thatKamGuy
@thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Forza Horizon 5 Will Require a Microsoft Account to Play on PS5 17 hours ago:
Christ, I can’t believe I’m going to have to begin a comment with these words so early in my life…
…but back in my day, the vast majority of the back of a game case was reserved to screenshots, and to describe the features and plot of a game. Not the intricacies of the T&Cs you need to agree to prior to playing!
- Comment on What host names do you use? 1 day ago:
My personal use devices are all some variation of Pingu (eg. iPingu, Pingtendo etc.), and my NAS devices are based off Pokémon puns (Storlax and Archivysaur currently).
My wife on the other hand is boring, so her’s are just system default.
- Comment on MagicX Hope To Pioneer DS Emulation With The Zero 40 3 days ago:
Ah, yes - good point! I completely forgot about all of those arcade cabinets with the sideways mounted screens, loads more titles and a bunch of unlocked memories 🤣
- Comment on MagicX Hope To Pioneer DS Emulation With The Zero 40 3 days ago:
While I’m all for emulation getting all the love it can, is there really much demand for such a screen orientation? Are there any other systems that could take advantage of this kind of layout and not just have giant black bars?
I can only think of the DS, 3DS and maybe WiiU…
Happy to be proven wrong, though!
- Comment on The best president who ever lived!! 😌🙏😌🙏😌🙏 1 week ago:
For what it’s worth, a lot of the time we feel like America’s dumb young brother that tries to emulate everything our big brother does…
…so if we decide to elect Herr Potato in our upcoming election; you’ll have free reign to make fun of us again!
- Comment on The best president who ever lived!! 😌🙏😌🙏😌🙏 1 week ago:
Less of a brag, more a cry for help
We’re surrounded, and the last lot that were sent to help ended up losing against unarmed, flightless birds!
- Comment on The best president who ever lived!! 😌🙏😌🙏😌🙏 1 week ago:
Ever heard of dingos? 😅
- Comment on The best president who ever lived!! 😌🙏😌🙏😌🙏 1 week ago:
Capitalism is like a wild dog; it’s worth having around if you can break it in, and keep it contained. But the moment you let your oversight lapse, you’re going to get bit.
- Comment on Three years later, the Steam Deck has dominated handheld PC gaming 1 week ago:
I think the biggest hurdle against transitioning away from Windows to Linux for most government offices isn’t the OS itself - but rather the MS Office suite!
You’d honestly be surprised how pervasive Excel is amongst white collar workers; and I think the biggest hurdle is the uncertainty of compatibility (of formulas, macros, workbook links etc.) from Excel to Open/Libre Office alternatives.
- Comment on Balatro wins formal appeal to reclassify poker game as PEGI 12 1 week ago:
Very true, same applies to the ESRB in the US. The ESA literally only formed the organisation to self-censor rather than leave it to the Gov’t following outrage over Mortal Kombat — if I’m remembering correctly?
Here in Australia, the ACB is a government body — but just about as useless, if not even more so! For the longest time, we had to have our games additionally censored because they were viewed as for children and therefore couldn’t depict excessive violence, any sexual themes or drug use. Manhunt, Grand Theft Auto 3 & Vice City were notable examples.
What am I getting at, even I don’t know. I guess to say that both implementations can be shit…? 🤷🏻♂️
- Comment on The Team That Ported GTA 3 To Dreamcast Is Bringing Vice City Over Next | Time Extension 1 week ago:
Haven’t played the GTA3 Dreamcast port yet… it always felt more like tech demo than an actual game to me, especially after playing Vice City.
Will definitely give it a go at some point in the future, though - hopefully?
- Comment on Samurai Pizza Cats - Official Game Reveal Trailer 1 week ago:
Rocko’s Modern Life, Angry Beavers, Ren & Stimpy, etc.
That was a rabbit hole to fall down, unlocking so many childhood memories! For some reason, I thought those were all by Klasky Csupo, turns out I totally misremembered… 😅
May as well throw CatDog onto that list too, I sing the theme song to my daughter to make her laugh…
I kinda feel sorry for later generations, there really is no way that modern kids animation holds a candle to what we millennials got to experience.
- Comment on I am from a different millenia 1 week ago:
You know what really grinds my gears?
Region-specific bonus tracks that are literally not available on any streaming service in an official capacity; the only place I can find them are on YouTube - where they could get DMCA’ed at a moment’s notice…
Two tracks off the top of my head like this are:
- Don’t Tell Me It’s Over by Blink 182, from Take Off Your Pants & Jacket
- Subject to Change by Sum 41, from Chuck
- Comment on Samurai Pizza Cats - Official Game Reveal Trailer 1 week ago:
Didn’t know about the NES game, thanks for the heads-up! It looks like it was only released in Japan and based on the original Kyatto Ninden Teyandee version, and not the deranged English dub.
Even calling the original series notionally relevant is probably a stretch, it wasn’t even renewed for a second season! 🤣 But I guess we have its general failure to thank for setting in the Rube Goldberg series of events which led to the absurd English dub?
