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- Comment on This Atari handheld with retro controls is finally available for preorder 1 week ago:
When will people learn not to pre-order stuff?
- Comment on Google AI Mode To Become Default For Google Search Soon 2 weeks ago:
Or better yet, ask or lookup multiple sources, so you can somewhat fact check.
- Comment on Google AI Mode To Become Default For Google Search Soon 2 weeks ago:
Ai is sometimes correct.
- Comment on Hands-On: Borderlands 4 wants you to forget Borderlands 3 ever happened | VGC 2 weeks ago:
Hmm, I see. Like any extreme, it can outweigh and be the major pain point (or high point, whatever). Action games with too much cinematic and tutorial can also destroy the fun of an otherwise good game. And if the cinematic and constant chatting and characters are annoying, yeah, that’s a pass for me as well.
I’ve purchased the game for something like 2,99 or so in Steam and thought will play it someday. I’ll probably install and test it just because I have it, but after reading comments like yours, I do not think to finish it. Not all games you start needs to be finished.
BTW are those mods integrated into Steam? If so, I’ll have it in mind.
- Comment on Hands-On: Borderlands 4 wants you to forget Borderlands 3 ever happened | VGC 2 weeks ago:
For someone who think gameplay is king, I would probably enjoy this game more than 2? Not saying that characters, story, writing, music, graphics and so on are not important; far from.
- Comment on Hands-On: Borderlands 4 wants you to forget Borderlands 3 ever happened | VGC 2 weeks ago:
That’s what I am saying (and what I get): fans of Borderlands 2 who love the game, are those who hate the sequel Borderlands 3. I compare this kind of to what Disney did to Star Wars… but I digress. What if one never played a Borderlands game before?
To be fair, the villains seem to be annoying; they are just like regular teens today with social media attachment trying to be “cool”. Maybe those who never played the games before, and are young and identify themselves with the villains… those could like it? Humor is subjective, so if you don’t like it, others may. This wouldn’t be the first game “fans hate it, but everyone else don’t care and even like it”-game in the series.
- Comment on Hands-On: Borderlands 4 wants you to forget Borderlands 3 ever happened | VGC 2 weeks ago:
But only if are a fan of Borderlands 2, right? For any other casual player without attachment to the series, the third entry doesn’t seem to bad. I have yet to play. This is just what I get from reading opinions. Is this correct?
- Comment on Wikipedia is under attack — and how it can survive 2 weeks ago:
It doesn’t matter in this case, as long as it is documented (and it is by the unit).
- Comment on Wikipedia is under attack — and how it can survive 2 weeks ago:
However I wonder how this would work. As far as I know Internet Archive have a “Library” status and rights in the US (and only in the US), which grants them rights to archive stuff and have it as download that would be otherwise not legal. That does not mean everything provided there is legal. So leaving the US could actually hurt Internet Archive or the users in the US maybe.
I would be glad if anyone with more insight into this topic could tell me one or two things about it.
- Comment on Wikipedia is under attack — and how it can survive 2 weeks ago:
Nice stats. I always wondered. I get the feeling that ~678 TB is little bit more than ~111 GB.
- Comment on Wikipedia is under attack — and how it can survive 2 weeks ago:
Do theverge have this big font or is something broken on my end?
You can download the entirety of Wikipedia for offline usage, BTW. I do this with an application called Kiwix kiwix.org/en/ .
- Click “All Files” on the left menu of the program.
- In the bottom search bar (there is one top and one bottom bar) type “wikipedia” to show only those entries matching the search.
- Then click on the “Size” header to sort all entries by size. Usually the biggest one is the most complete.
- Now “Download” it (i already have it, so it says “Open” for me).
Note that the big one with 111 GB contains images and contains all English language Wikipedia articles. The one with 43 GB should be the same I think, but without images. There are many other variants too, varying in content and theme and even build date. In example the one with “1m Top” contains the top 1 million articles only.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Let’s assume everything can be generated and photography can be replaced in technical and artistic meaning by 100% and perfect quality. I don’t believe we reached that point, but people are accepting low quality if it costs less.
There is still one big unsolved problem: Copyright and License. But I guess if its cheap enough, then most would risk it, if they even know the risk.
- Comment on Team Cherry - Hollow Knight: Silksong will be $20 USD 2 weeks ago:
My point is less about me giving more money (I’m not that crazy about giving more money). My point was more about being curious about the reasons and decision of going this low. It’s more of a curiosity how much they could ask, before its too high. They don’t need spend money on advertisement, that’s for sure. Maybe this whole waiting saga is part of their “self advertising strategy” (just made up this terminology).
- Comment on Steam users in the UK will need a credit card to access “mature content” games 2 weeks ago:
How do you expect Steam to work against this? This is not a decision that Valve has any word on, its a decision by government. The only thing that Valve could do here is, remove those games for that country. But that is not a solution. If anything, the citizens of the UK should do something, if possible.
