UnfortunateShort
@UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world
- Comment on Checkmate. 2 days ago:
Plot twist: Original Martin Luther
- Comment on In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen 1 week ago:
Oh, sorry, yes I mean a microwave + convection oven combo. Didn’t know how to translate that properly. My mom got one and it’s basically an air frier, a microwave and a mini-oven in one. Pretty cool stuff
- Comment on In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen 1 week ago:
Ingl, a microwave oven with air circulation is pretty neat. That last part is important tho
- Comment on Surprise! 1 week ago:
Girly boys are way hotter than girls, change my mind
- Comment on Great Advertise 1 week ago:
The trees on the left are strangely offset upwards, there is a line down the windshield which I have never seen on a bus like that, the bus also does not have a door at the front, which they typically do, and to a lesser degree that yellow looks like it belongs to a school bus, while this clearly isn’t one
- Comment on EA CEO Says No $80 Games for Now: 'We're Not Looking to Make Any Changes at This Stage' 1 week ago:
I did not forget this, I never knew about it to begin with :D
- Comment on EA CEO Says No $80 Games for Now: 'We're Not Looking to Make Any Changes at This Stage' 1 week ago:
Not enough sales data from Nintendo’s little experiment yet. Don’t hold your breath, ‘this stage’ won’t last.
- Comment on chained 2 weeks ago:
This is so cringe, it almost turns me on
- Comment on China’s First High-End Gaming GPU, the Lisuan G100, Reportedly Outperforms NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 4060 & Slightly Behind the RTX 5060 in New Benchmarks 2 weeks ago:
Uhm, excuse me, but I don’t think the 5060 qualifies as “high-end”. I’m not saying that matching it is not an achievement, but that headline is weird at best
- Comment on New gaming website "This Week in Video Games" launched by Skill Up 3 weeks ago:
No analytics scripts show up that’s true, but they explicitly claim the right to use it in their privacy statement.
- Comment on New gaming website "This Week in Video Games" launched by Skill Up 3 weeks ago:
Great idea, immediatly tarnished by using third party tracking tools (Google Analytics).
- Comment on Ubisoft EULA demanding consumers destroy delisted games adds fuel to Stop Killing Games movement 4 weeks ago:
I know everyone loves to hate Ubisoft, but this is quite the common term. Also it only even applies when the agreement is terminated, I don’t even know how that would look like. I have never heard about a usage agreement being terminated, unless you yourself violate it (e.g. get banned for cheating).
- Comment on Beaches 1 month ago:
You wish they were like this, but in addition you are supposed to strongly look biologically male / female depending on what’s in your pants and only wear pants / dresses accordingly. Also please behave like they expect to and only like in bed who and what they allow you. And also please share their religion and fuck what science has to say about your sex.
- Comment on Can't be a single father to 2 caterpillars. 1 month ago:
I miread the community as ‘Lampy Shitpost’ and am worried about my mental health at this point*
*might be unrelated to this platform
- Comment on Good boy 1 month ago:
That’s one way to learn lock picking I guess
- Comment on The Outer Worlds 2 Can't Be Anti-Capitalist When It's Charging Us $80 To Play It 2 months ago:
Of course you can - if an adequate share of that money goes to the devs, the only issue is the money that doesn’t go to the devs. And they very likely don’t have much control over that money
- Comment on Nintendo warns Switch 2 GameChat users: “Your chat is recorded” 2 months ago:
Um, yeah, like, every single OSS one using E2EE
- Comment on And gay men. I'm sorry. I'm weak for it 2 months ago:
Ice coffee (🍨+☕) or iced coffee (🚮)?
- Comment on Cut up those shitposts 2 months ago:
I seriously wish there was something better to avoid leftovers. Brushes and whatever this shit is do not seem very sanitary to me, and for sure it’s annoying you have to use them at all. Can’t they do some durable coating and direct the water to hit shit with higher pressure? I feel like there is next to zero innovation in the toilet industry
- Comment on Welp 2 months ago:
I heavily support not talking about politics 24/7, I heavily discourage not caring at all
- Comment on We gonna fight 2 months ago:
The problem is not public arguments, but groups rejectimg other groups for ideological reasons. I personally know people who are like “you can be a communist and you can be wrong”.
The reality is that there are left groups, especially far-left groups, who will already dismiss your opinion on everything for not categorically rejecting a social markets economy. Doesn’t matter if you agree in all other points.
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 2 months ago:
I’m a little torn on your comment, because om the one hand you are right and on the other these lawsuits have nothing to do with the designs or art style at all.
