thatKamGuy
@thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on ‘As usual, we do what Nintendon’t’: Peripheral firm ‘fixes’ Switch 2’s new Joy-Cons 1 week ago:
I thought they were Canadian, though? Weird…
- Comment on Day 539 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 week ago:
I think it mostly just didn’t feel like a Max Payne game because of the setting. Not New York? Not Max Payne.
Gameplay wise, it was definitely on the right track; and in a way - I remember it fondly as was the last time Rockstar seemingly experimented with game mechanics ahead of incorporating them into the next GTA game.
- Comment on Mom with the real questions 1 week ago:
My bad!
How could I literally forget Sega’s last, beautiful disaster? 🤦🏻♂️ I spent so much time playing Street Fighter III: Third Strike on it back in the day…
- Comment on Victoria, SA, NSW brace for 'worst' heatwave since Black Summer 1 week ago:
Half-price at Coles until end of today, if anyone else is running low. Legitimately #notAnAd
- Comment on Mom with the real questions 1 week ago:
Not just NES; games were largely designed with CRTs in mind all the way through PS2/Xbox/Gamecube console generation!
Legitimately would love a decent CRT TV (and room for it) to be able to authentically play Point Blank again - light gun games of that era only work on CRTs.
- Comment on We'll probably never see a Grand Theft Auto set in a futuristic city like GTA 2 because the team "hated it": "People didn’t connect with the game or its city" 2 weeks ago:
Started with the first GTA on the PlayStation; I used to rank Vice City as my absolute favourite entry in the series - but as I’ve matured over time, I’ve come to find GTA IV (or more specifically, The Ballad of Gay Tony expansion) has taken over the top spot - though VC is still a close second.
If you haven’t played TBOGT in a while, I highly recommend revisiting it - there are a lot of parallels to VC in terms of overall feel and the general “fun” tone.
- Comment on oi mates wtf is going on over there 2 weeks ago:
We are pivoting, we already have the largest uptake of solar in the world - if I recall correctly - and it’s only ramping up further with the recent battery subsidies.
The reason why it’s not covered more in the mainstream media is because it is beholden to fossil fuel interests, and they want to minimise Labor’s successes in order to try and weaken them ahead of the next election.
- Comment on GOG is Getting Acquired By Its Original Co- Founder: What It Means For You 2 weeks ago:
This is an interesting development, for sure - and not one we will be able to accurately gauge the net impact of for a while.
It does feel like CD Project want to move it off their financial documents (P&L, cashflow, balance sheets etc.), while Michael wants to double-down and focus on building out the historical catalog.
Success will really depend on if GOG can remain profitable through lean years without having to ultimately rely on compromising their morals; and whether they will continue to receive support from modern publishers to help fund the more niche projects.
- Comment on Do you preorder games? 2 weeks ago:
The only franchises I will pre-order are:
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World of Warcraft Collector’s Editions : even though I stopped playing a few years ago now, I still buy the physical copy collector’s editions to add to my collection - I have every one going all the way back to vanilla.
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Grand Theft Auto 6 : I have both the PS3 Collector’s Editions for IV and V, feels like getting the same for 6 to finish off that ‘trilogy’ would be apropos.
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- Comment on Do you preorder games? 2 weeks ago:
This is a cursed list, but at least 2/3rds eventually lived up to their initial promise!
- Comment on Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto? 2 weeks ago:
Unironically, you’re missing out.
Android Auto and Apple CarPlay are both just ways to project the smartphone already in your pocket onto an additional screen (like plugging a second monitor to your laptop or PC).
Manufacturers like GM and Tesla hate it because it stops your data from being readily collected and stored with the purpose of building up a profile of ‘you’ that they can then sell to advertisers and insurance companies.
Now if only manufacturers had the good sense to keep things like climate control as physical switches - that’s my own personal bugbear. 🤬
- Comment on Australia’s roads are full of giant cars, and everyone pays the price. What can be done? 3 weeks ago:
Oh, absolutely - we’re on the Pakenham line and took the trip through the new metro tunnel last weekend, absolutely brilliant!
But there are trips and roles that can’t rely on PT, and for those I would much rather see EV adoption over more gigantic Yank-tank “trucks” with somehow less bed-space than what the Commodore and Falcon used to offer.
- Comment on Australia’s roads are full of giant cars, and everyone pays the price. What can be done? 3 weeks ago:
In the long-term, absolutely, we will need to revisit the fuel levy as we transition towards more EVs.
However I think it would be short-sighted to do anything currently that could disincentivise EV uptake.
I’d honestly much rather see a 1,000 more Model Ys on the road than 100 Rangers.
- Comment on RAM and SSD prices are still climbing—here’s our best advice for PC builders 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, in hindsight it really landed at an opportune time.
It’s a crying shame how greedy companies like Nvidia & Micron have gotten from back-to-back runs on their products - it feel like it will take a generational downturn for them to pull their heads in, and return to the more modest profit margins of the past (which even then was around 30%, IIRC).
- Comment on RAM and SSD prices are still climbing—here’s our best advice for PC builders 3 weeks ago:
Ah, completely forgot that Intel 6th gen introduced DDR4 - I would’ve sworn it was much more recent than that!
You’ve certainly gotten your money’s worth out of your system - that’s for sure!
I went from a 3570K, 16GB, GTX 670 -> GTX 1080 (later SLI’d), to my current rig:
5950X, 32GB, RTX 3090 -> RX 7900 XTX
Just before the Ethereum mining rush took off, and with the current pricing due to AI fuckery - I don’t think I’ll be switching up anytime soon.
- Comment on LG TVs’ unremovable Copilot shortcut is the least of smart TVs’ AI problems 3 weeks ago:
I get where you’re coming from, and in certain situations where you can’t otherwise get around it, you can configure your home network to not allow the Smart TV to phone home with telemetry or to accept any inbound external network traffic, so it can only access local network data such as your PC for Steam link.
I’m not confident enough to configure my home network that well (yet), hence I just opt to have the TV air gapped instead
- Comment on LG TVs’ unremovable Copilot shortcut is the least of smart TVs’ AI problems 3 weeks ago:
The thing with smart TVs is that you don’t need to connect them to your network to use them.
LG, unfortunately, still make the best OLED displays at the moment, and Samsung are arguably even worse when it comes to not respecting their customers.
Our C2 65in is hooked up to an Apple TV for all of our media streaming needs.
- Comment on Australia’s roads are full of giant cars, and everyone pays the price. What can be done? 3 weeks ago:
As a Victorian I am loathe to say it, but this is definitely one thing you guys do a hell of a lot better than us.
Especially with the uptake in EVs, which while better for the environment long-term also pose a similar issue for pedestrians and cyclists, registration costs need to be reviewed and rethought from the ground up.
- Comment on NSW premier calls for royal commission, pledges to ban 'globalise the intifada' chant 3 weeks ago:
They know, and don’t care. It’s mostly security theatre, with a a dash of of Zionism for flavour.
- Comment on RAM and SSD prices are still climbing—here’s our best advice for PC builders 3 weeks ago:
64GB of DDR3 RAM in a system of that era is straight nuts!
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxis Are Crashing More Than 12 Times as Frequently as Human Drivers 4 weeks ago:
The US Economy after the inevitable, next global depression:
- Comment on Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases 4 weeks ago:
I’d be more curious to see what percentage of game sales were for 2025 titles versus older.
I think that would paint a truer picture of player behaviour, and whether there are any fundamental shifts in trends.
- Comment on Video Game Physical Software and Hardware Sales Just Had the Worst November in the U.S. Since 1995 - IGN 4 weeks ago:
Data centres aren’t run by hardware manufacturers. When Nvidia/Micron/Samsung run out of enterprise corporations to bilge funds out of, they will return back to selling to consumers.
Does this mean that things will 100% return to how they were in the ‘Before Times’? No, let’s be real - the surplus of under-used data centres will definitely result in a push towards cloud gaming, online experiences and the like - but in an ideal scenario we would end up with more choice and not less.
But again, this all hinges on the current AI bubble bursting in the near future - followed by a pretty bad recession/depression.
- Comment on Video Game Physical Software and Hardware Sales Just Had the Worst November in the U.S. Since 1995 - IGN 4 weeks ago:
The principal of supply and demand still applies, they will cut prices up until the point they either go out of business or they find a sufficient number of buyers.
Companies like Nvidia, Micron and Samsung are currently chasing massive profits off enterprise customers, but will come crawling back to consumers once the AI bubble bursts (assuming they survive the resulting market collapse).
As an example, if Nvidia can turn one TSMC wafter into one AI accelerator that they can sell for $40K, or into ~5 RTX 5090s they can sell for $2K/ea - they will sell as many of the $40K cards as they can, and only use failed wafers to try and satiate RTX 5090 demand.
But if there are no more AI customers, they will be forced to either drop prices in order to shift more volume. If they can’t drop prices further due to wafer costs, then they will pass up wafer allocations from TSMC.
If TSMC sees too many wafers free up - they will be forced to drop prices to all customers (AMD, Apple etc.) to try and pick up the slack. They in turn will need to drop prices in order to try and increase sales volumes.
This will have a downwards pressure on prices and a “return to the mean” moment for tech prices. It will just be a painful couple of years until we get to that point, and honestly with the way things are currently going - it will be the least of our worries.
- Comment on Video Game Physical Software and Hardware Sales Just Had the Worst November in the U.S. Since 1995 - IGN 4 weeks ago:
Prices won’t fall, not until the AI bubble bursts and the related industries shift focus back to consumer-level goods.
At best, you could hope prices remain steady for a few years and real-world incomes slowly rise to match this new normal.
- Comment on If you want to get into handheld gaming, but don't want to spend a lot, buy one of these. 5 weeks ago:
That’s awesome, didn’t even think of how useful AirDrop could be in that situation!
How’s controller support? I have a Razer Kishi V2 I bought way back when to play the Rockstar games, that’s just otherwise gathering dust.
It’s nighttime here in Australia - will load up some files and test it out tomorrow morning! 😁
- Comment on If you want to get into handheld gaming, but don't want to spend a lot, buy one of these. 5 weeks ago:
Thanks for bringing Delta to my attention! I use my Steam Deck for emulation - but now. I have another rabbit hole to go down for when I need to pack ultralight!
Any obvious iOS restrictions, assuming I’d be primarily interested in SNES gaming and have local access to any/every ROM file?
- Comment on Richest 0.001% Now Own Three Times More Wealth Than Poorest Half of Humanity Combined 5 weeks ago:
The issue with “the top 1%” term is that most people can name 100+ people, so it feels as though being in that group is attainable.
Especially when you realise that in the US, there would be ~3.3m 1%’ers.
The reality is that we should be focusing on the top 1% of the top 1% of the top 1% (~330 US individuals); the top 0.0001% - if you will.
They hold outsized political and economic power; you are not part of that group, you will never be part of that group, and they can/will squeeze you for every penny they can.
- Comment on No it won’t 5 weeks ago:
Looks like it’s from Dango, based on the design elements: Dango Products
- Comment on No it won’t 5 weeks ago:
Looks very similar to Dango, they have a bunch of similar metal framed, leather bound wallets.
