RightHandOfIkaros
@RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world
- Comment on id Software insists in new statement that it still has "the crew we need to build the games and tech we're known for" 1 day ago:
Bandai Banco has the RE Engine
Don’t you mean Capcom?
- Comment on id Software insists in new statement that it still has "the crew we need to build the games and tech we're known for" 1 day ago:
Bethesda still uses NetImmerse dervived Creation Engine. Or is it called Hero Engine now? I always knew it as NetImmerse which morphed into Gamebryo and then that morphed into Creation.
- Comment on Microsoft loses Brazilian court case after telling hacked Xbox user to re-purchase games 2 days ago:
I am pretty sure most business financial experts would say this unironically.
Obviously they also know they are ethically wrong to do this since in this case it isnt the customer’s fault. Also $400 USD is such a tiny expense to a business like Microsoft, I dont see how they couldn’t just comp it. He already paid for them before, so effectively moving the 1s and 0s to a new account will cost them next to nothing, way less than $400.
- Comment on As Xbox and PlayStation flounder, Steam is reportedly having another record year 2 days ago:
Steam sales.
- Comment on Bethesda Union Workers To Protest Mass Layoffs Next Week 3 days ago:
I mean, I don’t think Todd could have predicted the world’s economic crisis it is currently in.
If people like you and I actually had the money to spend on games like we used to ~10-15 years ago, I would say it is less likely that Todd’s statement would be considered wrong.
- Comment on Bethesda Union Workers To Protest Mass Layoffs Next Week 3 days ago:
Never forget what Oblivion did to beast race legs.
- Comment on Statement from OneBGS, the Bethesda Games Studios union 5 days ago:
I’ll be honest, I think Bethesda is too big. They hired too many employees for the studio to handle.
Most AAA studios have too many people. It gets to a point where these huge teams take too long to make something because they cannot be as flexible as game development requires with so many people.
That they held onto so many people for this long is pretty impressive, actually. I thought certainly it would have happened sooner.
- Comment on Finally started Cyberpunk.... I can't stop climbing everything. 1 week ago:
I think the marketing did this game a great disservice. It promised something the game was not, and the developers had to alter their plans to match the marketing. This ended up with a very rough launch, but the recent patches have really helped pick the game up.
I find it is still more limited than even something like Starfield, as far as limited choices effecting the game go, and while I would have preferred the greater freedom Starfield presents (to that games own detriment sometimes), Cyberpunk 2077 is still an enjoyable experience for what it is.
Just make sure to fully spell out the name instead of abbreviating it. Bit of an unfortunate situation with that.
- Comment on [OC] Anon is a femcel 1 week ago:
An Incel would say to a femcel “I’ll date you” and the femcels would say no therefore proving the Incels point thats its voluntary celibacy.
I won’t lie, they would kinda have a point with that.
I am not suggesting incels and femcels should date each other, that probably would be a bad idea, but some people who call themselves incel/femcel are just overly picky with unrealistic expectations of the kind of partner they can reasonably expect to draw the attention of. That is not involuntary, that is quite literally voluntary.
- Comment on "Piracy is not a pricing issue. It’s a service issue": Sony just proved why digital storefronts are broken 1 week ago:
I mean, Gabe is right mostly. But piracy sometimes is just a pricing issue. In a lot of poor countries piracy is more common because they cannot afford games at $59.99 USD.
Gabe couldn’t really have predicted games would get where they are today, with publishers trying to normalize $70 and $80 for the basic incomplete versions in a global economy spiraling the drain, so holding his statement to today’s standards isn’t very fair. He’s right, but things have become much more dire than he likely imagined.
- Comment on [OC] Anon is a femcel 1 week ago:
- Comment on [OC] Anon is a femcel 1 week ago:
I think most people that frequent those type of communities feel the same, and I hope you and all of the emotionally vulnerable, man or woman, are able to get real help that you need to feel better and more self-confident. Pain in the heart is not a fun thing to spend one’s time dealing with.
- Comment on [OC] Anon is a femcel 1 week ago:
I wouldn’t say most of the time, but that is true to some extent. I think most of the time that the actual incels just want the emotional support that they desperately need, but when coming into contact with people online naively believe everyone that calls themselves an incel is like them. So its easy for them to be manipulated. That’s where I think much of the bad reputation online for “incel” comes from, from people that were manipulated by others looking for easy targets. Many of the people that might feequent “incel communities” genuinely need help and are unknowingly drinking from a contaminated well.
As to your second remark, not every person who has trouble with emotional connection started as a teenager that was bullied. Perhaps you are talking exclusively about the people that manipulate the vulnerable ones, in that case I can say it is probably mostly true, but there are certainly exceptions.