- Comment on CD Projekt exec says "the right thing to do" is release a real Nintendo Switch 2 cartridge for Cyberpunk 2077, not a game-key card, in message to other studios: "Do not underestimate the physical edit 2 months ago:
That’s funny, I would point put the amazing gameplay in particular as their no. 1 selling point, if I had to choose anything. But the discussion what’s good and what’s bad aside, they just didn’t deliver on their promises.
I was fed the story of a GTA contender. A life-sim where your choices matter, starting with your origin story, which was supposed to already have great impact. And what does reality look like? Well, your origin story gets you a different tutorial mission and you get a few extra dialog options that do nothing. Your character always behaves exactly the same outside of that and it changes nothing about the story. It’s hardly even referenced by other characters at all, something Mass Effect and Dragon Age did better forever ago. The one big difference I noticed is that Jackie matters even less to you as corpo, which makes all the emotional stuff feel even more out of place and awkward, since you lose the offrenda mission. Hurray.
As for life-sim aspects, you can eat in some select few cut scenes, otherwise eating is useless and doesn’t even come with generic animations. You cannot even eat your useless food at a stall in the city or have a drink at the countless bars in the game just for fun. Except for cutscenes and in your, save for the wardrobe, useless apartment of course. You can also take a useless shower, or wait in bed instead of literally anywhere else. Wow.
You can randomly date a select few characters out of nowhere by choosing a random dialogue option. At least this yields you an almost sex-scene and a bonus quest… Followed by optional, awkward staring in your apartment and no further impact at all. Funnily enough your gender has a greater impact on the game than your backstory that way.
NPCs are generally dumb and you can’t really interact much with them at all. Police is dumb and easily outsmarted as well, but also always punishes you by death for anything. MaxTac is really tough actually and beating them yields you… Nothing! Nothing at all.
You do get a couple of choices throughout the story, but do they really change all that much? I would argue no, they don’t. Most of the time they cause some characters you barely know to live or die. Not the really important ones of course! We need those and there aren’t that many. I think one of the most interesting interactions in the entire game is the one with the ranom Natwatch guy, because you can’t really forsee the consequences for once.
Then there are a couple of different endings, some of which are actually hard to find. I think in retrospective, they are the main thing, besides the very varied gameplay, offering replay-value. The thing is, you don’t need to replay the game to see them all.
Is Cyberpunk trash? No, of course not, I’ve had my fair share of fun. I’m actually in my third playthrough to do liberty city, because everyone says it’s amazing. As for the main game only, I can’t help but be disappointed by the countless things this game doesn’t do. Including many low hanging fruits.
- Comment on CD Projekt exec says "the right thing to do" is release a real Nintendo Switch 2 cartridge for Cyberpunk 2077, not a game-key card, in message to other studios: "Do not underestimate the physical edit 2 months ago:
They arguably did worse, because NMS didn’t just polish the game, they retroactively added most of the content + didn’t release a DLC. Cyberpunk falls short of what has been promised to this day.
- Comment on Choose a number, 1-5! 3 months ago:
All but 5 look like cheap crap and I don’t like 5 for forks sake
- Comment on It's not time for your point release yet. 3 months ago:
Being “up to date” is a lie big Debian tells people to make them feel comfortable about being behind on patches. Wake up people!
- Comment on GOG seems to be considering paid membership option 4 months ago:
1/3 of the Steam + Linux market, that accounted for an incredible 1.45% of Steam installs in February. This means there were roughly 67 Windows gamers for every Linux gamer (using Steam) that month.
So even if Linux gamers are 10 times more likely to care (and pay for) for game preservation, you are not even approaching the number of Windows users that might. Suppose 90% of Linux gamers care, while only 9% on Windows do, you still have roughly 6 Windows users for every Linux one. And this is a very generous assumption to make.
Maybe, eventually, at some point, this makes sense financially. But if your goal is to be profitable, you grab the low hanging fruits first, not invest in maybe 10% more potential users.
- Comment on GOG seems to be considering paid membership option 4 months ago:
What if I told you that the intersection between people who care and the 5% of their potential audience that are Linux users is very small either way?
I’m not saying Linux isn’t a chance for them, but it’s also an investment and very like not a profitable one for quite a while.
- Comment on frenly warnin 4 months ago:
Since you can set temporary, server-only nicknames, you don’t even need to edit the page source or Photoshop to stage that
- Comment on Am I the only one? 4 months ago:
Pretty damn cool tech tho. Another step towards second heart cyberware