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- Comment on Facebook flags Linux topics as 'cybersecurity threats' — posts and users being blocked 4 days ago:
Linux is one of the few impactful tools available to maintain (or reclaim) the sovereignty of our communications, data, and access to the online world. Those things lie at the core of practically everything in our lives, from employment to education to laws to basic human necessities. Given how significantly freedom is being eroded lately, I can’t think of many things more important in the long run.
- Comment on Day 195 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 4 days ago:
Ever since playing and liking Tomb Raider (2013), I have noticed it being compared to Uncharted, which made me curious about the latter. However, the clips I’ve seen made Uncharted’s characters seem focused on being macho men, rather than being humans exploring dangerous environments. Is it like that throughout, or did I just randomly find video clips that happened to highlight a single minor aspect of the games?
- Comment on Ubisoft announces studio closure as it lays off 185 staff 5 days ago:
Practically all game publishers do. Sadly, it’s the industry standard.
But the complaint was about Steam, not Valve.
- Comment on Ubisoft announces studio closure as it lays off 185 staff 5 days ago:
It’s not Steam’s decision to make. The statement you’re referring to is just Steam clearly stating a decision made by the game publishers. Even if Steam didn’t highlight it, it would still exist, as you would see if you read the games’ license terms before paying.
Ubisoft is a game publisher. They actually make the decision that you don’t own the games you pay for.
- Comment on Reviewers giving high scores to poorly optimised games really grinds my gears 5 days ago:
Throwing another example on the fire: The Last of Us Part I PC port. The people who released that code ought to be brought up on charges for climate destruction.
- Comment on Can We Build Tech That Is Not Oppressive? 6 days ago:
You’re right, I’m not really sure if I understand what the article is about. And how it translates to the title and us, the people.
Unfortunately, the headline is misleading. It’s possible that the author chose it because gathering an audience by criticising “tech” is easy. It’s also possible that she misunderstands the root of the issues she discusses. shrug
The only way I know of to solve the problem is to reclaim our governments, and reform them. Historically, that has been done through democracy and through revolution. The former approach is getting harder, and the way things are going, might disappear if we let it go for too long.
- Comment on Can We Build Tech That Is Not Oppressive? 6 days ago:
Did you read the article? It’s not about spyware in the devices we “own”. That’s just a minor detail.
The problem being discussed is about governments, laws, and capitalist motives being allowed to systematically exploit people who can easily be exploited. This takes place mostly outside of our devices, so although putting safer software on our devices is absolutely worthwhile, it cannot fix this problem.
- Comment on Can We Build Tech That Is Not Oppressive? 6 days ago:
Libre software is important, and relates to the article insofar as it can help keep our own devices from spying on us, but software is but an incidental detail within a larger problem. This is about abusive power structures, bad actors with too much influence, and profit taking precedence over human rights. No software license will solve it.
- Comment on What is AI good for? (derogatory) 1 week ago:
Didn’t Edwin Starr sing something about this?
- Comment on ~118% of players support LAHF [Steam Survey] 2 weeks ago:
I hear people wondering, “WTF is LAHF?”
It’s a CPU instruction.
- Comment on Day 183 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 2 weeks ago:
I suggest trying out a few distros using live bootable images, and picking one you like for regular user stuff. There is no “best” for gaming; all the major distros can do it just fine.
- Comment on Day 183 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 2 weeks ago:
Wow. I feel like i’m really experiencing California Traffic. It’s just as bad as the real thing.
I hope California drivers aren’t as bad as the NPC drivers in this game. Any minor obstacle has a 50% chance of sending them into panic, ramming other vehicles and wedging their own into positions from which they cannot easily escape, when they could have just steered around it. It gets so laughably bad that I have sat and watched them try for more than a few minutes at a time.
- Comment on Kingdom Come Deliverance 2's dedication to letting me be a drunk, boorish oaf is so committed, it honestly left me astounded - preview 2 weeks ago:
Does it have the same skill-leveling mechanic as the first one, where the player has about as much control of their body as a drunk standing on one stilt, and sometimes has to fight with actions failing to work at all, until they slog through hours of mind-numbing training sessions?
