basically that
- Comment on totally tardigrades 3 weeks ago:
Yes, Twilight Princess. Snowpeak.
Although this image in particle might be from Hyrule Historia?
- Comment on totally tardigrades 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Why do Americans measure everything in cups? 5 weeks ago:
Most baking doesn’t require the precision of weighing. They are rough proportions, not an exact science.
An experienced baker, or really any kind of chef, will learn over time to make minor adjustments based on a lot of stuff. Maybe a bit less sugar, to taste. Maybe a difference in the brand or exact type of ingredient compared to what you’re used to. Maybe it’s a particularly dry day and you need to add more moisture to the dough.
If it’s something I have a lot of experience with I don’t even bother with measuring at all, just eyeball it.
- Comment on Dark universe King Of The Hill 3 months ago:
If you’re using gas (or electric) you might as well stay inside with a regular kitchen range.
- Comment on "tHeRe'$ n0 rEpL@CeMeNt FoR dIsPlaCeMeNt!!!1!!!1!!“ 3 months ago:
Reactionary car guys are the people “ice”-ing charging stations and talking about how they’re just going to consume more oil in response.
- Comment on Neo-Nazi podcasters sent to prison on terror charges for targeting Prince Harry and his young son 4 months ago:
To be fair, those guys are probably victims of being manipulated by grifters who stand to gain from selling hate. I’m sure there are some conventionally attractive Nazis, and there’s ugly tolerant folk.
But I’m not really interested in being fair to Nazi’s. Fuck 'em.
- Comment on Neo-Nazi podcasters sent to prison on terror charges for targeting Prince Harry and his young son 4 months ago:
Behold, the master race
- Comment on Situation.. 4 months ago:
Slightly. If you were concerned you could bridge the contacts with an insulated screwdriver or something.
It’s probably not something I would be concerned about unless this is a more powerful charger. It’s too blurry to see but even the large electrolytic doesn’t look big enough to be worried.
- Comment on Sega wants classic franchise reboots to show ‘edginess and a rebellious mind-set’ 5 months ago:
Unironically yes. Sonic 1 had 'tude: it was always part of the IP.
- Comment on Are phone notification LEDs still a thing? 6 months ago:
Headphone jack, 2 SD card slots, physical shutter button, front-facing speakers
Sony is really behind the competition when it comes to making worse products.
- Comment on On the morning train 6 months ago:
Lol I was thinking the roller coaster transforms the people into zombies. So then they’re free to get off the ride and go get some funnel cake or hit up the bumper card or whatever.
- Comment on It'll feel like a jream 6 months ago:
When I first got an apartment with my wife, she brought an old denim couch from her parents’ basement.
It was old and the foam was worn out, but aside from that it was surprisingly comfortable. It resisted the cat scratching pretty well. I would totally be open to buying another one some day.
- Comment on On the morning train 6 months ago:
Interestingly it was unpublished until it showed up on a blog.
I’ve always wondered if it was made for a commercial use that fell through. It looks like it should be a goosebumps book, or a poster advertising a Halloween event at an amusement park.
- Comment on 'Wildly more expensive': Workers with in-office jobs spend about $31/day that they wouldn't working from home — here's what employers need to do 6 months ago:
I remember as a kid going over a friend’s house and seeing the quarters lined up on the table. His parents were both nurses and had to pay to park at the hospital. I don’t remember the amount at the time, just being in awe at how much they spent just to park where they worked.
They usually worked on different schedules too, so that’s separate parking.
- Comment on 'Wildly more expensive': Workers with in-office jobs spend about $31/day that they wouldn't working from home — here's what employers need to do 6 months ago:
This is why so many apartments have kitchens that look like they were recent ideas squeezed into the space, or tiny “kitchenettes”.
Reading older literature I’ve noticed how in older books the main character’s living arrangements often just doesn’t have any place to prepare or store food. They’ll reference street carts, open markets, pubs, etc as where they get food from. Or maybe a meal included with the rent in a boarding house.
