JohnEdwa

@JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lies of P is getting difficulty options to make the Soulslike more accessible [VGC]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And the opponents wait for 2 seconds after finishing their attacks. Soulslikes are all about learning the patterns and finding the opportunities to hit between dodges, not about mindlessly hack-n-slashing your way to victory.

  And different weapons work for different people, I have some I’m absolutely useless with because I just can’t work with their movesets.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Former PlayStation exec says "$70 or $80" games are a "steal": "As long as people choose carefully how they spend their money, I don't think they should be complaining"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “412 people (403 professional roles, 9 thanks) with 502 credits.” www.mobygames.com/game/241065/…/windows/?autoplat…

  As for those compared budgets, CoD Black Ops Cold War cost $700 million and GTA 6 has already surpassed a billion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Former PlayStation exec says "$70 or $80" games are a "steal": "As long as people choose carefully how they spend their money, I don't think they should be complaining"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There is an argument to be made that Expedition 33 was essentially created by a studio with 30 people (though once you add everyone that worked on it the credits do balloon to over 400) with a rather small budget, and meanwhile companies like Rockstar, Sony and Activision have thousands working for years and spending hundreds of millions creating games like GTA 6, CoD and Concord, so naturally they should be a lot more expensive to buy too.

  They just shouldn’t be surprised if people don’t buy all the $500 Waguy steak on offer and are perfectly happy with way cheaper options.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Former PlayStation exec says "$70 or $80" games are a "steal": "As long as people choose carefully how they spend their money, I don't think they should be complaining"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I do choose carefully, I buy half a dozen indie games on sale instead, and I have nothing to complain about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VPN firm says it didn’t know customers had lifetime subscriptions, cancels them⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yet it is.

  You can go to a company and ask to buy their office building. Or the name trademark. Or staff. Or customer database. Or website. And you continue this until you’ve acquired literally everything the company has except the actual company itself - it’s called an “asset acquisition” - so you get all the stuff, but because the original company technically still exists it’s left with most of the liabilities.

  Most, because some liabilities thankfully do transfer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shower thought: Valve could do the ultimate boss-move this year⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup I’ve spent a good while running Deck in desktop mode compared to my laptop running Manjaro, and so far the only thing I’ve noticed is that the Deck has that handy “add to steam” context menu item that automatically sets a 3rd party game to run in proton through steam.
  And there’s an AUR package for that.

  So unless there’s something more I’ve missed, Manjaro + that package gets you the entire desktop SteamOS experience on any device.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk's X lost 11 million users in the EU over the past 5 months⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Discord -> Matrix or Revolt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What game do you really want to play, but haven't yet because you feel it in your soul that it will get a remake/remaster soon enough?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s getting a remaster, but also maybe a remake at some point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Like to drive fast? Virginia has an anti-speeding device for you.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hope they keep those maps updated, the assist on our BMW constantly gets the speed limits wrong. There’s a section that was changed from 50km/h to 70km/h years ago and it still gets confused because the signs don’t match the map it’s using, flip flopping between the two multiple times.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google changes Chrome extension policies following the Honey link scandal⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Honey being one of them, it did start as a simple addon that gathered and automatically tried coupon codes for you. It did exactly what people expected it to do.

  But obviously once you start getting hundreds of millions in venture capital funds, and eventually sell yourself to Paypal for 4 billion, it’s clear that isn’t all you are doing any more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon's PC works⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ha, I had this exact conversation with a friend of mine a few days ago, he wants to upgrade from 16GB to 32GB and when I asked why, he just blanked out for a while and went “…because more is better, right?”

  He spends most of his time playing rpg maker porn games and raid shadow legend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discussion: Cybertruck involved in attempted bombing in Las Vegas auto-locked after explosion⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If the car has internet connectivity and an app, then the answer to that question is yes, because that’s how the apps work.
  And I very much doubt you can find a manufacturer that promises that they definitely don’t ever access that functionality or data for any reason whatsoever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After years of holding out hope, 2024 was the year I finally gave up on BioWare⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Bioware is (was) actually many studios in a trenchcoat - Bioware Edmonton (“old” Bioware, ME trilogy, Anthem), Bioware Austin (Sw:TOR, DA: I) and formerly Bioware Montreal (ME: Andromeda).

  Though almost all of the veterans have left, so it’s now kinda a Ship of Thesius type situation, Bioware only in name.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘It gets more and more confused’: can AI replace translators?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Even without machine translation, stuff like that has been the bane of translating software for ages as they are almost always done with absolutely zero context whatsoever, just a list of words and strings.

  Can’t see any reasons why that might be difficult.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pocketpair reveals specific patents featured in Nintendo's lawsuit against Palworld⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For the consumer, obviously.
  Patents exist to protect the profit of the inventor, specifically because once you have spent the RnD money to make something, someone else can take your finished idea and create your thing without having to cover those costs. Their entire point is to make sure stuff stays more expensive and exclusive for longer.

  But the issue isn’t that patents or even software patents exist as a thing, they are important to protect against copying, it’s that seemingly almost anything no matter how simple, vague or universal it is can apply and get patented, and whoever owns those patents then doesn’t have to use or license them, instead they just sit on them waiting to strike with a lawsuit.

