Soggy
@Soggy@lemmy.world
- Comment on AAA Dominance Is Eroding: 56% of PC Gaming Revenue Now Goes to Games Outside the Top 20 3 days ago:
3070 can’t play them to my standard.
You’ve poisoned yourself. Chasing fidelity and refresh rates has done for graphics what short-form media did to attention spans. I’m emulating PS1 games and playing Fallout 4 on a 970 while my computer fans blow like the flight deck of an aircraft carrier and I am free.
- Comment on Game franchises you like, but wish were anothet genre of video game? 4 days ago:
Oh, and it would be nice if the main character wasn’t automatically the leader of every faction in the game.
Really wish Bethesda would get over this and their fear of letting players miss out on some of the content in their gigantic worlds. Taking over a guild should be hard and it should have consequences. Preston Garvey knows Nate/Nora all of fifteen minutes and puts you in charge of an entire movement (while gatekeeping essential system mechanics behind further investment in his faction, fuck you if you wanted to roleplay as a raider warlord you gotta be a good boy first)
Actually the whole first hour or two of FO4 is the core of what is wrong with it. They went all-in on essentially an E3 demo and expect every player to follow along exactly their rails.
- Comment on Game franchises you like, but wish were anothet genre of video game? 4 days ago:
What I really want is Steel Battalion.
- Comment on Game franchises you like, but wish were anothet genre of video game? 4 days ago:
I really love the idea of asymmetrical games like DBD but the community always ruins it. Evolve was absutely incredible in the first few weeks before players optimized all the tension out (and before the backlash over what is now laughably tame monetization).
- Comment on If you were to generated a completely random sequence of sounds, how long would it take to produce music or a voice? 4 days ago:
Not necessarily. There are an infinite number of outputs that aren’t those things.
- Comment on Hot Take: most modern games are designed to purely kill time 4 days ago:
Fuck off then, stop hiding your “I don’t care for the current trends in gaming” behind a boomer-ass “they don’t make em like they used to” take. There’s tons of good games and there’s always been a bunch of low-effort garbage to sift through. We used to call it “shovel-ware”.
- Comment on If someone opened a store and just sold stuff at cost, which undercuts every other competitors by alot. Would this not for the big corps to come way down on their prices? 3 weeks ago:
Corporatocracy is part of, and the logical conclusion of, any economic system that values private profit. Capitalism is not the pure, uncorrupted version of this. (And from where I’m sitting you’re a bootlicker too for takes like “he built that company with his own sweat and he deserves to reap the benefits of such.” It conpletely ignores the labor everyone else put into that company, from the employees to the supply chain to the tax-funded infrastructure.)
- Comment on We Spoke To Game Devs And All Of Them Hate DLSS 5: 'What The F***, Nvidia?' 4 weeks ago:
It’s called “sealioning” and the only solution is to not engage with these types. They aren’t interested in honest answers, just controlling the conversation with a veneer of legitimacy to shield them from criticism.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Imagine if “exciting” was the only metric all art was judged by.
- Comment on Obsidian's The Outer Worlds 2 Underperformed, and There Won't Be a Third - IGN 2 months ago:
It was a pretty standard anti-corporate satire that would not have stood out against films like Brazil or Joe vs the Volcano.
- Comment on How long until we can start shorting years to 2 numbers again? 3 months ago:
I prefer “naughties”
- Comment on Trying to find a messenger bag at Amazon 4 months ago:
Timbuk2 isn’t as good as they used to be. If you can find a used one it’s worth it, I’ve had mine for like twenty years, but I wouldn’t gamble on one made in the last five years. (They closed all their physical stores and cut costs on manufacturing by moving offshore)
- Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur 4 months ago:
Well it started with a genocidal colonial project. Then it started with the repression of class revolts like Bacon’s Rebellion. Then it started with the framing of a union of states that gave extra representation to rural slave-owners because their economic production was important. But it all started when those rural slave-owners wanted to make sure that new territorial expansions (remember, genocidal colonial project) also allowed slavery. Later it started when Lincoln was assassinated and his successor, Andrew Johnson, gave up on Reconstruction so the seditious slave-owning traitors weren’t held accountable for the sedition or slavery and were allowed back into seats of political power.
- Comment on I just learned 37% of Americans fear vaccinating their dog will cause the dog to develop autism. 😐 4 months ago:
Good thing it’s extremely preventable thanks to modern medicine. We should all be so lucky that our greatest fear is 100% avoidable through easy life choices.
- Comment on What's going on with Quentin Tarantino? 4 months ago:
And it’s different from all the times other directors have an actress take her top off?
- Comment on Do you cheat in video games? 4 months ago:
Honorless swine! Screen-looking is an offense of the highest order!
- Comment on Why do some Americans "feel ashamed" for being American even when it's not their fault? 4 months ago:
This is kind of the plot of Armored Core if you also made it a cyberpunk corporate dystopia.
- Comment on Gaming Pet Peeves 4 months ago:
I do not want to have to sit through every cutscenes I already know by heart.
Forget it, there’s no way you’re taking Kairi’s heart!
- Comment on When you wake up, how long does it take for your brain's "OS" to "resume from hibernation"? 4 months ago:
“Tummy hurts, gonna hard reset the situation and see if it helps.”
- Comment on Don't like the 'left liberal bias' of cited and sourced Wikipedia articles? Not a problem, our lord and savior Elon is introducing Grokipedia. 4 months ago:
All the tech fascists steal words. Palantir is from Lord of the Rings.
- Comment on Never buying milk from Walmart again 5 months ago:
I don’t think I’ve ever seen non-homogenized milk in a jug like that.
- Comment on Never buying milk from Walmart again 5 months ago:
Milk is so easy to tell if it’s spoiled, no reason to throw it out without a sniff test.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 5 months ago:
The explanation I heard was that “ghost” stuck around because “Holy Ghost” was in the printed bibles and people didn’t question that authority.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 5 months ago:
At least use thorn AND eth to distinguish the unvoiced and voiced (respectively) if you’re going to bother at all.
- Comment on Did it really used to be common for guys to go to a bar every night like in Cheers or The Simpsons? 5 months ago:
Many Native American cultures did not know about alcohol before it was introduced by Europeans, same in Australia and New Zealand. The many deleterious effects of colonization are certainly “a significant element in their cultural development” but maybe not in the way you intended.
- Comment on Game developers desperate for you to join their Discord "server" 6 months ago:
they’re not public
This is a huge issue, honestly. Discord’s search function is awful and you have to find the right server before you can even try to find the information. Any standard search engine can find a post in a classic forum.
Also, scrolling through giant pages of constantly updating chatter is a miserable interface. Split it up into pages!
- Comment on Game developers desperate for you to join their Discord "server" 6 months ago:
That’s just the Twitch brainrot. People that want forums back (including me) do not want to be in a room with 13k people. That’s not a community.
- Comment on Kindergarten forced to back down after proposing to charge parents $2,200 for their own children’s art 6 months ago:
Considering how little disposable income most Americans I know have, you must be truly fucked.
- Comment on 'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash: 'If you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor, you're going to be disappointed' 6 months ago:
When was the last time Randy Pitchford got through a day without being a prick?
- Comment on 'An embarrassing failure of the US patent system': Videogame IP lawyer says Nintendo's latest patents on Pokémon mechanics 'should not have happened, full stop' 6 months ago:
That doesn’t seem to be true. Patents are listed foremost among types of IP in multiple sources.