Atherel
@Atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on [Jason Schreier] AAA game budgets estimated around $300 million. These budgets are almost entirely dev salaries + overheard and have nothing to do with executive compensation (which is mostly stock) 4 days ago:
Oh I don’t say that it’s a good reason, it’s just why they do it. Shareholder value must go up. Trying something new risks that numbers go down, can’t do that.
Personally I don’t care for “triple A” games anymore. The last one I bought at full price shortly after release was 2019 for Jedi Knight, and that was a huge exception because the last before that one was 2010 for Mass Effect 2. All my other games in my way to big library are indies or games I bought on sale for less than 20 bucks and only because I’m interested in. I have blocked big publishers like EA or Ubisoft on Steam since a few years because of their attitude, enshittifiaction and mostly because their games are the same over and over again.
- Comment on [Jason Schreier] AAA game budgets estimated around $300 million. These budgets are almost entirely dev salaries + overheard and have nothing to do with executive compensation (which is mostly stock) 4 days ago:
Can’t take risks when you put in that much money
- Comment on Death Stranding 2 looks amazing in the 21:9 ultra-wide 5 days ago:
And it’s awesome. Went from dual 16:9 1440p to 32:9 5120x1440. Same size, no gap in the middle.
- Comment on 4th dimensional jokes 1 week ago:
I have a UDP joke but you may not get it.
- Comment on I saw a turd on my way home from work! 4 weeks ago:
Unfortunately owned by Bezos…
- Comment on Shit, I'd pay $9 5 weeks ago:
So CallerYD
- Comment on Is it a good idea to use an Android phone as an external SSD for backing up my home folder? 1 month ago:
Doesn’t have to be a USB drive. You can also backup your data to a network storage if you have any.
Good choice with EndeavourOS btw., using it since over a year now and I am very happy.
- Comment on Practical and Logical 1 month ago:
I find a shirt that fits? I buy 20!
- Comment on Work smarter, not harder 1 month ago:
WTF that’s way to much insights in data that shouldn’t be collected in first place.
- Comment on Pentagon expands Grok AI into classified systems despite rising scrutiny outside US 2 months ago:
My finger is on the button
The time has come to
Oh, sorry… I read “galvanize”
- Comment on What next, power supply shortages? 2 months ago:
PSU had shortage or really high prices a few years ago because the new GPU gen needed beefier PSU.
- Comment on ChatGPT could prioritize sponsored content as part of ad strategy — sponsored content could allegedly be given preferential treatment in LLM’s responses, OpenAI to use chat data to deliver highly personalized results 2 months ago:
The fact that ads will be injected in LLM was clear. I just thought Google would do it first in their AI responses.
- Comment on T-Wrex'd 2 months ago:
The graph has the form of the back of a Spinosaurus, it’s clearly superior and even showing it’s dominance without being named in the chart.
- Comment on Christmas Animals 3 months ago:
- Comment on Always wear protection, folks 3 months ago:
Goddammit…
- Comment on Best vertical games on Android? 3 months ago:
- Comment on Milk 4 months ago:
As long as it isn’t gestaposoup…
- Comment on Making A Virtual Machine Look Like Real Hardware To Malware | Hackaday 4 months ago:
Because there’s other software you want to run but doesn’t when it detects a vm. And you don’t want to publish how to run that software in a vm because of lawyers.
- Comment on "I used to be with it" 5 months ago:
No no, the disc changer was in the glove box. The radio had a cassette player. I used it with one of those cassette adapters to connect my iRiver mp3 player.
- Comment on "I used to be with it" 5 months ago:
Pah, I had a CD-changer for 6 discs!
- Comment on Tabletop convection oven 5 months ago:
Heil Ufri
I’m not sure if this is going down the right direction…
- Comment on Options for protecting home IP on my self hosted home srver 5 months ago:
Instead of paying for vpn because of torrents, take a look at usenet instead. You pay of a newshoster but the downloads are fast and you don’t need a vpn for it. Plus most hoster have vpn included in their offers just in case.
- Comment on Backups? (and Intro) 5 months ago:
+1 for duplicavy (don’t confuse it with duplicati)
Setup can be a little hard at the beginning but once configured it just works.
- Comment on 5 months ago:
To bad the subtitles for my emotions are in a foreign language and the translation is utter shit
- Comment on 'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash: 'If you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor, you're going to be disappointed' 6 months ago:
Does 1 get better? I have 1 and 2 from a bundle years ago and started the first game. It’s sooo boring, like all the bad stuff from an mmo but single player. I don’t want to walk from a Hub to place A multiple times and just the spawning mobs change based on the quest.
Or if 1 doesn’t get better, can I play 2 without losing to much?
- Comment on 'An embarrassing failure of the US patent system': Videogame IP lawyer says Nintendo's latest patents on Pokémon mechanics 'should not have happened, full stop' 6 months ago:
Hey listen!
- Comment on Google deletes net-zero pledge from sustainability website 6 months ago:
I’m absolutely with you. Stop pushing responsibility on individuals. If something is bad and I should avoid consuming things that use it, it shouldn’t be allowed to ne produced in the first place.
- Comment on Anon turns on raytracing 9 months ago:
There is no analogy. It’s comparing returning costs per product (you need a new tomato per 5 burgers) to a one time costs that can be cut during development. And additional copies of a game don’t generate more costs.
- Comment on Anon turns on raytracing 9 months ago:
Gamers needs expensive hardware so designer has less work. Game still not cheaper.
- Comment on Game files are verified, House 9 months ago:
But it’s always DNS
