Robust_Mirror
@Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone
- Comment on $80 for Borderlands 4 too costly? Randy Pitchford says, "If you're a real fan, you'll find a way to make it happen" 1 week ago:
100% agree. I no joke own about 900 games I haven’t played between steam (most bought when I was young and naive, probably bought like 10 games in the last 10 years now I know better), epic free games, and playstation plus monthly “free” games (not even counting the catalogue you now get access to), yes they’re technically not entirely free but I’d be paying for plus regardless so they kinda are.
Now as a lot of these games weren’t chosen by me, by no means do I want to play them all, and some are duplicates across platforms. But if even 10% interest me, that’s still 90 games. I probably play games at a rate slower than 1 per month. That’s years of games to me. And more will be stacking up in that time. I haven’t bought a game in like 3 years and it’s entirely possible I’ll never buy a game again at this rate.
- Comment on $80 for Borderlands 4 too costly? Randy Pitchford says, "If you're a real fan, you'll find a way to make it happen" 1 week ago:
Imagine preordering a game in 2025.
- Comment on What techniques do bad faith users use online to overwhelm other users in online discussion and arguments? 1 week ago:
Man that’s such a strawman, you’re completely misrepresenting why they bring up fallacies.
- Comment on Mario Kart 64 got finally decompiled! 2 weeks ago:
Usually these decompiled projects run natively as an exe. I haven’t tried this one yet though.
- Comment on Nintendo Anti-Piracy Policy Device Lock Update Warns of Console Bricks for Unauthorized Use 2 weeks ago:
Nintendo is actually the exception in this regard, they sold the switch at a profit from day 1.
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think Nintendo has as many die hards as you think. The wii and switch had over 100 million sales. The wii u had 13 million.
Now look at switch game sales, scroll past their major IPs and pokemon games, and once again the sales show around 13 million or less.
On wii u mario kart had 8 million sales, and not one other game passed 6 million.
The wii, wii u and switch all had around 3 million sales in their first quarter and didn’t really pass that 13 million mark in their first year.
If only die hard fans that buy no matter what buy it, I think it absolutely will be a problem for them. And I think it has a real chance of happening. Half my casual gamer friends didn’t even know switch 2 was a thing, and the ones that did know about it said they haven’t seen any reason to get it yet, especially at the prices they’re seeing.
The reality is, the family and casual markets are what carried them whether they like it or not. Not the rabbid fans. And like with the wii u, if they don’t appeal to those markets properly, they won’t sell well.
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 2 weeks ago:
Saw this the other day, that part isn’t as much their fault.
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 2 weeks ago:
I agree, they definitely priced themselves out of several demographics including casual gamers, parents of young children gamers, and “I guess I’ll get a switch as a second device” gamers. These people aren’t going to look at a switch that’s roughly the same price as the ps5 and xbox and think “yeah let’s grab that one”.
The wii u showed their demographic of “die hard fans that buy no matter what” is actually really small compared to the rest of their sales. And I think we’re going to see a repeat of that.
- Comment on What is your favorite indie game? 3 weeks ago:
The vast majority of my favourite games have been listed, many multiple times, so I’m gonna go with some I didn’t see, though I didn’t look exhaustively, here we go:
Quite a hidden gem in my opinion, almost no one I mention it to has heard of it. 2D platformer with an amazing story and some interesting gimmicks. One of the most surprising and unforgettable indie games I’ve played.
Ninja action-platformer that is way more than it first appears if you stick with it. Hilarious writing, great controls, and amazing music. Genuinely one of my favourite games.
Almost entirely unique in it’s idea. It’s a pinball-metroidvania where you’re a postman dung beetle, and it really works. Gorgeous world, super chill vibes, clever puzzles… What metroid prime pinball should have been.
- Comment on I'm jealous 4 weeks ago:
Still super common in Australia.
- Comment on In heat 5 weeks ago:
That’s what I use, it’s still just using other search engines to get results though.
- Comment on The therapy I can afford 5 weeks ago:
I assumed you had 2 points, the self hosting point about what you’re saying now, and
“keep in mind that its goal is not to help you but to have a conversation that statisvies you. You are basicly talking to a yes-man.”
about its ability to be a good therapist or not in general. I was responding to that. Sorry if I misunderstood.
- Comment on The therapy I can afford 5 weeks ago:
Therapy is more about talking to yourself anyway. A therapists job generally isn’t to give you the answers, but help lead you down the right path.
If you have serious issues get an actual professional, but if you’re mostly just trying to process things and understand yourself or a situation better, it’s not bad.
- Comment on Full Circle 1 month ago:
You literally said you “view the population”, as in everyone, a certain way based on this.
You then admitted it’s not the majority.
That’s about as racist as you can get.
Calling a country fascist for having fascist people in power is not the same thing.
