jordanlund
@jordanlund@lemmy.world
- Comment on How long until the rise of games with mods turns into user created games. 4 days ago:
Aliens: Total Conversion - 1994:
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
See that’s the thing, I’m not generally opposed to NSFW content, just certain categories aren’t my thing.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
I remember my first trip to “All” going “Wow, that’s a lot of furry porn, anime porn, and furry anime porn…”
Then, just when I blocked all the requisite communities, someone started setting up dozens of AI porn communities… (sigh)
- Comment on What was the first game you ever bought ? 1 week ago:
Well, bought FOR me… Atari 2600 Combat (came with the system). I think I was 8 or 9? Totally worth it!
- Comment on I'm thinking of putting my cat on an all vegan diet. What are some good veggies and plant based proteins for cats? 1 week ago:
Cats are obligate carnivores. They can’t NOT eat meat of some kind.
If you don’t comprehend this or do but aren’t comfortable with it, then you should not have a cat.
www.britannica.com/science/nutrition/Herbivores#r…
“Some carnivores, particularly cats (family Felidae), are obligate carnivores, meaning they cannot obtain all the nutrients that they need from the plant kingdom and bacteria. In particular, obligate carnivores lack the enzyme needed to split carotene, obtained from plants, into vitamin A. Instead, these animals obtain vitamin A from the liver of their prey. Obligate carnivores are similarly unable to synthesize some essential very-long-chain, highly unsaturated fatty acids that other animals can make from shorter fatty acids found in plants.”
- Comment on I choose hating your job in unconventional ways. 1 week ago:
As someone who did 10 years in retail, this is the normal state of any display after being open to the general public for 20 minutes.
- Comment on Spicy spicy 2 weeks ago:
Coins #2 and 3 are too large and need to be moved farther down and now I can’t unsee that.
But you know what’s WORSE?
Mismatched book spines.
- Comment on Highguard will permanently shut down on March 12th. 4 weeks ago:
I can’t help but think there’s money in acquiring all these completed assets and coming up with a story based single player game around them.
The creative part is already done! Pop it into a non-GaaS structure and see what happens!
I’d have LOVED to explore the world of Brink and it was set up to be another Assassin’s Creed Assassins vs. Templars vibe… and it all fell apart…
- Comment on Designer claims ‘most’ of Highguard’s dev team have been laid off, weeks after launch | VGC 1 month ago:
There’s probably money to be made in purchasing the IP of these failed live service games and using the assets and art to make good single player games with an actual story.
I’d play the hell out of an Assassin’s Creed ish game in the Brink universe.
- Comment on Is the Xbox One X a good console/4k player in 2026? 1 month ago:
Xbox One X is still a better choice than the Xbox Series S.
Let me explain:
It has more RAM than the Series S, so Xbox One titles and backwards compatible titles will run with Xbox One X enhancements that the Series S cannot run.
It has a physical disc drive for backwards compatible titles, DVDs, Blu Rays, and 4K UHD movies. The Series S is discless.
The only downside are newer games that are exclusive to Series S/X, but really, how many are there? Cyberpunk 2077 plays on the One X.
The new Forza won’t run, but the older ones should!
Source: Put the Xbox Series X and PS5 in the living room, moved the Xbox One X and PS4 to the bedroom. Still use it!
- Comment on Games you really want to play, but can't or won't? 1 month ago:
Heard all the good things about Disco Elysium and found it on sale for the Steam Deck… Could not stand playing a character with traumatic brain injury. I thought I did something wrong generating the character, no, fanbase assures me that’s the way it’s supposed to be… Refunded it in less than an hour.
- Comment on "AI is Theft, I Have to Use It, Otherwise I'll Get Fired": GDC Reports One-Third of Game Workers Are Using GenAI for Daily Tasks 2 months ago:
They can, but they also don’t meet the corporate dictate of “Everyone use AI.” 😉
- Comment on "AI is Theft, I Have to Use It, Otherwise I'll Get Fired": GDC Reports One-Third of Game Workers Are Using GenAI for Daily Tasks 2 months ago:
Not at all wrong, just showing what can be done with virtually zero effort and time.
I could most likely perfect it in a few minutes more, still a fraction of the time of doing it by hand. I’m not extending a proof of concept to win arguments on the Internet. 😉
But as I noted at the bottom of the comment, which apparently nobody bothered to read, there are ALREADY royalty free libraries for this kind of thing. So it also has to be faster than searching libraries that are already there.
Of course that action is it’s own time sink as anyone who has gone looking for “the perfect font” can tell you.
- Comment on "AI is Theft, I Have to Use It, Otherwise I'll Get Fired": GDC Reports One-Third of Game Workers Are Using GenAI for Daily Tasks 2 months ago:
It did get maybe 90% there in a minute which is faster than a person would do it. Not a perfect tile, maybe take a few more interations. But not awful for cobbled together in a minute, and if your job is to come up with 50 or 100 different textures, still better than doing it by hand.
