caseofthematts
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- Comment on Australia says platforms like Steam and Roblox have 'significant' child safety gaps 2 weeks ago:
I just want to be clear, no where did I say that Australians didn’t have credit cards. What my post meant to say is that it’s not as common to have a credit card like it is in North America (basically a necessity if you want to get a car, apartment house, etc).
This person that I got the information from was very up in arms about this.
My whole point wasn’t even about the credit cards. It’s about the anti-privacy laws.
- Comment on Australia says platforms like Steam and Roblox have 'significant' child safety gaps 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know what to tell you, I got my information from an Australian, and everything I’ve seen online confirms this.
- Comment on Australia says platforms like Steam and Roblox have 'significant' child safety gaps 2 weeks ago:
I’m not an expert, I’m just being told this from an Australian. They do have credit cards, but it’s not as much a necessity to do things as it is in North America. So, from what I’m told, a lot of adults don’t have one.
- Comment on Australia says platforms like Steam and Roblox have 'significant' child safety gaps 2 weeks ago:
For anyone that doesn’t know, currently because of stuff like this, people in Australia can’t even access their Steam games that they’ve already bought unless they have a credit card, which I’ve learned most people over there don’t. Valve isn’t allowing the third-party ‘steal your data’ options like face scan and government ID, so Australian folk without a CC are out of luck.
Australians, please fight back against these anyi-privacy laws. If these are successful, they’ll come to other countries.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I was the opposite. Loved Hollow Knight but couldn’t get into Nine Sols. I tried for about 5 hours before deciding it wasn’t for me.
Recently been getting into MIO, which has been great.
- Comment on Insomniac's Wolverine hits 1.9 million sales despite controversy, becomes Sony's top first-party game of 2026 5 weeks ago:
Where have you heard that? I guess it depends on if you’re a comic book fan or not maybe? But anyone that likes/knows the characters has said (or so I’ve been told, could just be the circles I’m in) that it’s a massive disappointment.
- Comment on I do not recommend: Marvel's Wolverine (Review) - Skill up 1 month ago:
I think a lot of people expected it to be good (pre-late marketing) since Insomniac generally makes pretty good games.
- Comment on Retroid Pocket 6 12GB: Four More Gigabytes, A Lot More Ambition 1 month ago:
I haven’t gotten this, but my personal experience with Retroid is that the parts break rather easily. They sell replacement parts for a little but soon stop supporting that practice.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I remember when the very first teaser came out for this and people were going wild. I asked in a streamers chat (first mistake) if there was any actual in-game gameplay footage or it was just a CGI/cutscene and the streamer chewed me out lol. “Let people be excited about things!”
- Comment on The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Remastered Announced, Songs of the Past Gets First Look 1 month ago:
Especially given how easily many seem to have wilfully forgotten the horrendous Cyberpunk launch, they could’ve easily pulled a Nintendo with this stuff.
- Comment on 'Bioshock Review' - MandaloreGaming 1 month ago:
I just recently replayed everything Bioshock (and finished reading the book last night). I streamed them for a friend that had never played any of them, and we agreed in our rankings of best to worst.
Bioshock 1, Minerva’s Den, Burial at Sea, Bioshock 2, Bioshock Infinite.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Cons Officially Have A Pay-To-Press Button 2 months ago:
I’m sorry, have you seen the amount of absolute crap on the Nintendo eShop? What qualification process? It’s a wasteland there.
- Comment on More People Are Pre-ordering The $100 Edition Of GTA 6 2 months ago:
You know those are probably different groups, right?
- Comment on Capcom isn't worried about PlayStation and Nintendo shrinking the physical games market: "90% of our unit sales are digital" 2 months ago:
Microsoft tried that exact thing, to poor results.
- Comment on Sony doubles down. Only responds to their investors, not the consumers. I've never bought a digital console title. That will continue. 2 months ago:
Didn’t they stop manufacturing computers with CD/DVD drives a while ago? Perhaps that’s what they’re referring to.
- Comment on Indie Dev Says Game Refunded 55,000 Times Via Steam Loophole 3 months ago:
Cheaper than a movie!
- Comment on Do you know examples of mistranslations of in-game dialog from cutscenes via subtitles whilst playing in another language? 3 months ago:
IIRC, it’s mentioned in the manual that some NPCs lie to you. So if that’s true, it’s not so much a mistranslation as it is an NPC wasting your time.
- Comment on PlayStation sales just had its worst May in 25 years, and Xbox's was the worst ever—Meanwhile, the Nintendo Switch 2 just became the second-fastest-selling console in US history; and other insights 3 months ago:
We don’t have to insult them by calling them simple. Some people just really love Nintendo stuff and have the money to buy it. It’s not like they actually make really shitty games that you can’t understand why anyone would like them. Their other practices are what call them into question.
- Comment on Day 705 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 months ago:
I’m still surprised people can get the second game to launch when they launch it through steam. I tried for hours to try and get it running, but the stupid external launcher wouldn’t cooperate, so I refunded it.
- Comment on Capcom says shifting from auteur-driven development to team-led development is what transformed the company and allowed flagship IPs to survive for so long - AUTOMATON WEST 4 months ago:
I think for this to move to make sense, you need to understand how much Kenji Inafune set Capcom back with his MegaMan decisions before his departure. I’m sure this was a big aspect of their different approach to game making.
- Comment on What’s your favorite video game that most people didn’t like ?? 4 months ago:
I suppose it may depend on what circles you’re talking about them in, because that series is one of the top recommendations for metroidvanias. They’ve sold over 15 million copies.
- Comment on What’s your favorite video game that most people didn’t like ?? 4 months ago:
It’d be nice if they put more into the world of FF8 like they keep shoving into FF7, truthfully.
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 4 months ago:
Okay I think this is actually the best answer in here. I know of too many people that won’t play pixel games or PS1 era because “the graphics are bad”, which just sends me for a spin because I absolutely adore how they look.
- Comment on 5 months ago:
8 is definitely not a good first JRPG to start with, but I think it’s an interesting reversal of the regular mechanics/grind that you expect from the genre.
- Comment on 5 months ago:
I actually think FF8 and FF9 have aged wonderfully. Personally, it’s FF7 that hasn’t aged the best.
- Comment on Nintendo is raising the price of the Switch 2, blaming 'market conditions' 5 months ago:
A lot of product to Canada comes up through Amerocan trade routes.
- Comment on Nintendo is raising the price of the Switch 2, blaming 'market conditions' 5 months ago:
Perhaps people that were holding out on a Switch 2 will see this as their only opportunity to grab one, since it ain’t getting cheaper.
- Comment on Pragmata surpasses 1m copies sold in just two days 5 months ago:
The fanfare is interesting to me, because I played the demo and found the exact opposite from my experience! The mini games in the middle of it all was too many subsystems for me to find enjoyable. But that’s clearly the minority opinion based on the sales and reviews.
- Comment on Slay The Spire 2 Getting Review-Bombed Again After Latest Update 6 months ago:
In an early access game, no less. The game isn’t even done. This should be expected by the players.
- Comment on Pickmon to Pickmos 6 months ago:
Yea, I’m all for new additions to the genre, but can we stop giving lazy slop games articles and the time of day? This doesn’t require as much attention as it is getting.