aesthelete
@aesthelete@lemmy.world
- Comment on wtf i love capitalism now 4 days ago:
Love is love
- Comment on Switch 2 Teardown: Still Glued, Still Soldered, Still Drifting 5 days ago:
Yeah I’m not a huge fan of their recent “direction” either, but it actually would’ve been a lot more innovative for Nintendo to offer a headless switch in a tiny form factor. Maybe that’s just the old, highly innovative ways of Nintendo going by the wayside.
It’s a shame because Nintendo is a lot more accessible from a “casual gamer” perspective. I’ve even gotten my parents to play switch and wii games over the years. I don’t think they’d ever touch an xbox or ps.
- Comment on Switch 2 Teardown: Still Glued, Still Soldered, Still Drifting 5 days ago:
Give me a Switch without a screen. No battery. No detachable controllers. Just a brick that plugs into the wall and the TV, compatible with a Pro controller. Probably could even sell that at a reduced price too. Maybe even overclock it and give it a bigger cooling solution to get better performance. Maybe Nintendo’s newer games can actually run at a stable 60 fps on their own hardware finally.
I’m actually in the same boat. I hardly ever play the switch in handheld mode. It is incredibly uncomfortable for anyone over the age and/or hand size of a 12 year old. The form factor is terrible for mobile use IMO. Even when we don’t play the switch docked on the TV, we have taken to playing it plugged into a small USB-C monitor on a side table in front of the couch.
I really wish Nintendo would offer a different option like you’re saying here. The only thing that’s nice about the Switch form factor is the size for portability IMO. Scrap the screen (and probably even the battery) and offer an option that’s as small as (or even smaller than) one of those NUC-looking mini PCs that are all the rage nowadays.
- Comment on Switch 2 Teardown: Still Glued, Still Soldered, Still Drifting 5 days ago:
Disappointing to say the least.
My wife loves the switch but has gone through 3 or 4 different sets of controllers. I tried my hand at repairing one of them and it was not fun – to put it mildly – and I do not savor repeating the experience. I honestly did not know there were hall effect replacements for the original joycon sticks, and wish I had known that when I replaced the one I did.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
No you’re not overreacting, but if you’re in America unfortunately you basically have to drive to be a full fledged person. Our governments do not provide you an alternative. I’d personally love to quit myself, but I’m the only driver in my household.
- Comment on Are foldable phones as good/bad as they say? 1 week ago:
I like it a lot but I have a clamshell. I don’t understand the purpose of the other form factors. It really isn’t much different from other phones after a while, except you forget about how nobody else’s phone closes or fits in their pocket.
- Comment on Switch 2 Breaks Records By Selling Over 3.5 Million Units In Four Days 1 week ago:
I’m old enough to remember people saying the n64 sucked compared to the PlayStation. Then I remember Mario 64 and GoldenEye being released.
Nintendo consoles are usually underpowered and the games are often overpriced…but there are reasons why people keep going with the company. They make fun shit.
- Comment on Switch 2 Breaks Records By Selling Over 3.5 Million Units In Four Days 1 week ago:
The original switch was a bargain too relatively speaking. My one switch outlasted about five or six phones I owned over the same time span.
It does kinda suck that it’s gone up in price in the new generation, but like… PlayStation 5 was also around the same price a couple of years ago, when money was worth more.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
shrug to each their own
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Animal Crossing New Horizons was great. I was also a pretty big fan of Mario Odyssey. Both Zelda games were great (though I know the first one was released to the Wii U or whatever). Mario Kart was great of course. Mario party was a little underwhelming this time but I think they’ve since released a better one. Smash Brothers was great. Mario Wonder? Was pretty awesome too.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
You were saying earlier the main reason someone would buy a switch 2 was nostalgia. Nintendo still makes great games that generally run great even on their lowered speced hardware. Some of the games for the switch were some of the best installments in their respective franchises.
I’ve become disillusioned a bit with them for other reasons (console repairability, their litigiousness, the semi-closed ecosystem, joycon drift, the higher game price points lately) but the exclusive games are still rocking, and the exclusive games are a lot of the reason you’d buy a switch 2.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
But most people are very nostalgic (can’t blame them, SNES to Wii Zeldas and Metroids were amazing) and have uncontrollable FOMO, which Nintendo keeps on milking even when their software and hardware is noticeably much worse than it’s competitors’.
