KoboldCoterie

KoboldCoterie, 1 day ago

My kid was quite small for his age when he was in little league, and he was awful at baseball - I think he maybe got 2 or 3 hits the entire time he was playing, but because he was so small, he had a really tiny strike zone, and he pretty quickly realized that if he just never swung at anything, he’d get on base every single time. It was kind of funny, in a sad kind of way.

KoboldCoterie, 2 days ago

It seems kind of ridiculous that ongoing legal proceedings don’t pause the statute of limitations for this sort of thing.

KoboldCoterie, 5 days ago

“During World War II, Churchill told the United States, ‘give us the tools, we’ll do the job.’ And I say, give us the tools and we’ll finish the job a lot faster,” Netanyahu said in the video.

Yeah, that’s what we’re afraid of, and exactly why we don’t want to give you the weapons.

KoboldCoterie, 8 days ago

As a millenial, I am 100% on board with skipping right over us, too, and getting a Gen Zer in there. They have the most to lose if the climate crisis continues and therefore I trust them the most to actually push to do something about it. In fact, let’s just fill the entire government with Gen Zers.

KoboldCoterie, 8 days ago

“Why do you seek to deny [the right to an abortion] to other women?” Clark pressed.

“Let me, let me — I don’t, I don’t,” Holtorf replied.

“You have voted to restrict abortion access,” Clark shot back.

“And I have. And I’m a pro-life person. I think you should try to choose life every time. But there are exceptions. And there are times when you need abortion. Abortion is a medical procedure,” declared Holtorf.

There are exceptions, like when it’s inconvenient for the rich and powerful. Other people should (be compelled by law to) choose life every time.

KoboldCoterie, 9 days ago

We had one pandemic, yes…

But what about second pandemic?

KoboldCoterie, 11 days ago

Not what I was expecting!

“What’s in the box?!”

“It’s kittens!”

KoboldCoterie, 14 days ago

This is the first I’ve seen of this game, but… this is definitely not what I expected from a game titled ‘Perfect Dark’. Maybe I just don’t remember the N64 game well enough, but this seems pretty far-removed, from a plot perspective.

KoboldCoterie, 14 days ago

Wasn’t the original Perfect Dark hard sci-fi with aliens and spaceships and things? It’s possible I just don’t remember it well. Either way, this doesn’t look like a bad game at all. Just not what I’d have expected.

KoboldCoterie, 17 days ago

The fact that we have people on minor drug offenses serving years in prison, but these assholes are negotiating when, if ever, they’re going to maybe serve a few-month sentence is such an outrageous failure of the justice system, I feel like there’s really no way to solve any of these issues without just tearing the whole institution down and rebuilding it from the ground up with new, reasonable rules.

KoboldCoterie, 18 days ago

Seriously, I feel like this could all have been replaced by a paper sign…

KoboldCoterie, 19 days ago

Upon first look, I thought this was depicting a very tall forest creature with a pink stomach and very prominent black nipples and green spindly arms standing in the shadows in the background bashfully holding some leaves up in front of its face. I’m sorry.

KoboldCoterie, 20 days ago

Plus as an added bonus we can have the ‘gif’ pronunciation disagreement!

KoboldCoterie, 20 days ago

Just like the good old Jraphics Interchange Format!

KoboldCoterie, 20 days ago

“Hey, can you recommend a good free photoshop alternative?”

“DIE!”

KoboldCoterie, 21 days ago

It’s either that or they eventually plan on charging PC players a monthly fee to play all their Sony games.

That would be hilarious, I’d love to see the backlash if they tried that.

KoboldCoterie, 23 days ago

Silly bunnies are preferable to humans in almost all cases!

KoboldCoterie, 23 days ago

You realize that sales come in varying magnitudes, right? Each individual decides what a game is worth to them, and if that means a 50% sale might have been sufficient for a $60 game, but that it’ll take a 65% sale to make an $80 game worth it, then so be it.

KoboldCoterie, 23 days ago

There’s a fundamental disconnect here and I’m not sure where it is, so let me just explain my position and maybe you can tell me where you’re confused.

Let’s take, for instance, a game which at full price is $40, a game that’s $60, and a game that’s $80.

In all of these cases, let’s assume I have decided that I am willing to pay $20.

In the first case, I will wait for a 50% sale, and buy the game.

In the second case, I will wait for a 66% sale, and buy the game.

In the third case, I will wait for a 75% sale, and buy the game.

