brucethemoose
@brucethemoose@lemmy.world
- Comment on Does the engine a game uses factor into your decision to buy it or not? 5 hours ago:
There some some very efficient games using UE5, like Satisfactory.
On the contrary, I’m afraid of custom engine games. Even if they ultimately turn out okay, the dev hell required to get them there often sinks the game. See: ME: Andromeda, Cyberpunk 2077. And Distant Worlds 2 (even though it wasn’t technically fully custom).
- Comment on Does the engine a game uses factor into your decision to buy it or not? 8 hours ago:
No.
But it certainly has some strong indirect effects on my buying decisions.
- Comment on Strange are afoot at the Walter Reed 2 days ago:
What would happen if a tanker was destroyed and spilled out there?
- Comment on Strange are afoot at the Walter Reed 2 days ago:
Imagine if you showed this to someone in ~2009.
- Comment on Fake News 2 days ago:
So sick of seeing confidently incorrect people opining, using historical examples, when they have never before cracked open a history book and have no idea of the context.
This has always been the case.
The issue is Twitter boosts them. The problem is the medium.
- Comment on The SKG Discord has updated their name to *Start Killing Games Community* 5 days ago:
It would honestly be a boon to gaming.
Think how much attention and funding they suck up from smaller studios/publishers making great games.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Yeah, that’s going too far, but I understand the reaction to fanning over Valve.
There are a bazillion examples of why you should use, not trust, big businesses over centuries. They are transactions, not people. And if people look at the world in 2026 and somehow don’t see that, I honestly don’t know what to tell them.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Be prepared.
Don’t hate, but don’t trust Valve. Treat your Steam library like you don’t own it, and it could be enshittified at any time, because you don’t, and it could.
In practice, prioritize DRM-free stores when convenient. Or better yet, 1st party game dev stores. Archive any games or saves you actually want to go back to, just in case.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
These comments…
Some day, Steam is going to enshittify fast, eat game devs for breakfast, and people will ask how they could have possibly seen this coming.
Kind of like a certain online bookstore named after a river.
- Comment on Anon listens to British music 1 week ago:
See also: Killing in the Name Of
Music is the perfect genre for tvtropes.org/pmwiki/…/GettingCrapPastTheRadar
- Comment on How do left-leaning—or not even left-leaning, but pro-choice, pro-life people who don’t care about fornication—who are also Catholics and Christians justify their religion? 1 week ago:
not stereotypical religious people at all
Tons of religious folks are compassionate and generous.
It’s the fundamentalists, “traditionalists” and such that give them a bad name. The hate is deserved, but it’s not fair to everyone else TBH.
- Comment on Is it "weird" for kids to co-sleep with parents through their teenage years? 1 week ago:
Maybe occasionally when they visit, sometimes?
- Comment on Is it "weird" for kids to co-sleep with parents through their teenage years? 2 weeks ago:
It’s not that unusual. I have 30-40 year old cousins that might share a bed with their aunt, in gatherings where we’re short on beds.
I wouldn’t worry unless you feel like you have to do it.
- Comment on Forza Horizon 6 requirements are out 2 weeks ago:
Horizon 5 rallying feels great, but only on long-travel suspensions that don’t bounce like a cartoon.
Try the RJ Anderson #37 Pro2 truck, soften the suspension/tires, fatten the rear tires and take on that downhill mountain course. It’s utter bliss. I like the Ford Ranger T6 too.
…But yeah, it’s too arcadey. The campaign is so sycophantic and stupid, and MP matchmaking racing is so broken. I’ll probably skip 6 too.
- Comment on Me emitting 20KG of CO2 by using Google search to spellcheck individual words 2 weeks ago:
I’m quite satisfied with language tool.
It doesn’t get every esoteric variant of words, but adding a few to its dictionary over time brought it to whatever vocabulary I know.
- Comment on Arc linux says opposing age identification is CoC violation. 2 weeks ago:
Ugh, then why do posters share it!?
I don’t get it.
