paultimate14
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- Comment on PlayStation has no games! 2 days ago:
All PS3’s could play PS1 games too
- Comment on Fck it, we ball 2 weeks ago:
I don’t have much to say other than I like these a lot
- Comment on Favourite controllers 1 month ago:
Tough call between the Dualsense and the Dualshocks 1-3.
The Dualsense has great features, but is large enough and bulbous enough that I’m forced to use a full palm grip. That’s good some of the time, but sometimes I like a lighter finger grip that the earlier Dualshocks allowed for. I think of it similarly to claw vs palm grips on mice. A full palm grip on either can get too sweaty over time. The Dualshock 4 is a bulbous mess that fatigues my hands. On all of them, the plastic feels premium and sturdy and really fits well together. Plastic molding is an art, and they are good at it.
I have a few 8BitDo’s and they are all good too. The Pro-2, SN30 Pro, and Ultimate C (their naming conventions are flour of control). A bit cheaper feeling than the Sony offerings, but still pretty good.
The Xbox Series controller is… Fine. The plastic feels cheap, the face buttons feel cheap, it’s too big and requires a palm grip, the R1/L1 buttons feel cheap, the d-pad is one of the worst in history. The analog sticks almost feel great except they’re too tall.
Shout-out to the Steam Deck for feeling phenomenal. Also shout-out to the RetroBit Genesis controllers- they feel really good, but the lack of sticks and fewer buttons than most modern controllers makes it hard to use for modern games.
The JoyCons are awful. Most 3rd party options are better but I still haven’t found one that I really like.
The GameCube and N64 both feel kind of cheap. I think the plastic is a bit thin, and the sticks and buttons rattle around slightly.
- Comment on Microsoft Closes Redfall Developer Arkane Austin, Hi-Fi Rush Developer Tango Gameworks, and More in Devastating Cuts at Bethesda 1 month ago:
What are you talking about?
Sony’s Japan studio’s own library was always gimmicky games that were basically tech demos- Ape Escape was for the Dual Analog controller, LocoRoco for the PSP, Gravity Rush for the Vita, Knack to be a pack-in for the PS4, and games for VR, Move Eye toy, etc. In fact it’s kind of hard to find games they did on their own because they’ve always been mostly a support studio even going back to the PS1’s launch lineup, and they are continuing that. There have been several studios that make original games that started as part of Sony Japan that have been spun off into separate teams too.
I’m struggling to think of many studios Sony has closed. Sony London studios was similar to Japan- mostly just games to go with hardware gimmicks like the EyeToy, SingStar, and Wonderbook. It’s even harder to find studios that Sony has purchased and then closed or turned into a support studio- I guess you could count that Psygnosis was purchased and merged into London studios back in the 90’s, but considering they went 20 years between that merger and closing I doubt there were many Psygnosis devs left there.
A quick search pulls up PixelOpus, a tiny studio Sony formed from 9 college grads with a couple of industry veterans to lead them They released 2 small games and were closed last year.
I don’t mean to be too defensive of Sony- they did close one of their own studios and laid off ~900 people this year. But it’s not really a comparison to Microsoft who now has a long history of buying 3rd party studios, mismanaging them, and closing them.
I’m also confused about your comment about Xbox making more single player games than Sony. First of all… I would expect that to generally be true. It looks like Sony owns 21 studios while Microsoft had 40 as of the Activision-Blizzard acquisition. And while a lot hasn’t been announcedwith release dates, we know of a handful of single player games Sony has in the works- Horizon 3, TLOU3, Ghosts of Tsushima 2, and new IP’s from Bend, Housemarq, and BluePoint. Plus Wolverine, and you could argue whether Physint should count or not since that’s a partnership between Kojima and Sony-owned Columbia Pictures. If you’re trying to imply that Sony is abandoning single-player games or something that’s pretty far from the truth.
- Comment on Microsoft Closes Redfall Developer Arkane Austin, Hi-Fi Rush Developer Tango Gameworks, and More in Devastating Cuts at Bethesda 1 month ago:
I wonder how many promises Microsoft made to the FCC and other regulators about how their mergers and acquisitions wouldn’t result in layoffs?
