eezeebee
@eezeebee@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Steam News - Your 2024 Steam Replay is here 3 days ago:
No new games
- Comment on Elden Ring Nightreign Can Only be Played Solo or as a Trio - Insider Gaming 5 days ago:
It’s still unclear to me if you are always a trio.
Is “solo” you + 2 bots?
Can you play as 2 friends + 1 bot or 1 random player?
- Comment on How do you voice chat without bothering roommates? 5 days ago:
Get some sort of speaker or use a smartphone. Play some music or video and put your volume around your talking volume, or a little louder. Then leave the room and close the door. This way you can get a sense of how much noise bleeds outside to your roommate.
- Comment on I don't thing my beef strogonoff updates aren't working. 5 days ago:
Have you all received any updates about beef strogonoff lately?
Why? Did something big happen?
- Comment on I have read through this job ad multiple times and I still have no idea who they are looking for. 6 days ago:
- Be in MS Teams meetings all day and talk with your hands
- Delegate software and system changes with confidence based on the sales pitches of vendors who over-promise and under-deliver
- Be a punching bag for executives when the solutions that were meant to save money for the business end up costing more time and money than before
- Comment on Is there any (single player playable) game under $10 or equivalent which has made you point any go "ha" or given you an equivalent feeling because it was that enjoyable for every moment you played it? 6 days ago:
I’ve heard about that and through multiplayer have been able to experience it. Honestly I prefer the base game without either DLC. Even the Void DLC is too chaotic for my taste.
- Comment on how do you separate your clothes and linens to avoid fabric degradation and bleeding? 6 days ago:
The cost of doing laundry is insane. I started doing mine by hand at home.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of December 15th 1 week ago:
TUNIC.
My goodness this game feels like it was made for me. I feel the magic of Zelda (LttP, maybe Link’s Awakening) and Dark Souls, and I would say the game wears those influences on its sleeve.
The game drops you into the world with no explanation. Signs are in a foreign language. You can collect pieces of the instruction manual which includes map pieces. The manual is littered with the occasional word in English, just enough to guess at what you can / need to do. There’s basically no hand-holding at all. Combat is similar in that it can be difficult if you find yourself in an area you aren’t ready for yet (like I did).
There are lots of hidden pathways, ladders and chests to find. They do a good job of showing you treasure chests and shortcuts that are just out of reach, and you have to really observe and think about how to navigate to get there. To me the world design has big Dark Souls 1 energy in that way - already I’ve had that same “omg it’s Firelink Shrine?!” experience as I explore and open up paths.
- Comment on Is there any (single player playable) game under $10 or equivalent which has made you point any go "ha" or given you an equivalent feeling because it was that enjoyable for every moment you played it? 1 week ago:
The 100 hour mark is a tough one to hit - even some of the best games I’ve played aren’t that long or replayable, and the ones that are usually cost more than $10. Still, here are some to check out if you want. I’ll list the price on Steam in Canadian dollars and my current total play time.
The Messenger - on sale for $5.19 - 35 hours Infinitode 2 - Free to play - 47 hours Ori and the Blind Forest - on sale for $6.24 - 23 hours Risk of Rain 2 - on sale for $9.56 - 81 hours (new to my library, less than 1 month) Undertale - on sale for $2.74 - 28 hours
- Comment on As the Canada "tax holiday" starts, Walmart increased the price of an item by the amount I would have saved 1 week ago:
What about other stores?
They’re $75+ elsewhere. And I refuse to buy from sketchy “marketplace” sellers on sites like Best Buy where I see reviews saying they’re used but advertised as new, missing components, etc.
- Comment on As the Canada "tax holiday" starts, Walmart increased the price of an item by the amount I would have saved 1 week ago:
Yeah, I shouldn’t have been surprised. This is normal psychopathic behaviour for a corporation.
- Comment on As the Canada "tax holiday" starts, Walmart increased the price of an item by the amount I would have saved 1 week ago:
I tried and I got, “Wayback Machine has not archived that URL.”
- Comment on As the Canada "tax holiday" starts, Walmart increased the price of an item by the amount I would have saved 1 week ago:
You didn’t happen to take screenshots did you? It’s something that should be reported to the media as well
I wish I had thought of it. I tried the Honey extension which sometimes shows historical prices, but no luck this time. I couldn’t find any other way to double check the previous prices either.
- Comment on As the Canada "tax holiday" starts, Walmart increased the price of an item by the amount I would have saved 1 week ago:
They are ridiculously expensive to begin with, thus my waiting for a special occasion to spend that much money to get a first-party one. Here it is, probably priced lower than the others because of the ugly colour that I kind of like.
