Peffse
@Peffse@lemmy.world
- Comment on Marketing Doesn't Work on Nerds 2 days ago:
do people actually buy those? I honestly thought they were some kind of money laundering thing. I’ve never once saw one sell.
- Comment on Fata Deum, a god game where you have convert citizen living across an island to your faith, released in early access on Steam. 4 days ago:
Wololo
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know if it changed, but when I started looking around to replace my set about 2 years ago, it was a nightmare of marketing "gotcha"s.
Some TVs were advertising 240fps, but only had 60fps panels with special tricks to double framerate twice or something silly. Other TVs offered 120fps, but only on one HDMI port. More TVs wouldn’t work without internet. Even more had shoddy UIs that were confusing to navigate and did stuff like default to their own proprietary software showing Fox News on every boot (Samsung). I gave up when I found out that most of them had abysmal latency since they all had crappy software running that messed with color values for no reason. So I just went and bought the cheapest TV at a bargain overstock store. Days of shopping time wasted, and a customer lost.
If I were shown something that advertised with 8K at that point, I’d have laughed and said it was obviously a marketing lie like everything else I encountered.
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 2 weeks ago:
Wasn’t always the case (I think it changed within the past two years), but upon doing research on when it changed I stumbled on this gem.
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 2 weeks ago:
I’m pretty sure that was implemented a while ago. My install of VLC from F-Droid started showing up in Play Store’s update list.
It couldn’t update since the signature didn’t match, but Google knew about it and included it anyway.
- Comment on PSP games that are enjoyable without the nostalgia-factor 3 weeks ago:
PSP’s store closed a looooooong time ago. Used to be that you could purchase stuff from the PS3’s store and use a USB cable to transfer the license, but after Sony enabled 2FA that route closed as well.
- Comment on A List of Open Source Game Clones 5 weeks ago:
I wonder if there is anybody out there insane enough to make a project like FreeDOOM.
- Comment on What’s the best written Pokémon game? 1 month ago:
Is there any reward for the classroom stuff? I completely skipped it thinking it was all tutorial.
- Comment on What’s the best written Pokémon game? 1 month ago:
I don’t recall any choices that mattered. They are all fake choices like “Do you want to be rivals: yes/no” and choosing no just repeats the question.
I only singled out Arven because his character started out kind of bratty and my opinion of him flipped completely by the end of the game.
- Comment on What’s the best written Pokémon game? 1 month ago:
Sw/Sh were a real low point. They boiled the story down to “Let the adults handle it” and left you just running between gyms the entire game.
It’s honestly been too long since I’ve played the older games to judge their writing… but I did play Scarlet recently, and have to give props to Arven’s storyline. It is a shame the game is at Resident Evil 6 levels of unfocused, and brain-dead levels of easy.
- Comment on The industry filed false claims against the "Stop Killing Games" initiative | Accursed Farms 1 month ago:
because it’s a split from his normal monthly update video where he is supposed to be interacting with his channel members.
He’s already fighting the fight, no reason to give him more work. :P
- Comment on Like clockwork, Peacock is raising subscription prices again 2 months ago:
I get my media from the local library and buy the ones I enjoy.
- Comment on How to turn off Gemini on Android — and why you should 2 months ago:
This combo even got rid of something that was ADB blocked in Android 14.
- Comment on Microsoft's real problem was never PlayStation 2 months ago:
I feel like Microsoft was their own enemy. They kept slicing off small portions of their market in pursuit of vendor lock-in. Now there is nobody left supporting them.
- Comment on Sony faces another class-action lawsuit over PlayStation Store prices and monopolistic practices 2 months ago:
I wish it covered how they went from selling cards giving time for PS+, to requiring mismatched currency cards for PS+.
- Comment on YouTube relaxes moderation rules to allow more controversial content. Videos are allowed if "freedom of expression value may outweigh harm risk" 3 months ago:
This is such bad news. I’m sympathetic to content creators who have to step on eggshells to please the algorithm/advertisers… But this?
Yeah, this is not that. We all know who this is for.
- Comment on Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users’ web browsing identifiers - Ars Technica 3 months ago:
That’s the fun part. They come preinstalled!
- Comment on Half-Life 3 Has Been Designed to be ‘The Final Chapter’, It’s Claimed 3 months ago:
The most I’ve heard is “They aren’t as bad as the sequels”
- Comment on Researchers Scrape 2 Billion Discord Messages and Publish Them Online 3 months ago:
I’ve always wanted to contribute to The Cutting Room Floor wiki but they hide registration behind a Discord server bot that will give the registration code.
- Comment on Ex-Bungie Developers Create TeamLFG, A New PlayStation Studio - Game Informer 4 months ago:
Yeah, that’s kind of why I asked. Gamestop propped up their numbers by bundling the magazine with their discount card. A lot like Apple pushing that U2 album via iTunes and calling it #1. Game Informer wasn’t selling on it’s own merits, so I think the chance of it rallying with it’s old staff is slim.
- Comment on Ex-Bungie Developers Create TeamLFG, A New PlayStation Studio - Game Informer 4 months ago:
so is this an Atari situation where the name is being used but everybody behind it is different?
- Comment on YSK if you have a library card or are a student, there's a free streaming service called Kanopy 4 months ago:
My library also offers a membership with Flipster (magazines).
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Doesn’t work on Nintendo, for some reason. Mario Tax expanded to anything first or second party, so the best you’ll see is $20 off new price on Mar10 for the games that came out 5 years ago. It’s like every retailer came to the agreement that Nintendo games don’t depreciate.
- Comment on What are some good examples of "Where the fuck do you go" kind of games? 4 months ago:
I hate timers on games that give you little guidance. People claim that Fallout 1’s timer is too lenient, but I ended up replaying (and failing) the game twice and still not coming close to finding the water chip. Also, the game constantly reminds you “We’re all dying, hurry up! Every minute you take is an other life lost!”. Same reason I dislike Lightning Returns.
- Comment on What are some good examples of "Where the fuck do you go" kind of games? 4 months ago:
Everytime this game got ported, I’d retry it. I’d get over the bridge, get into town, fight the pirates, earn the boat… and get completely lost.
- Comment on Free open source video editor Kdenlive announces a major release 4 months ago:
I wonder how this compares to OpenShot.
I use OpenShot to trim stuff that LosslessCut can’t properly manage, but whenever I use OpenShot I seem to crash it at least once.
- Comment on Tesla speeds up odometers to avoid warranty repairs, U.S. lawsuit claims: Reuters 5 months ago:
- Comment on Tesla speeds up odometers to avoid warranty repairs, U.S. lawsuit claims: Reuters 5 months ago:
you made me picture a Back to the Future remake with a Tesla Truck as the time machine…
- Comment on Lost 2004 Mobile Version of King’s Field Finally Preserved | Retro Gaming News 24/7 5 months ago:
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What Monkey’s Paw curse did I just trigger?
- Comment on Lost 2004 Mobile Version of King’s Field Finally Preserved | Retro Gaming News 24/7 5 months ago:
I sooo want to play the crappy Armored Core mobile games, but they seem lost to time.
