bassomitron
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- Comment on Switch 2 preorders delayed over Trump tariff uncertainty 1 week ago:
I mean, I think Nintendo is a shitty, awful, greedy corporation, but this is just the tip of the iceberg for how tariffs will effect consumers. It’s bad for the economy and the GOP are a bunch of fucking morons for letting their prophet get to this stage.
And yes, I know all the chums will pipe in that their strategy is for all the billionaires to swoop in and buy up everything cheaply. But that’s very short sighted, as this type of bullshit is causing long-term damage to the US’s soft power and influence. Our allies and trading partners are literally forging new agreements without us, meaning even once the tariffs are over, things are not just going to magically go back to normal.
- Comment on The Sims Competitor inZOI Sells 1 Million in a Week, Krafton Declares It a ‘Long-Term Franchise IP’ 1 week ago:
It sold almost 470,000 copies on PC in its first week 11 years ago. The number of PC gamers has dramatically increased since then, so comparing launch numbers between now and then isn’t really an apt comparison.
www.vgchartz.com/weekly/41889/Global/
If you can’t fathom why I compare a game’s total sales to its competing newcomer, maybe you’re missing the whole point of the specific comment thread I responded to. If you want more recent numbers for a better comparison , EA claims they sold an additional 15 million copies in 2024 alone.
ign.com/…/ea-earnings-the-sims-4-manages-to-adds-…
The main point is, I do not think EA is sweating quite yet. They’re a shitty, massive corporation and I’m sure they’ll pump out a sequel if they determine the newcomer is actively taking large enough chunks of their player base.
- Comment on The Sims Competitor inZOI Sells 1 Million in a Week, Krafton Declares It a ‘Long-Term Franchise IP’ 1 week ago:
Which is crazy. Just make a new game.
To be fair, their predatory DLC model for Sims 4 means that their primary customer base has hundreds of dollars invested. Abandoning it at this point might piss a ton of them off. It’s also worth considering that a lot of their users aren’t normal gamers. They typically have basic devices that aren’t really geared towards gaming, so a newer game that’s more demanding might further alienate their base.
A million sales is a lot, but it’s nothing compared to over 85 million copies sold that Sims 4 has achieved.
- Comment on How the fuck do I find out where and when all these protests and rallies are happening? 3 weeks ago:
There are other search engines than google. VPNs and anonymizing extensions also exist. “Appropriate forums” can and are infiltrated by fascist government agents all the time, so don’t pretend like it’s that much safer.
- Comment on How the fuck do I find out where and when all these protests and rallies are happening? 3 weeks ago:
It’s gotten worse, I won’t argue that. But basic stuff is still quite easy/straightforward to look up, and using search modifier tools is still incredibly useful in narrowing down results.
- Comment on How the fuck do I find out where and when all these protests and rallies are happening? 3 weeks ago:
Man, it’s crazy how bad it’s gotten with people not knowing how to use search engines, let alone how to effectively use them. If it’s not on their social media platform of choice, it’s simply unattainable information.
- Comment on Square Enix will be revisiting Chrono Trigger in several projects in 2025 to mark game's 30th anniversary 5 weeks ago:
but I would settle for one of those hd2d things.
Settle? I’d much prefer these older pixel 2d games in that setting over a full 3d remake.
- Comment on BJJ and the Bear 1 month ago:
What post are you referring to?
- Comment on Gaming chat platform Discord in early talks with banks about public listing 1 month ago:
Lame. Discord has already been dipping their toes into the enshitification pond the last few years, so I imagine it’s going to get worse as they move closer to going public and moreso afterwards.
- Comment on Electoral politics doesn't get the job done 2 months ago:
Not to mention a large chunk of the public won’t agree with the idea to begin with. Especially the top 20-30% of income earners.
Additionally, emergency/medical personnel not working would mean people are directly dying as a result of it, creating easy negative PR against the movement.
Asking 180+ million people to coordinate on anything is a farce, and for something like a general strike it is an absolute fantasy.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Agreed. Parents and kids’ childhoods do play a huge role in how they ultimately turn out. However, there are near infinite variables during their development, many of which are completely outside our control. The best thing we can do is like you said, educate, mentor, and physically and emotionally support them as best we can. Sometimes, kids just grow into douchebag adults.
Anyway, OP, at the party you should totally just act like Mac, Charlie, and Dennis when they steal Frank’s credit card and think they’re rich.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
But people often see this type of viewpoint and assume it’s a boomer or something. I think it’s important to show that these gross views span multiple age demographics.
- Comment on is Chat-GPT refusing this image? 2 months ago:
You’re not wrong, but pretty off topic for a direct comment to the OP. Everyone knows what AI in this context means, no one is mistaking it for AGI. In fact, the majority of experts don’t even bother using AI when referring to AGI because the former has been misused so much for probably 15+ years at this point.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
That’s what so many people seem to ignore. As long as the person of topic is willing to sue, media outlets will not risk the potential legal battle and will play it disgustingly safe. It sucks, but it’s hard to blame journalists trying to keep a roof over their heads by not getting fired. With something like this, anyone with 2 functioning braincells left will understand the truth and see it for what it is, we don’t need the media to tell us otherwise.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Why don’t you rewatch the video and watch a history video of Nazis at a rally.
