thatKamGuy
@thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on People who call the PS1 'PSX' make me want to kill kittens 13 hours ago:
It was usually said when referring to the PlayStation secondarily:
- “I have a PlayStation at home, you should come over sometime!”
- “I just bought Resident Evil 2 for the PSX, it’s really scary!”
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 21 hours ago:
Out of sheer curiosity, what’re the issues you’re experiencing with NHL99?
I’d have thought a title that old (25+ years) would emulate just fine?
- Comment on Nintendo president responds to Switch 2 price increase fears amid Trump tariff fallout 1 day ago:
I’m honestly surprised they haven’t jacked up the prices already! Partly because Capitalism^TM — but also because I fully expect for big retailers like Walmart to have 30-90 day payment terms with vendors, and some of those invoices potentially being subject to these tariffs.
- Comment on Peak Trump Performance 3 days ago:
So this is what he chose to do, instead of attending the ceremony for dead soldiers in Lithuania?
- Comment on IGN: Mario Kart World: First Hands-on Preview 5 days ago:
Can’t believe someone actually downvoted you for being excited; I swear, heaven forbid you like something that others don’t.
I’m skeptical as to whether the open world aspect will add to (or detract from) the experience, but I’ll probably end up grabbing it few years down the line once my kid is old enough to appreciate it.
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #9 5 days ago:
Yeah - we are a strange, strange place at times. We’re a schizophrenic-nation; half-nanny state, half lawless wasteland! 😅
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #9 5 days ago:
Really curious as to why River City Girls isn’t going to be available in Australia in particular; as far as I can see, it hasn’t been refused classification (banned) here?
- Comment on Take-Two DMCAs Video Of GTA5 Mod To For GTA6 Map Content 5 days ago:
It’s a knee-jerk reaction, and it’s going to have a Streisand effect. I’m looking forward to the dozens of reposted videos spreading far and wide.
- Comment on Request for FPS recommendations. 5 days ago:
Portal 1&2, for a change of pace.
- Comment on The Switch 2 Rollout Was So Convoluted It Made Us Want A Steam Deck. 5 days ago:
Many thanks for this! Really puts the console gaming hobby into perspective.
My two biggest take-aways:
- Holy shit, that Atari 2600 was expensive!
- Really explains why the PlayStation 3 stumbled out of the gate, oof!
- Comment on The Switch 2 Rollout Was So Convoluted It Made Us Want A Steam Deck. 5 days ago:
I’m an old curmudgeon, and I remember (my parents) paying ~$50 for SNES back in the early-to-mid ‘90s; so I’m not exactly shocked that Nintendo have lifted their sell-price.
Compared to back then; gaming is still somewhat more affordable, which definitely feels counter-intuitive - I know!
Japan has for the first time since 1991 had >2% annual inflation for 3 straight years, definitively ending their 2+ decade of stagflation. Developer wages are going up, and games take longer to develop - those costs need to be covered. I am in support of paying a fair market price if (and only if), that increase goes to the labour, and not shareholder profits.
Seeing as the Executive team at Nintendo opted to take a salary-cut, rather than lay off staff, following the failure of the WiiU — they have exactly one credit from me, for the benefit of the doubt.
But that is where my good graces end; other developers are going to take this as the green light to further increase prices on their own (unfinished, rushed, micropayment-laden) titles, across the industry. Heck, there are rumblings that the base version of GTA6 may be $100USD!
- Comment on The Switch 2 Rollout Was So Convoluted It Made Us Want A Steam Deck. 6 days ago:
My point is more that new/launch technology is always more expensive at launch, until economies of scale can kick in; and this is the first console launch after the 1-2 years of post-COVID double-digit inflation globally.
It sucks, and I’m not trying to excuse it or hand-wave it away - more-so just pointing out that it was kinda foreseeable, given the current state of things.
If you think this is bad, wait until the next round of console launches in ~2027 from Sony.
- Comment on The Switch 2 Rollout Was So Convoluted It Made Us Want A Steam Deck. 6 days ago:
Nintendo launched the first Switch at $299; just accounting for inflation over the past years - that’s ~$390 now, BEFORE even trying to account for any Trump-tariffs they have been (or will be) imposed on electronics hardware.
I hate to give Nintendo credit, but $450 is actually somewhat reasonable given the current global shit-show.
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #8 1 week ago:
That PS3 custom-mod is absolute mint!
I wonder if cribsnib has any intention of selling kits/shells — I can’t say for certain if I’d be able to afford it, but goddamn do I want one!
- Comment on In the latest Windows 11 preview build, Microsoft removed the “bypassnro” command, which let users skip signing into a Microsoft Account when installing Windows. 1 week ago:
I remembered reading somewhere that ASRock started off as ASUS ‘budget’ brand - but had since been spun off into its own entity.
I thought that meant that they were sold off, and were a completely separate company now - but it looks I was wrong, they’re still a subsidiary. 🙁
- Comment on In the latest Windows 11 preview build, Microsoft removed the “bypassnro” command, which let users skip signing into a Microsoft Account when installing Windows. 1 week ago:
MSI have dropped AMD as a GPU partner as of this generation (funnily enough - also the same generation they had proven to be their highest selling!), and their next generation of PSUs have dropped PCIe 6+2 for whatever the current HPV12 implementation is, so they’re in my shit-list too.
Gigabyte’s warranty support has been ass in the past (at least in my region), and their 3000-series GPUs were prone to overheating due to poor quality thermal pads. Oh, and their PSUs were sub-par and prone to exploding!
I think ASRock is the only ‘Tier 1’ brand (that I’m aware of) without massive controversies in the past few years?
- Comment on Bluesky made more money selling T-shirts mocking Mark Zuckerberg in one day than it has in two years of selling custom domains 2 weeks ago:
I imagine selling t-shirts would be against the Marxist/Leninist ideology of Lenny’s devs?
But given the volume of non-tankie instances now up and running, I’m sure some enterprising admins would be willing to give it a go.
…and as long as they’re ethically sourced (no sweatshops), high quality (materials and GSM), and reasonably priced (accounting for the other two factors) - I’m all for it!
- Comment on Video Game Workers Launch Industry-Wide Union with Communications Workers of America 2 weeks ago:
I can’t wait for the capital-G Gamers response to this…
…no matter how bad of a take I can think up, they always manage to out-do themselves and genuinely surprise me!
As for the workers, good on them - being on the strikes!
- Comment on PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now 3 weeks ago:
For publisher bottom lines, it absolutely would be!
Basically anything not purchased this fiscal quarter may as well be non-existent to them - hence the push towards reoccurring monetisation.
Meanwhile I’m currently (slowly) playing through a massive backlog of games from the 2010s, so I’m good!
- Comment on Majority of AI Researchers Say Tech Industry Is Pouring Billions Into a Dead End 3 weeks ago:
producing war machines that fight each other for territory to build more war machine factories until you can’t expand anymore for one reason or another.
As seen in the retro-documentary Z!
- Comment on What is your bath mat situation? 4 weeks ago:
Yeah; we’ve got one too - primarily for when you first get out of the shower.
- Comment on Forza Horizon 5 Will Require a Microsoft Account to Play on PS5 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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!! 😌🙏😌🙏😌🙏 5 weeks 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!! 😌🙏😌🙏😌🙏 5 weeks 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!! 😌🙏😌🙏😌🙏 5 weeks ago:
Ever heard of dingos? 😅
- Comment on The best president who ever lived!! 😌🙏😌🙏😌🙏 5 weeks 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 month 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.