thatKamGuy
@thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Bethesda unveils new logo 1 day ago:
Dread it. Run from it. Retro status arrives all the same.
- Comment on What games did you sleep on for too long? 2 days ago:
I was expecting you to recommend Elden Ring, honestly!
Willing to tackle the series chronologically, if that’s what you think would be the best way to familiarise myself with the genre.
- Comment on What games did you sleep on for too long? 3 days ago:
From Software Souls-like games.
In fact, I’m still technically sleeping on them as I do t know where to start. Assuming I can only play on a PS3 or Steam Deck - where would be the best jumping in point?
- Comment on Does Albanese's idea for more Australian oil supplies stack up? 5 days ago:
I too have Solar & Battery, with an EV landing in October. I believe we should electrify as much of our infrastructure using green energy as possible. But I’m also old and wise enough to know that not everything can be.
We wouldn’t be doing this to be “subsidising” individual ICE use, but rather to ensure that industries that can’t readily electrify - such as farms still having diesel for their tractors, harvesters, combines to keep growing our food; for commercial trucks to be able to transport these critical goods across our great wide nation; to keep planes in the air, connecting us to the rest of the world; for national security, ensuring that when hostilities escalate overseas, we will be able to keep the wheels turning.
When times are plentiful, we can run these operations at a minimal loss and enable us to ramp up production profitably from private parties when times get tough - while ensuring that critical and emergency services have the necessary fuel to operate.
- Comment on PSBLACKOUT (boycott of PlayStation) 5 days ago:
Absolute platinum tier brain-dead take.
The only “morons” around here are people who loudly and proudly share the same stupid disinfo, and try to disparage those that actually trying to keep this hobby from completely going down the shitter.
No one’s trying to take away your ability to buy and play digital games, so why the fuck are you advocating doing so for those that prefer physical media?
Has your dumb-ass not yet realised that physical media means competitive pricing, due to Sony’s online store needing to compete with B&M sales, as well as the 2nd hand market?
Once that’s taken away, and you’re stuck with “dynamic targeted pricing” of $70+ dollars for years-old titles - if you can even still purchase them - maybe then, the couple of brain cells floating around in that massive waste of space between your ears might just manage to find each other, and it will finally dawn on you just how hard you’re now getting fucked over.
Oh, and by-the-way - removing digital-only titles and DLC from the sales metrics, something like ~50% of game sales are still through physical media.
- Comment on Does Albanese's idea for more Australian oil supplies stack up? 5 days ago:
I don’t think every Government enterprise needs to be “profitable”; an investment in national security, energy independence and price stability can be subsidised by tax-payers to provide us the ability to absorb global price shocks.
The facility can be run on a skeleton crew normally, providing a reliable base-load volume while having the ability to ramp up refining volumes as circumstances require.
It’s the same way I feel about our desalination plant in Victoria. Having the plant available on stand-by for the upcoming super el-niño event leaves us in a much better position than not.
- Comment on Does Albanese's idea for more Australian oil supplies stack up? 5 days ago:
Even in an ideal world where every Australian commuter vehicle is an EV, we would still need our own ability to process and refine oil into aviation fuel, diesel for farming/trucking, and probably a few other vital resources that I’m forgetting.
But I broadly agree with you, if we are to build another - it needs to be a national asset and not a private one; so that works to ensure our energy sovereignty as much as possible, and not shareholder profits.
- Comment on Victorian premier to face leadership challenge this week 6 days ago:
I think part of it is that weird Aussie “fair go” sentiment: “these guys have been in long enough, time for the other mob to have a crack” - before doing a quick 180 shortly thereafter, as soon as we realise what an absolute shit-show a Libs/ONP state gov’t would be.
- Comment on Brought to you by RFK Jr. 1 week ago:
Actor best known for playing laughably dumb characters, turns out to actually be laughably dumb.
Playing to his strengths, I suppose?
- Comment on Can the Liberal Party recover? | 7.30 1 week ago:
I’m a 40-something white collar worker earning a six figure income, that predominantly is as a result of my labour.
Just because my wife and I own shares that pay dividends, as well as having a few other sources of “passive” income mean that we aren’t part of the labour force.
The Capitalist class refers to individuals with an 8+ figure net worth who’s primary source of income is passive - ie. their wealth and political influence is on a scale that dwarves what the other >99% of the nation.
- Comment on Can the Liberal Party recover? | 7.30 1 week ago:
Yeah, nah.
Very few Aussies are in a position such that their money earns their income, rather than their labour.
- Comment on Need to lose 15lbs in less than a week? I got you. 1 week ago:
That is not all that accurate; “muscle mass” lost during a relatively short fast (1-2 days) is due to glycogen depletion - ie. you’re burning your sugar stores, and your body sheds 3-4mL of stored water for every gram of glycogen burned.
If you stop to think about it, it’s a bit nonsensical to claim that the body would burn additional calories (that it doesn’t have) to convert existing muscle into fat, rather than just burn existing fat stores as a fall-back source of energy.
