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- Comment on Following rough launch, Splitgate 2 is going back to beta as studio announces layoffs 3 hours ago:
Unlaunch button pressed.
- Comment on Amazon cuts hundreds of AWS cloud jobs after strategic review, says AI wasn’t the main factor 3 days 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 3 days 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 3 days 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 4 days 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 4 days 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 5 days ago:
Why is every sentence in its own paragraph??
- Comment on Nintendo’s Zelda movie has found its princess and hero of time [Bo Bragason and Benjamin Evan] 6 days ago:
One should not make the mistake to just judge a single photograph, for a role in a film. Its also important how they move and talk, and what the perception of the person based on existing films is. I’m not in the position to judge about any of these castings or your suggestion, just wanted bring in this point into the discussion.
- Comment on How much should a game cost? 1 week ago:
I buy and play games on sales most of the time. So its not the newest hot shit I get. Especially cool with Steam sales. There are even “blockbuster” titles I would never buy for fullprice as a 75% sale in example. Suddenly those titles come in range of an indie price and that’s affordable to me. And yes I buy and play indie games too. They do not have an issue with pricing usually and often they are even self contained games without micro transactions, at least most of them.
- Comment on How much should a game cost? 1 week ago:
It should cost “enough”. What do I mean by that? It depends. Literally. Also the (money-) cost of after purchasing a game is important too, with DLCs and micro transactions as well. And if you just “rent” a game as service (multi player only in example) or if its a single player game that you can keep and is not dependent on servers. Besides downloading the game off course.
That’s why I don’t like generalizations at all. This is a bit more complex to answer than it seems. I genuinely think there are games or may come out in the future, which might be worse the 80 Dollars or Euros. Others not so much. A game should cost as much as it is worth it. And that upper limit is only defined by the game itself (and whats available otherwise too off course, that is not simple).
- Comment on Do you prefer Performance mode or Quality mode? 2 weeks ago:
That’s not entirely true. Because even if you buy a strong PC, you have to make choices, depending on the game. It’s just the fps and settings we are talking about are higher floor. In example on PC people can enable RayTracing, which tanks the fps a lot. Do you go for 120 fps or 60 or maybe lower fps with higher fidelity and RayTracing in example.
So the question to answer is still the same, its just on PC we have a bit more individual choices to make.
- Comment on Do you prefer Performance mode or Quality mode? 2 weeks ago:
I think this question also applies to PC. Why? Because we are limited too. I try to reach 120 fps and consider it performance mode when dialing back quality settings, and enabling upscaling to reach that. If not, 90 fps is also pretty good. For certain games, 60 fps feels like what you describe of 30, but that does not apply to all games. There are single player rpgs played with a gamepad, that I would even consider playing at 30 fps if there is no other option. The problem is, games are not designed to be played with that low fps, as the input latency increases.
I’ll compare this to the Switch, playing Zelda (emulated with Yuzu). Breath of the Wild on original Switch is designed to be played at 30 fps. Playing it on my PC like that felt like a slideshow, but one can get used to it. If I didn’t had the 60 fps patch, it would still be fine at 30. The next game in the series, Tiers of the Kingdom, was not stable at 60, so I was “forced” to play at 30. And after some time playing it felt pretty good and not upsetting like in the first few minutes.
What I mean by that is, performance mode if possible, I would sacrifice quality. But not too much, because at some point the image looks really bad.
- Comment on How Nintendo locked down the Switch 2’s USB-C port and broke third-party docking 2 weeks ago:
Nintendoesn’t
- How do Transistors Work? How are Transistors Assembled Inside a CPU? - Branch Education at YouTube on June 21, 2025 [26:44min]youtu.be ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to technology@beehaw.org | 0 comments
- Comment on Nintendo Is Already Punishing Switch 2 Users Over Piracy ‘Suspicions’ 4 weeks ago:
This is how you challenge actual pirates and grow your real enemy, while you punish innocent civilians. Pirates will pirate, regardless of what Nintendo says, wants or does. The real losers are loyal customers who pay lot of money.