- Comment on Make gravity your bitch 1 month ago:
You’ll never cum if you don’t blow
- Comment on Minecraft movie spawns ‘annoying’ cinema trend that viewers claim ‘ruins’ the film 1 month ago:
While it isn’t technically to do with the game, (this isn’t a big spoiler but you never know I guess)
Spoiler
people went insane over the technoblade reference and it was honestly a nice gesture.
- Comment on Minecraft movie spawns ‘annoying’ cinema trend that viewers claim ‘ruins’ the film 1 month ago:
Yeah I’ve been to my cinema a ton and every movie I’ve ever been to they leave the lights dimmed until the credits finish (basically lights off during movie, dimmed during credits, fully on after). They’ll also wait until everyone has left until they start cleaning.
This one they immediately turned the lights on fully (even before the first after credits scene that is almost instantly) and came in to start cleaning up, because it was so much worse than normal they needed that extra time.
- Comment on Minecraft movie spawns ‘annoying’ cinema trend that viewers claim ‘ruins’ the film 1 month ago:
Then a year later they’ll fire those extra people and add the cleaning duties to the regular staff while not paying them more or reducing the ticket prices.
- Comment on Minecraft movie spawns ‘annoying’ cinema trend that viewers claim ‘ruins’ the film 1 month ago:
You’re entitled to your opinion. As someone that is a fan of both and played both extensively my opinion is they’re about on par with each other, with is “decent but not amazing”, “I wouldn’t actively tell anyone to avoid it, but I’m not hassling people to go see it either”, and, “I didn’t feel I’d wasted my money entirely, but I’d have been just as happy to see it at home later on”.
- Comment on Minecraft movie spawns ‘annoying’ cinema trend that viewers claim ‘ruins’ the film 1 month ago:
It’s better than the trailers made it look. It’s not a master piece, but I went in expecting to be disappointed and was surprised. It was decent. On par with the Mario movie overall.
- Comment on Minecraft movie spawns ‘annoying’ cinema trend that viewers claim ‘ruins’ the film 1 month ago:
My son got invited to a birthday party for it. Theater was 90% 5-12 year olds. This really did happen. In Australia where I don’t usually see this kind of thing, even when I’ve heard about it for other movies.
A guy that looked mid teens literally yelled “shut the fuck up!” at one point which just made them all laugh and go more crazy.
- Comment on Marten, I know that guy! 1 month ago:
Creature: is like 50%-75% yellow.
Scientists: its defining feature is its yellow throat.
- Comment on Least extreme biophysics phd 2 months ago:
I disagree and think you are getting too caught up in semantics in this case. Can I put cats and mice in separate rooms, with the intention that the cats can find a way into the other room, and claim I am only doing an experiment on the cats, even once they get through and start killing the mice?
What if I had a woman take some kind of drug during the first 3 weeks of pregnancy, with the explicit purpose of seeing what it does to the baby when it’s born. Can I say, no, no, I was experimenting on a woman and a zygote/blastocyst, not a baby!
You don’t get to just remove yourself from the result. If he did something that made the baby be born in a way that’s different to how it would have been born, in my mind that is a direct experiment on the baby, just via indirect means.
You can say the title isn’t specific enough for your liking, but by my standards it isn’t wrong or misinformation. He conducted an experiment that directly affected the lives of babies. That IS an experiment on the baby, regardless of the method used to perform the experiment.
- Comment on Anon builds a new PC 2 months ago:
You’re not wrong, I just can’t be bothered. I like to just treat it like a console where it’s just a one and done new one every X years.
- Comment on Anon builds a new PC 2 months ago:
I put away $10 a week and do this every 8 years. I don’t even notice $10 a week missing. I don’t care if it’s over kill or wasteful at that point. Probably would have just wasted it anyway.
I also spend the whole 8 years making up random builds that I know will be obsolete by the time I actually buy it.
- Comment on fuck this asshole 2 months ago:
Wrong. The act of living in the USA at all is agreeing to recognise their laws and processes. You sound like one of those sovereign citizens that think they can get out of arrest/court/prison by “not consenting” to it.
- Comment on fuck this asshole 2 months ago:
I don’t think Lemmy was really big enough to have THAT many bots. And at least of the ones I saw, if they were bots they’re doing an incredibly good job of making them blend, since many had a history of generally normal commenting before that time, and have continued posting normally since.
- Comment on mass 2 months ago:
I really like this example too:
- Comment on That explains a lot 2 months ago:
Sure, but it won’t sustain itself at any mass. A black hole with a mass of 500,000kg lasts about 10 seconds and is harmless. If you managed to compress 300,000,000kg into a black hole you’d have it last about 100 years and it would still be too small to do any damage to the earth during that time.
You’re correct there’s enough mass in the solar system to create a self sustaining black hole though. Anything around the mass of the moon or larger we should worry. A black hole the mass of the earth would definitely be self sustaining.
- Comment on Anon stops showering 2 months ago:
