thatKamGuy
@thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Power Games: Who’s driving high power bills? 7 hours ago:
Those lucky enough to own their own homes (or more realistically, have a mortgage) at least have access to solar panels and as of recently, batteries.
Those two combined have the ability to drastically reduce one’s utility bills to near-0.
For everyone else stuck paying rent, short of having a decent landlord willing to invest in their property, is shit out of luck.
We are living in two drastically different Australia’s.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 7 hours ago:
Feeling like you’re sitting through a movie is half the reason to play a Kojima game! 🤣
- Comment on Jason Schreier says Sony is backing away from putting single player games on PC 15 hours ago:
GTA6 is likely going to be the only reason I’d get one, because the rest of the exclusives have been pretty lacklustre.
- Comment on AI blamed again as hard drives are sold out for this year 5 days ago:
On the upside, homelabs are going to have a glut of high capacity, barely used server hard drives to choose from then this AI/data centre bubble eventually bursts?
- Comment on 12M Aussies personal data leaked - and 1 Billion worldwide 5 days ago:
So nearly half the population (assuming do duplicates)? Fuck me dead.
Any idea how long until Have I Been Pwned is updated?
- Comment on I'm glad i grabbed this wii fit balance board from the trash a decade ago, wow! 6 days ago:
I’m not sure what I’m more surprised by; the fact that there really is a Wikipedia list for everything, or that there are over 100 titles that support that thing!
- Comment on If at first you don't connect 1 week ago:
Not sure if you’re naming an adapter, or badly trying to coerce a cat to come closer.
- Comment on Health star rating to become mandatory on all packaged food in Australia 1 week ago:
Ever since taking up a low-carb/keto diet back in like ‘18, I’ve defaulted to just checking the nutrition panels on anything pre-packaged and make my judgements based on Sugar, Protein and Sodium content (both per serve, and per 100g).
I have never found these ratings accurate, let alone useful.
- Comment on Dune II written in HTML5 / JavaScript 1 week ago:
The fact this plays so well (interface wise) on a smartphone is ridiculous…
…massive nostalgia vibes, and I don’t even have to juggle 6 floppy disks to boot!
- Comment on Blizzard reportedly partnering with Arc Raiders owner Nexon to revive StarCraft as a shooter 2 weeks ago:
This is a slight historical re-write.
Blizzard’s parent company since ‘98 (Vivendi) was the larger of two companies at the time of the merger in ‘08, and put forward $2b towards the merger vs. Activision’s $1b.
Vivendi remained the majority shareholder of the new entity, and chose to appoint Bobby Kotick as the CEO.
Activision-Blizzard didn’t buy-out majority control until ‘13 - well after the enshittification began.
- Comment on Blizzard reportedly partnering with Arc Raiders owner Nexon to revive StarCraft as a shooter 2 weeks ago:
…and more importantly, what about NFTs?!
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
It’s all the same woman: Stephanie McMahon
- Comment on The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K 3 weeks ago:
I remember the horrendous response times of the original GameBoy’s LCD panel, and when I mentally compare it to modern COLOUR panels…
…all I can think is, never say never!
- Comment on The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K 3 weeks ago:
What you’re looking for are commercial screens. They’re a bit more expensive for a comparable panel, as they are intended for 24/7 use- but are about as dumb as they get nowadays.
- Comment on The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K 3 weeks ago:
Silly goose, after 8K is 16K!
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Technically, 1000 beats per day - but yes, Swatch tried this back in ‚99:
- Comment on The capsicum paradox: new Australian supermarket pricing a ‘massive transparency fail’ for customers 4 weeks ago:
I think it’s as much an indictment on falling maths literacy on the population as a whole when converting unit prices to a per-KG price as “complex”.
But that’s really besides the point of the majority of the article, as this is largely about converting customers online orders. If I’m ordering apples online, I’d want to buy on a per-unit basis (eg. 5 apples for the kids lunchbox), I’d be pretty miffed if I ordered 800g online - expecting 5 and only getting 4 bigger ones.
Still, the way this is currently implemented is pretty piss-poor - there generally shouldn’t be a per-unit price; charge per KG based on the final weight of produce selected, even if you give customers an option to buy per unit. But that involves weighing each line individually, slowing down the entire process and staff labour “shopping” for customers is a massive expense.
- Comment on Microsoft Windows 365 goes down the day after Microsoft celebrates 'reimagining the PC as a cloud service that streams a Cloud PC' 4 weeks ago:
They’re trying to redefine it to Profitable Computing:
- Comment on Ubisoft initiates colossal restructure to become a more 'gamer-centric' company 5 weeks ago:
I want AI in games; Actual Innovation!
- Comment on PC game recommendation for my partner and I 5 weeks ago:
I’m in a similar situation with my wife not being particularly interested in games - I’ve had some success in playing LA Noire with her guiding the investigations and interrogations. The jazz soundtrack in particular helped convince her, funnily enough!
Not quite perhaps what you’re looking for, but may work for others with hesitant non-gamer partners.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 5 weeks ago:
Such a great game; doesn’t overstay its welcome and has just enough mechanics to keep things interesting.
I’ve replayed it every few years and it’s as good as I remembered it every time.
I feel similarly about Crysis and Far Cry 3 too - but am probably in the minority on those two.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 5 weeks ago:
Would you be able to DM me a link to whatever guide or resources you used to get that up and running?
I’d be keen for a similar single-player experience through MOP or Legion.
- Comment on Research Institute Warns Australia's Social Housing Lags Behind Population Growth 5 weeks ago:
No shit; doing so would go against the paypig’s best interests.
Increased supply of cost-controlled housing would put downward pressure on housing prices, endangering all of those speculative investments!
- Comment on ‘As usual, we do what Nintendon’t’: Peripheral firm ‘fixes’ Switch 2’s new Joy-Cons 1 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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" 1 month 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 1 month 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.
