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- Comment on End of an era? 1 week ago:
Yeah, no game bought on Steam is owned, just licensed. It sucks. Have to go to other places to actually own it digitally.
- Comment on End of an era? 1 week ago:
Steam kinda killed physical PC games 20 years ago.
And the Steam zealots will come and say, “Yeah, but but you can still buy games on other storefronts! So it’s not like this Sony thing at all!” OK, sure.
But Steam still helped kill physical games on PC.
- Comment on Thunder are trading sharpshooter Isaiah Joe to the Detroit Pistons for two future second-round picks 2 weeks ago:
This makes me sad. I liked Joe.
- Comment on Microsoft Announces Significant Price Rises for Xbox Series X and S, 2TB Model Discontinued 2 weeks ago:
Isn’t this the third time it about one calendar year?
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Exactly like a Switch 2 Game Key Card.
You can still share and trade those.
- Comment on GTA 6 Price Finally Confirmed, Features a 'Single-Player Experience' at Launch 2 weeks ago:
I’m going to do the same thing I did with GTAV: wait ten years and get it for free on Epic or whatever.
I wonder if you still have to tap X to run like it’s 2002. At least default that shit to the Tears of the Kingdom style where you just hold the button.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 3 weeks ago:
Here’s a post about Nintendo raising the price of the Switch 2 by $50. People there are much less “chill” about that price versus this Steam Machine that is essentially a PS5 by all accounts on performance.
In this thread the people may not be AS mean as I was saying, there are people in there going “fuck Nintendo” as though Nintendo wants the bad press from raising prices.
And I’m not saying people should love Nintendo. I don’t really care about that. It’s just always funny to see the juxtaposition between these things. Lemmy is definitely a “I love Steam! It’s my favorite place to license games and not really own them!” kind of community. I get it. But every one of these companies are getting screwed by the same political climate and hardware situations.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 3 weeks ago:
The price increases were also a function of tariffs and junk, too. Just a big double whammy.
I think it was MS last year who started off the price hikes. Then they did another this year.
Nintendo had tariff issues right when the Switch 2 was launching then finally upped prices in the last month or so, and Sony just in the last couple of months had to adjust prices, too.
I don’t really think any of these companies raised console prices before the idiocy of the trump admin and the AI bubble, though. Not that I can recall at least.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 3 weeks ago:
It’s funny to see that when the main console makers all raised their prices for the same reasons as this thing is expensive everyone was like “Nintendo/Sony/Microsoft are so greedy! They hate their consumers!”
And this thing being overpriced it’s “oh sweet baby angel Gabe, we know the hardships upon thee in thine many literal ships at sea. Please accept my money.”
I’m joking here so calm down Steam nerds.
But I do think some folks need to realize none of these companies want to jack up their prices like this. Everyone wants to make a profit, sure, but AI is screwing everyone.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 3 weeks ago:
Welp, really glad I got that PS5 Pro before those went up in price.
- Comment on 2026 NBA Finals: Knicks vs Spurs – Game 5 4 weeks ago:
I don’t want to sound like a jerk, but every time they do a close up of Fox on the court he has this expression like it’s the first time he’s ever seen the world. Like Scott Bakula just quantum leaped into his body ten minutes before the game.
- Comment on 2026 NBA Finals: Knicks vs Spurs – Game 5 4 weeks ago:
How do you miss that close out on Brunson’s three?
Wemby is wearing giant clown shoes and he stepped right into the landing area.
- Comment on Victor Wembanyama avoids flagrant foul for shoving Brunson 4 weeks ago:
I feel like we are going to get a “Wemby’s Dirty Plays” compilation video soon from somebody. He’s always out there doing something.
- Comment on 2026 NBA Finals: Spurs vs Knicks – Game 4 4 weeks ago:
When Chet missed two free throws at the end of a playoff game a couple years ago everyone said he was washed.
Time to send Wemby back to France.
- Comment on Xenoblade Genesis Nintendo Direct Trailer 4 weeks ago:
It was honestly pretty packed with stuff. It’s been one of the better ones in a long time.
- Comment on 2026 NBA Finals: Spurs vs Knicks – Game 4 4 weeks ago:
HO LEE SHIT.
So happy for this choke job by the Spurs. This is why you don’t spout off “I’m in your head.”
- Comment on Xenoblade Genesis Nintendo Direct Trailer 4 weeks ago:
That’s a good point that they gave such a meaty (Lanz wants something meatier!) trailer a year out. Thats how you know it’s coming along nicely AND there’s way more story to tell than what they’ve shown.
- Comment on Xenoblade Genesis Nintendo Direct Trailer 4 weeks ago:
Until I know differently, I have this feeling like this world is one that could have been “seeded” by another ship from earth and just evolved differently.
But I have zero evidence of that. I just assume there will be some sort of tie into the other games.
However, these characters are just humans and elves and there are zero Nopon in this trailer (but there was a short cat character shown in one split second). Could very well be totally different. And that’s fine, too.
It is hard to think about a game that doesn’t have Mio and Noah in the crew, though. They are so good I wonder how I can even be as in love with any new characters as I was with them. I’m not worried, really. But XC3 was like the mountaintop, and now we are starting all fresh so I just don’t know yet. It’s going to be great, though.
- Comment on Xenoblade Genesis Nintendo Direct Trailer 4 weeks ago:
Yeah I expect maybe the first chapter or two to be set at this school and then something kicks off the journey to deal with this “god” they mention. AND EVEN THEN there could be a twist.
- Comment on Xenoblade Genesis Nintendo Direct Trailer 4 weeks ago:
Time to get better friends, of course.
- Comment on Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave – Nintendo Direct 6.9.2026 4 weeks ago:
Sothis showing up at the end is cool and unexpected (by me). So this seems like it’ll be after Three Houses.
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- Comment on The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Remake – Coming 2026 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, it’s awesome, honestly. I agree people should check it out.
- Comment on NBA Finals Game Thread - Game 2: Knicks vs. Spurs 5 weeks ago:
Hell yeah Knicks! Close this shit out at home.
- Comment on NBA Finals Game Thread - Game 2: Knicks vs. Spurs 5 weeks ago:
Wemby decided to continue to be hung up on Chet winning a trophy instead of him when he was 17 and wasted all his energy last week.
- Comment on NBA Finals Game Thread - Game 1: Knicks vs. Spurs 5 weeks ago:
Hell yeah! Go Knicks!
- Comment on Until Dawn 2 - Announce Trailer | PS5 Games 5 weeks ago:
My friends and I like to play these types of games together since they are really just big movies. And passing the controller around is fun since really it’s just making some quick and simple-ish choices and everyone gets to be stressed out.
- Comment on Control Resonant - Story/Release Date Reveal Trailer 5 weeks ago:
Finish Control, then hit Alan Wake 2, then this.
- Comment on What’s your favorite video game that most people didn’t like ?? 1 month ago:
“What rhymes with orange…?”
“uhh…door hinge?”
I still think about this sometimes.
- Comment on What’s your favorite video game that most people didn’t like ?? 1 month ago:
Riding in that boat in the desert and being in that “time bubble” where there was only water around you is still one of the coolest things Zelda has done, I think. And the music in that spot was very good.
Of all the things in that game, I remember that area the most.