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- Comment on Are PC handhelds like Steam Deck really competitors for Switch 2? 1 week ago:
Within an enthusiast bubble, PC handhelds are a big deal, but they do not exist in the same universe as Nintendo consoles.
I keep hearing this shit and it seems like stupid wishful thinking, because in a locked-down universe where Switch 2 is not a shitty proposition for way too much cash compared to getting a PC with 10k+ PC games from the get go and also emulating anything you wish because it’s your hardware and it’s just bits - in that universe, Polygon is a much needed pool of experts that people go to for advice instead of clicking on stupid ragebait titles telling them a log of shit is the new snickers.
- Comment on Ubi, it's $70 and people are vary of your mile wide puddles that drop 75% in price after half a year 3 weeks ago:
Hardly ruin, you have to purposefully go find them gloating over Steam charts. But it’s too funny that people really have choice enough now in the good graphics segment that Ubisoft is sinking. It’s my fault, I cursed them when they left Steam for their 4-UAC-prompts-whenever-you-start PoS. They showed total contempt for their users with Breakpoint, tried an nft grift on the side, evolved all cosmetics to clown shoes level and totally failed to offer anything new. Where’s Reflextions? Stuff like Grow Up / Home, metroidvanias on UbiArt Framework? They have great 3D engines and can’t keep a team happy or unfired enough to have people that know how to use it and optimize a game and are able to take some risks with game design. It’s all either heavily monetized multiplayer dreck or incremental QoL features in ever larger and shallower sandboxes in one of few large franchise flavors. There’s not that much to discuss, woo bamboo cutting tech, a new coat of paint and some gimmicks. People claiming it’s failing because it’s either woke or culture appropriating are ascribing cultural import to a happy meal.
- Comment on Ubi, it's $70 and people are vary of your mile wide puddles that drop 75% in price after half a year 3 weeks ago:
I was misinformed by an Azerbaijani home electronics swap meet board
- Ubi, it's $70 and people are vary of your mile wide puddles that drop 75% in price after half a yearlemmy.world ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 78 comments
- Comment on Dichen Lachman on ‘Severance’ Season 2 Finale’s ‘Very Emotional’ Scene : ‘It Started to Just Feel So Real in That Moment’ 3 weeks ago:
No it didn’t, it continued to feel uninspired and maybe felt a little rushed. I am very sad their script turned out to be such pocket spaghetti
- Comment on rule 5 weeks ago:
This is a programmer who only learns the functions xe needs
- Comment on The Simple Act of Buying a Graphics Card Is the Defining Misery of PC Gaming in 2025 5 weeks ago:
It’s pretty okay if you’re like me, i.e. have no needs above full hd res and can either take or leave rtx
- Comment on uhh… my ex girlfriend and long-time friend is now cishet, very christian, and makes those “i identify as” jokes regarding trans people. would it end up bad for me if i continued to be her friend? 1 month ago:
not everyone is able to nor should become an ambassador for their “group”.
it’s also not everyone’s responsibility
I’m not talking about moral duty or responsibility, I’m just saying the outcomes are better for the person doing the choosing if they engage with the world around them instead of shut it out.
you might find yourself laughing along with hurtful jokes when you don’t want to. Especially when it’s an old friend.
If it’s an old friend, then you especially need to make some effort, for your own sake if not theirs. People are using “nazi” and “bigot” as thought-terminating cliches, but in many cases you can have a normal conversation the person you’d call a nazi for their online output about things not related to your or their identity or politics. You can learn woodworking from a nazi and go on to make furniture hammer&sickle instead of a swastika. It’s an extreme example, perhaps, but in my view it’s also really extreme to peddle this extreme misanthropy as advice to people on the internet you don’t know about their friends you also don’t know. “Engage with them and try” seems to me like less of an error these days if we’re talking generalizations then “cut them off”.
- Comment on uhh… my ex girlfriend and long-time friend is now cishet, very christian, and makes those “i identify as” jokes regarding trans people. would it end up bad for me if i continued to be her friend? 1 month ago:
cutting contact will help your mental health
I keep seeing this as self-help advice and it’s completely wrong in my opinion, both for a person in question and for all trans people around them. On societal level, if nobody engages one another things will just slide even worse. And on a personal level, you don’t always get to choose open-minded friends. If you just push everyone away waiting for more compatible people, you’ll be alone. Poptimism really oversells a strong individual standing alone in a world of bigots.
it also might teach your friend that those jokes hurt, and that her new choices have consequences.
A better way is to not cut the person out but explain it to them, over and over. You cut them out, the lesson they’ll probably learn is that they lost a friend to a biblical plague of gayness or something. Engaging is hard, but unless you try, you’re doing nothing.
- Comment on Avowed is the most fun I’ve have had since Skyrim! 1 month ago:
If you like RPGs, I highly recommend giving it a try.
