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NotMyOldRedditName, do games w I make games and this literally happened to me this morning

I’ve had Google charge me $0.01 before for firebase usage.

They really should have waited until I owed more since that cost them money.

rainman,

Once a month I’d have to pay a few pennies to Google for our cloud use at a school district I worked for. It always baffled me!

NotMyOldRedditName,

They should almost just make it so the blaze plan of firebase or other cloud services has a $1 non refundable pre-payment so they can just whittle away at the pennies instead of getting charged processing/transaction fees on a $0.01 transaction. Tops up to $1 if it goes to $0

I think people would pay $1 to enable the paid plans. If you’re going that far, you’re getting $1 of use out of it.

ByteOnBikes,

On my personal AWS account, Im paying them 0.17 cents a month.

I wonder if they pay a fee.

NotMyOldRedditName,

They’re bigger so it’s hard to know, but it’s usually something like 2.9% + 10c a transaction.

At their scale though who knows

szczuroarturo,

Only in us tho. I think eu has it set to percantage only.

SkaveRat,

Nope. Just depends on the processor

boonhet,

This might’ve changed but 10 years ago the small shop next to my school said they wouldn’t allow card payments of under 1 EUR because they’d be losing money. In Estonia

kamen,

0.17 cents

So is that less than a cent or is it 17 cents? If it’s the former, I don’t think it’s even possible to make a transaction that small.

bionicjoey, do games w One of my favourite games in my childhood

What game?

ilovecinnamon,

Commandos 2

durfenstein,

Uuuhm akshually, that screenshot is of commandos 1 ;)

grrgyle,

Oh thanks, I was like I don’t remember this part of Arcanum

DudeDudenson,

We had the demo growing up, game always kicked my ass I have the look of the skeletized dead soldier portrait burned into my head lol

BruceTwarzen,

I never understood the game as a child, but i played the hell out of it. Mainly the beginning of the first mission.

rem26_art, do gaming w "I am become death, the destroyer of worlds."
@rem26_art@fedia.io avatar

I remember laughing at people buying horse armor when Oblivion came out, and now I'm glued to the screen watching streamers drop $300 on gacha game pulls

Jimbo,
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I remember laughing at people buying horse armour. Now I’m just sad at the state of everything.

Ep1cFac3pa1m, do gaming w Nintendo Power's old instructions for taking a "screenshot"
@Ep1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.world avatar

I did this for The Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels challenge. If you beat the game without warping you could get to world 9, and if you sent in a screenshot they sent you a patch. I’ve still got it lol

yeather,

Pic of the patch?

Ep1cFac3pa1m,
@Ep1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.world avatar

Took me a minute to find it, but ask and ye shall receive.

Pic of the patch

yeather,

Nice

Sharkwellington,

Good job, truly!

Ep1cFac3pa1m,
@Ep1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.world avatar

It certainly felt like quite the accomplishment at the time 😂

The_Picard_Maneuver,
@The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world avatar

That’s a piece of history!

Dagnet, do gaming w I may have said this before...

FF14 has an insane amount of filler in every quest. Sooooo many times you need to travel to whole different area just to have some completely inconsequential chat with an npc or they break a simple task into 10 steps with a long ass cast time that doesn’t show your character doing anything. I will say the story is (after a while) quite good.

quilan,

“Pray return to the waking sands” PTSD intensifies

Veritrax,

At least they give new players aetheryte tickets to teleport directly to the waking sands now. No more teleporting to Horizon and taking public transit like some kind of peasant.

Evotech,

It’s just so much clicking. Go here click this guy click that guy.

It’s not that bad of you stay current at all times, you can do a bit of story here and there, its released in chunks outside of the large expansions.

But if you take a break for a year. Fuck me. It’s just never ending. I just want to raid…

Evotech,

It’s just so much clicking. Go here click this guy click that guy.

It’s not that bad of you stay current at all times, you can do a bit of story here and there, its released in chunks outside of the large expansions.

But if you take a break for a year. Fuck me. It’s just never ending. I just want to raid…

Dagnet,

Yeah, the barrier for entry for new players is insane too. This guy once bought the game and he is like “Gonna rush through the story so lets play some dungeons next week”, yeahhh… nah, you are gonna play with us in a month maybe more. Also, you posted this comment twice, might wanna delete the other.

fartsparkles, do gaming w Never understood this

Pretty sure Minecraft was the most profitable game of all time.

