Katana314

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[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 11 points 8 hours ago

I’ve been saying this!…

If you miss Blockbuster, visit your library. Most have an A/V section now. They don’t advertise much. But it’s basically the same experience of renting movies; just without paying.

Currently watching The Boy with the Striped Pajamas, a classic I never watched…using my PlayStation 5, lol.

[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 5 points 9 hours ago

Munitions stores are now stocking bullets forged from Enlightened Bothsidesism.

[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Let’s walk back and compare to a social cause that I think most people agree on.

Police violence is a problem. It’s a problem for all races, but black people have been disproportionately targeted for a long time, and are in all forms at greater risk. So, it’s fair to organize social movements around supporting that demographic to show they’re recognized and they matter; Black Lives Matter.

Male social isolation is also a problem. It’s been a problem for everyone, and loneliness affects all genders under modern social technological trends; but men are overwhelmingly gathering to movements that target their demographic and give them a sense of identity association. (Women and trans communities also gather to their exclusive groups to help identify their unique problems). Even if you don’t agree men are really victims, they can be warped into becoming perpetrators, creating more victims, if their mental health needs are not addressed.

And so, it’s fair to organize social movements around supporting that demographic to show they’re recognized and they matter; Men’s mental health matters. This of course does not need to detract from any other social causes happening.

[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

I actually agree that Democrats need more media to capture the groups of Young Men, and Boundless Anger.

The first one, quite honestly, needs to answer in some ways the questions of “How do I get a girl, and what’s my place in life.”

The second one is harder when your goal is not to inflame it further. But ideally, someone should at least be reflecting that anger, even if they help diminish it. The formal, rehearsed, college speeches of Democratic senators is politician-speak that doesn’t appeal to anyone frustrated at the country.

[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

The Geforce app used for drivers, and the app to connect to Geforce Now, are installed separately. In fact, you'd likely install the latter on weak devices that don't even have an NVidia GPU.

[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Yup. You log in to something like Steam or UPlay, and it lets you play games you have on your account. It’s only their supported list sadly.

The service is fast enough I’ve been able to play mouse-based shooters. Latency is not perfect, but home monitors and input devices sometimes have comparable imperfectness.

[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

So far as I can think, wasn't the only handheld that failed the Playstation Vita? And that had very visible reasons for the failure - designing itself around an obtuse storage medium, and requiring first-party memory cards. Even with those drawbacks and with no first-party support, it had a tremendous following.

It honestly could still be a worthwhile device to chain off of, since none of the current offerings fit in a pants pocket.

[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (5 children)

For those who don’t know, GeForce Now is a cloud option when you don’t have access to a strong PC to run a game. Back when Cyberpunk 2077 was unattainable for many, my advice to some was to run it through GeForce Now.

Interestingly, they also have “day passes”, making it practical for when you are out spending most of a day away from a gaming computer. Save files still synchronize to local games when you’re back.

[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I’m guessing this is basically how the Xbox works already.

[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I’d really rather gamers focused their energy into showing support for the developer groups making cool projects, than specifically deriding any works made under publishers they dislike.

Once every few years, EA and Ubisoft produce something that’s really cool; and much as we’d rather the publishers were replaced with better ones, at the least we can be happy that developers got to put out one or two good games through them.

[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

Every JRPG gives me that moment when I have a perfect pattern worked out with 4 members, and then I get an extra “cool guy” in the group. I can’t figure out what role he fits in, so I never use him.

[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 26 points 6 days ago (4 children)

It will be very funny if Microsoft releases their handheld, and is instantly better with Linux.

 

Many of us only view a game's release in passing, and view it as an "event". Groundhog Smasher came out, it failed, and we don't hear of it again. Additionally, many of us associate "online" games with being "live service" - expecting the developers to announce a new skin, battle pass, game mechanic, or character every other week.

But some online games are just purely enjoyable, or get enough unremarkable patches, or sometimes don't even need a high playercount, to be enjoyed for years after the developers stopped emitting news.

This subject also gets confusing with cross-play games; even if one game has hardly anyone in its Steam playercount, sometimes between Playstation and Xbox there's just enough left to garner a following.

Which games do you play, or know about, that most people would've thought to be completely closed down, or at least had totally forgotten about?

 

Given how little libraries advertise, this is something that I found recently. Like many, I missed being able to easily/quickly rent games via Blockbuster. But, it turns out many librarians keep up with modern preferences and keep quite a few games for checkout. Even when the one closest library doesn't have something I want, it's often available in the others on the network.

Especially as Nintendo lifts their prices to $80, this may be something to seriously consider for people that have felt burned just two days into playing a game that isn't as fun as it looked in trailers.

 

We habitually spend a lot of time in daily routines, and we hear about cool stuff from the same sources. As such, we tend to lack awareness of things that don't have the capability to advertise broadly. So, what's something you expect many people don't hear about or consider for use in their life?

 
 

The 50 States, 50 Protests, One Movement initiative is running its next event combined with Indivisible, Swing Blue, and Women's March on April 5th. More at https://www.mass50501.com/

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