- Comment on Day one and done 1 month ago:
Local pizza places are usually both cheaper and better than chains, at least in every neighborhood I’ve lived in. I think they are better than frozen pizzas, but also about 2x the cost. Both vary from place to place though.
Aldi’s pizzas are my go-to for value. Usually around $6 a pop now (they were $3.29 pre-pandemic). I add extra cheese and toppings to remind myself I’ve made it in life.
- Comment on All three remastered Mass Effect games and their DLC are 90% off on Steam 1 month ago:
Incorporates 3rd-party DRM: EA on-line activation and Origin client software installation and background use required.
I’m good thanks
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
There was a C-tier PS2 game called Airblade that was basically that
- Comment on Goatse, like Michelangelo's David, should be an exception to normal rules of censorship, due to its status as part of our shared cultural heritage. 2 months ago:
Counterpoint: what if older societies already put in place censorship laws that were so successful, they effectively scrubbed any cultural memory of similar “works”?
Perhaps we should write our rules based on what we want in the future rather than what our ancestors did?
- Comment on If people from the US love the imperial system so much, why are their musicians using metronomes instead of footonomes? 2 months ago:
Do Europeans use metrinomes now?
- Comment on How does Assassin's Creed 2 hold today? 2 months ago:
For what it’s worth, I got into the series a bit late myself and didn’t play AC1 until probably 2012 or 2013. I asked people at the time whether it was worth it to play AC1 or if I should just skip ahead, and everyone told me to skip ahead for a lot of the same reasons you said.
I’m not sure why I bothered asking because I decided to just play AC1 first anyways and still managed to enjoy it.
If you’re new to the series, it’s still fun just to run around and climb things and kill people. The story was actually interesting and the Animus was a really cool concept. The occasional shift to present day gameplay helped keep the historical stuff fresh. It doesn’t have the overwhelming volume of useless collectibles strewn about everywhere like later games have.
I haven’t played it since so maybe it’s aged worse than I remember. It doesn’t have dozens to hundreds of hours of gameplay and side quests in a huge open world. But for a dozen hours in a game focused on a linear main story it was pretty good. Like if you took down the walls of the hallways in Uncharted.
- Comment on Why do Americans measure everything in cups? 2 months ago:
Most baking doesn’t require the precision of weighing. They are rough proportions, not an exact science.
An experienced baker, or really any kind of chef, will learn over time to make minor adjustments based on a lot of stuff. Maybe a bit less sugar, to taste. Maybe a difference in the brand or exact type of ingredient compared to what you’re used to. Maybe it’s a particularly dry day and you need to add more moisture to the dough.
If it’s something I have a lot of experience with I don’t even bother with measuring at all, just eyeball it.
- Comment on Dollar stores are shutting down across America. They did this to themselves 2 months ago:
The dollar stores themselves are part of the problem. They are huge national chains that helped to push out the smaller grocery stores that originally served those communities.
- Comment on The United States of America, but for Trans People 2 months ago:
That would have been from the channel Half as Interesting for anyone… Interested. As
- Comment on buying coffee 4 months ago:
You don’t see the ultra rich getting fancy coffee from your local barista.
They pay assistants to do that for them.
- Comment on Dark universe King Of The Hill 4 months ago:
Good points: I forgot that most people (at least in the US) are probably thinking of charcoal brickets, using some sort of chemical fire starting product or accelerant.
Those brickets are wood (and hopefully just wood?) that has been burned in a low-oxygen environment, ground down, combined with a bunch of chemicals and fillers and binder, then pressed into bricks.
I use natural chunk charcoal. Just pieces of wood burned in a low-oxygen environment with none of the extra junk, although I get the occasional rock or piece of masonry.
Also the chimney is great. Since I have a gas stovetop, I usually take my chimney inside and put it directly over the biggest burner on high for maybe 30-60 seconds, and that’s all it takes to get it going. There’s of course the risks of fire, carbon monoxide, or getting soot inside which is why you don’t want to use charcoal indoors, so I try to be quick about it.
