thatKamGuy
@thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Microsoft Teams status 2 days 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" 1 week 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] 1 week 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 2 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 2 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! 3 weeks ago:
💩 🗳️
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Wait, I thought that was the one with Will Farrell and Mark Wahlberg?
- Comment on Game Reveals kind of suck now .. 4 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 ?? 5 weeks 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
AR glasses auto-applying your preferred FaceTune filters?
- Comment on Valve has raised Steam Deck prices in the US 1 month 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.
- Comment on Dinner for one 1 month ago:
Watch it count down to the end of the day, the clock ticks life away
- Comment on Wowee 1 month ago:
If you think that’s bad, wait until they try to fit 17!
- Comment on If she had lived into the Botox era. 1 month ago:
Getting a bit of Goonies vibes from this:
- Comment on power generator 1 month ago:
Because it feels archaic and inefficient, maybe?
We also have developed solar panels, wind turbines, hydro-electric dams as well as tidal/wave energy devices in the intervening years - so adding another method to boil water just feels “outdated”.
I’m not trying to cast judgement myself, just trying to explain that it feels like it’s just “vibes based”.
- Comment on Vibe management 1 month ago:
Cap?
- Comment on Finally bought a physical PS2 copy of Most Wanted — for the kid in China who couldn't pay back then 1 month ago:
The only thing preventing a re-release of any of these “EA Trax” era titles is that they’re not willing to pay to renew those licenses.
- Comment on Finally bought a physical PS2 copy of Most Wanted — for the kid in China who couldn't pay back then 1 month ago:
加油 !
I know how you feel, I have similar regrets about Psygnosis the PS1 era - so many games that meant so much to me growing up, that I we couldn’t afford to buy. Most I either got to experience through demo discs, renting, or piracy.
But it’s OK - they might not exist as a company anymore. But their former employees still do, their art continues to live on, and you now own a piece of it yourself.
- Comment on What gaming console you owned disappointed you the most and why ? 1 month ago:
Master System 2 Super Nintendo Game Boy PlayStation PlayStation 2 GameBoy Advance SP PlayStation Portable PlayStation 3 New 3DS Steam Deck
I honestly think the 3DS was probably the most disappointing; I bought it on a whim 2nd hand from EB Games along with a copy of a Pokémon game (I don’t remember which). Mechanics hadn’t evolved much since Pokémon Blue, and the experience was kinda “meh” overall.
I also dabbled with a few other games, but nothing gripped me. The only saving grace for that console was that it rapidly appreciated in value since my purchase (like 5x?) due to the relative rarity of that particular colorway.
- Comment on What gaming console you owned disappointed you the most and why ? 1 month ago:
I was in primary school when the Game Gear was a thing, so my memory was foggy - but the adapter was definitely a thing:
- Comment on What gaming console you owned disappointed you the most and why ? 1 month ago:
I think one saving grace for the Game Gear was that you could also play Master System games using an adapter, if I remember correctly?
- Comment on Why the budget might not 'shift the dial' on home ownership 1 month ago:
It might, or it might not - but the more whining about it I see in the media, the more certain I am that it is the correct thing to do.
- Comment on We're so back 2 months ago:
Yup, was scary finding myself agreeing with her for a while there…
- Comment on The 22 Richest Men in the World Have More Wealth than All the Women in Africa 2 months ago:
Goddamn - Americans really will use any other measure besides metric, ‘ey?
- Comment on Game franchises you like, but wish were anothet genre of video game? 2 months ago:
World of Warcraft, but predominantly as a persistent single-player world where you can invite players in (ala. Diablo 2).
I love the world building of Azeroth (even the bow out-dated, throw-away, pop-culture additions); just wish I could play and experience it all at my pace - family life currently precludes me from being able to invest sufficient time to play an MMO.
