Zarxrax
@Zarxrax@lemmy.world
- Comment on 3 days ago:
I can’t imagine paying $1000 to play my backlog of under $5 games.
- Comment on The rich convinced us that taxing them is too complicated but everyday people can be taxed pretty easily 1 week ago:
Capital gains should just be taxed as regular income instead of having a special rate.
- Comment on What gaming console you owned disappointed you the most and why ? 2 weeks ago:
Probably the Sega 32X. The messaging around it was kind of confusing, and still being fairly young when it came out, I was expecting it to be the gateway to 32 bit gaming that I would be enjoying for years to come. I ended up getting virtua racing on it, which was better than the Genesis version, but nothing spectacular really. I also got virtua fighter, which was a genuinely good game. Almost everything else was ports of mediocre games that had already come out on the Genesis. A couple of original games like knuckles chaotix just… Kinda sucked. Then when I found out that all of the support was going behind the Saturn, and that’s where all of the new and original games were going, well I just felt swindled.
- Comment on Frame-Gen to 30fps? Lego Batman's "Bizarre" PC Specs Sheet Is a Case Study in How Not To Market a Game 3 weeks ago:
Well maybe, but fsr still doesn’t include frame gen, right?
- Comment on Frame-Gen to 30fps? Lego Batman's "Bizarre" PC Specs Sheet Is a Case Study in How Not To Market a Game 3 weeks ago:
The weird thing about it, is it says you need dlss upscaling and frame gen to reach 30 fps at 1080p for the minimum requirements… But the GPU listed is a GTX 960 which doesn’t support any of that in the first place!
My personal thought on that matter is that they are probably saying that a GTX 960 can get you 1080p at 30 fps, but they recommend enabling dlss if you have a more powerful card that supports it (which would take you above 30fps). Maybe I’m wrong, but that’s the only way it makes any sense to me.
- Comment on Guilty Gear Strive Ver. 2.00 Patch Notes 1 month ago:
I think I am finally going to join in on this game since they are still putting so much support behind it. It looks pretty awesome.
- Comment on A Game Pass for indie games: meet Indie Pass, a $6.99-a-month subscription launching with 70 titles 1 month ago:
I mean, I can understand the appeal of it. I’m probably not going to buy any of the games on here even if they were cheap, because I don’t know anything about them. But if I have an opportunity to try out 70 games for a low price, I might give it a try. Afterwards maybe I found a couple that I actually liked and I can shell out a bit more directly to the developer to buy it.
- Comment on No Jam Today: The Animation - Trailer Made with Wan/WAI/Noob (full behind the scenes and observations included) 1 month ago:
The description mentions it is fake and an April fools joke.
- Comment on What was the first game you ever bought ? 2 months ago:
The first game that I specifically remember buying with my own money was TMNT 3 on the NES. And hell yeah it was worth it!
- Comment on Free AI Video Production Suite: LTX Desktop 2 months ago:
Not with those model sizes, I can’t.
- Comment on Why do you need a launcher? (asking older gamers actually) 3 months ago:
I played PC games since the early 90s, so I am well familiar with how things used to be before steam. And it was fine. I was hesitant to use steam at first, because like you say, I simply didn’t understand the point of it. Sometime after Valve released the orange box, that ended up being the first thing I bought on steam. And back then, some of the first things that I noticed about it was the ease of installing games, and the friends list that let me talk to and play games with my friends. I ended up getting really into team fortress 2, largely because I could play with people I knew, and we could even chat outside the game easily. It was easy to buy other games that these same friends were playing, and then enjoy a different game with them.
I got used to steam and it began to feel convenient, and at the same time, physical media started dying off. Steam let me easily install and uninstall any of my games whenever I wanted. I didn’t have to keep track of any physical media. I don’t have any of my old PC games from the 90s anymore. I have no idea where there went or how I lost them. But they are just gone. However, I still have every game I’ve ever bought on steam.
I’m not a heavy gamer anymore. If I see something I want, it’s easy to just put it on my wishlist and wait until it goes on sale at a price I think is reasonable. If I feel bored, I might open up my full list of games and browse for something to install. My game saves get backed up to the cloud. My controllers just work. Everything related to the gaming experience is integrated into one place, and I like that, it makes it easy. And for the most part, steam kind of just stays out of my way.
- Comment on ostris/Z-Image-De-Turbo · A De-distilled Z-Image-Turbo 5 months ago:
A distilled model is a more lightweight version of a full model which can run in fewer steps at slightly reduced quality.
