RightHandOfIkaros

@RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not cool Rei⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  “heterophobia”

  The eyes are afraid of each other

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pet Peeves with Games?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but accidentslly clicking the quit button when you meant to click options or whatever and the game just instantly dropping you at the desktop is equally as annoying. Two click exit is a good compromise. Four is way too many though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pet Peeves with Games?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Game developers should add text size options to be big enough or at least legible enough at small resolutions like 240p. This can help scale UI design too accomadate for potentially huge text sizes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pet Peeves with Games?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  You should play Policenauts. Its a visual novel adventure game from Hideo Kojimas early days in 1994-1996 following a private eye investigating a disappearance on a space station.

  When you load a save file, the game gives you a summary screen of the events in the game that have happened so far (at least it does in the SEGA Saturn version that I played). Its the first instance I recall of this happening in video games, and I do wish it could return in more games. Its possible that other games had this before, but if there was a game that did, I dont know it or remember it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Life is Strange Game Spotted, And Yes, This One Will Finally Bring Back Chloe⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Every game after Before the Storm sucked. Even Before the Storm was only okay, not a good as the first game, but holy moly was every game after total garbage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thanks Maya⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Be positive!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam adds official support for game version-specific Workshop mods⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  As a Stellaris Mod Enjoyer, this is extremely helpful. No more game saves breaking because all my mods updated to the newest version of the games, hopefully.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft Closes Canadian Studio After It Unionizes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate Ubisoft, but I actually do think this was decided to happen before they unionized and is just bad timing.

  Decisions to close studios like this never happen so quickly and usually take multiple months between the time the decision is made to the time the actual closure takes place.

  It is possible that the studio caught wind that they were being closed and decided to unionize in order to capitalize on the bad PR. But this is all speculation since we don’t know every detail, and both sides will leave out various details to give themselves an advantageous position in the conversation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Este soy yo ahora⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  As a person of hispanic descent, this is not offensive. I like when people are excited about parts of my culture enough to want to participate, even if they “get it wrong” sometimes.

  If everyone just hoards their culture to themselves or only for people who “get it right,” then no new cultures can emerge from the blending of different cultures.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Backtracking Development Again Was Out of The Question' — Nintendo Says Metroid Prime 4's Open World Hub Was a Victim of The Game's Lengthy Development⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Breath of the Wild was a mid game, and a bad Zelda game outright. It ditched nearly everything that players had come to expect from a Zelda game. Tears was way better, but still lacked the feeling of being a Zelda game. If you removed all the Zelda assets, would anyone be able to truly call it a Zelda game? With Link to the Past all the way to even Skyward Sword I certainly could.

  But the effect the games financial success has had on Nintendo as a whole has been devastating. Nintendo is the kind of company that will learn all the wrong lessons and none of the right ones. They are literal Monkey Paw thinkers. They saw the PS1 outpace the N64 and thought “people want disks, okay lets pick this really odd format disk with a tiny storage limit instead of using normal ones.” And then when the Gamecube failed they said “oh, people must not want powerful hardware I guess, lets just sell people the same hardware again so its underpowered this time but add a motion control gimmick.”

  So when BotW was a financial success, they immediately believe that all of their big games need an open world, or need to be vast departures from what players expect from each series. It is truly tragic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨World's Video Game Companies⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Because they would make Nintendo look tiny by comparison.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU lawmakers to study ban 'loot boxes' and other addictive features in video games⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay, but if we take care of the problem that people have, legal regulation would not be necessary. We wouldn’t have to have a trillion laws stipulating all the various minutae of what we should or shouldn’t do because of how harmful it is or isn’t, people would be able to figure this out on their own. Less laws in general is better, when the population is intelligent enough to understand that you don’t drink bleach because a computer screen showed those words to you in that order.

  Opiates wouldn’t need to be illegal because people would be intelligent enough to know how harmful it is and thus wouldn’t use it. A law wouldn’t need to be created listing every known or unknown opiate derivative that is banned or for whatever use. People would just be smart enough to know.

  Basically, too many people aren’t using their own brain. AI is definitely a helpful tool, but not if you’re an idiot and believe it to have any actual intelligence. Its not there to replace your doctor or teacher, it is there to help you with word processing, pattern recognition, or other such language based tasks. AI used as a tool is queried for things like “check this passage for overly repetitive terms and suggest improvements that keep the same meaning.” AI used by an idiot is queried for things like “what do my lab results say about my health?”

  I suppose this is too far advanced for humanity at this point. Laws are important, but too many laws begins to speak about a general decline in intelligence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU lawmakers to study ban 'loot boxes' and other addictive features in video games⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, much of the memetic hazard posed by various technologies is not actually the fault of the technologies, but a fault of the person having no self-control, no accountability for their own actions, or having some form of undiagnosed medical issue they are unaware of.

