Stovetop
@Stovetop@lemmy.world
- Comment on Caption this. 4 days ago:
IIRC mantis eyes are a series of small holes/tubes angled in different directions. You can see into the ones that are faced directly towards you down to (I assume) some photoreceptor like our pupils, but the other holes are occluded.
So basically, yeah, kinda. I think.
- Comment on Final Fantasy Maker Square Enix Will Aggressively Pursue a Multiplatform Strategy After Profits Tumble 5 days ago:
For what it’s worth, Rebirth is an amazing game that I would honestly consider to be the gold star of anyone making a AAA experience today. If the goal is truly quality, I don’t think it’s feasible to try to make every game better than Rebirth given the breadth of content in it and its overall production quality.
Really what this announcement boils down to is that they won’t be making games like Harvestella, Valkyrie Elysium, Diofield Chronicle, and Foamstars. And maybe they’ll also be a bit more mindful of the budgets of their AAA games like Rebirth instead of taking a “spared no expense” mindset, which could come at the cost of quality, but I hope that’s not the case.
- Comment on Steam is now refunding Ghost of Tsushima for people in affected countries. 1 week ago:
It would have still been an issue because the root of the problem is that there are a lot of regions where PSN is not supported and you can’t make an account. The game was being sold on Steam in those regions, and so in practice it would have been like saying:
Please note that in a future update we will take away your ability to play with no recourse unless Valve is willing to refund your purchase. Take it up with them.
- Comment on Steam is now refunding Ghost of Tsushima for people in affected countries. 1 week ago:
The difference is that Helldivers 2 was already a released game; people had paid for a product which was taken away from them. After all the controversy, Sony decided not to follow through with that plan and let people keep what they already had.
This is still scummy, but with Ghost of Tsushima, no one has received anything yet. People put in an order, the order was canceled, and money refunded, so in practical terms there is no loss…other than not being able to buy the game.
It may be possible to set your account to a different region and purchase anyways, but in my opinion, piracy is absolutely justified in this case when the vendor literally refuses to make a product available to you. If there’s no legal option for obtaining it, then there’s no harm in pirating it.
- Comment on Suicide Squad Cost Warner Bros. $200 Million In Revenue 1 week ago:
Well, hard for it to succeed at the box office when movie theaters were still closed/avoided in the midst of the pandemic.
- Comment on Suicide Squad Cost Warner Bros. $200 Million In Revenue 1 week ago:
Lesson learned: there can be no good Suicide Squad title unless prefixed by “The”.
- Comment on Microsoft Closes Redfall Developer Arkane Austin, Hi-Fi Rush Developer Tango Gameworks, and More in Devastating Cuts at Bethesda 1 week ago:
If anything, Nintendo is likely the company about to make lightning strike twice with the Switch successor due to be announced this year. Will be interesting to see what it’s like, but no matter the case, it is going to sell like hotcakes.
- Comment on Microsoft Closes Redfall Developer Arkane Austin, Hi-Fi Rush Developer Tango Gameworks, and More in Devastating Cuts at Bethesda 1 week ago:
Yeah, it is already available.
- Comment on Boring ass planet 1 week ago:
Similar reason why these three photos look like slightly different colors: image sensor type, quality, and postprocessing.
Older images, less accurate. Especially if the type of image a system is capturing is not meant to be consistent with the human eye.
- Comment on Your move, China. 1 week ago:
That’s what I’ve heard. The flag was made with material that bleaches in the sun and so is likely now just solid white.
- Comment on Your move, China. 1 week ago:
Can a bleached white flag still be called an American flag?
- Comment on Helldivers 2 now delisted in 177 countries 2 weeks ago:
But it was, so who is going to take responsibility for it? Is Sony going to back down from the requirement? Is Valve going to refund all those users?
- Comment on Helldivers 2 Players Express Frustration On Steam As It Will Soon Require A PSN Account 2 weeks ago:
They shouldn’t.
I am just saying, if the concern is about putting your email on another service, then don’t put your email. You can use a throwaway one if you just want to get through it and play, or if it’s a matter of principle and you don’t want to, that’s cool too.
Just offering my 2 cents on keeping personal information safe on the web. It’s often unsafe to put all your eggs in one basket and email is no exception, so having some “burner accounts” on hand can help.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 Players Express Frustration On Steam As It Will Soon Require A PSN Account 2 weeks ago:
Could just make a throwaway account with Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, what have you, then. No real information attached.
Not saying I agree at all with what Sony is doing, but anyone who is concerned about their email/personal information getting leaked by something they didn’t want to sign up for, there are options to protect yourself.
- Comment on Draw your own conculsions 2 weeks ago:
Meaningful if you’re looking for predictors on birth rates, I suppose. Usually I see studies like this used to explain why populations start to decline.
- Comment on Draw your own conculsions 2 weeks ago:
2008 was the beginning of the recession, and in many ways things never really recovered. Cost of college never went down. Housing remains unattainable for most young people. And the job market is becoming more exploitative than ever.
