thatKamGuy
@thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Epic Games Store will get a Linux version sometime "soon" 1 week ago:
Fellow CachyOS user (we’re like the lil’ brothers of Arch!).
While I do appreciate GoG working on their own native launcher - is there anything wrong with just using Heroic for both GoG and EGS?
Only tangentially related, but I specifically claim every single game they make freely available on multiple accounts - just in the vain effort of costing Tim Sweeney money, even though I am yet to launch even one.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I think you hit the nail on the head, right there.
Black Flag still felt more vertical than AC3, plus when it comes to my memory - AC3 felt very cold and grey, while AC4 was bright and warm.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Assassin’s Creed III never clicked for me, and I remember buying the Collector’s Edition day 1 - after enjoying the hell out of AC1, 2, Brotherhood and Revelations.
I ended up enjoying both AC4 and Rogue afterwards, so 🤷🏻♂️
- Comment on The woke liberals are making our wars gay 1 week ago:
That’s next year’s edition of Call of Duty.
- Comment on BREAKING: Bernie Sanders just introduced the Guaranteed Paid Vacation Act — a bill to guarantee at least two weeks of paid vacation to every full-time worker in America. Over 90 other members of Cong… 1 week ago:
It’s a similar thing here in Australia, workplaces actually like well rested employees - it’s almost like they’re more productive!
I tend to only take 2-3 weeks annually, so I organically end up accruing a tonne of time over the years. Some will let you cash out leave over a certain threshold or worst case, it gets paid out in a lump sum when you quit work.
The Finance department don’t like to see too much liability on the balance sheet, so they do try to pester us into taking regular leave. 😅
- Comment on BREAKING: Bernie Sanders just introduced the Guaranteed Paid Vacation Act — a bill to guarantee at least two weeks of paid vacation to every full-time worker in America. Over 90 other members of Cong… 1 week ago:
Which is why other Western countries offer the same benefits to part-time employees on a pro-rata basis.
Work 5 days a week? We give you 20 days annual leave.
Only work 3 days? We give you 12 days annual leave.
Both circumstances result in an employee getting 4 weeks of paid leave a year.
We also let people accrue leave across multiple years, so they can take a 12 week vacation after 3 years if they wanted to.
- Comment on BREAKING: Bernie Sanders just introduced the Guaranteed Paid Vacation Act — a bill to guarantee at least two weeks of paid vacation to every full-time worker in America. Over 90 other members of Cong… 1 week ago:
Basically, if you are the victim of domestic violence - you’re provided with 2 weeks of paid leave through your workplace, regardless of full-time, part-time, or casual.
This allows them to find emergency accommodation, attend medical/legal appointments, counselling etc.
Workplaces may request some form of documentation, which usually takes the form of a Domestic Violence Order (specific type of temporary restraining order), which can be issued pretty quickly - e.g. within 24hrs, if deemed to have an immediate risk.
In general, workplaces aren’t too demanding on this matter - due in part to the sensitivity of the offence, and also due to the potential of Ombudsman involvement if they make things too difficult.
- Comment on Take-Two CEO Says We'll All Be Streaming Our Games In 3 Years 1 week ago:
True, but don’t sleep on the Mega Drive / Genesis, or the Neo Geo too!
There are legitimately so many incredible titles in the 4th (16bit) console generation, that it could keep most people playing for a decade or more.
…and that’s BEFORE gaming exploded in popularity with the 5th & 6th console generations.
- Comment on How to move a sofa 2 weeks ago:
Barney, is that you?
- Comment on Bethesda unveils new logo 3 weeks ago:
Dread it. Run from it. Retro status arrives all the same.
- Comment on What games did you sleep on for too long? 3 weeks 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 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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) 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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. 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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. 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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! 5 weeks ago:
Lemmy only accepts bespoke, artisanal, hand-crafted shitposts.
- Comment on Microsoft Teams status 1 month 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 month 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 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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! 2 months ago:
💩 🗳️
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Wait, I thought that was the one with Will Farrell and Mark Wahlberg?
