Dudewitbow

@Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  you have to have a personality that people like, and thats the non negotiable part. the rest is work ethic. other than that, do not go into the field expecting to make money playing games, unless you live in a place with a low cost of living and you happen to collect bounties on difficult challenges which no one should be doing for a living.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I havent even played a ubisoft title since before 2010. I just had the advantage of not being particularly attached to any of their IP to even reconsider it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gourmet chocolate⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  something something fried calamari is pig anus conspiracy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wuthering Waves now Steam Deck Playable, and works on Desktop Linux with one tweak⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  being a gacha style game doesnt inherently have to be multiplayer.

  Xenoblade Chronicles 2 is a prime example of a game that has major gacha mechanics but is strictly single player. You collect core crystals and thr crystals rng into a blade, with a percent chance of unlocking a named rare blade that has a unique model/sub quests.

  the difference in models of games like wuthering waves/genshin impact vs Xenoblade is that one is free to play, and tries to release more playable characters in order to entice players to pay (not required to, can be earned in game if you choose to) and the other is a 60$ game + DLC costs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the REAL minimum power supply needed for a RTX 5060 Ti?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  the mininum is dictated by the rest of the components and decision to limit future upgrades down the line.

  after you are aware of what cpu you are using

  amd and intel sub 250 cpus usually 150w or less

  amd high end and alderlake(12gen, and arrowlake), peaks at 250w

  intel raptor lake (13-14th gen) 300w

  hedt cpus like threadripper fall under a similar class.

  peak 5060ti is just under 200w alone.

  add an arbitrary 50w to cover rest of components.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baby dies after California mom leaves him in car to get lip filler on 101-degree day, police say⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  its only guaranteed because of the amount of time the surgery took in the end. if it was shorter, it would have been averted. (say if it eas hour 10 or 20, would have been still negligent but they would probably be alive. the actual time was double that)

  basically there was a chain of decisions and events that led to the deaths, but she still chose the one where the worst outcome was potentially death.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baby dies after California mom leaves him in car to get lip filler on 101-degree day, police say⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  they knew she had children, but im not completely aware she asked the day of the appointment or not. its completely possible she asked when booking the appointment on a different day. its just at some point the establishment was asked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baby dies after California mom leaves him in car to get lip filler on 101-degree day, police say⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  jesus christ, the mother was fucking 20, and she was allowed to take the children into the lobby but opted out of it.

  she blatently knew and asked about her options and chose the one with the highest risk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So is Kingdom Hearts 3 _bad_ or just the normal cringe of Kingdom Hearts?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  its a ton of nomura minigames and disney attractions in combat which draw away from kingdom hearts imo.

  i recommend disabling the disney attraction skills because they really detract from the combat

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a game dev⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Kojima is an example of giving dev too much freedom that its basically further putting you into the red had he been strung along for the ride during metal gear solid 5’s development and the money spent optimizing fox engine. Theres a fine line between endless crunch time/micromanaging, and letting your devs do work.

  to put up a few examples, The upcoming Metroid prime 4 is an example when a company gives devs too much freedom. The original japanese studio didn’t know what hte fuck they were doing, so Nintendo pulled them off hte project, and gave their project to retro, who was working on the “Project harmony” game, which looked very bad, to the point that nintendo was fed up with the hands off approach and Kensuke Tanabe reinserted himself back as director to get prime’s development back into production getting Prime 4 out later this year.

  Part of the reason for the huge microsoft layoff that happened a few days ago is mainly because of microsofts more handsoff approach they gave their developers. they gave ninja theory 5 years to develop Hellblade 2 (which is a relatively long time). They gave Compulsion games 5+ years to develop South of midnight. neither game remotely probably paid of their development cost, in juxtaposition to a studio like Obsidian, who has in the same time frame, released 5 different games, some arguably more expansive than the previous 2 studios games, due to being well managed.

  and I’m not really pointing fingers here, but keep in mind, its not solely due to unsustainable growth/enshittification and treating devs like shit and endless crunch time causing this problem. It’s mainly lack of better people/resource management because there are countless numbers of studios who get significantly more time than they should on a project with not much to show for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a game dev⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  yes, but tweaking whatever engine they have, still uses a lot of the underlying engines code, which more freemarket devs will use. There’s a huge reason why a lot of the companies who build engines in house are in japan, because labor laws in japan makes it so developer retention is usually very high.

