Khrux
@Khrux@ttrpg.network
- Comment on GEEKDeck Is A SteamDeck For Your Living Room 2 weeks ago:
Microsoft has absolutely been preparing for the end of traditional consoles more or less since the flop of the Xbox One. Their entire push a few years back to make “Everything Xbox” was a bit mistimed and disloyal to their console war cultists but they’re right that it’s the natural end point.
I think we’ll probably see streaming games from their servers reoccur in popularity pretty soon, as much as I’m not a fan of it, because it’s the total end point for non tech savvy consumers, they just pay a subscription, get a controller which can connect to the TV or phone and download an app, no hardware required. Meanwhile every consumer who is resisting the death of tech literacy (everyone else), is going in this direction. The physical console will reduce in popularity year by year as it fills a niche that nobody needs anymore.
That being said, the popularity of the switch and steam deck interests me, because it’s a third direction away from traditional consoles that I’d not have predicted.
- Comment on Spotify says it's fixing the bug that caused Premium users to hear ads 4 months ago:
Someone in my work had this happen to them, but it was the “sick of ads? Pay for premium” advent.
It could still be part of a deliberate action but that must be the worst advert to try to sneak ads in.
- Comment on Alec Baldwin indicted for involuntary manslaughter in fatal gunfire on film set 1 year ago:
If you follow every procedure you believe you’re supposed to be as part of your job, doing something you’ve probably done before and is standard in your industry, but someone else has done something that they shouldn’t have that made that action deadly, you literally have no accountability.
The armourer illegally left that gun loaded, nobody else is to blame. It’s like arresting the waiter at a restaurant for serving food that was improperly missing a nut allergy when the chef made that mistake.
- Comment on GTA 6 is likely to skip PC again and only launching on current gen consoles 1 year ago:
With GTAV, the original release was 2013, the next gen was 2014 and PC 2015 so I forsee it being the same and being even later.
The upside was that the PC port was really good at release and I’m pretty indifferent to if I pick this game up in 2030 when it’s actually a good value on PC.
- Comment on Star Citizen Just Had its Biggest Crowdfunding Day Ever With $3.5 Million in 24 Hours 1 year ago:
I paid for star citizen a decade ago and honestly enjoyed it enough for about 2 days. It always felt exciting to see how ahead they were of early Xbox 1 / PS4 games in their scope with volumetric effects etc.
The trouble is, 90% of their innovative content has been long overtook by general game progression, they’re making a game that could have probably launched with the PS5 and been innovative and are already falling behind there. I genuinely believe that they were Innovating their game slowly over time and there were amazing things in the works, but they missed the moment that it was exciting and new by so many years.