MrScottyTay
@MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Switch 2 GameCube controller will only be offered to those who pre-order the console 2 days ago:
PowerA did a good wireless one that also had a second Z button on the other side
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 3 days ago:
My gaming pc has just switched over to bazzite (as I use it like a console/htpc). Been wanting to do it for ages but needed to get an amd card beforehand for the best experience. Windows really started to grind my gears in the last few months too.
- Comment on What open-world games on Steam have satisfying movement, like Arkham Knight or Spider-Man? 4 days ago:
Mirrors edge wasn’t on ps2… Was that a typo intending to be ps3 instead?
- Comment on Please choose one 4 days ago:
No W on a Nintendo controller
- Comment on If you're still on Reddit... 6 days ago:
Piracy Matthews it hard to buy bird seed you need delivered the next day for your birds though
- Comment on YSK: Here's a list of browser extensions to un-shittify Youtube 1 week ago:
They removed it so they could make standard users reliant on the recommended feed so they’re more likely to watch high earning ad-backed videos.
But I’m stuck of how short sighted their recommended algorithm is, it only takes into account the very recent videos you’ve watched so over time you get out of touch of old subscriptions unless they somehow go viral again or you search them up explicitly.
- Comment on YSK: Here's a list of browser extensions to un-shittify Youtube 1 week ago:
Oh I’ll have a look into it then, thanks, at a quick glance it didn’t look like a thing that was possible and it was just imports to a local account
- Comment on YSK: Here's a list of browser extensions to un-shittify Youtube 1 week ago:
Does that allow your watch history and other stuff to get stored back on your Google account though?
- Comment on YSK: Here's a list of browser extensions to un-shittify Youtube 1 week ago:
That doesn’t let you log in with a Google account though does it? YouTube is my primary source of entertainment and I mostly watch it on tv nowadays and across other devices, I can’t go with an option with a “local” account.
- Comment on YSK: Here's a list of browser extensions to un-shittify Youtube 1 week ago:
Biggest YouTube feature i miss was putting channels into folders so you could put all of your diy channels into one feed. I’ve not seen that replicated anywhere yet
- Comment on Roman numerals could be based on what your hand looks like when you count. 1 week ago:
Wow okay, that’s a pretty convincing coincidence then
- Comment on Roman numerals could be based on what your hand looks like when you count. 1 week ago:
Pretty interesting idea, can only do up to XII on one hand though
- Comment on How You Doin? 1 week ago:
This is a very common dialect thing. Like in the UK, especially the North east “you alright?” Or just “alright?” is just a simple greeting that is often also just repeated in response.
- Comment on Minecraft's 'Vibrant Visuals' Upgrade the Start of a New 'Graphical Journey' 2 weeks ago:
Not a fan of the water, the new visuals somehow make the texture look even more obviously tiled
- Comment on Why am I like this? 2 weeks ago:
If you wash things that have been tested to be hydrophobic, eventually it’ll wear off so you have to reproof it. If you ever wonder why an old waterproof jacket is starting to let water in, it’ll be because you’ve washed it
- Comment on BlackBerry may have the perfect opportunity to produce a Canadian made cellphone to compet with Apple and other America brands. 4 weeks ago:
I know they’re not coming back, that’s why i wrote my message the way i did
- Comment on BlackBerry may have the perfect opportunity to produce a Canadian made cellphone to compet with Apple and other America brands. 4 weeks ago:
Maybe if they still had the infrastructure and personnel to design, develop and manufacture a phone
- Comment on Steam Deck Gaming News #2 5 weeks ago:
That’s understandable, i wouldn’t knock anyone from boycotting for tencent reasons
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
About 15 years ago with I was about 17-18 I hooked my megadrive up to a projector. Had to create my own cable for it because i didn’t have an AV cable. Used a large paper clip for the prongs to stick them into the right holes in the AV port. Only needed two of them.
I would then project Sonic on the side of my house in the late evening and played whilst laying on a sun lounger. Can imagine that looked weird to any passerby’s.
- Comment on A funny thing in Iran is how they repackage old PlayStation consoles 5 weeks ago:
PS1 3d is my favourite early 3d. I think it’s so charming. Some absolute bangers on the ps1 too
- Comment on What is the best looking retro console or PC? 5 weeks ago:
PlayStation is one of my favourites but it also comes down to that shade of grey being my absolute favourite shade of grey. And the OG pre-dualshock/analog potentially being my favourite shape of controller too. I have a modded Bluetooth one but sadly there’s not too many modern games (outside of fighters) that don’t need both the dpad and analog.
