A_Random_Idiot
@A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
- Comment on Gamers Nexus big story about GPU smuggling got taken down. 1 day ago:
You sound like a jilted LTT fan that holds a grudge over Steve’s coverage.
- Comment on Gamers Nexus big story about GPU smuggling got taken down. 1 day ago:
You are the only one whining about it.
And you are whining for the stupidiest reason… That a news story focused on X, didnt deeply cover what you want of subject Y.
This is like ordering steak at a restaurant and having fucking toddler meltdown because you didnt get pancakes.
- Comment on 7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux 2 days ago:
Same here.
Windows EOL is why I switched to linux.
proton is why I’ve stayed on linux.
I only have windows on my laptop atm, and thats only because of sheer laziness and the fact i dont use it much anymore… will be putting linux on it eventually, though.
- Comment on YSK There's a campaign to replace the distorted Mercator world map with the fairer Equal-Earth projection 6 days ago:
“The woke liberal left wants to changes maps to make America smaller! Cause they hate America! We will stand against this liberal assault on American sovereinty with the new Trump Map, which shows the true size of America compared to every other country! Order your new Trump Map today for 399.98!”
- Comment on Game prices should have increased with every new generation, former PlayStation US boss says 1 week ago:
You don’t consider reviews influencers because you are a sane person with two functioning neurons to rub together.
- Comment on Game prices should have increased with every new generation, former PlayStation US boss says 1 week ago:
You DO realize the entire point of a review is to influence others, right?
No, the entire point of a review is to inform others.
But keep trying. I’m sure you’ll get it one day.
- Comment on Game prices should have increased with every new generation, former PlayStation US boss says 1 week ago:
Cant even rely on reviews anymore… I forget what game it was, but there was a game had a massive pay to win scheme in the game… that was only added on launch day, so the reviewers copies didnt have it… So they gave glowing reviews on the gameplay, without the game having the pay to win store and all the gameplay nerfs that encourage using it.
- Comment on Gen Z Is Cutting Back On Video Game Purchases 1 week ago:
subscribing to humble monthly is also a good way to amass games on the cheap. not as cheap as free, of course, but still better than most sales.
- Comment on Gen Z Is Cutting Back On Video Game Purchases 1 week ago:
Everyone is.
I don’t buy new releases anymore.
Why?
Cause the prices are getting stupid. Cause its all digital downloads with no physical product. Cause my “ownership” can be revoked at any time by the platforms whims or the platforms shutdown.
What happened to digital downloads being cheaper, anyway? Thats the promise we were sold 10+ years ago. That by sacrificing physical products, Publishers/Devs wouldnt have to pay for printing, manufacturing, shipping, storage, etc, so they’d be able to sell AAA new releases for 30 dollars, and Pub/Dev would still make more money.
And now we’re supposed to be paying 60, 70, 80 dollars or more, for these digital download games… that we don’t even own?
Fuck that. Amazing how the only promise fulfilled on moving to digital download was that pubs/devs would get more money… and they get that by skyrocketing the costs, not because of the sacrifices we made to give up boxes, disks, manuals, and ownership/
- Comment on YSK about Changing your Profile Picture to Clippy 2 weeks ago:
I’m sure this will work just as well as changing out avatars to green helped overthrow the iranian theocracy.
- Comment on Tucson City Council votes 7-0, unanimously to kill AI Data Center 2 weeks ago:
Trump will have them arrested on terrorism charges in a month…after a totally coincidental delivery of a golden idol to trump, from bezos
- Comment on A 2003 complaint about Half Life 2 2 weeks ago:
yep, add me to the wooshcrew
- Comment on A 2003 complaint about Half Life 2 2 weeks ago:
I think portal was supposed to be in the HL2 universe, at least at some point… obviously l4d and tf2 are not.
- Comment on A 2003 complaint about Half Life 2 2 weeks ago:
just cause they were out doesnt mean people had them.
Theres 30tb hard drives today.
You’d be hard pressed to find anyone that had them in their gaming rigs.
