Skyline969
@Skyline969@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Jack Dorsey’s New App Just Hit a Very Embarrassing Security Snag 1 week ago:
If it runs through a Bluetooth mesh network, wouldn’t that mean you would need a substantial userbase for this to be viable whatsoever unless you are physically near the people you want to message?
- Comment on Disturbed 3 weeks ago:
I’ve got a good Draiman story. Disturbed played in my city in 2009. It was an all day music festival. I was on my feet all day which aggravated my old knee injury. Disturbed were the last or second to last band to play at night, so by the time they came on I was in so much pain. I went and sat down in the closest section to me.
The band comes out and plays their set. A bit of the way through Draiman does some crowd interaction. He calls for everyone to stand up. Everyone does, except for my section. He pointed at us and went “what is this, the fucking pussy section?” I looked around… it was the disabled section.
So anyway, that’s the story of how I got called a pussy by Draiman.
- Comment on Very small deal 5 weeks ago:
Commenting to check again later. I’m curious too.
- Comment on ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN | Official Launch Trailer 1 month ago:
My body is ready.
- Comment on On the prospect of an $80-$90 GTA 6, former PlayStation boss says 'it's an impossible equation' for big-budget studios to keep their prices down 2 months ago:
Go ahead. I’m back to piracy where needed and patient gaming where possible. These clowns played themselves. AAA games are unreasonable nowadays.
- Comment on Chips aren’t improving like they used to, and it’s killing game console price cuts 2 months ago:
You do make some decent points, but the console has one major aspect that PC simply does not have: convenience. I install a game and I’m playing it. No settings to tweak, no need to make sure my drivers are up to date, no need to make sure other programs I’m running are interfering with the game, none of that. If I get a game for my console I know it absolutely will work, with the exception of a simply shitty game which happens on PC too.
The other thing I wanted to touch on was the cheap games. That’s just as relevant on console nowadays. For example, I’ve been slowly buying the Yakuza games for $10-$15 each. That’s the exact same discounts I’ve seen on Steam.
For backwards compatibility, it depends on your console. Xbox is quite impressive - if you have an Xbox Series X you can play any game ever released for any Xbox all the way back to the original. Just stick in the disc. With PlayStation, it’s just PS4 games that the PS5 is backwards compatible with. Sony needs to do better. And with Nintendo… lol.
Yeah, with a PC you can do other things than gaming. For most of that you can get a cheap laptop. There are definitely edge cases where a powerful PC is needed such as development, CAD, AI, etc. But on average a gaming-spec PC is not necessary. I’m saying that as a developer and systems administrator for the past 14 years.
- Comment on Chips aren’t improving like they used to, and it’s killing game console price cuts 2 months ago:
Along with paying for multiplayer I get access to a large catalog of games as well as additional games every month. Yes they’re inaccessible if I stop paying, but that’s not really a big deal. Even all that aside, I pretty much play single player games anyway.
Also, when a game comes out I know it’ll work. No driver bugs, no messing with settings, no checking minimum and recommended specs, it just works. And it works the same for everyone on the platform. I don’t have any desire to spend a bunch of time tweaking settings to get things just right, only to have the game crash for some esoteric reason or another.
- Comment on Chips aren’t improving like they used to, and it’s killing game console price cuts 2 months ago:
I mean, for the price of a mid range graphics card I can still buy a whole console. GPU prices are ridiculous. Never mind everything else on top of that.
- Comment on Best starter hands-down 3 months ago:
Look, if you don’t wanna get flamethrowered, stop being so flammable.
- Comment on Best starter hands-down 3 months ago:
That’s a weird looking Charmander
- Comment on Switch 2 mouse mode (such potential) 3 months ago:
Could be useful for RimWorld. Factorio maybe.
- Comment on A little carving from one of my favorite games 4 months ago:
Man that game is bleak. But one of the best roguelikes in existence.
- Comment on Microsoft just delayed Recall again 8 months ago:
Go ahead. I switched to Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC which has none of that nonsense. Not even the store unless you install it. And it’s supported until 2032. Hopefully by then either MS will get their shit together or Linux will be a viable alternative for regular use (too many buts currently - it does XYZ but, it runs this program but, basic hardware works but).
- Comment on Corporate greed is killing RuneScape. What do people play instead? 9 months ago:
Perhaps Albion Online for a similar kind of game?