kahjtheundedicated
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- Comment on 🤷♂️ → E 4 days ago:
- Comment on How important is owning your own video games to you? 4 days ago:
Pretty important. If I paid real money for the game, I want to have it to play whenever I want in the future. I try to buy on GOG whenever possible, and I keep games I particularly liked archived on my NAS. For games that I’ve bought on steam that I really liked, I download the Fitgirl repack and back that up. If you can’t legally own a copy of your game, sometimes you have to take matters into your to your own hands.
And I have half a mind to to get a stack of archival blu-rays to back up some of my all time favorites, kind of just for fun and bookshelf fodder.
But I’m no archivalist saint, if a game sucked I feel no need to keep those files around.
- Comment on Xbox Nano Controller announced 6 days ago:
I get it, I just don’t get why anybody that isn’t somehow still an Xbox fanboy would buy into that.
What value are they adding? Their streaming service is terrible. Maybe it made a little sense when game pass was impossibly cheap? Even then, it’s real money to not even pretend to own your games.
So why Xbox instead of getting pc games from your preferred store, and maybe remote play from some other service if that’s your thing. It’s as many hoops to jump through as normal pc gaming, so I don’t even see the convenience and simplicity excuse that normal consoles usually get.
- Comment on Xbox Nano Controller announced 6 days ago:
So they’re clearly still chasing the “everything’s an Xbox”.
Which I still don’t get whose buying into that. How is it different than pc games, besides needing an Xbox account and I’m assuming an Xbox live subscription to play online? You’re giving Microsoft control of your games, for what exactly?
Is this only targeting existing “Xbox people”? Do those still exist?
- Comment on Epic Games Launcher preview arrives - Native Linux support, Fortnite for Linux is coming and upgraded Easy Anti-Cheat 6 days ago:
Idk if epic is still doing that, but this image has been sitting on my phone for like 7 years
- Comment on Tiddies are nice but the metric system is better 2 weeks ago:
Deka and Hecto are the metric system’s unloved children
- Comment on Hands-On with Retroid Pocket Duo Lite; Not Quite Magic, But Close 2 weeks ago:
I’m leaning slightly towards the normal Duo, for versatility. I’m starting a new job soon which will require a lot of sitting in airports and planes, so a lot of time to try out different games.
But I’ll probably wait for a review on the Duo first, even if it means taking a while to get one. My new 3DS is still holding in there for now lol. But thanks for the input!
- Comment on Hands-On with Retroid Pocket Duo Lite; Not Quite Magic, But Close 2 weeks ago:
This seems like a great chassis, with a woefully underpowered SOC. That said, it has me excited for the non-lite and the lite plus.
I’m still torn between those two tbh. On one hand I’m drawn to the flat back of the lite plus, on the other the oled screens of the non-lite. For the vast majority of games I play on handhelds I really don’t need analog triggers, but idk, maybe it would be fun to play some old racing games? But the vast, vast majority of what I play is jrpg’s, mostly turn based. So for that, the analog triggers don’t matter at all. Decisions
- Comment on Good luck, space cowboy 3 weeks ago:
Good to know. I do remember dropping it because it felt like I could watch 10 episodes and nothing happened. And sometimes I would just scrub through an episode to see if it’s still the same fight and pretty much just skip it.
When they weren’t fighting for 20 episodes at a time it was a fun show, but ehh idk if I’ll ever get back into it
- Comment on Good luck, space cowboy 3 weeks ago:
I was up to date on One Piece ….in 2015….
Don’t even want to know how far behind I am now - Comment on PCSX2 2.8.0 is now out! | PCSX2 1 month ago:
Dolphin was a pretty mixed bag at the time. I got through Xenoblade Chronicles on that system, but I remember one of the regions on the mechonis(?) would only do like 7fps at best, but other areas would do 20-30. But monkeyball worked pretty well, as did some of the other GameCube games.
Also I don’t think the e8400, or any of the core 2 duo/quad cpu’s had hyperthreading. I know the Pentium 4 had it, not sure about the Pentium D
- Comment on PCSX2 2.8.0 is now out! | PCSX2 1 month ago:
I’m pretty sure I got through persona 3 on that core 2 system. Either an e8400 or q6600. I swapped back and forth a couple times because turns out quad core wasn’t a straight upgrade at the time.
- Comment on PCSX2 2.8.0 is now out! | PCSX2 1 month ago:
Some great improvements!
Also, thats the first time I’ve looked at the recommended specs in a long time. They’re reasonable, but man I remember running pcsx2 on a Core 2 Duo back in the day lol
- Comment on METRO 2039 | Gameplay Trailer - Renegade 1 month ago:
I just hope this one isn’t ray tracing only.
I still remember the disappointment of accidentally downloading the raytraced version of exodus and having to download the normal version overnight. I still don’t have a raytracing capable GPU, but it’s been absolutely fine for anything where raytracing isn’t a hard requirement.
- Comment on Darude Sandstorm 1 month ago:
I’ve heard Riot Rhythm by Sleigh Bells on fucking Fox News
- Comment on The AYN Thor Lite Has Become Something Much Bigger Than AYN Built 2 months ago:
It’s really cool hardware, and the community behind it is awesome! The flexibility of a dual screen is great for a handheld.
I’ve had my eye on the Thor for a while, but android is a bit of a hangup for me. Maybe I’m overly critical, or judging it unfairly, but I’d really prefer Linux. From my perspective, it seems like the glory days of android are well behind us.
