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- Comment on Microsoft closes the door on Windows 11 supporting older hardware 2 weeks ago:
In this global consumer society? More likely consumers and enterprises just toss their perfectly good but incompatible devices in a landfill and buy new minimum spec devices, because buy buy buy is all that matters. Repeat in a year or two when Windows 12 comes out and ups the hardware requirement again.
- Comment on David Zaslav says Trump will fuel big media mergers 1 month ago:
I look forward to paying $1000/Mo for my HBO-Tube-Warner-Discovercast-NetPrime Plus Premium membership because the shorter mandatory ads are a great deal over the $950/mo Sony-patent ad-supported version.
- Comment on Trump plans to dismantle Biden AI safeguards after victory 1 month ago:
What safeguards? Biden’s order was just that they had to report what they were doing. He didn’t restrict anything.
What the AI market is really going to feel is if Trump’s proposed tariffs affect the prices of all those chips they need to feed their models.
- Comment on Sony is trying to patent a 'universal' rewind button that could fix your worst gaming catastrophes 1 month ago:
Fuck no, it’ll barely work with any game, just like most of the new features they promote any time they announce a new console.
Every other game today is live service online only garbage which means they wouldn’t allow rewinds given the server-side dependencies that wouldn’t work with it, and games from other developers would probably support the feature for 2 launch titles before everyone stops caring about it because it’s extra work and no one uses it anyways.
- Comment on Nintendo, famed for hating emulation, likely using Windows PCs to emulate SNES games at its museum 2 months ago:
A bit of a dumb title, Nintendo does develop their own emulators to help port content onto newer systems and that’s been known for some time.
Virtual Console is an emulator, or rather a series of self-contained emulators that individual games are packaged in. The NES and SNES Mini consoles use emulators to run their games. Hell, even the original Animal Crossing came with its own NES emulator to run playable versions of Nintendo titles you could get as furniture.
It’s not “emulators” they have a problem with, it’s third-party emulators that supposedly infringe on Nintendo code/IP and the distribution of ROMs, but whether those grievances are legitimate or not is a separate topic entirely.
- Comment on The Steam Families logo is clearly a Rorschach test, so what do you see? 3 months ago:
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- Comment on Exographer is a metroidvania inspired by real science - will be fully Steam Deck playable 3 months ago:
But is there real dragon science?
- Comment on Telecom will pay $1 million over deepfake Joe Biden robocall 3 months ago:
“Oh no, now we’ll have to cut some (non-executive) bonuses this year and skip a few pizza parties, the horror.”
- Comment on PUBG owner Krafton have acquired Tango Gameworks and the Hi-Fi Rush IP 4 months ago:
I’d rather the developers keep their jobs and the IP doesn’t go to waste but that’s just me.
- Comment on PUBG owner Krafton have acquired Tango Gameworks and the Hi-Fi Rush IP 4 months ago:
I don’t know anything about this publisher, but Tango Gameworks was already being closed by Microsoft so they were effectively already dead until this deal was made.
- Comment on Max Caulfield returns in Life is Strange: Double Exposure 6 months ago:
If you wanna play them all, I’d just go release order:
- Life is Strange
- Life is Strange: Before the Storm
- Life is Strange 2
- Life is Strange: True Colors
- Life is Strange: Double Exposure
Life is Strange 2 and True Colors are essentially standalone titles, you can do either of those at any time. There are minor characters from LiS 1 in LiS 2, and there is 1 major character from Before the Storm in True Colors, but knowledge of those characters’ backstories in the other games isn’t critical to knowing what is going on in those respective titles at all.
If you want just the Max and Chloe story, you can play LiS 1 and then Before the Storm, and apparently Double Exposure once that comes out.
- Comment on Max Caulfield returns in Life is Strange: Double Exposure 6 months ago:
Not sure how I feel about Max coming back. I feel like Life is Strange works better as an anthology series. Before the Storm was a nice expansion of the first game, but now the series consists of 3 directly linked titles and only 2 standalone ones.
Not to mention the confusion of it now for new players getting into the series.
“Okay, so start with just Life is Strange, right?”
“Yeah”
“And then after that is Life is Strange 2?”
“No, then there’s Before the Storm”
“That’s the sequel?”
“No it’s a prequel, but it kinda spoils the main twist of the first game if you play it first, so you should do it second.”
“Okay got it, so then after that is Life is Strange 2?”
“Depends on if you want to play release order or if you want to stick with the Max and Chloe timeline.”
“Wait what’s that supposed to mean?”
“So Double Exposure is the actual sequel to Life is Strange.”
“Wait then what is Life is Strange 2?”
