BadlyDrawnRhino

@BadlyDrawnRhino@aussie.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨God of War Ragnarök - PC Launch Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think that’s their goal at all. Otherwise we wouldn’t see any sequels released on PC, that would be a much better strategy for converting players to console. The only reason publishers require their own logins in games, at least for single-player titles, is data collection. Data is very valuable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨God of War Ragnarök - PC Launch Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re referring to Sony’s stance that all their PC releases should require you to have and sign-in to a PSN account. That’s separate to PS+, you don’t need to pay a sub.

  A lot of publishers include this requirement on their PC releases, regardless of whether they’re single-player or multiplayer, and I think a lot of people are fed up with having to have so many different accounts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy giveth, Lemmy taketh?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just make sure your family has a way to access your account. I very much doubt that Valve or most publishers will care that your kids have access to decades-old games after you’re gone. Although I could see Ubisoft trying to take action out of spite, but that’s only if they’re still around by then, they’re on pretty shakey ground at the moment.

  Better option if this is an important issue for you is to only buy DRM-free. You’ll have to wait for most AAA games, but most AAA games these days are increasingly not worth it anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Acer enter the handheld PC gaming race with the Nitro Blaze 7⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is my thought with every single one of these. I was pleasantly surprised to see them on the new Ayaneo Kun, making it the only alternative to the Steam Deck I would consider. The lack of trackpads is too much of a limitation for PC gaming.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New AI model can hallucinate a game of 1993’s Doom in real time⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, half of the AAA gaming industry is all about trying to clone the latest successful game with a new coat of paint. Maybe using AI to make these clones will mean that the talented people behind the scenes are free to explore other ideas instead.

  Of course in reality, it just means that the largest publishers will lay off a whole lot of people and keep churning out these uninspired games in the name of corporate profits, but it’s nice to dream sometimes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Celebrating 6 years since Valve announced Steam Play Proton for Linux⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It also means avoiding any future craziness in the name of “anti-cheating” from both Microsoft and publishers. It’s bad enough that publishers are forcing kernel-level access now, but once there’s a workaround for those applications, what’s the next step?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Media companies need [the revenue from] gaming ads, government minister argues⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If keeping these companies running is so important to public interest, why aren’t they receiving public funding rather than relying on money given to them by shady third parties with their own political interests?

  I also fail to see how these particular networks owned by international multinational corporations are really any better than any other international multinational corporation like Meta. There is just as much misinformation on Channel 7, for example, as there is on Facebook, and the fact that often that misinformation is communicated as news, therefore making it seem more trustworthy, makes it a lot worse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sloths 🦥⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just wait until some oil baron says that sloth-dug tunnels is the way to “deal” with climate change.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Consssssspiracies⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The real conspiracy is that there’s only one recognised holiday per year for most species on the planet, except for humans that get several per month. Seems to me that humans are trying to keep other species from having enough free-time to plot the revolution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nuclear power explained in 12 numbers to help you understand how it fits Australia’s energy needs⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think those quotes at the bottom are a really great summary of the problem with the Coalition’s nuclear plan:

  “As I said, from an engineering point of view nuclear power is an excellent form of energy,” Dr Finkel said. 

  “What we can’t do is say, ‘Oh, nuclear is easy, therefore let’s stop all the wind and jump on to nuclear.’ 

  “It just can’t possibly happen in the time-frame that we need. But that doesn’t mean we should rule it out because there’s that long term benefit.” 

  I could see the merits of beginning to invest in nuclear now, given the time required to get it up and running, but only so long as the shift to renewables isn’t interrupted. Unfortunately, I think the LNP see this as a way to seem like they give a shit about climate change, but really it’s just a way to buy them another decade or two to line their pockets with coal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Greens leader threatens legal action against attorney-general over 'defamatory' comments⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Doubt it’ll go to court, he’ll probably just make a public pseudo-apology and that’ll be that. But if it did go to court, I imagine the defence will argue that by not explicitly condoning, and in some instances fully supporting the protests, they were “encouraging” any criminal damage that may have occurred. I would hope that argument wouldn’t work, but a lot has happened in the last six months that I previously would have hoped would never happen so who knows at this point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starfield’s biggest update yet fixes its rubbish maps, adds custom difficulty and expands ship decoration⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t played Starfield yet, but from what I’ve read it seems to be the next step in the procedurally generated games that Bethesda is heading towards, and I really hope it makes them rethink things for their next game.

  While I’m sure that there are people out there who enjoy the fact that there are infinite fetch quests in Skyrim, it’s hardly a feature that anyone really raves about. In fact, the Minutemen quests in FO4 were often the subject of ridicule when the game came out. But at least in those two games, the Radiant quests had the possibility of taking you to an interesting location you hadn’t been to before.

  Like you said, one of the key features in any Bethesda game is the exploration, but the more they rely on procedural generation, the less interesting exploration becomes, and the gameplay and writing of their games just isn’t strong enough without the finely crafted world-building they’re known for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ Producer Says ‘We’re Gonna Reboot’ the Franchise, Which Is ‘Easier to Put Together Because You Don’t Have to Wait for Certain Actors’ | Variety⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The 4th one was the second best, in my opinion. I haven’t seen 5 though, but from what I can tell it wasn’t very well-received.

  They should have made every movie standalone, 2 and 3 had too many moments where I felt they were just dragging things out to justify a cliffhanger and a sequel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What a feeling that was⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I never owned a NES, but had a SNES and my brother also borrowed his friend’s Mega Drive (Genesis for those of you in the US) from time-to-time. All of us would blow the connectors on the cartridges, regardless of console. If anything went wrong with a game, the first step to troubleshoot was to take the cartridge out and give it a good blow.

  It was never about how the console actually worked, a five year-old isn’t going to logically think about that. It was all about a perceived performance increase by doing it.