SkunkWorkz
@SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world
- Comment on Ubisoft target audience when they play a good game 18 hours ago:
Yeah gameplay wise the game basically leaned a lot on novelty. But they are wrong to say that it lacks world building and lore because it’s scant on narrative. That’s like saying “the Quiet Place lacks world building because there is barely any narrative”. The game is excellent in using game mechanics to tell a story. Instead of relying on the storytelling mechanics of film.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
You could get a modded Xbox 360 + Kinect for cheaper than this. It’s not like young kids care so much about graphics anyway.
- Comment on Huh? 4 days ago:
It’s even crazier that office space are designed like that. And then managers are suprised that everyone wears headphones in the office.
- Comment on Huh? 4 days ago:
It’s not just about music. Like some bars and restaurants with modern interior have shitty acoustics, since they are open spaces with concrete walls and large windows. I went to a restaurant recently, wasn’t super crowded, music was played at low volume, still had a hard time hearing people. Since everyone in the room had to speak louder and louder to make themselves heard and overcome the reverb in the room.
- Comment on Learning Japanese 5 days ago:
And what about the Romance languages. They call Germany “Land of the Alemanni”, they called an entire country after a single Germanic tribe that lived near the French/Italian border. It’s like calling the entire country of the Netherlands Amsterdam.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
It also offers nothing compelling for the hardcore Nintendo fan unless they just like to collect Nintendo stuff. No new Zelda, Mario, Luigi, Animal Crossing or Smash. I think Nintendo completely misunderstood the market. Mario Kart 8 is the best selling game on the Switch 1. So Nintendo probably thought they should focus on MK for the Switch 2 launch. But MK8 was not the main reason people got the Switch. Like for example they got the Switch for Animal Crossing and then bought Mario Kart as a side game. Mario Kart is universally like by Nintendo fans it’s just not a game that is on top of people’s wishlist. Nintendo fans don’t want to buy a new Nintendo console just for Mario Kart or Donkey Kong.
Price isn’t the main reason why sales are dropping. I doubt that every Nintendo fan with the means to buy one market already has one. Most are just waiting for a game they actually want to play.
- Comment on As Fortnite Enables Third-Party Microtransactions, Steal the Brainrot's Developer is Slammed By Fans For Immediately Adding $45 Premium Bundles and Gambling-Style Mechanics 1 week ago:
This is even worse this is GAAP. Games as a platform like Roblox. So Fortnite is now filled with slop
- Comment on As Fortnite Enables Third-Party Microtransactions, Steal the Brainrot's Developer is Slammed By Fans For Immediately Adding $45 Premium Bundles and Gambling-Style Mechanics 1 week ago:
Fortnite is turning into Roblox. You can now make games for Fortnite with Unreal Editor for Fortnite. This Steal the brain rot game is made by a third party dev.
- Comment on Mama! 1 week ago:
And we either won’t be invited to the wedding or we will be left behind at the wedding venue.
(When the two galaxies merge we either won’t notice it except seeing the stars dancing in the night’s sky or the planets of our solar system will be flung out of orbit and turning Earth into a rogue planet.)
- Comment on Adderall vape? 1 week ago:
So boofing it is the way to go?
- Comment on I felt so betrayed when I found out Germany isn't called Germany in Germany 1 week ago:
- Comment on I felt so betrayed when I found out Germany isn't called Germany in Germany 1 week ago:
Well in Dutch they call themselves Nederlanders or Hollanders. Though Hollanders is only correct if they are from the provinces North-Holland or South-Holland
- Comment on Stack Overflow in freefall: 78 percent drop in number of questions 1 week ago:
Yeah but in that edge case SO wouldn’t help either even before the current crash. Unless you were lucky. I find LLM useful to push me in the right direction when I’m stuck and documentation isn’t helping either not necessarily to give me perfectly written code. It’s like pair programming with someone who isn’t a coder but somehow has read all the documentation and programming books. Sometimes the left field suggestions it makes are quite helpful.
- Comment on I felt so betrayed when I found out Germany isn't called Germany in Germany 1 week ago:
It’s not really a mix-up. More a continuation of an old name for the language spoken in the Netherlands. The Dutch centuries ago called their language Diets/Duuts/Duits which means something like Germanic. This was before the countries Germany and the Netherlands existed.
