Pika
@Pika@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on GOG is Getting Acquired By Its Original Co- Founder: What It Means For You 2 days ago:
I would love this as well. I think we should start with must be able to self host servers or use p2p servers though. You can have server software without it being open sourced, and I think that licensing wise it will be easier to pass a p2p requirement than a full open source requirement.
- Comment on GOG is Getting Acquired By Its Original Co- Founder: What It Means For You 2 days ago:
I’ll be interested as well, but I do think that it isn’t a bad thing so to speak. Both CD PROJEKT and Michal have high values when it comes to DRM-Free and open gaming. Gog is mostly supported by it’s backers and game revenue, I don’t think that will change. I don’t see the co-founder who created both the studio and the storefront performing a pump and dump on GoG. If anything we may end up seeing a more heavy push into DRM free areas now that it’s detached from the game studio. Additionally CD Projekt’s reason seems fully valid. It makes sense they would rather focus more on making games than distributing. Distributing games is no easy task, let alone maintaining an entire storefront that most of the corporate world dislikes due to the core principles of the storefront (I.E the push towards support and DRM-Free).
It could be bad but, I’m not going to be super concerned until actual evidence ends up on the ground for it.
- Comment on 64$ the ticket, 1040$ surcharge. 4 days ago:
They do that with shipping items on ebay all the time. cheap item price 100+ shipping
- Comment on How does internet advertising work? Where is all the money coming from? More... 5 days ago:
I was about to say, even without actual data to back it up, big companies are going out of their way to try and evade and block ad-blockers, and that costs man-hours to design, so obviously it’s not a negligible number if they have decided its worth trying to pursue.
- Comment on Do you preorder games? 5 days ago:
do you preorder games?Nowadays? Not a chance. Preorders nowadays seem to be more of a incentive to allow a studio to just not have a decent final product because people have already bought in.
What about Early Access Games?If I really like the concept, yes.
Do you feel differently about Early Access vs traditional preordering?Early access is not pre-ordering, and as such is treated extremely differently. Preordering tells me that the product will be finished on release, EA means that it’s going to need a lot of work for a finished product.
If you are open to the idea in specific circumstances, what are those?I am extremly open to EA as it helps studios develop a product that otherwise may not be able to be created. Actual preordering is a strict closed door, there is very little reason in the digital world we live in to preorder a game.
How do you decide if a game qualifies?I more likely will buy an early access game if I can open the page and not see:
- Major blockers:
- Lack of Linux support or compatibility
- Reviews talking about the game being dead
- Reviews talking about how the developer ignores the community
- Update history either showing no changes or minor changes stretching back for a few months(the longer the gap the less likely I am to support the studio)
- Opening the developer page and seeing they are actively working on a different game. (this is an instant deal breaker)
- Minor Blockers
- Developer responses in community pages saying “for support go to external site” usually discord. If you don’t want to support your game on the storefront, don’t use the storefront.
- Update logs saying that they are actively working on DLC for their early access game. (free DLC gets a partial pass… but paid DLC for an Early Access game is a huge red flag for me)
- No developer interactions in the community forums or an un-moderated community forum.
- Toxic community in discussion forums or support channels (I understand this is out of the devs control at times but it still dissuades me from wanting to spend money on the games
- Major blockers:
- Comment on Sony's Naughty Dog Studio Orders Employee Overtime on ‘Intergalactic’ 1 week ago:
ah shoot yea thats true, I forgot about the BS that is “salary exempt”
- Comment on The biggest video game stinkers of 2025, according to Metacritic 1 week ago:
Where the hell is black ops 7 on this. Like yea it sold but holy cow the amount of complaints on it.
- Comment on [Self-promotion] My partner just released a (free) game about a monster in a winter forest 1 week ago:
I just played it, it was super cool concept! I died due to cold but, the enviroment felt really good. I spent most of the time just aimlessly wandering. My only complaint was that the game bogged itself down when toggling the lantern on and off but thats probally an issue on my end! Tell them well done for me 😸
- Comment on Steam winter sale is now live 1 week ago:
Honestly, the only one I’m really looking at is Ranch 7 because it’s down to like 2.50, none of the other ones really look all that attractive, to be honest.