Alton Brown is a great resource for anyone looking for more about any sort of cooking. Both the clips from Good Eats and the various YouTube videos and other stuff he’s done since.
- Comment on Dark universe King Of The Hill 4 months ago:
If you’re using gas (or electric) you might as well stay inside with a regular kitchen range.
- Comment on Childhood disrupted: is the internet damaging young people’s development? 4 months ago:
Perhaps one day humanity will look back and ask whether the lack of Internet in the thousands of years prior damaged the development of everyone who grew up without it
- Comment on "tHeRe'$ n0 rEpL@CeMeNt FoR dIsPlaCeMeNt!!!1!!!1!!“ 4 months ago:
Cars are also just a horrifically inefficient mode of transportation.
Takes up tons of space on their own. Add in the tons of surface area that mostly sits empty, paved, and impermeable waiting in case someone wants to park there. Add in the maintenance of roads, intersections, bridges, tunnels, and other infrastructure. The energy involved in moving thousands of pounds of metal in order to move, most of the time, just 1 individual with very little cargo.
Really doesn’t matter if it’s gasoline, electric, hydrogen, ammonia, solar, diesel, bio-diesel, nuclear, whatever. Personally motor vehicles have a ton of issues beyond the energy source.
- Comment on "tHeRe'$ n0 rEpL@CeMeNt FoR dIsPlaCeMeNt!!!1!!!1!!“ 4 months ago:
Reactionary car guys are the people “ice”-ing charging stations and talking about how they’re just going to consume more oil in response.
- Comment on Government bonds anyone? 4 months ago:
As an accountant I’ve listened to several colleagues talk for hours about dialing in their W-2’s, some even under withholding and making quarterly payments to make up the difference. Calculating exactly what they are saving and investing that into a seperate account.
Probably spending more in fees than they’re saving. Let alone the time invested. I’m perfectly fine with the government slowly accumulating 1% of my income extra over the course of a year and sending it back later personally.
- Comment on $5 is a steal 4 months ago:
Reminds me of the old days of wired controllers
- Comment on Neo-Nazi podcasters sent to prison on terror charges for targeting Prince Harry and his young son 5 months ago:
To be fair, those guys are probably victims of being manipulated by grifters who stand to gain from selling hate. I’m sure there are some conventionally attractive Nazis, and there’s ugly tolerant folk.
But I’m not really interested in being fair to Nazi’s. Fuck 'em.
- Comment on Neo-Nazi podcasters sent to prison on terror charges for targeting Prince Harry and his young son 5 months ago:
Behold, the master race
- Comment on Your Car Is Tracking You. Abusive Partners May Be, Too. 5 months ago:
This happens again and again and again. At every level, public and private.
The answer is not “filter these people out of these jobs” because very often they have no prior records. Or sometimes someone gets phished. The answer is to stop enabling this in the first place.
- Comment on U.S. intelligence officials determined the Chinese spy balloon used a U.S. internet provider to communicate 5 months ago:
I was having a hard time imagining which company this could be. Not that I’m a fan of Verizon or Comcast, but I think they know what side their bread is buttered on. Which one wouldn’t?
Then I remembered Starlink exists.
- Comment on Situation.. 6 months ago:
Slightly. If you were concerned you could bridge the contacts with an insulated screwdriver or something.
It’s probably not something I would be concerned about unless this is a more powerful charger. It’s too blurry to see but even the large electrolytic doesn’t look big enough to be worried.
- Comment on Different social class different rules 6 months ago:
On the other side of the meme, why shouldn’t money obtained via a 3rd party platform need to be reported to the IRS? I don’t understand the complaint.
Is your business suddenly special and tax-exempt just because you sell your custom knick-knacks on Craigslist on or accept venmo for your at-home dog grooming service or whatever?
- Comment on Sega wants classic franchise reboots to show ‘edginess and a rebellious mind-set’ 6 months ago:
Unironically yes. Sonic 1 had 'tude: it was always part of the IP.
- Comment on Steam Workshop Has added support for paid mods 6 months ago:
As long as they don’t take free mods away I’m fine with it.