MrScottyTay
@MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works
An almost 30 Software Dev that enjoys gaming, woodworking, electronics and plenty of other hobbies. Too many hobbies.
- Comment on As adults, do you still watch kids’ cartoons, either old or new? 1 week ago:
Studio ghibli films are child friendly (mostly) but not for children explicitly
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 1 week ago:
I love all of the soundtracks mind but everything since 2 has just been iterations of what we got in 2 (and i don’t mean that in a bad way), but they’ve revisited the style of 1 and I’d love to hear elements of that brought back into the soundtrack of a future installment.
Since writing my comment, I’ve watched a video on paralives which coincidentally comes out in a few days and that is looking to be shaping up to be a spiritual successor to my theoretical Sims 3.5. So I’m excited to play that now haha. Hope their soundtrack is on point.
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 1 week ago:
I enjoyed it for a time as a second screen game. Was great when not a lot was happening at work during covid.
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 1 week ago:
Yeah as a fan of the series is annoying because there is no “best game”.
Sims 2 has loads of content, but sims only age if they’re in the current household so you end up with children that have moved out of their parents end up being the same age or older than their parents.
Sims 3 was arguably the best, even though it missed some of that “extra detail charm” that 2 had. But it had that awesome “open world” feel and all sims aged appropriately.
Then Sims 4 came around with the best Build Mode and Mood system out of the series that it now makes 2 and 3 feel not as good anymore. But then you lose all of the REALLY cool stuff 3 added to the series. 4 kind of feels like it pretended 3 never happened.
The best Sims would be a theoretical 3.5 combining the best out of 3 and 4. And then to go the extra mile they could add all of the extra detail flourish 2 has. (And personally also if they bring back the piano jazz of 1).
- Comment on PlayStation boss says single-player games won’t come to PC going forward | VGC 1 week ago:
But at the time when they were trying to go independent it would’ve seemed a more accurate estimation of worth, it’s just weird that they kept that valuation and most likely added onto it by the time Sony was interested. But also Jim Ryan was obviously enamoured with the idea of live service games and Bungie already had a successful one running.
- Comment on Need for Speed: Most Wanted – The game that got me into racing 1 week ago:
Hot Pursuit is the last Burnout game in my opinion. I love the handling in that game. MW is my fave but I definitely play Hot Pursuit more nowadays due to its pick up and play nature.
- Comment on Need for Speed: Most Wanted – The game that got me into racing 1 week ago:
This is my favourite NFS and possibly overall racing game
- Comment on PlayStation boss says single-player games won’t come to PC going forward | VGC 1 week ago:
Hard disagree, if you play 2, then go back to the first, they play so differently. Each iteration has movement getting even more fun than the last.
- Comment on PlayStation boss says single-player games won’t come to PC going forward | VGC 1 week ago:
With halo and the staff that made it, you could argue they’d be worth that much but they didn’t.
- Comment on Does anybody actually work from 09:00 to 17:00 1 week ago:
Technically no, in actuality, yes. I can start and finish as long as my hours are my contracted hours, but I have a daily meeting at 9 so I start my day with that meeting everyday. And then if I work normally, I finish at 5
- Comment on PS5 Exclusive Saros Has Reportedly Only Sold 300K Copies 2 weeks ago:
You’re doing a lot of speaking for me there, and putting words in my mouth I’ve not said. Never once did I say I’m pro DRM. Would I prefer if they didn’t do this at all? Obviously. You’re arguing with me for something I’m not fighting. I was not defending Sony, only disputing your claim that it’s made things noticeably worse for the general majority and my first comment was just explaining what the issue you barely described in your first comment even was.
Because of how locked down consoles are in their normal use anyway, this issue will barely, if at all affect anyone, who is using their console as intended. It’s obviously a completely different story for those that will eventually tinker and use it way beyond it’s eventual sunsetting. The console itself is technically already riddled with DRM anyway, even if they didn’t add this new countermeasure.
Once again, not advocating for DRM. I would rather the concept not exist at all. But this most recent drama has not changed a thing when it comes to your standard use of the console. There was already DRM involved beforehand.
In the end, I agree with you on your points on DRM itself.
- Comment on PS5 Exclusive Saros Has Reportedly Only Sold 300K Copies 2 weeks ago:
But in reality it barely affects anyone who uses their PS5s normally though. It would only affect you if for whatever reason your internet is down for more than 14 days or you buy a game 13 days before they shut down services (at which I imagine they’d remove both this and the ability to refund during that period).
