Don_alForno
@Don_alForno@feddit.org
- Comment on Do you preorder games? 1 day ago:
Never pre-order.
I do early access only in very specific cases where it’s an indie studio and the game already offers a lot of value. E.g. Satisfactory was in early access for a long time when it was basically a finished game you could sink hundreds of hours into. But I read and watch a lot of reviews before I buy into one of those. Can’t do that with a pre-order.
- Comment on Nvidia GeForce Now’s Time Limit Will Stop Gamers After 100 Hours Each Month 1 day ago:
You’re literally the boiled frog right now and it would be funny to watch if it wasn’t so sad.
- Comment on Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft 1 week ago:
IT department says no.
- Comment on Hytale can now be pre-ordered 1 week ago:
Never pre-order.
- Comment on Actual theft 2 weeks ago:
If it’s Spotify, why? YT premium costs just about as much.
Because it’s not google.
- Comment on Total War: Warhammer 40k 2 weeks ago:
I have questions.
Are there gonna be 3 levels now? (Real time battle, planetary overworld, space over-over world)?
Are the space marines gonna march in a phalanx formation?
Which space marine is gonna be the princess?
- Comment on Is gold investing a scam? 2 weeks ago:
in the event of like complete societal collapse or hyperinflation, they could use it for purchasing.
They are going to learn that you can’t eat gold. It has no purpose other than looking pretty, and that’s not going to matter much anymore in one of these events. It’s value is as speculative as any other.
- Comment on When work has you travelling but there's ARC to be raided... 3 weeks ago:
I couldn’t even get Visions of Mana to run at decent FPS, not even on potato settings, and that’s really not AAA graphics material. Expedition 33, same thing. Everspace 2 runs ok, but with settings turned way down, and it really doesn’t look pretty anymore on my TV. I definitely cannot get anything visually comparable to, e.g., a God of War of Horizon to run at the performance my ps4 ran those.
There’s a lot of cool 2D games, it’s fine for those. I’ve stopped trying with the other things.
- Comment on When work has you travelling but there's ARC to be raided... 3 weeks ago:
As long as you stay on the small screen. In TV mode, 3D games will stutter or look ugly or both. I stick to pixel art mostly for this reason.
- Comment on When work has you travelling but there's ARC to be raided... 3 weeks ago:
Ugh, maybe it’s my bad luck, but this only works in half the hotel rooms I come to. The other half have the TV built into some kind of cabinet blocking the ports, or mounted high on a wall where my cable is too short to reach, or locked down with some software so I can’t connect my own devices.
- Comment on OpenAI says dead teen violated TOS when he used ChatGPT to plan suicide - Ars Technica 4 weeks ago:
Ah. The Disney defense.
- Comment on Gaming Pet Peeves 4 weeks ago:
It’s supposed to guarantee you can always catch up with them.
- Comment on Gaming Pet Peeves 4 weeks ago:
Anything that needlessly makes me repeat content I already beat or similarly wastes my time. Some examples are:
Fixed save points in general.
Unskippable cutscenes between the last fixed save point and the boss fight.
No autosave or fixed save point after a boss fight.
Preventing me from backtracking after I stumbled into a cut scene and/or boss fight because it wasn’t obvious which path led to a point of no return.
- Comment on Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it’s costing the economy 4 weeks ago:
Right? My current one is from 2019 and I don’t see a reason to buy a new one.
- Comment on Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it’s costing the economy 4 weeks ago:
Not constantly throwing away things that are still good is “device hoarding” now? Strong “quiet quitting” vibes there.
- Comment on ‘Clair Obscur’ Leads The Game Awards 2025 Nominees With 12 Nods; ‘Silent Hill f’ Has Four Nominations 5 weeks ago:
Clair Obscur was all anybody gaming related talked about for weeks.
- Comment on Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders 5 weeks ago:
Why would they sell any hardware at a loss at all? Console manufacturers do it to lock people into their ecosystem and sell them games at a premium, Valve doesn’t need that, people are already overwhelmingly favoring their store.
- Comment on Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos 1 month ago:
Games used to be sold as a physical object containing the game files.
I can do that today too. I can buy from gog, download the installer an burn it to a DVD. I now own a physical object with the game files that gog or the game publisher can not easily take away from me. I’d still just own a license, not the game, and the license can be revoked. They just couldn’t really keep me from playing the game even after it was.
You need to understand the difference between having something in your possession and having the rights to it. You never owned any video game, even in the days of cartridges, they were always licenses.
- Comment on I've heard New Yorkers are devastated 1 month ago:
to be a communist he would have to have been a dictator who seized power with force rather than democratically elected.
Communism and dictatorship have nothing to do with each other.
- Comment on ICE's 'Frightening' Facial Recognition App is Scanning US Citizens Without Their Consent 1 month ago:
You have the most powerful military in the world and basically are your allies’ (former) protective power. There is no outside help coming because (among other reasons of course) nobody is physically able to help you.
- Comment on Apple is reportedly getting ready to introduce ads to its Maps app 1 month ago:
Sadly, finding businesses and traffic data are 99% of the reason I open google maps. I have organic installed, but I’ve since found out that “I want to go somewhere I don’t know the way to but have found out the street address some other way, and I don’t care about the traffic in between” simply doesn’t happen.
- Comment on Who was your first childhood videogame crush? 1 month ago:
Let’s see who is as old as I am.
- Comment on When was the last time you actually laughed while playing a game? 1 month ago:
In BG3, when I accidentally released the breaks on the windmill.
- Comment on Bill Gates Says China Is Outspending the World on Nuclear Power 1 month ago:
It’s the most expensive form of power we know. It’s far from clean (still shouldn’t pick too many mushrooms in parts of Europe), and it’s really funny you should bring up “limitlessness” when competing against the Sun and Wind.
- Comment on Bill Gates warns AI will take over most jobs and leave humans working just two days a week 2 months ago:
Not if you only receive 40% of the wages too because the gains go to the capitalists.
- Comment on Rise of the Tomb Raider -SteamDeck 2 months ago:
That one is so much more fun once your buffs last all day.
- Comment on New California law requires AI to tell you it’s AI 2 months ago:
That’s true with many regulations. The quiet part that they’re trying to avoid saying out loud is that behaving ethically and responsibly doesn’t earn them money.
- Comment on New California law requires AI to tell you it’s AI 2 months ago:
Oh, so just like with the GDPR, cool.
- Comment on The resemblance is uncanny 2 months ago:
That was her HAIR? Fuck, I thought it was a weird hat! Screen resolution sure was bad back then.
- Comment on We are helping 3 months ago:
Both things can be true at the same time.
