Dudewitbow
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- Comment on I've started playing The Witcher. No, not the good one. 3 days ago:
the first one has a standlone plot thats mostly disconnected witht eh latter two. 1’s gameplay was rough, but its a decent introductory on the world and the Geralt as a form of a mentor.
It’s visually a 3d action game, but plays like a top down ARPG(as it is an ARPG)
- Comment on ‘My Property Tax Went From $15K to a Life-Altering $91K a Year’ 2 weeks ago:
basically what happens when you create and support a housing system whose goal is to make profit. doesnt matter if you yourself plan on living in it, people voted for the system that approved the nonsense of longterm profiteering of a basic need.
- Comment on PlayStation Executive Jade Raymond Leaves Studio She Founded 2 weeks ago:
i think the funniest part is ontop of bad acquisitions, Microsoft was only able to buy blizzard activision partially because sony had a history of making non PlayStation versions of games inferior to the PlayStation version.
had Sony actually played fair ball, none of this would have probably happened.
- Comment on Indian Government orders censoring of accounts on X 3 weeks ago:
i mean im not saying. im pro Sikh either, but Indias response and justification for the Assassination of Singh Nijjar was pretty fucked up, even if he didnt have the cleanest of histories.
- Comment on Sandy Bridge-era motherboard gains M.2 SSD boot support 12 years after launch — first new BIOS in a decade for decommissioned motherboard 4 weeks ago:
a handful of sandy/ivy bridge motherboards already had community made bios updates that enable said feature. I personally had it on a asus z77 matx pro board as well as a gigabyte h77 board (albeit ivy bridge, same platform)
- Comment on Why is nobody mad about TGI Fridays taking the lords name in vain? 4 weeks ago:
supply side jesus has different rules
- Comment on Indian court orders blocking of Proton Mail 5 weeks ago:
you dont block off all vpns, the ips proton vpn uses. vpns in china work the same way… not all vons work in china
- Comment on Indian court orders blocking of Proton Mail 5 weeks ago:
could they theoretically just block protonvpns ip range at an isp level?
- Comment on Intel CEO announces layoffs, restructuring, $1.5 billion in cost reductions, expanded return to office mandate 5 weeks ago:
they didnt need upgrading because they sat mostly still till amd caught up.
they intentionally made the consumer platform stay with quad cores for over 8 generations till AMD came around with Ryzen Gen 1 to be remotely competitive.
theres a reason why 5% per generation was a joke for almost a decade.
- Comment on Slate, a no-nonsense EV pickup for $20k 5 weeks ago:
well its less it doesnt have a touch screen, the touch screen is an optional purchase.
the range iirc in some overview is 2 options, one was i think 150mi, the other was 240mi
- Comment on Why is the NFL draft day so "special"? 1 month ago:
preview on the teams potential future.
its also like a graduation where theyre celebrating the class who basically worked their ass off for at least half their lives to get to that point.
- Comment on Really Who watch it? 1 month ago:
its easier to sell popular trends than it is to sell something unique. most people (writers included) are followers, not trendsetters.
- Comment on 4chan Is Dead. Its Toxic Legacy Is Everywhere 1 month ago:
according to my friend who uses it, some went to 8chan (4chan but can create new communities in the same vein of reddit), and the more extremely ones would go to soyjack or kiwifarms
- Comment on When Nintendo games were affordable 1 month ago:
theres also the chance that at least for TTYD, that was a players choice version of the game, which retailed for 20$ new. since its 2006, on the wake of the Wii
- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 1 month ago:
i typically do not have auto correct on because i tend to type on a lot of tech oriented sites which tend to have a lot of acronyms i dont want autocorrected.
while typing this, i had to correct 3 words.
- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 1 month ago:
i typo a lot on mobile because small phone and i tap to text and not swipe gesture.
- Comment on Switch 2 game-key cards won’t be account- or console-locked 1 month ago:
outside of the official service, there is actually one other feature that people forget exists, and would be relevent to the resell of the key.
updating by local user (no not the recently announced game sharing stuff, but the ability to update a game via just being near a device with the update)
- Comment on Switch 2 game-key cards won’t be account- or console-locked 1 month ago:
its worse than comparing it to physical media that has all content on media, but better than display boxes that only has a digital code in it.
digital key carts are more replacing the latter (which is better) but there will definitely be a few devs who will opt out of physical media storage costs for the key card
- Comment on The Switch 2 Rollout Was So Convoluted It Made Us Want A Steam Deck. 1 month ago:
no, using sony as an example. all sony consoles are hackable despite effort to stop it. nintendo is the same situation
- Comment on What Gintama is even about 2 months ago:
its a shounen that parodies popular shows, so it can be anything thats reletively popular for its time period.
- Comment on The Switch 2 Rollout Was So Convoluted It Made Us Want A Steam Deck. 2 months ago:
youd be suprised. all of Sonys consoles are hackable, despite efforts to stopping it. willing to guess that another SD express exploit will be found, as one was already found late last year, and the switch 2 is one of the devices that uses it.
- Comment on Switch 2 pre-orders will prioritise players with the most Switch playtime 2 months ago:
the deck was released during covid, so it was in the best interest to valve to actually sell the device to people looking to actually buy and play games
- Comment on Switch 2 pre-orders will prioritise players with the most Switch playtime 2 months ago:
steam deck afaik only checked if you have ever purchased a steam game to prioritize. as those with new accounts or never purchased a game would be a red flag on whether they actually want the device for themselves
- Comment on PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now 2 months ago:
besides the lower bar of entry due to being free, Midias research has shown that yhr younger generation prefers online multiplayer, and as you grow older, you start yo favor single player games more.
- Comment on Micron just demoed the world's fastest SSD with PCIe 6.x tech, a sequential read speed of 27GB/s, and yes, it's just a prototype for now 2 months ago:
the problem at least in the shortrun, is that if you got that many ssds running in single lane on a consumer platform at the likely inflated cost the drives would be, it would almost be cheaper just to get the workstation platform at that point.
- Comment on The PS2 turns 25 years old today. Crazy, right? Perfect day for revisiting some classics. What are some of your favourite PS2 games? 2 months ago:
ill try to name things most people havent played.
I heavily recommend people to try Downhill Domination. think like snowboard kids or mario kart(specifically mount wario or dk mountain tracks) but on mountain bikes. Silly bike combat with soo many side paths for players to try to forge their own way on winning a race.
- Comment on Framework’s first desktop is a strange—but unique—mini ITX gaming PC 3 months ago:
i actually think its not the worst priced framework product ironically. Prebuilt 1k pcs tend to be something like a high end cpu + 4060 desktop anyways, so specs wise, its relatively speaking, reasonable. take for example cyberpower pcs build here, which is of the few oems iirc Gamers Nexus thinks doesn’t charge as much of a SI tax on assembly. it’s acutally not incredibly far off performance wise.
- Comment on Framework wants to fix the budget laptop with its first touchscreen machine 3 months ago:
the model clearly was designed around to cut coat corners and imo, meant to partially replace their chromebook line. using the older 13th gen cpu, ontop of having features like a kensington lock makes it sound like its the cheap option for school leasing.
- Comment on Framework’s first desktop is a strange—but unique—mini ITX gaming PC 3 months ago:
they already announced pricing for them.
1099 for the base ai max model with 32gb(?), 1999 for fully maxed with the top sku.
- Comment on Framework’s first desktop is a strange—but unique—mini ITX gaming PC 3 months ago:
its used to mean a new product that you specifically have to keep track of. e. g if you found framework desktops in a store, it wouldnt all be sold under 1 sku. all 3 ram capacities would be 3 different bar codes