• matcha_addict@lemy.lol
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    8 months ago

    Reminder that paying Nintendo money is morally wrong and should be avoided when possible. Buy the consoles, sure, but pirate if you have to play the games.

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      8 months ago

      It’s the other way around imo. I don’t want to pay hundreds of euros for a console (which is still just a computer) that is slower than my phone just because Nintendo puts artificial restrictions on what hardware the software they make can run on. I already have a PC that could run those games perfectly fine. Or rather, it can run those games perfectly fine, way better than a Switch actually. Unfortunately, the only way for me to play those games on my PC, without having to buy a console I don’t need, is to pirate them.

      So basically, I can either pirate the games for free to play them on my PC or I pay for a console for no other reason but to get the privilege of being able to pay for the games.

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        Same here. I’m not gonna pay lots of money for a locked down piece of hardware that makes me pay indefinitely to play online and could take away my purchased games at a moment’s notice.

        I still occasionally buy physical switch games to play on my sibling’s switch. I buy physical because there’s a resale value to the game. I feel like I actually own a copy of the game.

        Anyways, I have a big Steam backlog that I’ll never get to because of 1) Factorio, 2) A personal game I’m programming in HTML/CSS/JS, and 3) riding my motorcycle.

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          8 months ago

          Factorio is the closest thing we have to time travel. Start the game and suddenly it’s 5 hours later and there’s still that one part you could optimize. I fucking love this game.

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            I have 600h in the game. 80h in my first game, 260h in my bad attempt at a megabase, 25h in a 100% achievements world, and a few random maps. I haven’t even tried doing a deathworld yet.

            Then once you think you are done, then there are the mods. I have 123h in one overhaul modpack, enough to technically beat it but not truly scale up. There are several other similar scale modpacks, and there exists a certain hardcore modpack that people say takes 1000h or more to beat.

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      8 months ago

      This is a hot take if I’ve ever seen one. I may disagree with this particular action but supporting companies that make games I want to play and are demonstrably fun is never morally wrong.

      The world is more complex than that.

      • Omegamint [comrade/them, doe/deer]@hexbear.net
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        Very easy if it was an earlier model, although I’ve seen some of the newer modchips make soldering about as simplified as possible (but still kinda hard, it’s a tiny board to be fiddling with). I literally hacked my current switch with some aluminum foil and tape (my jig broke, I guess), and besides all that all you need is a decent microsd card and the willingness to follow directions

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      8 months ago

      Reminder that paying money is morally wrong and should be avoided when possible. Steal the consoles and pirate if you have to play the games.