teawrecks

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'If you can’t show your game to the world without fearing it’ll be cloned, something’s broken' says Moonlighter studio on its canceled demo⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, the thing that is broken is people’s intelligence. The people propping up the mobile games industry, Mr. Beast videos, AI music, “Verticals”, etc. are all people I’ve never met, and yet somehow represent the vast majority of our population. Those are the people who don’t care about the difference between novel artwork, and a half-assed slop recreation that’s designed to poke their dopamine receptors. Those people are why we can’t have nice things.

  Someone will inevitably argue, “no, it’s the billionaires who are thrusting AI on us, we just need to stop them”. And while I agree they showed us the path here, I think we could erase the lot of them from existence, and the remaining population would still use the knowledge leftover to keep going down the same path.

  I don’t know if it’s just that the existence of AI will curse humanity to always very efficiently optimize to the lowest common denominator, or if this will pressure the LCD to not be so far down there, but whatever shakes out I don’t think will be in our lifetimes…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is the 3DS worth purchasing despite it being "obsolete" today?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You aren’t ever going to recreate the same experience with an emulator. If you want to experience those games as intended, your only option is to buy physical hardware made for playing them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think probably the most novel thing gold/silver did back I the day was a real-time clock and day of the week tracker. This meant you had to log in at certain times to hunt certain pokemon, or attend certain events. This isn’t as impressive today, but at the time was a whole new level of immersion fans had never seen before, in any handheld game really.

  It was also incredible that they had the new jhoto region, but also the entire gen 1 kanto region also (set a few years in the future). I remember that was just mind blowing that this was even possible.

  But if you’re not feeling it, don’t force yourself through it. The Pokemon games aren’t for everybody.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Control: Resonant

  I think I’m 25-30h in and I don’t want to put it down. Idk how long it is, but all the Remedy Universe games are such a treat, I don’t want it to be over. I’m enjoying the melee-focused combat more than the first game’s TPS combat, I think.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He escaped⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  …lol I’m trying to decide if you’re informing me that kites predate video games, but also I find it hard to believe that you didn’t know what a kite was until you played video games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This woman has nothing better to do⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, an actual lawyer would know the first amendment isn’t relevant between private parties, on private property.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This woman has nothing better to do⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Easy for a non-manager, outside of Kansas, with prior context of the customer’s interaction with Lily, with hindsight to say.

  Owner or not, she has Burger King lawyers to answer to, not to mention the MAGA community of her town, and she was working with partial information; she didn’t know what had actually been said to the employee, she didn’t know what had actually been captured on video in response, and yet she had to respond on the spot.

  The manager handled it with the patience of a saint, and she was accurate: the policy is for employees to not be rude to customers, to not tolerate customers being rude to employees, and not to record on private property. She then asked the customer to leave.

  I’m confident watching it back, the manager would have done everything differently, but it’s one of those moments you have one shot at, and she did fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He escaped⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He literally used video game kiting strats to pull him away from the bike so he had enough time to sprint to it and mount it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BlizzCon 2026 Announcements Summary⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think retail was a misstep when it comes to milking whales, it’s just not a compelling MMO. So to them, it’s remained a massive success.

  I’m also curious about WoW: Forever, mostly because I’ve been hopeful that any studio would see the hype around classic wow and realize there is demand for the old format of MMOs; back before all modern conveniences were added to remove any friction between players. I’ve longed for an experience akin to vanilla, but completely new and unsolved and populated by people who just want to experience organic player interaction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palworld lead worries Steam early access has "lost its meaning": players treat it like "a normal game" and the program has been "abused for a lot of reasons"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t believe Valheim just left EA. It’s literally been over 5 years!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨KytyPS5 (PS5 Emulator) can now run GTA V at 60fps for few minutes before crashing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  But why does that make a difference? Regardless of whether you reverse engineer an API or have the full documentation available, when you translate from it to something else, you’re building the same thing: an API translator. It doesn’t change whether it’s an emulator.

  Traditionally, “emulator” refers to hardware emulation. APIs are reverse engineered, mocked, translated, etc. all the time, but we don’t call it “emulation”.

  Even simply mimicking the behavior of a unified virtual memory space is not called “emulation”, unless there are hardware-specific quirks that need to be emulated (which may very well be the case for PS5 caches, I don’t know).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨KytyPS5 (PS5 Emulator) can now run GTA V at 60fps for few minutes before crashing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah I see. So what makes kytyps5 an emulator given that proton is emphatically not an emulator?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨KytyPS5 (PS5 Emulator) can now run GTA V at 60fps for few minutes before crashing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m trying to understand, what is being emulated?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨KytyPS5 (PS5 Emulator) can now run GTA V at 60fps for few minutes before crashing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok, so if it’s translating to a reverse engineered API, it’s emulation. But if it uses the proprietary documentation and does the same exact translation it…wouldn’t be emulation anymore? What part are we saying is being emulated again?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨KytyPS5 (PS5 Emulator) can now run GTA V at 60fps for few minutes before crashing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t Proton solving the same problem though?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦 banned bike lanes and speed cameras. Now their neighborhood streets are turning into a lawless free-for-all⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Claiming that the removal of a brand new surveillance technology is the cause for an untenable surge in traffic violations is crazy. How did we survive until now?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Panic passes Trump tariff refunds back to the Playdate customers who paid them⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there an easy to browse website that just lists all the companies that did/didn’t pay back the tariffs? That would be handy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Behold, "the whole story of Steam's economy in one picture": the top 1% of games earn 84.5% of estimated revenue, and most games barely make anything⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks, I knew I was forgetting yet another name for it. Lots of names for the same, very common underlying phenomenon. As it applies to this case, Pareto would be “80% of the value earned by 20% of the games”. But point being: it would be weird if that wasn’t the distribution we saw.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Behold, "the whole story of Steam's economy in one picture": the top 1% of games earn 84.5% of estimated revenue, and most games barely make anything⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It would be weird if it didn’t follow a power law distribution.

