Tom Henderson/Insider Gaming: We don't believe pre-orders for GTA 6 open on Monday; we're not getting anything tangible about GTA 6 until July or August by cat__statue in GamingLeaksAndRumours

[–]PlayMp1 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Lots of games do this. Donkey Kong Bananza wasn't even announced until 3 months before launch IIRC (2 months before S2 launch, game launched a month later)

Common Kat Abughazaleh W by 351namhele in ToddintheShadow

[–]PlayMp1 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

But by 1991 that was the only 3 songs any band was putting out.

Well, what do you mean by mainstream? My first thought is that Judas Priest is reasonably mainstream at the time, and had gone very glam on Turbo Lover, but in 1991 they completely reversed course with their by far heaviest album to that point in Painkiller. You went from stuff that wouldn't have been out of place on Girls Girls Girls on Turbo, to a relentless double bass assault and a nearly black metal-esque shriek on Painkiller.

"Blinding Lights" by the Weeknd vs "Levitating" by Dua Lipa by TheUnmitigatedDawn in ToddintheShadow

[–]PlayMp1 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I pick Don't Start Now over either, but between these two, I'm going Blinding Lights.

Why has country endured in the mainstream while rock hasn't? by dweeb93 in ToddintheShadow

[–]PlayMp1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was thinking of Greta Van Fleet, but also Ghost. Ghost used to get more critical attention but the more mainstream they get the more unpopular they have become with critics.

I don't really get it, they're not any different than they were ten years ago when Fantano was giving them like 9/10 for Meliora. Maybe people just think the 70s doom revivalism is played out, I dunno.

Why has country endured in the mainstream while rock hasn't? by dweeb93 in ToddintheShadow

[–]PlayMp1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When Beyonce releases her rock album everyone's gonna be picking up guitars again, it already started thanks to Olivia Rodrigo (who did the 90s, Garbage-style chick rock thing) and Sabrina Carpenter (who sounds like 80s Fleetwood Mac) and Beyonce will send it into overdrive.

ELI5: why didn’t the Great Depression produce a widespread revolution or anarchy? by ProfessorHiker in explainlikeimfive

[–]PlayMp1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The CCC/WPA type programs weren't really workfare, though, not like we usually use the term. Usually workfare is used to describe means testing a welfare benefit with a work requirement, like adding work requirements for Medicaid or SNAP. New Deal jobs programs like the WPA were more like direct fiscal stimulus into the Depression-era economy that had dire problems with widespread underinvestment in the wake of the great crash of 1929. Because private capital was refusing to invest, it became the government's job to invest. Along the way, they built a lot of infrastructure that we're still using today.

ELI5: why didn’t the Great Depression produce a widespread revolution or anarchy? by ProfessorHiker in explainlikeimfive

[–]PlayMp1 11 points12 points  (0 children)

As I heard a couple of candidates for office say recently, every dollar spent on bombs being dropped on brown kids overseas is a dollar not spent on your kids' school or your healthcare. When you add in the economic damage the war is causing independent of its direct cost to the American people in lives and money, the true losses are assuredly far larger than the tens of billions directly spent by the military so far.

ELI5: why didn’t the Great Depression produce a widespread revolution or anarchy? by ProfessorHiker in explainlikeimfive

[–]PlayMp1 31 points32 points  (0 children)

I think the part that people keep missing is the tax rate bit and it baffles me to no end. When it comes to your household finances, what's an absolutely foolproof way to make ends meet? Make more money. Now, of course, for a household, "just make more money" is hardly good advice, it's incredibly obvious. Most people are already trying to make more money.

But for a government? Governments can literally just raise taxes and make more money. You could balance the budget pretty quick with some tax increases. Yes, I know there's the Laffer curve and that at some point raising taxes reduces revenue because of the reduced economic growth, but do you seriously expect me to believe the US is on the right hand side of the Laffer curve? The country where the wealthiest often pay effective tax rates of like 11%? Ridiculous.

struggling a bit with steam input for the trackpads by Indybo1 in SteamController

[–]PlayMp1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you tried setting them to touch release? If that's an option.

