termus
@termus@beehaw.org
- Comment on Why did our friends stop posting on social media? 1 week ago:
I’d also say the “share” function was up there. I wanted to see real posts by my real friends that took real thought to post. Not shit shared at the click of a button.
- Comment on See their point 1 week ago:
I still have love for 3 Dollar Bill Yall and Life is Peachy. But I don’t touch numetal as a genre at all anymore. Once I started to get into Staind and Disturbed or just hearing Nookie… no thanks. An older friend introduced me to Ska and Punk and I’m so glad he did.
- Comment on See their point 1 week ago:
Those are the oldies now.
- Comment on Elden Ring Nightreign Review Thread 2 months ago:
FromSoftware doesn’t really do extra.
- Comment on As Gamers Express Concern About Borderlands 4 Potentially Costing $80, Gearbox Chief Randy Pitchford Says: ‘If You’re a Real Fan, You’ll Find a Way to Make It Happen’ 2 months ago:
Fuck Randy Pitchford.
- Comment on I'm looking for the Holy Grail of multiplayer gaming 2 months ago:
SpiderHeck!
- Comment on Congress Moving Forward On Unconstitutional Take It Down Act 2 months ago:
That doesn’t make it better. So she paid money to somehow get seated at the same table as Putin and Flynn. If you find yourself at a table with that asshole and you don’t relocate, you’re asshole too.
- Comment on Congress Moving Forward On Unconstitutional Take It Down Act 3 months ago:
I voted for Jill Stein in 2012. Then I realized she’s just as much of a grifter as the others. Also why was she at a dinner with Putin and Mike Flynn?
- Comment on Congress Moving Forward On Unconstitutional Take It Down Act 3 months ago:
How did this pass 409-2?!
- Comment on Microsoft has created an AI-generated version of Quake 3 months ago:
People don’t even look at AI generated photos for more than a second. “Oh neat, next.” SO much wasted electricity for instant garbage. One decent AI image has probably a 100+ shitty ones that are just wasting GPUs and hard drive space. When those drives are full and old they dump them and then fill up some more. A mountain of invisible shit wasting our resources.
- Comment on Microsoft has created an AI-generated version of Quake 3 months ago:
The amount of energy it must take to generate a shitty version of Quake II. Yeesh.
- Comment on have positive reviews destroyed games? 3 months ago:
The only negative opinions I care about for gaming usually come from Stephanie Sterling, because she’s pretty much right every time.
- Comment on Lithium-ion battery waste fires are increasing, and vapes are a big part of it 4 months ago:
I’m pretty sure they technically aren’t but no one cares enough to stop their sale. Obama banned “vape flavorings targeting children” which all of them seem to be. I’ve only seen them for sale in vape/tobacco shops. Places that get regulated, like gas stations, aren’t carrying them. At least around where I am in the USA.
- Comment on Voice actors speak out on AI in video games 4 months ago:
Steam requires devs to place it right before the system requirements if they use it. Pretty big print, pretty easy to find. You can see it plain as day on the Black Ops 6 page.
- Comment on Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic 5 months ago:
Awesome, appreciate the information!
- Comment on Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic 5 months ago:
How is it with blocking ads?
- Comment on Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic 5 months ago:
It’s been 2 hours since they posted it and that post count is climbing. Yeesh.
- Comment on Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic 5 months ago:
There are 188 replies on the community post about it. Most are pretty outraged. connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/…/87735
- Comment on More than 40% of all US PS5 and Xbox play time last month was spent on 10 live service games [VGC] 5 months ago:
I try to stay a patient gamer. If you do you’re usually rewarded with a discounted, patched up game with content it probably should have launched with. The exception I’ve been using for myself recently for AAA games is, is a the game a single player experience with no micro-transactions? If yes, I’ll buy it day one or close to it. I do want to show them that I’m willing to pay full price for these games if they aren’t predatory pieces of shit.
- Comment on Make your complaints heard about bad games, says Dragon Age veteran Mark Darrah, but "your $70 doesn't buy you cruelty" 5 months ago:
Back when you also got a physical product with an instruction manual and possibly a poster or something else. Now we get a digital license and yay.
