thatKamGuy
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- Comment on Ubisoft's Saudi-funded Assassin's Creed DLC provokes staff unrest, but the publisher insists partnering with the controversial regime is A-OK 1 day ago:
Saudi Arabia has had a lot of success in improving their international reputation through ‘sportswashing’.
This just comes as a natural extension of this, seeing to but their way into the good graces of gamers.
- Comment on Ubisoft's Saudi-funded Assassin's Creed DLC provokes staff unrest, but the publisher insists partnering with the controversial regime is A-OK 1 day ago:
If you’re referring to Patrice Désilets, he also worked on Brotherhood - which is commonly considered the best entry in the series of that generation.
But now knowing his full history with Ubisoft, it exciting so much why Revelations and AC3 felt like a step backwards…
- Comment on 'My Advice to Users Is to Accept Reality and Tune, or to Not Play' — Randy Pitchford Is at the 'Get a Refund From Steam' Stage of the Borderlands 4 PC Performance Backlash 3 days ago:
I think that was the one that started in an ice zone, if I remember correctly? I literally couldn’t get past it because I find that aesthetic quite boring…
- Comment on 'My Advice to Users Is to Accept Reality and Tune, or to Not Play' — Randy Pitchford Is at the 'Get a Refund From Steam' Stage of the Borderlands 4 PC Performance Backlash 3 days ago:
I played the hell out of the first Borderlands (including New Game+ across all expansions), but promptly bounced off 2 & Pre-Sequel because it literally just felt like more of the same and I was already sated.
BL3 and now BL4 are literally just more of the same, but with ever increasingly more egregious monetisation.
- Comment on Yoshi and the Mysterious Book - Announcement Trailer 1 week ago:
Not the Yoshi’s Island 2 we deserved, but the Yoshi’s Island 2 we needed.
Still won’t give Nintendo a cent of my money, so I look forward to emulating this at some point in the not too distant future.
- Comment on Victorian Labor targets affluent Melbourne suburbs for rezoning to allow 16-storey apartment towers 1 week ago:
Legitimately would commit heinous, unspeakable acts if it would give us access to a 4 bed, 3 bath apartment with an extra room for a home office in Oakleigh at an affordable price.
- Comment on Amid Palworld Lawsuit, Nintendo Patents a System for Summoning a Character 1 week ago:
All good, I’m currently lodging a patent on lodging patents for a system for summoning a character.
See you in court, Nintendo!
P.S.: I’m also lodging a patent for a system of pirating every single game on a Nintendo platform (past, present and future), however I will be opening that one up to the public once granted.
- Comment on Anon doesn't like AI 1 week ago:
For what it’s worth; the world will survive and adapt. Whether that means the extinction of humanity, is a whole separate matter altogether.
Our species entire existence is a mere blip compared to dinosaurs for an example.
- Comment on Anon doesn't like AI 1 week ago:
Capitalism is a rabid dog, that only managed to serve the middle class well in the past because it was kept muzzled and on a tight leash.
Successive, and successful attempts to ‘unleash the beast’ have left us bit, and apologies for mixing metaphors here, but there is probably no way left, to get the genie back into the bottle:
Undoing 50+ years of damage would take time, especially when faced with resistance from those that stand to benefit most from the current broken system (think the Top 1% of the 1%), and that is time that we simply do not seem to have.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 1 week ago:
I’m ok with there being a conversation on this topic, even if the arguments devolve to ‘waaah’ vs. ‘git gud’.
Ultimately though, I agree that a small dev team shouldn’t have to focus on a game-mode outside their vision - and any such demand for an easy-mode or other additions can and should be left up to mod makers.
It’s a single-player game, so in the end how the individual user wants to play is how they should be able to play.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🤪 Friday 5 September 2025 2 weeks ago:
I haven’t thought about Imgur for a hot minute. Thanks for the heads-up!
- Comment on From defending anti-immigration rallies to punching journalists, Bob Katter is known for being 'colourful' 2 weeks ago:
The main reason we just accept it is that FNQ seemingly does strange things to people.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong is out now on Steam - and it broke Steam servers for 15 minutes and counting now 2 weeks ago:
Activision/Blizzard have frequently had game launches where their servers were unavailable due to demand.
But that’s probably more due to terrible network infrastructure, than overwhelming demand!
- Comment on Sony is releasing a new PS5 console, but it's a downgrade 2 weeks ago:
Can’t; you are objectively correct.
- Comment on ABS decision to reuse biased, coercive Census religion question puts human rights in the spotlight 2 weeks ago:
If ever the option of Atheist / Agnostic / Non-Religious is missing, then I’ll opt to mis-classify as a Sikh, Hindu or other peaceful minority religion so that they have more of a chance to be recognised.
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 2 weeks ago:
I thought they’d absolutely love objects without flared bases - keeps them employ, and entertained!
