TommySoda

@TommySoda@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Outer Worlds 2 Can't Be Anti-Capitalist When It's Charging Us $80 To Play It⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure if it was up to the developers and creative minds behind the game this would have never been an issue. Sure, things like inflation have made the process of making games more expensive, but it’s not like the extra money is going to actually go back to the developers. I’m so sick of this “games are more expensive to make” bullshit while they treat their employees like garbage and make them work ungodly hours. Micro$oft makes more money in one day than most of us or any of the developers will ever see in our entire lifetimes yet they need to lecture us on why we need to give them more money.

  To be clear, I hold no grudge against the actual developers of this game. The first one was pretty decent and I’m sure this next one will be relatively good as well. But remember that we are talking about the company that forced Arkane to make Redfall when they had no desire to make it and after it failed fired everyone at Arkane Austin and closed the studio. This isn’t about making their money back to cover the cost of development, it’s about making as much profit as possible with the least amount of effort possible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Persona 4 Revival - Teaser Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No worries, I appreciate the follow up. Glad it’s coming to them all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Persona 4 Revival - Teaser Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So… Is this going to be an Xbox exclusive? Hopefully that changes after it comes out because I don’t have an Xbox but absolutely love and own all the Persona games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Colorado’s governor vetoes landmark ban on rent-setting algorithms⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Haven’t heard very many good takes from this guy lately. Seems he’s kinda fucking over his whole state. Was he always this bad?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DOOM: The Dark Ages Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 1 Million Copies⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As much as I love the Doom games I’m not really a fan of the $70 price tag. The Doom games are great games but it’s not like they are in my top 5 favorite games or anything like that. I’ll wait for a sale.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twitter hit with $8.2 million verdict following eviction from Boulder HQ after Musk takeover⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  More money than I’ll ever see in my entire life and so little money to him that he’ll make that much on his way to the bank.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baldur's Gate 3 dev calls Randy Pitchford's $80 Borderlands 4 comments "gross" because it implies the FPS is more important than "making it day to day"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t even buy Borderlands 3 for $60 and there’s no way in hell I’d pay $80 for something similar. I spent the full price of Baldur’s Gate 3 for myself and two of my friends for a total of $180. Make the game worth it and you have my money. If the development cost of games has gone up then prove it and make better games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Citizen’s new cash shop offerings provoked fresh pay-to-win and predatory monetization accusations | Massively Overpowered⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And look, I’ve played early access games before and I’m used to playing games that do a server wipe every once in a while or saves being incompatible with the new version, but I’m talking every update and multiple times a year. It makes it so the only sense of progress you feel is when you buy a ship with real money so you can still have it on the next update. It’s a very exhausting game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Love this⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  (Seeing the birthday spike.)

  Nice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Citizen’s new cash shop offerings provoked fresh pay-to-win and predatory monetization accusations | Massively Overpowered⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone that played star citizen and enjoyed the gameplay very much, this game has been basically ruined by greed for years now. They basically discourage playing the actual game with these practices. Sure, you can work your ass off and make a butt load of money to buy a bunch of cool guns, armor, and ships, but as soon as they do a server wipe, which they do fairly regularly, most if not all of it will get wiped clean. But if you give them real money you get to keep them everything after a server wipe.

  I even had a friend where his ship, bought with in game currency, glitched and he was able to keep it several updates later with no issue while mine disappeared. We both bought them with in game currencies at about the same time. Mine disappeared as soon as the update came out and he had it for almost two years! To me that sounds like it’s intentional and they could totally get away with letting you keep your stuff but they choose not to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"I don't know" how much Borderlands 4 will cost, Gearbox boss says, but it had "more than twice the development budget for Borderlands 3" and "it might be" $80 like some Nintendo and Xbox games⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Borderlands 3 was barely worth $60 and I still waited for it to go on sale.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SoundCloud changes policies to allow AI training on user content⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Welp. Time to remove all my music.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI | The Verge⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If you decide to cancel your subscription and delete your account, they give a warning when deleting that says you need to cancel your subscription SEPARATELY. Just a heads up for anyone thinking of leaving like I did.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oblivion remake is... really making it apparent how outdated Bethesda is in its approach to making games⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a remaster of a game from 2006 with a fresh coat of paint and some QOL changes and that’s basically all it ever could be. 70% of the game did not age well and they honestly did the best they could. If they did a complete remake and “modernized” the game all the old-school fans would be pissed. If they kept it as true to the original as possible besides a facelift they’d make it harder for new players to want to pick it up. I feel like a good 7/10 was the best they could shoot for under most circumstances.