Just something to consider…
- Comment on Make your complaints heard about bad games, says Dragon Age veteran Mark Darrah, but "your $70 doesn't buy you cruelty" 5 months ago:
Wait… when was this? Who did this?
I know of some specific instances of like community managers or a single employee clapping back. Apparently they speak for every employee and the entire community? Is that how this works?
- Comment on How to Easily Mod Risk of Rain 2Using r2modman – A Beginner's Guide! 5 months ago:
I haven’t played the game at all since Seekers of the Storm came out but we would play it modded quite a bit before. The Samus character mod is so much fun.
- Comment on Reviewers giving high scores to poorly optimised games really grinds my gears 6 months ago:
Digital Foundry has complained about the stuttering issues in all of those games. Jedi Survivor still gets brought up.
- Comment on Reviewers giving high scores to poorly optimised games really grinds my gears 6 months ago:
Arkham Knight was the first I noticed it really bad on, no RT present. Since then it seems most Unreal titles suffer from it in some kind of way.
- Comment on Gaming on controller & "typos" 6 months ago:
I remap a lot of my controls to try and be uniform across games as they can be.
- Comment on Knowing less about AI makes people more open to having it in their lives – new research 6 months ago:
My main thing is I hate it being used as a replacement for human creativity. I definitely think it has its uses. I like using DLSS and DLAA in games that support it. For the most part it’s made my gaming experience better. I see it’s usefulness with generating conversations for NPCs in a game. That’s crazy cool but it needs to be tiptoed around. It shouldn’t be used to replace writers, voice actors or artists.
I signed up for Midjourney a while back to see what all the hoopla is about. As I sat there refining my prompt and regenerating OVER and over and over to hopefully get something that wasn’t all fucked was such a waste of my time and an exponential waste of compute and electricity to generate what is essentially instant garbage. It’s crazy and I felt bad about using it afterwards.
- Comment on Facebook Says It’s Not Forcing You to Follow Trump 6 months ago:
Some friends were freaking out about following JD Vance on Instagram. Then they realized they had followed @vp when it was Kamala’s handle.
- Comment on I love my smart TV (From Mastodon) - Repost 6 months ago:
We have an older 2012 1080p Sony 55" TV. Super thin, still works great. It had a few “smart” things it could do, like local tv guide, weather. Very simple stuff, nothing like streaming apps. Those basic smart things haven’t functioned in a while. Support ended for them a long time ago. I’ve had a negative opinion for smart TVs since then. Having those functions sitting there broken drives me nuts.
We always used some type of streaming box. Started out with some Roku’s for a long time that worked okay until they updated them enough to run like shit. Ads were never egregious but you could tell where the trend was going. A friend let me have an older Nvidia Shield TV. It was FILLED with ads for shit we didn’t care about. Google Play store shit, Nvidia shit, advertisement shit, AHHHHHHH. It too eventually was updated enough to where everything runs like shit. I looked into a lot of self contained media systems from no names on Amazon, but I just didn’t trust them. I could set up a PC to do it all and I’d be fine with it but my wife wants something easy to use.
Sooo I ended up going with an Apple TV. So far it’s been really nice. Zero ads on the home screen. It lists the previous content we were watching and then our streaming apps below it, that’s it. When you move the cursor over the Netflix or other apps it lists what you previously watched and some recommendations for other shows but it’s not in your face or moving anything around to do it. There are some apps you can’t remove, but I just made a folder and threw them all in there. It’s nice but it’s costly at around $140. So far for me, I’d say it’s worth it. We only use Netflix, Hulu and Plex on it, but all of them work great. It also supports the Steam Link app. I use it some, but I’ve started to use Moonlight that is installed on my Steam Link device instead, since the picture and stream quality is a lot better.
- Comment on Looking for coop RPGs 7 months ago:
Secret of Mana and its remake are both co-op once you unlock the second character.
- Comment on Let's discuss: Mascot Platformers 8 months ago:
I’m sad Little Big Planet doesn’t get this love anymore. The first two games were fantastic platformers.