Diets is not a single language but a name for all the different regional languages spoken in the low lands also known as Middle Dutch. The name was used to differentiate the languages from the Romance languages.
Hence why the English called the people of the low lands Dutch since the people of the low lands said they were speakers of Diets/Duuts/Duits.
Also in the Dutch national anthem there is a line that says “Ben ik van Duitsen bloed” “I am of Dutch/Deutsche blood” which does not refer to modern day Deutschland but to what all Germanic people in the low lands, what is now present day Netherlands, would call themselves.
- Comment on Github Banned a Ton of Adult Game Developers and Won’t Explain Why 1 week ago:
Bet the people that warn us about Islamification of the West are cheering this on. Same shit different toilet.
- Comment on Sega co-founder Dave Rosen passes away at 95 1 week ago:
Is it right to call him a co-founder? Service Games aka Sega existed long before his company merged with Goraku Bussan, the company that owned Service Games
- Comment on Help is needed 1 week ago:
N.S.A
The Curb
Guns n Hoses
Dink Floyd
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Bagles \ - Comment on Unquestionably high class 1 week ago:
Putain Putin
- Comment on Mom with the real questions 1 week ago:
Well all my friends will come with a partner and kids. So if I invite 3 friends that’s already 8 to 12 people.
- Comment on China calls for Maduro’s immediate release, accuses US of breaching international law 1 week ago:
I don’t talk like one you moron
- Comment on China calls for Maduro’s immediate release, accuses US of breaching international law 1 week ago:
Please stop with the hate speech, that’s jail time for you
- Comment on China calls for Maduro’s immediate release, accuses US of breaching international law 2 weeks ago:
lol I’m not American. Try again libtard
- Comment on T2 butter mold 2 weeks ago:
Hasta la Pasta
- Comment on China calls for Maduro’s immediate release, accuses US of breaching international law 2 weeks ago:
Trump has only set a precedent for China. If the rest of the west doesn’t do shit about this, which they won’t, China will just follow Trumps playbook. Don’t be surprised when Xi will order the kidnapping of the Taiwanese president.
- Comment on World's Video Game Companies 2 weeks ago:
lol Ubi. Why are they still treated as one of the big ones? Like Mojang alone is probably way more valuable than Ubi in total. They basically double A now and they should probably focus on double A productions. Also their market cap is even lower today they are a sub billion euro company now.
- Comment on World's Best-selling Video Game Consoles 2 weeks ago:
I think the Wii stole the momentum. PS3 and 360 were just crazy expensive compared to the Wii and the prev gen of consoles. And unlike PS2 those two consoles lacked a lot of games for kids. So for parents it was an easy decision to just get a Wii. Not to mention if you already had a PS2 you had a large library of games at your disposal and the machine was modable, it’s why it still sold very well in the end of the console’s lifetime especially in middle income regions, like it sold super well in South America. So many PS2 owners weren’t going to convert to PS3, just way too expensive and can’t play pirated games.
- Comment on AI-Induced RAM Crunch Could Push Next PlayStation and Xbox Past 2028 2 weeks ago:
It will definitely boost PS5 sales. Sony loves to boast about PlayStation 2 being the best selling console in history but they conveniently leave out the reason. It’s because there are modchips and even software jailbreaks for the console. It’s why it sold super well during the end of its lifetime in low and middle income regions.
- Comment on Do you think Google execs keep a secret un-enshittified version of their search engine and LLM? 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on The 10 most anticipated video games of 2026 2 weeks ago:
Unfortunately IO gave Conor McGregor, a grade-A asshole, a big bag of money for some dumb DLC appearance. So they never gonna get my money ever again. Who knows which asshole they are going to give it to next.
- Comment on GOG is Getting Acquired By Its Original Co- Founder: What It Means For You 2 weeks ago:
Matchmaking is nothing more than a user database query. That database sits on GOG’s servers and the only thing GOG does is put users into a lobby and then send that data back to the clients so the game can show it to the user. And then when the game starts GOG connects the clients to the host. So developers don’t have to setup their own lobby and relay server. That host can be another client, then the developers don’t have to pay for anything, or a dedicated server which the devs have to pay for themselves. And in case of a dedicated server clients do not have the server binaries.
