CrazyLikeGollum
@CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.world
- Comment on EXO-6 Launches Preorders for 1:6-Scale Star Trek: The Next Generation Enterprise-D Captain's Chair Replica 2 days ago:
1:1 scale or we riot!
- Comment on Is it time to start a campaign against kernel-level anticheat? 5 days ago:
I think it should also be noted that the games industry is not audited for security to the same degree as a lot of other industries. So vulnerabilities may not be found until years after launch and then go unpatched indefinitely because the company has already moved on to the next thing.
Hell, one of the older CoD games had an RCE vulnerability that as far as I’m aware is still not patched.
Plus, major publishers like EA are now pushing to create their own kernel-level anticheat in-house. Why should anyone trust them to create a secure piece of software that runs with the highest permissions possible when they can’t even be trusted to create stable, functional games?
- Comment on NOT A TOY 1 week ago:
Or better yet, giant tardigrades that are roughly the size of a large dog/small wolf for the purpose of having an effectively immortal sled team.
- Comment on What are your favourite trailers? 1 week ago:
The cinematic trailers for OG Guild Wars.
- Comment on Standoff 2 weeks ago:
The typo kind of makes sense though. The Gods are etymologists who study the language of the bugs. It’s why they understand prayer. Entomological etymologists.
- Comment on Cats are Healers 2 weeks ago:
But I’ll get cat hair on my programmer socks!
- Comment on Percentages 2 weeks ago:
Just include a glossary of formulas for figuring out stats/chances/whatever in your game. With clearly labeled variables. Then throw a reference to that glossary in your tooltips/helpful popups.
- Comment on wood 3 weeks ago:
*Fred Durst and Chris Cornell bumping into each other at a random bar.
- Comment on anyway, i started blastin' 5 weeks ago:
That just sounds like the gut biome version of a spworm.
- Comment on Larian revealed that Baldur's Gate 3 has sold 2 copies in the Vatican 5 weeks ago:
That song goes hard though. Felt bad ending it.
- Comment on Pocketpair Confirms Which Patents Nintendo And The Pokemon Company Are Suing It Over 1 month ago:
Yeah, there was a great video on YouTube I saw a few days ago that went over why Sony is backing Pocket Pair, why Nintendo is making this case about patents, why that’s a massive risk for Nintendo, and why Nintendo is willing to take that risk.
It largely seemed to come down to the Nintndo-Sony rivalry that started when Nintendo backed out of the SNES era deal to create the PlayStation. Nintendo is trying to crush Sony’s potentially viable competitor to their largest franchise and are making the case a patent case because that’s the only route they can pursue. If they lose, Nintendo stands to lose those patents.
- Comment on lab toys 1 month ago:
Khorn really stepped up his game once we started rounding the edges on our PC cases.
- Comment on lab toys 1 month ago:
Just be sure to do it in binary. You gotta squeeze all of the value out of those phalanges.
- Comment on Why are laptop adapters so much larger than phone adapters of same power rating? 1 month ago:
The equation to determine watts is P=VA
If you have the same voltage and a higher amperage, then by definition you have a higher wattage.
- Comment on Clever, clever 1 month ago:
- Comment on Nihilism spectrum 1 month ago:
The nostrils are connected to the throat through the sinuses as are the ear canals. Topologically making them all part of the same mouth-anus throughole.
- Comment on Nihilism spectrum 1 month ago:
Fun fact: humans are geometrically a donut.
- Comment on ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 2 months ago:
We would also scavenge fallen fruits and berries that were at least partially decayed. It’s most likely how we discovered the intoxicating effects of alcohol.
- Comment on Is mooning someone considered sexual assault? 2 months ago:
In most jurisdictions battery involves touching someone while assault is the threat of immediate danger.
- Comment on Corporate greed is killing RuneScape. What do people play instead? 2 months ago:
I still occasionally fire it up and just walk around some of the hub cities.
- Comment on Corporate greed is killing RuneScape. What do people play instead? 2 months ago:
I’ve tried getting into GW2, but just couldn’t really get into it.
Doesn’t help that I fell of contact with all of my old guild mates who were supposed to be switching over.
- Comment on Corporate greed is killing RuneScape. What do people play instead? 2 months ago:
I don’t know about nowadays, but back in 2007 when I got bored with Runescape I switched to Guild Wars. Great MMO. Kind of dead playerwise now, but the servers are still up and it is soloable.
- Comment on Anon plays The Sims 2 months ago:
They’re depressed not suicidal
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 level editor is cracked open by modders, bringing homebrew campaigns one step closer 3 months ago:
Currently, that is the case. Update 7 was supposed to have mod support for consoles as well, but that got delayed to a future patch. It’s coming though.
- Comment on Steam owner Valve accused of ripping off 14m UK gamers 6 months ago:
That 30% cut is also done on the Xbox and Playstation stores. I would assume Nintendo does the same thing.
It also sounds like Valve’s price parity agreement only applies to Steam keys. So, if a developer or publisher wanted to provide the game through their own storefront or on another third-party platform then they could charge whatever they wanted.
As for the 30% cut being excessive, I don’t know if it is or not, but storing data at the scale that Valve does costs a lot of money, not to mention the costs associated with ensuring the data’s integrity and distributing the data to their users all over the world at reasonable speeds. In all likelihood they are running multiple data centers on multiple continents with 100s of petabytes of storage each with some extremely high speed networking within the individual data centers, between the data centers, and out to the wider internet. Data hosting, especially for global availability, is damn expensive.
- Comment on Star Wars Outlaws Requires The Internet To Install It 7 months ago:
I wouldn’t say I’m new to Ubisoft, more that they haven’t released a game I’ve been interested in playing since Assassin’s Creed: Revelations.
As for day one patches being a necessity for games, I would argue that if a game has major game breaking bugs on final release (AKA launch day) then the game isn’t worth playing, much less spending money on.
If a game can’t even install on a system that meets its minimum requirements without needing a patch, then I’d say that’s a feature not a bug. Since it tells me that I should strongly reconsider purchasing anything from that publisher in the future.
- Comment on Star Wars Outlaws Requires The Internet To Install It 7 months ago:
Bit late to respond, but as someone else pointed out, physical PC games are virtually nonexistent. Even the collector’s edition of Baldur’s Gate 3 I recently bought came as a steam key and a disk with the steam client installer and a few files for the game to make Steam think the game is installed and force an update. I was pretty disappointed by that.
And no, most people don’t have a blu-ray drive or any kind of optical media reader in their PCs these days.
As for whether or not disks that large are printed on by publishers, most physical PS5 games are printed in disks of that capacity as are 4K blu-ray releases of movies.
- Comment on Star Wars Outlaws Requires The Internet To Install It 8 months ago:
A Blu-ray can hold up to 128GB. Most games aren’t bigger than that, though some are. And including multiple discs to fit the entire game used to be standard practice, and could still easily be done.
This is for DRM, online install for a physical game has always been solely for DRM.
- Comment on Halo Infinite Update to Bring Networking Overhaul, Easy Anti-Cheat, and More Next Week 9 months ago:
I guess it’s time to uninstall. Kernel level anti-cheat is a hard pass.