Kicking myself for buying Icarus when it was $20 because it’s now 3.50
- Comment on Sony's Naughty Dog Studio Orders Employee Overtime on ‘Intergalactic’ 1 week ago:
I wonder why companies do this? does it actually make it get done faster? Last I knew most workers were only efficient at their job for like the first 5 or 6 hours if that, spending an extra 8 ontop of it sounds like a waste of salary.
- Comment on I get junk mail from T-Mobile & Verizon offering services that when I call them they say my address is not available for service. Both offer those services to my neighbors. How do I deal with this ? 2 weeks ago:
I live far enough away that there’s no way that I could run a link sadly. that’s an interesting option, I haden’t thought of it. Granted I am not as close as you are but, according to the site with the correct transponder I might be able to still. I would need to look into regulatory requirements to it though as that;s a bit of a range over the air.
- Comment on I get junk mail from T-Mobile & Verizon offering services that when I call them they say my address is not available for service. Both offer those services to my neighbors. How do I deal with this ? 2 weeks ago:
My parents have that issue ISP wise. You can walk 100ft and have fiber service through my current provider, but their hill is run by another ISP and that ISP wants almost triple what my ISP wants for fiber so they still use DSL. They get 5-10 mbps down on a good day. It barely functions Netflix on 460p and if anyone else is using it, it fails to function.
- Comment on Is there a mechanism in the USA to undo presidential pardons years later if political corruption has been proven as motivation to give these pardons? 3 weeks ago:
Fully agreed its dangerous
- Comment on Is there a mechanism in the USA to undo presidential pardons years later if political corruption has been proven as motivation to give these pardons? 3 weeks ago:
technically the check for judicial was supposed to be a mix between it being a life position and the legislative branches impeachment/revocal process. The court was supposed to be an impartial non-political, but it’s been slowly slipping into a very heavily politically motivated group.
- Comment on Is there a mechanism in the USA to undo presidential pardons years later if political corruption has been proven as motivation to give these pardons? 3 weeks ago:
in the case of constitutional amendments, this gets even more complex. Technically states have the ability to force a constitutional convention hearing in the case of a legislative branch either not bringing to the floor or denying an amendment that has clear popularity in the states.
The issue with this is that it requires a 2/3 vote of the states in agreement, and that it also requires a system that only has the bare minimums defined legally on it. It doesn’t define what a convention is, or even how many people in the state have to agree. It’s fully left on the states to decide it on an individual basis how that system would work for them.
How it would work is
- currently legislative refuses to hear a popular amendment
- at least 2/3 of the states organize some sort of system that can act as a commitee somehow representing the overall choice of the states citizens
- upon 2/3 of the states agreeing, a convention is forced potentially excluding the legislative branch as a whole
- the bill that gets created at said convention is then put up to the 3/4 state vote required to ratify it.
- Comment on Is there a mechanism in the USA to undo presidential pardons years later if political corruption has been proven as motivation to give these pardons? 3 weeks ago:
I thought the intent behind that wasn’t to revoke previous pardons, but was to prevent a president from pardoning themselves in an impeachment trial.
- Comment on No Black Friday deal for loyal/previous customers 4 weeks ago:
From a company POV it’s probally meant to try and encourage you to let a friend know, but it seems that the page in this case might change upon login because it says to sign in to see your deals if you are an existing member
- Comment on No Black Friday deal for loyal/previous customers 4 weeks ago:
maybe they updated it, for me it says first 12 months and then specifies “new customers only” under the “who’s eligible for this plan” section on the deal page. It also doesn’t give a link to login anymore and informs existing customers to sign in to see their own specialized deal
- Comment on Gaming Pet Peeves 5 weeks ago:
omg yes, I loved when games gave a replay stories or replay core concepts section of the menu, it’s not that hard to add but it lets you recap as well!