  Aka the Pareto Principle. Aka “80% of everything is shit”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m imagining you pulling your head out of your microwave just long enough to type these responses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Found absolutely nothing about the narrative to be confusing and I’m not even sure how that would be possible.

  I mean, they did have two story lines that take place in parallel with one another, and affect one another. So it’s not like a standard linear timeline, I could see how someone spreading their play sessions out over many weeks or months could lose track of things. But I thought it worked well.

  Joel was a piece of shit who deserved to die, it’s that simple

  I don’t think that was the intended takeaway, nor would I ever dare to say “it’s that simple” about any character’s motives in this story. The entire point of a trolley problem is that it’s an ethical dilemma without a clear “right” answer.

  At the beginning of TLOU2, Ellie clearly also felt like Joel was a piece of shit liar/murderer…but then learns she’s capable of being the exact same person under the right circumstances. If anything, I see the moral of the story as “it’s never simple once it’s you”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I really enjoyed Horizon Zero Dawn, but Forbidden West felt like a less polished slog. I did eventually finish it, and it did have some rad moments, but where in the first game I did every quest and followed every line of dialogue, in the second game it felt like they purposely threw in far more dialogue than I could ever care to listen to. In order to not loath the experience, I found myself skipping a bunch of content that seemed like a huge waste of time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Saber CEO scorns writer who says she was fired in favor of AI with confusing, combative statement⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Let me clarify that the entire story script, were it to win an award, would go to someone who can walk up on stage and receive it.

  That’s sooooo not the question

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo says users voluntarily paid higher prices, have no right to tariff refunds | Nintendo says Switch buyers got what they paid for, urges court to dismiss lawsuit.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re literally arguing that it’s the customer’s responsibility to stop giving them money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia finally reveals what controls devs actually have for DLSS 5, and don't worry folks, there are TWO main sliders to control the AI filter⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  More like, as a rendering engineer, we’ve been dealing with vendor black boxes forever. It always sucks having control over our frame taken away, and then having to advocate for hardware level access to be able to do it ourselves so that actual innovation can happen. But DLSS isn’t new, and it isn’t defining our frame. Only end users who literally know nothing about what they’re talking about think this.

  I don’t even know why I try. Sure, AI bad, art dead, all I play is AAA.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia finally reveals what controls devs actually have for DLSS 5, and don't worry folks, there are TWO main sliders to control the AI filter⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is embarrassingly poor journalism. It’s clear the author has a slider with Facts on the left, and Pandering on the right, and they’ve cranked it all the way to pandering.

  They define “tone” as

  lighting and, well, overall tone.

  Clearly not familiar with the concept of high/low frequency details.

  And I blame gamers, including the people in this thread. It reminds me of how conservatives label objective journalism as biased, so right wing news outlets just describe whatever reality the audience already lives in.

  They’re strength sliders. It’s not like the entire frame is defined by DLSS. The artists make thousands of decisions when rendering the frame, and use DLSS’ sliders to determine how much interference is happening on high/low detail features. Most likely this tuning is going to be dynamically adjusted at runtime based on what lighting phenomena are in the scene, so it’s not even like an artist is going to be hand tuning these. That’s not what they’re for.

  The more I think about the comparison to right wing news the more apt it feels. The topic is very technical, and their audience is…well, a bunch of gamers. It’s not like they’re going to be able to convey useful info, but they still need to say something, because their audience has heard the term “DLSS 5” and expects something. So all they do is regurgitate useless pandering.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Right, I’m saying Dell doesn’t make displays. Generally LG makes the displays that Dell uses, but apparently they also use Samsung and AU Optronics. But even then, I believe there’s some Chinese middle-man OEM actually making the displays, and in certain countries (including the US) Dell buys those and slaps their Dell and Alienware branding on them.

  It makes sense to recommend an LG/Samsung/AUO monitor, it doesn’t make sense to generally recommend all Dell or Alienware monitors. Maybe a specific product worked well for you, but you can’t broad statements about all their monitors because the only thing they have in common is the brand selling them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  it puts me off ever buying or recommending an Alienware monitor

  Why would anyone recommend an Alienware monitor? They don’t make displays. You’re just recommending which branding the display has.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It might be, if they hadn’t already agreed to it in the windows ToS, and/or in the LG ToS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Closed game studio returns to un-live service its game with community servers before shutdown: 'We don't believe Deceive Inc. should quietly disappear'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m very deliberate about my choice of words. So it’s irritating when someone argues against a fuzzy misinterpretation of what I said, causing me to have to repeat myself. So instead, I think in done here. Cheers.