Quetzalcutlass
@Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world
- Comment on I love stardew valley. looking for an alternative that is made for controller experience. 1 day ago:
There’s a modern remake called Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town. It’s isometric and cross-platform so I’m hoping the controller support would be decent.
- Comment on I'm not paying $8 for a pack of Skittles 1 day ago:
Concessions are their source of income. Movie companies use their monopoly on film access to demand almost all of the money from ticket sales (something like 90% of the ticket price IIRC), so the theater actually doesn’t make that much off of movies.
Concessions on the other hand, especially stuff that costs pennies to make like soda and popcorn, are pure profit and are basically the only way many theaters can stay in business these days.
- Comment on Keeping the PlayStation 2 Alive: an interview with devs from the PCSX2 emulator (my article!) 3 days ago:
On the other hand, they’re used to working with low-level concepts from their day job!
- Comment on Stardewy warlock schooler Witchbrook delayed to 2026, but its devs have magicked up an interactive map 3 days ago:
I love how vibrant the indie dev scene is nowadays. I completely forgot about this game despite being incredibly excited for it. There have been so many amazing indie games recently that even ones that meet every one of my interests can fall through the cracks.
- Comment on Many developers leave GZDoom due to leader conflicts and fork it into UZDoom 3 days ago:
Any interesting stories? It’s always amusing to read about how little power it takes for someone to become insufferable. Some maintainers can be incredibly petty tyrants.
For instance, half the FAQ for CDDA is about avoiding or navigating around the whims of a few, let’s call them opinionated, team members who gatekeep development of specific systems in the game.
- Comment on Can someone fact check this 1 week ago:
NASA are so dumb for sending their satellites all the way into space. Why don’t they simply float them above the trees as the majestic owl teaches us?
- Comment on Emperor of overpromising Peter Molyneux says he's done with games after Masters of Albion, which is also his 'redemption title' 1 week ago:
*Metal Gear Solid 5 flashbacks*
- Comment on Obsidian Temporarily Removes Games From Sale Due to Unity Exploit 2 weeks ago:
This feels unnecessary. From what I’ve heard, the exploit in question requires a local file and only operates at the privilege level of the game itself, so you’re unlikely to encounter it unless you’re adding files to your game install.
So you’re vulnerable if you install malicious mods, in other words. Which, consisting Unity mods are done via DLL injection, is already the case even without this exploit.
- Comment on I just finished the Casemate mod for HALO: CE 2 weeks ago:
How hard was it to maintain your sanity while working on this? Whenever InfernoPlus goes into detail on working with Halo’s content creation tools, it sounds like the most painful jury-rigged mess imaginable.
- Comment on Amid EA's unpopular $55 billion buyout, Baldur's Gate 3 director takes time "to remind people that making games faster and cheaper while charging more has never worked before" 2 weeks ago:
For a prime example of this, look no further than EA’s former CEO John Riccitiello, who keeps getting executive positions despite being objectively bad at his job.
He was hired as EA’s COO (and later CEO) despite having zero experience in the video game industry (his prior work was at places like Pepsi and Clorox). EA under Riccitiello tried to squeeze every cent possible out of customers through aggressive microtransactions, pushed to make every game always-online to prevent piracy (a decision that lead to the disastrous SimCity reboot, and the Sims 4 only escaped the same fate due to SimCity’s dire reception [though it’s theorized its vastly simplified gameplay compared to earlier Sims titles is a remnant of this time]), was a major proponent of the worst sorts of anti-consumer DRM such as SecuROM, and treated employees like trash leading to an exodus of talent. EA was voted the worst company in America twice during his tenure, and people online celebrated when the stock price plummeted and he was finally pushed out.
His post-EA career was also a disaster. After leaving EA (with a golden parachute, naturally), he was hired as the CEO of Unity Technologies - the company behind the Unity game engine - due to his “industry expertise”. Over the next few years he ran the company into the ground with awful monetization strategies (he’s the one behind the “runtime fee” fiasco, where Unity wanted to charge game developers by how many times their games were installed), wasted billions of dollars acquiring middleware vendors (mainly ad and analytics companies), and set engine development priorities that chased mobile game fads over what the actual users of their product wanted. He “resigned” when the stock price dropped by over 60% in a year due to his mistakes, and the engine’s reputation hasn’t come close to recovering from the damage his leadership caused.
I can’t wait to see what company he ruins next.
- Comment on Xbox consoles are now getting a fullscreen Xbox Game Pass Ultimate ad at boot, just a day after a 50% price hike was announced 2 weeks ago:
Keepass2Android shows a pop-up each October asking for donations. Perfectly fine, but the dismiss button is labeled “I don’t like the app that much”. Even free software isn’t spared that sort of thing.
- Comment on THEY'RE EVOLVING 2 weeks ago:
Especially since they started with drones unlocked!
- Comment on Life imitates art 2 weeks ago:
fictional Templar-run evil Assassin’s Creed gaming company Abstergo Entertainment
Did trying to parse this give anyone else a headache?
- Comment on Do you recognize this guy playing video games? 2 weeks ago:
Which one? Both.
- Comment on Being a noob in heist games 2 weeks ago:
As an aside, if you want to try a fun heist game without needing to worry about letting down any teammates, I highly recommend checking out Heat Signature.
It’s single-player and is a 2D, top-down heist game where you sneak aboard space ships to complete objectives like assassinating a crew member, stealing something valuable, hijacking the entire ship, etc.
