carotte
@carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone
I’m moving to Kbin, and so should you!
- Comment on Switch 2 demand appears to be flagging as Nintendo reportedly lowers production 2 weeks ago:
it doesn’t, in fact the switch 2 seems to be cheaper in the us than anywhere else (except maybe japan)
msrp is 450$ usd in the us, 630$ cad (458$ usd) in canada, 396£ (530$ usd) in the uk, 700$ aud (487$ usd) in australia, and 470€ (545$ usd) in france
i don’t think the tariffs are having much of an impact, or more likely nintendo is charging everyone to cover them
- Comment on What's your opinion on post-game content? do you do it? or are you done with the game when the credits roll? 2 weeks ago:
i think it depends on the game, imo post-game stuff is especially cool in sandbox-y games where there’s many things to do, whereas games that are more linear don’t really need it
but what i hate more than anything is a game that won’t acknowledge you finished it. credits roll, you load your save and you’re back in front of the final boss. i hate that, it makes me feel like the game is in a perpetual state of never being completed. at least put a pretty medal on my save file or something
- Comment on The "unhackable" Xbox One has been hacked — and Microsoft can’t patch it 3 weeks ago:
ironically, one of the xbox one games people are most interested in porting to pc is the legacy console edition of minecraft, a game famously already on pc!
tho with the recent source code leak of LCE idk if there’s still much enthusiasm
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 3 weeks ago:
it doesn’t look “more realistic”, it completely changes the character’s appearance: hair that looks dyed, redder, fuller lips, more prominent cheekbones, a more defined chin, and eyes that instead of kinda looking away avoidedly, now stare at your soul through the screen (although that one might be just the lighting, idk)
basically this except more subtle, but the idea is the same, make her look more attractive under the guise of realism. it’s gross on its own, but the implications are even worse imo, just giving gooner chuds the tools to turn any game into the porn of their dreams, fuck art amirite? it’s literally turning everything you see on the computer into slop
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 3 weeks ago:
oh i’m sure the “hire fans lol” gamer chuds will be over the moon about this
- Comment on Instagram quietly drops end-to-end encrypted chats 3 weeks ago:
im guessing messenger and potentially whatsapp are next
- Comment on Valve says 5,863 titles earned over $100,000 on Steam in 2025 4 weeks ago:
and considering that there were over 120k games released on steam as of 2025 😵💫
game development is not the goldmine some think it is
- Comment on Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US 4 weeks ago:
are you trying to say being accused of sexual assault is the same as being sexually assaulted lmao
- Comment on YouTube Shorts and Instagram Reels are making you dumber, according to science 5 weeks ago:
also, short attention span ≠ low intelligence, as the title implies
- Comment on Connected cars can be hacked, research finds 1 month ago:
if it’s a computer, it can be hacked
if it’s connected to the internet, it doubly can be hacked!
- Comment on I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day 1 month ago:
that’s right! she can simply turn off her phone, and go to school where the boys oh no they’re the same boys aren’t they. oh well, good things school aren’t known for harassment, bullying, and girls not being taken seriously by staff!
- Comment on I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day 1 month ago:
it’s almost like she’s a woman and not a man and she sees things from the woman’s perspective.
yeah right, how dare she!!! the audacity of females these days, talking about their problems. unbelievable!!!
you’re no better than the shitheads this article is about. fuck you and your “both sides” nonsense.
- Comment on Xbox’s leadership shift proves it: the gamer era is over, AI runs the show now 1 month ago:
the fact that they picked a woman of color to be the new lead of xbox lmao. least obvious glass cliff
- Comment on 'We Thought It Would Be Fun': Nintendo Has a Whole FAQ on Why It's Selling Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen Separately for $20 Each - IGN 1 month ago:
anyways play cassette beasts instead
- Comment on 'We Thought It Would Be Fun': Nintendo Has a Whole FAQ on Why It's Selling Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen Separately for $20 Each - IGN 1 month ago:
everything about this release is ridiculous
20$ is way too expensive for what it is, it should honestly be 10/15$ at most
why just fire red/leaf green? why not other pokémon games? ruby, sapphire, emerald, these have never been rereleased!
why are all language versions separate purchases??? you couldn’t be arsed to bundle them?
