AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor
@AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed 22 hours ago:
I agree. Not a good precedent. But in this case, I think there’s a silver lining in that valve is removing shovelware while retaining the capacity of selling adult games.
Although Valve should be the one setting the rules here. And the rule should be that games portraying borderline (or even outright illegal) situations, such as incest, should be banned from the store.
- Comment on Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed 22 hours ago:
Checks the list of removed games
And nothing of value was lost.
- Comment on Krafton plan to delay Subnautica 2 and deny the studio a $250 million bonus 6 days ago:
Wow, sounds like one of those games that you should absolutely pirate instead of buying.
- Comment on Just.....why? 1 week ago:
My toothbrush is as dumb as it comes. The only smart thing it does is charging itself when I put it in its charger base. And that should be the standard.
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #22 2 weeks ago:
With a little delay (sorry, life kept me busy enough so I couldn’t read this before), I just finished reading. I gotta say this was a rollercoaster.
I love the news parts, as always, since you manage to get a whole week of news compressed in a single article (and without the clickbait ads) that feels fresh and nice to read.
But knowing the kind of ordeal you are dealing with is heartbreaking. First and foremost, your health comes first. If you need to take a pause from this, you don’t have to apologize, it’s the right thing to do so go ahead and do it. I’m really sorry to hear about all you are going through, I hope you get to feel better soon!! Best wishes from an user who is clearly human!
- Comment on Nintendo Is Already Punishing Switch 2 Users Over Piracy ‘Suspicions’ 3 weeks ago:
Tbf, I hope nintendo keeps going this route and punishing more and more its customers. After all, if you keep supporting a company that hates you so much, you deserve what you get.
- Comment on Apple to Australians: You’re Too Stupid to Choose Your Own Apps 3 weeks ago:
As a general rule, if a corpo is against something the EU does, it means your government should do it too because it’s a good thing.
- Comment on As ChatGPT Linked to Mental Health Breakdowns, Mattel Announces Plans to Incorporate It Into Children's Toys 4 weeks ago:
Whatever could go wrong?
A kitchen toy that tells the kid to prepare a pizza using glue mixed with the mozzarella?
- Comment on Organised crime and murder: top Inter and AC Milan ultras imprisoned 4 weeks ago:
As an accused, it’s your choice to go with this or the traditional process. And there are advantages for you if you decide to go with it instead of the traditional process: for example, if you are condemned, the sentence will be 1/3 shorter.
This is chosen by the accused when the evidence against them is so clear that they know they will be surely condemned.
It’s a win-win situation because the justice system saves time and money and the accused gets a shorter sentence.
- Comment on YouTube rolls out more unskippable ads that make viewers wait even longer to watch videos - Dexerto 4 weeks ago:
Days ago I discovered vacuumtube for steam deck. It’s basically youtube with tv interface but with all the adblocks. It works wonders in game mode and even has controller support.
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #19 4 weeks ago:
Oh that’s so kind of you to say! I have to say, I’ve been pretty down about it all, but writing this up made me so very happy. I really love Lemmy for how easy it is to share these long-form posts :)
Happy to read this (the part about writing this making you happy I mean!!).
Lemmy is great for sharing long posts, much like reddit was before the enshitification. It’s good to see long elaborated posts here among all the memes and other low effort content. And in the case of your posts, they are also a nice read in my mornings because of all the possitivity and joy you can feel when reading them. You really pour a lot of that in your posts and it feels!
Sounds wonderful, I’m looking this up now! It sure sounds weird, but the longer the gaming industry runs and ruins great things, these odd little different ones just make me happy!
I love “'weird” or unconventional games. And right now, it’s the indie world that provides these gems. In an industry that looks for the short-term profit like the “mainstream” videogame one, they rarely innovate anymore. They just pick a formula that works and copy it until they find a more profitable one, so innovation now happens mostly in the indie world, giving birth to games as odd as this one, a yo-yo player bat that goes around a city beating corpo suits to recover a monopoly! You won’t see EA making this kind of game, ever.
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #19 4 weeks ago:
I was waiting for this post, thank you! Since I discovered this “series” I’ve been hooked. It’s nice to read some long content in a non clickbaity way (that seems to be the norm in the industry nowadays).
I’m really sorry about your nerve damage and hope you recover as soon as possible!
As for what I’ve been playing, right now I’m going through Blasphemous 2 (i loved the first one too) and a nice surprise: Pippistrello and the cursed yo-yo. A zelda-like adventure in which you play as a bat with a yo-yo fighting industry magnates to help your aunt recover the monopoly on energy she built to keep a grip on the city (I know! The setting is original, to say the least).
The gameplay makes you think of 2d zelda games, but the yo-yo makes combat (and even movement) a completely different thing of other games, I suggest you to try the demo!!
- Comment on TechCrunch: Reddit sues Anthropic for allegedly not paying for training data 1 month ago:
The enemy of my enemy is not necesarily my friend. However, when two of my enemies start killing each other, I can’t help but to cheer for both of them, hoping for one to kill the other.
- Comment on Research reveals “non-existent” enforcement of industry-led standards on loot boxes 1 month ago:
While I agree regulation must be enforced, let’s not forget that if a kid is playing on a phone that has a credit card saved, is enterely their parents’ fault.