And you can be that reductive for pretty much all games. Run right and jump on mushrooms. Watch shapes rotate and fall. Punch cubes. Three of the other most profitable games of all time.

ech,

Minecraft is the highest selling game (beating out GTA V by 110 million units sold source), but it’s not the most profitable. GTA does have it beat there ($9.9 billion vs $3.3 billion). Though CoD has them both beat at $31 billion (source).

havokdj,

CoD as a FRANCHISE beats them both, but you have to keep in mind that metric for GTA V and Minecraft are indeed, for single video games.

ech,

That’s true (to be even more precise, the GTA metric is also for the franchise…which GTAV makes up $8.5 billion of >.>). How about Candy Crush at $20 billion?

Kolanaki, do gaming w Oh trust me. I know your frustration better than you do.
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Are most video games protagonists straight? Cuz I have played way more games where the protagonist is mute and doesn’t show sexual interest in anything at all.

Like… Is Gordon Freeman straight? Doom guy? Kirby? Capt. Olimar? Red? The Prince of All Cosmos? 🤔

I’d say that video games have the most asexual representation of all forms of media.

Colour_me_triggered,

Kirby sucks like a nanny goat.

GladiusB,
@GladiusB@lemmy.world avatar

That statement has more to unpack than a therapist’s office in Trump tower

Catma,
@Catma@lemmy.world avatar

The prince of all cosmos will fuck anyone who wishes to fuck him.

Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.

babybus, do games w I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store
@babybus@sh.itjust.works avatar

There are too many games to care about the tiny amount of them that aren’t available on steam.

GoodEye8,

There are so many games that I don’t even care about all the games available on Steam (that I’d be willing to play). We have so many games coming out that I’d have to play game for a living to play all the games I want to play, and even then I’m not 100% sure I’d be able to play everything I’d be open to play. I have multiple games that I’ve purchased and installed thinking “I’ll get to them soon enough” and they’re just taking drive space. I also have multiple games on my wishlist that are “waiting for a discount” but I’m probably never going to pick them up because actually they’re waiting for my backlog to clear and it will never clear.

Does it suck that Alan Wake is Epic exclusive. Sure. Does it really matter to me? Not really because I’m oversaturated with games I want to play. Missing one great game doesn’t matter when I already have a backlog of great games I won’t purchase because I have a backlog of great games I’ve purchased that I won’t play because I have a backlog of great games I really want to play.

rem26_art, do gaming w It's hard to share a birthday
@rem26_art@fedia.io avatar

You know they're buying the Wii a car and Jenny's just gonna get a $25 gift card to H&M

BlueLineBae,
@BlueLineBae@midwest.social avatar

A COMPUTEEEER AND A CAAAAAR!!! Thanks Mom and Dad!

Cenotaph,

“What the fuck is this” “What were you expecting, con-doms?”

Rai,

Golden age of the internet.

idunnololz,
@idunnololz@lemmy.world avatar

I aspire to have kids so that I can spoil our cats in front of them /s

InquisitiveApathy, (edited ) do gaming w The Mario Party Stigmata

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  • motor_spirit,

    I’ve seen some bad blowouts as a result… I hope life’s turned around a bit since

    MimicJar, do gaming w What more could we possibly ask for?
    @MimicJar@lemmy.world avatar

    This image is a fantasy.

    No one had four grey controllers.

    Show me some red, green and “translucent” purple.

    Also one of the control sticks should be broken.

    The_Picard_Maneuver,
    @The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world avatar

    That’s pretty spot on for my experience. I only had 3: 1 gray, 1 red, and 1 translucent purple off brand.

    (edit: the red one was the one with a drifty joystick, but for some reason it was my favorite)

    ZombiFrancis,

    We were grey, yellow, and offbrand black that had a semi-functional turbo mode and the joystick would reverse if you pushed too hard on it.

    A 4th was always supplied by the rare potential 4th player

    pjwestin,
    @pjwestin@lemmy.world avatar

    On a related note, they can now refurbish your N64 conrollers with mini GameCube joysticks and they’re fucking SICK.

    RightHandOfIkaros,

    Theyre not as good as the original sticks though. Bigger deadzone and a different gate. Cool, but not a very accurate replacement. Steel Sticks is a better, if more exclusive, option.

    pjwestin,
    @pjwestin@lemmy.world avatar

    Huh, haven’t had any issues with deadzone. If anything, the deadzone is too small, especially on Goldeneye, where the sensitivity felt way too high for the software. But I found it a super smooth upgrade for pretty much everything else, especially Kart and platformers. I just looked up those steel sticks though, and they look awesome! I bet that has a nice, authentic feel to it.

    myrrh,

    (i still have my original four grey controllers with rumble packs for the lot)

    MimicJar,
    @MimicJar@lemmy.world avatar

    And you probably never had to blow into the cartridge to make it work.