- Comment on Hands On with the Anbernic RG SP; The Game Boy Advance SP Reimagined 2 months ago:
Great review as always!
Might have to get one as a dedicated romhack machine, despite already having two perfectly functional SP’s. I think the display and speed up should be well worth the price of admission over either the PSP or 3DS that I keep alternating between.
But I am one of those people that find clicky buttons annoying. But seems like the tape mod is supposed to work pretty well?
- Comment on You don’t realize how bad it smells till you quit 2 months ago:
I’ve never been a smoker, but every now and then I catch a whiff and it smells amazing.
But one time a smoker chick started making out with me at a party and dude her mouth tasted so bad I almost puked. Just burnt and tarry. Blech. If it wasn’t the cigarettes, she must have been eating hot roadkill and the slab of asphalt it was on. Just unbelievably bad
That kind of sealed the deal for me not wanting to smoke, but it still smells good sometimes lol.
- Comment on Game Pass Was Supposed To Save Xbox – Instead, It’s Killing the Company 2 months ago:
But the beauty of an open platform is that people can and have made emulators, vm’s, translation layers, etc.
How much 16-bit software are you running on a ps5?
- Comment on "We still value the culture of physical media" As PlayStation prepares for an all-digital future, Sega president comes out in support of discs 2 months ago:
It would be niche, but it would be relatively low investment and low risk. Going full console with exclusives is extremely high investment and thus high risk. They would have to sell enough consoles via those exclusives to make up for what they would make selling the game cross platform, which seems very unlikely. As a publisher, this would also severely hurt relationships with current clients. These are all reasons why they got out of the console game and pivoted to being a game publisher back in the day. I don’t see them making that mistake twice.
- Comment on "We still value the culture of physical media" As PlayStation prepares for an all-digital future, Sega president comes out in support of discs 2 months ago:
The Xbox is almost the exact opposite of what I’m talking about, and I think that’s their problem. There’s nothing special about it, it has no exclusives, and it doesn’t have access to the practically infinite number of pc games, mods, emulators, etc.
So what I’m proposing is just a prebuilt pc. A prebuilt pc with a unique case, distro, and maybe a cartridge slot of some description. And with the cultural cache of a company like sega, I think it could easily earn its spot as a prebuilt living room gaming and media pc, much like the steam machine.
- Comment on "We still value the culture of physical media" As PlayStation prepares for an all-digital future, Sega president comes out in support of discs 2 months ago:
Oh yeah, now would be a terrible time to do something like that. But when* the hardware market chills out
- Comment on "We still value the culture of physical media" As PlayStation prepares for an all-digital future, Sega president comes out in support of discs 2 months ago:
Hypothetically, if some of these companies start just making little steam machine style computers, with their own Linux distro and themes and etc, do you think they would sell? Like the mini-retro console craze from a few years ago, but just modern computers.
Sell them basically as a console, in this case maybe default to Sega’s store, but it’s still just a Linux PC. Install steam if you want. But out of the box it looks and feels like a sega console. And maybe just promise that it’ll play any game they make for the next 10 years. Which really wouldn’t be much of a promise, just a defined “minimum specs” target for them.
Sega still has a lot of fans, which is why I think something like that could work for them, and it’s way less commitment than making their own walled garden console like they used to do. They wouldn’t be competing for exclusives or even work with other devs and publishers for ports. Just a fun themed pc to get some sega hardware out there again.
- Comment on "We still value the culture of physical media" As PlayStation prepares for an all-digital future, Sega president comes out in support of discs 2 months ago:
I hope this points towards what I think is going to happen, which is an increased push for physical media special/collectors editions.
Maybe even a slight chance of seeing physical PC games in places like GameStop again.
I don’t expect it to ever be mainstream, and probably shouldn’t even expect restocks of most games, but just as a collectors item for fans and collectors. And I think that does fit in with the current business model of places like GameStop, which is mostly collectibles sales.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
That’s fair. I do find the combat pretty clunky. But I’m also not the type that really cares about combat. I drop most games straight to easy, unless it’s turn-based. I seem to have the reflexes of a cat undergoing rigor mortis. So in games like the Witcher, the combat only serves as a plot device, rather than the point of the game.
What I ended up loving about the Witcher 3 is the characters and the worldbuilding
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Just curious, did you make it to Novigrad?
The first few time I tried to play it I did so with my usual completionist mindset, and got bored of wandering around the swamps before dropping it. I replayed it more recently, and just got to Novigrad as fast as possible, and that’s when it finally hooked me. Finished the main game and the expansions, finished all quests except the couple I skipped early game and couldn’t go back to. The start of the game is painfully slow, but when you get into the meat of it, it’s so good.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
I replayed the main game, and played the expansions for the first time a few months ago. It still feels like a new game to me, and since they did a big graphics update in 2022, so it pretty much is. The movement is a little clunky to me, but that’s the only thing that even comes close to letting it down. I had a hard time getting into it when it was new, but this time around it got me hooked line and sinker. I find it strikes a really good balance between a story driven narrative, and rpg, and I just got so invested in it. It was a little sad when I ran out of content, so I’m really looking forward to the new expansion.
So if not obvious, I highly recommend it.
- Comment on We have Reese's peanut butter cups at home: 3 months ago:
Both don’t stand a chance against Teddie. The only ingredients that should be in peanut butter are peanuts, and maybe salt
- Comment on Copper 3 months ago:
Respect for taking the time to model that. Goes to show why heat sinks look the way they do, and not just big lumps of metal lol
- Comment on Time to bring back physical media on PC? 3 months ago:
Exactly
