Katana314

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Switch 2 Rollout Was So Convoluted It Made Us Want A Steam Deck.⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The game pricing argument goes back and forth for me. Yes, on paper, you could say that inflation suggests games should go up in price, especially considering how many more developers are needed to put out high-fidelity games. BUT, on the other hand, the minimum wage has not raised significantly in all of that time. As a result, a significant number of gamers genuinely can’t pay more for games than they could 20+ years ago. The reason these larger studios exist is because of gaming’s expanded reach in that time; and many of these new target territories similarly can’t pay for the equivalent of $80USD.

  There’s maybe only about 1-2 games I’ve ever even paid the $70 price tag for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Important information about compatibility of Nintendo Switch games with Nintendo Switch 2⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  How will those old joycons charge? Is the Switch 2 able to have S1 joycons slide in without using the magnet?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Switch 2 Launches on June 5th Worldwide; 1080p Screen With 120 FPS and HDR Support, Docked Mode 4K Resolution Support Confirmed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  120 and 4K are often claimed on console specs but are rarely achieved within games. At best it will be capable of that when playing Netflix or streaming.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Switch 2 Nintendo Direct Will Be 60 Minutes Long, Nintendo Confirms⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m curious what other people’s main gripe is (likely emulation fights?) For my own, it’s when they enacted an assault on Garry’s Mod assets.

  That domain never did anything to harm their brand and was a source for tons of fan content. Emulation has its murky arguments about capitalism, but going after GMod was just litigation and harm for its own sake.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Terrorists⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You could also make this point with illegal immigrants.

  With ICE simply looking for “Anyone they can excuse grabbing”, all violent/gang-affiliated immigrants have to do is exercise basic caution, and ICE will miss them completely. If they have enemies, or witnesses in immigrant communities that could testify against them, all they have to do is leave ICE a tip against that person.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm an American software developer and the "broligarchs" don't speak for me - ratfactor⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s distressing how often the track of inventors has been overtaken by the plans of hyper-capitalists.

  • Tesla cars were invented by ~~Elon Musk ~~ Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning, who were then cut out by their investor to enshittify the interface.
  • Keurig coffee pods were invented by a pair of roommates that wanted them to become recyclable so they wouldn’t cause so much waste.
  • Blizzard used to make fun games, and is now bought out by people that don’t.

  I still need to put out my big, long-form video promoting the Accountable Capitalism Act - something that could lead a large body of software devs at a big company to be present for the big-shift plans to, say, “Remove error messages from Windows!” and tell their bosses: Hell no. The same style of issue exists in many industries.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Road crews carry the world on their shoulders. They just aren't given enough to do what needs doing.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The increasing size of American cars has done a lot of damage to our roads. They’re less safe for the roads, for pedestrians, and even sometimes for the occupants.

  Tangentially, thanks to red light structure in the city, I often make just as much forward progress as the cars around me on my bike.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why aren't there mass protests in the USA?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Especially since far-right groups have been falling for Musk’s same bullshit in Europe.

  There’s been reports that Germany’s AFD party fell out of favor after their news got to see how Trump played out. I seriously hope that ends up being true in their next election.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why aren't there mass protests in the USA?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  50501 refers to “Fifty States, Fifty Protests, One Movement” (originally “One Day”). While some states have more presence than others, it has 50 chapters for the 50 states.

  I don’t think there’s as much presence on Lemmy, but lots of media gets posted to Reddit at www.reddit.com/r/50501/.

  Their website also links to social media accounts covering more of it: www.fiftyfifty.one

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Assassin's Creed Shadows | Review Thread⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This might be a dumb idea, but I may buy this game just to make up for all the baseless hate it’s been hit by. Maybe just to avoid shareholder claims of “See, people prefer historical accuracy. Hence black people are banned in all future games.”

  I haven’t really even tracked much of Ubisoft games for a while, and I recognize usually they’re pretty mindless open world fun - personally I’m often fine with that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Split Fiction Developer Already Started Working On Its Next Title, Calls It An "Exciting Thing"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow, you mean they didn’t make a successful game and then immediately triple their staff and try to start pumping out formulaic games at double pace?

  But what about company growth??

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fucking leeches⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are definitely alternatives, where there is more tax incentive to own one home that you live in, and increasing penalties for holding more properties, especially for a long period of time and especially if they are in areas of high housing demand.

  OP isn’t directly suggesting making rentals illegal; in fact it’s a bit vague what specific practice they’re blaming. My best guess is that they generally don’t feel laws should allow/incentivize owning so many housing properties, especially if one is not personally doing anything to earn money from them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Council housing when?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They could also tie it to occupancy. If a functional residence goes more than half the year without someone living in it, property tax is quintupled.

  There’s danger to writing such a law correctly, unfortunately. I recall something in Ecuador where people were leaving extensions to their home just barely unfinished so that they could avoid certain residence laws until they had a buyer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From the trailer of Wolfenstein: The New Order (2014)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Common misconception. None of them want war. They want to show up, intimidate people into surrender, and fight no one. They’re dogs barking through a fence that blindly ignore the open gate.