- Comment on Team Cherry - Hollow Knight: Silksong will be $20 USD 2 weeks ago:
That’s the price of a little micro transaction in some other games. It will be worth, but I also feel kind of bad for the devs (or publisher). After so much time and work to produce (hopefully) a high quality game and then this cheap. Not complaining, but wondering if a higher price wouldn’t be too bad. I think 29,99 or 24,99 (the price of Factorio) would be totally acceptable in a time like this where AAA games come out at 79,99.
- Comment on "There will be a Stardew Valley 1.7 update": Creator ConcernedApe confirms another update to the immortal life sim hot off a new Haunted Chocolatier tease 3 weeks ago:
Why not a separate update cross reference update between both games? I can imagine something Haunted Chocolatier related content (not the entire game) to be added into Stardew Valley that acts as a sort of “advertisement”, to get people familiar with the new IP. Or not. Just an idea.
- Comment on "There will be a Stardew Valley 1.7 update": Creator ConcernedApe confirms another update to the immortal life sim hot off a new Haunted Chocolatier tease 3 weeks ago:
Not adding a nonbinary does not make him a transphobe. Not every game, movie or story need a trans sexual character. It’s fair to ask for an addition in a “roleplaying” game (which it is here to be fair), but its not fair to call someone transphobe if he or she does not do it.
- Comment on Today’s game consoles are historically overpriced 3 weeks ago:
We live in a console generation with prices going up, instead down. It’s unprecedented. So waiting one generation might work, but then its all about playing old games. Wait too long and the price of the games might go up, or the stores close…
- Comment on Meta might be secretly scanning your phone's camera roll - how to check and turn it off 3 weeks ago:
Actually most people can do that; they just don’t know it. Well to be fair, most people probably don’t know how to do that either, so let’s say “most people could do that in theory”.
- Comment on Meta might be secretly scanning your phone's camera roll - how to check and turn it off 3 weeks ago:
To ask people to dispense with whatsapp, instagram or facebook is to ask them to abandon their ability to be part of communities that matter to them. It’s sort of an intractable problem as it requires whole communities to abandon ship together, which is difficult to do.
This is the core problem of getting rid from these social networks. I stopped using Facebook a long time ago and Whatsapp shortly after Facebook acquired them. As I was the only one in my family and friends circle doing this, I was also the most lonely one. Suddenly I could not be part of the discussions when or what to do next or other fun talks. I was the outside who communicated with one or few over email, just to tell me where to meet next in example. (Also not using Twitter or most other social networks…)
It’s an organizational problem off course but this showed me why social media once got foothold in the mass, is hard to abandon individually. For a person like me, its not a big deal. But getting rid of Facebook and Whatsapp at the same time, without everyone switching to an alternative is a big deal for most.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong will be playable at Gamescom, Xbox confirms | VGC 1 month ago:
I believe it, if I see it with my own eyes.
- Comment on Microsoft lifts Windows 11 update block for Easy Anti-Cheat users 1 month ago:
Shows why Kernel level anti cheat is a bad idea. No Anti cheat software should have this much power over your system.
- Comment on Following rough launch, Splitgate 2 is going back to beta as studio announces layoffs 1 month ago:
Unlaunch button pressed.
- Comment on Amazon cuts hundreds of AWS cloud jobs after strategic review, says AI wasn’t the main factor 2 months ago:
says AI wasn’t the main factor
That’s exactly what an Ai would say.
- Comment on Meta Takes Hard Line Against Europe's AI Rules 2 months ago:
Would be so nice if Meta will be seen as hostile and blocked Europe wide. The problem is, this can be interpreted as blocking Free Speech. But is it really Free Speech to misuse peoples rights and steal their privacy, that is against the law?
- Comment on Meta Takes Hard Line Against Europe's AI Rules 2 months ago:
In the 60s it was the atom bomb regulation they had to sign. A “few hours later” in 2025 it’s the Ai regulation. My prediction 60 years from now, there will be a regulation of who an what you can do on Mars. But I’m getting ahead of myself.
- Comment on FromSoftware reportedly has another unannounced game that ‘could release next year’ | VGC 2 months ago:
Another maybe is they might outsource some work heavy stuff.
- Comment on FromSoftware reportedly has another unannounced game that ‘could release next year’ | VGC 2 months ago:
I just hope they don’t get burned out and there is no crunch. The only other company that did so much in short time I can think of is Insomniac Games. It’s actually how it was used to be with how frequent we got games from single studios. But since they are so big and expensive nowadays, it seems a bit unreal for how fast some companies are able to pump out so many high quality games in relatively short time.
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- Comment on Meta shareholders vs Mark Zuckerberg in $8 billion lawsuit 2 months ago:
Why is every sentence in its own paragraph??
