thatKamGuy
@thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on The Betrayal of Limited Run Games: What They Don't Want You to See 18 hours ago:
For the price they were asking, I honestly would’ve expected physical (e.g. floppy disk shaped flash drives) copies of Doom 1&2, equipped with controls onboard to play the games directly off of them.
- Comment on 1994 white Kevin 1 day ago:
I’m hoping (praying) that since this is a shitposting sub, you and I both are just particularly gullible and this is not an actual thing.
- Comment on The Betrayal of Limited Run Games: What They Don't Want You to See 1 day ago:
Makes me all the more glad I wasn’t tempted by the $666 USD Doom 1&2 CE they were spruiking over Easter.
- Comment on PSA: I want a law for PC games to be offered in physical versions again 3 days ago:
I still want a physical copy in my library as a precaution against the apocalypse, regardless.
I guess I’m just old (and pessimistic about humanity’s future)… 🤷🏻♂️
- Comment on Discussion Thread Sunday 20 😸 April 2025 3 days ago:
#RIPinPeace
- Comment on Hard Vacuum - a retro styled indie RTS has a stable release version 1 week ago:
Image Oh my God, oh my God, OH MY GOD!
That looks PERFECT! 🤩 Thanks for bringing to my attention, wishlisting it on Steam now!
- Comment on Hard Vacuum - a retro styled indie RTS has a stable release version 1 week ago:
♥️!!
I’ve been hoping for a voxel-based RTS revival game for ages! This is a bit more old-school (still longing for that Red Alert 2 era), but still looks very interesting - will hopefully give it a play over this Easter long weekend and report back.
- Comment on Games Media Can't Ignore BDS Xbox Boycott. 1 week ago:
That’s the neat part - they totally can, and will!
- Comment on I really need these games ported to Steam. What do y'all have on your lists? 1 week ago:
Going old-school for this one, but I remembered absolutely loving the ROG Story Mode in Point Blank on the PSX.
I would sell a kidney (not necessarily mine), if it helped produce a PC/Steam remake with mouse compatibility (seeing as Light Gun games have basically gone the way of the dodo).
- Comment on 'There Are So Few Of Us Left': Even Full-Time Games Journalists At Big Websites Are Feeling It In 2025 1 week ago:
Honestly not surprised, catering to Gamers^TM^ honestly feels like a fool’s errand; there seems to be an ever growing divide between what the vocal minority demands to see, and what the silent majority of the market ends up consuming.
Catering to the former is like dancing on a knife’s edge, its only a matter of time before you fail to live up to their expectations - and that’s even if there’s enough of them to even be able to support a journalist’s career to begin with!
Catering to the mainstream segment will usually cause you to fall on the former’s bad-side anyway, as they unleash a torrent of vitriol and hate at the journalists for not focusing on whatever manufactured outrage is de jour at the moment (previously woke, now DEI).
- Comment on 'There Are So Few Of Us Left': Even Full-Time Games Journalists At Big Websites Are Feeling It In 2025 1 week ago:
I’m not encountering a paywall either through embedded Safari or Firefox (iOS); worst case seems like 12ft.io should work:
- Comment on People who call the PS1 'PSX' make me want to kill kittens 2 weeks ago:
It was usually said when referring to the PlayStation secondarily:
- “I have a PlayStation at home, you should come over sometime!”
- “I just bought Resident Evil 2 for the PSX, it’s really scary!”
- Comment on Nintendo president responds to Switch 2 price increase fears amid Trump tariff fallout 2 weeks ago:
I’m honestly surprised they haven’t jacked up the prices already! Partly because Capitalism^TM — but also because I fully expect for big retailers like Walmart to have 30-90 day payment terms with vendors, and some of those invoices potentially being subject to these tariffs.
- Comment on Peak Trump Performance 2 weeks ago:
So this is what he chose to do, instead of attending the ceremony for dead soldiers in Lithuania?
- Comment on IGN: Mario Kart World: First Hands-on Preview 2 weeks ago:
Can’t believe someone actually downvoted you for being excited; I swear, heaven forbid you like something that others don’t.
I’m skeptical as to whether the open world aspect will add to (or detract from) the experience, but I’ll probably end up grabbing it few years down the line once my kid is old enough to appreciate it.
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #9 2 weeks ago:
Yeah - we are a strange, strange place at times. We’re a schizophrenic-nation; half-nanny state, half lawless wasteland! 😅
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #9 2 weeks ago:
Really curious as to why River City Girls isn’t going to be available in Australia in particular; as far as I can see, it hasn’t been refused classification (banned) here?