- Comment on Florida sues some of the biggest porn platforms, accusing them of not complying with the state's age verification law 2 weeks ago:
TIL about a bunch of new porn sites cause republicans cant understand the streisand effect.
- Comment on Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet 2 weeks ago:
Hahaha
Good luck doing that.
People can’t even delay their non-essential shinies to make a statement against price gouging bullshit… You think they’re gonna willingly sacrifice something like internet? for a month?
- Comment on GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out. 2 weeks ago:
Which is how you know they have a good product that they have full faith in.
when they have to blackmail, threaten, coerce, and force people to accept their product.
- Comment on Tesla withheld data, lied, and misdirected police and plaintiffs to avoid blame in Autopilot crash 2 weeks ago:
I really wish Roosevelt was around to smash these companies into pieces for this shit.
- Comment on ICE agents pointed guns at a US citizen when she walked out on to her yard to ask why they were arresting her (legal immigrant) partner. 2 weeks ago:
man it sure would be a shame if ICE and LE assholes got treated the way they treated innocent people.
- Comment on Did you have one of these? 2 weeks ago:
always wanted one of these things.
great for lamps that are otherwise a pain to get to to turn on/off.
- Comment on A 2003 complaint about Half Life 2 2 weeks ago:
Same.
And this spurs me to bring up the lie of digital purchases… Which was sold to us on the promise of cheap games. We were promised that if we gave up on physical games, then the devs/publishers wouldnt have to pay for printing manuals/boxes, packaging of games, warehouses to store them, and the cost of shipping to get them to the stores/consumers… Which meant they could sell games for lower costs, that game prices would plumet to 25-30 dollars for brand new day 1 releases… and devs/publishers would still get a bigger chunk of revenue/more money from that, than from the old 50 dollar physical big box games with all the feelies, delicious manuals, disks that meant you can install the game however you want, whenever you want, etc etc.
Instead, what digital purchases have gotten us is… a total lack of ownership, that our games can be taken away from us at any time, for any reason, because buried in all the legalese we don’t “own” anything, we just have a “lease”…and for that, we’ve been given the right to pay 10-20 dollars more for games than what they cost during the physical game era, and the risk of the platform disappearing and taking our or games with it (which I’ve already ran afoul of and drastically altered how i buy games)
- Comment on hygiene 3 weeks ago:
Yeeup… That kind of shit (in both the literal and figurative meaning of the word) is why I hate any public/shared/not my at home shower.
- Comment on A 2003 complaint about Half Life 2 3 weeks ago:
I miss box games.
- Comment on A 2003 complaint about Half Life 2 3 weeks ago:
Steam is still slow and buggy.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Steam used to be slick and fast before it changed over to chromium and started trying to become a social media platform
- Comment on A 2003 complaint about Half Life 2 3 weeks ago:
No, Counterstrike 2 came out a couple years ago.
before that was global offensive.
the counter strike that came with HL2 was Counterstrike Source.
CS:S was such a phenominal game… So many years of nights spent staying up till 2am playing on the same server, with the same guys… and all of them gone now, like tears in the rain…
- Comment on A 2003 complaint about Half Life 2 3 weeks ago:
I still have my original box/CDs too… i have no idea where they are, but I know i have them…somewhere.
- Comment on A 2003 complaint about Half Life 2 3 weeks ago:
That bridge level still, to this day, fires every one of my acrophobic neurons.
- Comment on hygiene 3 weeks ago:
I am glad to have, now, a permanant place of residence within the warehouse of your trauma. 💩
- Comment on A 2003 complaint about Half Life 2 3 weeks ago:
I’m old enough that I got HL2 in a retail box, when it was new.
and the fucking disks installed the game encrypted, and I could not use my computer until the next day, due to it thrashing my HDD and CPU so hard to decrypt the files that my computer was functionally useless that evening, and overnight.
- Comment on A 2003 complaint about Half Life 2 3 weeks ago:
surprised there hasnt been a linux distro called SiskOS yet.