    Alternatively…

    THE CHOSEN ONE!

    myrrh,

    …no, cartridges hadn’t yet been invented for my first console and my first NES was actually the mid-nineties redesign, so i never experienced blowing dust off the contacts…

    …i did get to play with ROM-swap developer cartridges on my atari 2600, though…

    doingthestuff,

    I’ve had twelve controllers and my original translucent purple one from when I bought it new is still the best one.

    toynbee, (edited )

    That’s not four grey controllers.

    That’s one grey controller and three grey d-pads.

    edit: That word shouldn’t have been plural.

    MimicJar,
    @MimicJar@lemmy.world avatar

    That actually explains how Goro kept kicking my ass.

    HamsterRage, do gaming w Equally effective

    Isn’t the one on the left Samus from Metroid?

    Habahnow,

    The one on the right is link…a make character. I think your on to something

    themeatbridge,

    C’est ça qui est drôle! And the one on the right is Link wearing women’s clothing from Breath of the Wild. He has to pretend to be a woman to sneak into a desert town where men are prohibited. Cross-dressing is a critical part of the story, and you keep the outfit to wear in battle if you like. You can also flirt with a guy and he’ll give you his boots.

    MelodiousFunk,

    Can flirt? I’d argue one must flirt, lest one be cursed to trudge through sand and snow.

    Unless one happens to know the windbomb, in which case… BOOM stares off into the distance …was nice talking with ya.

    themeatbridge,

    I’m a completionist, so I always do everything possible in game. Strictly speaking, you only must get the sail, and you can head straight to Ganon if you’re feeling mighty.

    AngryCommieKender, (edited )

    The image of low power Link charging in and beating Gannon has me remembering that streamer that made it like 90 95 hours into the game before triggering the tutorial of Breath of the Wild

    youtu.be/q1VhYzxC1KA

    themeatbridge,

    I’m skeptical she managed to beat three of the four beasts without stumbling upon backflips, side hops, or charged attacks.

    AngryCommieKender,

    Fair enough, may have been staged, I’ve never played the game. Last Zelda game I played was Majora’s Mask

    MelodiousFunk,

    I am far from mighty. If anything, I am straight up bad at combat. On my first master mode playthrough I did duck into the castle to get the shield, but afterwards went right back to do/find all the things mode.

    Phegan,

    That’s the joke.

    magic_lobster_party,

    The one to the left is John Metroid from the popular video game franchise Metroid. The one to the right is Zelda from Zelda: Breath of the Wild.

    Carvex,

    Killin me with John Metroid

    Ioughttamow,

    He’s just taking the piss. It’s Samuel Aran, first Prime of House Metroid

    hypeerror,

    His name is Met Roid. That’s why the game is called Metroid.

    surewhynotlem,

    Metroid is the name of the princess

    swab148,
    @swab148@lemm.ee avatar

    Super Peach Bros

    DillyDoobie,

    I loved the crossover game when he teamed up with John Halo to fight the Covenant.

    Hupf,
    @Hupf@feddit.org avatar

    I think Metroid is a pretty cool guy. Eh kills space pirates and doesn’t afraid of anything.

    sirico,
    @sirico@feddit.uk avatar

    And the right is Zelda 🫠

    morphballganon,

    And the one on the right is Link, a male.

    You’ve got it! The joke!

    teft, do gaming w The winner of every difficulty comparison
    @teft@lemmy.world avatar

    IMHO Elden Ring isn’t the most difficult fromsoft game.

    That honor goes to Sekiro.

    The_Picard_Maneuver,
    @The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world avatar

    I 100% agree. Sekiro is my favorite of them all.

    iAmTheTot,

    Elden Ring may in fact be the easiest From game tbh.

    magic_lobster_party,

    Coming from ER to DS3 I think DS3 is much easier. I didn’t put much thought into my build and it was a breeze. I beat many bosses first try.

    Much of the difficulty in ER comes from the often hard to telegraph attacks.

    RightHandOfIkaros,

    You might be inclined to say that if you don’t really know much of the games From has made.

    The Adventures of Cookie and Cream on PS2 was a very easy game by comparison.

    iAmTheTot,

    Lol, okay fair, but I think it’s pretty common to be referring to the “soulslike” genre when you say a From game.

