TheFeatureCreature

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft revenues decline 31.4% to €990m⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Please don’t forget that even when this company made “better” games and was more profitable, their management and executives were wilful participants in rampant sexual abuse of their workers. Ubisoft is, always has been, and always will be a pile of festering shit and bankruptcy would be too good for them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would happen if USA invades Canada?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It would be a shit storm of unimaginable proportions. The US would be attacking another NATO nation and Canada would almost certainly invoke Article 5. Those not assisting militarily would probably sanction the shit out of the US and many of their previous treaties, pacts, and agreements would be withdrawn.

  Recent polling in the US has shown that US citizens are greatly opposed to the ongoing trade war with Canada and would be even more opposed to further conflict. The executive branch ordering an attack on a historic ally and neighbour would cause catastrophic rift in the US military chain of command and I’d imagine many would disobey orders. States along the Canada/US border would likely be fiercely opposed to having their states turned into battlegrounds and would resist legally in whatever way they could.

  Canada does not have the military for a large prolonged conflict, especially from our closest ally. An actual war would probably be quite shortlived, but it would also probably be the last thing the Trump administration ever does. The economic and civil-unrest blowback would rip apart his administration. Ordering your citizens to kill their neighbours, friends, and even family is not something you do without major consequences.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Age of Mythology Retold News: Immortal Pillars [Chinese expansion] and PlayStation 5 Releases are Coming⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s very good and an extremely faithful remaster. The only thing I don’t like is that most of the new voice actors are not as good, but there is a mod you can download (within the game’s own mod manager) to restore the original voices. Also the menu system is kinda janky, but it works.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam now warns about Early Access that have not been updated in months.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is very good, but I hope devs can’t just get around it by releasing a 5kb empty update to reset the counter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could Mass Effect 5 be a live-service title?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  EA execs: “Dragon Age: The Veilguard would have sold better if it was even worse.”

  They can do whatever they want with Mass Effect, far as I’m concerned. I’m not supporting EA nor do I trust them to not butcher their own products. They are self-destructing just like Ubisoft is because they cannot make a good decision to save their life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EA releases another shameless IP flip with Sims 1/2 Legacy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure if you are aware, but selling a product that literally doesn’t work is illegal in numerous countries. That’s fraud.

  Also charging this much for a nearly 30 year old game without doing a damn thing to make it even slightly functional on modern systems is bullshit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spider-Man 2 Debuts to 'Mixed' Steam Reviews Amid Serious PC Performance Problems⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A direction inflation conversion like that is not invalid, but it lacks a lot of context. Games might have been more expensive back then, but everything else was orders of magnitude cheaper. People were buying homes and starting families as young adults back then. Now many in that bracket live check-to-check and struggle to put food on the table. It stings a lot more.

  also to clarify: I was using Canadian dollars. Major releases are around one hundred bucks here when adding tax, give or take a little.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spider-Man 2 Debuts to 'Mixed' Steam Reviews Amid Serious PC Performance Problems⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s called AAA because that’s the sound I make when I see the pricetag.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spider-Man 2 Debuts to 'Mixed' Steam Reviews Amid Serious PC Performance Problems⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Once again another reminder why I don’t buy games at launch.

  Well, this and the near-$100 price that most AAA’s are launching at now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon Artificially Discounting Items $0.01 Below the Free Shipping Limit⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wish I could do more shopping there, but eBay in Canada is extremely expensive which has lead to it being kind of a ghost town compared to the US. $20-$50 shipping fees, even on tiny items, is common.

  So I’ve started to use AliExpress more often. Literally the exact same item on Amazon but without the markup - sometimes even half the price. It’s not a great solution but the online shopping selection here in Canada is awful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are dating apps a fraud since the beginning?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, think about it.

  They profit off their users by either charging them for a service, selling user data, and/or advertisement. If their dating app was very successful and quickly matched users together, they wouldn’t be using the app very long and the company would lose potential profit.

  This probably wasn’t the case in the earlier days of the internet but it certainly is now. They want you hooked and coming back every day so they can get maximum profit off you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looks like Dragon Age: The Veilguard just received its final major update⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This comes shortly after news that EA lost several billion in market value and Veilguard underperformed, so not surprising at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Think this is a realistic prediction or just being used to hype up investors?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nvidia is in the business of selling AI hardware. They want to hype up AI so they sell more hardware.

  This is a salesman trying to make a sale.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EA lost $6 billion in market value, following FC 25 & Dragon Age underperformance news⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hot damn did they ever screw up badly with DAV.