But as I noted, there are also already royalty free libraries for this stuff as well.
- Comment on "AI is Theft, I Have to Use It, Otherwise I'll Get Fired": GDC Reports One-Third of Game Workers Are Using GenAI for Daily Tasks 2 months ago:
Well of course not, AI did it in 1 minute. 🤣
- Comment on "AI is Theft, I Have to Use It, Otherwise I'll Get Fired": GDC Reports One-Third of Game Workers Are Using GenAI for Daily Tasks 2 months ago:
I could see using AI for tasks that are so mind numbing and mundane it might actually be cruel to make a human do it.
“I need a perfectly tileable concrete wall texture for a video game, make it light gray with random spots of yellow and white paint.”
Took about a minute.
But then, if you’re going to do THAT, there are already royalty free libraries where it’s already done.
- Comment on sorting of Roman numerals 2 months ago:
The files are sorted by the numeric year first, up to 1950.
The two files for 1950 are together, as they should be.
But the letters are sorted alphabetically, so XI comes before XV. It doesn’t see that they are numbers, it’s reading them as letters.
If they want it sorted correctly, they should rename the files:
“1950 - 018
1950 - 019”That would work. Interestingly enough, so would:
“1950 - Eighteen
1950 - Nineteen” - Comment on 2 months ago:
There was a quickplay where someone figured out how to beat the game in something crazy like 10 or 12 minutes.
- Comment on Ubisoft target audience when they play a good game 2 months ago:
I tend to agree with this. I had given up on PC gaming by 2004 so did not play HL2 until the Orange Box on Xbox in 2007 and my reaction was “Jesus this is boring!”
I’ve tried to replay it a couple of times since then, most recently on Steam Deck, but it just doesn’t click with me and I give up around the Canals.
- Comment on Dragon Age veteran says scrapped Anthem Next "could have been" up there with No Man's Sky's legendary turnaround 2 months ago:
After the litany of fuck ups Bungie did, nobody should want to be the next Destiny.
- Comment on Pet Peeves with Games? 2 months ago:
Happened with me in FFVII back in the day… Doing well, had to take a 2 week business trip, got back… “Wait, did I just GET to this town or was I LEAVING this town?” No clue what I was doing, I may have just started over…
- Comment on Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period 2 months ago:
Even in the days of memory cards you could back up saves to other memory cards…
- Comment on Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period 2 months ago:
Yeah, but you don’t give pirated goods as gifts. 😉
I still have the OG Advance Wars carts for my GBA.
- Comment on Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period 2 months ago:
I picked up Advance Wars 1+2 Reboot for my kid for Christmas. $60 still after coming out in 2023.
nintendo.com/…/advance-wars-1-plus-2-re-boot-camp…
(* “My kid” - He’s 29, he should br buying his own games! LOL.)
- Comment on Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period 2 months ago:
The Switch 2 is the first console I’ve just outright skipped in… well… years now. I guess since the Wii U?
Just every piece of news about it as it was coming out made it sound less and less appealing…
$70 games (that never get discounted because Nintendo.)
Games aren’t “games”, they’re download keys.
Special SD cards that are more expensive.
Microphone support requires a subscription after 1 year.
Charging $10 for a hardware demo that should be included, like Desk Job on the Steam Deck.
And, like you say, the remote detonation option, which is burning legitimate players:
gadgetmatch.com/nintendo-switch-2-lawsuit-bricked…
Generally with new hardware it’s “Hey, what’s not to like?”
With the Switch 2 it’s more “What is there to like?”
- Comment on Capital i and lowercase L look the same in pretty much any sans-serif computer font 2 months ago:
Like “O” and “0” in some fonts. The O is slightly fatter.
In the case of Il, the l is slightly taller. Don’t get me started on |.
- Comment on Arc raiders is a horrible game 2 months ago:
The mere presence of griefers eliminates this from PVE:
ign.com/…/we-just-started-i-have-nothing-retired-…
Until they come up with servers where PvP is prohibited, PvE isn’t worth discussing.
- Comment on How Are You Guys Handling This? 2 months ago:
With current pricing, it’s going to be tough and that’s no joke.
Even the new Steam Machine is being predicted to be around $1,000.
indy100.com/…/steam-machine-price-cost-release-da…
The era of $600 gaming PCs is 1-3 years ago now.
(NGL - I still want a Steam Machine. :)
- Comment on How Are You Guys Handling This? 2 months ago:
I’ve consistently refused to buy in to Game Pass. I still buy physical games where available. If it’s only digital, I’ll get the Steam version for my Steam Deck.
- Comment on New Year's broadcasts behind paywalls 2 months ago:
CNN is not a broadcast network.
