AusatKeyboardPremi
@AusatKeyboardPremi@lemmy.world
- Comment on :o 🐟 6 days ago:
So, fingering butts makes it a full circle.
- Comment on End of an era? 1 week ago:
your game is not on your disk! Your game is downloaded after you insert your disk.
I have seen this being mentioned a few times. I wonder what those games are, or whether people are exaggerating for hyperbole.
I own physical copies of PS5 exclusives that I play without signing in to PSN. Most recently, I played the director’s cut of Ghost of Tsushima this way. I used to do the same on my PS4 too.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
You are still arguing against a position I never took.
I never disputed why companies are pushing digital. I disputed the idea that losing physical media is not a loss for consumers. Rights like resale, lending, ownership independent of a single account, and preservation do not stop to matter because digital is more popular.
It’s a business.
That is an explanation for why companies make these decisions, not a defence of them. By that logic, any reduction in consumer rights would be acceptable so long as it increases profits. I don’t think that is a particularly compelling standard.
We are discussing two different questions: you are defending the business incentive, while I am discussing the consumer trade-offs. There is nothing more to add, so I will leave it at that.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
You are arguing against points I did not make. Do not confuse consumer preference with consumer rights.
The fact that most people buy digitally does not magically eliminate the benefits of physical media: resale, lending, collecting, and not tying every purchase to a single account or storefront. That is especially relevant on consoles, where you don’t have the competitive marketplace that exists on PC. Comparing Steam to PlayStation as though they are equivalent ecosystems ignores the very thing being discussed.
You went from making weak arguments to inventing facts. “No one is sharing games” goes against the used games market as well as game lending. As earlier, your point about Gran Turismo is just an anecdote dressed up as a general principle.
And your last paragraph is a joke. If you have to speculate and invent my position instead of addressing it, that is a sign your rebuttal is weak, just like your original comment.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
You seem to be hung on that one example and have made a whole argument supported by it.
One does own their games on disc.
I can still play using my physical copies after all these years, regardless of whether I am logged into PSN or if I am playing it on a PS4 or a PS5.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
You indeed failed to see the issue.
It is not really wise to compare Steam with the console ecosystem, especially when there exists several alternatives to obtain games on PC.
Physical discs matter more on consoles than on PCs, given that there is not a whole lot one can do if their account gets banned for the silliest of reasons, or if one wants to share a game.
Also, have you thought that you might be referring to two different sets of customers: one that is fine with digital purchases on Steam/PSN, and the other that strongly supports physical purchases?
Using a single example of GT is insufficient to make a broad statement like the one you made.
- Comment on Is Flappy Bird a good game? 3 months ago:
Points and passes are the same. 1000 points are equivalent to 1000 passes.
- Comment on How come butthole scratches doesn't get infected with poop bacteria ? 9 months ago:
Reads like a strange dialect of lisp.
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 10 months ago:
Most, if not all, professions in the domain of knowledge creation hate AI.
- Comment on Eye Bleach 10 months ago:
It most probably is the juice from the berry.
- Comment on Xbox Series X and S: Microsoft Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 30 Million Consoles This Generation 11 months ago:
While moving to the current generation, I did give Xbox Series X an honest consideration. But the games catalogue made me choose PS5 over it once again.
In hindsight, especially after owning a Steam Deck, I am glad I stuck with PlayStation.
Its almost as bad as playing on the wrong invert y setting.
Yikes! Never thought about controller layouts in this way.
- Comment on Xbox Series X and S: Microsoft Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 30 Million Consoles This Generation 11 months ago:
I have never used Xbox controllers so I can’t speak for their ergonomics or ease of use.
But I definitely find the DualSense controller to be more aesthetically appealing, partly due to its symmetry, and I have to admit that it was the second most important factor when purchasing PS4 Pro a decade ago.
The first most important factor being the games catalogue.
- Comment on Xbox Series X and S: Microsoft Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 30 Million Consoles This Generation 11 months ago:
Every time I read any Xbox news, I immediately remember the email that Phil Spencer sent to Satya Nadella when PS5 was announced. The email gets funnier as the days go by, and as additional context gets added in the form of news like the OP.