    PraiseTheSoup,

    Considering they released at least 5 Armored Core games before even their very first souls-like, Demon’s Souls, which was not widely played, I am inclined to disagree.

    micka190,

    Honestly, if you go back and play the older souls games after Elden Ring, you’ll see that they’re a lot easier than Elden Ring, unless you summon Mimic Tear for every boss fight, I guess. But on a “player vs boss” scale, the fights in the older games are much easier than some of the later ones in Elden Ring (especially if you factor in the DLC).

    iAmTheTot,

    I have hundreds of hours in all the Souls games. I still say Elden Ring is easiest overall.

    RightHandOfIkaros,

    The thing that makes Elden Ring much easier is the fact that there is always somewhere else the player can make progress. In Dark Souls, you follow a more or less linear path and if you felt underleveled you had to grind enemies because you could not make any further progress until you pass where you got stuck. In Elden Ring, you can go to a different area completely and make a bit more progress there. From Limgrave, the player can choose to go to Stormveil, skip Stormveil and go to Liurnia Lake, go to Southern Limgrave, or go to Caelid if they’re a psycopath. This is in addition to all the helpers From has given players. Strong magic (compared to Souls games), Summons that are available to the player literally anywhere on top of the same Gold Message Summons from the Souls games, two moves that give players i-frames, etc.

    Sure, if you play it like its a Souls game then it might seem hard, but if you play it as the action adventure RPG it is designed to be, the game is significantly easier than Souls games.

    micka190,

    I get what you’re saying, but I feel like you’re way underselling how hard the Elden Ring bosses are compared to the Dark Souls bosses (the actual bosses, not the re-used late-game enemies with bigger health pool in random dungeons). I don’t think there’s a single Dark Souls boss that comes anywhere close to any of the bosses from Morgoth and onward (Fire Giant excluded, obviously). Morgoth, Godfrey, Radagon, Malenia, and all the DLC bosses are much harder than anything the Souls series has seen (unless you count broken/janky mechanics like Witch of Izalith’s garbage-tier hitboxes).

    RightHandOfIkaros,

    I suppose, but the player could very easily overlevel themselves to make the bosses very easy in Elden Ring. Can’t do that without a big, boring, repetitive time investment in Dark Souls, farming the same enemies in the same location.

    Soggy,

    Might be worth clarifying Demon’s Souls and onward, some of us are old enough to have played Armored Core.

    Mirshe,

    Armored Core series, but those have always had a way to cheese through the campaign, almost universally.

    skulblaka,
    @skulblaka@sh.itjust.works avatar

    That honor goes to Demon’s Souls…

    teft,
    @teft@lemmy.world avatar

    Not sure why you were downvoted. I found Demon Souls was frustrating more than difficult but to each their own.

    heavy,

    Just came in here to support Sekiro

    Nuke_the_whales,

    Elden Ring isn’t difficult, it’s tedious and repetitive. I really didn’t like it

    tfw_no_toiletpaper,

    Nah Sekiro is great. Sometimes I just pull it up and play it a couple of days because it’s so satisfying. I think Sword Saint Isshin is supposed to be the hardest boss, and it definitely takes a lot of runs until you have him memorized. But on NG+ I first-, or second-tried him. I think all Sekiro bosses are pretty chill once you know them.

    Consort Radahn however… I don’t know if I have the will to ever struggle through this fight again

    JayDee,

    I think you mean the hardest Fromsoft game you liked. Go Beat the original armored core and get back to me. you could also give last raven a shot.

    Rentlar, do gaming w I feel the POWAAAA!
    RisingSwell,

    This made me check if mine was on the defect list. Apparently laptop chips made it out unscathed, maybe because it cant draw 300w if 300w is the total power supply of the laptop, and most are far less.

    Shawdow194, do gaming w A wild weekend
    @Shawdow194@kbin.run avatar

    A bottle of absinthe is not 300 calories. That's like three shots...

    huginn,

    Absinthe is ~82 calories per fluid ounce and a 70CL bottle is 23 fluid ounces so an entire 70CL bottle is about 1900 calories.

    Blum0108,

    You also need more than one beer and a plate of curds for a weekend

    The_Picard_Maneuver,
    @The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world avatar

    I’m afraid the dietician was pretty deep into the bottle when they did the math.

    Damage,

    Maybe they expect to throw it all up. Because of Skyrim’s bugs.

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