And same if the kid has access to the card itself.
Laws to regulate lootboxes are a must, and I believe this kind of products should be treated as gambling. But FFS, it’s your kid, take some responsibility on what they play and what they buy. A 10 years-old can’t open a bank account or a credit card by themselves, so the card is their parents’. You are doing something very wrong as v parent if your kid can dispose of your credit cards unchecked and freely.
- Comment on DOOM: The Dark Ages Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 1 Million Copies 1 month ago:
No shit! 80€ for a game that’s a fake physical edition on consoles is outraging. As much as the price on pcs where the physical is not even a possibility.
Good thing, I hope the sales keep low for a while to serve as an example of what to not do.
- Comment on The Telegraph has deleted this sob story 1 month ago:
That’s so sad… I almost feel sorry for them. Almost.
Wish they had to live with 10% of that money each year.
- Comment on Tumult in U.S. Treasurys shows Trump's 'big, beautiful bill' might be disaster 1 month ago:
Yeah, because there’s still a slight chance that he dies in a horrible way in the middle of a natural disaster sending the whole maga movement in disarray and ensuing a kind of chaos that stops the gop from doing anything for months (or, ideally, years).
- Comment on Tumult in U.S. Treasurys shows Trump's 'big, beautiful bill' might be disaster 1 month ago:
Good! As a non american person suffering indirectly from the cunt’s “politics” with nothing to do but to look in dismay as he fucks over the whole world, I’m gonna take whatever that fucks his country as schadenfraude. I’m sorry, Americans, you have fucked the whole world badly with your president, if his bills fuck your country, it’s on you and only on you.
- Comment on A year later, Apple Vision Pro owners say they regret buying the $3,500 headset 1 month ago:
If you could buy this thing at their asking price it means that you either had spare money to spend on it as if it was nothing or you were dumb enough to buy an item you didn’t need for an amount you couldn’t afford.
And in both cases, I don’t have sympathy for you.
- Comment on Call to defederate from feddit.org over zionism 1 month ago:
If in a table there are 11 people sitting with a nazi, in that table there are 12 nazis.
- Comment on A Brutal message to Americans who are whining about Chinese dominance in electric cars, claiming it's ''unfair'' 2 months ago:
It’s been years that I’ve been saying that europe and america fucked up big time with EVs. I am a middle class person who wants to buy an electric car. What are my alternatives? Either a +40k € car from the traditional brands that offers me the bare minimum in battery capacity or a BYD that costs under 30k offering me something acceptable. Now, why should I not pick up byd? Because it’s chinese? Well, don’t want me to buy chinese? Then fucking make a car people can afford?
In europe, for an electric car of a non chinese brand it’s either 40k for the bare minimum, or +60k for the luxury segment that I can’t afford anyway.
- Comment on US | Amazon says it will not show tariff costs on goods after White House rebuke 2 months ago:
So pussies.
- Comment on It's kinda crazy that we willingly give money to companies in advance (say for gift vouchers and pre-orders) 2 months ago:
It is crazy. Reason why I never do it. I can’t find a single good reason to use gift cards instead of money.
And for digital game preorders? That’s even dumber. The, publisher is not going to run out of bits, if you purchase after the launch, your digital game will be delivered all the same. But I guess corporate shills need to feel that they are helping the poor multi million corpo…
- Comment on Cucumbers taste like the white part of watermelons 2 months ago:
Fun fact: cucumbers and watermelons are actually part of the same family: the cucurbitaceae.
- Comment on Former SIEA President Says Players Will Pay $80 For Switch 2 Games 2 months ago:
Lucky you it’s only $80. In Europe they are going for 90€, so I guess we’re passing the 100€ barrier on any game with dlc.
And people will pay. These are the fanatics that can’t live without a mario game.
- Comment on US | Pressed for evidence against Mahmoud Khalil, government cites its power to deport people for beliefs 2 months ago:
Now listen, there are offences and offences. I’m fine if you like a different sports, team, but pineapple on pizza? There are things one can’t forgive.
(/s just in case, put whatever you want in your food)
- Comment on Egg prices increase to record high despite Trump's predictions and bird flu outbreak slowing 2 months ago:
That’s oligopoly for you, mates. The only reason behind prices is greed. And more than half of magastan either voted for this or enabled it by not voting at all. So enjoy it, I guess.
P.s: Sorry, I don’t have any more fucks to give, I’m tired of being screwed by the magastanian asshole even though he’s not my president and I couldn’t even vote in the elections of that country.
- Comment on He thinks they'll just GIVE him money? 4 months ago:
This.
He probably knows (PROBABLY) that the numbers don’t add up. But he also knows that magats are not the smartest creatures, so they will believe anything their dear leader says, even if it’s a plain lie.
- Comment on Recommend me a steam deck game 4 months ago:
If you want a big open world game, I can recommend Mad Max, you can find it in fanatical (a legal and trusted store) for $2.49. I had a lot of fun with it and it will give you tons of hours of fun.
www.fanatical.com/en/game/mad-max
I actually recommend you that site for steam keys since they often do bundles very cheap to help your library grow without spending a fortune.
- Comment on The Devil's Panties doesn't miss 4 months ago:
Apparently we’re not oppressing them enough.