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- Comment on Why is leadership valued so much over expertise? 1 day ago:
Putting it this way, project management is a skill that requires expertise. Lots of Laborers have the expertise to be the subcontractor, not all of them succeed at being the contractor/foreman.
The majority of disfunction in workplaces seems to be that the middle managers don’t have the skills to be there either or they’d have probably been promoted up the ladder even further already
- Comment on Epic Games unveils Launcher V2 in re-attempt to topple Steam, says redesigned storefront is up to 6.5x faster — promises player profiles, user reviews, universal controller support, and much more 2 days ago:
This 100%. It’s near unusable for those of us that have it installed on spinning disks
- Comment on Always with the hidden fees. 1 week ago:
I don’t know if there has been a more fitting post to this community
- Comment on Spyro™: A Realm Beyond | Cinematic Announce Trailer 2 weeks ago:
I am casually optimistic but this really gives me a lot of the legend of Spyro vibes of taking the existing characters from Spyro and trying to fit them into a new genre. Hopefully the trailer is just showing a new type of level and the focus is still on collectathon 3d platforming.
Pretty nervous that gems, the charge or flame attacks, and sparks weren’t shown off in the trailer at all.
- Comment on Xbox makes more leadership changes, hiring analyst who said games were losing the attention battle with gambling, crypto and porn as chief strategy officer 4 weeks ago:
I want gaming to be a health business that makes it long term but going after crackheads addicted to gambling, porn, and get rich quick schemes ain’t it
- Comment on So Lemmy, what are your thoughts on Mixtape? 5 weeks ago:
I’m not familiar with modern games really but the launch trailer had basically zero footage that looked like it could be considered gameplay other than a Wii sports minigame.
If it’s trying to be a movie, it looks like shitty movie. If it’s trying to be a game, it looks like a shitty game. I will likely never play it so I can’t imagine being upset about it.
Bad movies and bad games come out all the time, I just don’t partake. If someone thinks it’s their game of the year, we probably have different tastes and I’ll just ignore their opinion.
- Comment on How to turn the phrase "The 1%" into a grawlixed slur? 5 weeks ago:
Don’t forget charge they phone
- Comment on StarFox (N64 Remake) Gameplay Reveal 1 month ago:
- Comment on Xbox Game Pass Ultimate Price Update - Xbox Wire 1 month ago:
I have a PC. I only pay for gamepass to play 360 games online. PC doesn’t help me play 360 exclusives online or games that are a risk to play online on PC due to RCE exploits like the 360 era CoDs
- Comment on Xbox Game Pass Ultimate Price Update - Xbox Wire 1 month ago:
Can they release an Xbox live subscription with no games? $120 a year for online is ridiculous
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I’m assuming that it’s referring to pokemon champions being very broken on release and speculated to be vibe coded due to nature of some of the bugs. But it’s not exclusive to switch 2 as far as I know. So maybe it’s just putting the cart before the horse and assuming Gen 10 will be slop as well. I haven’t played Pokemon since the 3DS (and the last games were so boring that I couldn’t even finish them anyway)
- Comment on Indie Pass, a Subscription Service for Indie Games, Launches on PC - IGN 2 months ago:
Unless indie devs are getting guarantees for revenue that aren’t tied to playtime numbers I don’t see how these indie devs aren’t just getting scammed and wouldn’t be better off by figuring out how much money they’d need to put into advertising to make the same amount of sales to make the same or more revenue than they would by putting them on a subscription
- Comment on Annon is confronted with the pasing of time and the inevitablity of his incoming death 2 months ago:
The graphics in non stylized art styles have aged (Lara Croft exhibit A) and I’d say controls have aged as well (tank controls in tomb raider and resident evil exhibits B and C)
But the gameplay was as good as it ever was. Crash Bandicoot, FFVII, Spyro, essential games of the generation. Despite my criticisms RE and Tomb Raider are as well. And these may be nostalgia talking but I think Chrono Cross, Tony Hawk Pro Skater and Metal Gear Solid and Syphon Filter belong on the list too.
