Take a look at the exchange rate of the Yen compared to the Euro over the last 10 years and it should be clear why the Japanese prize is “cheap”. The Yen has lost a lot of its value, while Japanese wages haven’t risen accordingly. So prizing the game at an equivalent prize to EU or US would mean that the game would simply be unaffordable to Japanese people.

Mistakes happen but even then, convicting someone with that little evidence is pretty fucking egregious. He was clearly presumed guilty.

Hopefully they’ll finally release this thing before things get even worse. Still determined to get one, but I know I won’t like the price.

I wonder if they could do a hardware revision at some point that has all the standalone capabilities stripped out. They’ve really focused on the streaming capabilities rather than the standalone aspect in their marketing anyway. So I think a version without any storage and just enough power to stream from a PC could be a way more feasible product in the current market.

They still make them.

I don’t know about Switch games specifically, but at least in the DS-era, there were test-devices that games would be put in by factory workers before they were boxed and shipped. So they probably would have had slight scratches even when new.

In the end though, does it really matter if everything was in perfect condition otherwise? If those scratches weren’t there in the beginning, the would be there after first inserting the cartridge into the console. I’d get it if it was about collecting unopened games, but them removing the plastic wrapping pretty much makes that moot anyway.

The one-child policy was abolished in 2015, but birth rates have continued to decline after that. They currently have one of the world’s lowest fertility rates.

Yeah, that’s fair. I didn’t think the trailers were amazing either, although it did seem like they were purposefully not giving too much away, which I appreciate. But people got really hung up on the smallest details to prematurely declare it a bad movie.

People also made a big thing out of the helmets being period-inaccurate. Which they absolutely are, but it was weird how people seemed to care so much for this movie in particular, whereas no-one seemed to give a shit about all the inaccuracies in the Gladiator movies for example.

It’s funny to see all the positive (including audience) reactions, after most of the internet discourse over the last few months was about how terrible the movie would be.

I’m lucky enough to have a (digital) IMAX theatre relatively nearby, so I’m planning to watch it there in a few weeks when the screenings are getting less crowded.

The ones mentioned in OP seem to be one user that is spreading their questions around multiple accounts, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing if they’re posted at a rate that would be fine with a single account, and if they aren’t using more than one account in a particular thread.

I don’t think they directly interact with each other, but they do upvote each other’s threads. Example

Cheers for providing a different possible interpretation for those accounts. I didn’t see them comment on their deletions anywhere and as I wrote, my own attempts to reach out to them were only met with immediate deletions. It’s certainly possible that they’re human, even though I slightly lean towards the bot interpretation right now. Unfortunately, it’s just really hard to tell nowadays.

Just did!

I’m not sure either, but there are 2 scenarios I can think of:

• At some point, the bot accounts will edit all their old posts to some kind of spam adverts
• The accounts post harmless, normal posts for a few months to appear legitimate, then pivot to posting targeted political propaganda for some kind of state or private actor

CmdrGraves is one of them, yes. Haven’t seen war soldier, but I guess that’s probably another one then.

These are the likely ones I’ve identified

Shadow79@piefed.social

SilentStriker@piefed.social

LtDan@lemmy.zip

CmdrGraves@lemmy.zip

\TacticalRaptor@feddit.org

Play it. You already have it, and playing it will have no measurable impact on Blizzard whatsoever. If anything, it will cost them (a marginal amount of) money. Don’t rob yourself of enjoyment for no real reason.

That sucks. Right at the point where needing spare parts is getting more likely for Steam Deck owners. What’s the point in selling replacement batteries if you only sell them while almost everyone’s batteries are still fine?

Hopefully they’ll be able to stock some good third-party parts.

Usually not, but for some games it takes ages and I do end up skipping them. For example with Deadlock it took like 30-45 minutes after every update. Started skipping it at some point and never noticed any difference in performance.

The main issues of Switch 2’s display are an extremely slow response time as well as prominent ghosting/blur. You can see some measurements here for example. It’s not too bad when it comes to color reproduction and of course it’s higher resolution, so I guess it depends on how much you care about motion clarity and response time compared to that. But in those 2 categories, it’s measurably pretty bad.

Do you mostly play in TV-mode or portable? In the latter case, I’d wait for an OLED version of the Switch 2 personally, as the current model has a screen that’s pretty mid and which will definitely feel like a downgrade from Switch OLED.

The new variant with a changeable battery is Europe-only, so if you’re located outside of Europe (or UAE/Oman/Saudi Arabia) you won’t be able to easily get it.

A retrospective that is now retro itself! Pretty sure I watched this when it was still hosted on Gametrailers’ website.

I’d go for a prebuilt unless you really need that particular form factor. A slightly larger prebuilt with similar specs will not only be slightly cheaper, but also have better performance (due to the Steam Machine being quite limited by thermals and power draw).