Blackmist
@Blackmist@feddit.uk
- Comment on Do you think that Trump is the most hated U.S. president? 9 hours ago:
Did you know his father invented the question mark?
- Comment on It’s always too little or too much. There is no in between 4 days ago:
I weigh food. Because if I don’t, I get enormous.
I think for dried pasta it’s like 75g each, assuming some meaty sauce with it.
- Comment on Hideo Kojima ‘really sad’ about PlayStation killing discs, ‘frightened’ for future of ownership 4 days ago:
I agree, and buy physical games too, but I don’t think the law can mandate a disc drive.
It could mandate that digital goods remain ours forever, and that companies provide a way to keep them forever.
We’ve been lucky that the main players in this are still going. Valve, Sony, MS and Nintendo have deep pockets. But we’ve seen companies go bust before, and they’ll go again. Sega were the top dog until they weren’t. Before now we’ve always had the physical option. Now we won’t. This is the tipping point and laws must be made to protect us before we lose everything.
- Comment on Hideo Kojima ‘really sad’ about PlayStation killing discs, ‘frightened’ for future of ownership 4 days ago:
But who is left? Nintendo?
And that’s only because Nintendo tend to lag about 5 years behind everyone else. They’re not sticking with physical out of their belief in physical games, that’s for sure. Half their stuff is already a key and a download.
Realistically, it wouldn’t really matter about discs at all if we had real digital rights. The rights to transfer games from one account to another, or even between stores. The rights to copy games to other devices, and copy them back again, or even from an online source if the original disappears for whatever reason.
Physical games could take the form of a keycard with a license on it, similar to a credit card chip. Scan it on my machine to attach to my account. Scan it on another to attach to someone else’s account and remove from mine. Run offline by leaving the card in the machine.
- Comment on my own personal Chatgpt 4 days ago:
I advise you not to do this. To try and replicate ChatGPT in your head will overload your brain. Relax and let the machine do the heavy lifting.
- Comment on Holy hell, Ernie. 1 week ago:
I reckon he’s done some sort of trade with Danny Glover who has looked a week from retirement for about 40 years now.
Shit, he’s actually older than Danny.
- Comment on Asylum seekers to be billed £10k to cover own support once they start earning money 1 week ago:
I mean they do it to students. Don’t see why it’s taken them this long to get around to the asylum seekers. Next up, the unemployed.
The threshold for starting to pay back should probably be higher, however, and interest on it should be zero.
- Comment on Asylum seekers to be billed £10k to cover own support once they start earning money 1 week ago:
Given what they’re paying for the hotels, probably. That shit ain’t cheap and was a racket from the start.
Personally I’m all for giving them an NI number ASAP and letting them work. They didn’t trek halfway across Europe to sit in 2 star hotels in shithole towns getting exploited by traffickers on Deliveroo… They want to work. Some of them are working regardless, just illegally and for far less than minimum wage.
- Comment on My pizza doesn't list the temperature it should be cooked at 1 week ago:
Gas mark 4
- Comment on She skipped groceries for a week to pay for that Little Caesars. 1 week ago:
I know right, it’s “its”.
Not only do they refer to the teacher as an it, they didn’t even pay attention to the rules about apostrophes.
- Comment on I've been using this simple trick to keep cool in the heat wave (UK) 1 week ago:
I’ll have to get one at some point. It just seems a lot for the one week a year it’s needed.
Pretty spent this heatwave with a damp cloth wrapped around an ice pack and stuffed under my plums. Working from home is no fun when it’s 35C in your room. I even stole the cat’s cooling mat at one point (she hated it anyway) to use as a pillow.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
A disc? In this economy?
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Literally the only reason to get the physical on this is if it’s cheaper. Which is entirely possible in the UK, because retail often goes £5 cheaper.
They could at least put a printed map or poster in the box like in ye olden times.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 2 weeks ago:
Mental innit? First gen I’ve ever seen where price of hardware went up…
- Comment on Another Xbocalypse begins: Microsoft are reportedly closing or spinning off Double Fine, Ninja Theory and Compulsion 2 weeks ago:
Killing off Double Fine would be a war crime. They’re a national treasure.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 2 weeks ago:
It’s a brutal time to be releasing hardware like this.
GPU prices, RAM, SSDs, all inflated through the roof.
This should have been the price of a PS5 Pro, with the performance of a PS5 and it’s not even that.
I still want the Frame, but only because my OG Rift died a couple of months back. I really don’t want to have to go crawling back to Meta for a Quest 3 when I see the price of the Frame, but I’m not optimistic. They really need a reduced spec Frame that just does the streaming portion. With RAM and GPU prices as they are, that would at least make some sense.
- Comment on Do you think that Trump is being blackmailed? 2 weeks ago:
Probably, but given that there are reams of files telling us the sort of things he’s done, and nobody does a damn thing about it, you have to ask yourself why would he care?
- Comment on Why? 2 weeks ago:
Well there is that, but it also gets them potentially a whole bunch of extra info about you, and lets them link you up with data from other sites they may own or share data with.
It does tell you what you’re about to give them, but 25+ years in the industry has taught me only too well that nobody ever reads anything ever.
- Comment on Pre-orders for Grand Theft Auto VI will officially begin on June 25 2 weeks ago:
But what if the bytes run out? What then?
I buy physical anyway, and have never had an issue just going into a shop and picking up a game on day one.
- Comment on The Real Purpose of Wealth 💸 3 weeks ago:
Obligatory Frankie Boyle routine.
- Comment on They be chompin 4 weeks ago:
Jeeves! A beige banquet for one, my good man!
- Comment on Flavortown in shambles 4 weeks ago:
Looks like he’d try and sell you a used rug on a Turkish market.
- Comment on Mr Incognito 5 weeks ago:
Pfft, that’s just S2E6 of Red Dwarf. How tame.
- Comment on This was a great website and I still miss it 5 weeks ago:
Users probably just moved to Reddit /r/watchpeopledie instead, before they decided money was important and blocked all the questionable shit.
It still lives at watchpeopledie.tv, presumably scarring a new generation of 12 year olds.
- Comment on NOT THE BEES 5 weeks ago:
Is that where some guy with a hook for a hand was buried?
- Comment on Just give me someone to vote for who is normal 5 weeks ago:
When does the right think corrupt government is the problem?
They’re too busy blaming everything on whatever that corrupt government tells them to.
- Comment on God of War Laufey - Official Gameplay Reveal | PS5 Games 5 weeks ago:
Pretty much all story heavy games are like this now, and have been for some time.
Uncharted 4 was like 2 hours in before you even got to shoot anyone.
- Comment on God of War Laufey - Official Gameplay Reveal | PS5 Games 5 weeks ago:
Oh god, now I can look forward to an entire game of her name being pronounced wrong.
The really need to hire an Icelandic person for like an hour. Even though I don’t speak Icelandic, it’s agonising.
- Comment on What’s your favorite video game that most people didn’t like ?? 5 weeks ago:
Got to love it just for a giant robot fight to The Touch, or Roddy Piper fighting Keith David. Or the Biz Markie singalong.
I think 2 was the pinnacle and a spiritual successor to Vice City, but 4 has its moments.
- Comment on Anon plays World of Warcraft 5 weeks ago:
I think Duskwood was peak WoW for me. I spent years chasing that early high, and never really found it in that game or any others.