DdCno1
@DdCno1@kbin.social
- Comment on this picture is 27kb 7 months ago:
Would you describe someone who has likely driven a Jeep as smart?
- Comment on Biden administration actively censoring the word "Palestine" just like the New York Times 8 months ago:
Since the US doesn't officially recognize Palestine as a sovereign state, it would be a blunder for individual officials to name it.
- Comment on Tower of Babel 8 months ago:
Not the only Ancient script that's covered by ANSI:
𒀀𒁉𒂅
- Comment on Tower of Babel 8 months ago:
𓁉𓃠𓀹𓀿
- Comment on Public has no right to swim in sea, claims firm that dumped sewage at bathing spot 8 months ago:
I can read it just fine (Firefox with uBlock Origin).
- Comment on How do genocides happen? 8 months ago:
Genocides predate this political ideology by millennia.
- Comment on Quest 1 becomes near-E-waste Apr 30 8 months ago:
I thought these are still working?
- Comment on Quest 1 becomes near-E-waste Apr 30 8 months ago:
I would expect Valve's next headset to be expensive, complex and requiring extensive configuration by the user, just like their previous efforts. Pretty much the polar opposite of the Quest.
- Comment on 'The gold rush is over:' Slay the Spire and Darkest Dungeon devs say that big Game Pass and Epic exclusive deals have dried up for indie devs 8 months ago:
No, both of these titles are "halo games" (not in the Bungie series, but in the way that they are showcase titles) that sold poorly compared to their development costs - and their publishers likely knew that these would sell very poorly, but chose to publish them regardless, because they bring prestige to their platforms. They sold poorly, because they are niche games, not due to their platform exclusivity.
It's kind of like a car manufacturer making an exclusive sports car that only a few hundred people will buy, but that is meant to elevate the entire brand, bring in customers for other products and wow journalists so that they think of the brand more highly. Most of Sony's publishing strategy hinges on strong exclusive titles - since their hardware is virtually identical to Microsoft's - and they started this by going down the "high art" game route all the way back with the PS1 (with extremely niche games like "The Book of Watermarks") before creating more mainstream blockbuster exclusives like the Uncharted series.
I get your frustration with this, I have felt it myself with exclusives that I wanted to play, but couldn't justify the expense of buying a console for, but there are solid reasons from the perspective of developers and publishers for doing it and outlawing this practice would result in a far less vibrant and interesting gaming landscape. Another comparison is how rich aristocrats used to pay artists like Leonardo DaVinci to create art for them. This was also an exclusivity deal of sorts, since most of the public didn't see these artworks until centuries later (the platform exclusivity was being born to the right kind of family), but without these wealthy, selfish patrons of the arts, mankind would have been deprived of amazing creations.
- Comment on Quest 1 becomes near-E-waste Apr 30 8 months ago:
Thanks for informing me about Monado, but it seems like it's exclusive to Linux. That's hardly ideal. Then again, it's more than two years until November of 2026, so a lot might happen until then.
- Comment on 'The gold rush is over:' Slay the Spire and Darkest Dungeon devs say that big Game Pass and Epic exclusive deals have dried up for indie devs 8 months ago:
Do you see developers making games exclusively for one console manufacturer the same way? Are you willing to deprive the gaming community as a whole from these titles? Games like Shadow of the Colossus or Alan Wake 2 would not have happened without exclusivity.
- Comment on 'The gold rush is over:' Slay the Spire and Darkest Dungeon devs say that big Game Pass and Epic exclusive deals have dried up for indie devs 8 months ago:
I was going to call shenanigans, but then I looked at the details of the application:
https://i.imgur.com/J30SGAr.png
So it seems there is something to it.
- Comment on 'The gold rush is over:' Slay the Spire and Darkest Dungeon devs say that big Game Pass and Epic exclusive deals have dried up for indie devs 8 months ago:
They are anti-consumer, but for smaller devs in particular, they can make the difference between between canceling and releasing a game, between bankruptcy and the studios continued existence.
- Comment on Quest 1 becomes near-E-waste Apr 30 8 months ago:
The same thing will happen with WMR headsets in November of 2026, by the way:
https://www.uploadvr.com/windows-mixed-reality-headset-support-end-date/
Since these depend on Windows itself, I don't think there will be an easy (or even possible) workaround.
Sad news, because these are cheap, high-res, fast to set up, easy to use and generally very decent headsets. Controllers are not top of the class, but good enough for almost anything. Ideal for people interested in tipping their toes into proper PCVR.
