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- Comment on What are your favorite 1000+ hour games? 4 weeks ago:
Factorio
The Factory Must Grow
I’m almost 100 hours into my new space age save, and I’ve played nearly 1k hours since I bought it 5ish years ago. By far one of the most enjoyable games I’ve ever played and I highly recommend it to everyone who enjoys sandbox games
- Comment on Should I or should I not use/bother with using Linux? (READ THE WHOLE POST) 1 month ago:
You really don’t as long as you’re leaving the OS mostly standard. I’m a fairly high level power user of windows and I don’t think I use any of the 3 outside of development work.
- Comment on Why do Counterstrike and the other top 10 games on Steam NEVER change? 2 months ago:
The games that sit at the top of the player counts are almost always multiplayer competitive games. In a lot of ways, there’s been nearly 0 movement in the space at all since covid. The same games are still right there at the top because no new massively multiplayer game has released to top them. FPS players play CoD, Apex, Fortnite and Pubg, Dota is massive in Asian countries, GTA V has a huge cult following (check out its twitch category).
Satisfactory being top 10 is an outlier rather than the norm, being a single player game.
I agree with the other commenter who said that players of these games consider themselves players of Apex/CoD/Pubg before they consider themselves overall gamers. That’s the case with me now, and I rarely launch anything outside of CoD or Apex as I have little to no interest in single player games.
- Comment on How do I get rid of my dead name in iPadOS settings? 5 months ago:
Also same, this just seems to be a rite of passage with Steam
- Comment on I ordered my daughter a pizza, something I don't usually do. I got Domino's smallest size with two toppings. I got her cheese sticks and two sauces and tipped the driver 20%. $31.07. 5 months ago:
The US. Our dominos served a 15-20 mile radius in my medium sized suburban town growing up.
- Comment on I ordered my daughter a pizza, something I don't usually do. I got Domino's smallest size with two toppings. I got her cheese sticks and two sauces and tipped the driver 20%. $31.07. 5 months ago:
It looks like it’s now the 6.99 deal
It’s been 6 or 7 years since I worked for dominoes
- Comment on I ordered my daughter a pizza, something I don't usually do. I got Domino's smallest size with two toppings. I got her cheese sticks and two sauces and tipped the driver 20%. $31.07. 5 months ago:
Bike is not faster for a 20 mile delivery range
- Comment on I ordered my daughter a pizza, something I don't usually do. I got Domino's smallest size with two toppings. I got her cheese sticks and two sauces and tipped the driver 20%. $31.07. 5 months ago:
You’re never going to find exactly what you want, but the 5.99 deal for a medium 2 topping also applies to the cheesy bread you ordered, bringing the total down significantly.
- Comment on I ordered my daughter a pizza, something I don't usually do. I got Domino's smallest size with two toppings. I got her cheese sticks and two sauces and tipped the driver 20%. $31.07. 5 months ago:
Never order dominos without coupons. It’s exponentially more expensive than anything you can get with a coupon.
Dominos largest profit margins are on orders exactly like this. It’s often more economical to order more food at a cheaper price.
- Comment on Windows just changed the desktop wallpaper and re-added the search bar without my permission after an update 6 months ago:
This definitely doesn’t happen to everyone. I’ve never once had this happen and I’ve kept my windows up to date.
- Comment on Windows just changed the desktop wallpaper and re-added the search bar without my permission after an update 6 months ago:
100% never seen this either and I’m a daily windows user who has had the search bar disabled since day 1
- Comment on Windows just changed the desktop wallpaper and re-added the search bar without my permission after an update 6 months ago:
It was for legal reasons. They split personal teams and work teams to try to dodge an antitrust iirc
- Comment on Windows just changed the desktop wallpaper and re-added the search bar without my permission after an update 6 months ago:
Still no good if you play about 70% of games with an anticheat. Outside of that it’s fine if you’re willing to put up with general Linux issues
- Comment on LittleBigPlanet 3 Servers Are Officially Shut Down Indefinitely, Sony Confirms 7 months ago:
I’ve found that most people on this site don’t care about copyright in any form, so they’ll just ignore it like everything else
- Comment on This grocery store charges a hefty handling fee and asks for a tip when using online ordering. 8 months ago:
I think they’ve generally started hiring people to only handle online orders, or that’s how it appears at my local stores.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
For the most part Americans are so desensitized to the gain Violence that it’s not something most of us think about much.
