AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor
@AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Nintendo Is Already Punishing Switch 2 Users Over Piracy ‘Suspicions’ 6 days 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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'' 1 month 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 1 month 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) 1 month 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? 3 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 3 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 3 months ago:
Apparently we’re not oppressing them enough.
- Comment on Shovel Knight artist says throwback games need 'retro authenticity' but can't coast on nostalgia alone: 'Part of the appeal of the NES era of game making was that everything was a new idea' 4 months ago:
That’s the problem with many modern AAA games. They lack innovation. Since they only look to maximize profits, they stick to reliable formulas that are known to be profitable.
This is the reason why I only play indies nowadays. How many AAA studios have new ideas? Sure, we see, every now and then, a new game that really feels new, but they are rare. Meanwhile, the indie sphere cooks new things constantly. Sure, not all are pretty or good or polished, but at least they try new things!
- Comment on CNN Freaks Out Over Elon Musk Changing His Name On X To “Harry Bölz” 4 months ago:
Rules for thee, not for me. Or something.
You can’t expect them to be coherent or logical or anything; they voted for trump.
- Comment on Looking for a free speech Lemmy instance 4 months ago:
No, that xkcd is relevant because that’s exactly what free speech means. Your government won’t arrest you for saying stuff, but for the same reason you are free to speak, we are free to act within law against you.
And there is no law forbiding people from boycotting or unhosting or simply not listening to what you say.
You are free to speak, we are free to listen.
- Comment on Looking for a free speech Lemmy instance 4 months ago:
So you are a racist. Got it.
- Comment on Looking for a free speech Lemmy instance 4 months ago:
You are not going to find “free speech” instances federated with everyone, because what you are looking for is an instance allowing bigotry and racism, things that most of lemmy don’t like.