Glide @ Glide @lemmy.ca

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You heard it here first, ladies: the left knows how to eat pussy. You're welcome.

I mean, this just isn't true, though. You're not wrong in pointing out that the scope of sales has changed, but so has the scope of development, as well as consumer expectation. I suspect if you compare the number of man hours spent on a title today vs an NES game, it's not even a comparable discussion. And then there's the matter of post-release support.

To be clear, I don't think a $30 price hike for physical copies is at all sensible, but the arguments being presented both for and against it are incredibly poorly thought out. Everyone presents a single facet of videogame development today compared to years ago and then acts like it's a "gotcha" that proves their point. The entire ecosystem of game development and consumption has changed so drastically, that any discussion comparing the adjusted for inflation price of games then vs now is just pointless. Art and entertainment are art and entertainment, and it's impossible to create a de-facto value statement for them, because consumer subjectivity, bias, and valuation is too wide to make objective statements about.

Imo, the real criticism of the matter is that +50% cost during a time of economic upheaval, when the buying power of the middle class is approaching the weakest it's been in a long time, is going to be received poorly, and probably result in a loss of Western sales. It's a massive leap, in a single generation, at the worst possible time, regardless of what inflation adjustments tell us.

While I am not okay with the game price hike, you're comparing genuine dog shit to actual good games. It's like asking why anyone would ever order a steak when they can just go to McDonald's. Sure they're both food, but they're not really comprable.

That said, I am not trying to justify Nintendo's pricing. They're asking for too much of a leap (+50%!!!) in too short of a time frame. But this meme is a bad argument.

Every time I tell myself I am not buying a Switch 2 because the games are too damn expensive and I already own a Legion Go for hand-held gaming, I remember that Kirby Air Riders will exist and I become the angry, arms crossed "WELL, FINE!" guy.

That said, City Trial mode or I riot.

Huh, colour me surprised. Here I thought right-wing money had bought up any journalism trying to sell itself as "independant."

Either way, the headline is right: we shouldn't count him or the CPCs ability to garner support through spreading fear, hate or misinformation as "out." It's important that we continue to view him as a legitimate threat to free speech, and potentially even Canadian soverignty, right up until elections close.

confounds the world

No it fucking doesn't. The rest of the world is not confused or shocked to see this.

Don't let American media convince you this was a fucking surprise.

You know, it seems like there are a lot of voters out there genuinely shocked that tariffs make things more expensive for the country that imposes them...

r/onguardforthee is the real Canadian Subreddit. Obligatory fuck Reddit, but fuck r/canada twice as hard.

TEAM K UCKY

I think someone was having a laugh picking a picture to use.

Oh I don't have any performance issues. My 3070ti has no issue holding 120 fps (with frame Gen on, mind you). Game plays perfectly.

And I'd be more forgiving of the "15 hour long free game," but it ate a part of the game I enjoy, made playing that part of the game with friends challenging to the point of feeling not worth it, and it's required before I am allowed to enjoy the game I actually paid for. Those 15 hours - well, 12 for me - were more valuable to me than the price I paid for the game. 15 hours of work is well into the several hundreds of dollars space. But I already paid over $100 CAD once taxes were in. Why do I also have to give it my time?

Again, great game, but worst on-boot Monster Hunter to date. And that's saying something, considering World doesn't let you hold a weapon for the first hour.

Genuinely couldn't stand how on-rails it is. Why advertise this wide open world and then constantly restrict and limit my options to interact with it?

There's lots of positive things to say about it. The combat is, yes, perhaps more satisfying than ever. They really nailed the Monster/weapons/armor designs this time around. I feel like there's value in gathering again, something that recent titles have lost.

But it's all stained by the low-rank experience. Spending 10-12 hours behing hand-held through a series of walk and talks where I am constantly prompted to stare at the beautiful landscape piece, or the way small monsters interact, as though the game is afraid I'll miss it if I am left to my own devices, was both boring and insulting. There was a lot of decisions made to put cinematography ahead of gameplay experience here, and these decisions have genuinely made Wilds my least favorite release Monster Hunter title to date.

Convinience. I'm a gamer first and foremost, and more of a hardware person than a software person at that. I have a friend who games on Linux and I've seen the fights he sometimes goes through to make things run. Sometimes it's great, and it's awesome, and others... Well, we'll lose a night or two before finally getting in, or deciding it ultimately won't work.

I know there are distros to ease these problems, improve capatibility, etc., but when compared to Win10, which I am comfortable on and understand, it's just easier to stick.

That said, I have my limits, and a forced Microsoft account is a hard no-go for me.

As an aside, if you have any distros that you think would allieviate/solve my issues, feel free to link.

We might be on the last version of Windows that I am willing to run.

"No, you don't understand, if you just don't think about the consequences of the things you say or do, this is really funny!"

You should genuinely be embarrassed to post this kind of stuff.

Ah yes, nothing like a little chauvinism to start my day. Women should be seen, not heard, amirite guys?

/s just in case.

To be fair, if you look at it from the perspective of a narcissist who has never been told "no" his entire life, it makes perfect sense.

Ah yes, blame the victims, that's sure to solve the problem. I suppose I should also blame the people who live in the building that was dropped for boarding with a terrorist? I mean they can just choose to be somewhere else, right?

Fuck off.

No one should be surprised. We've seen who these people are time and time again. But we shouldn't be so desensitized to moral bankruptcy that we completely overlook such a disgusting disregard for human life.

I just think, especially when we're pulling the trigger ourselves, we should be sad, maybe disappointed, that it's come to that. Bad people are still people, and while I believe they throw away their right to life when they start indescriminately revoking it from others, I don't ever want to find myself happy to take life. I'll be happy later, in the better world that's been created.