“Oh it’s completely unrelated. You can play it if you want but not if you’re just looking for the Max and Chloe story.”
“Well I kinda want to see what the whole series has in store, so I guess I’ll still give Life is Strange 2 a try.”
“Well, make sure you play Captain Spirit first.”
“What the hell is Captain Spirit?”
“Oh it’s the prequel to Life is Strange 2.”
“Does it spoil the twist of the game?”
“No it’s almost completely unrelated.”
“Oh what the fuck…”
- Comment on Overwatchy FPS Concord gets new trailer and August PC release date with a beta in July 6 months ago:
It’s like Overwatch, only with no personality or draw.
- Comment on Just 66 titles saw 80 percent of all playtime in 2023, most older games like Fortnite or GTA 5 8 months ago:
I’m honestly surprised the number is as high as 66. Knowing that there are a lot of people out there who buy consoles exclusively for 1 or 2 games, the data skews in that direction.
- Comment on Just 66 titles saw 80 percent of all playtime in 2023, most older games like Fortnite or GTA 5 8 months ago:
Maybe my sarcasm wasn’t apparent, apologies.
The core of what I am getting at is I just don’t see what is surprising or noteworthy about this. There are a number of games that people play routinely for years or revisit for extended periods, and there are a handful of big titles people might pick up throughout the year which take up the majority of the remaining time. You can have a lot of people spending significant time on short-form indie games that take 5-15 hours to finish, but they’re inherently going to be statistically irrelevant because the playtime is divided between more titles.
I don’t know, it’s just like writing an article about how most people shop during the busiest hours of the day at stores. “More people play popular games, and some popular games stay popular.” It should be self-evident.
- Comment on Just 66 titles saw 80 percent of all playtime in 2023, most older games like Fortnite or GTA 5 8 months ago:
Were there even 66 titles released last year?
- Comment on Nick Offerman Slams ‘Homophobic Hate’ Against His ‘The Last of Us’ Episode: ‘It’s Not a Gay Story. It’s a Love Story, You A–hole!’ 9 months ago:
I mean I think that’s the point of the episode. Love is love.
I just disagree with the idea that the context doesn’t matter, because heterosexual love and homosexual love were not viewed the same before societal collapse and so it wouldn’t have been liberating in the same way for a hetero couple.
- Comment on Nick Offerman Slams ‘Homophobic Hate’ Against His ‘The Last of Us’ Episode: ‘It’s Not a Gay Story. It’s a Love Story, You A–hole!’ 9 months ago:
there’s nothing in the scenarios that are exclusive to gay couples.
There definitely are. Before the collapse of society, these two characters would not have been allowed to marry in the place where they live. It was only after societal collapse that they were free to be their true selves without discrimination or government oversight to tell them that their love was wrong.
It would not be the same story if it was a hetero couple, and it is dismissive to the unique challenges faced by gay people to suggest it would be.
- Comment on Nick Offerman Slams ‘Homophobic Hate’ Against His ‘The Last of Us’ Episode: ‘It’s Not a Gay Story. It’s a Love Story, You A–hole!’ 9 months ago:
That argument is a bit like the idea of colorblindness when it comes to discussing race, however. It doesn’t do justice to be dismissive of identity in the name of equality because that ignores the different social contexts that are inherent to that identity.
I would say the fact that it is a gay love story is very significant to note for that particular episode given the time period that The Last of Us takes place in. What I mean is: society collapses in summer of 2003 in the Last of Us TV series (10 years earlier than the game). These characters are living in Massachusetts, which is one of the first states to recognize gay marriage, but would not have occurred until late 2003 if society hadn’t collapsed almost overnight earlier that year. Obergefell v. Hodges would be another 12 years off, making widespread legitimacy of gay marriage a distant fantasy.
These two characters, effectively, had to live their entire lives closeted in a broadly homophobic society that would not recognize them. But it was after the collapse of that society that they were at liberty to be their true selves and, as we see, become happier after the apocalypse than they were before.
- Comment on Also, it's over 2 1/2 hours long. 1 year ago:
The Bechdel test is if a movie is able to have two female characters having a conversation with one another about any topic other than a man. A surprising amount of media fails this test.
Björn Ulvaeus is a member of Swedish supergroup ABBA and one of the composers of the ABBA song Waterloo, which is about the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Waterloo.
- Comment on Review: Tales of Arise - Beyond the Dawn Expansion 1 year ago:
Hoping they can get the multiplayer mod fixed after this update. Been playing but by bit with a friend which has been fun, but it’s a travesty we have to rely on a mod because multiplayer wasn’t supported by default like basically every Tales game to come before.
- Comment on De omnibus dubitandum 1 year ago:
Wow, no need for the at person remarks.