Couldbealeotard
@Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world
- Comment on PSBLACKOUT (boycott of PlayStation) 3 days ago:
Not that is should be a valid response, but you can jail break PlayStations to play whatever game you have a “back up” copy of. That tends to be my method of playing legacy PS games because it’s easier than dealing with discs.
At the end of the day, console gaming is a different product to PC gaming. That’s more obvious with Nintendo, but overall expectations should be different.
- Comment on PSBLACKOUT (boycott of PlayStation) 4 days ago:
The comparison still doesn’t make sense. You can’t play a PlayStation disc on a different platform. If you buy a disc on console you are locked to that ecosystem.
Sony are doing this because not enough people buy discs to make it worth manufacturing, and PC gamers should know this because this new age of digital gaming started with the PC. Switching to PC just proves their point.
- Comment on thoughts and prayers for science 1 week ago:
If God exists, I reckon we are a high school simulation project that he forgot and accidentally left running.
- Comment on thoughts and prayers for science 1 week ago:
That’s what I don’t understand about creationists. If you believe god made everything, what’s wrong with believing God used evolution to do it? If the answer is “take the Bible literally”, well that doesn’t work because of all the shit in the Bible that they choose to ignore.
The premise of religion is designed to be bullet proof: god requires faith, don’t test god. It’s required that you have to believe it without proof. Why add things that are so far out there like “the devil/god made fossils as a trick to test your faith”?
- Comment on If a famous person or character's likeness is copyrighted and you need to license it to use it, could you find a real-life lookalike and say you modelled your character off of *that* person instead? 2 weeks ago:
I’ve never heard of that, and I’m not sure I believe it. For a few reasons: 1, Pierce Brosnan did lend his likeness to a bunch of PS1 Bond games, 2, if they used a look alike and presented it as Brosnan it would still be Brosnan’s likeness. 3, they probably had his likeness as part of a greater contract whether or not he personally turned up for the production of said games.
Crispin Glover sued when they used prosthetics on an actor to look like him in the back to the future sequel that he wasn’t hired for. Just because they don’t use your face doesn’t mean it’s not unauthorised use of your likeness.
In one or more of the Buffy games, Sarah Michelle Gellar didn’t turn up to help make the game but she still would’ve received royalties for her likeness.
- Comment on UK weather: Amber extreme heat warning issued as 35C heatwave approaches 1 month ago:
A lot of the UK do not have air conditioning and their houses are build to keep heat.
Dangerous is exactly what it is for health vulnerable people and places that don’t take adequate health and safety measures. These are heatwaves that the country is not used to having, especially at the frequency we are now seeing, and people are dying because of this heat.
- Comment on UK weather: Amber extreme heat warning issued as 35C heatwave approaches 1 month ago:
I’m from Australia, where I remember multiple times in my life where we’ve had a week of over 40 degrees.
I’ve been to the UK during one of their heatwaves and I can tell you that 36 degrees over there is dangerous. I don’t know if it’s something to do with the humidity or whatever, but it’s way worse than 40 degrees in Australia.
- Comment on Anon is a gamer 2 months ago:
I liked the first shadow of … game better but the general consensus is that the second game is better. If you like LOTR even slightly and also enjoy Batman Arkham style combat I think you’ll enjoy them.
- Comment on Anon is a gamer 2 months ago:
It’s even deeper than that. They will have names and personalities. If you defeat one by cutting off its arm, it will reappear later with a prosthetic arm and maybe even some dialogue about your last encounter. They keep all the scars from your battles.
- Comment on Confirmed: PS5 console prices are being raised by $100 | VGC 4 months ago:
It’s the stand that comes with the console. I didn’t notice them at first and was wondering why my ps5 was a bit unstable. Just a clear little clip thing that hides underneath.
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 4 months ago:
What, you guys don’t have
phonesextra graphics cards in your computers? - Comment on Xbox just revealed Gaming Copilot is coming to "current-generation consoles" later this year 4 months ago:
Why must people pay video games? If people don’t like it, just don’t play it. Watch a YouTube playthrough if you must.
