Badeendje
@Badeendje@lemmy.world
- Comment on 'We're Gonna Win': Alabama Mercedes Workers Begin UAW Vote 2 days ago:
I hope they win.
- Comment on Don't Let Your Thoughts Wander 2 days ago:
Excellent template. It made me laugh like a hyena.
- Comment on Sony Confirmed To Be Behind HD2 Delisting Of 180 Countries, Not Valve 6 days ago:
I don’t buy that… I would have when this just started… just a stupid decision made by an MBA that only thinks of his MAU and DAU metrics for the playstation network.
But once shit hit the fan, some big shot corpo started making central decisions from the comfort of his volcano base while petting his white cat.
- Comment on Steam is now refunding Ghost of Tsushima for people in affected countries. 6 days ago:
Absolutely. The region not being limited is a big indicator on intent. Or it’s the dev that “forgot” and got more sales.
I’m curious how many copies are sold in regions no longer supported.
- Comment on Steam is now refunding Ghost of Tsushima for people in affected countries. 1 week ago:
If they would have put up a banner in the game or a popup every log in stating …
“Sony account requirement temporarily suspended. Please note that in a future update this will be a hard requirement and you will not be able to play Helldivers without a PSN account”.
Then this would not have been an issue. The question is if their game would have gotten as big as it did. I’ll bet ‘no’.
Also how fucking lame is the playstation network that they still cannot handle proper game launches… ffs this should be a non issue by now. The servers that handle this should be setup to spin up and down clones when needed… But nooooo that costs extra money.
- Comment on Sony Confirmed To Be Behind HD2 Delisting Of 180 Countries, Not Valve 1 week ago:
So then why not relist them and sell your game on a bigger market? The answer is probably because they will try again.
- Comment on American wanting to move abroad, what's the best bet for an registered nurse? 1 week ago:
Are you what Americans consider a communist or an actual one? Cause in Europe you will find that what Americans consider far left in politics is actually right of center still.
- Comment on Arrowhead CEO admits: Helldivers 2's balancing isn't what it should be 1 week ago:
The team reloads should not require the teammate to wear the backpack. I’ll bet it would be used more then.
- Comment on Arrowhead CEO admits: Helldivers 2's balancing isn't what it should be 1 week ago:
If the strategy is looking at “what most people use” and “what is overrepresented in the win stats” you will always end up nerfing what is fun and popular.
So I’d suggest smaller changes… off course fix bugs and stuff that does not work as intended… but balance a weapon … and go on to the next. Also decide what a weapon is supposed to do… sniper shotguns should not exist… neither CQB dmr’s.
- Comment on Dashcam footage clears man of felony charge after showing constable injuring himself 1 week ago:
So… filing a false police report? That cannot be qualified immunity… right?
- Comment on Glorious Victory 1 week ago:
Illegal and out of their jurisdiction
Illegal means against the law… so no.
Out of their jurisdiction, Steam is Valve’s platform, so no again.Valve is the seller in this case, who will be liable for the agreement they have with their customers. If one of their sold product is going to end up massively refunded, who do you think will be processing these? Then Valve has to turn around and get the money from Sony… guess how Valve estimates that will go.
So step 1 for Valve is limit exposure by stopping sales where you expect issues.
Step 2 is analyzing the potential for refunds in other countries and limiting there as well if deemed to big a risk.I can only imagine that feedback from Valve to Sony played a role in the decision to not push forward. As large corporations only speak money… the cost benefit made at Sony must have missed some things to have it now skew the other way.
I’ll believe the account requirement will be totally in the past IF the sales to the non PSN countries are reinstated. Cause why limit your customers to countries if that is not necessary.
- Comment on Was it hunter2 or hunter3 2 weeks ago:
Yep. Several years ago I switched and it took a little getting used to. But now I would not want it any other way. The plugins in the browsers make it convenient and also a proper app on your mobile and you are set to go. Click on a password field and then you can click on the plugin to fill the fields.
- Comment on The wild successes of Helldivers 2 and Baldur's Gate 3 send a clear message: Let devs cook 3 weeks ago:
They should manage the organization and stay the fuck away from the product.
Only really mature product owners that understand what they are doing and LOVE the product they are making should be allowed near your product… and they will work with devs to make something wonderful.
Satisfactory, Valheim, manor lords, enshrouded… just a few examples of product that is loved. And it shows.
- Comment on totally tardigrades 3 weeks ago:
Art most likely
- Comment on What's a small cleared space in a forest where people can live called? 4 weeks ago:
A clearing?
- Comment on Fallout 4 is Getting Free Updates on April 25 5 weeks ago:
Nope, most of their Custer base are like heroin addicts. Even if its stepped on and cut with ground up to light, they will still buy it. So why bother.
- Comment on What will happen to large companies once poor people have no more money to use? 5 weeks ago:
More exploitation probably.
