JimmyMcGill
@JimmyMcGill@lemmy.world
- Comment on Are Nintendo's $80 online game prices a result of tariffs or is Nintendo just using them as an excuse to price gouge as corporations do? 2 weeks ago:
Competition for entertainment is higher than ever. You even have extremely good free games
An upward increase makes sense only because corporations will try to squeeze every possible cent from consumer. That’s the only justification that they need
- Comment on Are Nintendo's $80 online game prices a result of tariffs or is Nintendo just using them as an excuse to price gouge as corporations do? 2 weeks ago:
Games don’t cost 90$ today for other platforms tho… even Nintendo that are a few years old still cost basically the same as at launch
- Comment on Why aren't there mass protests in the USA? 4 weeks ago:
No, I disagree. If things are really fucked (as they are) 30% of a population is more than enough to enact change. If they are really motivated to do so. Get most of those 30% only the street and you see what power it has.
Of course with 80/90% it’s easier. Much much easier but that’s just fantasy land. You can get 90% of the population to agree on many basic facts, so you can forget about having then agree to protest together.
Plenty of revolutions were made, and dictatorships overturned with much fewer people on board.
I very much disagree on how much power 30% of the population has. Yes the electoral system you have in the USA is beyond stupid. However voting is only the easiest and most polite way to make change.
Go on strike, protest, build some guillotines. If the population really wants it, change will be made, even if it’s only 15/30%. Because the remainder of that population will not opposite necessarily. They just don’t care enough to protest.
- Comment on Why aren't there mass protests in the USA? 4 weeks ago:
That’s just wrong
Put 20/30% of the population of any city or county out on the streets and it will make headlines
It’s technically a loud minority but a very loud and significant minority
The problem is that of those 20/30% only 10% will actually get out on the streets so you are left with around 2% of the general population. And that ain’t much
- Comment on If I don't have my lunch my sugar crashes and I get sleepy 5 weeks ago:
I get your point but tbf they aren’t exactly cheap ass quality. I am always actually surprised that they are fairly decent
Ofc if you buy some they will sound even better but the free ones are still better than no plugs for both health and sound reasons. Without them not only is everything super loud it is also very noisy (frequency wise)
- Comment on If I don't have my lunch my sugar crashes and I get sleepy 5 weeks ago:
Every concert I’ve been to here in Switzerland has provided them free of charge. Always use them
- Comment on Day 173 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 3 months ago:
Black flag was great.
But are you playing with reduced graphics or did the game age that poorly?
- Comment on What games have you sunk the most time into? 3 months ago:
2k hours on DotA2. No regrets. It’s an amazing game. I loved “studying” that shit. Optimizing my game.
I was never really that good but that isn’t the point
- Comment on Day 98 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 5 months ago:
Legend!
- Comment on Day 98 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 5 months ago:
2 days till 100 let’s go!!
- Comment on Day 89 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 5 months ago:
My man ATTICUS!
Let’s go for 100
- Comment on Joy & Curiosity 6 months ago:
Because our collective we is composed of many different people. You have brilliant scientific minds and genius artistic people and everyone in between. At the same time you have very empathetic people and others who would not hesitate to hurt someone for their gain.
Diversity is both a blessing and a curse.
- Comment on Currently downloading The Witcher 3 for the first time. Got any advice for me? 6 months ago:
As other folk said, definitely do get the DLCs. There’s a whole other game in there.
It’s been a while since I last played, and this game IS a masterpiece, no doubt about that, but the one of the first sections can be rough. Iirc it’s gloomy af, there’s some hard monsters in some quests that can be demotivating and the combat/mechanics takes some getting used to which makes the previous point worse. Just know that the game opens up and there’s a whole world out there.
There are tons of side quests which are great, so you should do those but also don’t feel like you need to do all of them. It can be easy to get side tracked and then lose steam and quit on the main story.
Especially because like I said the DLCs are amazing. They are also quite self contained so it’s like a breath of fresh air
Enjoy this amazing game. I’m jealous of you
- Comment on Currently downloading The Witcher 3 for the first time. Got any advice for me? 6 months ago:
I mean do you really have to suggest him that? He’s gonna get hooked like we all did
In any case W3 gwent is actually kinda crap in terms of balance but that just means you can own them super hard at some point
- Comment on Day 73 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots (Bulk Photo Post) 6 months ago:
Keep up the good work
You will be one of the Lemmy legends in the future
- Comment on What letter has the best games? 6 months ago:
DotA and Dota 2
- Comment on I make games and this literally happened to me this morning 6 months ago:
Isn’t it free up to a certain amount?