  Hence why all the mass firings were by email. Hence why Trump has twice caved to Canada and Mexico on tariffs. Hence why ICE has failed to force either Illinois or Boston to cooperate with their raids.

  I understand the reasons people feel they have to be afraid, but miss that all of the fear is on the other foot.

  There was a great video where someone dismantled an ultra-aggressive “we’re gonna destroy you liberals” claim video. He basically said “No, I know you’re not going to do that. Because you said it into a camera.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From the trailer of Wolfenstein: The New Order (2014)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Those couple weeks were in fighting for their lives against Nazis. In heat of battle, anyone can form a brand new relationship sooner than that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They're gonna have to be really cool about a lot of stuff real quick.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t this basically the plot of The Coffin of Andy and Leyley?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Billionaires shouldn't exist⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Genuine question: How would this apply to private companies like Valve? Do they still follow principles of share distribution even if they’re not on the public stock market?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Israeli speaker of parliament calls for bombing food stocks in Gaza now that Israel has cut off their food and water.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll remove my downvote on you if you can show me evidence of the United States (not Israel) piloting bombers against Israel’s enemies, and blocking international interventions, as you claim. Though Israel has done terrible things, the basic principle of subject-verb-predicate interpretation of those statements does not sound at all correct.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Israeli speaker of parliament calls for bombing food stocks in Gaza now that Israel has cut off their food and water.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the recent lesson the democrats have had about “hard tone” probably would’ve come in handy on Israel negotiations too. Rather than being a fan of murdering kids, I’m guessing Biden very much took a standpoint of “not wanting to upset too many people” when asking them not to bomb hospitals.

  For one cause or another, the democratic party needs to find its righteous anger. It needs to risk more possibilities of people shouting back “Hey, you can’t say that!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Deck Gaming News #2⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know if this is the priority for many other users, but Epic Games is 40% owned by Tencent, a Chinese corporation. That in itself is an inappropriate level of CCP influence to me - sadly, Chinese companies don’t really get to divest themselves of government influence the way American corps do.

  (That said, with Google changing the Gulf of Mexico’s name, I feel less sure of that last claim)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wish they'd stop calling themselves Conservatives⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “I just want the government to TAKE money from people I hate, knowing nothing about them! I don’t care where the government GIVES that money!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ukraine: Zelenskyy offers to quit in return for NATO entry⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Very nice and clever response to the shitheads expecting meat-headed claims of “Zelensky dictator, no election, Russia rescue” to hold any water.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So, is the USA screwed?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Everyone here was alive when the invasion started. Russia invaded Ukraine. THEN Ukraine considered entering NATO. They were happy to stay out of it as long as Russia stayed away. They didn’t. Some saw it coming, as Russia has violated just about every treaty they’ve entered.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So, is the USA screwed?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a few points I maybe want to bring up on this, though.

  Through Trump’s installation, many learned what USAID was for the first time. For all it does in the world, it was never tooting its own horn. Sure, its existence is a tradeoff we made to allow for the fact of having one of the strongest military presence. But I still don’t think its existence and actions up until now should’ve been taken for granted.

  Plus: Other nations in Europe cannot currently claim to be beyond manipulation via far-right rhetoric and misinformation. Germany is currently dealing with those issues in its own elections, and the very identity of that country is rooted in acknowledging the evils of 1940. Vladimir Putin targeted the United States because it was their biggest singular obstacle to expansion, acknowledging that there’s no single presidency to easily “corrupt” the European Union.

  I agree that much blame lies on the USA’s population for so gullibly accepting such terrible campaign lies. I just don’t think that kind of evil ignorance is uniquely American, and the rest of the world needs to stay vigilant, rather than assuming all threat will come externally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So, is the USA screwed?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s erroneous to claim the judge orders blocking the executive orders have done anything.

  As judge of Lemmy, I order you to stop posting. /s

  ^ There, that statement alone had just as much effect as the judicial orders. Fact is, DOGE still has extensive access to most of the systems that they breached, and judges have largely been ignored, or have given rulings complicit with Trump’s actions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU consumers don’t trust US goods: a look into Trump’s trade deficit claims⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Big paragraph.

  I went to Germany, and drank their beer.

  It’s just. Better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ukraine isn’t invited to its own peace talks. History is full of such examples – and the results are devastating⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Citing Crimean election results from a nation that “keeps overwhelmingly voting Putin into office, as his opponents are too dead to run” is a bold move.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games franchises that need metroidvania spinoffs?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Check out “Aquaria”. Not quite the same thing, but a Metroidvania playing as a mermaid with song powers. Lots of boss fights! And you can even breech the surface when you get there!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s definitely a distraction tactic, but at the very least looking at Google Maps and Bing Maps makes very clear to people which megacorps are riding the oligarchy; just in case anyone held hope their favorite “techbro revolutionary” might side with them. PS: Mapquest gets it right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stellar Blade is on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Man, I think my playthrough of N:A was absolutely ruined by the RPG mechanics. I was lategame trying to get to this rumored “amazing story”, and something about my numbers wasn’t adding up because even switching to easy mode it was taking AGES to beat the bosses.

  So yeah, I’m not even generally a fan of soulslikes, but S:B’s action-based difficulty was definitely more to my tastes.