- Comment on Take-Two DMCAs Video Of GTA5 Mod To For GTA6 Map Content 2 weeks ago:
It’s a knee-jerk reaction, and it’s going to have a Streisand effect. I’m looking forward to the dozens of reposted videos spreading far and wide.
- Comment on The Switch 2 Rollout Was So Convoluted It Made Us Want A Steam Deck. 2 weeks ago:
Many thanks for this! Really puts the console gaming hobby into perspective.
My two biggest take-aways:
- Holy shit, that Atari 2600 was expensive!
- Really explains why the PlayStation 3 stumbled out of the gate, oof!
- Comment on The Switch 2 Rollout Was So Convoluted It Made Us Want A Steam Deck. 2 weeks ago:
I’m an old curmudgeon, and I remember (my parents) paying ~$50 for SNES back in the early-to-mid ‘90s; so I’m not exactly shocked that Nintendo have lifted their sell-price.
Compared to back then; gaming is still somewhat more affordable, which definitely feels counter-intuitive - I know!
Japan has for the first time since 1991 had >2% annual inflation for 3 straight years, definitively ending their 2+ decade of stagflation. Developer wages are going up, and games take longer to develop - those costs need to be covered. I am in support of paying a fair market price if (and only if), that increase goes to the labour, and not shareholder profits.
Seeing as the Executive team at Nintendo opted to take a salary-cut, rather than lay off staff, following the failure of the WiiU — they have exactly one credit from me, for the benefit of the doubt.
But that is where my good graces end; other developers are going to take this as the green light to further increase prices on their own (unfinished, rushed, micropayment-laden) titles, across the industry. Heck, there are rumblings that the base version of GTA6 may be $100USD!
- Comment on The Switch 2 Rollout Was So Convoluted It Made Us Want A Steam Deck. 2 weeks ago:
My point is more that new/launch technology is always more expensive at launch, until economies of scale can kick in; and this is the first console launch after the 1-2 years of post-COVID double-digit inflation globally.
It sucks, and I’m not trying to excuse it or hand-wave it away - more-so just pointing out that it was kinda foreseeable, given the current state of things.
If you think this is bad, wait until the next round of console launches in ~2027 from Sony.
- Comment on The Switch 2 Rollout Was So Convoluted It Made Us Want A Steam Deck. 2 weeks ago:
Nintendo launched the first Switch at $299; just accounting for inflation over the past years - that’s ~$390 now, BEFORE even trying to account for any Trump-tariffs they have been (or will be) imposed on electronics hardware.
I hate to give Nintendo credit, but $450 is actually somewhat reasonable given the current global shit-show.
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #8 3 weeks ago:
That PS3 custom-mod is absolute mint!
I wonder if cribsnib has any intention of selling kits/shells — I can’t say for certain if I’d be able to afford it, but goddamn do I want one!
- Comment on Official poster for "Rust" 3 weeks ago:
The Looney Toons (Tunes? I’m too lazy to look it up) movie cancellation was by WB/Discovery - who have developed a bit of a habit doing that, but it’s not common in the wider industry.
At this point, the movie is so infamous that they may as well try to cash in and cover some of those lawyer fees!
- Comment on PROTEIN BRO 3 weeks ago:
I like a whole bunch of flavours, I was just too lazy to google for multiple flavour images.
- Comment on PROTEIN BRO 3 weeks ago:
Basically just seconding what Delphia said; if you’re getting adequate protein from food sources than BCAAs are a waste.
I just tend to drink >2L of plain water a day as a baseline, so when it comes to the gym — I’d rather have something with flavour. It’s best to just think of it as gymbro-cordial, with added caffeine on occasion!
- Comment on PROTEIN BRO 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on PROTEIN BRO 3 weeks ago:
They like BCAAs because they think it causes gains.
I like BCAAs because they taste good.
We are not the same.
- Comment on Video Game Workers Launch Industry-Wide Union with Communications Workers of America 4 weeks ago:
I can’t wait for the capital-G Gamers response to this…
…no matter how bad of a take I can think up, they always manage to out-do themselves and genuinely surprise me!
As for the workers, good on them - being on the strikes!
- Comment on Discussion Thread: Thursday, 20 March 2025 4 weeks ago:
That’s what I’ve been experiencing as of late, too. Inbound, where the Gippy Hwy joins onto the Monash is slows to a crawl, then picks up until the Eastlink merge, where it slows to a crawl and continues until around Warrigal Rd where (thanks to the added lane?) it opens up again.
Now I’m to try and avoid the impact I have to either leave at before 6am or after 9:30am in order to have a somewhat decent (sub-45 minute) run into the office; but at least I’m lucky enough to have that flexibility!