  Like one of the Nintendo ones which is the genius and detailed idea of “you can can capture animals and ride them using controller input in a vidya gaym!” - a concept entire unique and one that hasn’t been ever used before in a game I bet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Self hosting isn’t really compatible with viral content, you do something that blows up and either get the hug of death or go bankrupt from the bandwidth costs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam's new disclaimer reminds everyone that you don't actually own your games, GOG moves in for the killshot: Its offline installers 'cannot be taken away from you'⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Helped you (and Valve) to save some bandwidth. But yes. If it requires a Steam account to play, you bought a license allowing you to access a game and not an actual game you own.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam's new disclaimer reminds everyone that you don't actually own your games, GOG moves in for the killshot: Its offline installers 'cannot be taken away from you'⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Which is why you don’t have physical copies of those games - you bought a steam key, exactly like you could have done digitally from humblebundle of greenmangaming or myriad of other stores, this one just had it printed on a piece of paper instead of sending you an email.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One of the worst reviewed Tomb Raider games [Angel of Darkness] is getting the remastered treatment, and I am here for it⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The only Tomb Raider I had as a kid. Took me a like decade to finally figure out why anyone would like Tomb Raider.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam's new disclaimer reminds everyone that you don't actually own your games, GOG moves in for the killshot: Its offline installers 'cannot be taken away from you'⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you don’t know what that word means.

  Heck, even if you want to blatantly ignore every other platform and site you can buy games from, which there are plenty, Valve gives devs a supply of Steam keys they can sell anywhere they want, they don’t even get a cut from those.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU approves steep tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If we assume they actually were that affordable in reality, then the answer would be yes.
  The accusation is that the Chinese government is financing and supporting their domestic EV manufacturers in an effort to artificially lower their prices to levels no other manufacturer could ever match in an effort to dominate the market and remove all competition - at which point they could rise their prices drastically and recover the “investment” as there would be no-one else left to compete.

  If it’s true or not, I can’t say, I haven’t researched the subject enough. Those votes at least showcase that there is no clear consensus about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for a Tales-like RPG without active combat⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can play Cold Steel 1&2 as your first if you want a more modern introduction to the world and like the persona style school setting stuff, but CS3 is when the stories of all the previous games start merging together, so it’s very highly recommended to have played Sky, Zero and Azure before that or you will miss a a lot of it.

  Also there is a 3D remake of the Sky trilogy coming, starting sometime next year with the first game. Though so far it seems to be Switch exclusive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why a Helium Leak Disabled Every iPhone in a Medical Facility⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup. Helium is such a tiny thing it can diffuse through almost anything, and in MEMS oscillators which are supposed to be at a rock solid 32kHz, causes variance in the frequency eventually just “gumming” it up entirely and causing it to stop working.

  If you want to know how and why, Applied Science did a video on it. Five years ago. Because that’s when this leak happened.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Now Dell sales staff must be onsite five days per week • The Register⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And the ones most likely to quit are ones that feel they have a good chance of easily getting another job due to performance/experience/education, leaving the company with the people unsure and desperate to keep the job.

  This surely improves quality and productivity at the work place, yup yup.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PlayStation 6 Priced At $700 Like PS5 Pro? It’s Looking Likely⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So not as cheap as the (inflation adjusted) PS2 ($550) or PS4 ($540), but cheaper than the $780 of the PS3. PS1 was $620.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO - 9to5Mac⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s going back to the roots, just in an extremely twisted way - I’m old enough to remember when Reddit was just a link aggregator. You put your stuff on your own site/blog/forum (remember those?), and linked to that from reddit.
  People could then update and comment on it on reddit, but the idea of posting something there directly was a ridiculous idea - how could anything be found later when it would get buried under the new stuff in a few hours, and bumping isn’t a thing at all?

  Fuck reddit and social media, I want my forums back :(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stable Diffusion 3's Disastrous Launch Could Change the AI Landscape Forever⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d say we need to at least up to 63 rules.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Paradox of Blackmarket Wired Bluetooth Apple headphones.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There is a soundcard in the bluetooth headphones and wires are dirt cheap, it’s not about that. Proper lightning headphones require getting your product certified by apple ($$$) and a special apple chip added in ($$$) because iPhones refuse to connect to devices that aren’t.
  But they will connect to every bluetooth device.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's discuss: Half-Life⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Xen was really rushed and shorter than originally intended in HL1, and part of the idea with BM was to flesh it out properly. Might have gone a bit too far, but it was also one of the few places in the project where they could truly come up with something new and unique, and not just redo what Valve had made before them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The inside story of Elon Musk’s mass firings of Tesla Supercharger staff⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  NACS is just the standard CCS protocol shoved in the objectively better a Tesla plug, and part of making it a standard is the requirement of opening the design for everyone to use. So while the plug is from Tesla, they actually were the ones that switched to the CCS protocol first and dropped their own proprietary system, which is how they were able to open the Supercharger network to other cars in the first place.

  And that’s also why NACS is backwards compatible with all current EV chargers that already exist with a simple adapter - either by the driver, or by swapping the cable.