Automating the experience of art is such a dystopian nightmare.
- Comment on World's Video Game Companies 6 months ago:
Where’s Microsoft on the list?
- Comment on How long until we can start shorting years to 2 numbers again? 7 months ago:
Just start by dropping it down to 3 numbers and see how you go from there.
- Comment on Anon is a fan of GabeN 7 months ago:
I think they’ve even been forced to pay fines because they refused to give refunds in countries where it’s a legal right.
- Comment on Exclusive: Writer Confirms ‘Star Trek: Khan’ Is Being Treated As Canon, Talks Potential Future Audio Series 8 months ago:
Lucas would always say that the EU was canon. Not because he had supervised them, not because they were written well, but because being canon means the fans will feel they “need” to consume it.
No studio is going to outright say anything is non-canon because it’s a bad marketing technique.
- Comment on Who's your favorite female protagonist in a video game? (Add pic of character in response) 9 months ago:
Aya Brea, from Parasite Eve
The perfect mix of unsuspecting hero, chosen one, and bad ass. The sequel also gives her an Ellen Riply in Aliens vibe as well. Shame about 3rd Birthday and the fact we will never get another one. For those who don’t know, the owner of the original IP didn’t want to renew the license for the games, which means the games can no longer use anything from the novel which includes all references to mitochondria and Eve. That’s why 3rd Birthday was seemingly a totally different game; they tried to make a sequel that couldn’t reference any of the main plot points of the previous games or novel.
- Comment on It is only half greentext, though amusing 9 months ago:
That really does suck when work obligations can be in conflict with genuine friendships. A big part of why I prefer to keep things separate.
- Comment on It is only half greentext, though amusing 9 months ago:
You can be friendly without being actual friends. I prefer not to make actual friends at work, the exception being once I’m no longer working with I’m more likely to spend time with them socially. I never understand why people get so upset when you don’t want to be friends; they interpret that as “you must hate me if you don’t want to be my friend”. No, I just have a finite amount of time and energy for friends.
My performance is not based on friendship stats like some kind of dating sim.
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 9 months ago:
What’s your process to rip from Spotify? Do you get full quality?
- Comment on What's your test for people? 9 months ago:
This comment section is a nice mix of “I’m a waiter, please don’t do this, you’re making my job harder” and “I always do this to make the waiters’ lives easier”
- Comment on Microsoft doing shady Microsoft stuff again 10 months ago:
There is a possible version of windows that is good and that people want. It’s a just a shame that Microsoft isn’t interested it making it.
As someone who grew up on windows, I’m willing to stay with it for as long as I can make it like that version. I don’t want Mac, and Linux doesn’t support enough (still, but maybe one day)
- Comment on oh cool 10 months ago:
Boo.
Haters gonna hate Gaters gonna gate
- Comment on Charlie Kirk in his own words. 10 months ago:
As a non American, I don’t understand how this longer quote is any different from what was said by the person you are replying to.
- Comment on Anon doesn't like AI 10 months ago:
Something something infinite growth
- Comment on Why aren't there many controllers with the ability to physically swap out the ABXY layout between Xbox/PC and Nintendo layout? 11 months ago:
That’s right, circle was accept because drawing a circle in Japanese is their equivalent to a tick, x is cancel like a cross, I think the square was supposed to look like a piece of paper, I can’t remember what the triangle symbolised.
- Comment on Call of Cthulhu 11 months ago:
Is this a real picture?! Wild!
- Comment on Thanks I hate it 11 months ago:
None of those things are a paid job though. This literally is someones job.
- Comment on Thanks I hate it 11 months ago:
Putting shit back the way you found it is not “above and beyond”
- Comment on Sony Sues Tencent Over Horizon Lookalike 11 months ago:
I think it’s proven fact that things often sell off of the art and IP, sometimes for those alone. If that wasn’t the case they wouldn’t fight so hard to protect it.