I feel like complaining about early 3d era aging badly is like complaining about Its a Wonderful Life or Casablanca aging badly because they weren’t in color and they talk funny
- Comment on 2 months ago:
With regard to number 2. Just because a company isn’t abusing their dominant market position today, doesn’t mean they won’t tomorrow when ownership changes.
It would be preferable that market competition forced valve to be pro consumer instead of just GabeN’s good will
- Comment on Is Starlink even good for online gaming? 2 months ago:
You are probably thinking of ping times on the old satellite internet services. Those were terrible , barely better than dialup. Starlink is LEO so ping is much better
- Comment on Anon wonders what went wrong 2 months ago:
“If you don’t use it, you lose it” was true?!??
- Comment on So hungover and so horny 2 months ago:
Did Violet 08 make a new account?
- Comment on New Rumored Xbox Game Pass Tier Includes Only First Party Games 2 months ago:
Because Xbox provides the only populated servers for the games I want to play. I’m not happy about it either
- Comment on New Rumored Xbox Game Pass Tier Includes Only First Party Games 2 months ago:
I just want Xbox live without having to pay 120 a year. I could care less for any games
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
It stole artwork. It took established IP and shoehorned it into the trending genre instead of its own genre. It doesn’t support Linux, it is a predatory microtransaction filled “live service” game
Plenty of non conspiratorial reasons to hate Marathon.
- Comment on Jensen Huang says gamers are 'completely wrong' about DLSS 5 — Nvidia CEO responds to DLSS 5 backlash 2 months ago:
Gamers could collectively boycott NVidia cards and it would barely make a dent in their bottom line. It’s time for gamers to show nvidia that they are unequally important to us as we are to them
I haven’t bought a nvidia card in over a decade. Start buying APUs, handhelds, or just keep your current card and turn the graphics down or start playing your backlog. And for the love of god don’t pay for GeForce now.
- Comment on EA Lays Off Staff Across All Battlefield Studios Following Record-Breaking Battlefield 6 Launch - IGN 3 months ago:
You would think that I would do some basic fact checking…
I missed when Vince Z went from Respawn to Dice LA. I retract my claims of AI
- Comment on EA Lays Off Staff Across All Battlefield Studios Following Record-Breaking Battlefield 6 Launch - IGN 3 months ago:
You would think IGN would have budget for basic fact checking but this article was probably written by AI
- Comment on World’s Biggest Gaming YouTube Creators (2025) 3 months ago:
Markiplier did not invent Let’s Plays lol. Let’s Plays were nearly dead by the time he created his channel. He just was the first person to make FNAF Let’s Plays popular (I would assume, I’ve never watched anyone on this list because I’m over the age of 30)
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Pretty good at not being Reddit which is my number one reason for using it.
- Comment on Jason Schreier says Sony is backing away from putting single player games on PC 3 months ago:
The PS5 Pro is way overpriced and the regular PS5 doesn’t really have many exclusives over PS4 so it’s not a big surprise they can’t move consoles
- Comment on Xbox’s leadership shift proves it: the gamer era is over, AI runs the show now 3 months ago:
I don’t have a single exclusive for PlayStation 5 that didn’t also come out on ps4. So idk, I’d probably say Astro Bot is PlayStation’s game
- Comment on Xbox’s leadership shift proves it: the gamer era is over, AI runs the show now 3 months ago:
Playstation: we have one game
FTFY
The generation has been hell
- Comment on 'We Thought It Would Be Fun': Nintendo Has a Whole FAQ on Why It's Selling Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen Separately for $20 Each - IGN 3 months ago:
Then they know their audience. Source: Nintendo customer
- Comment on Xbox chief Phil Spencer is leaving Microsoft 3 months ago:
Phil was probably the last thing keep Xbox from fully imploding. You could tell he was an actual gamer that cared about the Xbox as a games console and not whatever Frankenstein they are going to turn it into.
It’s sad but Xbox had a really good run. Xbox won’t exist beyond the next console generation, it may not even make it that far before it just becomes gamepass.