It looks simple, but things get crazy fast. One minute you’re sneaking behind guards and knocking them out with a wrench, the next you’re teleporting into a locked cabin, shooting out the glass so the explosive decompression blows you and your target into space, then teleporting back to your original location (because you used a recall teleporter that does so automatically after a few seconds) while they slowly asphyxiate, before hacking the nearby turrets to shoot down any investigating guards while you sprint back to your shuttle and escape.
- Comment on Jimmy Kimmel is The Most Boring, Cringe and Unfunny Comedian Ever; People Should Boycott Disney for Getting His Show Back. 3 weeks ago:
It might fit into shitposts, but the response each post gets shows the community isn’t a huge fan of these. The other places you post them suggest that you’re actually just crossposting to communities that allow anything to be posted.
But again, crossposts aren’t marked in every client (and some don’t even show the crosspost text, just the title!), so a lot of readers won’t know not to take these posts seriously and fights will break out in the comments. Though judging by the comments on the original posts, people can’t detect bait even when the community is literally named ragebait.
(Also, do the random emphasized letters mean anything? I’m too lazy to do the work of checking for hidden messages myself.)
- Comment on Jimmy Kimmel is The Most Boring, Cringe and Unfunny Comedian Ever; People Should Boycott Disney for Getting His Show Back. 3 weeks ago:
There has to be a better way of promoting your ragebait community than crossposting to an unrelated one. Some clients don’t even show that a post is a crosspost.
- Comment on hyperbaric oxygen chamber 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Palfarm Trailer - Palworld Spin-Off Game 3 weeks ago:
Nintendo to the Patent Office: “We invented farming games with the introduction of berries in Pokémon. Please ignore all other prior art that wasn’t ours.”
- Comment on smol 3 weeks ago:
Or maybe the large ones are so angry because of the countless tiny ones you unknowingly splattered against your hull?
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Look upon my woods, ye mighty, and despair!
- Comment on dog days of summer 4 weeks ago:
The Gods Must Be Crazy?
- Comment on 'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash: 'If you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor, you're going to be disappointed' 4 weeks ago:
Unreal is the king of bloat. Rather than “general purpose” they strove for “all purpose” - Unreal Engine tries to do literally everything out of the box with as many bells and whistles attached as possible. The result is that Unreal Engine games require tons of optimization to run well, and even the editor itself consumes tens of gigabytes and runs like crap.
Unity is simply a mess of poor decisions and technical debt. Their devs seem to reinvent a crucial development pipeline every few years, give up halfway, then leave both options exposed and expect developers to just automatically know the pitfalls of each. Combined with horrific mismanagement and hostile revenue-seeking, Unity has lost a ton of goodwill over the past few years. It’s a major fall from grace for what was once the undisputed king of Indie dev engines.
Godot is tiny, decently performant, and great for simple games, but it’s very bare-bones and expects developers to implement their own systems for anything beyond basic rendering, physics, and netcode. Additionally, the core developers have a reputation for being incredibly resistant to making major changes even when a battle-tested pull request for a frequently requested feature is available. Still my personal pick though.
- Comment on In Neurocracy, it's up to you to solve a murder mystery through the internet's greatest resource, Wikipedia 5 weeks ago:
And if multiplayer doesn’t bother you, the MMO The Secret World was one of the few other video games that expected players to do outside research to solve quests. That or already have a degree in history, art, and the occult.
It was relaunched as a F2P game several years ago. I don’t know if they kept the obscurity aspect or toned it down to be more friendly to casual players.
- Comment on Favorite Modded Console? 5 weeks ago:
I’ll always have a soft spot for the original Xbox due to XBMC, the homebrewed Xbox Media Center.
Though most would probably know it better by its current name, Kodi.
- Comment on Favorite Modded Console? 5 weeks ago:
The DS with a flashcart was nearly perfect. It was incredibly portable due to the rectangular shape, the screen was protected from scratches while folded so you didn’t need a case, and it could emulate every console up to the N64 as well as every Nintendo handheld (obviously). I was upset when my cart finally died - no other handheld emulator I’ve found is as convenient.
- Comment on invertebrate 1 month ago:
The nobility of the sea. True blue bloods, if you will.
- Comment on dog days of summer 1 month ago:
They don’t shove them onto spikes so they’re not quite at shrike level, but leopards sometimes drag their kills up into the trees to hide them. Imagine walking by during a windy day and it starts raining monkeys and antelope.
- Comment on This was a big deal. You could play a game on your cell phone 1 month ago:
I remember reading sketchy guides on how to add custom ringtones without needing to pay for the privilege. Arbitrary restrictions on user folder access predate Android.
- Comment on This was a big deal. You could play a game on your cell phone 1 month ago:
Once a week? Those things could go pretty much forever on a single charge so long as you weren’t making calls, even with batteries that had a tiny fraction of modern capacity due to their simple hardware.
Nowadays even a completely idle smartphone on extreme power saving mode is lucky to last a couple of days, especially if you don’t/can’t disable the vendor-mandated bloatware that periodically wakes it up to phone home. When used regularly, it’s not uncommon for a phone to drain within a single day.
Sometimes I miss the simple, rugged designs - right up until I remember how much better smartphones are at literally everything else. Still wish companies would get the memo and focus on bigger batteries rather than smaller phones, though.
