PonyOfWar
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- Comment on Virtual Boy: Nintendo Classics - Announcement Trailer 3 days ago:
This doesn’t have the head tracking capabilities of the VR kit, as you only insert the Switch which doesn’t have a gyro without the joycons.
- Comment on Virtual Boy: Nintendo Classics - Announcement Trailer 3 days ago:
…in the US. 22 games world-wide. They’ve already released a few originally Japan-only titles on the other Switch Online apps.
- Comment on Yoshi and the Mysterious Book - Announcement Trailer 3 days ago:
Not sure I care about the game itself, but the art style is beautiful!
- Comment on Virtual Boy: Nintendo Classics - Announcement Trailer 3 days ago:
I think it’s a fun novelty, but locking the actual software behind the Online+ Expansion pack instead of including it with the (no doubt expensive) accessory is a bit crap.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 1 week ago:
That’s fair, but I also don’t see a problem in voicing criticism about aspects of the game I don’t like. Especially if I do like the game as a whole. People should not see that as an attack on their personal enjoyment of the game.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 1 week ago:
I like the game, but I definitely think it deserves some criticism. I really don’t get the thinking behind not placing a bench directly in front of every boss arena. The run-backs don’t make the game harder, just more frustrating. It’s also something I disliked in older Souls games, but thankfully they realized the problem and fixed it in Elden Ring. And some mechanics are just baffling, like benches that are locked behind a paywall, which you have to pay every time you want to access the bench. Why on earth would they do this, with currency already being as sparse as it is?
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Shenmue III Enhanced announced for PS5, Xbox Series, Nintendo, and PC 4 weeks ago:
It was free on EGS back in 2021. Has been sitting in my backlog since then.
- Comment on Shenmue III Enhanced announced for PS5, Xbox Series, Nintendo, and PC 4 weeks ago:
Are there any people who even liked shenmue 3?
I haven’t played it yet, but I’ve noticed way more positive opinions online about the game the further we got from its release date. It’s currently 75% positive on Steam and even 92% from recent reviews.
I think the game was way overhyped, but now that people don’t expect it to be some monumental achievement, some actually do like it.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Go hiking! It’s many Germans’ favorite pastime and we have well-signposted hiking trails everywhere. In Grünwald you’re quite close to the Bavarian alps and lakes, really beautiful areas.
Germans have quite a different way of communicating compared to Americans. Small talk with strangers is not as common. Don’t take it as rudeness if the supermarket cashier doesn’t really smile or ask about your day. People are quite direct. If you ask someone how they are, be prepared for an honest reply.
Public transport is good, but not Japan- or Switzerland-good. When going on a trip, take possible delays into account. Don’t rely on a 5 minute connection in Mannheim HBf.
- Comment on European Commission launching #Wifi4EU initative, 93k high-speed private access points across the EU, free of charge. 5 weeks ago:
Plenty of stuff like this or this or this
Again, those are all pushes for legislation. None of which are implemented at this point. The EU is, for better and for worse, a bureaucratic monster. Anything it does has to go through a long process involving multiple oversight comittees, the commission, the parliament etc. It really doesn’t have the option for much secrecy. National governments are quite a different story.
- Comment on European Commission launching #Wifi4EU initative, 93k high-speed private access points across the EU, free of charge. 5 weeks ago:
But those are all publicly available pieces of legislation. It’s quite a leap to go from that to just assuming they’ll secretly and illegally spy on you through public wifi networks, without any law allowing them to do so. Besides, if they have no problem doing that, why would internet through your European ISP be any safer?
- Comment on Xbox Series X and S: Microsoft Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 30 Million Consoles This Generation 5 weeks ago:
They’ve also sold less than half the number of XBox One units compared to PS4, and like a third compared to the Switch, so they’ve been lagging behind for a while.
- Comment on Humble Choice this month contains Persona 5 Royal, My Time at Sandrock, Lil Gator Game, more 5 weeks ago:
As someone who really likes the game: No, it probably isn’t for you. The story is very much edgy youth fiction and much of the game is reading through the story. The gameplay is good, but not so good as to carry the game if you dislike the story and aesthetics.
