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- Comment on what do you think lemmy does better than reddit? 2 hours 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 5 days 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week ago:
Then they know their audience. Source: Nintendo customer
- Comment on Xbox chief Phil Spencer is leaving Microsoft 1 week 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.
- Comment on Saying that hardware price increase is good cause it forces the devs to optimize is not as good as it seems. 1 week ago:
I thought the steam deck would have been priced higher than it was as well, so I thought that they’d probably surprise us with a $600 machine. $800 made sense for the specs (Now I expect it to be $1000)
Once GPU prices super inflated 6 or 7 years ago, I got out of PC gaming for new titles. I built a top spec machine for $1200 in 2012 (when I had disposable income and no kids), that barely gets you an entry level today. I guess PC gaming, for new titles at least, will forever be out of my budget.
- Comment on Saying that hardware price increase is good cause it forces the devs to optimize is not as good as it seems. 1 week ago:
I was gonna upgrade when the steam machine came out but with the likely price hike taking it to $800+ I think I’ll just keep playing 20 year old Call of Duty: United Offensive
- Comment on Which is it?. 2 weeks ago:
As long as it is roasted in salt and olive oil, the whole thing is good
- Comment on 'Go Back and Play Morrowind and Tell Me That's the Game You Want to Play Again' — Former Bethesda Veteran Delivers His Verdict on Potential The Elder Scrolls Remasters - IGN 4 weeks ago:
Maybe that’s they point, people want to play Morrowind but they don’t have a platform that can actually play it
- Comment on Xbox Hardware Sales Plunge 32% YoY as Services Keep Gaming Division Afloat 4 weeks ago:
I recently got an Xbox One S to play my 360 games via remote play but $10 a month for Xbox live is ridiculous
- Comment on Why do you need a launcher? (asking older gamers actually) 5 weeks ago:
I mean steam adds a convenient way to keep your games up to date instead of having to manually patch them. I also was on the anti-steam bandwagon for the longest time until I finally gave in and decided to buy Modern Warfare 2 in 2010. I ended up repurchasing the rest of the Call of Duty games because it was so convenient not needing the discs and not having to locate patches.
Steam is the one launcher I don’t get pissed about having to use because it has so many value add features.
Unlike epic/origin/uplay
- Comment on Good question tbh 5 weeks ago:
One of my favorite comments I ever read online was from someone who said they did this dance at the club and got thrown out
- Comment on Good question tbh 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Good question tbh 5 weeks ago:
Same as it ever was. Same as it ever was
- Comment on Anon goes to therapy 5 weeks ago:
Fake- anon talks to another person Gay- anon goes to therapy
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Yet again, pirates get the better experience than the paying customer
- Comment on Ubisoft target audience when they play a good game 1 month ago:
I have yet to play half life 2 (waiting on my son to get the motivation to help me beat decay, I’ve beat the other expansions)
But I can’t imagine that half life 2 doesn’t hold up when the first game is a masterpiece that holds up better than pretty much any FPS released after it
- Comment on If you're a parent, how do you prevent your kid from watching AI slop? 1 month ago:
I agree that if you completely take away their agency that it only makes the slop look more attractive but I also disagree that sentiment that “you can’t”. Technically it’s true. But that doesn’t mean we ought to give in to slop as parents. Low effort slop has been around since before AI. Find ways to teach the importance of genuine creative content and cultivate a preference for the real creative works with your children.
- Comment on As Fortnite Enables Third-Party Microtransactions, Steal the Brainrot's Developer is Slammed By Fans For Immediately Adding $45 Premium Bundles and Gambling-Style Mechanics 1 month ago:
I can understand your viewpoint and agree with it even that Fortnite is overly engineered to sell overpriced cosmetic items to children.
I think where we differ is that one wrong (regular Fortnite skins), doesn’t excuse another, worse wrong (brainrot lootboxes and expensive mtx that can be lost)
The whole operation should be shut down, I think we agree there. Fortnite is actually the majority profiteer in this case, the “experience dev” only gets 34% of the revenue from the sale. Infuriating how hypocritical epic is after fighting apple and google over these practices only to do the same thing.
At least Apple and Google try to protect their users from this kind of thing
- Comment on If you're a parent, how do you prevent your kid from watching AI slop? 1 month ago:
We had to use a family computer in a shared space. Not a tablet or phone that could be used unmonitored. Just because it wasn’t a technical measure doing the monitoring doesn’t mean we were unmonitored.
- Comment on If you're a parent, how do you prevent your kid from watching AI slop? 1 month ago:
Only whitelist content or creators you personally have vetted with apps like YouTube kids, jellyfin, etc until you can trust their own decision making. Then share an account so that you can see watch history (and hopefully your good media choices influenced their tastes as you would share an algorithm)
- Comment on As Fortnite Enables Third-Party Microtransactions, Steal the Brainrot's Developer is Slammed By Fans For Immediately Adding $45 Premium Bundles and Gambling-Style Mechanics 1 month ago:
Exploiting children isn’t funny. Stealing from fools is not ok. Having it be legal is not good for the health of society.
Normalizing antisocial behavior is not a good thing
- Comment on As Fortnite Enables Third-Party Microtransactions, Steal the Brainrot's Developer is Slammed By Fans For Immediately Adding $45 Premium Bundles and Gambling-Style Mechanics 1 month ago:
Pretty obvious what was going to happen when they decided to go the Roblox route. Fortnite and Roblox are both predatory slop. Quite frankly the developers (even if they are kids) releasing paid “experiences” (aka slop) are just as immoral and predatory.
Talk to your kids about not falling for scams like f2p monetization schemes.
- Comment on Parents... Huh... 1 month ago:
I mean if your plans were to have a simple life to do whatever you want devoid of responsibility then they definitely ruin those plans.
For the right people, plans are ok being ruined
- Comment on ARC Raiders - anyone else looting in their sleep? 1 month ago:
The real end game is that you get bored and stop playing. The game doesn’t really drop much story, just vague hints and tasks to guide you somewhat towards it.
You make what you make of it and move on
- Comment on ARC Raiders - anyone else looting in their sleep? 1 month ago:
ARC Raiders is an incredibly fun game. Really exposes both the best and worst of human experiences.
When ending the night after getting gunned down by a rat camping extract I can lay awake stewing over it for seemingly half the night. When the opposite happens, and I finish on a really good raid with some high level loot, I bask in the glow for the other half of the night.
- Comment on The 2025 Steam Awards Winners 1 month ago:
It’s innovated in that it’s an extraction shooter that has mass appeal and isn’t a total drag to play but it’s not exactly game breaking mechanics-wise.
I think it’s the multiplayer game of the year. Wouldn’t call it the most innovative game of the year
- Comment on How Are You Guys Handling This? 1 month ago:
Play old games, I guess? Arc Raiders is one of the only new games I’ve played in a long time. Recently got an Xbox one to play the golden age cod games.
- Comment on Ars Technica’s Top 20 video games of 2025 2 months ago:
No Arc Raiders? Did the list stop around October 1st or something?
No Clair Obscur Expedition 33 either makes this an unserious list.