Also aren’t you able to create steam keys for free and resell them wherever you want and they won’t take a cut off those?
- Comment on Day 58 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 7 months ago:
Let’s make it to 100 days!
- Comment on The Witcher 4 "won't focus on Geralt," but his voice actor says he'll at least be "a part" of the RPG sequel 8 months ago:
Yea, playing as a no name witcher, doing Witcher things would be cool af
- Comment on Endangered Species 10 months ago:
The murderer is the one doing the burying. This is so that other people don’t accidentally uncover the body.
Or at least that’s what my friend Steve tells me. I have no clue.
- Comment on Images leak of Valve's next game, and it's an Overwatch-style hero shooter 11 months ago:
I played through the whole game with my gf and didn’t see nor read anything that would indicate that.
Regardless of if you play, solo or with up to 4 people there are 4 characters in your party. Your main character can be one of the predefined ones or not. You will probably have/want a mix of both.
First play through will take more than 100h and you will still have plenty to see for subsequent playtroughs. It’s literally impossible to see all of it first time regardless of how you play.
Just get it, it’s not just a GOTY, it’s one of the best games in a long while.
- Comment on Hades II is now available in Steam Early Access! 11 months ago:
Oh I loved Hades so I’ll be getting this very soon. Maybe once I’m done with Sekiro this will be the next I’ll play.
At this point I’ll never finish Nier Replicant…
- Comment on They just suffered a sudden death, that's all 1 year ago:
Why the fuck would he off himself just before I can actually testify against Boeing?? If he hadn’t managed to get the case to court or even after he had testified then I could see it, but this timing is suspicious AF. He could have died naturally and it’s just super bad timing but ain’t no way he killed himself at this point in time.
- Comment on Price of electricity in Finland peaks at 2.35€/kWh today. Keeping my tiny granny cottage warm costs me over 50 euros for a single day. It's negative 25C (77F) outside. 1 year ago:
There are heat pumps that exchange heat with the ground. Those can function well in more extreme temperatures. Also you could/should have alternative heating methods for extreme situations even if they are much more inneficient
- Comment on Steam keeps on winning 1 year ago:
So 3 years? How long did that take epic? About the same time almost 2 decades later?
- Comment on Steam keeps on winning 1 year ago:
Yea no
People complain because the EGS launcher is shit and not getting better in any meaningful way. Plus all the anti consumer shit that they do.
EGS didn’t come out last year. Heck GOG galaxy is fairly decent and it’s not even required and they have a fraction of the budget. And guess what a lot of people like and support them.
- Comment on Steam keeps on winning 1 year ago:
I mean steam sucked for 8 years like 20 years ago. Technology wasn’t the same as it is. They revolutionized the pc gaming scene and I’d argue that even that Steam version was better than the current EGS version. Was it uglier? Yea maybe but it did the job. You could install, manage and launch your games, cloud saves and it wasn’t bloat or spyware. The Steam just kept getting better even if with a messy ui in some places. They do a ton of shit that generates them no direct profit but that makes using Steam a no brainer. And gamers respect and value that even if not all of them.
Heck I’m sure that they very quickly came up with a functional shopping cart at the very least.
- Comment on Steam keeps on winning 1 year ago:
I mean steam sucked for 8 years like 20 years ago. Technology wasn’t the same as it is. They revolutionized the pc gaming scene and I’d argue that even that Steam version was better than the current EGS version. Was it uglier? Yea maybe but it did the job. You could install, manage and launch your games, cloud saves and it wasn’t bloat or spyware. The Steam just kept getting better even if with a messy ui in some places. They do a ton of shit that generates them no direct profit but that makes using Steam a no brainer. And gamers respect and value that even if not all of them.
Heck I’m sure that they very quickly came up with a functional shopping cart at the very least.
- Comment on Steam keeps on winning 1 year ago:
Gabe is 61. Looking at the presidential candidates for the upcoming US election and it even looks young.
- Comment on What's up with Epic Games? 1 year ago:
Steam UI is messy but they have a ton of functionality in their store/system. Epic took ages to even get a functioning cart, Steam has tons of features which are not even tied to the games in their store like remote play and Steam VR. Family sharing is also really cool for example. Also Steam basically killed piracy for a long time due to amazing Steam sales + convenience of use.