Anarch157a
@Anarch157a@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Borderlands 4 boss tells players "please get a refund from Steam if you aren't happy" as Randy Pitchford continues his very public crashout over the FPS's performance woes 6 days ago:
You had the luxury of 320x200 ? What were you playing on, a Cray Supercomputer ? /s
The thing is, we keep being bombarded by promises of how spectacular and wonderful New Game X will be, just to be punched in the face by stuff that falls short of that. This emotional roller coaster has actual costs, not only in terms of money, but also mental and emotional health. Is the reason why some countries, like mine (Brazil), have consumer protection laws that explicitly prohibits misleading advertising. And yes, showing a beautiful demo on a trade show counts, to then deliver a half-assed product falls squarely on the misleading advertisement category. This means people (at least here) can expect a certain level of performance and polish from games, this being backed by law.
Basically, is not about feeling entitled, is about ensuring our rights as consumers are not trampled by devs.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 boss tells players "please get a refund from Steam if you aren't happy" as Randy Pitchford continues his very public crashout over the FPS's performance woes 6 days ago:
The eye rolling would be justified if the 30FPS was on something like a 3070 or something like that, but when the complaint comes from someone sporting a 5090, well…
If the game runs at 30FPS on the latest, greatest top-of-the-line card from Nvidia, imagine what kind of performance people are getting from 4060s or RX6600s…
A game that’s this badly optimised is a disrespect to all gamers.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 2 weeks ago:
Another 80s child here. The difficulty of ganes of that era was to extend tge game duration and made them seem longer. They were designed that way to eat quarters at the arcade, the original “games as a service”. What happened with home computer and console games at the time was that developers used the same paradigms for “buy to own” games that they used for arcade, thus the idea of limited lives, game over screens, high dificulty, etc.
- Comment on AOL to discontinue dial-up internet service after 34 years 1 month ago:
Brazil. Our population density map is not that different from the US, only it’s over one long shore, instead of three (four if you count the great lakes as a shore). Still, even deep into the Amazon region, like the city of Manaus, you can have 600 Mbps fibre for less than US$20.
Size of the country of population density is not the reason internet access is expensive in the US. Greed and corruption are.
- Comment on AOL to discontinue dial-up internet service after 34 years 1 month ago:
My country is as big as the US and we can get 500 Mbs fibre for $23, less than half what AT&T charges.
Is not the size of the country that make fibre costs to be so high in US, it’s unchecked, exploitative capitalism allowed by a corrupt plutocratic government.
- Comment on Why Silicon Valley Needs Immigration 3 months ago:
“Because theyŕe greedy fucks”.
There, saved a click.
- Comment on British soldiers tune radio waves to fry drone swarms for pennies 5 months ago:
Also known as “light”, as used in Lasers, which also works to knock down drones.
- Comment on 'Oh god': There's a buried Steam help page that shows how much money you've ever spent on the platform, and you may not want to know 5 months ago:
SteamDB gives you a valuation based on full price. The article describes an entry on Steam’s Help page that gives you an accurate number of how much money you paid to Valve, including micro-transactions.
- Comment on The Sims Competitor inZOI Sells 1 Million in a Week, Krafton Declares It a ‘Long-Term Franchise IP’ 5 months ago:
Not to mention it would be a buggy mess, geared towards on-line only content and predatory gacha mechanics. Remember that abortion that was the last SimCity ? It pretty much gave Cities: Skylines a permission to print money.
- Comment on IEEE Recognizes Itaipu Dam’s Engineering Achievements 5 months ago:
The project had a massive ecological and social impact on the region. People who lost their homes and farms to the lake, were still not re-settled or compensated almost 20 years after it was formed, displacement of native peoples from their ancesttal lands, it drowned old growth forests which caused them to rot and release CO2 and methane, disrupted the reproductive cycle of several species of fish, towns that were far from the river and then were close to the expanded lake were inundated by mosquitos, I could go on.
But hey, progress right ?
Fucking dictatorship.
Itaipu was completelly unneccessary, A chain of smaller dams would have provided the same capacity, but with lower and more distributed impact, but the fucking dictators had to show how Brazil was capable of tackling huge engineering projects.
- Comment on Day 248 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing until l forget to post Screenshots 5 months ago:
Reasons why Ubisoft is in the shitter, facing hostility from both gamers and shareholders alike. It seems the Guillemot familly is hellbent into destroid every last shred of good will left.
- Comment on New U.S. DJI drone alternative just hit the market, it’s only 6X the cost of equivalent DJI drone 6 months ago:
That’s the true cost of decades of protectionist demagoguery disguised as “national security”.
- Comment on Reddit will lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says 7 months ago:
I see more and more people moving to Bluesky, which means Xitter is becoming less and less relevant by the day. Except for nazi shitheads, that is.
- Comment on China to launch antitrust probe into Google 7 months ago:
It’s a political move. By harassing one of USs largest corporations, the CCP hopes Sundar Pichai will call the morons in charge to complain and ask for concessions.