At 15€ or less certainly, they can get fucked with 70€.
there’s no reason not to check it out!
I wouldn’t pay Microsoft for a subscription if it was the last way to play games left.
- Comment on Mass Effect 5: BioWare Doesn't 'Require Support From the Full Studio', EA Moves Some Staff to Other Teams 2 months ago:
Two was horrible, the end boss skeleton is the stupidest shit. I liked the first, endured the second to the end and never touched the third or Andromeda
- Comment on Why is it when I watch a movie at home? It seems like I have to go deaf just this way. I can hear the audio of somebody speaking compared to the explosions and other special effect sounds? 2 months ago:
Emmerich and Zemeckis
- Comment on After shutting down several popular emulators, Nintendo admits emulation is legal 2 months ago:
It’s not even Lionel Richie.
- Comment on After shutting down several popular emulators, Nintendo admits emulation is legal 2 months ago:
Did you just all-black-people-look-the-same yourself
- Comment on Microsoft is combining “the best of Xbox and Windows together” for handhelds 3 months ago:
I was hoping I’d fly under the radar will they have their heads deep in llm ass, but Gaben basically mortally wounded Windows and it’s bleeding out
- Comment on The Talos Principle gets "radically overhauled reawakening" in new definitive edition 4 months ago:
UE5
Fuck, I was hoping they’re working on their own engine still.
- Comment on Indiana Jones and the Great Circle - Review Thread 4 months ago:
More power to them, I’ll stick to my hobby of schadenfreude while AAA burns.
- Comment on Indiana Jones and the Great Circle - Review Thread 4 months ago:
That’s the first thing that came to mind when I saw the scores, I’m not reading reviews of Bethesda’s games other than players’ reviews on Steam.
- Comment on Indiana Jones and the Great Circle - Review Thread 4 months ago:
I thought it was going to be mediocre at best.
I fully expect it to be a mediocre shooter with some good environmental puzzles and nice graphics, Starfield had 85+/100 reviews before coming out. We’ll find out once it actually releases, in two years with all of the hypothetical DLC included for 15€. Bethesda can fuck right off with their 50€ offerings.
- Comment on Technical ambition, optimism, and timeframes: what we learned about The Witcher 4 from speaking to CD Projekt Red 4 months ago:
Eurogamer has scraped the barrel
Quelle putaclique
- Comment on Bloomberg: Sony Interactive Entertainment working on portable PS5 4 months ago:
They also don’t have enough games for their last generation to justify a new console, it’s a lot of work populating a library and their ex-exclusives are now playable on Deck. Which, even if it didn’t have thousands of games out of the gate, would actually be a cool mobile PC with guaranteed Linux drivers.
- Comment on Bloomberg: Sony Interactive Entertainment working on portable PS5 4 months ago:
Those who don’t understand Steam Deck are doomed to reinvent it
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
I know and don’t mind the jokes, you folks are doing a good job on lemmy.world communities that I follow. I started “teachers” and “education” subreddits a lifetime ago with a free-speech-absolutist mindset and quickly realized that they become a cesspool without someone grinding through reports 24/7.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
“Still kinda related”
Please, Lord, let me never become a moderator, keep my reasoning intact.
- Comment on Veilguard Isn’t the First Dragon Age Game to Face ‘Woke’ Criticism 5 months ago:
Take my lemmy gold kind stranger
- Comment on Veilguard Isn’t the First Dragon Age Game to Face ‘Woke’ Criticism 5 months ago:
Its problem is not that it’s woke, but that it’s shit.
- Comment on Why doesn't Lemmy have a system like Reddit's Karma? 5 months ago:
Because it’s shit made to drive engagement, not worth anything. Unlike reddit which views you as assets to make it money and incentivises use, lemmy owners pay for the bandwidth, don’t get anything from out shitposts and if anything it would be in their interest to disincentivise use.
- Comment on Dragon Age: The Veilguard Reviews Are In — Is BioWare’s Back in a Big Way? 5 months ago:
Never seen mortismal and I’ve only seen SkillUp a few times. I don’t really follow or need any review at release time, I’m not touching any game that’s 50€ or more until two years have passed and it’s in the vicinity of 75% off.
- Comment on Dragon Age: The Veilguard Reviews Are In — Is BioWare’s Back in a Big Way? 5 months ago:
Can someone give me a rundown on why there‘s so much negativity revolving around this?
First five minutes of SkillUp’s review is a good rundown. It seems like a mindless action clickathon with imitation of gameplay seen in better games, a safe sterile story and a large chunk of world design repurposed leftovers from someone’s abandoned Overwatch-but-DA ambitions.
- Comment on Worker Slams Boss For Telling Colleague With Dying Mom To 'Man Up': 'Now His Mom Is Sick And He's Falling Apart' 5 months ago:
I was kind of hoping that shithole will die in a bot excrement ingestion spiral, not become primary sources.
