MeekerThanBeaker
@MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.world
- Comment on Realistically, how feasible is it to 100% boycott a massive corporation (such as Amazon) for an extended period of time? 1 day 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 1 day 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 1 day 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 week 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 week 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 week ago:
Just like Sandra Bullock and Cillian Murphy.
- Comment on [TerakJK] Avowed vs The Outer Worlds - Obsidian's previous game - Attention to detail. 2 weeks ago:
You can technically play Avowed in third person view, but I understand your point.
- Comment on Ubisoft revenues decline 31.4% to €990m 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
Put all borders in Sharpie, you Apple cowards!!
- Comment on Dell kills the XPS brand 1 month 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? 2 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 3 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' 3 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 4 months ago:
No… it was tRump.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 4 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. 5 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. 5 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 5 months ago:
MouseJiggle.exe
- Comment on Kaspersky removes itself and installs UltraAV without permission 5 months ago:
There are businesses that use it. I work at a small company, under 100 people and we used to use it for about six years… then we switched to Crowdstrike a few years back. And look how that ended up.
- Comment on Hollywood and Netflix Report Piracy Threats to the EU, Call for 'Intermediary' Action 5 months ago:
Studio heads with no film background make decisions based on spreadsheets. Those people shouldn’t be in the industry… yet they remain.
- Comment on Hollywood and Netflix Report Piracy Threats to the EU, Call for 'Intermediary' Action 5 months ago:
One or the other. Quality tends to cost more money. Fast food is cheaper than fine dining, but you can tell the difference in quality.
Problem is the Studios charge a lot for crap.
- Comment on I Completed Assassin's Creed Blackflag And I'm Crying Why It "ENDED" 5 months ago:
They made an animated web series that follows Kenway:
m.webtoons.com/en/fantasy/…/list?title_no=5273
They made a similar style game with Assassin’s Creed: Rogue and with different characters. I enjoyed it, but not nearly as much as the original.
www.ubisoft.com/en-us/game/…/rogue-remastered
And IV will likely get a remake:
- Comment on How come zombies seem to have sharp teeth while the rest of their body is rotting away? Or is just fiction? 6 months ago:
I stopped watching during the 7th season. Maybe I’ll go back to finish it up, but it just felt stale even though they tried to mix things up a bit at the start.
- Comment on How come zombies seem to have sharp teeth while the rest of their body is rotting away? Or is just fiction? 6 months ago:
Teeth (whole jaw) and arms. Michonne did this to travel around as their smell would cover hers so other walkers couldn’t detect her.
- Comment on Amazon cloud boss echoes NVIDIA CEO on coding being dead in the water: "If you go forward 24 months from now, it's possible that most developers are not coding" 6 months ago:
Yes… because there will be users who will always refuse to fix their own computer issues. Even if there’s an easy solution at their fingertips. Many don’t even try to reboot. They just tell IT to fix it… then go get coffee for a half hour.
- Comment on Do you prefer to buy games on Steam or GOG? 6 months ago:
You do realize there are thousands of people who try to earn a living making the content people consume. The majority are not billionaires, they are not millionaires. Many are trying to get by… the “common folk” you speak of.
- Comment on Do you prefer to buy games on Steam or GOG? 6 months ago:
99% of people who pirate don’t want to pay for their entertainment. They’ll come up with any excuse as to why they think it’s justified to make them feel better. “F corporations and their drm, this will teach them.”
The other 1% is for when it’s not available by legitimate means or if by chance something they did pay for and was then taken away or something wasn’t working through legitimate ways, then I get it… but again, that’s for 1%.
Another option is to not download at all.
- Comment on Do you prefer to buy games on Steam or GOG? 6 months ago:
Why pirate games at all? I never understood that.
If games (or movies) are too expensive or not good enough to buy, why download them at all?
- Comment on In Leaked Audio, Amazon Cloud CEO Says AI Will Soon Make Human Programmers a Thing of the Past 6 months ago:
I mean… self driving cars probably will. Just not as soon as they think. My guess, at least another decade.