If that sale magnitude doesn’t happen, I won’t buy the game. Similarly, if I’ve lost interest in the game by the time that sale magnitude happens, I won’t buy the game.

It’s very simple. Nobody is forcing you to pay $80 for a game, and nobody is forcing you to buy it just because it’s 50% off, if the 50% off price is not low enough that you feel it’s worth your money to buy it. It’s OK to just not ever buy a game.

KoboldCoterie, 22 days ago

If that sale magnitude doesn’t happen, I won’t buy the game.

It’s really not difficult. You don’t have to buy the game. You can just choose not to play it.

KoboldCoterie, 22 days ago

Yes, because you know what? It is a solution, if everyone does it. If they started releasing games at $80, and everyone just said “Nope, sorry!” and refused to pay it, that practice would stop really fast. I have a huge game backlog, and there’s tons of great indie games with $10-$25 price tags that won’t be subject to this bullshit.

What’s your plan to discourage this practice, complain about it on Lemmy and then buy the games anyway? I’m sure that’ll be madly successful.

KoboldCoterie, 22 days ago

I can’t control what anyone else does, but I can control what I do, and I’m right there with the post I’m agreeing with: I’ll wait for a sale, and if that sale never comes, I won’t buy it. There’s no disagreement or contradiction there.

KoboldCoterie, 21 days ago

Do it. If people want to pay high prices for brand new video games, let them pay it. I’ll just do what I’ve always done; wait for a sale.

If you think that’s in favor of paying such prices, and defending the practice, I don’t even know what to say.

KoboldCoterie, 20 days ago

The Coors Light of shooters could probably be cel shaded and be just as fun in 2024 as the next release 9-12 months later. And they could save a lot of overhead costs.

Heck, take these two screenshots as an example:

https://pawb.social/pictrs/image/ac31c3cb-8943-4fb4-85e2-b3eddffde27c.png

https://pawb.social/pictrs/image/0eb5c4c7-5fdd-44e1-850b-78f6d4c8ac43.png

The first is XIII (Gamecube), the second is Metal of Honor: Rising Sun (PS2). Both were released in 2003. I’d definitely say XIII holds up better visually.

KoboldCoterie, 24 days ago

What it actually does in my case is make me forget about the game before it comes to PC, and just not buy or play it. I might be excited about a game now while the hype is fresh but in 6 months, I’ll be excited about other stuff. If anything, I’ll buy it when it’s 75% off on some Steam sale.

KoboldCoterie, 26 days ago

How is that different from the emulators that Nintendo has shut down?

Nintendo alleged Yuzu was “primarily designed to circumvent several layers of Nintendo Switch encryption so its users can play copyrighted Nintendo games", that’s all it took, and isn’t that exactly what this is doing? It just happens to be one single game, rather than a large number of them.

KoboldCoterie, 30 days ago (edited 30 days ago)

I’ve been trying to make the switch for years and just recently decided to bite the bullet when I replaced some hardware, going linux-only. There’s surprisingly few games that don’t work in Linux, even if they require a bit of tinkering to get there. Especially if you play mostly indie games (since DRM and anti-cheat seem to be a big reason for many of the ones that don’t work in Linux). My feeling is that there’s enough games out there (and unplayed ones in my library, even) that if I can’t play a few AAA titles on Linux, I can just use that as a reason to skip them entirely.

Edit: If you’re playing Steam games, you need to check “Enable Steam Play for all other titles” in Settings -> Compatibility. This makes it try to use Proton to play things that it hasn’t verified will work, which works for most things.

For non-Steam games, if you use Lutris, it can largely handle installation including compatibility layers via WINE or whatever else for you. Makes the process very painless.

One of those two use cases apply to about 95% of games I’ve tried, including stuff like old games from GoG (even DOS games that use GoG-supplied compatibility tools run fine, surprisingly).

KoboldCoterie, 1 month ago

This sounds awesome. I enjoyed TW:WH quite a bit; their model works very well for non-historically-accurate settings, and I’d love to see them do more of these.

KoboldCoterie, 1 month ago

His family feared he had been among an estimated 200,000 killed, or as many as 20,000 kidnapped, during the unrest.

It seems they were correct…

KoboldCoterie, 1 month ago

Garland wrote in a separate letter to Biden that the audio recordings of his interview “fall within the scope of executive privilege,” and that giving the recordings to Congress "would raise an unacceptable risk of undermining the Department’s ability to conduct similar high-profile criminal investigations — in particular, investigations where the voluntary cooperation of White House officials is exceedingly important.”