- Comment on Discussion Thread: 🐌 Saturday 30 August 2025 3 weeks ago:
At least it wasn’t “Large, Grande, and Venti”!
- Comment on Discussion Thread: 🐌 Saturday 30 August 2025 3 weeks ago:
My understanding is that the author of an APK will now need to be verified through some Google service, in order to be able to sign the file and be accepted by an Android device regardless of if it came through the Play (or alt) styles, or sideloaded directly by a user.
So it’s not quite as locked down as iOS, but definitely a step in that direction (and in the wrong direction, IMO).
- Comment on Over 450 Diablo developers at Blizzard have unionized 3 weeks ago:
As a bit of a thought exercise, I went through every mainline GTA game using that website to get an idea of each title’s respective headcount:
- GTA : 86 people (DOS)
- GTA2 : 170 professional roles (Windows)
- GTA3 : 185 professional roles (PS2)
- GTA:VC : 688 professional roles (PS2)
- GTA:SA : 780 people (PS2)
- GTA4 : 1,333 professional roles (PS3)
- GTA5 : 3,686 professional roles (X360)
So while the general headcount growth over time tends to track, as each generation of platform requires more and more people to churn out higher fidelity content, I can’t help but wonder what portion of that headcount is just there to churn out micro transaction and Games-as-a-Service garbage.
- Comment on No Man's Sky: Voyagers update releases today, introduces customizable "colossal, fully furnished, completely bespoke Corvette-class starships" 3 weeks ago:
I don’t get how/why it’s still profitable for them to keep working on it - but I’m in full support.
It’s not to dissimilar to Minecraft in a number of ways, in a sense - there’s not really any drive to do anything in particular, it’s ultimately up to the player to do what they feel like.
It’s a literal sandbox, rather than a narrative experience. It’s not everyone’s cup of tea, that’s perfectly fine!
- Comment on Over 450 Diablo developers at Blizzard have unionized 3 weeks ago:
According to the Diablo IV credits, over 9,500 people worked on that title in some capacity:
- Comment on PS5 may get more price increases in the US, analyst warns 3 weeks ago:
…and so it fucking should; the more pain average Americans feel, the better - honestly.
We are less than 8 months into this administration, and they are already doing their damnedest to rat-fuck the elections in an effort to fully seize power for at least a generation and remake the nation in their own twisted vision.
The last chance left to stop this takeover is the 2026 midterms, and the GOP are already pulling out all of the stops to stop that from happening:
- Gerrymandering the absolute shit out of Texas
- Closing polling booths in locations likely to vote against the GOP
- Imposing voter identification laws to further disenfranchise ‘undesirables’
- Rail against mail-in ballots to further suppress turnout
Hopefully the dam breaks and inflation well and truly begins to run away - so that the majority of the population feel the impact of this President’s policies to their wallets, and vote out his lapdogs and lackeys.
If not, then the nation and its people are truly lost and more expensive consoles are going to be the least of your worries.
- Comment on The average age of Disney princesses is 505y. 3 weeks ago:
Heck, even opting for median age over the mean would work in this case!
- Comment on Pandering to conservative Americans 4 weeks ago:
Honestly, should send them with AirTags or similar hidden inside and track their progress - would easily get to the bottom of who the culprits are.
Just have the recipients of the shoes return successfully delivered tags in a replay paid envelope for a refund/credit.
- Comment on Steam: Updates to User Review Scores Based on Language 4 weeks ago:
That’s awesome to see!
Print media is basically dead here in Australia, though I did just discover Edge is apparently still a thing - I adored that publication back in the pre-WoW days.
- Comment on Steam: Updates to User Review Scores Based on Language 4 weeks ago:
Which magazine? I’m legitimately surprised that (m)any have survived, to be honest!
- Comment on Elden Ring on Switch 2 Is a Disaster in Handheld Mode - IGN 4 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t hold my breath, but at least a port to ARM would also give Mac users access to Elden Ring - and God knows macOS is in dire need of more natively compiled games in order to be taken as even a semi-viable platform.
- Comment on They'd just appear out of nowhere 4 weeks ago:
Ah, I found that mine were largely caused by prolonged squinting to try to account for the astigmatism; along with some combination of dehydration, lack of sleep and/or excess caffeine consumption.
- Comment on They'd just appear out of nowhere 4 weeks ago:
Do you happen to have astigmatism or relatively poor vision, by chance?
I used to get these every month or so since I was like 10 until a few years ago, when I finally pulled the trigger and got LASIK. Have not experienced one since, which is a Godsend given that they would usually last for an hour or two and be accompanied by a gnarly headache which would otherwise render me useless.
- Comment on Labor and the Coalition have very different ideas about ties to the United States 4 weeks ago:
Her job is probably to cop all the negative publicity for the LNP for the next few years, only to get dropped ~90 days from the next election and be replaced with a generic white guy with the same abhorrent views but none of the baggage.