acosmichippo
@acosmichippo@lemmy.world
- Comment on Updates to Xbox Game Pass: Introducing Essential, Premium, and Ultimate Plans - Xbox Wire [prices going up] 2 days ago:
do they inject ads into loading screens and cut scenes?
- Comment on Electronic Arts nears roughly $50 billion deal to go private, WSJ reports 6 days ago:
given how terrible it has gone for ea over the past 15+ years maybe this is a good thing.
…oh saudi arabia, nevermind.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 boss tells players "please get a refund from Steam if you aren't happy" as Randy Pitchford continues his very public crashout over the FPS's performance woes 2 weeks ago:
why are we comparing a game 5 years ago to one released today? hardware is much more capable now.
- Comment on Why is Physical Media Back? 2 weeks ago:
i get it, but it takes up so much room. I had thousands of CDs. Maybe over 9,000. But I live in a townhouse and there just isn’t room to keep all that shit, especially if you want to do the same thing for other media like blu rays, games, vinyl or whatever else.
Personally, i find other ways to enjoy music and movies in a physical/visual form like prints, posters, and apparel.
- Comment on RFK Jr. Blames violent video games for Mass Shootings. 3 weeks ago:
Instead of making suicide harder, we should be treating the root cause of suicide
Or… both?
If people get hurt due to gun accidents, I highly doubt they’d be happy if we took their guns away, since that’s like solving traffic deaths by banning cars.
it’s not even remotely the same thing since cars’ primary purpose is not killing.
Suicides and gun accidents are certainly interesting statistics, but mixing them with homicides just makes it harder to see what’s going on and arrive at effective solutions.
it doesn’t really. what does make it harder to arrive at effective solutions is making any excuse possible to avoid gun control.
- Comment on RFK Jr. Blames violent video games for Mass Shootings. 3 weeks ago:
why should we exclude suicides and accidents?
- Comment on RFK Jr. Blames violent video games for Mass Shootings. 3 weeks ago:
the comment wasn’t about fox news specifically, it was about news in general. like it or not, we need news agencies to cover what these people are doing.
- Comment on RFK Jr. Blames violent video games for Mass Shootings. 3 weeks ago:
It’s straight disinformation. Nevermind that everyone else plays the same games, let’s cherry pick the one western nation that has a comparable number of guns per capita and not think about that any further.
- Comment on RFK Jr. Blames violent video games for Mass Shootings. 3 weeks ago:
Because they control the country and people should know what they are doing. It’s not that complicated.
- Comment on RFK Jr. Blames violent video games for Mass Shootings. 3 weeks ago:
is the news supposed to NOT cover what the government is doing?
- Comment on RFK Jr. Blames violent video games for Mass Shootings. 3 weeks ago:
this is so obviously false it’s enfuriating coming from the head of HHS. Lots of coutnries all over the world have the same violent video games we do without the mass shootings.
- Comment on If you miss old network multiplayer games, or would like to try them with your friends for the first time, may I suggest setting them up via SoftEtherVPN? 3 weeks ago:
i don’t think tailscale will fork for this since it’s L3 and old lan games typically work on L2. Zerotier is a similar service that is L2 and should work.
- Comment on If you miss old network multiplayer games, or would like to try them with your friends for the first time, may I suggest setting them up via SoftEtherVPN? 3 weeks ago:
if you run into issues with softether, zerotier might offer a more streamlined experience.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 3 weeks ago:
they are related and compound each other. it’s harder to “git gud” if you have to do a bunch of runbacks too.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 3 weeks ago:
disagree. they are related and absolutely add to the difficulty of learning how to beat a new boss. it’s way easier to develop a strategy and muscle memory if you can retry the boss fight as soon as possible without having to redo other sections of the game first.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 3 weeks ago:
if i purchase a game, you bet your ass i feel entitled to play the whole thing.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 3 weeks ago:
well if you buy the game and it’s difficult enough to keep you from playing it all the way through that’s kinda shitty.
- Comment on 007 First Light – Gameplay Reveal 4 weeks ago:
yeah this feels more like Splinter Cell with all the climbing and sneaking. Bond spycraft is more social engineering and charm.
- Comment on We Found the Hidden Cost of Data Centers. It's in Your Electric Bill 4 weeks ago:
scrambling to get solar on my roof now before the tax rebate disappears.
- Comment on Four wheels good, two wheels bad: why are there no exciting cycling games? 4 weeks ago:
look i’m not a ICE apologist or antyhing (these apply to EVs as well) but it’s not hard to figure out why car games are more popular. Also I’m not saying these are universal rules, i’m sure some disagree. But I think it’s safe to say these apply to most in the gamer market.
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more power and speed = more fun.
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Games are as close as most people will come to driving an expensive car like a BMW, let alone a Ferrari, or even actual racing cars. Even if you argue people are just not culturally conditioned to enjoy bicycles, could you even really appreciate them in the same way in a video game? you’d barely see them.
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Cars are much more complex machines and that leads to each having a more unique character than bicycles, and that allows a greater variety of gameplay. For example, mid/front engine, NA/turbo/super, ICE/EV, FWD/RWD, etc. And usually in games there’s a progression from lower performance cars to higher performance cars.
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- Comment on The internet kind of sucks right now 5 weeks ago:
also “public for actual people who support my forum business model” is not the same as “public for AI scrapers who destruct from my business model.”
- Comment on The internet kind of sucks right now 5 weeks ago:
I have never understood why people moved stuff to the closed Discord server system…
- Comment on The internet kind of sucks right now 5 weeks ago:
fucking everything kind of sucks right now.
- Comment on ‘We want to protect what we have’: Blizzard cinematics workers discuss the reasons for joining a union 5 weeks ago:
well if anything good comes from AI maybe it will be a resurgence of unions.
- Comment on Player Spends $32,000 on NBA 2K25 in Just Five Months 1 month ago:
what’s fucking sad is I don’t think this guy even realizes he has a problem.
One things for sure, I will not spend this much again, because you don’t get rewarded for it. As much as I spent, I should have everything in the game, but it’s not even close.
That’s what you say when you’ve spent like $100. hell maybe even $1000. But $32k??? This is so far beyond being not “rewarded for it”.
- Comment on Xbox Series X and S: Microsoft Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 30 Million Consoles This Generation 1 month ago:
meh, the controller is the only thing i prefer on xbox.
- Comment on Steam and itch.io “mustn't succumb to unjust pressure with no legal basis,” Japan free speech organization urges amidst mass censorship of games 1 month ago:
it’s an association, not the government.
- Comment on [Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games 1 month ago:
you’re missing some context in that.
“The sale of a product… which is patently offensive and lacks serious artistic value… (such as… images of… Nonconsensual mutilation of a person or body part”
insert joke about COD lacking artistic value, but clearly there is more to COD than just body mutilation.
- Comment on 2030: Privacy's Dead. What happens next? 1 month ago:
maybe if millenials ever get a chance in congress they can do something about it. might even be a bipartisan issue at some point.
but i’m not holding my breath.
- Comment on Epic Games just won its antitrust lawsuit against Google again 2 months ago:
in this case, the specific action gives the entity an unfair advantage in the global market. Epic (with the help from tencent) is suing US companies for antitrust laws, but tencent benefits from exactly that with stores like Steam and Google play outright banned in china. They have the entire chinese market to themselves and use the profit from that to push out further into the global market by doing stuff exactly like this.