I also love the Gameboy color’s shape. As an adult it’s great for one handed gaming for rpgs.
- Comment on Steam Deck Gaming News #2 5 weeks ago:
That’s hilarious haha, that has to be the best autocorrect from my swipe typing I’ve seen yet. I’ll have to figure out what was meant to actually go there now (I’ll stick it in an edit at the end though cause that is too funny to remove)
- Comment on Steam Deck Gaming News #2 5 weeks ago:
Alan wake 2 had massive critical acclaim what you on about and they’re now in a financial situation to publish they’re own games because of it.
And their store definitely runs better than steam and gog. Gog is the worst hanging most of the time with it often losing its penis place when going back to the previous page, and the latter is often the same on steam. Even big picture mode struggles with the steam store some times.
- Comment on Steam Deck Gaming News #2 5 weeks ago:
We would have never gotten the likes of Alan wake 2 if not for epics money though, which also paved the way for remedy to become more independent for future releases. I’d rather have an exclusive then nothing at all.
It’s also arguable whether or not square would’ve ported kingdom hearts to pc if not for epic paying for it as well. Which in turn allowed them to put it on steam later because the game had already been made to work for pc.
Other than how they’ve handled rocket league and harmonix, epic have done nothing but good for the pc space in my opinion. Even if a launcher is shitty, a launcher is just a launcher and at least their store runs better than gog or steams.
- Comment on Steam Deck Gaming News #2 5 weeks ago:
What did they do to the gaming community? Make you not use just one platform, giving that platform a de-facto monopoly?
- Comment on The future of the internet is likely smaller communities, with a focus on curated experiences 1 month ago:
So the past of the internet?
- Comment on Kindle Is Making It Harder to Switch to Rival eReader Brands. 1 month ago:
Shhh he’s a pirate, he has no concept of how much media costs.
- Comment on Thoughts on Final Fantasy VII Remake 1 month ago:
Think you’ve hit it on the nail on the head. It feels less like a chore because of the way they all connect with one another.
Although even before fast travel I still did a lot of manual travelling to get everything done. At least until I realised that fast travel was very likely to get better later in the game, which it of course did.
- Comment on Thoughts on Final Fantasy VII Remake 1 month ago:
It’s a massive improvement too. The changes they made to materia make it more fun too.
- Comment on Thoughts on Final Fantasy VII Remake 1 month ago:
I loved the combat system, so I enjoyed every fight in game (except flying monsters in the first game if you didn’t have barret around). I think it’s my favourite hybrid combat system that allows both tactical and reactionary attacks and shines the mist when you’re juggling between characters to get the ATB gauges up on everyone as quickly as possible so you have more toys to play with constantly.
The Yuffie DLC (Intermission) then expands upon the traversal mechanics and team based combat mechanics which were a whole lot of fun. A lot of this carried over to Rebirth as well but expanded up again. Still ended up with Yuffie being one of the most fun to play though because she was originally designed to play mostly solo from her DLC, but having a character that is more fun to play isn’t a bad thing obviously.
Story wise, without spoiling too much, I love how, much like a lot of the mechanics, tries to expand upon old elements rather than outright replace them. And the story being some kind of pseudo-sequel where meta-textuality enhances the experience it ensures that these games are not replacements of the original. Which makes me laud it up in the highest regards. If they had just tried to replicate everything I think it would’ve felt even weirder it trying to be a wholesale replacement of the original like a lot of standard remakes try to be (think resi and silent hill). I don’t know how others can replicate what square is doing though since a lot of it is rooted in it’s story and doesn’t deviate far from the elements introduced in the original and the compilation games. Resi could not have replicated this intertextuality between versions of the game. You could argue silent hill could due to its story elements but they just focused on making it an enhanced version of the original.
I think I’m staying to ramble too much now so I’ll end it. I think the fact I can ramble about these games and gush about them so much does how much I love them. Other than astro bot rebirth was one of the most refreshing breaths in gaming for me, despite me more often than not despising both large open worlds and ubi style towers. Yet I felt compelled to almost 100% the game just due to the amount of fun I was having that I could not get anywhere else.