I’ve grown up in a post Columbine world, and mass shootings have been a part of my life since it started. They’re just a really unfortunate part of life here that won’t change unless there’s a massive culture shift.
- Comment on Factorio pretty much rewrote its world generation to account for new planets—like this volcanic one 11 months ago:
800+ hours in this game
Im still deciding if I want to do another playthrough before 2.0 though. Maybe I’ll actually play SE through past the first rocket launches and that should give at least another 800 hours.
- Comment on Steam keeps on winning 11 months ago:
30% is industry standard from Apple, Microsoft, Google, Sony, etc.
Steam taking 30% is nothing out of the norm
- Comment on God of War Creator Is Unhappy With New Games and Kratos' Story 11 months ago:
100% my biggest issue with modern games right now is there’s too much damn lore. I need to know a hundred different things to understand the game, and I generally don’t know those things.
I’m a huge fan of Doom Eternal, and it’s one of the few single player games I’ve finished in the last few years. Too many games now end up needing to spend half my play session in conversations or cut scenes, and I realized I don’t have fun playing games like that.
- Comment on E3 has officially ended. 1 year ago:
E3 was king in the age before widespread social media marketing campaigns. You’d go to those shows to showcase everything to the media to generate hype at one of the biggest events of the year. Those journalists would then go back and write all about it, giving the upcoming projects hype and attention.
Now with social media it’s more effective for brands to run their own campaigns. You can spend millions on an E3 presentation or you can give streamers/YouTubers review copies for free and get a ton of good press.
Once the big companies pulled out it became a lot less attractive to go, then the pandemic seems to have put the final nail in the coffin.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
It was when they were forced to accept refunds.
The next year the Steam sale did away with flash sales and all the discounts were noticeably less.
- Comment on The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion 1 year ago:
More Apex Legends - Going on 4k hours now and only slowing a bit. It’s still by far the game I play the most.
Cyberpunk 2077 - Getting to the point of finishing up the main game and moving onto the DLC, about 30ish hours into my current save.
iRacing - as always, the subscription MMO of Simracing is on the list
- Comment on GTA 6’s Publisher Says Video Games Should Theoretically Be Priced At Dollars Per Hour 1 year ago:
Way to completely miss the point.
Nobody is saying that you should be paying minimum $1/hr, I’m saying that if I’m getting less playtime than equates to $1/hr I haven’t gotten my moneys worth and I don’t find that the game would be worth buying.
- Comment on GTA 6’s Publisher Says Video Games Should Theoretically Be Priced At Dollars Per Hour 1 year ago:
If that cost goes above $1/hr I’ll probably just not buy. That’s my base cost I’ll accept for paying for a game. If I’ve gotten $1/hr I find that I’ve gotten my moneys worth
- Comment on Is there any way to reverse degrowth of the niche communities on Lemmy? 1 year ago:
I do, but I don’t post about them. I don’t like making posts and try to avoid doing so at all costs.
Other gaming pretty much has nothing in common with Simracing. It doesn’t use any of the same hardware, tends to take a lot of money to get started in and isn’t something for casual players.
I don’t like generic communities overall. I find them boring and tending to lack in creativity. The reason I liked Reddit so much was I didn’t need to interact with other subjects, I could find my niche and stay there without needing to deal with other gaming groups.
- Comment on Rockstar Games regarding Grand Theft Auto VI 1 year ago:
I hate that you’re right. Because that’s what gaming is boiled down to today. How to maximize day 1 profit, no need for down the line customer enjoyment
- Comment on StarCraft could return, according to Blizzard president, but not necessarily as an RTS 1 year ago:
Prior to this thread I had never even heard of the ghosts project. Definitely could be cool, but I’d guess that’s almost a completely separate market than the RTS fans
- Comment on Rockstar Games regarding Grand Theft Auto VI 1 year ago:
Now we’re pre-hyping the hype trailers
I swear this game is going to flop because of the massive expectations people are going to have. I may be wrong and also never got the appeal of those games, so take my opinion with a grain of salt
- Comment on StarCraft could return, according to Blizzard president, but not necessarily as an RTS 1 year ago:
Is there any point to StarCraft if it’s not an RTS?
- Comment on StarCraft could return, according to Blizzard president, but not necessarily as an RTS 1 year ago:
Filled with micro transactions too. I’d be surprised if it isn’t P2W