- Comment on Gaming Pet Peeves 5 weeks ago:
unpausable cutscenes. Nothing bugs me more than getting interrupted in the middle of a cutscene and not being able to press escape to pause the cutscene. You’re forced to try to split your attention between what interrupted you in the cutscene or restart and see the cutscene from the beginning again.
- Comment on ‘Clair Obscur’ Leads The Game Awards 2025 Nominees With 12 Nods; ‘Silent Hill f’ Has Four Nominations 1 month ago:
I saw Silksong and split fiction and I had one creator I follow play death stranding 2. one just started e33 last week so I been watching that. The rest fell out of my circle of 40 or 50 streamers.
- Comment on ‘Clair Obscur’ Leads The Game Awards 2025 Nominees With 12 Nods; ‘Silent Hill f’ Has Four Nominations 1 month ago:
the nominations for most things this year was fairly disappointing. I hadent heard of any of the events, the content creator one I didn’t watch and only knew of one by name,
I pegged myself as a fairly casual gamer and I do a lot of stream watching but, a good chunk of the games nominated I had never seen or never saw anyone streaming, many I had never heard of. It was surprising since most of my entertainment is via watching people play games or by gaming myself.
- Comment on Protests erupt at Rockstar Games offices accusing GTA 6 developers of “Union Busting” 1 month ago:
My only thing with this is the claim is a glass cannon if its true. If no company resources were given out in this ordeal, if I was one of the 40 employees involved I would be leaking the forum messages publicly to show how there wasn’t any inside information involved. Make the entire case fall apart because if it’s shown no public info was involved, the claim it wasn’t over unionization becomes harder to fight. But I guess that is a better situation for in a court scenario.
- Comment on Game developers desperate for you to join their Discord "server" 2 months ago:
Many of them “use” them, as in have them enabled to allow for members of the community to use them, and sometimes they might offer patch note releases for updates via the announcement system or major issue posts, but most of them don’t actually provide support and assistance via them or even moderate them at times. Huge problem actors are inde studios but, even large producers have the issue. My latest one that I tried to post a bug report to is Phasmaphobia, which locks all support to their discord, but like most games don’t do official support via the forums.
- Comment on Game developers desperate for you to join their Discord "server" 2 months ago:
there was no sorta promised to delete, they stated in the press release, the actual age verification page and the FAQ page about age verification that the files were temporary… then apparently just didn’t, as I highly doubt 1.5tb of photos are “recent” photos.
- Comment on Game developers desperate for you to join their Discord "server" 2 months ago:
I refuse to join any of these in protest, and when I can’t submit bug reports via public forums I will rate the negatively.
I am firmly against using closed chat platforms such as discord for informational and support.
Years down the road obscure issues with the game are going to be unavailable either due to the server being abandoned or inability to look for issues soley due to everything being on discord now. I refuse to take part in it.
I’m only in one discord that is based off a game, and that is satisfactory exclusively because I was in the alpha program so It seemed right that I joined the main discord after the alpha ended.
- Comment on What flavor are marshmallows? 2 months ago:
interesting. The other person explained what it was, I never knew there was a diff between it.
- Comment on What flavor are marshmallows? 2 months ago:
oh that’s pretty cool, yea I’ve always just thrown marshmallows in the freezer. Didn’t realize there was a difference between them.
- Comment on What flavor are marshmallows? 2 months ago:
can’t you just throw marshmallows in the freezer and then consume when wanted?
- Comment on Is it me or does it seem like review bombing on Steam has become so much worse recently? 2 months ago:
It’s not just you. Customer curated content in general on steam has gone drastically downhill over the last year or two.
Like review bomb mitigation can only go so far when the company refuses to block people from writing reviews that write enough off topic reviews.
The discussion forums are the same way, its all award farming ever since they released the ability to give steam points to people.