- Comment on Arc linux says opposing age identification is CoC violation. 2 weeks ago:
I think the source is way better than the talking head, in this case. And more succint:
I appreciate the work ahead of time, and the law is the law. @svartkanin raised this PR internally within staff channels, and the feedback is that we’ll wait until there’s an overall stance from Arch Linux on this before merging this, and preferably involve legal representatives on this matter on what the best way forward is for us.
But from a personal reflection it’s clear that there’s a disconnect between law makers intent and how things like this will be implemented in reality, and once a law is in place - we might have to implement inconvenient things…
So I’ll leave this open for now, but I’ll also lock the conversation because experience from the mailing lists on this topic has told us this thread will get out of hand quickly.
@dylanmtaylor: this stance does not mean that we won’t merge this. And despite locking this thread, I think you, me and other contributors and maintainers can still comment (which is fine, and good).
- Comment on Why Everyone’s Picking Up a PSP Again in 2026 (my article!) 2 weeks ago:
Gah, I forgot about that! It was so much fun in singleplayer.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
some people act like
Only from being online too much, in a warped version of reality.
I don’t think there’s a social place on Earth you can physically go where you’d feel oppressed as a cis person. It’s a ridiculous notion, if you think about it statistically.
Now, are there online spaces where cisphobia is a thing? Sure. The internet is a zoo. But don’t let some algorithm boosting those weird spaces make you think that’s normal.
- Comment on Why Everyone’s Picking Up a PSP Again in 2026 (my article!) 2 weeks ago:
I felt weird using mine in public, like staring down at a little rectangle was unsocial or bad for you or something…
Turns out, it’s more like digital detox! It would be cool these days.
- Comment on Why Everyone’s Picking Up a PSP Again in 2026 (my article!) 2 weeks ago:
Ace Combat! Ratchet and Clank!
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
My datapoint from a US private school: bullying was stratified. You had the very rich “in” crowd and then everyone else in clumps of niches.
But it was too fancy for much “open” bullying; it was more implied. Instead of a wall of text, well, it was this:
Literally this. Kids from the old money neighborhood would hang out the school atrium balcony.
- Comment on Great Tits 2 weeks ago:
Humans are a very fortunate size, aren’t we? A little bigger, and we’d be extinct like most megafauna. A little smaller, and our place on the food chain would be very different.
- Comment on Dumb glasses 3 weeks ago:
And not under particularly bright indoor lighting.
- Comment on When people recommend Brave browser. 3 weeks ago:
With Firefox, presumably compatibility, AI stuff, and a string of lesser Mozilla controversies, I guess?
As for Brave, I think you’re underestimating people. They don’t want to be tracked, they don’t want to see ads. They won’t necessarily go seek a solution out, but if a one-click solution to fix that presents itself in front of their eyeballs, they might try it.
- Comment on When people recommend Brave browser. 3 weeks ago:
Friend, why are you so intent on sticking to Brave?
Trying another browser that doesnt have a long list of “cherry picked” controversies takes like a few seconds. What’s the downside to that?
- Comment on When people recommend Brave browser. 3 weeks ago:
Thats obscure information, too. It’s reasonable to not know.
I draw the line when its awfulness is pointed out, and linked, alternatives are presented, yet the Brave user digs in their heels and takes criticism of their browser choice personally. That is just ego.
- Comment on Dumb glasses 3 weeks ago:
Better yet, a GenAI power virus.
Link it to a “cool looking AI app” which constantly thrashes the phone in the background generating AI porn to sell, which Google/Apple do absolutely nothing to stop because it’s AI and it makes them money. Use to extra cash to sell more tshirts.
…Maybe I went a little far, there.
- Comment on EXODUS Gameplay Clips Showcase Combat, Traversal, And Exploration 3 weeks ago:
Quite Mass Effect Andromeda-ish.
…Which is an under-rated game, IMO. Yes, the main quests and characters have the charisma of sticks, but it has some neat side quests, kinda like a BGS game. Counter to the “my face is tired” meme, the animations, graphics, combat and everything are all amazing.
- Comment on When people recommend Brave browser. 3 weeks ago:
Also, the Brave defenders in this section… holy moly.
Some folks simply cannot admit they made a questionable choice.
