Stovetop
@Stovetop@lemmy.world
- Comment on Three original movies are being released in theaters today 19 hours ago:
Two, if one counts Death of a Unicorn as well, in spite of its comedic elements.
- Comment on Dig this trench to protect your landlord's ability to gouge your decendants. 2 days ago:
Weird that it would be coming from Americans given how often US media has depicted the importance of the homefront during the various wars that America has participated in.
Militaries still need food and supplies to operate, so someone has to be making/raising/growing all of that stuff. And those workers need to be paid, accommodated, and kept happy, so every other industry like banking, education, healthcare, entertainment, etc. needs to keep running at full steam to prop up all aspects of the supply chain.
- Comment on EXCLUSIVE - Nintendo Switch 2 Will Have a 3-Phase Launch Plan For Its Games 2 days ago:
This is also my guess. Nintendo knows the demand, they’ll do $499.99 for the launch model and release a cheaper “lite” version like the original Switch in 2 years at $350 or $400 or something.
- Comment on Ubi, it's $70 and people are vary of your mile wide puddles that drop 75% in price after half a year 2 days ago:
I’m not sure if The Last Shogun is something different, but if you’re referring to the Shogun series recently adapted by FX, I can say having watched it that it features a main character who fancies himself a superior white savior, but ultimately leads to realizing how completely out of his depth he is.
But it’s like the Memoir of a Geisha problem: since the original work was written by a white dude anyways, how much value does it have as a cultural work?
- Comment on Fable delayed to 2026 5 days ago:
Just FYI for any curious: this is the same delay that was announced last month, no additional changes since then.
- Comment on The gentrified forest near me removed the bins. .. From their café/picnic area 1 week ago:
I’ve never been to a Japanese cafe, but knowing what I know about them from Japanese acquaintances, yeah, mostly.
They’d probably either use actual dishware that is returned and washed, or yes, expect people to bring disposable waste home with them. Everything I’ve heard is that public trash bins are not non-existent, but they are rare.
- Comment on What are your favorite Switch exclusives? 1 week ago:
I do agree that TotK was a better game than BotW, though I can also see how someone who may not love the BotW model wouldn’t be enamored with TotK either.
- Comment on What are your favorite Switch exclusives? 2 weeks ago:
I’d say Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom, but seems like that’s not what you’re looking for.
The Paper Mario: TTYD remake is very good. Or Animal Crossing, if you’re looking for something relaxing.
For party games, Mario Kart 8 is always fun. And of course Smash Bros Ultimate if you like that series.
- Comment on New ‘Starship Troopers’ Movie in the Works from ‘District 9’ Filmmaker Neill Blomkamp (Exclusive) 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think I’d even want it to be, to be honest. The original book was really just fascist apologia, and the later adaptations of it had the foresight to use that premise instead for more effective social commentary.
- Comment on Meaning of the phrase “Hang dead.”? 2 weeks ago:
I’d say that’s just as likely they do. A lot of “native” English speakers really only speak 0.5 languages.
- Comment on Ubisoft reportedly considering fresh business to own Assassin's Creed and other big franchises, co-owned by others like Tencent 2 weeks ago:
Translation: We can’t find a buyer for our failing company, so next we’ll try to prop ourselves up by selling/leasing our IP.
- Comment on Morrowind-inspired indie RPG Ardenfall releases in early access this year 2 weeks ago:
Playing with fire with that name, given Morrowind takes place on Vvardenfell. They just removed the V’s and changed a vowel.
- Comment on iconic trio 2 weeks ago:
Yeah Top Gear went to…weird places after the whole kerfuffle.
- Comment on iconic trio 2 weeks ago:
Ah, of course! What trio could be more iconic?
!Does anyone else hear what sounds like an angry mob of British car enthusiasts outside?!<
- Comment on 'Uber for nurses' exposes 86k+ medical records, PII. 2 weeks ago:
Just to clarify, it exposed records for the nurses who were using this service to find gig work. The article doesn’t mention anything about patient data being leaked, which is what is usually being referred to when one says “medical records.”
- Comment on Anon is deeply disturbed 2 weeks ago:
I agree, but feel it should be clarified that having bills to pay is not a disqualifier for bootlicking. “Just doing my job” and all.
