MystValkyrie
@MystValkyrie@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on Anyone else from Europe feels the same while browsing the "All" feed? 2 weeks ago:
I would love to see less America doom and gloom on lemmy. Why should we be the center of everything? More European-centric posts, please.
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 2 weeks ago:
Same thing with the idea of “use a monopoly growth model”. What is the alternative? Actively making a product worse because everyone else is? Because that is collusion.
This question really highlights the danger of the growth-at-all-costs model in forcing every company to race to the bottom when one company does. The future of the human race may one day depend on killing progress.
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 2 weeks ago:
A huge problem with America’s and many other economic systems is that companies are incentivized to undercut the competition, use a monopoly growth model, acquire or push out competitors, and then screw the customer when the competitors are gone.
Without guardrails, some other “affordable solution” will just show up to replace streaming, and then we’ll start all over again.
I don’t know what the solution is, but as a consumer, I’m exhausted. I wish there were options to just buy products, sometimes more expensive ones, for piece of mind that the company won’t stab me in the back someday.
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 2 weeks ago:
Instead of trying to get Google money, I actually wish they would offer a monthly/annual/lifetime membership as the cost of not enshittifying to stay in business. And then severing ties with Google as a company.
A lot of tech companies are holding onto unsustainable business models from 10 years ago, and it’s forcing them into AI now. End users paying a fair price for the products they use is a better alternative than this because it puts the power back in our hands as opposed to tech bros and shareholders.
- Comment on Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet 3 weeks ago:
I’m sorry. I suppose I should have said “I don’t need the internet outside of work.”
- Comment on Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet 3 weeks ago:
No one needs the interet outside of work. The moment I’m forced to show my ID or get my face scanned, I’m done.
- Comment on What's your preferred way of buying games? (digital/physical/physical digital) 3 weeks ago:
Physical these days is mostly dead, so long-term I’ve been going for DRM-free digital. GOG, 7digital or ripping via Foobar2000 for music, ebooks.com plus Calibre, and MakeMKV for DVDs. Steam’s DRM is lenient enough where I’m okay with using that.
I do still like physical for some things. I prefer physical for PS3 games versus digital because most games read straight from the disc, and install sizes a significantly smaller if you go that route. That generation of gaming really respected your hard drive. I don’t like buying a disc and then still having to install 100 GB to my hard drive – at that point, why bother?
I also prefer buying CDs and DVDs physical because I can display them in my collection, but also easily back them up in digital form. Best of both worlds.
- Comment on First they came for steam, then they came for itch.io . 4 weeks ago:
Can people please stop using the genocide poem to talk about businesses indpendently choosing to moderate porn games on their platforms?
No one will die from this. There is no government mandate. This is tone-deaf and offensive for anyone who has and is currently experiencing genocide. People in my country are being rounded up and disappeared. You just can’t goon on itch anymore. Boo freaking hoo.
- Comment on Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts 2 months ago:
This is what I do and have had vastly better experiences than with Bluetooth.
- Comment on Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts 2 months ago:
Fairphone has lost all its good will with me at this point. They still aren’t making their products available in the U.S., and Murena is a borderline scam company and I am genuinely shocked Fairphone works with them.
I would sooner recommend feature phones from Sunbeam as it also has user-replaceable batteries and you can send it in for repairs. Or just any phone used.
- Comment on Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts 2 months ago:
I would not recommend Murena for U.S. customers. I attempted buying one from them, and they put $6000 in charges to my credit card. Customer service was terrible and tried to blame me. Had to get my bank involved.
- Comment on Does Super Metroid get any better? 2 months ago:
I personally prefer story over gameplay, but to each their own.
- Comment on Does Super Metroid get any better? 2 months ago:
Which, in one sense, is definitely cool. I get the impression that Super Metroid is a game with tons of replay value that encourages playing it in a different way each time.
In another way, to make this happen, I didn’t think it was very fun for first-time players. Bomb jumping is kind of awkward hard harder to pull off than in Zero Mission, and finding upgrades seemed to rely more on pulling off complex techniques with perfect timing. I don’t remember ever being required to wall jump in Zero Mission or 2. There’s so many beginner’s traps too, with the one-way doors and the noob bridge. In Zero Mission, I felt like upgrades were more clearly telegraphed to the player, so you could get more of them without using a guide. In Super, it’s a lot of bombing random walls and stuff, and the X-Ray Scope feels really limited.
If I got stuck, it would be difficult to consult guides, because many writers seemed to put sequence breaks into the walkthrough as opposed to a “natural” playthrough.
While it might be true that Dread has a lot of “hand-holding” (I don’t know because I haven’t played it yet), part of me wonders if that criticism comes from experienced players who want a harder challenge than Super that lean even farther into advanced-level techniques. I guess I’ll find out when I play it.
- Comment on Does Super Metroid get any better? 2 months ago:
I came of age during the PS3 era and the Indie Game Revolution, where people were debating on whether video games could be art, so I personally can’t help but prefer when games have storytelling and lore.
But for many people, Super Metroid’s lack of a plot will be a draw and not a drawback, and that’s cool. I’d actually really love a new nonlinear Metroid game in the vein of Super someday, and perhaps this time it wouldn’t take place on the planet Zebes.
I have AM2R archived on my computer. I can’t wait to play it!
- Comment on Does Super Metroid get any better? 2 months ago:
When I called Zero Mission an asset flip, I was trying to steelman a potenial opposing point. I may not have been successful at this. And I myself don’t actually see it as an asset flip – I loved Zero Mission.
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- Comment on Just finished Hogwarts Legacy, it was enjoyable but could've been better. 3 months ago:
I’m trans and I see where you’re coming from. I was boycotting the game ahead of launch because I didn’t want to support J.K. Rowling, who has based her career off of making our lives harder.
But…it’s been two years. We lost the battle. The boycott led to the Streisand effect and the game sold insanely well. Trans people got a ton of negative press converage. We were made out to be intolerant and cruel because one trans person said something that made the GirlfriendReviews lady cry. It seemed like after that, GamerGate 2 went into effect and so many games with diversity are getting preemptively reviewbombed, like Dragon Age: The Veilguard, leading to layoffs and shuttered development teams, while games like Black Myth Wukong with a known sexist director are insanely popular.
Hogwarts Legacy seems like such a small issue now. Now it’s 2025 and we’re quickly losing all our rights in an ongoing Constitutional crisis. These days, while I’d prefer if cis people buy the game used and maybe add disclaimers to the posts they make about it, I’m too exhausted to care about the Wizard game.
- Comment on ‘Doom: The Dark Ages’ DRM Is Locking Out Linux Users Who Bought the Game 3 months ago:
Aww, that’s disappointing. Linux users with a DS or who use emulators should look into Orcs & Elves in the meantime. It’s another good fantasy-flavored FPS from ID and it’s pretty good.
- Comment on Wasteland 2 is something I wish I didn't feel mid about 3 months ago:
At the time it came out, CRPG throwbacks were still a pretty rare sight, and the ones that did come out after Baldur’s Gate 2 and Fallout had low production values, like Geneforge.
Getting to see a new CRPG with modern graphics and lots of voice acing was really exciting. I know it’s why I bought it.
But I never finished it. The intro sequence at the farm with the killer rabbits was so unbalanced, the hardest part of the game, and poorly done. It was cool that you could have different characters do dialogue and be a hardass or a smartass or a kissass, they did all feel like different flavors if the same outcome. And the game was just too long, so after putting 40 hours into it and still not being close to done, I put the game down.
Someday I’ll definitely try Wasteland 3, since HowLongToBeat says it’s shorter.