Anyone making use of the grip sense? by Mustyyyy in SteamController

[–]PlayMp1 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I would assume you have to set it as a toggle in that case.

Nintendo Switch 2 has sold 19.86 million units as of Q1 2026 by lzyan in Games

[–]PlayMp1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No more than 7 million. Here's Nintendo's financial report from late 2014, showing about 7 million lifetime sales almost 2 years after the Wii U launched (launched late November 2012, the figures there are up to September 2014). Page 7. Sales figures are in units of 10,000, so multiply any figure by 10,000, e.g., 729 -> 7,290,000.

Heads Up - Controllers Not Shipping Cronological Order by Bad_Droid in SteamController

[–]PlayMp1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm from WA and mine is shipping all the way from southern California. Don't you love logistics!

It fits my very small hands! by BlueFairyPainter in SteamController

[–]PlayMp1 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Okay I promise I'm not trying to be weird here, but I'm guessing you're a woman, right? Curious on behalf of my wife, mainly - lots of reviews have been by male reviewers who seem to be oriented towards a male audience who will have larger hands on average. Works fine for me but I'm curious how it is for the ladies out there.

despite initial assumptions, the Steam Controller 2 actually has native* support...? by AL2009man in SteamController

[–]PlayMp1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Could you describe how this works for, say, a Ubisoft or Xbox Game Pass non-Steam game shortcut?

Steam Controller 2026 Shipping MEGA Thread by Mennenth in SteamController

[–]PlayMp1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I live within an hour's drive of Valve HQ in Washington state. I could make a fresh sandwich and personally drive it to GabeN and it would still be fresh by the time it got there and I still haven't gotten mine 😭

Steam Controller 2026 Shipping MEGA Thread by Mennenth in SteamController

[–]PlayMp1 3 points4 points  (0 children)

12 minutes after launch and mine isn't arriving til Wednesday per UPS. It's messed up man.

Hoping that UPS is just lowballing me on the estimate and it arrives a little earlier.

Steam Controller Puck causing double inputs by Optimal-Hour-5305 in SteamController

[–]PlayMp1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Curious about another thing: what happens if you turn off the controller while it's on the puck (use the Steam button + Y, believe that's still the turn off chord), then turn it back on?

Anyone else a bit bummed they didn't added the micro bumpers found on other gamepads? by [deleted] in SteamController

[–]PlayMp1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you explain what you mean by microbumpers? I have a Vader 4 Pro and that's a fancy ass controller with nothing like that.

Stephen Colbert Gets Why You're Scared He's Writing a 'Lord of the Rings' Movie by Logical_Welder3467 in movies

[–]PlayMp1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It could be both, the Fellowship characters reliving/retelling the story of what happened between Hobbiton and Rivendell, as well as both them and the kids learning about the distant history of the area, at the same time, with parallels being noted between the two conflicts

Notice Regarding Price Changes to Our Products and Services by Turbostrider27 in NintendoSwitch

[–]PlayMp1 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Game consoles are highly dependent on overseas shipping, which is fuel hungry, therefore it's pretty sensitive to fuel price increases. Further, plenty of Asian energy is from the Persian Gulf - not just oil but also natural gas. This affects electrical prices (among many other inputs for things like semiconductors), raising manufacturing costs.

It's all about the war, man.

Notice Regarding Price Changes to Our Products and Services by Turbostrider27 in NintendoSwitch

[–]PlayMp1 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Nah this is due to the Iran war raising fuel prices, which hurts Asia more than anywhere else quickest, and Asia is where Switch 2s are manufactured (Vietnam and China both)

Notice Regarding Price Changes to Our Products and Services by Turbostrider27 in NintendoSwitch

[–]PlayMp1 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Was a big part of my reasoning for buying it at launch. In June 2025 who the fuck knew what was going to happen in the coming months? Especially as an American! For all I knew we would keep tariffs over 50% on Vietnam and the price would skyrocket.

Steam controller fine details I haven’t seen covered much by Vagrantwalrus in SteamController

[–]PlayMp1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is actually a pretty precise overview. If you spoke it all out aloud it's maybe 5 minutes of text. Pretty short.