  If they just released what people were expecting (and wanting): Dreadwolf, a true Dragon Age sequel - then it would’ve sold by the figurative truckload and they’d be riding the money boat right now.

  But no. The reality-disconnected decision makers decreed that it had to be ultra sanitised, corporate, Disney-esque slop. Not an awful game, sure, but absolutely not a Dragon Age game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GTA VI Might Inspire Other AAA Developers to Price Their Games at $100⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  AAA games are already $90CAD here with deluxe/special editions going for $120-$160. I can’t remember the last time I actually bought one of those games because most of them are trash designed to exploit the player as much as possible. There are a lot of other hobbies I’d rather drop that kind of money on that respect my time heaps more than modern games.

  I think Tiny Glade is the only game I play regularly that is an actual new release. Everything else is 5+ years old because I got them on sale for good prices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia Announces RTX 50's Graphic Card Blackwell Series: RTX 5090 ($1999), RTX 5080 ($999), RTX 5070 Ti ($749), RTX 5070 ($549)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  No thanks; I’m good. Still feeling the sting over buying my 4080 Super last spring. Also it’s doing me just fine for my work and for games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elder Scrolls Online developer votes to unionise⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Good on them! Hell yeah.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'I want to acknowledge that we messed up': NZXT addresses concerns about its controversial Flex gaming PC rental program and commits to taking action⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, fuck them. They thought they could get away with this predatory debt-trap system that was marketed at children and they are clearly salty that they got caught. Not to mention the whole idea of not even owning your own PC or the data within which would be bad for everyone everywhere.

  There are so many competitors in the industry NZXT operates in; it would be very easy to avoid ever buying their stuff again. And I intend to do just that. Get bankrupted, you pieces of shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do Not Buy NZXT | Predatory, Evil Rental Computer Scam Investigated - Gamers Nexus⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And they are using paid influencers to promote said debt trap to those that don’t know any better, particularly children.

  Probably the most insidious part of this to me. Seeing those clips of “influencers” pushing the idea of convincing your parents to get you a rental PC. Disgusting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your most recent games played?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Elite: Dangerous, Tiny Glade, BG3

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Assassin's Creed Shadows Will Feature Denuvo & Account Linking + EULA also requires you to allow Ubisoft to "monitor" your RAM⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thankfully there is a very simple, no-effort solution to this: Don’t play their trash.

  I already don’t play their excruciatingly mediocre games and this just reinforces my avoidance is justified.

  Also good gods they’ve been milking this tired franchise for almost 2 decades now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some video game quotes that is stuck in your head?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Prostagma?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024's launch has been marred by long load times, server issues and now it has overwhelmingly negative reviews⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Turns out that a massive Earth-scale game that requires streaming of gigabytes worth of data every play session for each user and has next to no local storage is a really awful idea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I always did find it amusing that they are called the United States when it seems like it’s constantly teetering on brink of another civil war.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not logged into lemmy.world when entering from google⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have to do a hard refresh every time I open Lemmy (any instance) to get logged back in. It started happening a few FIrefox updates ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone Is Trying To Play Concord Right Now⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It was barely even alive for it to die in the first place 👀

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has Fast Food Gotten Worse, or Am I Just Getting Old?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on the company and where you live, I feel. Some has gotten worse, some has improved.

  But they have all gotten more expensive. So goddamn expensive. These days I can order a well made, flame-grilled burger at a burger joint for the same price as fast food slop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Skyrim Is 13 Years Old, But Elder Scrolls 6 Is Nowhere in Sight While Bethesda’s First Four Games Took Only 12 Years⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They can take as long as they want. After Starfield, I have zero confidence that TES6 will be any good. Bethesda has some serious issues they need to sort out with their production pipelines and methodology and they need to rethink how they approach story-driven open world experiences.

  Every time I see a Starfield video and see the camera turbozoom in on a character as they deliver a forced, robotic line with terrifying facial animations - I get teleported right back to 2006. It is very obvious this studio does not know what they are doing and has learned little from their previous releases and from other contemporary games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What song would cause you to do this to yourself ?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Somebody That I Used to Know” by Gotye.

  Was played seemingly every hour back when I worked retail. Both in the store I worked in and many others. So incredibly overplayed.

  2nd place would be any of Queen’s absurdly overplayed songs. I don’t even hear them as music anymore; they’re just annoying noise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are cars with AWD worth it compared to FWD.⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  With AWD I’d be more concerned with the fuel consumption.