  Kojima and fox engine is an example of a well designed and optimized engine, but konami didn’t like it because of how much millions kojima spent developing both it and MGS5 hence the bad blood between them

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a game dev⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  its harder to hire new devs if engine is built in house, because no one outside the company understands how to use said engine unless its open for the public to use. thats the biggest drawback of in house engines (other than the increased develepment life cycle to develop one)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Nintendo locked down the Switch 2’s USB-C port and broke third-party docking⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have the mindset that I buy one for the lowest firmware, because nintendo always has people trying to hack it (successfully). Nintendo has very low investment in actually trying to get a proper OS engineer design their OS security. Youd basically have to go as far back as the fucking virtual boy to look for something non exploitable, and thats just because no one bothered with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Folks not buying PCs from US vendors 'tariff' stockpiles⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ai pcs are actually being bought. most of the pcs being used for local AI purposes are fully rammed out mac mini/studios or strix halo desktops, which are almost solely sold by smaller oems and are backed up.

  most AI pcs arent the ones the large oems clamour about (basically unused NPUs, and to a lesser extent, nvidia based computers with high vram gpus)

  the latter doesnt offer the vram required for the people who want to do in house Ai.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why are we eatings shrimps⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  sorry thats already reserved by tuna

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fan-made Mario Kart 64 PC port released, with track editor and ultrawide support⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nintendo hasn’t really C&D any of the previous decomps. they can for people who upload the whole precompiled executable, but none of them that requires actually ripping the original assets yourself to create the required game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  then you gain the extra potential illegal action due to forgery. so its a game of risk management for the drivers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon considers LASIK⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Anon is tyhe type of guy who looks at a California Prop 65 label and believes the worst in everything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon makes a modern game⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  bloom was major between like 2005-2009ish maybe, coexisted right before the piss filter of the console generation.

  currently tech wise, the current joke trend is blurry TAA caused by the switch to deferred rendering in order to get better lighting. TAA was a stop gap AA to replace older AA methods that are less compatible with deferred rendering. It’s why things look like shit(blurry) ontop of performing like shit (lighting/shadows/raytracing)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PlayStation Executive Jade Raymond Leaves Studio She Founded⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  i think the funniest part is ontop of bad acquisitions, Microsoft was only able to buy blizzard activision partially because sony had a history of making non PlayStation versions of games inferior to the PlayStation version.

  had Sony actually played fair ball, none of this would have probably happened.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sandy Bridge-era motherboard gains M.2 SSD boot support 12 years after launch — first new BIOS in a decade for decommissioned motherboard⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  a handful of sandy/ivy bridge motherboards already had community made bios updates that enable said feature. I personally had it on a asus z77 matx pro board as well as a gigabyte h77 board (albeit ivy bridge, same platform)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indian court orders blocking of Proton Mail⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  you dont block off all vpns, the ips proton vpn uses. vpns in china work the same way… not all vons work in china

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indian court orders blocking of Proton Mail⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  could they theoretically just block protonvpns ip range at an isp level?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intel CEO announces layoffs, restructuring, $1.5 billion in cost reductions, expanded return to office mandate⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  they didnt need upgrading because they sat mostly still till amd caught up.

  they intentionally made the consumer platform stay with quad cores for over 8 generations till AMD came around with Ryzen Gen 1 to be remotely competitive.

  theres a reason why 5% per generation was a joke for almost a decade.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the NFL draft day so "special"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  preview on the teams potential future.

  its also like a graduation where theyre celebrating the class who basically worked their ass off for at least half their lives to get to that point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4chan Is Dead. Its Toxic Legacy Is Everywhere⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  according to my friend who uses it, some went to 8chan (4chan but can create new communities in the same vein of reddit), and the more extremely ones would go to soyjack or kiwifarms

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When Nintendo games were affordable⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  theres also the chance that at least for TTYD, that was a players choice version of the game, which retailed for 20$ new. since its 2006, on the wake of the Wii

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  i typically do not have auto correct on because i tend to type on a lot of tech oriented sites which tend to have a lot of acronyms i dont want autocorrected.

  while typing this, i had to correct 3 words.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  i typo a lot on mobile because small phone and i tap to text and not swipe gesture.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Switch 2 game-key cards won’t be account- or console-locked⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  outside of the official service, there is actually one other feature that people forget exists, and would be relevent to the resell of the key.

  updating by local user (no not the recently announced game sharing stuff, but the ability to update a game via just being near a device with the update)