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- Comment on Borderlands 4 boss tells players "please get a refund from Steam if you aren't happy" as Randy Pitchford continues his very public crashout over the FPS's performance woes 1 week ago:
I think that sticker just means you sent Nvidia a pre-release build so they had time to add game-specific hacks to their drivers before your launch.
- Comment on Randy Pitchford Snaps Back at Borderlands 4 Criticism: 'Code Your Own Engine' 1 week ago:
There’s a process called certification you need to pass in order to release on a console where they test your game against a list of criteria outlined in the developer agreement to validate stability, minimum performance,and conformance with platform standards. Nintendo pioneered this process (the Nintendo seal of quality) in response to unauthorized developers releasing cartridges which ran poorly and could freeze or even cause damage to consoles.
For a while, console manufacturers pretty strict about certification requirements but as time goes on they’ve been granting more and more exceptions to large publishers willing to pay fees and pinky-promise to fix the issues post-launch.
- Comment on Still getting dunked on in Dota 2? Don't worry, even Gabe Newell gets called a noob once a week, apparently 2 weeks ago:
Being a dev on a competitive multiplayer game means getting wrecked every playtest by balance designers and community managers who used to be pros/streamers.
- Comment on Call your rep today 3 weeks ago:
Is that high relative to the cost of living in the area or just high overall?
- Comment on You are stardust. 4 weeks ago:
Significance is just a concept humans made up to make ourselves feel bad.
- Comment on You are stardust. 4 weeks ago:
Welcome, to Nightvale
- Comment on Cute 1 month ago:
This is me emailing mycologists to ask if they want to sequence any of the unusual mushrooms I found.
- Comment on He'll realize one day 2 months ago:
Agreed, the “shit I’m old” beer coozie in the foreground is a dead giveaway it’s a Spencer’s.
- Comment on kingdom come 2 months ago:
Fair point haha.
- Comment on kingdom come 2 months ago:
Fungi only got its own kingdom in 1969, before that they were a phylum in Plantae. There are tons of people still around who learned “mushrooms are plants” in school, so it’s not surprising downstream vocabulary hasn’t caught up.
- Comment on me irl 2 months ago:
I’m the opposite, I can tell some really difficult mushrooms apart due to good ol’ hyperfixation but I still know jack about plants and trees.
- Comment on It was inevitable 2 months ago:
It’s not a chocolate-flavored sandwich-cookie, not a cookie version of a chocolate sandwich.
- Comment on Monster Hunter Wilds game reviews hit "Overwhelmingly Negative" on Steam — can Capcom turn it around? 3 months ago:
No they didn’t have dlc, that’s why they sold MHG as a full price disc despite the fact that it was the same game as Monster Hunter with extra content, the same as Iceborne for World or Sunbreak for Rise.
- Comment on Monster Hunter Wilds game reviews hit "Overwhelmingly Negative" on Steam — can Capcom turn it around? 3 months ago:
World was just as bad at launch IMO. There was nothing worth doing post-story until Kulve Taroth came out.
- Comment on Monster Hunter Wilds game reviews hit "Overwhelmingly Negative" on Steam — can Capcom turn it around? 3 months ago:
Because not every game needs an endgame but publishers demand long-tail monitization so devs tack one on anyway.
- Comment on Monster Hunter Wilds game reviews hit "Overwhelmingly Negative" on Steam — can Capcom turn it around? 3 months ago:
G-rank was always a full price DLC that came a year or more later unless you skipped the base games (or Capcom didn’t localize them like with 4).
- Comment on Your majesty 4 months ago:
Hypomyces are look more like molds growing on mushrooms than mushrooms growing on mushrooms. There are mushrooms that grow on other mushrooms like Squamantina or Claudopus parasiticus but they’re all pretty specialized to only grow on certain genera of mushrooms and I’m not aware of any that parasitic mushrooms that can grow on parasitic genera. I’m just a hobbyist though and I’ve only really studied mushrooms that grow in the Pacific Northwest so perhaps it exists somewhere.
The only potential double-parasitism I can think of is that peppery boletes (Chalciporus piperatus), which are hypothesized to be parasitic on Amanita Muscaria’s mycelium because of how frequently they’re found together, could be infected with Bolete mold (Hypomyces chysospermus/microspermus).
- Comment on Your majesty 4 months ago:
And let those filthy aspergillus or god-forbid hypomyces have a say in how we run things? I think not, long-live king Muscaria of Amanitaceae!
- Comment on Please answer. 6 months ago:
Or slime molds which are, in fact, an ameoba.
- Comment on Please answer. 6 months ago:
Most molds are about as closely related to mushrooms as flatworms are to humans
- Comment on The Nightshade Family 6 months ago:
They also depict a mushroom that only grows in Japan growing in China but the show is pretty anachronistic overall.
- Comment on critter vs varmit 7 months ago:
- Comment on Roll7’s OlliOlli World and Rollerdrome delisted, remaining titles now at risk along with the future of ‘Kerbal 2’ 7 months ago:
If you’re considering buying keys from shady resellers just pirate the game instead. A lot of those keys are bought using stolen CC info and end up getting charged back which leaves the devs having to pay processing fees.
Also Humble is a retailer not a reselller, they get their keys directly from the publishers or developers of the game, they don’t resell keys they bought from someone else.
- Comment on SteamOS expands beyond Steam Deck 8 months ago:
Thanks for responding, I can definitely see your point that it wouldn’t be the best for some new Linux users.
However, speaking from my perspective as a new Linux user: all I wanted was an OS that I could use to play my steam library with little fuss and Bazzite delivered exactly what I wanted. I have no desire to make big changes and everything went perfectly fine. Steam and Firefox were already installed, the only other thing I needed was Discord which was easy to find in the appstore-like GUI.
Bazzite is definitely something I would recommend to new Linux users who are like me, folks who never bothered with Linux before the steam deck proved Linux gaming was viable without needing to learn Linux. There’s literally nothing I want to do with my PC that didn’t work out of the box.
- Comment on SteamOS expands beyond Steam Deck 8 months ago:
What makes Bazzite difficult to get up and running for you? I just installed it for the first time and didn’t need to do anything else to get up and running.
- Comment on What's the greatest joy you have gotten from a video game? 8 months ago:
That entire game was just forever chasing the high you got from that one time you had a really good party. I’m already finding myself glossing over the fact that 99% of them were awful and you only settled for them because you didn’t want to wait around another 30 minutes for chance of a better one.
- Comment on Insomnia 8 months ago:
I had the same experience, my doctor told me the home ones are often worthless but insurance companies like to make you try them before approving a sleep lab because it’s cheaper.
- Comment on Latest photo of assassin suspect released by NYPD 9 months ago:
If Lemmy were more stable maybe I would have gotten the joke.
- Comment on Latest photo of assassin suspect released by NYPD 9 months ago:
Either you need to clear your cache or your instance is having federation issues.
- Comment on green vine sneks 9 months ago:
Gamefreak definitely used this as the inspiration for the Snivy line.
