alphabethunter

joined 3 months ago

That part of the support email almost made me puke of how fucking awful it was. "Why complain about ads when you get YouTube Music for free by paying us money"

[–] alphabethunter@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

I really wish I could stop using shit google stuff for work...

[–] alphabethunter@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

You forgot your /s there, friend. Be careful with the Internet these days, reading comprehension is a hard to find skill in this age.

[–] alphabethunter@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I once made this argument to a game dev community on Reddit and was called crazy for it. There are games where I literally have to remove my headsets when they open. Devs that make games for pc should understand that pc users don't just use their pc to play games, but also for other things. So volume control is obviously tied to each individual app/program.

I would like it if all games launched a simplified settings menu first thing after you open them up, before any cutscenes or intros.

[–] alphabethunter@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I haven't played it yet, still unsure if I will, but everything I've seen of it is nudging me towards not playing it. The dialogues I've watched were poorly written, cutscenes were okay at best, and the new companions seemed all to be obnoxious teenagers.

To me, Dragon Age Origins is the only game in the franchise that's worth playing. The Warden is your character as the player, and that, to me, is the hallmark of a good rpg. None of the other Dragon Age games put as much effort into allowing you to choose and make your own character. The fact that DA:O had entirely different intros, that were both long, well written, and nuanced, based on your combination of class + race was the thing that sold me into that game. Hawke is not your character, but a character they wanted you to play for a reason, but I'll give it a pass since the idea of Hawke's story was fairly good, just not as well implemented (DA2 should have been a spin off and not part of the main series). The Inquisitor is even worse, it could have been your character, but it's some weird generic character that's there just to perform a function in the world. I've played most of DA2, but only a couple of hours of Inquisition, and it was enough to know that both those games fell short of Origins, and this one is looking even worse.

An RPG needs excellent writing above all else. Good gameplay comes as a close second, but it should be mostly about allowing players to forge their own path and have their own interpretations of the world. RPGs need nuance and subtlety, you can't just constantly regurgitate something to someone's face and expect them not to be annoyed by it.

[–] alphabethunter@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That'd be cool, but compatibility is a huge issue. I've looked into buying one, and there's no model available for my device.

[–] alphabethunter@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I couldn't quite understand why people were memeing on Zen 5. It's 5% performance increase while at much lower TDP, what is there not to like? Efficiency is plenty important. And even if we could see a 20% performance increase while using more power, is that worth it? What are the true benefits of a 20% faster CPU when considering pure gaming while we are already at the top of the spec sheet? The games where the difference would be a massive number of FPS are those like CS2 where you would go from 600 to 720 fps, does that truly matter? I like my pcs running as efficient as possible, that way I know they'll last longer.

[–] alphabethunter@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Great! Now bring back phones with physical QWERTY keyboards.

[–] alphabethunter@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

Because a lot of times other people will share things whenever there's enough controversy? Often things will also show up on the news? Not that uncommon for things on twitter to show up outside twitter?

[–] alphabethunter@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

My pc auto-upgraded because I donwloaded what I thought was just a regular update. I've been using 11 for like a year already, and it's fine. Install powertoys, run christitus utility... The one thing that really bothered me for a while was not having as granular of a control of my taskbar, but that only lasted for like two weeks.

[–] alphabethunter@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Same! I probably will be replaced just as all the other "meat sacks", but I hope to at least be given a degree of dignity upon my inevitable demise.

[–] alphabethunter@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I think of this anytime I see some alleged leftist on Twitter talking about anything as if they were paragons of ethics and morality. It might be a bit of cynicism on my part, but I can't take it seriously whenever someone can't take a hint that maybe they shouldn't be in a platform owned by a Billionaire that makes a point in basing his personality on the fact that he is an imperialist bigot. I wish Twitter had stayed banned in my country...

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