MeekerThanBeaker
@MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.world
- Comment on How does one snap their fingers? 1 week ago:
- Comment on IGN: Mario Kart World: First Hands-on Preview 1 week ago:
Well, with the system bundle it was only going to be $50 more. No way I was gonna pay $80 for it. With the stupid tariffs, who knows what’s gonna happen?
- Comment on Switch 2 preorders delayed over Trump tariff uncertainty 1 week ago:
I’m so glad that the prices were revealed right before the tariff announcement.
So now… they either stick to that and suck it up or they will increase them and show more people what these tariffs are doing.
- Comment on Do people really think setting up domestic manufacturing in the USA is easy? 1 week ago:
Trump was so proud of himself for using the word “reciprocal.” He likely didn’t know what it meant earlier this week.
- Comment on Horror 2 weeks ago:
Maybe they thought we’d have discovered/created new elements by now that could do this.
- Comment on Horror 2 weeks ago:
Back right?
I see two in the back left and two more in the back middle without balloons. The two in the back right are the carriage passengers.
- Comment on Realistically, how feasible is it to 100% boycott a massive corporation (such as Amazon) for an extended period of time? 5 weeks ago:
The way I see it… whenever I do buy from Amazon, I say to myself that my money is going to the workers/drivers… and whenever the Magas pay for stuff, that goes straight to Bezos.
It’s not as good as buying from somewhere else, but it helps.
- Comment on Jackbox Games coming to Smart TVs for free 5 weeks ago:
Yeah. I know what you mean. We still have fun playing it and just take it as it is.
Anyone can answer the questions at the main menu so maybe it’ll get better over time.
- Comment on Jackbox Games coming to Smart TVs for free 5 weeks ago:
They also released The Jackbox Survey Scramble last year which was surprisingly fun.
- Comment on Ron Wyden asks for rules about whether you own your digital purchases 1 month ago:
I buy the correct way and it’s been working okay so far. The moment something is taken away, I’ll get it back another way.
Even though physical discs are superior, with audio especially, I really don’t have room to store all the things I want.
- Comment on Watch: A real-life flying car takes to the skies 1 month ago:
I saw the article before somewhere on my newsfeed and didn’t click on it. Until we get some kind of new type of technology, flying cars will always be planes or drone that kinda looks like a car.
- Comment on Why do people see me as far older than 19 when I type the way I do sometimes?/Why do people think full stops are rude? 1 month ago:
Just like Sandra Bullock and Cillian Murphy.
- Comment on [TerakJK] Avowed vs The Outer Worlds - Obsidian's previous game - Attention to detail. 1 month ago:
You can technically play Avowed in third person view, but I understand your point.
- Comment on Ubisoft revenues decline 31.4% to €990m 1 month ago:
I was so looking forward to that game. Once I found out it was basically just a multiplayer experience, my interest dropped. Still haven’t played it.
The problem with many games and movies nowadays is that the gatekeepers are people who don’t really have creative/artistic background. They are business people who make decisions on whatever they think makes the company the most money.
A.I. has its issues and controversy, but I feel like creative people who can’t get through the blocked doors of these business types will go on their own and create wonderful things with the technology. I guess time will tell.
- Comment on In the 1985 movie Teen Wolf, when Scott Howard turned into a teen wolf, would he have had a human penis or a wolf penis? 1 month ago:
I think if you watch WolfCop… you might get your answer if it follows the same rules as Teen Wolf.
- Comment on Apple Maps now shows the Gulf of America 1 month ago:
Put all borders in Sharpie, you Apple cowards!!
- Comment on Dell kills the XPS brand 2 months ago:
As an IT guy, recent (past five years) XPS laptops we gave to execs were pretty bad. Smaller, yes, but I found the Latitudes were better in terms of build quality. It is a small sample size though as most execs preferred MacBooks.
- Comment on How does patientgamers feel about free games on Epic? 3 months ago:
I have hundreds of free games from there. Haven’t played a single one. Maybe this year will be the year, but I doubt it.
- Comment on Steam is 'an unsafe place for teens and young adults': US senator warns Gabe Newell of 'more intense scrutiny' from the government if Valve doesn't take action against extremist content 4 months ago:
Damn you, Sid Meier!!!
- Comment on 'My personal failure was being stumped': Gabe Newell says finishing Half-Life 2: Episode 3 just to conclude the story would've been 'copping out of [Valve's] obligation to gamers' 4 months ago:
I’ve played pretty much all but the most recent. They have their ups and downs. The first was almost like a proof of concept. Kinda boring, but the story sets up the sequels. There was a good overall story arc in the Desmond/Ezio trilogy (Assassin’s Creed II, Brotherhood, and Revelations) that hasn’t been duplicated since.
AC3 was a bit of a breath of fresh air, being part of the American revolution, but it wasn’t for everyone. The story was being deviated from earlier games too much. AC4 is, for me, still the best single-player pirate game out there. It continues with Rogue. Both of those games I highly enjoyed.
Unity (Paris during French Revolution) and Syndicate (Victorian London) both have fantastic maps and character design, but gameplay and story just wasn’t as interesting to me. The series was feeling stale.
To Ubisoft’s credit, they knew that too and entirely revamped the gameplay and menu system starting with Origins (Ancient Egypt), then Odyssey (Ancient Greece), and Valhalla (Vikings during 9th Century). Valhalla was really fun. I love how they change certain villages up throughout the year… adding festivals/challenges depending on when you play. The maps were just getting too huge and overwhelming at this point.
I play the games now mainly for exploration. Gameplay and story are secondary as they aren’t as interesting anymore. They really put a lot of detail into their surroundings and do their research on history, whether real or fantastical. It’s escapism to another land in another time.
Ubisoft is not Rockstar. The story is no longer the reason to play these games. They are forgettable. The Desmond/Ezio storyline of the earlier games are no more. However, we don’t have to wait several years to play a sequel.
Valhalla was the only one that I paid full price for since it was 2020 and we were still basically trapped in our homes, but definitely got my money’s worth. They seemed to take more time making Mirage so I’ll check that out eventually. They are remastering some of their old games so I’d play those over the dated originals.
The Far Cry series has a similar feeling for me, but with a first person perspective. New lands to explore, new stories and characters, but some are better than others.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 5 months ago:
No… it was tRump.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 5 months ago:
“Our new Mac Mini is so powerful, so extraordinary, you’ll never want to turn it off.” – Tim Apple, probably.
- Comment on This researcher wants to replace your brain, little by little. The US government just hired a researcher who thinks we can beat aging with fresh cloned bodies and brain updates. 6 months ago:
No, no… you misunderstood. We’re just taking a trip to the brain farm up north. You’ll be able to think with the other brains up there. It’ll be fun.
- Comment on This researcher wants to replace your brain, little by little. The US government just hired a researcher who thinks we can beat aging with fresh cloned bodies and brain updates. 6 months ago:
I think the only way we know it is us for sure is if we are conscious in both the original and clone at the same time. Like… okay… I know this is me in the new brain, I’ll shut down the other one.
- Comment on Microsoft retires WordPad after 28 years — app no longer available as of Windows 11 24H2 6 months ago:
MouseJiggle.exe
