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- Comment on Anon compares Harry and Ron 1 day ago:
I imagine most Americans picture something like Surrey when they imagine rural England.
- Comment on Anon compares Harry and Ron 1 day ago:
They all were?
- Comment on Anon works at gamestop 3 days ago:
Sadly it’s dead community. Last post was over a year ago
- Comment on After Years of Struggling To Be Noticed, My Indie Game Was Covered By VICE 4 days ago:
Yeah I don’t want to find out about games in this game community.
- Comment on After Years of Struggling To Be Noticed, My Indie Game Was Covered By VICE 4 days ago:
Also I need to use Windows anyway for work so it’s going to be dual booted anyway and if it’s going to be dual booted anyway then the entire “supporting them” argument is irrelevant.
Also right-wing fascist developed Lemmy so a little bit of worldview consistency would be nice
- Comment on After Years of Struggling To Be Noticed, My Indie Game Was Covered By VICE 4 days ago:
Yeah I mean it’s why I’m here. I’m much more interested in finding out about indie games then AAA games, if only because I probably already know about the AAA games. Especially because they’re apparently AAAA these days, and presumably some of that budget includes advertising.
- Comment on Man who lost bitcoin fortune in Welsh tip explores purchase of entire landfill 6 days ago:
How come we have to talk about this prat every 4 weeks?
- Comment on Driver caught doing 122mph on 30mph road as UK’s shocking speed records revealed 1 week ago:
The goal is to have the sun never set on you.
- Comment on Driver caught doing 122mph on 30mph road as UK’s shocking speed records revealed 1 week ago:
There’s a road near me that clearly should be a 50 but they can’t be arsed so they’ve just slapped to 30 limit on it. It’s long straight has no hills has two lanes and a central reservation, it’s a perfectly safe road.
But at 150 mph that road would be a death sentence, because it has a very very slight curvature to it, so slight that you barely even notice that you are going around the corner your brain just automatically has you turn the steering wheel ever so slightly. At 150 though the motion would probably destabilize the car.
- Comment on Valve ban advertising-based business models on Steam, no forced adverts like in mobile games 1 week ago:
But trading cards are real physical things that you can sell loot boxes and virtual goods that will disappear if the game developers ever decide that they’ll go and you also can’t sell them.
The problem with the CS go gambling site was that that was an extra thing on top of the skins. The gambling was added by a third party.
No one’s gambling with Pokémon cards.
- Comment on Valve ban advertising-based business models on Steam, no forced adverts like in mobile games 1 week ago:
Well apart from anything else rare cards actually are worth real money. But there’s no legitimate way to sell loop boxes if you decide you want to get out of it.
- Comment on Valve ban advertising-based business models on Steam, no forced adverts like in mobile games 1 week ago:
If you see Google launch a “free game only” store for PC, get worried.
I would be astonished if there was anything good on it though. If you are going to make a microtransaction game you probably don’t want to put a lot of effort into it because people won’t play it for more than about a week. This stuff’s only profitable if you can shovel new games out of the door on a regular basis.
- Comment on Valve ban advertising-based business models on Steam, no forced adverts like in mobile games 1 week ago:
You can always tell when a game has been ported over from PC due to the fact the game takes up the whole screen.
- Comment on Anon removes a fence 2 weeks ago:
This was back in the '90s so I don’t really remember the details and I wasn’t actually there to witness it, just the aftermath. I assume the boot leather just wore down.
- Comment on Anon removes a fence 2 weeks ago:
Oh that unlocked a memory.
I used to work on a construction site and everyone wore steel toed boots, anyway one time it was very cold and some guy decided to lick the toe of his boot to see if it would stick to his tongue. It did.
They were always a pain for being cold I remember. In a hot country they’d probably burn your toes. There’s a reason most people don’t wear metal shoes.
- Comment on Anon questions the KKK 2 weeks ago:
That’s not really pertinent to my point.
Also I’m thinking more of all of the people paying patronage to country parsons which absolutely is a product of the 1400s onwards.
- Comment on Anon questions the KKK 2 weeks ago:
as time goes on I’m beginning to realize that religion is a tool of politics
Yeah that’s always been the point of religion. They needed some way to control people in the 1400s, so they told them that if they didn’t do what they were told, and incidentally pay the church a lot of money, then the big man in the sky would be unhappy. That was about the level of sophistication that a con required back then.
Even as recently as 200 years ago pastors didn’t really believe in god, it was just a convenient job to do if you were relatively well off but still needed employment, and didn’t want to do any laboring. That’s why a lot of them ended up being scientists, they were rich and bored.
- Comment on Multiverse 3 weeks ago:
Most Americans acknowledge the existence of other countries, that just refuse to believe those other countries have access to electricity, plumbing, or the internet.
- Comment on Multiverse 3 weeks ago:
I think that’s North Korea
- Comment on WH Smith in secret talks to sell historic high street arm 3 weeks ago:
I was going to say I can’t remember the last time I intentionally went in one of their stores. It has always been bad value for money.
- Comment on DOOM: The Dark Ages | Gameplay Sizzle | Coming May 15, 2025 3 weeks ago:
I think it’s because they’ve started designing games that use PS5 as the minimum standard for hardware requirements.
I don’t mind about Ray tracing being a requirement in theory I just think that they’re doing it about 5 years too early. If they just waited until Real-Time Ray tracing had been around long enough that some cards had hit the second hand market it wouldn’t be so bad
- Comment on It's a good group! 4 weeks ago:
I know the book was but this older people who think that starship troopers is profascism, are also a sort of people that will definitely not be well read.
- Comment on It's a good group! 4 weeks ago:
It’s amazing the number of people who do.
He’s got Neil Patrick Harris in it how on Earth can it possibly be pro military?
- Comment on Anon fixes Super Mario Bros 4 weeks ago:
I used to play this game when I was like 10 I don’t remember it being particularly frustrating it wasn’t easy but I don’t remember it being impossibly difficult.
- Comment on Anon experiences German humor 4 weeks ago:
You only need Speedos if you’re going to France. They have a weird thing about Speedos
- Comment on Anon experiences German humor 4 weeks ago:
I’m pretty sure that’s just how Barcelona operates.
- Comment on GTA VI Might Inspire Other AAA Developers to Price Their Games at $100 4 weeks ago:
I don’t know though you’ve got to consider your target audience and their income method. The income method for the target audience of pokemon games is asking their parents.
- Comment on Anon questions North Korea 4 weeks ago:
Unless the bombs contain salt all that would do is turn over the soil.
- Comment on Based Red Dead 4 weeks ago:
Show me the example of a left-wing politician talking about woke.
- Comment on GTA VI Might Inspire Other AAA Developers to Price Their Games at $100 4 weeks ago:
Yeah but they don’t cost $100