absquatulate
@absquatulate@lemmy.world
- Comment on I analyzed my first 30 years of gaming and the 400 games I played 1 week ago:
Yea l, figured the same. It’s just name, year, status, platform and kit type/size for now. Not like I can recall when I finished Kohan or whatever obscure 20th century game anyway.
- Comment on I analyzed my first 30 years of gaming and the 400 games I played 1 week ago:
Ooh, a fellow listmaker. I’ve started compiling a “past three decade” list as well, mostly for keeping a game kit inventory, but your tracking is way more dilligent. I’ve starte only last year and have been going from memory and old kits and you can imagine how that’s going. Tried a few online tools but none are actually satisfactory for stat purposes, so it’s still in spreadsheet form.
Anyway thank you for the great read, it’s fun to compare and contrast with someone else’s opinions on a couple hundred games.
- Comment on 'Peak Rockstar Arrogance' — GTA 6 Fans Aren't Thrilled With Netflix's Paywalled Extended Look at the Game 2 weeks ago:
…but they will still buy it.
- Comment on Midnight Moments is a cyberpunk diorama builder for the neon sign and drizzly rain lovers 3 weeks ago:
Longshot: playing Anno 2070 with the Eden Initiative
- Comment on "Our business did not grow with our audience": post-layoffs, Xbox execs are trying to sell a gaming division bounce back by summer 2027 3 weeks ago:
Yea I tried to argue against this when she was hired, but holy hell after the past month this reeks of glass cliff. I’d wager by 2028 xbox will be done for. Shame they’re taking so many good names down with them.
- Comment on Krafton have big plans for Subnautica, after the second game's once-divisive co-op "confirmed the potential to expand beyond the existing fan base" 3 weeks ago:
Oh god, here comes the Subnautica 3 roguelite soulslike extraction shooter with a battle royale mode! Can’t wait!
- Comment on Palworld Hits Nearly 1 Million Concurrent Players 10 Days After 1.0 Launch 4 weeks ago:
Gave it a try for a couple of hours to see what the fuss is about. It’s not bad, like a cross between survial crafting/ pokemon game / animal crossing, but very casual and dad-friendly. Haven’t seen many bugs but there’s some jank here and there. I’m not really seeing it have a lot of staying power, but that might just be me not being familiar with pokemon games.
- Comment on Oh no, that's Lenovo saying they think these RAM prices will be the new normal and may never go back to how they were 1 month ago:
He’s probably right. Inflation will likely catch up and the prices won’t go down in any significant manner. We ran into this years before the RAMpocalypse, while searching for a sub-200€ GPU, or trying to build a sub-500€ entry level gaming pc.
- Comment on Expect RAM prices to stay high with Micron locking in deals for 5 years 1 month ago:
Don’t think anybody expected micron to return to the consumer market once they got on the gravy train. What I wonder is whether they’re like nvidia now, actually producing, shipping and getting paid, or are those SCAs just promises and more IOUs? Because just reading “micron exponential growth” everywhere does not inspire confidence.
- Comment on "We made a series of mistakes": GOG apologise for emailing Nazi symbols to people in newsletter about Slavic fantasy game 2 months ago:
I’m not from the US, but yes, I recognize the symbols. It’s just that I don’t put too much stock in an marketing email. Maybe I’m completely desensitized due to all the discount spam we get, but it could just as well have been the announcement of a new wolfenstein game or smth ( not sure what’s in it, haven’t read it ).
- Comment on "We made a series of mistakes": GOG apologise for emailing Nazi symbols to people in newsletter about Slavic fantasy game 2 months ago:
I dunno man, I haven’t noticed the nazi SS thing until it blew up on lemmy. I just kinda glazed over the title, figured the symbols had smth to do with a new advertised game and into the bin it went. My money’s on an edgy/nazi employee or an attempt at a joke in very bad taste.
- Comment on Fable Gets Delayed Once More Potentially To Avoid GTA VI Eating its Lunch 2 months ago:
They’re not even on the same platform, wtf
- Comment on Star Citizen crowdfunding reaches $1 billion, gaining the last $100 million in six months 2 months ago:
Mildly related: it feels like eurogamer has really stepped up their ragebait game. I’ve been subscribed to their rss for years and lately it’s just ragebait after clickbait after community drama. What happened eurogamer? Who bought you?
- Comment on Former Microsoft VP says Microsoft missed the AI wave like the internet and mobile, as Copilot scales back in Windows 11 2 months ago:
“People didn’t dig our chatbots. Ut must ve because we’ve fallen behind”
The level of delusion, I swear
- Comment on Star Wars: X-Wing and MechWarrior veterans release In The Black, a "serious" space combat sim with Newtonian physics 3 months ago:
I swear, that description fits Elite Dangerous too
- Comment on Civilization 8 could be a proper early access game - "never say never", comment Firaxis 6 months ago:
One of the major changes with Civilization VI was that Firaxis had access to lot more player telemetry, compared to Civilisation V, rather than monitoring the feedback on Reddit and fansites like CivFanatics. Amongst other things, they discovered that most players don’t finish a single game, which is part of the reason for Civ 7’s more broken-up, modular historical progression.
So they used all that user data to change the future game to appeal to the lowest common denominator, as it were. And it resulted in the most controversial civ of recent years. And their plan for the future? Continue like this, of course - only now they’re considering formalizing this approach with an official EA label. God I hate the gaming landscape these days
- Comment on Steam Machine price leak suggests it will cost as much as an iPhone 7 months ago:
Is this Valve’s way of gauging the market? Cause it sure feels like it
- Comment on "I really get the feeling that Planet Centauri is cursed", says dev of a game that's now been Steamrolled by Valve twice 8 months ago:
Never heard of this game but it looks like a near identical Starbound clone.
- Comment on Facial recognition vans to be rolled out across police forces in England 1 year ago:
For children’s safety, right?
- Comment on As literally everything gets more and more expensive, Everspace 2's devs say screw it, let's make our upcoming DLC cheaper 1 year ago:
Ooh, I’m getting this. Everspace 2 was a great game and in my mind a true spiritual succesor to Freelancer.
- Comment on As literally everything gets more and more expensive, Everspace 2's devs say screw it, let's make our upcoming DLC cheaper 1 year ago:
Yes, I’m sure they’re the first and this is totally not a paid article.
- Comment on Thunderbird e-mail client will soon stop supporting older Windows and macOS releases 1 year ago:
Just a bit of reading between the lines
the Thunderbird team has decided to take a different approach
and
The MZLA team is working to essentially rebuild the software from scratch, featuring a new interface and support for modern email capabilities.
I may be over-reading though.
- Comment on Thunderbird e-mail client will soon stop supporting older Windows and macOS releases 1 year ago:
Oh god. They’re gonna stuff it with AI aren’t they?
- Comment on Nvidia’s AI NPCs will debut in a multiplayer mech battle game next year 1 year ago:
If they really wanted to emphasize its talking ability one would think they’d use a dialog-heavy RPG or smth, not a multiplayer battle game where existing AI can already bark 2-3 word orders at you pretty coherently. I doubt this will be particularly revolutionary.