the only new feature of this release, and really the only reason one might want to use this version instead of emulating on another platform, pokémon home compatibility, is not available at launch and will be added later. come on. - Comment on Fairphone 5 bricked by faulty Android 15 update 1 month ago:
it may even be a selling point depending on how you look at it
a phone that’s painful to use is a phone that you won’t feel incentivized to doomscroll on 😁👍
- Comment on it's just science 1 month ago:
as someone else said: now his time travel experiment is worthless, cause there’s a very good reason no one from the future wanted to go party with him
- Comment on ‘This shouldn’t be normal’: developers speak out about bigotry on Steam, the world’s biggest PC gaming storefront 1 month ago:
i didn’t have any paywall, maybe it’s a regional thing? here’s a version that shouldn’t have it.
anyways, here’s a screenshot of the Relooted review i talked about. if you check the game’s negative reviews and sort by most pertinent, it’s the 3rd one. it was here yesterday, and despite me reporting it, it’s still here today, and in fact has been here since february 11th. as time of writing, it has 373 people who found it useful, and 115 who found it funny. some of the comments under that review are critical, but most just say “based” and the like.
CW: screenshot of a racist review, makes fun of George Floyd's death
it’s an anecdotal evidence, but as you said, “you can find articles and reddit posts claiming this same exact thing going back years”, doesn’t that mean it’s a recurring problem?
- Comment on ‘This shouldn’t be normal’: developers speak out about bigotry on Steam, the world’s biggest PC gaming storefront 1 month ago:
as the article mentions, if you’d bothered to read it, steam rarely enforces their guidelines, which is the problem here
- Comment on ‘This shouldn’t be normal’: developers speak out about bigotry on Steam, the world’s biggest PC gaming storefront 1 month ago:
for a more recent example, the negative reviews under Relooted are fucking sickening. one of the top ones is a joke making fun of George Floyd’s death.
what does steam do? nothing. valve is one of the most profitable companies per employee out there, and they have no pressure from investors to botch their work, they could absolutely moderate.
they actively choose not to, because despite what bootlickers on lemmy would have you believe, gabe newell is a libertarian dipshit who values “free speech” over the safety of marginalized people.
- Comment on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month 1 month ago:
it just reminds me of the old fascist reddit clones, like voat or throat or whatever
- Comment on What digital indie games would you like to see at libraries? 2 months ago:
i think Undertale would be a perfect fit for a library, it’s an amazing game with a great story (and especially great characters), it encourages compassion, and it’s not too long, so if you play it well you’re likely to finish it before having to return it!
- Comment on What digital indie games would you like to see at libraries? 2 months ago:
Baba Is You feels like a flash game you’d play as a kid on a school computer, and i mean that in the best way possible
- Comment on 2 months ago:
it seems likely, FF7 is one of the most voted for games on their dreamlist and 4 FF games released on GOG recently
- Comment on Games that have now or will be turned 40, 30, 20 and 10 years old as of 2026 2 months ago:
- Comment on Exposed Moltbook Database Let Anyone Take Control of Any AI Agent on the Site 2 months ago:
ok does anyone know what the purpose of a “social network for AI agents” is? does it have any actual purpose or is it just buzzword investor bait
- Comment on Bears or no bears? 2 months ago:
kinda, not really
arctic, from ancient greek ἀρκτικός did mean “of the bear” originally, probably as a reference to the constellation (cause i don’t think the ancient greeks ever went to the arctic to confirm if there were bears or not)
antarctica doesn’t mean “no bears”, it means “the opposite of the arctic”
- Comment on Ubisoft target audience when they play a good game 2 months ago:
that makes sense. maybe the mod they installed causes steam to not count the hours.
- Comment on Ubisoft target audience when they play a good game 2 months ago:
is the time shown on steam reviews accurate? cause i’d guess that it takes more than 12 minutes for a casual player to finish half-life 2
in fact i checked and the world record in speedrunning is around 36 minutes lol
- Comment on Pet Peeves with Games? 2 months ago:
i can confirm that pokémon is normal and lets you have multiple switch accounts with multiple saves on one console. which is actually a big improvement, because pokémon never let you have multiple saves on one cartridge, so on older consoles you did have to buy multiple cartridges! (thankfully you could share the console because the save was on the cartridge, not the console)
on switch, animal crossing is the only game i can think of where there’s only one save per console. and even then, i think they added save slots in the latest update
5 years later… meh. better late than never i guess.