- Comment on As the Canada "tax holiday" starts, Walmart increased the price of an item by the amount I would have saved 1 week ago:
Report them
How?
I have not been able to find anything about restrictions to stop the price gouging.
- Comment on As the Canada "tax holiday" starts, Walmart increased the price of an item by the amount I would have saved 1 week ago:
It’s not all bad - now instead of saving $7 I will be saving the whole $55 since I won’t buy it!
- Comment on As the Canada "tax holiday" starts, Walmart increased the price of an item by the amount I would have saved 1 week ago:
It was so hastily-implemented that I think it’s either an oversight or by design.
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- Comment on Why does the Music Industry allow Spotify/Apple to profit off of them? 1 week ago:
It’s not confirmed afaik, but there is big motive behind it for Spotify to flood listeners with artists they don’t have to pay.
There’s also the apparent problem of third parties uploading AI slop. Spotify is putting in minimum listener requirements to supposedly deal with this, but what it will do instead is it choke out real small artists, and the AI artists will just get botted above the minimum pay threshold. To me, this gives Spotify even more motive than before to dilute all artists on the platform with their own AI music. They already make deals with large labels and podcasters, they don’t care about the other 90% of artists who eat at their bottom line.
“Spotify … anticipates reaching profitability for the full year in 2024, which would mark the company’s first full profitable year since it launched 18 years ago.”
Interesting that they anticipate a full year of profit when there is this “AI problem” plaguing them. How convenient it would be if it turned out to be their own AI artists they don’t have to pay.
"Ek said moving forward, Spotify will be more disciplined about how it spends money. “You should not expect that we’re going to go back to 2021 behavior. We want to be very resourceful,” he said. "
axios.com/…/spotify-projects-first-full-year-of-p…
This video shows some AI artist profiles and talks about it more:
- Comment on Why does the Music Industry allow Spotify/Apple to profit off of them? 1 week ago:
Bandcamp is a good option for directly supporting artists for the time being, especially if you queue up all your purchases for a Bandcamp Friday, where artists/labels receive all the money rather than BC taking their 20% cut.
Not just a good option, but the best option I know of. If you buy an album for $5, that’s equivalent to the earnings for thousands of plays on Spotify. And that would be assuming the artist even gets enough total Spotify plays to qualify for their payout under the new rules.
They are stealing from artists who bring business to the platform, and using the guise of protecting themselves from bot streamers. Oh, and they recently raised the subscription price by 25% in my country. Spotify was the satisfying subscription I have ever cancelled.
They’re also being accused of pushing their own AI-generated slop music so that they have to pay out even less to real artists. Fuck Spotify.
- Comment on Will Republicans try another Federal Right to Work attempt? 1 week ago:
Land of the free
- Comment on What happened to gaming? 2 weeks ago:
Graphics have never been a priority for me, they’re more like an inevitable side effect of technology advancing. Luckily there is no shortage of good old games, and a lot of smaller studios are making amazing titles with older art styles / less demanding specs.
- Comment on Dying Is a Form of Education - On Elden Ring 2 weeks ago:
That moment when the giant ball appears behind you, blocking the door like in a horror movie was one of the funniest moments I’ve had in gaming.
- Comment on What are some video game quotes that is stuck in your head? 4 weeks ago:
"I’m interested in one thing. Dark. You haven’t the gift."
- Felkin the Outcast, Dark Souls 2
He’s such a weirdo just sitting in a dark corner, but sells some good spells.
- Comment on How to avoid having cat hair all over my house and clothes every 2 days? 4 weeks ago:
Keep a lint brush in the main rooms of your home. One for the couch and living room, one for the bed and clothes when getting dressed. I find they are a lot more effective than a vacuum, and less of a chore to reach for frequently.
- Comment on Withdrawal is going to make people go mad 5 weeks ago:
Good news - chocolate rations have increased from 30 grams to 20 grams
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- Comment on In the era of remakes and remasters, what niche game would you like to see receive the treatment? 1 month ago:
That sounds awesome. I’m imagining it in the style of Dark Souls, but a reskin would be fun.
- Comment on In the era of remakes and remasters, what niche game would you like to see receive the treatment? 1 month ago:
Obligatory Bloodborne mention.
Not sure if it’s been done already, but Zelda LttP would be cool. I haven’t played Echoes of Wisdom though I like the art style and could see it working well.
Goldeneye + Perfect Dark.
- Comment on Who all wants a silent spring? 1 month ago:
No. Tired of people