Z-image-turbo is a distilled model, and the full version of the model will be released soon.
This post is referring to someone attempting to somehow undo the distillation to make an approximation of the full model, I guess. Which is basically pointless because as I said, the actual full model will release soon.
- Comment on The best games of 2025, picked by NPR's staff 5 months ago:
NPR reviews games now?
- Comment on Gamepad for Linux Gaming? 6 months ago:
I tried out Linux a few months back, and one of the things I could never get working was my Bluetooth Xbox controller. The controller would just blink and never connect to the Bluetooth. Any idea what needs to be done to get it working? I was kind of annoyed that it didn’t just work since it’s such a popular controller.
- Comment on Steam Autumn Sale 2025 Has Begun 7 months ago:
I might pick up monster train and doom eternal. Yeah, I still haven’t played doom eternal.
- Comment on Travel back to the days of cable TV with Blippo+, a time-hopping FMV game about... I'm not entirely sure, actually 8 months ago:
That looks really interesting, but I’m just left wondering what the objective is, or what kind of gameplay is actually there.
- Comment on Would-be City of Heroes successor, Ship of Heroes, decides to launch the MMO with a $45 price tag and a $15 monthly subscription and it's, er, going about as well as you'd expect 8 months ago:
A ship sounds a lot less exciting than a city.
- Comment on Um if I upload a pic of my dog can someone cartoonize it like smoking a blunt or cigar or cig?? Don't really know how it works here because the mods post shhoow. Any help will help?? 8 months ago:
Just use Google Gemini
- Comment on AI Isn’t Coming for Hollywood. It's Already Arrived 9 months ago:
Without paywall: archive.is/4oEi2
- Comment on Power Network Tycoon (in late early access), a power distribution company management game, releases a major update focused on the late game experience. 11 months ago:
I’ve had my eye on this for a bit, as the concept of it catches my interest. I got a little confused when I tried the demo though, so I’ve held off on it. I might give it a serious try if it ever comes out of early access.
- Comment on A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"? 11 months ago:
Exactly this. Yoshi’s Story was a follow up to Yoshi’s Island, often considered one of the greatest 2d platformers of all time. I spent weeks if not months completing Yoshi’s Island. Then when Yoshi’s Story came out, I rented it and completed it over the weekend.
- Comment on First/notable 3D games where you could dive below water (and walk on land) 11 months ago:
I think tomb raider let you swim underwater.
- Comment on Classic Gaming: Retro Gaming Growing Up 11 months ago:
I’m a little younger, I grew up playing the NES. I had so much fun and some of my best memories are from playing those games with friends and stuff. But I find it really hard to revisit most of those games based on their own merit.
There is definitely a thing about playing games together with another person that can be magical. And that isn’t gone. You can still do that today with modern games. So in that regard, I don’t think there is anything particularly special about 80s games. Heck, it wasn’t until the N64 that it was common for more than 2 people to be able to play together. A bunch of guys hanging out and all playing a game together was great.
I think losing that is just a factor of growing up. You move on from your friends, maybe you don’t make any new ones, you start mainly playing against faceless strangers online… It’s not a problem with the games, it’s a problem with the players.
- Comment on Why do people like Mario Kart? 11 months ago:
It’s fun because you never know what will happen. It’s not totally random, the more skilled players will tend to win more often than not, just not every time. Also there are other game modes than just racing. Back when me and my friends played on SNES and N64, it was almost always battle mode.
- Comment on What did Musk and Trump fall out over? 11 months ago:
Nah, musk has said some stuff that you don’t come back from. There is no way Trump says “eh, he accused me of being a pedophile but it’s all good”.
- Comment on MultiVersus officially closes down and is delisted today 11 months ago:
I bought the first Nickelodeon game a couple months after it released, and the online was already dead, I literally couldn’t find a match. Just went ahead and got a refund on it.
- Comment on MultiVersus officially closes down and is delisted today 11 months ago:
It really sucked because Smash Bros is basically the only other big platform fighter on the market. Multiversus was set up to actually be a viable alternative to smash, it was massively popular at first, and they had such an amazing library of characters to pull from. The game had everything going for it. And they just blew it. So badly.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
Well, you could play the original Sega Genesis games, since that’s where it all started.
- Comment on Game media preservation, where? 1 year ago:
- Comment on Fishing games? 1 year ago:
The only fishing game I’ve ever played was The Black Bass on the NES. Being an older game, it has fairly simplistic gameplay that’s actually very similar to the fishing mini games that you see today.