  Its like saying video games cause school shootings: the problem isnt the video games, its the person. The video games are an excuse to shift blame and accountability away from the person.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Himemiya Rie & Rinkou Ashelia [Phase Connect]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Even yorange?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Didn't realize how hard MGS4's Disc Swap joke hit until I backed it up⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Japanese games primarily designed for use with NEC PC-88 and PC-98 computers that came on floppy disks had an even worse problem:

  In order to save your game, you have to write to the floppy disk, usually wash disk needed to write somesort of data. Unfortunately, this means that the disk cannot be read-only protected. You probably see where this is going, but this sadly led to some players having uncompletable copies of games because they wrote to the wrong disk and accidentally ended up overwriting game data with save data.

  Some games came with manuals that warned of this, and some games spent the cost of disk space to store actual in-game warning screens to try to prevent this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ars Technica’s Top 20 video games of 2025⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly this list reads like the person who picked the games doesn’t actually play games and just listed the most popular/ most talked about games, but to make it not that obvious they asked that one “weird” person groupchat they were invited to once that is full of actual a gamers to provide like 3 games for the list lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the longest anime episode of all time?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, no. You’ve got it wrong.

  Endless Eight was certainly only a single episode. I would remember if it was more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for anime with at least three of the following criteria: short, 80s-90s, cyberpunk, hyperviolent⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  • Bubblegum Crisis, and its shorter sequel Bubblegum Crash.

  • AD Police Files (the OVA with 3 episodes)

  • Parasite Dolls

  • Angel Cop

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK pills are a scam (reposting bc mod accidentally removed it)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I don’t think the mods removed the last one by accident.

  Not only is this wrong, it is harmful. This is not something anyone “should know,” and infact everyone should know the opposite.

  Medicine is real, and when taken properly, is good for you. Medicine is designed to help your body with functions it may be deficient at, either temporarily or permanently, or in some cases to stop your body from being too proficient at something to the point it could lead to harm. Refusing medicine without reasonable grounds, such as religious beliefs or allergies, goes beyone ignorance into negligence.

  Sincerely, an American that hates having to see doctors and take medicine. I may hate it, but I still recognize its benefit and value.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you preorder games?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I only preorder a game if I know I want to play it right when it comes out and want to be able to preload the game, and if it comes from a developer I know will not disappoint me (FromSoftware, Kojima Productions, anything from Yoko Taro, etc.).

  Early Access is different from preordering because you gain access to the product instantly, and generally can influence the direction of the game in a hopefully positive way. Providing feedback on what works and what doesn’t is an important part of playing and early access game. A lot of people seem to treat ignore this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Victory⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I like how each child’s number is completely wrong in this meme. Rei being First, Asuka being Second, and Shinji Third.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia GeForce Now’s Time Limit Will Stop Gamers After 100 Hours Each Month⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  EVGA 1080Ti owner here. Definitely not happy with the way NVidia has been acting for a while.

  The loss of EVGA GPUs was already tragic enough because of NVidia. Now this?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia GeForce Now’s Time Limit Will Stop Gamers After 100 Hours Each Month⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Finally, a programmer that actually knows what he is talking about… PirateHardware…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Triple (by Kaerunoko)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Polka family photo be like:

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Season 4 broadcast starts April 2026 with 5 split cours⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why is this becoming more common? Did anime investors find out that they get more money for splitting up seasons like this or something?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  AFAIK, its actually closer to 450GB, and that is if the base game and all currently released DLCs are installed as well.

  800GB is an exaggeration, but 400GB+ is still ridiculously bloated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My N64 game collection. Not the most expansive but it is a lot of fun.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There were a very small number of grey carts with 1.0 on them but most 1.0 carts at least in America are gold. Most grey carts are 1.2, but some have 1.1 as well. 1.1 is a general bugfixed version but also rare, while 1.2 is where all the censorship came in. Unfortunately for Europeans, all PAL versions are based on the censored 1.2 build. Due to this, grey carts are generally safe to assume are 1.2, because it is the most abundantly available build of the game, having been manufactured and sold the longest.

  There are some reports of 1.1 having partial censorship as well, though these may be due to someone swapping the physical carts shell from a different version of the game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the cheapest console to get and collect for that still holds up?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I currently use an HP EliteDesk SFF (the middle size one) and use a DAC for DisplayPort to RCA.

  DACs generally add less than 1 frame of lag. Youre thinking of scalers. If the adapter applies any sort of processing other than simply converting from digital to analog, then it adds more lag. But simply converting will usually have nearly imperceptible levels of lag. I can try to measure it when I use it next and see, but I can say that I don’t notice any “awful lag.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My N64 game collection. Not the most expansive but it is a lot of fun.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Personally, I skip SSB64 entirely and go directly to the best Smash version on the GameCube. SSB64 on the N64 is fun, but it isn’t Melee.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My N64 game collection. Not the most expansive but it is a lot of fun.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It does hurt my heart a little to see a grey cart Ocarina of Time knowing it is so likely to be a version 1.2 game, meaning it was censored. I just can’t stand the Fire Temple music in 1.2, the chanting samples really elevate that BGM.

  Also, I would highly recommend picking up Gauntlet Legends if you can. Excellent 4 player arcade hack-n-slash game. Although most of this collection seems to tell the tale that you likely don’t have other players often, so maybe not… The game is okay single player but way more fun with friends.