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- Comment on As The Outer Worlds 2 hits $80, director says "we don't set the prices for our games" and wishes "everybody could play" Obsidian's new RPG 5 days ago:
Some games, some are on cart too. Switch 1 is actually probably the best because just about every game is fully playable unlike ps and Xbox which require patches often to run alright. Switch 2 I hear cyberpunk is fully on the cart, but I doubt many publishers are willing to pay for the bigger carts, so we’ll probably see a lot of third parties be just the key, which is ridiculous.
- Comment on As The Outer Worlds 2 hits $80, director says "we don't set the prices for our games" and wishes "everybody could play" Obsidian's new RPG 5 days ago:
It’s great, I can lend my friend the games he doesn’t have, and I can do the same with his games. In this way, we can play many more games than we have the money for.
- Comment on 10 incredible PC games that never got console ports—until Steam Deck happened 5 days ago:
Same, and now this is the second mention of it I’ve seen on lemmy in two weeks. I got it for like $5 in a combo pack with a terrible mech game in the bargain bin in Walmart probably 20+ years ago. Never beat it, but the vibes are top notch and I replay it every few years. Still have the disks and all.
- Comment on As The Outer Worlds 2 hits $80, director says "we don't set the prices for our games" and wishes "everybody could play" Obsidian's new RPG 5 days ago:
There’s these things called consoles, that let you put a disk in, they both contains the game and a license to play it.
- Comment on Build your retro library without breaking the bank 3 weeks ago:
I got Septerra Core in a dual pack with some mech game I never really liked for like $3 at Wal Mart probably 20 years ago, and instantly fell in love. I’ve never beaten it, but it holds a very special place in my heart. The art, the story, the lore, the world, are all very memorable and you’re the first person I’ve ever heard mention it.
- Comment on ‘My Property Tax Went From $15K to a Life-Altering $91K a Year’ 4 weeks ago:
People don’t see homes as a place to live, they don’t consider community, family, proximity to work as important. Homes are “investments” and being priced out of your home is “good” because you can “sell it and move somewhere cheaper”. The dominant ideas of any era are the ideas of the ruling class.
- Comment on A growing number of young chinese people are avoiding Starbucks Coffee. US executives are furious. 4 weeks ago:
Coffee culture in China is on another level. They have fast coffee like Luckin, Cotti, and dozens more brands, all of which are better and have more variety than Starbucks, and they have high end coffees with artisan beans, and all of them are cheaper than Starbucks. They’re not going to win there, for sure.
- Comment on ‘My Property Tax Went From $15K to a Life-Altering $91K a Year’ 4 weeks ago:
That you can open the building, but the property is on a 75 year lease that can be extended two times for under a hundred dollars for a total of 225 years of that home being in your family for less than the cost of a single years property tax anywhere in the US?
- Comment on ‘My Property Tax Went From $15K to a Life-Altering $91K a Year’ 4 weeks ago:
Your federal taxes could go towards local governments if we prioritized it. There’s a choice made, and that choice forces cities to adopt as many taxes as they can get away with in order to fund themselves.
- Comment on ‘My Property Tax Went From $15K to a Life-Altering $91K a Year’ 4 weeks ago:
In China 70% of the population pays no income tax, a very small sales tax, and there’s no property taxes at all. Who you tax is just as important as how much you tax. It is not necessary to tax everyone in a society to maintain a modern civilization.
- Comment on Bungie confirms it stole art once again, will undertake a 'thorough review' of Marathon assets 4 weeks ago:
It did at one point, but I think they were forced to change it to Prey at some point in development. It had a “Shock” title to put it in line with System Shock and Bioshock.
- Comment on ‘Doom: The Dark Ages’ DRM Is Locking Out Linux Users Who Bought the Game 4 weeks ago:
No way, it’s only 10 hours? Eternal was longer than that, and so was 2016!
- Comment on The Unabomber’s Brother Turned Him In. Then Spent 27 Years Trying to Win Him Back. 5 weeks ago:
An-prim Luddite stuff.
- Comment on PM of Yemen government announces resignation 1 month ago:
Mubarak was a terrible person, and it’s funny that his government is still international recognized despite being not only violent against civilians, not having the support of the Yemeni people, and not holding nearly as much territory as the people who do in fact have the support of the people.
- Comment on After they kill Wikipedia history will be AI hallucinations. 1 month ago:
Unfortunately it’s not exactly community built, but more like a class of chronically online editors control it and prevent heterodox views and ideas from being added entirely.
