Regrettable_incident
@Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world
- Comment on If A.I. is so fast and efficient, and CEOs are paid so much, why not replace CEOs with A.I.? 6 days ago:
It’s gotta be said, Zaphod kind of had a point there.
- Comment on Shortly After Xbox Game Pass Prices Spiked, the Page to Cancel Game Pass Subscriptions Was Overwhelmed 1 week ago:
Yeah. I might break my rule for phantom liberty, it’s reduced to £17 at the mo. I’m enjoying cyberpunk so much I might make an exception here! But I’ve still got plenty in my backlog.
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 1 week ago:
Yeah, I’m in a similar situation. Don’t get a lot of game time and I’ve got a pretty large backlog of stuff I want to play. If I like the look of something I wishlist it and buy it on sale for less than £10.
I think the gamepass model is going to be struggling with economic factors - many of us are working more and have less playtime, and money is tighter.
- Comment on Reddit stock falls for second day as references to its content in ChatGPT responses plummet 1 week ago:
Mine was a direct, attributed quote from the US president.
- Comment on Updates to Xbox Game Pass: Introducing Essential, Premium, and Ultimate Plans - Xbox Wire [prices going up] 1 week ago:
I don’t mind paying for good games especially from indie studios. I wanna support that creativity. Although TBF I do usually wishlist them and buy them on sale. Just got some good stuff in the steam autumn sale for less than £10
- Comment on Shortly After Xbox Game Pass Prices Spiked, the Page to Cancel Game Pass Subscriptions Was Overwhelmed 1 week ago:
Yeah, I’ve got so many more games than I have time to play them that there’s never a need to play full price for anything. I wishlist em and pick them up when they’re on sale less than £10
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- Comment on Silent Hill 1 Remake in Full Production, Confirms Bloober Team 1 week ago:
Be nice if it runs on a steam deck, I have fond memories of the original silent hill.
Maybe 'fond ’ isn’t the right word, but you know what I mean.
- Comment on Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid 1 week ago:
Yeah, SIM swaps are a concern too.
- Comment on "ATOMFALL: I can’t believe England exists in real life." - Warlockracy 1 week ago:
If it’s not true, my life is a lie.
- Comment on [Whitelight] You Don't Hate Remasters Enough 1 week ago:
I am in my 50s and I’ve missed a couple of decades of games - stopped gaming in the days of vice city and just started again recently when I got a steam deck. There’s a pretty big backlog of stuff that people highly recommend, but remasters and remakes offer me the opportunity to play these games with modern graphics. For someone who grew up with 8 bit graphics the stuff we can do these days is amazing and I want to enjoy games that are also good to look at. Recently finished bioshock remaster, enjoyed it immensely. So yeah, while it’s probably better for studios to focus on creating new stuff, there are people who enjoy the old stuff updated.
- Comment on Everyone thinks the Deus Ex remaster looks awful and they're right: 'They really turned those 1999 graphics into 2003 graphics' 1 week ago:
Yeah sorry about that kiddo. What can I say, I needed a fuckin pipe.
- Comment on Everyone thinks the Deus Ex remaster looks awful and they're right: 'They really turned those 1999 graphics into 2003 graphics' 1 week ago:
I’m probably old enough. And I did have a yummy mummy phase a couple decades back. So it’s not impossible.
Btw I can dispense fatherly advice, but no fuckin cash!
- Comment on Everyone thinks the Deus Ex remaster looks awful and they're right: 'They really turned those 1999 graphics into 2003 graphics' 1 week ago:
Cool, cheers for the heads up. Yeah it’s on my list, I’ll get to it soon. I just gotta finish cyberpunk, then play Dishonored, then I’m thinking system shock is next.
- Comment on Everyone thinks the Deus Ex remaster looks awful and they're right: 'They really turned those 1999 graphics into 2003 graphics' 1 week ago:
Yeah I never played that either. I’m up for giving it a go, though. But I’m not great at precision controls, now I’m getting old my reactions aren’t so quick and my hands are pretty wrecked. But yeah there’s lots of old games I’ve missed out on and I’m enjoying catching up. Plus some of the new stuff is incredible for someone who was raised on 8 bit graphics.
- Comment on Everyone thinks the Deus Ex remaster looks awful and they're right: 'They really turned those 1999 graphics into 2003 graphics' 1 week ago:
Ah interesting. I’ll be playing on a steam deck, which edition would you recommend?