Yeah, I mean, this seems completely reasonable? This doesn’t seem like a scandal so much as shutting down a probable attempt by the GOP to make a big deal out of these audio recordings’ contents regardless of what it is (or isn’t), which would undoubtedly make future subjects of these interviews guard their tongues a lot more.

KoboldCoterie, 1 month ago

“It’s as fun as Marvel Rivals!” could become the new face of apathy and sarcasm.

KoboldCoterie, 1 month ago

That said, I did make about an 800% return by investing (a small amount) in Dogecoin immediately after he tweeted that it was his favorite cryptocurrency that one time. Figured his fan club would pump it, and boy did they. I got it at about $0.05 and sold out at $0.40, believe it peaked at $0.58 or so. Wish I’d wagered more than the $250 I did on it.

KoboldCoterie, 1 month ago

Absolutely. 😄

KoboldCoterie, 1 month ago

Can you maybe provide some links to examples? I haven’t seen any of this.

KoboldCoterie, 1 month ago

Any time I see something like this, I can only assume that the only thing the author knows about liberal ideology is gender politics, and that they think that that’s the entire portfolio, and yet somehow feels strongly enough about gender-related issues that they still spend their time being vocally opposed to it. It’s really kind of baffling.

KoboldCoterie, 1 month ago

I’d like to submit a recommendation for making your own, instead!

https://pawb.social/pictrs/image/42ea51ec-90c1-4af8-bc45-75f22f5dca95.png

KoboldCoterie, 1 month ago

I have been watching the Prince of Persia game, but I would absolutely have glazed right over its release while entranced by Hades II, so yes, I agree with you, it’s a very smart decision on their part.

(Also, can I just say, holy shit is Hades II some good value. It’s basically two games worth of content in one. More than twice the size of Hades I. Utter insanity.)

KoboldCoterie, 1 month ago

I don’t know exactly when 196 became an unofficial furry hotspot, but I’m here for it.

KoboldCoterie, 1 month ago

The percentage of furries that are queer is definitely higher than the total population average; I wonder if the percentage of queer folk who are furries is also similarly higher.

KoboldCoterie, 1 month ago

And here I thought there was some cultural context I was missing, like French people only getting haircuts once a year.

KoboldCoterie, 1 month ago

I find this just so completely impossible to understand. At least with crimes like murder or burglary, I can understand where the motivation came from, but this? What could they possibly gain by doing this, other than the thrill of destroying something beautiful, or the knowledge that they’re making other people sad? How is that at all fulfilling?

I honestly feel that people who get their kicks from this sort of thing just have no place in modern society.

KoboldCoterie, 1 month ago

It’s not a problem of there not being enough homes for everyone, it’s that the vacant homes are not being made available to people who want / need them. There are far more than enough homes. In fact there’s about 26 vacant homes for every homeless person in the US.

KoboldCoterie, 1 month ago

I hope so too, but I also hope that the margin is thin as a wire, and ideally, that voter turnout on both sides sets record lows. And I hope it results in better candidates in the future, and maybe a 3rd and 4th party emerging to fill the voter gaps. I don’t think any of this will happen, but it’d be nice.

KoboldCoterie, 1 month ago

Yeah, so see, this is the problem.

• Low turnout = they don’t need to care about you.
• for them = nothing they’ve done is bad enough to lose your vote, so they might as well keep on doing it.
• Voting for someone else = voting for Trump, even if it’s 3rd party.

Honestly, I’d like to be able to use my vote to take 1 vote away from a candidate. Just count me as -1 for Trump. Let it send the message that I don’t like any candidate enough to vote for them; the only thing I care about is that it isn’t him.

KoboldCoterie, 1 month ago

Much better than Sandra did, to be honest. The crowd was clearly into it and she just spent the whole time looking wholly uncomfortable and seemingly not understanding what was going on.

KoboldCoterie, 2 months ago

For the Emperor! For the Golden Throne!

KoboldCoterie, 2 months ago

“If you didn’t see it, here’s slo-mo…”

Yep, still can’t see it.

KoboldCoterie, 2 months ago

Yeah, in fact I’m really concerned about this, I think they should cover all of the fictional creatures, maybe also martians, better cover animals, too. Every species, list them out. I think Trump should personally oversee this, and fund the research. Just take it out of his campaign fund.