- Comment on Here the fuck we go again 1 month ago:
What the other dude said
- Comment on Here the fuck we go again 1 month ago:
I mean, every previous ES game has had the modloader as part of the launcher, allowing you to enable or disable mods as well as change their load order from there directly.
- Comment on British government takes over running of UK’s last major steel plant from Chinese owner Jingye 2 months ago:
Nationalization of critical industries is in fact a good thing, even when a shit government like the UK does it.
- Comment on US sees third measles-related death amid outbreaks 2 months ago:
Measles just hit my area. I’m allergic to MMR, so if it crosses to my end of the state I’ll have to be very careful. Though I hear there’s a newer MMR that has less allergic reactions, so I might try that, but taking vaccines in a doctors office in case I go into anaphylactics isn’t an expense I can afford right now.
- Comment on Overseas Dalai Lama reincarnation ‘could not be recognised’ by Beijing 2 months ago:
Tibet was considered the last feudal system on earth. 98% of the population lived short, miserable lives. The priesthood was allowed to kidnap children and force them into service at any time. The punishment for crimes such as stealing food was severing hands and making them wear it around their neck. Literacy was near non-existent. Human rights were entirely non-existent. You clearly haven’t put much research into how the conditions were within the country, if you think anything I said above was exaggerated. The central government offered to maintain the priesthood as the seat of power, if they would end the practices of serfdom and allow education and land reform, among other things. The priesthood refused and organized militias to kill PLA soldiers who were teaching the people skills and providing food for the massively malnourished population.
- Comment on Overseas Dalai Lama reincarnation ‘could not be recognised’ by Beijing 2 months ago:
Tibet was already an autonomous part of China under the Qing Dynasty, so I’m not sure what you mean by annexed. It still is an autonomous region, but what the current government did was to end the practice of enslavement and sacrifice of Tibetans and guarantee education and healthcare to all, rather than those being restricted to the priestly class.
- Comment on Overseas Dalai Lama reincarnation ‘could not be recognised’ by Beijing 2 months ago:
The government that raised literacy to almost 100%, ensures the continuity of Tibetan language which was dying out before as only around 10% of the population was literate, developed hospitals and clinics, provides free education with massive affirmative action policies to ensure Tibetans have easier access to high education, builds modern infrastructure including high speed trains that go up into the previously inaccessible areas of Tibet? That government?
- Comment on Overseas Dalai Lama reincarnation ‘could not be recognised’ by Beijing 2 months ago:
Well, whatever happens, the silver lining is that the Dalai Lama no longer has the power to enslave 98% of the population as was done until the 1950s.
- Comment on Trump says U.S. will 'get Greenland,' military force may not be needed but not ruled out 2 months ago:
They don’t have to define it as a war. Previous administrations have opened the route of not declaring war but still engaging in boots on the ground assaults. The precedent has been set, long before he entered office, and reinforced by every modern president.
- Comment on Trump says U.S. will 'get Greenland,' military force may not be needed but not ruled out 2 months ago:
No, it’s more to do with securing the arctic corridor as climate change opens up new areas for exploitation.
- Comment on 'Should be reaction from US' — Russian attack on Kherson breaks energy ceasefire terms, Zelensky says 2 months ago:
Russia never agreed to the ceasefire in the first place, the version the US and Ukraine proposed and accepted was not accepted by Russia, and vice versa
- Comment on Fifty-two years after a U.S. spy plane was shot down over Laos, a family still fights for answers: Did the crew all perish or were half of them LEFT BEHIND? 4 months ago:
Maybe don’t fly spy planes over sovereign nations.
- Comment on Brazil condemns US after deportees arrive handcuffed 4 months ago:
It’s not just the president. Biden deported more people than trump did in his first term, Obama deported more than any president before him. The US empire continues regardless of who is in power. The only thing that changes is whether the fox smiles before he kills you or the wolf bares its teeth.
- Comment on Chinese tech secretly fuels Russian bomb and drone upgrades 5 months ago:
Imagine calling a war with lower rates of civilian death than any other war in the 21st century a genocide.
- Comment on Nvidia blocks access to video card driver updates for users from Russia and Belarus. 7 months ago:
Sanctions have not succeeded in lessening support or created regime change. They are a siege warfare tactic, and a way of inflicting suffering upon the masses of people. There’s plenty of books on the topic, I’d recommend Sanctions as War, edited by Stuart Davis and Immanuel Ness.