I wanted to like KC:D. There were parts of it that I found really appealing, but I found that mechanic bloody intolerable, so I ended up deleting it and never looking back.
- Comment on Any Roguelike/Roguelite suggestions? 3 weeks ago:
If you love roguelike games, I suggest playing a great one that was directly inspired by the original: Nethack.
If you want fancier graphics, Shattered Pixel dungeon.
- Comment on Day 178 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 3 weeks ago:
Yes. I loved the tension-filled atmosphere as a backdrop for not knowing what threat was going to get me, and the subtlety of the puzzle was brilliant.
- Comment on Day 178 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 3 weeks ago:
Such a beautiful game.
One of my favorite parts was my first visit to the Lost Woods, and the experience of finding my way through. A darkened room and surround sound made it all the better.
- Comment on SKG Has an Official Discord Server Now! 3 weeks ago:
Seems ironic for a project focused on preservation of access to adopt a closed messaging platform like Discord, that can and does lock people out on a whim.
- Comment on Atomfall | Official Gameplay Overview Trailer 3 weeks ago:
Kind of like -ly and -hub in domain names, or -kit in software libraries? :)
- Comment on Telegram Hands U.S. Authorities Data on Thousands of Users [404 Media] 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on What procedures do you take to save and archive your games? 4 weeks ago:
I just put the installers onto a thumbdrive.
I hope you’re powering up that thumb drive every few weeks. Flash memory will lose charge if left unpowered for too long, corrupting your data.
- Comment on The voice actor of the GMan just posted this promising cryptic HL3 rumor 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on The Path To Release (Skyblivion Roadmap 2024) 4 weeks ago:
When I played Oblivion years ago, I got bored quickly, but I think it was because I ended up focusing on the wrong things. Knowledge of how the level scaling worked led me to having an overpowered character, and closing the Oblivion gates was repetitive and mostly easy because (IIRC) I could just run past most of the threats.
I heard later that there is a lot of interesting stuff to discover if you ignore the main quest line. I would like to try that some time, and it would be pretty cool to do it with an upgraded game engine & environment. Here’s hoping this project gets the volunteers it needs.
- Comment on idea for a controller that sounds good on paper and I wanna share 4 weeks ago:
Something like this?
- Comment on Putin's 'sovereign' gaming console projects detailed, found lacking 4 weeks ago:
“It is obvious to everyone: Elbrus processors are not yet at the level required to compete equally with the PS5 and Xbox, which means the solution must be unconventional.”
That unconventional approach could involve either simplifying games to the degree that Elbrus CPUs can handle (the Russian audience still has access to world-class games and would likely not play those ‘simplified’ games)
Oh, let’s not be hasty. Nintendo has had great success with underpowered consoles, and Tetris is a shining example of this sort of thing. :)
- Comment on After years of holding out hope, 2024 was the year I finally gave up on BioWare 5 weeks ago:
Why does the text in the post start halfway through the text in the link?
People sometimes do this to call attention to the part of an article that they found most interesting.
Kind of annoying to have to click the damned link if the text can just be in the body of the post.
Copying and re-posting the entire body of a copyrighted work is sometimes considered bad form. Some forums ban it outright. Even where it’s not illegal or banned, not everyone likes to do it.
- A fake Nintendo lawyer is scaring YouTubers, and it’s not clear YouTube can stop himwww.theverge.com ↗Submitted 5 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 9 comments
- Comment on Video Games Can’t Afford to Look This Good 5 weeks ago:
You can select the text that’s over that background to make reading easier. Most of the article below it, so you should be fine after a couple taps of Page Down.
Or use Firefox reader view, which cleans it right up. :)
- Comment on Video Games Can’t Afford to Look This Good 5 weeks ago:
It’s still useful to people who restrict scripts in their browsers (good security practice) and will be more useful when nytimes eventually takes the article down.
- Comment on Video Games Can’t Afford to Look This Good 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on What games have you sunk the most time into? 5 weeks ago:
They seem to have returned to it recently. Total redesign of power play. Targoid war with titan battles (basically massive multiplayer raids). New ships. New frame shift drives. Colonisation coming soon.