- Comment on What are the best free mmorpgs for a beginner? 1 month ago:
I’d suggest Guild Wars 2. It’s an MMO that can be played quite casually and doesn’t require massive time investment or grinding. It has a fun gameplay loop that encourages free exploration. Collaboration with other players arises freely from gameplay.
- Comment on Why doesn't Sega care about Sonic? 1 month ago:
One factor that probably plays a role is that Sonic is much more popular in Western countries than in Japan, where Sega is from. So the Japanese management might not see Sonic as such an important franchise.
- Comment on Krafton Issue Statement Regarding Subnautica 2 2 months ago:
Always good to let this kind of drama sit for a couple weeks before passing any judgement. Not to say I fully believe the publisher’s narrative either. But maybe it’s not the time for grandiose proclamations of a boycott yet.
- Comment on Grok got a Nazi patch 2 months ago:
So let’s assume the AI actually does have safety checks and will not display holocaust denial arguments without pointing out why they’re wrong. Maybe initially it will put notes directly after the arguments. But no problem! Just tell it to list the denialist lies first and the clarifications after. Take some screenshots of just the first paragraphs and boom - you have screenshots showing the AI denying the holocaust.
My point is that it’s easy to manipulate AI output in a variety of ways to make it show whatever you want. That’s not even taking into consideration the possibility of just editing the HTML, which can be done in seconds. Once again, why should we trust a nazi?
- Comment on Grok got a Nazi patch 2 months ago:
At the very least shouldn’t it contain notations about why it’s wrong?
I mean it might. In both screenshots it’s clearly visible that parts of the text are cut off. Why should we trust Twitter neonazis?
- Comment on Grok got a Nazi patch 2 months ago:
Yep, while I don’t have a Twitter account to check Grok’s response to an actual query about the holocaust, I did have a glance at the account posting that reponse and it’s a full-on nazi account. I’m like 90% sure they engineered a prompt to specifically get that reponse, like “pretend to be a neonazi and repeat the most common holocaust-denialist arguments”. Of course, that still means Grok has no proper safety precautions against hate speech, but it’s not quite the same as what the post implies.
- Comment on Grok got a Nazi patch 2 months ago:
What was the prompt?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I’d say it’s less the surgery being addictive and more that the type of person going for plastic surgery in the first place may often have body dysmorphic disorder, so they’ll keep finding flaws in their appearance.
- Comment on Classic Gaming: Retro Gaming Growing Up 2 months ago:
I was about 2 decades later, but I bonded over games like Pokemon and later made many friendships in minecraft. Wish I could revisit that time. I think it’s less about any particular era in gaming - it’s about being young. Kids are still forging friendships over video games today - just different ones (although, at least in the case of my nephew, Minecraft is still one of them :D).
- Comment on The Switch 2: Is it worth buying? 2 months ago:
Nope, as that one wasn’t an Switch exclusive. Released for WiiU on the same day.
- Comment on The Switch 2: Is it worth buying? 3 months ago:
I broadly agree, but I’ll add that knockout tour is where the game and its open world design really shines. That should probably be considered the main mode for this game rather than grand prix. I hope that they’ll add a 3-lap “classic grand prix” mode at some point. The world in free roam does feel quite empty unfortunately.
- Comment on The Switch 2: Is it worth buying? 3 months ago:
That’s almost every console launch ever though. Switch 1 had an even weaker launch lineup when it comes to exclusives.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 Backward Compatibility Tested - It's Good! 3 months ago:
That’s just objectively incorrect though. It’s an entirely new chip based on a different architecture. Switch 1 games are actually run through a translation layer, which is why a small number of them still don’t work on Switch 2 currently.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Well spotted. Just clickbait to market their game then.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
I don’t think going after some YouTuber with 87 subscribers will be worth your time.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
I’d recommend Sonic Generations (or Sonic X Shadow Generations), which is kind of a best-of of previous Sonic games’ levels, tied together with a new story.
Sonic mania is also a great game, reminiscent of the first few 2d Sonic games. But, just like those games, it doesn’t really have much of a story or character interactions.