jacksilver
@jacksilver@lemmy.world
- Comment on Day 5 of posting an indie game I found that I think looks cool - Demon Tides 1 hour ago:
I played the prequel (at least it looks like it’s tied to this game) called Demon Turf. The animation was really interesting and the world building was cool, but the platforming itself was only okay and some of the boss battles just felt broken. Hopefully they learned from that game to make this one even better!
- Comment on Xbox’s leadership shift proves it: the gamer era is over, AI runs the show now 2 days ago:
To be honest Phil’s just done a bad job at the helm or maybe wasn’t empowered to do the things that needed to be done. Everything since the xbox360 has been weak from Microsoft, although Sony has really only held on due to some banger first party games.
Nintendo continues to understand that you need to offer something different in the console space to remain relevant. While the steam deck (and other handheld) are coming for the switch, they at least offer something unique.
- Comment on Video games are losing the "attention war" to gambling, porn, and crypto, according to industry report 4 days ago:
I mean, at that point a lot of games are also gambling.
- Comment on Mewgenics becomes the most-played roguelite ever on Steam 6 days ago:
Let’s be honest with ourselves combocore is really just another phrase for rhythm games, which let’s you aggregate things like guitar hero (rythmncombos) and DMC (actioncombos), as it’s all about hitting buttons at the right time interval. Surprisingly many darksouls also fall into the combocore/rythmn category - sekiro and Lies of P (with their parrying/dodging timing) which we’ll now call soulcombos.
Now we just need to start promoting this through the steam tags.
- Comment on Mewgenics becomes the most-played roguelite ever on Steam 6 days ago:
And yet I tend to like most games that fall into the “rouge lite” category. It feels too broad and yet also seems to work to classify games.
I think it may just be a bit like “RPG” or “Action” that are actually very wide categories that now have a lot of subcategories to help better explain them.
- Comment on God of War Sons of Sparta - Reveal Trailer | PS5 Games 1 week ago:
Ah, if your preference is pixel graphics then Blasphemous 1 & 2 would probably be your pace if you haven’t played them.
To me, the GoW gameplay looked a little to heavy and stiff (especially for it being GoW).
- Comment on God of War Sons of Sparta - Reveal Trailer | PS5 Games 1 week ago:
If you think this looks good, then the newly announced castlevania game will blow you away - www.konami.com/games/castlevania/…/en-us/
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Yeah, it felt kinda empty and repetitive. I think if the combat was better I might have kept playing.
- Comment on Riot Games lays off roughly 80 employees from 2XKO team 2 weeks ago:
That’s fair, I guess I was focused more on the bigger players in fighting games which usually focus on fictional worlds/fighters.
- Comment on Riot Games lays off roughly 80 employees from 2XKO team 2 weeks ago:
That’s really weird
- Comment on Riot Games lays off roughly 80 employees from 2XKO team 2 weeks ago:
What?
Are there fighting games with real people?
- Comment on England’s poorest areas have 70% more vape shops and bookmakers than wealthier ones 2 weeks ago:
It’s also such a detriment to sports. In the US they relaxed sports betting laws a while back and it’s ruined watching sports on the tv (and in some ways in person).
Its also been frustrating to watch sports betting scandals continue to pop up over and over again. The most ridiculous is the recent NCAA basketball point shaving, where a bunch of players on college teams (even low ranked ones) were purposefully rigging games to make millions.
- Comment on Name it 2 weeks ago:
Super Mario World is a game that shows artistic design outlasts everything else. That game still looks and plays amazingly.
But I think the real issue is “looks good” is very subjective.
- Comment on The radical woke subliminal message in Bad Bunny's halftime performance 2 weeks ago:
Clearly we’re in the minority, but I did not think it sounded good at all. It’s a hard event (even acoustically), and he clearly was singing live, but it felt like he was struggling to keep up with the beat. Although I’m also very hit or miss with rap, so I’m also probably biased.
The message and showmanship was good and regardless of how it sounded, I think people will talk about this performance for a long time.
- Comment on The radical woke subliminal message in Bad Bunny's halftime performance 2 weeks ago:
Its both a huge event and platform so it makes sense why artists would want to perform at the superbowl.
As for why he was picked, I think I’ve read some reports that the NFL is really trying to grow the sport in South America. Between the fact that they’ve saturated the US market and that every attempt to expand in Europe has been rough, I think they realize they don’t have many other choices.
- Comment on How come decades in the 1900s look fairly well differentiated but from like 2004 on feels like a giant run on? 2 weeks ago:
I mean an obvious break in the decades was covid. There has been a fair amount of shift in a lot of different things pre/post covid that maybe doesn’t stick out due to the gradual shift, but will definitely be more apparent to anyone looking back on the 2010-2030 time period.
- Comment on Why is it I feel a tiny bit of empathy for the Guthries but really don;t care at all because people get kidnapped/ransomed every day, what makes he so special besides her daughter? 2 weeks ago:
I keep half expecting to hear ICE took her.