  And if you ask anyone where Bethesda fell off, depending on which game was their first, they will all give you a different answer. For me Morrowind and Oblivion are the best in the series and that’s with over 500 hours in Skyrim. They’ve been dumbing their games down with each new iteration since the 90s as they try to “modernize” the newest game each time and reach new audiences. Like, good luck playing Morrowind or Daggerfall these days without losing your patience in a matter of hours. And Morrowind especially is barely playable without mods these days.

  I still hated Starfield, though. Gave it the old college try and left so underwhelmed I couldn’t tell you a damn thing about the story.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube Tests AI Overviews in Search Results⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m so tired of useless AI “features” plaguing every facet of the internet. I get that there are uses for this kinda stuff, but literally everything is not the answer. Especially since 70% of the AI features they have added to YouTube are either useless or inadequate for what they say they do. My favorite is the AI summary of the comment section saying some stupid shit like “the comments talk about the jokes in the video.” Like… How is that helpful?

  At this rate it almost seems like they are trying to stop people from even using YouTube with how much information and summaries they are trying to give you without ever interacting with the video itself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨N the digital age, it's going to be harder for ICE agents to hide their identities than it was for Nazis trying to evade justice post WW2.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  At the same time though, now that things like that are already out in the open it’s going to be a lot harder. I’ve already seen videos of people yelling at cops that are harassing and questioning alleged immigrants.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'The United States is the villain of our story.' Nationalism surges in Mexico amid Trump threats⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  His “make America great again” stance is really only accomplishing “make everyone else but America great again.” No matter which way America goes, whether its full fascism or a better democracy, within the next 5-10 years someone else is going to take America’s role economically and politically on a global scale. This man has single handedly destroyed whatever remaining good faith the US had left.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered Mods Have Already Been Published Online⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there one to get rid of the “piss” filter they put over the game? That’s really my only complaint so far.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered - Official Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A deluxe edition does seem a little lame for a remaster. But at the same time the deluxe edition is still cheaper than Starfield and I’d much rather play this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered - Official Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I straight up got emotional during the trailer and announcement stream. Oblivion was the first RPG of this kind that I ever played and was one of my favorite games in middle school. Hopefully it’s a stable release because I wanna play that shit as soon as I get home from work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Oblivion remaster is real: Doubters in shambles as developer Virtuos accidentally leaves the door open to trailer screenshots and assets⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And it looks like they added the classic “piss filter.” Not gonna lie, if I can’t turn it off that’s a pass for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. House Panel Says China's DeepSeek AI Is a 'Profound Threat' to National Security⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I guess that’s a good point. In my brain that made more sense but now I realize it makes no sense at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. House Panel Says China's DeepSeek AI Is a 'Profound Threat' to National Security⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I nooo if only we didn’t defund all of our cybersecurity! Who could have seen this coming?!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Angry, disappointed users react to Bluesky's upcoming blue check mark verification system⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh yeah, they are literally everywhere. And a lot of them are impersonating people that haven’t switched from Twitter yet to take advantage of it specifically.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Free speech until you disagree with my support of fascism...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I got banned from there yesterday for calling that exact user an asshole. He got mad and said “no name calling or you’ll get banned!” I’m okay with the outcome.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remaster is real - Eurogamer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “Hey you, you’re finally awake.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remaster is real - Eurogamer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My only thing is that I hope they fixed some of the blaring issues with the original. I still go back and play the Oblivion from time to time, but I usually have to spend 4 or 5 hours just downloading and installing mods. My biggest gripe with Oblivion has always been enemy scaling. Unless you do the main quest first you’ll be fighting the strongest enemies in the game by the time you get around to it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah… This is literally designed to hurt people and help Twitter. Some of my older family members don’t even have a smart phone. And if they do the only social media they use is Facebook.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most Americans think AI won’t improve their lives, survey says⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If it was marketed and used for what it’s actually good at this wouldn’t be an issue. We shouldn’t be using it to replace artists, writers, musicians, teachers, programmers, and actors. It should be used as a tool to make those people’s jobs easier and achieve better results. I understand its uses and that it’s not a useless technology. The problem is that capitalism and greedy CEOs are ruining the technology by trying to replace everyone but themselves so they can maximize profits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Sims Competitor inZOI Sells 1 Million in a Week, Krafton Declares It a ‘Long-Term Franchise IP’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve seen some people play it because it seems pretty cool. Although it doesn’t look amazing and seems pretty shallow, but at the same time it’s only $40. The price tag alone is almost enough for me to give it a try. Any of the Sims games are hundreds of dollars at this point if you wanna buy the DLC. And that’s on a decent sale, too.