Medieval peasants in pre-industrial Europe expected their employer to provide at least one, if not two meals during work. Three during long hours, like harvest season.
- Comment on Every Franchise Xbox Now Owns After Buying Activision 7 months ago:
Gonna get automatically re-installed with every single Winfows update for all of eternity.
- Comment on can someone tell me what type of blanket this is 7 months ago:
This looks like it exactly matches the comforter from a hotel I stayed at recently. It was a “Tru by Hilton”
- Comment on Having trouble deciding what game to play next . which one of these games should i try 7 months ago:
Do you need to have played the earlier games for it?
I got this with my PS4. I already had the GOW 1&2 collection for PS3, so I figured I’d beat those and maybe get 3 first. But the first game is… rough. I’d say it hasn’t aged well, but honestly I don’t think it holds up to its contemporaries well.
I played it on-and-off for a few years now and finally beat it a couple weeks ago. I’m debating if I even want to bother with the 2nd game now.
- Comment on Microsoft documents leak new Bethesda games, including an Oblivion remaster 7 months ago:
There’s a good mixture. Some of the games I listed were literally just ports to he new hardware. Some were complete remakes. I’d say most of Skyrim lies somewhere in-between. It’s the base game, plus the 3 DLC’s, plus however many officially-sanctioned mods or platform-specific changes like for VR, Alexa (lol), or Switch. The re-release and different edition names are trying to set up boundaries and market the amorphous blob that most mod-heavy PC games are to console users.
- Comment on Microsoft documents leak new Bethesda games, including an Oblivion remaster 7 months ago:
This isn’t anything new though. How many different platforms has Super Mario Brothers been playable on? Or Sonic 2?
The best games of every generation get brought to the next. Whether it’s older stuff like Super Mario All Stars or the various Sega Ages and Classic collections. Most great PS1 and PS2 games saw release on the PS3, either digitally or in various physical collections. Tons of PS3 games have been re-released on PS4. Despite no backwards compatibility, there’s only a few PS3 exclusive titles left stuck on that platform. I don’t even know how many WiiU games are left that have not been ported to switch yet: that might be in the single-digits.
I don’t see how Skyrim is much different, but for some reason the Internet loves to hate it Skyrim and Bethesda in particular. Don’t get me wrong: they’re a giant soulless corporation. But there’s so many other corporations that have had way more consumer-unfriendly practices. Re-releasing a game on multiple platforms with new content added, usually at a pretty good price, just seems consumer friendly to me.
- Comment on Microsoft documents leak new Bethesda games, including an Oblivion remaster 7 months ago:
Hilarious thing to say about a studio that literally released a new game in a new IP this month.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
As a PS5 owner… Bethesda games are better on a desktop than a console anyways. It might as well be PC only for all I care lol.
- Comment on Frontier Airlines CEO says the pandemic made workers 'lazy' and less productive: 'People are still allowing people to work from home, all this silliness, right?' 8 months ago:
Just because you’re focusing on hating a specific race and gender doesn’t mean that others aren’t alsp spouting the same anti-work bile.
Let’s see what Mary Barra has to say about today’s strike announcement. www.cnn.com/2023/09/15/business/…/index.html
In the US as of 2020 data, there were about 8.5 million black people below the poverty line compared to 15.9 million white people. An individual below the poverty line is almkst twice as likely to be white than black.
That does not mean that systemic racism does not exist: that 8.5 million black people below the poverty line is a much higher percentage of the total number of black Americans than that 15.9 million is of the total number of white Americans. However, there’s still 15.9 million white Americans below the poverty line. They don’t care how many CEO’s in the top 10 are white. They have far more in common with the 8.5 million black people below the poverty line than any of those CEOs.
Stirring racial tensions is an age-old tactic used by the owning class to distract the working class. And you still haven’t answered my question: what are you hoping to accomplish by calling out cis white CEO’s other than trying to alienate cis white male working class people?