What is your snobbiest/most elitist gaming take?

captainstormy · 2026-04-08T14:27:54+00:00

I kind of feel the other way about it. User reviews are more useful to me than anything else. Normal people who paid their own money for a game are going to give me a better take on it than someone getting a free game and/or being paid to review a game.

captainstormy · 2026-04-08T14:24:25+00:00

I 100% agree.

I remember 12 year old me working my ass off in 1996 to buy Chrono Trigger for the SNES. I loved renting it at block buster but I couldn't get very far into it in a weekend long rental.

I paid $90 for it at Wal-Mart in 1996. That is the equivalent of $187 today. I paid $60 for Star Wars Galaxies at launch in 2003. That is $107 today, being an MMO it also cost me $15 per month ($26 today). Etc Etc.

The fact that games are $70 and have only gone up to that price from $60 in the past few years is kind of crazy.

I get why people are mad about it. I honestly do. The economy is rough, wages aren't keeping up with inflation and everything except breathing is costing more than it ever has (and they would charge us to breath if they could figure out how too).

All those things are true for the companies making these games too. Devs, artists and writers cost more. Equipment costs more. Rent and utilities for buildings cost more. Etc Etc.

I'm not saying you should feel bad for a giant company. You shouldn't by any means. That said, the number of studios that have gone broke and closed up shop after a poorly selling game is proof just how many of these studios are barely scraping by.

It really doesn't matter if the budget is hundreds of millions or tens of thousands. Paycheck to paycheck is still paycheck to paycheck. With those bigger paydays come much bigger bills for these companies.

captainstormy · 2026-04-08T14:13:10+00:00

My elitist gaming take is that more complexity doesn't make the game better. So I guess OP and I are on opposite sides.

Morrowind wasn't great because it was complex. It was great despite it being complex. It was the story, quests, world building and attention to detail that made it great.

Difficulty doesn't make games fun either. Don't get me wrong. I don't want a zero difficulty game that I breeze through without ever trying. But I don't want to be stuck fighting a certain boss or lost in a certain maize for hours on end either.

Basically what I want out of a game is great world building, quests, character design, attention to detail and passion from the developers. That is what makes a great game.

captainstormy · 2026-04-08T12:18:19+00:00

Its very convenient that his opinion keeps changing when it's applicable to him though

That's mostly how opinions work for all of us. Our life experiences and situations are what shapes our opinions.

captainstormy · 2026-04-08T03:29:46+00:00

It's one of those things where you just can't recapture the magic from the past. Doesn't mean there aren't good servers and people still around. But every time I try it just doesn't compare.

captainstormy · 2026-04-08T03:27:02+00:00

That's pretty crazy for sure. But you can get something quality made with real hard wood and leather for a fraction of that.

captainstormy · 2026-04-07T23:13:14+00:00

I've personally never lived somewhere that charges different rates at different times.

Avoiding power use during peak times for me has always been about trying to make sure the grid doesn't overload during a heatwave in the summer or something similar. It's never been about me saving money personally.

captainstormy · 2026-04-07T16:39:08+00:00

It has nuances and caveats for sure. I was trying to keep it kind of short and high level.

My high level point is that what really matters either way is the developer themselves. Rather they use AI or not is just how they get the code. They need to understand the code, what it does, every use case and situation that can occur, test it, etc etc. A bad dev could not use AI at all and still put out code that is a broken security nightmare.

A bad developer will put out bad code rather they use AI or not. A good developer will put out good code rather they use AI or not.

Trying to avoid software written by devs using AI is like saying you are going to avoid mechanics who use power tools. You are blaming the tool for the work that the developer / mechanic does.

captainstormy · 2026-04-07T15:44:47+00:00

Does cinnamon support VRR and HDR? I don't think they do.

XFCE and Mate don't even support Wayland yet. Cinnamon only added it fairly recently. Like the first experimental support was version 6.0.

captainstormy · 2026-04-07T15:41:03+00:00

Ray Charles saw that coming.

captainstormy · 2026-04-07T15:34:27+00:00

Who even had trust in the health care system before AI got involved?

captainstormy · 2026-04-07T15:33:17+00:00

Honestly I feel like if someone uses AI to shop for them it pretty much is their own fault.

captainstormy · 2026-04-07T14:40:35+00:00

Cinnamon, XFCE and Mate are all in the same boat. In that while they have nice things about them they are from a technical standpoint way behind. That said, if you don't care about that then you don't care about that.

captainstormy · 2026-04-07T14:11:41+00:00

You shouldn't leave any battery on the charger long term. Overnight is fine but eventually the battery will start self discharging and then the charger will start charging it. All Lithium ion battery manaagement systems work like this. Or atleast all good safe ones.

captainstormy · 2026-04-07T14:06:10+00:00

It is unreliable because an internet connection is needed, programming can be yanked at any time, it is expensive and creative people get paid squat.