- Comment on Another reason to love Linux 4 weeks ago:
What negotiation? I have a hard time to follow what you mean. Which operating system does turn off when shutting down? If it does not, then either its configured to do so (or not to) or there is an issue that needs to be handled and resolved. You don’t want your PC turn off immediately, so it can do stuff that is needed (such as wait for all drives to write the data) or remove temporary files and unmount drives and so on. Otherwise an instant turn off is equivalent to a crash (including all background services and running applications, losing data, corrupting drives…).
- Comment on Windows 11 user has 30 years of 'irreplaceable photos and work' locked away in OneDrive - and Microsoft's silence is deafening 4 weeks ago:
Your data in the cloud should be at best being another backup, in addition to your local backup you do regularly. And even that is a stretch, because those companies can analyze your data on the cloud too. Man, people have so much trust in companies like Microsoft.
- Comment on Google’s nightmare: How a search spinoff could remake the web 1 month ago:
10 years from now, we get retrospective documentary on other video platforms about the downfall of Google.
- Comment on First usermode exploit and more: Nintendo Switch 2 had a busy (hacking) week for its launch 1 month ago:
Its only one day, not even a week. But otherwise, yeah, this is pretty much a typical console release day. :D
- Comment on It’s official: There are no Nintendo Switch 2 reviews. Here’s what that means for us, and you [VGC] 1 month ago:
Agree with you as well. Anything that enhances or adds new functionality wouldn’t be part of a pro upgrade of the same. I feel like Nintendo tried desperately on the Switch 2 to bring new features, that could have been developed and thought off after they scrapped the Pro idea. So they came up with some software features like video streaming and an upgraded controller with mouse support.
- Comment on It’s official: There are no Nintendo Switch 2 reviews. Here’s what that means for us, and you [VGC] 1 month ago:
In the Digital Foundry talks they talked about it. And it makes sense. The Pro was rumored to come out in 2020 or later with tech around that time. But as 2020 was a big year for Switch 1, Nintendo might have changed their direction. Switch 2 has tech that could be from that time and it would make sense, as it is similar to what a Switch Pro would actually be.
Overall its just an idea that makes sense.
- Comment on It’s official: There are no Nintendo Switch 2 reviews. Here’s what that means for us, and you [VGC] 1 month ago:
It’s actually the rumored Switch Pro.
- Comment on Byond game engine suffers a weeks-long DDoS attack, apparently because a wanna-be Bond villain is trying to force it to go open source: 'Attacks on Byond servers are a symptom of your obstinance' 1 month ago:
He probably calls himself some sort of Hacker. xD
- Comment on Splitgate 2 finally playable on regular desktop Linux PC (May 26, 2025 Update) 1 month ago:
I have yet to play, only did the tutorial for quick testing. So I don’t speak from personal experience, but from what I read so far.
Its more or less like the Splitgate 1. But they have a new game engine to better support and work on it (that’s why its a new entry in series, instead an update). Some people say they don’t like the hero abilities they added into. I don’t know to what extend this is and how game dependent these are. But one huge plus point to me is a map creator for the community. One of the biggest issues I had in game 1 was that not enough content and maps were available.
On the negative side is, that there is a Battle Pass. At least for me this is negative, but the game is Free to Play. I assume everyone who liked the first game will like this one too, but can’t be sure right now. They also seem to have too many players for their servers.
- Submitted 1 month ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 4 comments
- Comment on My theory about the easy to spot bots in YouTube comments 1 month ago:
Oh, I finally get this argumentation! I’ve read it before couple of times (also in the comment section of this topic here), but it didn’t make sense. But now it clicked. I can definitely see why they keep it simple and straightforward now. And yes, it makes more sense than my theory.
- Comment on My theory about the easy to spot bots in YouTube comments 1 month ago:
To me the comments are one of the most interesting things on YouTube. Either on Gaming, Linux or in example on funny video content, with lot of funny comments. I actually use FreeTube client to watch videos anonymously, but go to Firefox and login to YouTube specifically to comment and interact with other users.
- Submitted 1 month ago to technology@beehaw.org | 18 comments
- Comment on In 3.5 years, Notepad.exe has gone from “barely maintained” to “it writes for you” 1 month ago:
Actually Vi is not Vim. Vim is a lot user friendly with its documentation. The question is, what you expect and if you learn it properly. Its not unser unfriendly, its just different. It’s like saying GIMP is user unfriendly, because you used Photoshop before and GIMP is not exactly the same.
end of my rant :D