- Comment on Russia Is Making Its Own Gaming Consoles 1 month ago:
Or, these consoles will be made using extremely high tech chips and other parts that can easily double as cockpit displays and flight controllers in missiles.
- Comment on Road to Vostok | Public Demo 2 1 month ago:
store.steampowered.com/app/…/Road_to_Vostok/.
Wow, Looks impressive. I’m not for this type of early testing, but I hope he gets enough feedback to make the gameplay fun and interesting.
- Comment on Okay, but Mötley is a pretty awesome name. 1 month ago:
Well some of these will not require your daughter to think of her stripper name.
- Comment on I'm not your pardner, guy! 1 month ago:
I’m not your pal, buddy!
- Comment on Helldivers 2 has "performed well ahead of expectations" and topped more than 8m sales 1 month ago:
Its fun! Running, explosions, bugs to squash…
- Comment on Someone gets killed by a car, so they restrict e-bikes. 2 months ago:
Thanks for that tidbit of background. Much appreciated. The location does seem hostile to anything other than cars… that’s a stroad for you.
All that space can easily fit a protected bikelane and pavement on either side with a row of trees on the separator between the bikelane and the carlane… such a waste.
Obligatory, stroads are stupid.
- Comment on Someone gets killed by a car, so they restrict e-bikes. 2 months ago:
Oh no, sensible regulation on e-bikes. Although the initial proposal was better. Splitting the bikes into classifications. And then splitting the eligibility by class (class 1 for any age) and class 2 and 3 for 16 and older.
The accident was horrible but also weird. Biking on the sidewalk? next to a highway?? With turns??? It just reads bizarre and like a traffic system that is very hostile to anything but cars.
- Comment on How might a public flogging of an authoritarian ruler in 2024 impact the world? 2 months ago:
A proper response would have been to send in the national guard, corral all the rioters and put them in a camp to await trial there.
Speedy justice, all with insurrection and murder/felony murder as the basis for their charges.
Then you figure out how to work through the backlog of prison sentences. Maybe use an island for that or something. Far away from mainland US like Guam.
There you provide food, housing, schooling and allow them a chance to become productive members of society after their sentence.
- Comment on Steam has a new hit game, and it’s Pokémon with guns 3 months ago:
I tried the Game Pass version. No access to community servers and for me the game kept crashing (unreal engine crashes) even when in the menu.
Ended up getting the full game through steam, works like a charm, access to community servers (my own dedicated server) and the game is fun so far. But I have some grievances with the UI.
- Many of the skills and their function can only be seen from a specific screen, meaning you have to equip the pal and then you can see what the skill actually does.
- some of the screens are a bit cluttered.
- combat fiels clunky -building of items lacks snapping/ a grid so everything will always be slightly off.
- pals will automate stuff but just randomly dump stuff in chests, meaning my desire to keep stuff organized is constantly irked.
On the good side:
- it is gorgeous
- pals are hilarious
- automation works funny with the pals used to automate tasks
- the world seems big
- cooperative play seems to be implemented well (you can even help other players craft stuff)
- crafting is done from chests in your base directly… so no running around collecting the items you need.
I do have to say that setting up your own server was a bit of a pain as the documentation is horrible.
- many of the server settings are in an inifile that does not allow newline characters making it a pain to edit.
- many settings are in properly documented where the setting or available values are not explained.
- dedicated servers can only be used with a password if set as community server
- the community server list caps out at 1000 servers so if yours is not in the list, you cannot find it (you need to connect via IP and then it’s listed under recent servers)
- Comment on How is Russia not Financially Crippled? 3 months ago:
No you got it right, this is the mechanism. India is apparently also making bank with this.
- Comment on How is Russia not Financially Crippled? 3 months ago:
There is also a Perun Video that talks about war economies more in general and the Russian and Ukrainian economies specifically.
war economics 101.
There are few things people have been keener to predict throughout history than ‘quick’ wars. Pro Russian commentators after February 24th 2022 expected a rapid victory - while Western media was quick to suggest that Russia’s economy was collapsing soon after sanctions were implemented.
Instead, both Ukraine and Russia show signs of increasing their wartime production and scaling up their armed forces. That should not come as a surprise. Historically, the process of converting from a civilian to a wartime economy has yielded more than enough results to overcome even significant trauma inflicted on the industrial base (for example, strategic bombing attacks).
Russia’s economy is suffering, it’s long term economic prospects have been badly wounded by a collapse in international trust, market denial, and a barrage of sanctions. Ukraine’s economy is likewise under immense pressure - primarily from physical attacks by the Russian armed forces. But it would be naïve to think that either is likely to collapse in the coming weeks and months. As long as the will to go on (and foreign support) remains in play, there is every reason to think that both nations will find a way to keep their economies going.
In this episode, we look at the basics of war-economics, industry conversion, and try to understand why ‘short wars’ are so hard to win between peer opponents, once the economic struggle begins in earnest.