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- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 20 hours ago:
Was there an original uk one? This one is the only one I’m aware of, it had a moment of doubt a year back but we got new admins before we needed to move.
- Comment on MultiVersus officially closes down and is delisted today 1 day ago:
- Comment on dual immunity (see body) 1 week ago:
we need to maintain vision basically 24/7
I don’t know about OP, but I tend to close my eyes when I sleep
- Comment on Why console makers can legally brick your game console 1 week ago:
Assuming this article is talking about the USA? This doesn’t sound like the kind of thing that would fly anywhere with half-decent consumer protection laws.
- Comment on Shats 1 week ago:
It’s real!?
- Comment on Interview: My Q&A with Gardiner Bryant 2 weeks ago:
Thank you for doing the hard work!
- Comment on $80 for Borderlands 4 too costly? Randy Pitchford says, "If you're a real fan, you'll find a way to make it happen" 2 weeks ago:
You can still (for the moment) be patient with Nintendo games if you’re OK buying second hand
- Comment on Interview: My Q&A with Gardiner Bryant 2 weeks ago:
I clicked on this because I’ve enjoyed your previous articles, despite not having heard of Gardiner before. Maybe it’s just the kind interests we Lemmy users have, but he’s ticking every box for the kind of thing I like to read!
- Comment on Lemmy needs AI. 2 weeks ago:
Blockchain? Get with the times grandpa!
- Comment on Nintendo Announces Free Switch 1 Games Upgrades for Switch 2 2 weeks ago:
It runs fine on my WiiU!
- Comment on Tekken 8 lead has been trying to contact Waffle House for a collaboration for the past year - to no avail 2 weeks ago:
Ah, so the American equivalent of a kebab shop then?
- Comment on Nearly 5 years in, PS5 sales remain neck-and-neck with PS4 | VGC 3 weeks ago:
The best time to buy a console is just after its sequel is released, lots of people upgrading and selling their old one with all the games and controllers
- Comment on Top 10 PC exclusive platformers -- not available on console. 3 weeks ago:
You can view my unedited comment on my instance
- Comment on Top 10 PC exclusive platformers -- not available on console. 3 weeks ago:
Absolutely loved Jazz Jackrabbit (2 specifically), but what the fuck were they thinking calling a character “Spaz”? Apparently the connotations are different in America, but over here that’s a more offensive version of the word “retard”!
- Comment on "I don't know" how much Borderlands 4 will cost, Gearbox boss says, but it had "more than twice the development budget for Borderlands 3" and "it might be" $80 like some Nintendo and Xbox games 3 weeks ago:
That’s a sensible way to buy all video games
- Comment on Would you like to see a mainline Pokemon game created in the old style? 3 weeks ago:
Not to blow my own trumpet, but I was able to memorise basic type relationships as a small child!
That is a summing-up of the criticism that I’ve seen a few times though: they refuse to accept that their players grow up and only ever aim the games at youngsters, difficulty-wise.
- Comment on Rightwing populists will keep winning until we grasp this truth about human nature 3 weeks ago:
The bait points to this:
I believe part of the answer lies in a fundamental aspect of our humanity: the urge to destroy that from which you feel excluded.
- Comment on CD Projekt exec says "the right thing to do" is release a real Nintendo Switch 2 cartridge for Cyberpunk 2077, not a game-key card, in message to other studios: "Do not underestimate the physical edit 3 weeks ago:
They gave the Heroic Launcher devs an affiliate link, so while they don’t really support Linux they at least approve of it
- Comment on Would you like to see a mainline Pokemon game created in the old style? 4 weeks ago:
I remember that being the “feature” which really highlighted the dumbing-down of the game. Work things out for yourself? Look them up? Remember what you’ve learned? No, we’ve solved the puzzle for you, don’t worry.
- Comment on All of this month's 'free' games with Prime Gaming 4 weeks ago:
As with all offers like this Amazon are hoping that it causes people who weren’t subscribed before to stat paying them regularly, and posts like this are kind of giving them free advertising.
It’s similar to recommending something like reward credit cards (where you can make money off them as long as you pay them off in full and never pay any interest), if you’re sensible enough with your money then you can get a freebie but the provider is looking to profit off you messing up or forgetting.
- Comment on Polygon Has Been Sold With Mass Layoffs Hitting The Outlet 4 weeks ago:
Isn’t that how most businesses work? If a small company gets successful enough to be big but not so successful that they become the market leader then a big company buys them for their customer base.
- Comment on All of this month's 'free' games with Prime Gaming 4 weeks ago:
As I post whenever someone complains about them not being free in !freegames@feddit.uk: you can sign up for a free trial of prime, claim the thirty or so games currently available, cancel, and keep all the games forever without having to give a penny to Amazon.
- Comment on Do you think Square Enix should remake other Final Fantasy entries? 5 weeks ago:
I don’t think anyone’s claiming it’s difficult, it’s just more of a risk. If you’re the investor calling the shots with your big bag of money do you choose a new idea which might be great but people might not like, or to rehash an existing idea that already has fans who will buy more of the same? The decision is entirely financial.
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #13 5 weeks ago:
So…dev stumbles, fans harass, and the project is dead.
Goodbye Winlator…for now?
Ugh, another amazing one-person project killed by harassment. The internet makes it so trivial to bombard someone with hate-mail, and I doubt many of us have been through the “media training” necessary to deal with it. I only have the tiniest of projects going and if the people I thought I was making a nice thing for suddenly turned on me then I think I’d be saying “fuck it then” too.
- Comment on Reminder if you're leaving Discord for this Revolt server ( Linux + Steam Deck devs / creators) 5 weeks ago:
You can do a call in a group chat, right?
- Comment on Unannounced Blade Runner Game Canceled At Supermassive 5 weeks ago:
I guess it depends on how big the company is, if they have a long-standing team and work on multiple projects or if they’re mainly contractors brought in for one big project. I’d hope a company like Supergiant have enough other projects going on that nobody’s losing their job over this.
- Comment on Unannounced Blade Runner Game Canceled At Supermassive 5 weeks ago:
Why would they fire the team instead of just moving everyone to other projects? Aren’t the tales you hear about projects being canned and the whole team made redundant specifically due to not having the money to do the project or because some new bigwig is trying to cut costs?
- Comment on Nintendo lawyers want to force Discord to reveal Pokémon Teraleak source 1 month ago:
Maybe this will finally make people realise that using an unencrypted corpo-controlled messenger for all of their communications is a bad idea
- Comment on Doom (2016) now DRM free on GOG 1 month ago:
Are you accessing it not from a UK IP? Always defaults to GBP for me.
- Comment on Space Chef (in development), a space exploration/hunting x restaurant management game hybrid, releases demo on Steam. 1 month ago:
Ah space exploration/hunting x restaurant management game hybrid, second only to hell city-builder/management game x evil god game hybrid as my favourite genre of game