Financial uncertainty creates anxiety. People with too much anxiety don’t have the time or energy for relationships and family. As it happens, countries where this is felt even more, like Korea and Japan, have it far worse.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 Players Express Frustration On Steam As It Will Soon Require A PSN Account 2 weeks ago:
FWIW, no need for it to be an attack vector if you just use one of those throwaway email services to sign up for a PSN account you’ll never use anywhere else.
- Comment on The choice is yours 2 weeks ago:
There’s also just a certain…musk? It’s immediately noticeable when you enter someone’s house and they have a cat. I feel like the residents must get nose blind to it because they don’t believe me when I tell them, but there is definitely a certain cat smell that just gets everywhere.
- Comment on Vote Justin Kays 2024 #47!!!!!! 2 weeks ago:
I would trust his character (Julian Slowik) to be president. Man would do what needs to be done and then peace out when he is no longer needed. A champion of the working class who understands the cycle of oppression perpetuated by the working class. He would serve revolution on a plate.
!As long as we can overlook all of the sexual assault in his history.!<
- Comment on Final Fantasy Maker Square Enix Takes $140 Million Hit in ‘Content Abandonment Losses’ as It Revises Game Pipeline - IGN 2 weeks ago:
The PC version of XVI is being actively worked on, Rebirth not long to follow I’d imagine, given that they released less than a year apart.
- Comment on Deadpool & Wolverine - Official Trailer (2024) Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman 3 weeks ago:
Though I think the “get another cow” in this analogy would be finding a new franchise to milk. Which knowing how Star Wars is turning out…yeah…
- Comment on Listen, libs... 3 weeks ago:
That’s sad to hear. Reminds me of his appearance on Parks and Rec where his character is initially misjudged as a libertarian/conservative due to his cowboy-like demeanor and off-the-grid lifestyle, but turned out to be a left-leaning hippie instead. The basic idea behind that character being that the right does not have a monopoly on a lot of the “values” they claim to uphold.
- Comment on Progress! 4 weeks ago:
Without knowing more about the research, my gut tells me that it has been a tad sensationalized. Very little research is actually directed towards a specific goal in mind from the get-go. Normally, there are people researching a specific topic, reporting their findings, and then speculating on potential applications.
So if I had to guess, there’s some company researching neural interfacing pathways or brain augments or something like that, a hypothesis that introducing X, Y, and Z conditions can alter one’s perception of time, and then under potential applications they list “accelerated prison sentences” as one such possibility. Then suddenly you have sensationalist news articles about how researchers are developing a dystopian system to make 1000 years pass in 8 hours for prisoners.
This is likely going to end up in the same manner as the dozens of “Scientists may have discovered a cure for cancer” articles that turn up every year.
- Comment on Is there a sort of collection/discussion of the stopkillinggames.com campaign? 4 weeks ago:
Is there a dead dead game news channels channel?
- Comment on This FromSoftware Dungeon Crawlers-inspired FPS Is Made With GZDoom 5 weeks ago:
No you’re good, it’s the article title itself!
- Comment on This FromSoftware Dungeon Crawlers-inspired FPS Is Made With GZDoom 5 weeks ago:
The title seems a bit misleading, it sounds like it is saying FromSoftware made a dungeon crawler-inspired game (or classic titles-inspired game, as the article title now states).
- Comment on Star Wars Outlaws: Official Story Trailer 5 weeks ago:
Even worse.
- Comment on Where in the world is laptop gaming the most popular? 5 weeks ago:
Regions, I am not sure. Demographics, I’d say PC gamers whose total electronics budget does not exceed $1500-2000.
- Comment on Where in the world is laptop gaming the most popular? 5 weeks ago:
I can’t speak for everyone obviously, but my own observations lead me to believe that laptop gaming is the most “accessible” of the options for someone who wants to game on PC based on the use cases below:
Consoles are the cheapest route to play games, with a PS5 costing US$500. You get the console exclusives, but you lose the flexibility/mods/enhancements PC gaming provides, which is why some people prefer PC gaming. However, realistically, a decent gaming PC in the current market is going to cost 3 or 4 times the cost of a PS5.
That being said, one justification for the higher cost of a gaming PC is that most people need a computer anyways. The PS5 might only be $500, but if you need a computer on top of that, the difference in cost slims a bit.
But in terms of what kind of computer the average person needs, you’re going to see a hard trend towards portability. A computer you can carry around is far more convenient than one you can’t.
If you opt for a desktop PC, you address the “I need a computer anyways” use case, but not the “I need a computer for school/work” one. Unless you can satisfy your mobile computing needs with just a smartphone, chances are you need a laptop anyways (or maybe a tablet) and it creates a similar added cost issue we see with the PS5+laptop situation.
So if you don’t have the budget for two computers, you go for the option that attempts to do it all—the gaming laptop. They run games, they’re portable, and in many cases more affordable than desktops with equivalent components.
But the tradeoff is that they don’t really do any of these things well. They run games, but form factor/heat output prevent most gaming laptops from being “Ultra Settings” capable. They are portable, but typically weigh a lot more than standard laptops and have a battery life of just a couple hours. They are more affordable, but then when one component gives out, you have to replace the entire thing because everything is on one board.
- Comment on more proof that they are just opossums with armour 5 weeks ago:
An armadillo’s reaction after finding out they naturally carry leprosy.