- Comment on Embracer sells Borderlands maker Gearbox to Take-Two Interactive for $460 million 8 months ago:
Let's be honest, was anyone expecting any different outcome from Embracer's hasty growth with cheap money? There was no way this would have worked out.
- Comment on Orange Pi Neo Linux gaming handheld starts at $499 with Ryzen 7840U, Ryzen 8840U at $599 8 months ago:
You actually went to the website and looked it up? Alright then, carry on.
I'm still not a fan of the placement of these. There's a reason Valve placed their touchpads further up on the Deck.
- Comment on Orange Pi Neo Linux gaming handheld starts at $499 with Ryzen 7840U, Ryzen 8840U at $599 8 months ago:
Exactly. That's what nearly all of the competitors fail at. Sure, they might have more performance, are slimmer, have this feature or that advantage, but when it comes to actually getting games to work with them and the user experience, none are as good as Valve's handheld.
- Comment on Orange Pi Neo Linux gaming handheld starts at $499 with Ryzen 7840U, Ryzen 8840U at $599 8 months ago:
What a perfect place for speakers, half-obscured by the user's hands.
- Comment on Why do we castrate animals instead of giving them vasectomies? 8 months ago:
I know that dogs get health issues like osteoporosis, as well as many other ailments that humans are suffering from. However, most animals have shorter lifespans than humans and are unable to articulate that they are suffering (or even hiding it - a common survival instinct), which means it's far less likely that illnesses are discovered.
- Comment on 30 movie directors with movies with an IMDB rating higher and 7.5 and 50.000 votes 9 months ago:
If you only watch one, watch Taxi Driver. It'll make most other films look like community theater. It's dirty, unconventional, expertly crafted and still just as shocking and surprising today as it was almost 50 years ago.
- Comment on 30 movie directors with movies with an IMDB rating higher and 7.5 and 50.000 votes 9 months ago:
Why the 50k vote requirement? This basically ensures that only blockbuster films and their directors appear in this chart, with a near complete bias towards large American productions.
- Comment on Command & Conquer™ The Ultimate Collection now available on Steam 9 months ago:
Not to be confused with the Remastered Collection.
- Comment on Will this run GTA 6 and why not? 11 months ago:
You can still buy new MS-DOS computers, for use with legacy equipment and software, like industrial machinery. The most powerful CPU this company is offering is a Pentium D from 2006:
https://nixsys.com/legacy-computers/ms-dos-computers
For an extra $95, they'll pre-install MS-DOS 6.22 for you, but it will of course only use 64 MB of the 1 GB RAM the machine comes with. That's a luxurious amount already. I've never used more than 48 MB with MS DOS and it was already more than plenty.
Motherboards for the LGA 775 socket were among the last to support ISA cards, which are why companies buy these new legacy computers in the first place. There's machinery out there worth millions and running entire factories, complex scientific instruments or medical equipment that requires interfacing with ISA cards. I've seen this myself and fixed a few of these systems. It's fun to take a machine off the factory floor that has been quietly doing its job for many decades. You wouldn't believe how much of the world is running on truly ancient hardware.
While it would be theoretically possible to e.g. create a new hardware interface and compatible software, this would not only be prohibitively expensive on its own, but require costly and lengthy certification on top, which just isn't feasible most of the time. That's where PCs like these come in. They may seem outrageously expensive given the ancient hardware they consist of, but compared to the equipment they'll be used with, they might as well be free - and on top of that, they come with a warranty, support hotline, etc. - unlike cobbling something together from old parts found on ebay.
- Comment on Will this run GTA 6 and why not? 11 months ago:
Slightly off-topic, but the only time I've ever used Windows 3.1 (beyond the odd virtualization experiment every once in a while) was on a laptop with a passive-matrix monochrome LCD, so seeing this OS in color always feels a bit wrong to me.
I think it was a Compaq LTE Lite, likely an early model. It was a relative's device (he's working in the insurance industry) and I was only toying around with it in the late '90s, when it was already obsolete.
Researching this laptop, I found a hilarious contemporary ad that is very full of itself and pulls no punches against the competitors:
These were very expensive, like all laptops at the time, so it's no surprise it's shown being used by executives. I'm impressed by how many now common features it already had. I think they aren't showing the cheapest variant with the passive-matrix display in this video, which looked very dim and unpleasant.