Muscle breakdown only really begins when the body starts to experience a significant shortfall in required essential amino acids over a prolonged period of time, or significant physical stress.
- Comment on Can the Liberal Party recover? | 7.30 1 week ago:
Whether or not the Liberal Party will recover is moot. The Capitalist class will just reform under a new banner, out of the ashes, just as they did before.
It’s not hard to be cynical when you realise every such party throughout the history of Australia was predominantly built upon the notion of opposing the party of labour.
- Comment on Gotta go sad! 2 weeks ago:
Lemmy only accepts bespoke, artisanal, hand-crafted shitposts.
- Comment on Microsoft Teams status 3 weeks ago:
I learned from my wife that you can start a meeting by yourself using the Meet Now button on the Teams calendar, and that will keep you flagged as Busy.
- Comment on Limited Run's Co-Founder Once Had Aspirations To Make A "Physically-Focused Platform" 4 weeks ago:
I’d love to see something like the SuperDock come out for the Steam Machine, except like - actually functioning would be a bonus!
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
As a fellow Aussie, just be aware that importing goods from overseas does make you liable to pay for GST on them at the border.
As a nation, we love a punt - and I’ve taken that gamble multiple times without issue bringing in tech in my luggage - but just be mindful of that fact.
- Comment on #StopPayingGames 5 weeks ago:
Rockstar Games, Inc. is an American video game publisher based in New York City. The company was established in December 1998 as a subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive…
- Comment on We've all been there 5 weeks ago:
Double-sided tape them to the inside of your thigh - problem solved.
- Comment on First post here. I hope you are welcoming to dyslexic people in this shirtposting community! 1 month ago:
💩 🗳️
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Wait, I thought that was the one with Will Farrell and Mark Wahlberg?
- Comment on Game Reveals kind of suck now .. 1 month ago:
I recently showed a 60-something year old relative the two GTA6 trailers, while explaining my looking forward to trailer 3 and the game’s launch.
They remembered me playing Vice City back in the early 00s, so we watched its first two trailers also and let me tell you - for all of modern gaming’s faults - marketing has gotten a lot better in the intervening years.
- Comment on Why Games Now Take 6+ Years To Make 1 month ago:
You’re right, we tend to distill value per dollar - but that’s a 2-dimensional equation: games can either be longer but more expensive - or shorter and cheaper.
As an extreme example, I have gotten so much value out of games like Minecraft and Vampire Survivors that my cost-per-hour played is in single-digit cents. Neither is pretty (graphically), and both were very cheap early-access titles when I bought them.
Comparatively, I can’t think of any recent AAA releases have had anywhere near the level of replayability of indie passion projects.
Bit of a tangent, but I personally think the gaming experience peaked in the PS3/X360 era - and the industry has been largely treading water ever since. Nothing that’s come out over the last two console generations couldn’t have been done on those earlier platforms (albeit with lower graphical fidelity).
- Comment on Why Games Now Take 6+ Years To Make 1 month ago:
How would you rank Max Payne 2 in that comparison? It was more fun (subjective), prettier (objective), but shorter (from memory).
- Comment on What’s your favorite video game that most people didn’t like ?? 1 month ago:
Legitimately, SR4 was my introduction to the series and I absolutely adored the shit out of it.
If you haven’t checked it out yet - The Gat Out of Hell expansion had a very similar super-powered play-style.
- Comment on Can the second coming of Tony Abbott resurrect the Liberal party? Or is it another step toward ‘self-destruction’? 1 month ago:
Anyone intelligent enough to warn a PhD is probably smart enough to want to avoid the Liberal Party implosion like the plague.
- Comment on Trump's now trying to get a golf course in Australia.. After his tower was blocked 2 months ago:
You say corruption, I say he’s eyeing to get an invite to the new tropical pedophile island for the Epstein class.
- Comment on Former prime minister Tony Abbott elected unopposed as Liberal Party president 2 months ago:
Sloan Zone (just before his current hiatus) touched on this topic and unsurprisingly, the Liberals have chosen to double-down on barreling towards irrelevancy as quickly as possible.
- Comment on Another redundant app 2 months ago:
AR glasses auto-applying your preferred FaceTune filters?
- Comment on Valve has raised Steam Deck prices in the US 2 months ago:
It’s weird that I’m actively rooting for China to do it’s thing and begin to rapidly pump out cheap memory modules in such high volumes that they are able to over-satiate demand and put a downward pressure on pricing.
Before anyone tries to accuse me of copium or some other affliction, I would like to remind you that this is EXACTLY China’s modus operandi for the past 20-something years.
Both Samsung & SK Hynix were just in the news for issuing their DRAM division staff annual bonuses of well over $300K USD from a 10-15% pool of operating profits. The margins are there for China to squeeze once their manufacturing capability catches up - and it’s catching up very quickly.
