ICastFist
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- Comment on We own the hardware, but not the experience anymore — Big Tech keeps building smarter, more connected devices, but the user experience feels more intrusive, more confusing, and less human 4 days ago:
The user experience hasn’t undergone significant innovation (improvement) in the last decade
B-b-b-but thinner bezels!!! Slimmer phones!!!
- Comment on Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret 4 days ago:
Was also quite common in Brazil, dunno how new phones are handling it
- Comment on How open are you about yourself to others online in general? 4 days ago:
I end up being quite open, if I’m being honest. There are many things that I don’t expose about myself online, but I wouldn’t be surprised if someone could make an accurate, partial profile of what kind of person I am based only on my lemmy posts, plus a close approximation of where I live.
- Comment on Didn't realize how hard MGS4's Disc Swap joke hit until I backed it up 4 days ago:
How durable is the PS3 blu-ray reader?
- Comment on Didn't realize how hard MGS4's Disc Swap joke hit until I backed it up 4 days ago:
You have to pester the colonel on the codec like 3 or 4 times until he gives the idea to plug the controller on slot 2. The first few times I got past Mantis thanks to infinite ammo and health, brought to me by Gameshark 🦈. If you keep shooting the FAMAS, a shot will occasionally hit Mantis. He dodges explosions, so Grenades, Nikita and Stinger don’t work.
- Comment on Didn't realize how hard MGS4's Disc Swap joke hit until I backed it up 4 days ago:
Basement Brothers’ videos on Youtube shows the amount of different floppy disks that some PC88/98 would come in. 5+ was common. Some games would also ask the player to create a user disk, which was essentially a personal copy of some stuff from the main disk plus space for save data, which lowered the risk of messing one of them
- Comment on Didn't realize how hard MGS4's Disc Swap joke hit until I backed it up 4 days ago:
Still the only MGS that hasn’t been re-released :(
Also, the video is 17 years old. Ouch.
- Comment on How to reduce the crime rate to 0 4 days ago:
Tax evasion is no longer a crime, but evading taxes has a tax. Checkmate!
- Comment on Japan’s Birth Rate Set to Break Even the Bleakest Forecasts 5 days ago:
Probably because, compared to those 2 countries, Italy is easier to immigrate to.
- Comment on I played Mists of Noyah, and let me tell you... 2 weeks ago:
I made a review on Steam as well, not as lenghty as this one. I also wrote a giant whole ass essay (>11k words) that might serve as script for an hours-long video review in portuguese, if I ever come around editing the footage. Should I finish that, I’ll be sure to try and contact the devs so they watch it, even if it looks like they’d rather never touch the game again
- Comment on How solar panels generate electricity 2 weeks ago:
It’s coal powered, so it can double as a bbq grill
- Comment on Australia’s Social Media Ban Was Pushed By Ad Agency Focused On Gambling Ads It Didn’t Want Banned 2 weeks ago:
Kinda interesting that, if you think about it, every one of the villains win - politics look like they did something useful; gambling continues to show ads everywhere; big tech “loses” the more heavily regulated population of its services while gaining a free pass to implement whatever sort of real age verification they want, the same kind that porn sites are being forced to use on UK
- Comment on How solar panels generate electricity 2 weeks ago:
But half the fun is having a gleaming tower of doom!
- Comment on How solar panels generate electricity 2 weeks ago:
Good idea! We’ll just need some steam turbines to help sunlight move the pistons in order to reach peak efficiency!
- Comment on How solar panels generate electricity 2 weeks ago:
Should’ve put the water tank on the left to avoid loss
- Comment on "Media consumption" 2 weeks ago:
My GOG library is currently larger than my Steam… Though I did play, uh, 6 games that were sitting on those accounts for over a year - Cryptark (gave up early), Roboquest (really fun), Dead Estate (unlocked ~36% of achivs), Alien Rampage, Coromon, Mists of Noyah (great bones, awful everything else, long rant of mine).
It’s also a bit weird to see some games “last played: 8 years ago” with me remembering fuck all about them.
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- Comment on Are all rich white guys pedophiles? 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on This long-term data storage will last 14 billion years 2 weeks ago:
Waiting for the consumer reader and writer of those things, call me then
- Comment on Changing the language of “Hogwarts Legacy” 2 weeks ago:
Does the game still have denuvo nowadays?
- Comment on Changing the language of “Hogwarts Legacy” 2 weeks ago:
I’m willing to bet the fault lies with Epic and their shitty store app
- Comment on As new Yakuza announcements dropped, top walkthrough writing guy in anglosphere refuses to play these at all 2 weeks ago:
Sega relies entirely on Sonic fans’ goodwill to remain “reputable”, everything else they’re absolute assholes. Good time to remember that Sammy, a pachinko business, saved Sega with a merger back in 2004. Execs knew damn well that it was much better for their PR to be called Sega, despite Sammy calling the shots.
- Comment on Have YOU ever done this? 2 weeks ago:
Back when I was single, that happened often during my vacations
- Comment on LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash 2 weeks ago:
My guess is voice control
- Comment on LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash 2 weeks ago:
“”“gone”“”
- Comment on Skyrim on Switch 2 ships with severe input lag and a huge 53GB file size despite being capped at 30FPS 3 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t be surprised if they did. Whether they bothered to load them is a different matter.
- Comment on Skyrim on Switch 2 ships with severe input lag and a huge 53GB file size despite being capped at 30FPS 3 weeks ago:
4k textures that crash the game
- Comment on I've played Alien Rampage (1996) and let me tell you... 3 weeks ago:
It very much has that mid 90s attitude and unique to DOS too. From what I remember, consoles didn’t really have these sort of games.
Having just watched a video explaining how EA strongarmed SEGA during the Genesis/Mega Drive era, the main reason games that “feel” like this one almost never graced the early consoles was mostly due to awful deals that Sega and Nintendo forced publishers to accept - “we’ll produce however many carts we want to, whenever we want to”.
Making a PC game at the time, on the other hand, meant a lot more creative freedom, lower development costs and higher profit per sale, though with a way, way smaller market.
- Comment on I've played Alien Rampage (1996) and let me tell you... 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on I've played Alien Rampage (1996) and let me tell you... 3 weeks ago:
Pay to win is getting out of hand 😆