- Comment on Everyone thinks the Deus Ex remaster looks awful and they're right: 'They really turned those 1999 graphics into 2003 graphics' 1 week ago:
TBH I am happy they’re remastering some older games. I missed out on a lot of stuff because I was doing other things when a lot of highly regarded games came out (sold my PS1 to buy crack). So I’ve recently played bioshock - really enjoyed it - and system shock is in my queue. I’m not sure I’d have been so keen to try them if they’d had the original graphics, that shit looks so dated now. But yeah, maybe they’re taking the remaster thing a bit too far.
- Comment on If sexuality is a spectrum, does that mean one person is the gayest? 2 weeks ago:
That reminds me of the guy with two dicks who did an ama on Reddit many years ago. IIRC his dicks were mostly straight but could go either way.
- Comment on If sexuality is a spectrum, does that mean one person is the gayest? 2 weeks ago:
If they sucked 2 cocks a day (conservative, I know) over a gay career of fifty years, that would be 36,500 cocks. Which is a very respectable number imo. But is that gayer than a guy in a committed relationship sucking the same cock 36,500 times?
- Comment on Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think we should tolerate them. This is what we always hear from them when we tell them to fuck off - how many times have we seen “So much for the tolerant left!” Yeah, we are tolerant of pretty much anything that doesn’t harm others - aside from intolerance itself.
I dunno, I just don’t like the idea of defeding ppl just because of their political leanings. I’d rather wait til they start spewing hateful shit and then defed the fuckers.
But I can understand ppl who wanna keep lemmy clean of bigots. I just think we gotta wait til they show their colours then kick them to the curb. That’s me, though, I respect that others don’t feel the same.
- Comment on Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared 2 weeks ago:
I think the big challenge is Trump awakened something in folks who haven’t been politically active in a very long time, and because they haven’t been politically active, they aren’t coming into politics with a clear ideology or set of policies they want to see passed other than “I like trump!”
Yeah I wanna slightly amend that - I think their ideology is certainly “I like trump” but I think the reasons behind that are they see him as a big strong leader who validates and legitimises their prejudices - and will allow them to act on those prejudices. Suddenly the hate they felt for their immigrant neighbours, or their fear of gay people, whatever - suddenly they have a leader saying that’s okay and he’s now supporting their discrimination with military deployment in US cities.
This is how fascism happens - it’s not always forced on a population, a lot of times a lot of people want it.
And the oldskool republican party was essentially a corporate mouthpiece.
Scary fuckin times, mate. The snowball is rolling down the hill and it’s growing and it’s accelerating.
- Comment on Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared 2 weeks ago:
Yeah I guess I failed to distinguish between maga and conservatives. I don’t want to see lemmy become an echo chamber, and usually you can disagree but debate with conservatives. Fascists, not so much. Don’t get me wrong, I think Nazis should be stomped online and out in the world - I just haven’t seen anything yet from this instance to justify that.
I actually feel kinda sorry for oldskool conservatives - I don’t agree with em, but they must feel politically homeless these days.
But yeah, bigots can fuck right off.
- Comment on Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared 2 weeks ago:
Yeah and why the big deal? I didn’t notice any signs saying the fediverse is only for lefties. I may not agree with conservatives but that doesn’t mean I think they should be excluded.
- Comment on Ubisoft's Saudi-funded Assassin's Creed DLC provokes staff unrest, but the publisher insists partnering with the controversial regime is A-OK 2 weeks ago:
Yeah well they’re always gonna be fascist slave owners who murder nonconformists until they stop that shit. That’s the only way they can improve their reputation. Everything else is just painting the turd.
- Comment on GTA V was released on this day, 12 years ago 3 weeks ago:
Last GTA I played was vice city, I think that was on the PS1.
- Comment on 'My Advice to Users Is to Accept Reality and Tune, or to Not Play' — Randy Pitchford Is at the 'Get a Refund From Steam' Stage of the Borderlands 4 PC Performance Backlash 3 weeks ago:
He can deep-throat my dad’s days-dead dog’s decaying dong.
- Comment on Mods react as Reddit kicks some of them out again: “This will break the site” 3 weeks ago:
There’s a real sunk cost fallacy going on when you’ve been on Reddit for, say, ten years - until you realise that karma, reputation, and awards and stuff are just bollocks.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 3 weeks ago:
I’ve just finished Prey - absolutely loved it btw. Next I’m thinking maybe Dishonored, maybe Control, maybe Wolfenstein 2. Haven’t decided yet. I’ve also not finished cyberpunk, I pick it up every now and then.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Launches To Mostly Negative Steam Reviews Over Performance Issues And Crashing 3 weeks ago:
TBF those do sound cool as fuck!
- Comment on 'An embarrassing failure of the US patent system': Videogame IP lawyer says Nintendo's latest patents on Pokémon mechanics 'should not have happened, full stop' 3 weeks ago:
They certainly patented it.