InFerNo
@InFerNo@lemmy.ml
- Comment on Think about what today is considered next level vs what it used to be 6 hours ago:
I understood they just don’t exist anymore, am I mistaken?
- Comment on Apparently we should shame people for selling at affordable prices 10 hours ago:
And useless partial timestamp covering the actual price it tries to talk about
- Comment on Would you rather unionize or buy some videogames? 6 days ago:
I pay 35€ every 3 months, so 4x35 per year
- Comment on Unbeatable name 1 week ago:
I used to have a whole plastic container full of matchbox cars, they were built to last. Hotwheels nowadays don’t feel very sturdy.
- Comment on cookie combs 1 week ago:
I thought that was a shadow 😄
- Comment on Missed it by that much! 2 weeks ago:
That’s Player Unknown’s game, right?
- Comment on Statement on Stop Killing Games - VIDEOGAMES EUROPE 3 weeks ago:
Yes, of course and it’s a lot better than what we have at this point, it’s a great first step. I still remember the days of Id Software releasing their game (logic) under the GPL.
- Comment on Statement on Stop Killing Games - VIDEOGAMES EUROPE 3 weeks ago:
What “online only” means is the need to authenticate to a proprietary server. After logging in, you are then (potentially) directed to a random server to play on.
If you are not online, you cannot authenticate and therefor not be directed to a server. This means you cannot play the game. When the authentication server and infrastructure behind the game is taken offline, the game becomes unplayable, because it is online only.
If a final patch were to be made where either a private authentication server would be made available for you to self-host, or authenation to be completely removed, you could play the game either offline on your device locally or LAN, or online by anyone who cares enough to host a server with the game logic. It would no longer be “online only” since you would have a choice. You can choose to play offline, or choose to play online.
If a game actually needs servers beyond the authentication part, then those should be made available too, so that anyone, again, can play locally or online.
It’s logical that if game servers are made available, a game can never be “online only” again, because you could host the server on your pc and connect to localhost.
Your whole argumentation about “online only” game design falls completely flat. You are mixing concepts that have nothing to do with one another.
A game can be a battle royale by design, gameplay wise, and have the ability to host your own servers by design, technical architecture wise.
Quake Live used to be online only. You could not host your own servers. They released for steam and made it possible to host your own servers. The old authentication system was taken down, logins are no longer required, and now you just launch the game and pick a server in a built in server browser. It should be the standard and Quake Live should serve as an example of how it should be done.
- Comment on Statement on Stop Killing Games - VIDEOGAMES EUROPE 3 weeks ago:
This is short sighted. Architectures can and will change in the future. I’m running game servers on my aarch64 devices, if I wasn’t able to compile, and sometimes even edit, the code I wouldn’t have been able to run these servers. Emulation isn’t always ideal, janky or even non existent.
- Comment on I want these walls back 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, they were probably completely transparent colorless glass 😂😩
- Comment on What the fuck 5 weeks ago:
Prrrrrrrreganté
- Comment on Baldur's Gayte 1 month ago:
Definitely wheels. All that machinery with wheels for the belts, all transportation, toys, … I can’t fathom there being as many doors.
Unless I’m wooshed :D
- Comment on What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews. 1 month ago:
Some software installers still ask if I want to install for all users, which require elevated permissions, or only for me, which don’t. In that last option it will not prompt for elevated permissions as it will use one of my user’s folders which I have already all permissions for, obviously.
It’s a security measure that’s half assed. People are so used to it they just click allow but don’t actually look at the prompt anymore. Like I see a lot of people do with cookies on websites.
- Comment on What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews. 1 month ago:
Thats a windows thing so it can put files in “protected” folders like program files
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
This seals it for me. They aren’t using version control but are making copies of the working directory with this result.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
These answers to a question why the task bar can’t be moved to the side anymore.
- Comment on who are you? 2 months ago:
It’s not going to magically be super bad when it’s the BB date +1.
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 2 months ago:
What about the birds in quackshot? That game is from the 90s.
- Comment on Asking the important questions 2 months ago:
Is this copied from somewhere? I read this exact reply before on a similar Forest Gump post.
- Comment on Harassed by Assassin’s Creed gamers, a professor fought back with kindness 2 months ago:
Random capitalization of nouns
- Comment on Liquid Trees 2 months ago:
The roots destroy sewer systems etc too. There’s a bike path I take to work where the pavement is all distorted by the roots, making it very unsafe, but I still prefer that the trees are there.
- Comment on What would this list look like for your generation? 2 months ago:
NANI!?
- Comment on Ingenuity 2 months ago:
My cat does this while I cook. I play with those dangly legs all the time.
- Comment on Vintage 2 months ago:
Survivorship bias
- Comment on Anon uses Windows 2 months ago:
Also me whenever a new version of windows came out or I just to reinstall for some reason. It never felt the same as it was.
I’ve switched to Linux a long time ago. You’ll get used to it and it will be the new normal if you give it a chance and understand that it is different.
People worry too much about it, just give it a spin.
- Comment on An oldie but a goodie 2 months ago:
One of my kids does this so I don’t think it’s that weird
- Comment on I can't believe it let me do that 3 months ago:
Convenient to leave out Apple it’s working on AI (Apple Intelligence) too. I don’t think any big company is safe from the hype train.
- Comment on use it on strangers 3 months ago:
Fill in the gaps with frog DNA
- Comment on Just No 3 months ago:
“just no” as if you didn’t ask it to answer just yes or no
- Comment on Google will develop the Android OS fully in private, and here's why 3 months ago:
The problem is software. The ecosystem of android is gigantic. Every business, big or small has an app.
Microsoft tried and failed. No users, no apps. No apps, no users.
Google actively worked against Microsoft and got what they wanted: no competition.