- Comment on Saviour 2 months ago:
And yet tons of people already believe it.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
I was just pointing out a caveat to the comment I replied to. We don’t know the entire context here one way or another (e.g. Is the owner talking about hourly employees or possibly offering pay incentives to salaried employees to work overtime?).
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Yeah, tons of small business owners often make diddly squat in profit. They might pull in a 7-digit revenue, but if their overhead and/or debt is crazy high, they might actually only be making like $50k/yr in take-home pay, if even that.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
If this company is in the US, overtime isn’t mandatory for all job categories. If they’re on a salary or some other excepted position (can’t remember if there are other excepted categories), then overtime pay isn’t required by law.
- Comment on "Free" Speech Absolutist™ 3 months ago:
To be fair, he’s commanding a ton of influence among policy makers, so it’s pretty critical to not completely ignore the bullshit he’s up to.
- Comment on From Bloodborne, The Witcher 3, Metal Gear Solid V will turn 10 in 2025, believe it or not 3 months ago:
That’s literally what AAA means…
en.m.wikipedia.org/…/AAA_(video_game_industry)
And to think Larian is some small company is also silly. It has over 400 employees and 7 offices. It’s privately owned, yes, but it hasn’t been an AA studio since the success of Divinity Original Sin 2 and most definitely not since the massive success of BG3.
- Comment on From Bloodborne, The Witcher 3, Metal Gear Solid V will turn 10 in 2025, believe it or not 3 months ago:
Agreed for the most part, but that’s not really the gaming industry’s fault. I will say environmental graphics (e.g. ambient details, texture depth, lighting, amount of miscellaneous background and ground clutter density) have gotten much better. If you play The original W3 (before the official “remake” and/or mods), it definitely looks very aged versus something like Black Myth Wukong or Cyberpunk 2077. Bloodborne even more so (although, I’d argue that game’s graphics were never its strong point to begin with, but it did have excellent art direction, as From’s games always tend to have).
- Comment on From Bloodborne, The Witcher 3, Metal Gear Solid V will turn 10 in 2025, believe it or not 3 months ago:
BG3 is not an AA game, lol. The A’s simply mean budget, and BG3 had a budget of over $100 million.
- Comment on From Bloodborne, The Witcher 3, Metal Gear Solid V will turn 10 in 2025, believe it or not 3 months ago:
I think it’s more the fact that games like Witcher 3 and Bloodborne are still discussed so much despite being a decade old now. Just kind of crazy 10 years have passed already.
- Comment on Age of Empires designer believes RTS games need to finally evolve after decades of stagnation 3 months ago:
I thought everything just went to the 4x formula and/or the micro/hero focused route.
- Comment on Anon sets a trap 3 months ago:
That’s because they’ve been frantically digging at the bottom of the cage, tearing up all the grass. I was trying to catch a groundhog and caught a raccoon instead. Little asshole was the most vicious, savage beast I’d ever seen. He wouldn’t even leave after setting it free, he turned around and death glared at me before finally running off.
- Comment on They live among us 3 months ago:
Meanwhile, my toddler will immediately place a sticker on literally the first thing they see. 🫠
- Comment on My recent experiences with big budget AAA after years of avoidance 3 months ago:
Grim Dawn is fantastic! I can’t wait for the new expansion coming in a few months. I also heard they’re making a sequal after they finish their town building game which is coming out of EA soon.
- Comment on My recent experiences with big budget AAA after years of avoidance 3 months ago:
Diablo’s story is now entirely detached from its gameplay, the protag can see the villains cutscenes due to a plot device, no more clever writing to explain events after, you get rewards not from an NPC but from the menu from completing world events, and somehow there are localised areas of 100s of enemies just waiting for you to start a fight in a random spot on an open field, theres a GPS showing you the way to the next objective
Diablo 2’s story is also detached, it’s nothing new lol. I’d say Diablo 3 actually had the most protag focused story besides Diablo 1. In D4, all of the cutscenes at least involve main characters you regularly interact with.
Regardless, no one plays those games for the story. They’ve always been purely about gear grinding and demon/monster butchering. D4 is probably the most polished in the series, except for maybe D3, which was a very streamlined experience, for better or worse. I like all of the Diablo games, but I still think D2 and D3 are the most fun I’ve had playing with friends. Fun is always the most important aspect, and D4 was making strong strides to improving that aspect when I last played over the summer. Not sure if that’s still the case in the new expansion, but I figure I’ll try it out when the xpac is on a deep discount.
- Comment on How do you voice chat without bothering roommates? 3 months ago:
Discord has individual volume adjustor per person in chat. With my friends turning me up and me turning my mic volume setting in Windows all the way up, I’m able to talk quietly enough in the next room without bothering my wife if she’s sleeping. We also have a white noise sound machine we run at night, so I’m sure that helps a bit. White noise is probably your best bet if you’re in a smaller living area.