- Comment on Trump pauses US military aid to Ukraine while pressuring Zelenskyy to move toward quick end to war 3 weeks ago:
Definitely going to be a permanently embarrassing chapter in America’s history.
- Comment on The Greatest Mass Migration Border Crisis in U.S. History Is Over 3 weeks ago:
If it looks like it’s over, it’s only because Mexico is becoming an increasingly more appealing place to live than the US. Mexico may be about to have its own immigration crisis on its hands before long.
- Comment on Secret Mode splits from Sumo Group (Tencent) to be an independent publisher 3 weeks ago:
I’ve only ever associated their brand with the game A Little to the Left (very relaxing stress relief game, by the way) and never realized they were part of Tencent.
Good to see them split from the stifling megacorp, hope they have more success with future ventures.
- Comment on Are modern Final Fantasy games bad? 3 weeks ago:
To explain the joke:
!Half of the early FF games weren’t released in the West until later on. FF1 was, but 2 and 3 were not. So when 4 released outside of Japan, publishers thought it would be weird to have the numbering go from 1 to 4, so 4 released internationally as FF2. And then 5 got skipped over as well, so when 6 released internationally, it was released as FF3. However, they wanted to standardize the numbering starting with FF7, because FF7 was a Big Deal™, so for players outside of Japan, the series numbering suddenly jumped from FF3 to FF7. And the skipped games were later released internationally, so the numbering is now consistent with the initial Western numbering now largely forgotten.!<
- Comment on We're remaking Morrowind as a Skyrim mod. Here's a charity livestream we held on the weekend. 4 weeks ago:
Clarification: Skyblivion is making most of the assets from scratch, but requires users to own Oblivion in order to import some additional assets and the full voicework which is still coming from Oblivion. There’s an installer which checks for both.
- Comment on Xbox studios head Craig Duncan confirms 'Fable' is delayed to 2026 4 weeks ago:
Expected this when Fable was absent from their developer direct last month.
Not happy, but that’s gamedev these days.
- Comment on Elon Musk Given "Chainsaw For Bureaucracy" By Javier Milei At CPAC 4 weeks ago:
And Musk wasn’t.
- Comment on Elon Musk Given "Chainsaw For Bureaucracy" By Javier Milei At CPAC 4 weeks ago:
All good! English is a dumb language that does a poor job of differentiating objects in sentences.
- Comment on Elon Musk Given "Chainsaw For Bureaucracy" By Javier Milei At CPAC 4 weeks ago:
Elon Musk isn’t taking a chainsaw to plutocracy like he claims to be doing with bureaucracy.
- Comment on Elon Musk Given "Chainsaw For Bureaucracy" By Javier Milei At CPAC 4 weeks ago:
Chainsaw for Democracy*
- Comment on Two big Final Fantasy remakes are reportedly still in ‘active development’ 5 weeks ago:
Why remake perfection?
- Comment on Ubisoft revenues decline 31.4% to €990m 5 weeks ago:
For me it’s a combination of them making games that all seem to represent everything wrong in modern gaming, coupled with all of the sexual misconduct among their leadership that they covered up and have still not been held accountable for.
- Comment on The internet is bad ux, everybody. There's too many choices. 1 month ago:
The Biden FCC briefly brought it back but it was quickly killed by a Bush-appointed judge based on the conservative majority Supreme Court’s ruling on Loper Bright v. Raimondo which ended the practice of Chevron Deference.
Chevron Deference was a policy that allowed federal agencies to be the interpreters of ambiguous regulations, and in this particular case the uncertainty was whether or not the internet counted as a “utility” akin to electricity and water. The updated interpretation is that the FCC doesn’t have the right to treat the internet as a utility if it is not explicitly defined as a utility by law, so net neutrality was killed.
There is still hope that a later, more progressive Congress and administration could pass regulation declaring the internet to be a utility, or that a later court could change their minds on that interpretation, but for now it’s not looking good.
- Comment on Elden Ring Nightreign releases May 30th 1 month ago:
I’d say you have a point if FromSoft didn’t just publish two major games within a year of each other (Elden Ring, Armored Core) and then a game-sized DLC on top of that.
Could Nightreign have just been another Elden Ring DLC instead? I don’t know, maybe. But it’s not priced as a full game and I’m not sure why people expect it to be one.