- Comment on The Nintendo Switch tops the DS to become the company's best-selling console of all time 2 weeks ago:
That’s fair, I just pointing out an interesting parallel in Nintendo/Zelda history.
That being said, I agree with you about the switch 2. At the rate things are going with prices, even Sony and Microsoft may be waiting to release the next Gen.
- Comment on London stabbing rates vs X posts about London crime 2 weeks ago:
The point of my post is that it is “a metric”. The original post was showing that knife “crimes” were going down over a period of time while rhetoric about knife crimes were up.
However, knife crimes may not be down based on other metrics. So yes, while it’s good that less people are being hospitalized, that doesn’t mean the argument being made in the OP is valid.
I’m also not trying to take sides, just noticing that the graph on knife attacks wasn’t telling the whole story. It’s very possible that the increased rhetoric on knife attacks leads to more people reporting even though crime is down. Generally there has been a trend in the world to over report crime, typically done to help push legislation or political parties.
- Comment on London stabbing rates vs X posts about London crime 2 weeks ago:
I always find it interesting when you’re only provided a portion of the data in a chart, as this shows “hospital Admissions” and not total incidents involving a knife.
If you look at other reports on the issue it seems like incidents involving a knife are still high (and don’t follow the trend from the graph) even though hospital Admissions and deaths are down - Source.
That could mean that reporting is up while crime is down, or could mean that less incidents are ending violently, but it’s not as clear a picture as the initial graph indicates.
Note: the source is for the UK in general, but other London based reports show similar. I chose that article because they seem fairly trustworthy.
- Comment on Do it for your country's debt! 3 weeks ago:
Printing money isn’t usually a good idea as it generally causes inflation/devaluation of the currency. So while the US could do it, the outcome would probably be devastating.
In basic terms, the more of something you have the less valuable it becomes. This works for things like trading cards/collectibles, but also applies to money.
A good real world example of this recently was the pandemic. Between reduced spending (due to be cooped up) and stimulus money (ppp loans, checks, etc.), a lot of Americans came out of the pandemic looking to spend. This huge surge in spending meant a lot of people fighting over a set amount of goods (since during the pandemic manufacturing took a hit). So high demand and low/constrained supply leads to rising prices. So while people have more money, that doesn’t necessarily mean they can buy more things.
- Comment on The Nintendo Switch tops the DS to become the company's best-selling console of all time 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, it might be like the Wii leading into the WiiU. Twilight Princess was originally going to be for the GameCube, but turned into a wii launch title and was followed by Skyward Sword late into the Wiis lifetime. That resulted in the WiiU never having its own Zelda, instead sharing BOTW with Switch during its release.
So it’s possible with BOTW released with Switch and TOTK late into the switches lifetime that we’ll see the same thing happen on the switch 2 (and it won’t get an exclusive Zelda).
- Comment on Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool — Project Genie crashes stocks. (A.K.A . Investors panic because they don't understand what "real" videogames are) 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, I think a lot of people forget that Google (and AI research like this) pumps out a lot of work like this that shows amazing new advances. However, that doesn’t mean any of this is near ready.
Here is a 2018 paper about using world models (a concept where a model is developing an understanding of a “world”) that used it to create an interactive Doom AI model - arxiv.org/abs/1803.10122 just to show that this stuff has been in the works for a long time.
- Comment on Can anyone explain why? 3 weeks ago:
It was never the avacodo toast preventing millenials from buying a house. It was the $34 Billion they each spent every year on booze.
If only they knew how to budget.
- Comment on Anon recaps the DCEU 4 weeks ago:
Haha, sorry to ruin your day, but I did see it!
Having watched young justice (and some other DC shows) I was familiar with the hero so checked it out. It was a decently fun movie for a somewhat lesser known hero. I think the weakest part was that, like most superhero movies, the big bad was a carbon copy of blue beetle (can’t recall if it was his arch nemesis Black Beetle or some other iteration).
I’d say of the DCEU movies I’ve watched, it was one of the better ones.
- Comment on What challenge from a game isn't worth completing and what challenge from a game is worth completing? 4 weeks ago:
I think the jump rope and volleyball moons in Mario Odyssey were pretty bad. They didn’t really connect to the gameplay and just felt tedious to get.
- Comment on Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period 1 month ago:
It was the best selling console in the US this holiday season, but not sure how it’s sales compared to previous years. It also was on a big discount which definitely helped.
- Comment on Trump Administration Live Updates: President Expects Impeachment if G.O.P. Falters in Midterm Elections 1 month ago:
They need a majority in house and senate to impeach and convict. Conviction is how Trump is removed, impeachment just means he did enough to investigate any wrongdoing.
- Comment on How Are You Guys Handling This? 1 month ago:
Yeah, I figured that hadn’t changed, but was too lazy to actually look up the source, thanks for adding it.
However, with box64 you can emulate x86_64 on arm, however I think macs don’t have the gpu integration. Crazy thing is on some phones with snapdragon chips you can emulate games up to cyberpunk 2077 decently well.
- Comment on How Are You Guys Handling This? 1 month ago:
I don’t think bazzite runs on ARM macs.