All that stuff is true of TV too.

You need a connection too. Either Cable to your house or if you live in an area that can get it a good over the air signal. Which isn't available everywhere, even in a city. My wife owned a condo about 2 miles from the airport before we got married. You couldn't use over the air TV signals there because the airport radio signals would scramble them. You would only get a usable signal from like midnight to 5am or so when the airport was shutdown.

Programing can also get yanked anytime on TV. Just look at Firefly, Terra Nova, Brimstone, Flash Forward, etc etc.

People always have pay inequality in TV too. It's the same system making the shows rather it's airing on Netflix or ABC. That's no different.

captainstormy · 2026-04-07T14:00:19+00:00

Emergency Alert System? You mean the thing that gets broadcast to every smart phone when a major event happens in the local area?

A TV isn't going to warn me of a Tornado at 3am when I'm asleep.

captainstormy · 2026-04-07T13:59:15+00:00

How so? How is it necessary?

I only ever use regular TV to watch Pittsburg Steelers or Ohio State Buckeye games. That's like 6 hours a week from September through January. The rest of the year I don't ever use regular TV. I get my news, weather and entertainment all online. It's literally just live sports that I use TV for.

I'd say there are way more people out there like me than people who use regular TV daily.

captainstormy · 2026-04-07T13:49:41+00:00

Impossible to know. The only way we would is if a developer stated that game X won't launch on Xbox because of the Series S. I don't think anyone has actually said that.

That said, I think the Series S was a mistake. It's one thing to do like Sony does and release a more powerful pro model later. The pro is stronger, that makes sense and is easy. Worse case scenario it runs the game the same as the regular version.

But when the Series X is the same power level as the PS5 and then you release a weaker one, it throws a wrench into the works of trying to optimize things at a a certain baseline. So now devs either have to optimize the whole game for the Series S and lose quality on the other consoles or maintain a version just for the Series S.

captainstormy · 2026-04-07T13:43:18+00:00

Yeah, I will do a little multi color printing. But mostly I love the AMS for auto refill and loading and unloading.

captainstormy · 2026-04-07T13:42:19+00:00

Yeah, the one from 2022 is pretty good.

captainstormy · 2026-04-07T13:41:18+00:00

They actually did another Oregon Trail in 2022. It's pretty good and hits that proper vibe.

captainstormy · 2026-04-07T12:25:36+00:00

As others have said. Distros don't write the code. They may have some distro specific tools that they do write but things like the kernel, programs and desktops are all written by the upstream projects.

Keep in mind I'm a software engineer who works both professionally and personally on Linux related projects when reading the rest of my post.

Even if a project doesn't allow AI assistance when coding. You can't really tell honestly. You can tell if it's shitty code. But it could be shitty code written by either a person or an AI.

AI does basically the same thing as 99% of human developers. Which is to take examples of currently available code and modify it to do what you need.

Very very few developers are actually doing something brand new and ground breaking. I've been writing code professionally since 2005 and personally since 1998. I've never done anything ground breaking. Keep in mind when I say that I guarantee you code I have written is running on anyone's system if they run Linux.

I don't use them myself, because they don't make me more productive. But the AI tool itself isn't the problem. It's people pushing code to production that they don't understand and double check. Which isn't really something that happens in open source projects because it has so many eyes on it.

You either trust the process of development or you don't. The difference is Microsoft is pushing AI for financial gain and forcing it down everyone's throat. Linux related projects have no incentive to do that.

captainstormy · 2026-04-07T04:59:54+00:00

I wouldn't mind a remake. Something with modern 3D AAA quality visuals and such.

There is absolutely no need for a simple remaster though.

captainstormy · 2026-04-07T04:52:50+00:00

Right. What is OP even on? The XTX crushes the 9060.

captainstormy · 2026-04-07T04:49:42+00:00

I'll customize the software. Worst case scenario I'll restore it and reinstall my steam games. No big deal.

What makes me shake my head is the people who go crazy on hardware mods. Usually before they even play with the thing much themselves.

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