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- Comment on "Fewer people are playing Call of Duty this year than they have been before" Why has Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 seemingly sold below expectations? Is it simply not good enough? [Eurogamer] 4 hours ago:
They seem to not understand what made the good games good, and then when a game does do well, they try to milk it. The yearly releases are likely too much as well.
Black ops 3 was cool -> ruined with predatory micro transactions. anyone remember how they would pair you with people who had the items you were viewing in the loot box menu in an attempt to get you to purchase? And then the odds were stupidly low to actually get the items.
The modern warfare reboot was cool. But again they slowly ruined it entry after entry.
Black ops was kinda neat last year. Then they tried to milk it again.
Idk I’m kinda rambling here but if you’ve played most of the titles I think it makes sense as to why people aren’t always getting every one at this point
- Comment on Roblox is a problem — but it’s a symptom of something worse 19 hours ago:
I wish we could find out what part of these ceo’s brains are physically broken and fix it by force. There’s the whole Grey area of like is this ethical but if we could determine this defect without any error I think it would be a breakthrough similar to curing cancer.
- Comment on Japanese devs face font licensing dilemma as leading provider increases annual plan price from $380 to $20,000+ 1 day ago:
So then it sounds like somebody just needs to provide a font for applications that is a low priced one time payment and they would do pretty well. I wonder how difficult it is
- Comment on Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out 3 days ago:
Odd move. You already can’t trust ai results. mixing in ads is going to make it even worse. It’s going to try to manipulate people
- Comment on Which of the two would you purchase for someone who’s not so technical? 5 days ago:
Hmm so I would say go with the switch 2 mainly because you mentioned money isn’t an issue. It’s going to be purely peace of mind as you’re not going to need to do any major troubleshooting later.
Alternatively just go with the steam deck and let her use it normally and (I assume as I’ve never owned a steam deck) it should just be plug and play the same as a switch.
Coming from experience, if it was me and my mom in the same situation, I would go with the switch 2 because I know there would be less stress involved overall. I normally do the tech help requests for my parents’ pc’s and phones, and it always surprises me how they can sometimes manage to break things or get themselves into a pickle.
- Comment on HP plans to save millions by laying off thousands, ramping up AI use 6 days ago:
And the money trickles up to those highest on the pyramid. Classic
- Comment on My Car Is Becoming a Brick: EVs are poised to age like smartphones. 1 week ago:
I didn’t know this, thanks for sharing!
- Comment on How do I get into Doki Doki Literature Club? 1 week ago:
If you’re triggered easily, I’m not sure if the game is a good fit for you as it does delve into some deeper, more serious topics.
The only other thing I could think of to try and resolve this issue would be to purposely spoil the plot of the game for yourself by reading summaries in advance and then make the judgement call on whether or not you believe you can handle the subject matter?
- Comment on My Car Is Becoming a Brick: EVs are poised to age like smartphones. 1 week ago:
If we can push towards green electricity generation, I would be up for an electric car. Where I live our electricity isn’t green so it feels kind of…counter intuitive in a sense.
My main gripe with any new vehicle is touch screens. If there’s a touch screen in the thing ima flip a table. Give me physical buttons please. Oh I guess my secondary gripe is trying to make cars compact in ways that make it impossible difficult to work on yourself.
I want smaller cars, but I also want something that people can work on easily.
- Comment on Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing the economy 1 week ago:
Why would that hurt the economy? If you want people to spend money, make things affordable and useful. They make things shittier and more expensive and then wonder why people aren’t buying
- Comment on Many Top MAGA Trolls Aren’t Even in the U.S - Elon Musk’s new X feature has been very revealing. 1 week ago:
I’m going to be a pest and argue semantics.
For point number 2. Musk has never been an American, and i would argue that he has no true country as he only cares about himself. From what I understand, he created his business illegally after losing his visa status in the US for some time.
- Comment on You can now try the Xbox Full Screen Experience on any PC, laptop, or tablet 1 week ago:
I just want access to my whole Xbox library on my PC. There’s a small amount of overlap, but not much.
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me" 2 weeks ago:
Explains why windows has been such garbage. Remember when windows 10 was advertised as the last windows? Lol
- Comment on a Landscape of Knowledge Games 2 weeks ago:
I did really like Obra Dinn! I thought I might not due to the theme of the game and the color pallette but those worries were gone after playing it. It was a lot of fun piecing the story together. I played both Obra Dinn and Blue Prince with my spouse and I think it made it more enjoyable for me because I tend to hyper focus in on like random details or I’ll look at the big picture and forget other little things, so it was fun to play and experience them together.
I enjoyed Blue Prince but the repeating structure of the game started to wear a bit thin as you progressed. I kinda wish there was a toggle to ensure quicker completion once a person completed the main objective. I didn’t bother to go and finish the extra bits n bobs because I felt like it was just too much busy work at that point.