This reads like someone who never played any of the switch titles. It’s not simply nostalgia. The switch titles were objectively good despite lackluster hardware. The switch lasted for almost a decade and is still playable today. People are buying switch 2 to be able to play the Nintendo exclusives.
It’s true that the hardware is largely lackluster, but especially in the case of the first party titles, and in general overall, the lackluster hardware just doesn’t prevent the games from looking and running great. Nintendo invests in developers capable of running large, complex games on somewhat modest hardware.
- Comment on "And my dick fucks your wife more than you do. What's your point?" 2 weeks ago:
Sounds like you got ripped off
- Comment on Happy PrIDE Month 2 weeks ago:
Needs more integrated development environments underneath as well.
- Comment on Nintendo warns Switch 2 GameChat users: “Your chat is recorded” 2 weeks ago:
That won’t matter. Discus comments are tied to people’s real identities in most cases and that didn’t stop them from posting unhinged bullshit underneath every non-notable story.
- Comment on What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews. 2 weeks ago:
I played it sometime toward the end of last year using proton. I’ll have to try it again.
- Comment on What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews. 2 weeks ago:
The Linux version is utter dog shit. It’s native but it’s really terrible looking.
- Comment on So close! 2 weeks ago:
It’s not new and also nobody calls it “water based cooking” because that’s stupid.
- Comment on Don't Look Up 3 weeks ago:
Gotcha. I was just somewhere and didn’t realize those things existed until I heard one. It’s like the inventor of gas powered leaf blowers just wanted to ruin some more people’s days.
- Comment on Don't Look Up 3 weeks ago:
Did any of them have those dumb little, loud ass engines attached? Because, if so, I understand a little more.
- Comment on For the second time in my life, I'm going to eat soap.😋 3 weeks ago:
Everyone thinks of nothing but fame and $$$$ at any cost and then they wonder why everything is such shit.
- Comment on For the second time in my life, I'm going to eat soap.😋 3 weeks ago:
So dignity and self-respect are so debased to you that they’re considered “nothing” at this point?
- Comment on The world is falling apart! Send us your money! 3 weeks ago:
I donate quite a bit and I’ve only found AOC and Bernie (big surprise) to be ones that are looking for something other than “send me another check” as a follow-up to your donation.
- Comment on The world is falling apart! Send us your money! 3 weeks ago:
It pisses me off when they run some “get a free x” with donation that they alert me about just after i already donated for fucking bubkiss.
They do it very often too.
I can’t donate to them anymore after 2024. Like they had a billion dollars in donor money and they lost badly. I don’t even know WTF they used the money for.
- Comment on I am not a builder… but that does not seem right 3 weeks ago:
This type of wife hatred is commonly mined for nuggets of supposed comedic gold. “I hate my wife” is a similar type of comedy for guys that’s not very dissimilar from “I hate my kids and love wine” for moms.
This type of comedy was becoming pretty outmoded during the Obama years, but the MAGA zoomers are trying to bring it back.
My personal opinion is that it sucks, and that if you really hate your wife so much you should consider divorce.
- Comment on This ad that claims that windows 11 is 3 times faster than windows 10 3 weeks ago:
The world would be a lot better if liars suffered an unrecoverable reputational hit for lying.
- Comment on The USA spends $15k/student annually which is 30% higher than the global median. Why do U.S. schools have "fundraisers" where kids are incentivized to sell stuff to people? 4 weeks ago:
It encourages then to develop that grindset early.
- Comment on Netflix puts AI ads in paid tier: pirate EVERYTHING at this point... 🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️ 14:55 4 weeks ago:
The problem with pirating Netflix material is that there’s nothing new worth watching on it anyways.
- Comment on Software engineer lost his $150K-a-year job to AI—he’s been rejected for 800 jobs and forced to DoorDash and live in a trailer to make ends meet 5 weeks ago:
I got a real one. We made money on our wedding because the wedding and receptions were so cheap.
- Comment on ‘Doom: The Dark Ages’ DRM Is Locking Out Linux Users Who Bought the Game 5 weeks ago:
I played it for just a couple of hours and I understood why you were saying that. It was either dance around like an idiot or make no progress. I similarly didn’t like it and stopped playing it.