VindictiveJudge
@VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world
- Comment on Microsoft May Have Created the Slowest Windows in 25 Years with Windows 11 1 day ago:
Or who absolutely must use Windows for work.
- Comment on Pet Peeves with Games? 2 days ago:
I’ve also seen volume settings not kick in until you loaded a save file. Also, PS1 era Final Fantasy games that don’t acknowledge your button mappings until the save has been loaded, so that B is select and A is cancel on the main menu, but the other way in-game.
- Comment on Pet Peeves with Games? 2 days ago:
RPGs are absolutely terrible about giving you the ability to inflict status effects on enemies, but not giving random encounter enemies enough HP to justify inflicting statuses, and then also making the bosses immune to them.
- Comment on Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period 3 days ago:
And the point I’m making is that only a handful of games are keys; the vast majority are still on the cart, same as the last system.
- Comment on Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period 3 days ago:
Games aren’t “games”, they’re download keys.
Generally agree with your post, but a large majority of games really are games. If they’re a download key, it’s very clearly labelled on the box.
- Comment on genius 6 days ago:
And so do the people inside the big helicopter!
- Comment on The phrase "my world is brighter with you" is literally true 1 week ago:
We also have stripes. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaschko's_lines
- Comment on What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom? 2 weeks ago:
I’ll give one. Despite Sheridan and Delenn giving that speech about rejecting the Shadows and Vorlons and making their own way, the Vorlons won. The Army of Light, the Rangers, and the Interstellar Alliance are all in line with Vorlon philosophy, they run on Vorlon tech, most members were Vorlon allies, and they still oppose former Shadow allies and destroy Shadow tech when they find it.
Another is that the Shadows should have had their own Kosh, a character who was still comitted to the original goal and hadn’t succumbed to motive decay. Shadows believe in strength through adversity, so one setting up obstacles with the expectation that the cast would overcome them and grow stronger cpuld have been interesting.
- Comment on Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030 2 weeks ago:
Er, no. A Linux program from five years ago probably won’t run on a current distro if it hasn’t been maintained in four years. A Windows program released twenty years ago and never patched has pretty good odds of running on Win10 without even needing to touch the compatibility tab.
- Comment on Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030 2 weeks ago:
Which they could clean up, but it would mean killing backwards compatibility, which is arguably the only selling point of Windows.
- Comment on The events at hogwarts were just an escalating series of magical school shootings 🤔 2 weeks ago:
The new body is distinctly inhuman, so it’s also transhumanism.
- Comment on It's the truth! 3 weeks ago:
Or perhaps Homer was colorblind?
- Comment on I'm not even gay 3 weeks ago:
always had supervision while playing with girls
That absolutely sounds like she expressed attraction toward another girl when she was little and someone decided they needed to keep an eye on her.
- Comment on A cool feature/mechanic you want to see in games again 1 month ago:
I would love if Civilization or Crusader Kings implemented this.
- Comment on A cool feature/mechanic you want to see in games again 1 month ago:
Final Fantasy 9 had you learn skills from equipment.
- Comment on After Apple originally announced the first version of Halo in 1999, Xbox apparently called Bungie and said "'Steve Jobs can't have that. We're going to buy you.'" 1 month ago:
If you’re only interested in multiplayer then those are solid options. If you like campaign then you should definitely check out 2, ODST, and Reach.
- Comment on Valve Addresses Steam Machine Anti-Cheat Concerns, Says It's Working Towards Support 1 month ago:
And I’m hoping for them to be flatpacks so they still run five years later. I’ve had to resort to running Windows builds via Proton for games that have native Linux builds because they don’t work anymore.
- Comment on Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games) 1 month ago:
And x-axis, just to be thorough. Especially for third person games since they still can’t all agree on what the default should be.
- Comment on Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games) 1 month ago:
Relatedly, I’ve noticed ports of console games, particularly by Japanese devs, and especially Sqeenix, not actually having an option to quit to desktop. Sometimes hitting Esc will pop a plain system theme window with an option to close the program, but I’ve seen ones that didn’t even have that and had to be killed externally. It’s not as bad as it used to be, but even exiting DragonQuest 11 is a pain.
- Comment on Seriously, Bert! 1 month ago:
Technically, Thanksgiving actually celebrates the brief period before the genociding began.
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- Comment on Years later, Arkane’s Dishonored is still a modern stealth classic 1 month ago:
Playing as Emily in 2 is really fun. You have the option to ignore stealth, go all out with your powers, and still not kill anyone.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 1 month ago:
PlayStation is probably going to still have exclusives, or at least timed exclusives, driving some sales. But this announcement may be the final nail in Xbox’s coffin.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 1 month ago:
I have carpal tunnel syndrome and mouse heavy games hurt, but playing with a controller is great. If this can easily replace a mouse and keyboard setup then I’ll be playing with it a lot, and those track pads are a big reason why.
- Comment on Maybe there was a cure for human cancer, but it didn't work at all in mice. 2 months ago:
Cheap to duplicate is great for them. That means larger profit margins.
- Comment on Assassin's Creed is a "forever brand" because Ubisoft supported huge risks with it, ex director says: "Whereas, say, EA, you get these awful execs and they never made games and they came from toothpaste companies" 2 months ago:
Gameplay-wise, Rogue is even better than Black Flag. Narratively, Rogue is a disaster fueled by Shay being painfully stupid.
- Comment on Peter Parker/Spider-Man should just get a job in fashion 2 months ago:
Like Bruce in Batman Beyond. Typically he was on comms helping Terry be Batman, but it was always memorable when he went into the field.
- Comment on Why don't cars have a way to contact nearby cars like fictional spaceships do? 2 months ago:
I once had someone flip me off because I put my turn signal on. We were in the right lane, I was turning right, and the left lane was completely empty.
- Comment on Who was your first childhood videogame crush? 2 months ago:
Yes. The pupils were generally only visible in the pre-rendered videos.
- Comment on Peter Parker/Spider-Man should just get a job in fashion 2 months ago:
He actually did that. Part of the reason Miles Morales was created is that Peter had started a business and actually started making money, which made him less of an everyman.