- Comment on a Landscape of Knowledge Games 2 weeks ago:
Out of this list I’ve played (in order)
Fez Outer Wilds Return of the obra dinn Blue prince
Outer Wilds was my favorite of the bunch. I didn’t know anything about it and went in blind. It’s gotta be in my top 5 favorite games, if not number 1.
Subnautica felt similar due to the exploration element. I wish there were more games like this.
- Comment on Jeff Bezos reportedly launches new AI startup with himself as CEO 2 weeks ago:
I feel like we’re probably screwed either way at this point. Everything seems to just be getting more expensive with no end in sight. Maybe it’s me being bitter, but I would at least like to see the billionaires money burn a little lol. Unfortunately, no matter what happens they’ll be ok, and everyone else suffers regardless, so idk.
- Comment on Jeff Bezos reportedly launches new AI startup with himself as CEO 2 weeks ago:
Oh man I wish. Let’s get it over with already lol
- Comment on Subnautica 2 Publisher Asked ChatGPT For Help Dumping Founders 2 weeks ago:
I have played it! I thought the water gameplay was pretty good, but the on land was not my favorite.
I really liked the cyclops submarine as a mobile base. It just felt like it made the underwater sections feel claustrophobic and dangerous at every turn once you encountered the larger leviathans. I missed it a lot in below zero
- Comment on Subnautica 2 Publisher Asked ChatGPT For Help Dumping Founders 2 weeks ago:
Damn. That’s a huge shame. The first game was excellent. I was really hoping we would get something similar
- Comment on Arc Raiders review - a smartly designed extraction shooter marred by one inexcusable decision 3 weeks ago:
They also make the game “The finals” which also uses AI voices. If I recall correctly, they paid some people to offer their voices to be used for AI generated voice lines.
I wish they didn’t though because the rest of the game is really good. It’s like they took the look of mirrors edge and combined it with battlefield gameplay in a smaller map design and no vehicles.
- Comment on [RANT] Why is so much coverage of "AI" devoted to this belief that we've never had automation before (and that management even really wants it)? 4 weeks ago:
Amazon just laid off 14,000 workers, and they’re claiming they can do their jobs with AI.
They’re already making AI commercials for TV and AI images for advertising, and there was a post here about AI music that hit the top 100 played on Spotify or something. Now, how cost-effective and efficient these all are? I have no idea.
I think there’s both overhype and reality. I think it’s a bit of both. Companies want people to believe AI is the way forward. But I also think part of this is smoke and mirrors. I actually don’t know how much of it is truth and until we start hearing more first-hand accounts, I feel like it’s very up in the air.
- Comment on Here’s what ads on your $2,000 Samsung smart fridge will look like 4 weeks ago:
The one thing I’ve personally found, is that buying devices with less points of failure has been helpful when possible.
- Comment on Konami instantly shot down the Wachowskis’ request to have Hideo Kojima make a Matrix game, it’s claimed [VGC] 5 weeks ago:
Lol I’ve often heard the other movies weren’t as good but I’ve only seen the first. Are they that bad?
- Comment on 10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him. Bad idea. 5 weeks ago:
Yup exactly. They stop crimes of opportunity
- Comment on Cooperative indie darling RV There Yet cruises past 1.3 million sales [Eurogamer] 5 weeks ago:
I have been enjoying these multiplayer games. They’re pretty silly. Also, I really appreciate that these indie titles have a much lower price point.
Only problem is I don’t have time to enjoy them all. Too many games!
- Comment on 10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him. Bad idea. 5 weeks ago:
I love this guy. His videos have shown me to never trust locks
- Comment on Halo community lead wears PlayStation t-shirt to announce: ‘Halo is on PlayStation going forward’ [VGC] 5 weeks ago:
I’m really hoping all my existing purchases can be played via PC one day. If “everything” is indeed becoming an xbox, then I’m hoping this becomes a reality. I’m disappointed they’re moving away from their traditional consoles, though. It feels like the end of something special.
- Comment on [Epilepsy issue] YouTube AI Filter Is Making My Videos Dangerous To Watch by Anton Petrov - Oct 26, 2025 (Video, 6:09 min) 5 weeks ago:
My personal guess was to get people “used” to AI video. If you slap a smear over everything, it makes it look similar
Alternatively, it could have been an attempt to clean up video to make it look better. However, the implementation and where I’ve seen it seems to make little sense. It generally makes everything look worse, so I have no clue.
- Comment on More than 1,200 games journalists have left the media in the last two years [VGC] 5 weeks ago:
Whenever these massive tech companies started laying people off during 2020 was when I went “well shit”. I was only a year into my job and struggled to find something even somewhat relevant. Tech workers have become a dime a dozen now it seems. Heck all workers seem to have. Now with the whole AI thing I’m trying to think of what I can pivot to.
Tech is ruined for me personally. I don’t want to touch AI. I’ve been considering some kind of business i can start myself or like…I don’t know really. I’m just burnt out and don’t know what the future will look like. There’s so much uncertainty
- Comment on ‘I’ve never used it and probably never will’: Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu says he won’t use AI to make music [VGC] 5 weeks ago:
The GOAT