Like I said before it’s shitty they did this without explanation but also saying that this is negatively affecting everyone else just to stop a minority is just straight up false. Heck it had been in place for a while and nobody noticed a thing. It was a modder specifically trying to find exploits that blew the whistle on it and even then it was just that he saw a timer counting down in the same way PS+ games do.
- Comment on PS5 Exclusive Saros Has Reportedly Only Sold 300K Copies 2 weeks ago:
Just so you’re aware the DRM issue was just that they now have an expiry during the return window because they had people buying a game, downloading it, taking their console off the network, refunding on the website, finishing the game in their own time and then reconnecting to the internet when they no longer want it which then locks you out of the game. The licence is perpetual once it’s past the return window. I don’t quite know what a better option in solving this other than the fact they should’ve just been up front with the changes to begin with.
- Comment on Fuck these doors 2 weeks ago:
Always push first if it doesn’t open you just bounce back and pull
- Comment on Surely has a master's degree 3 weeks ago:
Pee is stored in the balls
- Comment on Some of you are too young to know what this is 3 weeks ago:
I have one of them and it’s not in deep storage either haha
- Comment on Vampire Survivors’ developer is working on over 15 games, including IP collaborations 5 weeks ago:
I played the hell out of the demo and just started playing the main game. I love it. I recommend the demo though, you can carry your progress over so there no reason not to try it out first
- Comment on How do I drink more water? 5 weeks ago:
Electrolytes
- Comment on Best Friend 🫂 5 weeks ago:
There’s a difference between generalisations and single specific examples. You can’t really compare between the two even within the same context
- Comment on Teenis 1 month ago:
ABSOLUTELYCRANKINGMYF’INHOG
- Comment on Hungry 1 month ago:
Put a rock on it so it’s more obvious it’s not a pond
- Comment on America 1 month ago:
In the UK we all (generally) read 24 hour but speak in 12 hour. So we see 15:00 but say 3. Only military peeps talk on 24, and it can sound weird, but people can easily understand them as long as they can parse the who “-hundred” thing (15:00 being fifteen-hundred)
- Comment on There is no escape 1 month ago:
What’s the guy’s skin colour got to do with it?
- Comment on Most of plant based leather uses a lot of polyurethane 1 month ago:
It’s almost as if another common term for vegan leather is PU Leather
- Comment on Owlcat is using generative AI for The Expanse Osiris Reborn, but the final game will be "100% human made" 2 months ago:
My point is more it should be on a separate testing branch if used so it can’t accidentally be left in the final product
- Comment on Owlcat is using generative AI for The Expanse Osiris Reborn, but the final game will be "100% human made" 2 months ago:
Yeah that’s the thing placeholder textures bed to be obviously placeholder so they don’t get forgotten about. Using ai for something that’s approximate to what it should be is stupid in that regards. You’re just making your job harder at the end of the day.
The only time I can think of it being worthwhile is if your need to show off progress with a vertical slice, for an investment round or whatever, but you don’t have all of the required textures sorted yet. But these changes should be fine on a separate branch so they’re not a part of the main development of the game so the above can’t happen .
- Comment on There's nothing 'euro' about 'eurojank,' says Stalker dev 2 months ago:
I think the term stuck in the same east “eurogames” i as a genre n board games did even though it’s definition no longer has anything to do with is origin. Same with “eurobeat” in music, whose averaged origin is probably Japan nowadays, but the term is still there, firmly in place.
- Comment on Sources: Nintendo is planning a new Star Fox and a major Zelda remake this year, but no 3D Mario | VGC 2 months ago:
DK Bananza was made by the Odyssey team so it makes sense there isn’t another 3d Mario on the horizon yet
- Comment on You can just do stuff. 2 months ago:
That’ll do pig
- Comment on Why don't my shit and urine stink while they're inside me? 2 months ago:
They wouldn’t day because everything would be open so there’d be no pressure to shoot a fart out of. Why gasses would be slowly released as death relieves pressure on the sphincters and let’s go. I imagine because of gravity and not being alive too keep muscles and whatnot on the correct places for normal function will just let all of your shit out too. It’s not that we need pressure to let shit out, but we use pressure to get it out in one go and we do so with many “airlocks” so we only lose what we need at that time.
This is mostly me talking out of my arse but it sounds right to me as i type it. I imagine i don’t have the specifics down but maybe the general gist?