- Comment on [OC] Anon is a femcel 1 week ago:
Any time a group of people is open to anyone joining it’s going to get ruined by the awful people using it as an excuse to be awful. Doubly so when the original group of people is emotionally vulnerable and hurt.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Shame its delayed. Not sure how I feel about the maps being changed like that, they were already fine in the original PSP release and the remaster on other consoles later on. Interested to see more details.
- Comment on If Steam were to shut down tomorrow how much money would you have lost in total on games / DLC ?? 1 week ago:
More than $6815.18, because my account is older than 2015 and purchases onyl go back to 2015.
But in reality, I will just reacquire the games if my library gets taken. Barnes & Noble isn’t breaking into my home to take books out of my bookshelf, it is not unreasonable to demand digital products are treated the same. So I treat them the same, regardless of what moron politicians say.
- Comment on End of an era? 1 week ago:
Nintendo wasn’t always like that. Every Nintendo console before the GameCube was the most powerful console of its generation. The GameCube was second most powerful behind Xbox but ahead of PS2. But like the N64, Nintendo made the GameCube with a fatal flaw that caused a severe limitation that was completely unnecessary: the game sotrage media.
For the N64, it was the choice to not use disks and thus were limited to only 64MB at most of game filesize, but the GameCube had disks. Except they were those stupid tiny ones that only held like 1.5GB instead of a normal sized disks at the time which held up to 8GB.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Can we just have a Turok like the first game, where we play an awesome time travelling Native American that hunts dinosaurs and maybe some aliens barely at the end? Is this too much to ask?
- Comment on "Worth Exploring" (Fatekeeper) 1 week ago:
How is this game? It looks interesting, but I don’t know if I should get it now or wait and hope another sale at a lower price comes around?
- Comment on Anon is asking questions. 1 week ago:
You are correct that is what that means, but my mention of that was about slavery before the US colonies existed. “Indentured Servitude” was a term that first appeared in the 1700s and was basically “non-imported people becoming laborers until their debt is paid,” which then naturally altered the term slaves to be “imported captives that become permanent laborers.” Before that, it was all just called slavery and had the first definition. Obviously that didn’t always go like that, as you know.
In the US colonies and states, I think the safe assumption is that probably almost all of them were racist, or were at least some level of bad. I don’t know if any would have cared enough to specifically not buy non-black slaves, if that is what you were asking. As I said, I never really cared enough about slavery to look for that kind of thing. My curiosity in it never really went beyond historical context.
- Comment on Anon is asking questions. 1 week ago:
White slaves were sold. Irish I believe were most common white slaves, I am unsure if there were others. There were also Asian slaves as well which were commonly from China but I think also came from other Asian countries as well. I don’t know if there is any race that was excluded from slavery, actually. Slavery, for a long time in history, was a common way to pay off debt, either of the individual or their relatives, though I am guessing you are specifically referring to slavery in the United States specifically in the 1700s-1865, because online slavery diacussions almost always only refer to that. Which had Asian, Black, and White slaves.
Now this is my guess, and I must admit I never really cared so much about slavery to research prices or reasons for why one race might be more common that another, but I would guess that black slaves were the most common because they were cheaper and maybe more of them were acquired from Africa (enemy tribes, capture, etc) at a cheaper rate. Again, this is only a guess.
- Comment on 12 years later, The Binding of Isaac Rebirth hits new steam peak player count 1 week ago:
Dorect effects of price reduction from $20 to $5. More at 11.
- Comment on Poll: Will you buy GTA 6 when it launches on your platform? 1 week ago:
No, because the only Rockstar game I have ever bought was Smuggler’s Run Warzone.
Maybe if another one came out, I’d buy that.
- Comment on ESA bafflingly declares private Minecraft servers 'illegal' 1 week ago:
Wait until they hear what Quake, DOOM, Marathon, Half-Life, etc were doing in the 90s…
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Pretty sure Nintendo is specifically trying to prevent you from being able to pay less like this.
- Comment on Epic Games CEO says it’s ‘really irresponsible’ of Steam to make studios disclose AI use | VGC 2 weeks ago:
This is why Steam has a monopoly by technicality. Steam doesn’t do anything to the competition, the competition just keeps making an objectively worse platform so bad that they end up killing themselves. Steam shouldn’t have to be accountable for that, its not Gabe’s fault the other CEOs are stupid.
- Comment on 50 Iconic Vehicles From Video Games 2 weeks ago:
SM is obviously Square Miles.
Though more likely, “Standard Meter” was the intention, after the SM^3, Standard Meter Cubed.
- Comment on 50 Iconic Vehicles From Video Games 2 weeks ago:
Roach is powered by “Horse Heart” but Epona isn’t even powered by carrots. Whoever made this knows nothing.
- Comment on 50 Iconic Vehicles From Video Games 2 weeks ago:
The Silt Strider is not a vehicle, it is an animal. Actually, there are a lot of animals in this.
- Comment on Guess the game (#003) 2 weeks ago:
Looks like Dark Cloud or something like Skies of Arcadia to me.
