Blackmist
@Blackmist@feddit.uk
- Comment on Hell yeah. 1 day ago:
I’d really like to see the capitalist Fire Brigade, if only to see Terry Pratchett proven right once again.
Ankh-Morpork no longer had a fire brigade. The citizens had a rather disturbingly direct way of thinking at times, and it did not take long for people to see the rather obvious flaw in paying a group of people by the number of fires they put out. The penny really dropped shortly after Charcoal Tuesday.
― Terry Pratchett, Jingo
- Comment on PSBLACKOUT (boycott of PlayStation) 1 day ago:
Push for laws that force digital stores to provide full ownership of digital rights.
The ability to pass purchased licenses from one account to another would be a real game changer.
They’re trying to kill ownership completely, and this would blow it wide open.
And that could just be step one. We need assurances about what happens when a store closes (can we download everything and archive it and play offline? will it be moved to another provider?) We need the ability to move purchases between stores. Hell, even between platforms. We need to make sure accounts that have paid for goods cannot be completely revoked under any circumstances. Locked out of online play or prevented from making further purchases, sure, but never just blocked.
Law makers have sat idly by for too long as our rights were taken from us. It’s high time to take them back.
- Comment on What, all of you? 1 day ago:
Yay, I’m on there. I was worried for a second.
- Comment on Why is AOC a big deal? She just speaks common sense and calls out absurdity. Have we really gone that far off the rails where we don't do it ourselves? 3 days ago:
And by common sense, we mean actual things that might improve the lives of the majority, rather than the racist, sexist twaddle that might come out of a drunk trailer dweller, only spoken by a rich white (or in this case, mostly orange) man in a tie.
- Comment on Three developers' different philosophies on difficulty for their games 4 days ago:
You’re way overblowing the difficulty of the Souls games.
I’ve beaten most of them, and my reactions are shit. 90% of the difficulty is from not knowing how it differs from other games.
- Comment on Three developers' different philosophies on difficulty for their games 4 days ago:
That and some very strange ideas about where the jump button should be.
- Comment on Three developers' different philosophies on difficulty for their games 4 days ago:
You often can’t do that until you’ve made a little bit of progress. The real difficulty curve early on is knowing that picking the heavy armour class will make things much harder for yourself, that the real progression is knowledge of enemy attacks and opening shortcuts, and that losing your currency when you don’t have enough points to reach the next level isn’t really a big deal.
- Comment on Three developers' different philosophies on difficulty for their games 4 days ago:
Doesn’t the Steam version just give you different graphics?
- Comment on Thirsty much? 6 days ago:
It’s in South Korea somewhere, apparently.
I remember seeing it before everything became AI instead of Photoshop.
- Comment on Thirsty much? 6 days ago:
- Comment on Happiest day of my life! I'm gonna be a dad! 🥰 1 week ago:
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Blood and Wine took the headlines due to the sheer size of it, but I honestly think Hearts of Stone is probably the best DLC for any game.
Maybe tied with Outer Wilds Echoes of the Eye expansion.
- Comment on Film Studios: "Put that man in a jungle!" 1 week ago:
He certainly doesn’t like to be typecast.
I actually sat through The Smashing Machine recently because I heard they’d actually got him to act in it, like Adam Sandler in Uncut Gems. This was a complete lie, and it turned out they’d just put a wig on him.
- Comment on Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital" 1 week ago:
Realistically we’ve chosen to have pricing tightly controlled and to no longer own anything.
Both these things can be fixed without needing physical copies, but we’ll have to fight for it.
- Comment on Alternative medicine 1 week ago:
Find somebody who looks at you the way conservatives look at ivermectin.
- Comment on Just as Nolan intended 1 week ago:
Got my IMAX ratio TV all ready for it.
- Comment on PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 reaches a new milestone: 75% of all PS3 games are now playable on PC 1 week ago:
Yeah, I suspect most game developers felt the same way about it.
Most PS3 ports were rubbish compared to the Xbox 360 versions, despite the PS3 theoretically being better hardware.
Only the fancier PS3 exclusives really made the most of it.
- Comment on Refer to the chart 2 weeks ago:
What is better - to be born not wanting cookie, or to overcome your cookie eating nature through great effort?
- Comment on "Censorship" ☠️ 2 weeks ago:
Every day should be surprise hard drive inspection day.
- Comment on "Censorship" ☠️ 2 weeks ago:
Sounds about right.
- Comment on British public more likely to prefer Count Binface wins Clacton by-election than Nigel Farage 2 weeks ago:
I’m sure every letterbox in the area has now been stuffed with propaganda that Count Binface is a lefty woke terrorist who personally beat Ann Widdecombe to death with a dildo.
- Comment on Ladybugs 2 weeks ago:
I read that in Stephen Root’s “Bill from King of the Hill” voice.
- Comment on "We're all in this together" 2 weeks ago:
Can he at least travel by helicopter?
They’re much more dangerous…
- Comment on Just couldn't say no 2 weeks ago:
The unpopular sequel to War and Peace.
- Comment on Indie dev defends criticism of Steam refund abuse amid review bombing of his game: 'It's wrong to refund a game after having fun with it and completing it' 2 weeks ago:
It’s a game that costs £2.39.
- Comment on As Xbox and PlayStation flounder, Steam is reportedly having another record year 2 weeks ago:
Valve’s main advantage is they don’t have to make up heinous policies in the quarterly game of “tug off the shareholders”.
It’s all been fucked by AI RAM and SSD (and still GPU) prices. If anyone tries for a next gen £1000 console, they’ll be going the same way as Sega.
- Comment on Indie dev defends criticism of Steam refund abuse amid review bombing of his game: 'It's wrong to refund a game after having fun with it and completing it' 2 weeks ago:
It’s going to be a tiny minority of people doing that, but there probably ought to be a basic check to see if you got the achievement for completing the game before letting you refund it. Maybe not for YouTube rageslop like this, but for the smaller “experience” games, like Unpacking or something.
Realistically a lot of people are treating the refund system as a demo. I know on PS+ there’s the option on a lot of games to play it for two hours before having to buy it. I guess the PC is a bit too open to allow for that. Could offer that by playing it in the nebulous “cloud” I suppose.
- Comment on Saving 2 weeks ago:
Your computer? That you own? In your house?
- Comment on national anthem 2 weeks ago:
The title even refers to your phone screen.
It’s just a new generation of The Twilight Zone or The Outer Limits, written by a comedian. It’s not supposed to be amazingly deep.
- Comment on Do you think that Trump is the most hated U.S. president? 2 weeks ago:
Did you know his father invented the question mark?