- Comment on Samurai Pizza Cats - Official Game Reveal Trailer 1 week ago:
I honestly have no idea who greenlit this or why; but given just how obscure the source is - I have hopes that it’s a passion project, and will be made with love and care.
- Comment on Samurai Pizza Cats - Official Game Reveal Trailer 1 week ago:
“One of us, one of us, one of us!”
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- Comment on Balatro wins formal appeal to reclassify poker game as PEGI 12 1 week ago:
While the win is good, the fact that it’s still a PEGI 12 game while FIFA is a PEGI 3 shows what an absolute joke the whole process is.
Australia had to deal with similar levels of bullshit for way too long before our ratings board finally capitulated to common sense and introduced an R18 rating (for games like The Last of Us, not even XXX content!).
We have an endemic gambling problem too, so I don’t foresee much common sense coming out of that mob anytime soon - either.
- Comment on Google Chrome disables uBlock Origin for some in Manifest v3 rollout 2 weeks ago:
Would you happen to know whether this is something that a UserAgent spoofer would suffice to get around?
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 weeks ago:
I’ve only ever played the first three Resident Evils (and only completed Director’s Cut & 2!); having a lot of fun going back and playing through all of the experiences I missed growing up.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 weeks ago:
Recently picked up both Silent Hill 2, and Resident Evil 4 (both for the PS2); and having never played either, I’m excited!
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 weeks ago:
Bully is absolutely brilliant, and largely as slept on compared to its GTA brethren.
You can also check out Red Dead Revolver, Manhunt and The Warriors to experience the rest of what amounted to Rockstar experimenting with various gameplay mechanics before implementing them into the GTA-series proper.
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 3 weeks ago:
The SSN is 9 digits long; so technically they would have to start re-using them after the billionth one. Given the current population size, and how many people have been born/died since its implementation - it’s fair to say they haven’t had to re-use any figures yet.
- Comment on Just like his dad. 1 month ago:
Pretty sure that’s an intentional evolutionary trait. Fathers are less likely to question paternity if a baby looks like them, helping to form emotional bongs early.
- Comment on You know what, fuck you [un-Jags uar icon] 3 months ago:
/uj Technically this is their new logo:
J a G U a r is just their new typeface (I think that’s the name?); and apparently/allegedly is to make the pronunciation closer to UK English, rather than American.
Either way, though - it’s still…
/j
…pReTtY fArKiN’ sToOoPiD.
- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 3 months ago:
There were similar levels of fear and worry when Russia was amassing troops just under the border ahead of their “3-day special operation”. But the truth of the matter is that Russia has shown itself to be a lot weaker as a military force than they purported themselves to be.
Their internal war-time economy is anyway starting to flounder as the >1.5K daily casualties they are amassing is having a noticeable impact on not only military production, but also civilian and agricultural. (‘ Russia economy crumbling with food prices skyrocketing as Putin’s problems mount’ - Express.co.uk).
They are relying heavily on Iran, China and NK to supplement their falling arms production; and are now also needing to supplement their conscript forces with NK forces.
Russia has continually been over-estimated, but don’t doubt for a second that it is being cooked like a frog in a boiling pot in a proxy-war solely using Ukrainian forces.
In the event of a handful of allied European nations joining the war to aid Ukraine, Russia would be expelled from the region quite quickly - but at the cost of additional human lives, which is why the escalations have been so slow.
- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 3 months ago:
Honestly it sounds like Sino fear-mongering or Tankie wishful thinking.
It’s easy to forget because it’s made up of a multitude of smaller countries - but Europe has a population of ~750m, and a vastly more coherent and powerful combined military (even if the US were to pull out of NATO).
Russia can’t currently steam-roll one nation, how on Earth do you think they’d do anything against Poland, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia and Finland - all countries with a deeply (& rightfully) ingrained distrust/hatred of Russia.
China isn’t likely to risk making themselves an international outcast just to aid Russia - they are more likely to make a play for Taiwan than anything else.
- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 3 months ago:
Not OP; but probably referring to Nixon normalising relations with China; or maybe negotiating with the Viet Cong to prolong the Vietnam War so that he could be elected?; or the whole Watergate fiasco which directly lead to the creation of Fox News… I mean, that man is responsible for a lot of our modern ails.
But if it’s the former, it directly lead to outsourcing production overseas where labour was cheapest, resulting in the gutting of American manufacturing and the entire middle class that depended on it.
I more personally believe that Nixon severely injured the US, but it was Reagan who shot the killing bullet. But that’s honestly a debate for another time.
- Comment on ‘I have lost everything’: southern Africa battles hunger amid historic drought 3 months ago:
Yes, sure that 27m people are at risk of dying due to starvation - but won’t someone please think of the poor shareholders of all of those Petroleum companies?!
- Comment on Apple’s first Mac mini redesign in 14 years looks like a big aluminum Apple TV 4 months ago:
It’s not a stupid decision, but a stubborn one.
I’m 100% OK with that; Apple is heavy on design aesthetics. If a user doesn’t like that, they can just use their own preferred mouse - wired or otherwise.