Inserting the part of the email thread that I like the most below:
Even as I type this I know I shouldn’t but I can’t help myself.
We’ve all lived with 7 years of starting off a generation with a price and performance (and messaging)disadvantage to PS4 with Xbox One. I have to admit this morning when I woke up knowing the PS5 reveal was today that the stress level was higher than normal. Now after almost 12 hours of soaking in their unveil, taking apart their specs and looking at the community responses I just wanted to say that I’m proud of our team.
We have a better product than Sony does, not just on hardware but equally important on the software platform and services on top of the hardware. We have the ingredients of a winning plan. I felt the feedback from the BoD discussion on being too confident and maybe this will just reinforce that perception, I get the need to be humbly confident but today was a good day for us.
We haven’t won anything. And I know we have hard discussion about pricing, P&L, investments etc. This mail isn’t trying to scoop any of that, those discussions really matter. But we can take confidence in our product truth hereand I do believe any conversation needs to start with believing in that. This was a good day for Xbox.
Thanks for indulging me.
Phil
- Comment on Caption this. 11 months ago:
Thank you.
- Comment on Caption this. 11 months ago:
I am more curious about what it actually is.
OP, can you share the real context around the image?
- Comment on Blue Razz 11 months ago:
I didn’t notice it until you mentioned it. For me, it was the shrieking frog at the bottom.
- Comment on US education 11 months ago:
Ah! I stand corrected on the title. Thank you.
- Comment on US education 11 months ago:
A textbook would lose most of its credibility in my opinion with a title like “____ 4 ____”.
The fact that it contains such wonderful takes on electricity is just icing on the cake.
- Comment on Anon isn't a Microsoft fan 11 months ago:
What a lovely coincidence.
- Comment on 11 months ago:
Fascinating. But isn’t this akin to stripes on a tiger or zebra, just visibly in a different electromagnetic spectrum?
Whereas bioluminescence involves producing/emitting of light like fireflies.
- Comment on UwU brat mathematician behavior 11 months ago:
Pardon my denseness, but is this sarcasm? Since that is a TeX snippet.
Why would a RegEx start with a
$? - Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
Is spoopy a typo or a slang people use? So spooky that it made one poop(y)?
- Comment on I am working on a turn-based wargame, influenced by the old Win3.x era WinWar 2 game 11 months ago:
I had to read more than once to realise it is not a game about WinRar.
Having said that, all the best with the development, and may the game find love and success. :-)
- Comment on Prepare yourselves! 11 months ago:
Perhaps they aren’t crying over their mistake, and don’t like children in general?
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
I don’t know how you arrived at this based on what @TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca was saying.
Connection strength is a network/infrastructure problem while what was being said in the original comment is an application/usage one.
The other part of your statement can be solved using a search engine which restricts itself to just searches and not distract itself with ads and AI. But evidently such a product is hard to build in today’s world.
- Comment on poor jeremy 11 months ago:
A perfect origin story of a villain.
Jeremy then goes on a crime spree, but he was caught early on because he is a snail… with a left-coiled shell. The shell prints at the crime scenes helped narrow it down to him instantly.
- Comment on Man, I hate it when this happens! 11 months ago:
Oh. I only feel enlightened about anus.
I am clueless as to what it is doing in a medieval combat manual.
The most I can rationalise is that the author had a bout of frustration, and the manual was the only outlet for their thoughts.
- Comment on Man, I hate it when this happens! 11 months ago:
Thank you for enlightening me.
- Comment on Man, I hate it when this happens! 11 months ago:
I zoomed in on the picture, and the first thing I see is the word “anus”.
I could be misreading it, but what other letter could it possibly be.
- Comment on Anon loves The Lord of the Rings 1 year ago:
This could just be the specific pockets of interest you frequent or whatever the algorithms deem worthy (after all, memes have more engagement).
I have always seen memes and compliments over the past two decades or so. Of course, the memes were more widespread, while the compliments remained where discussions took place.
