PinchOf Doom

@APin235 For stuff like VN's and JRPGs, it can be. Like, its not a 1-1 substitute, but I feel like if you watch someone play something like Danganronpa you'd get like. 85% of the experience.

Why do so many people think that watching playthroughs of games is a substitute for playing the games themselves?

@PokeTCGiveaways play it plugged in, put the cable in the top slot, its not any more uncomfortable than handheld mode already is

Pokémon Pokopia.

@CanariFeetLover deep takes from twitter user canari feet lover (you're right and you should say it)

People call you a classist for buying video games People call you an elitist for actually playing video games People call you a tryhard/sweat for being good at a video game Like what can we even do with video games at this point?

@theamazingemy Watching people "you hate waffles" this post into somehow suggesting you pirate indie games when it CLEARLY mentions pirating Adobe software(a karmically good action) is wild.

people who dont know how to pirate things gotta be a new level of slow like what do you mean youre paying for after effects

@V3nti1at0r avoiding PC games on Helix seems like a waste of energy. Timed releases are a much better way to push back against that, while still benefitting from sales on all platforms. If that didn't work, they may as well go full exclusive again.

Latest rumors. - Sony will sell their PC games on their own store. - Some think Wolverine may release day 1 on PC, but will require a Sony launcher and PSN account. ---> This way they can avoid PC Games on Helix. A PSN launcher have been rumored for years already...

@tinyrowlet Like. An official emulation solution like they did with FRLG, with full Home compatibility in the pipeline, is super cool, and I want more of that. Datamines seemed to suggest R/S/E was possibly happening in the future and I really hope it does.

@tinyrowlet Playing it on Switch *is* emulation, to be clear. Official emulation, but emulation nonetheless. Same with FRLG on Switch. That in mind, I **really** want DS games with Home compatibility on Switch at some point. Not sure how they'd do it(single screen DS emulation IS a thing)

god forbid you say you want to play the ds pokemon games on switch because you will summon the "just emulate it" crowd i did not ask

@WeirdPicklxkgb @gtinari Yeah. I think it's a lot of people that just hate apple, and tech reviewers that are used to reviewing top end $3000 laptops, forgetting that your average user is far more likely to own something like a Macbook Neo than a top end gaming laptop

@PinchofDoom @gtinari I think it’s because narcissists love attention, so naturally they escalate to these crazy positions. Lots of people are financially incentivized to critique it for views as well, which influences smooth brains with Parasocial relationships.

it’s insane to me how many people in the tech community can’t wrap their minds around the macbook neo. what is such an enigma about it? it’s a $600 laptop from apple made for people who do some typing, do some streaming, do some researching, and do some socializing.

@ValToadstool @GAZ__95 Then what is the purpose of rock types beyond being worse ground type? It's terrible defensively, with so many common weaknesses. It's terrible offensively unless you just happen to hit every time. It feels like its entire purpose is to nerf pokemon that have it, which is lame

@GAZ__95 Good. It shouldn't

some pokemon fans really want every type to have 90 bp 100 accuracy no drawback moves in both physical and special and I think that would be boring

@lil_gasmask how does he even sound woke lmao. what does that even mean he just sounds almost like Marcus with a robot filter to me, i could see someone somehow complaining about that. but woke?

“Just played the borderlands the pre-sequel and all the people in that game sounded woke, DEI is ruining gaming 🙄🙄🙄” Genuinely mfs should just say they’re racist/xenophobic so we can skip some steps ong. Can’t even have a non American accent anymore. 🙃

@IceTrainerBen It's worth it for SV and Pokopia now, as well as Winds/Waves next year. People are acting like we're renting these consoles, or that if you don't boot it up for 6 months Nintendo shows up and repo's it.

“Is a Switch 2 worth it for just Pokopia” Dawg it was worth it just to play Scarlet and Violet in a functional state

@SlySinatraa In general I hate the amount of bloat in modern AAA games Let me skip alternate language packs and 4k textures if I'm just playing on medium settings.

Nothing will ever irritate me more in modern gaming that the current version of Grand Theft Auto V on PS5/Xbox Series/PC is 100GB and like half of that is Online stuff you can't even access in the story mode.

@Shyguymask99 it's been improved, but it's still miles behind Krita. never tried Paint .net but Ive heard good things as well

I feel validated that people hate GIMP now. Like 10 years ago in the 2010s everybody would recommend it like it's the best software ever, but when I tried it I found the UI insanely shit & confusing to work with. I quickly went back to paint .net and I still use it to this day.

@TheAbsol nooo you aren't sticking to my arbitrary rules for how I think you should play the game, despite the fact that I don't even play the game.

OMG XD on Switch 2 supports suspend points?!?!?! Gotta do some trial and error to see which hunts get major timesaves from this. Yeah I'm gonna hunt a shiny. (If you ask "why" to that, shinies are cool no matter the circumstances and finding them is neat)

@coah80 @Franko_BG If you're down to use Arch check out EndeavourOS, in another one of these comments you mentioned wanting KDE, it offers KDE out of the box.

@Franko_BG yeah its a desktop environment for arch danklinux.com

might make the switch to linux this year ngl... what do i use - mint sucks - pop os sucks - nobara is okay - dank linux is lowkey a contender 😭 - cachy i like - nix maybe

@coah80 @davidthepurple Weird. I liked Cinnamon fine enough. Ended up swapping back over to EndeavourOS when I got my 9070XT for faster driver updates, but I still have it on my laptop and love it.

@davidthepurple honestly when i used it, it worked fine, it was just too simple for me. The ui sucks pretty much, i know i can customize it but id rather have something like kde out of the box.

@notcharlieslaw A lot of older Linux users really think that people have been using it as long as they have, and don't know how to be nice to new users that might not know what a log file even IS, much less how to pull it. They bitch about noone using Linux, but are horrible to those that try.

@notcharlieslaw You sound like you tried Linux, ran into an issue, asked a question, got told to fuck off by some 40 year old basement dweller, and got turned off of Linux forever. Which, to be clear is totally fine, and one of the biggest obstacles to Linux adoption. 1/2

@iamshylarenae Without Home compatibility, its a genuinely worse product than what I can get for free by pirating a 20 year old game. I might see some merit paying for it if I could buy it outright, but it being tied to a subscription service on top of everything makes it a no-go for me.

i did not expect so many people to straight up refuse to play gale of darkness bc it has no home connectivity 😭 what happened to just.,.., enjoying the game simply bc it's fun