BlameTheAntifa
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- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 4 hours ago:
Digital patents should not exist. Period.
- Comment on Microsoft is raising prices on Xbox consoles, controllers, and games worldwide 6 days ago:
GamePass used to be such a good value, but it’s gotten so overpriced. I’d rather keep the money and spend it on a few games a year I get to keep. Plus, not being available on Linux and/or Steam Deck makes it easier to ignore. Never going back to Windows.
- Comment on Microsoft is raising prices on Xbox consoles, controllers, and games worldwide 6 days ago:
It’s all I use now. They are so good.
- Comment on Seriously Jesus, who was doing that for that to be added 😭 6 days ago:
Ancient stories are almost always parabolic. If there’s not a lesson to be made, then it’s not preserved. Recording history only for history’s sake a fairly modern value. So you’re absolutely right. Ancient texts, especially scriptures, tend to attribute things to god whenever it’s convenient for the narrative.
- Comment on Pearson complaining about using Linux to access my course material 1 week ago:
Your operating system, Arch, is unsupported. Click here to upgrade to Ubuntu.
- Comment on Pearson complaining about using Linux to access my course material 1 week ago:
LibreOffice is decent. Have you tried it yet? Anything major it can’t do for you?
- Comment on Pearson complaining about using Linux to access my course material 1 week ago:
The funny thing is that their server is probably running on Linux.
- Comment on [Digital Foundry] Oblivion Remastered PC: Impressive Remastering, Dire Performance Problems 1 week ago:
You just touched on the problem, which is a confluence of Base Rate Neglect and Availability Bias.
UE is the most popular gaming engine, so it’s used on the most projects and has a high amount of visibility. No matter which engine you build a game with, there are many factors to keep in mind for performance, compatibility, and stability. The engine doesn’t do that for you.
One problem is that big studios build games for consoles first, since it’s easiest to build for predictable systems. PC then gets ignored, is minimally tested, and patched up after the fact. Another is “Crysis syndrome”, where developers push for the best graphics they can manage and performance, compatibility, and stability be damned - if it certifies for the target consoles, that is all that matters. There is also the factor of people being unreasonable about their hardwares capabilities, expecting that everything should always be able to run maxxed out forever… and developers providing options that push the cutting edge of modern (or worse, hypothetical future) hardware compounds the problem. But none of these things have anything to do with the engine, but what developers themselves make on top of the engine.
A lot of the responses to me so far have been “that’s stupid because” and then everything after “because” is related to individual game development, NOT the engine. There is nothing wrong with UE, but there are lots of things wrong with game/software development in general that really should be addressed.
- Comment on [Digital Foundry] Oblivion Remastered PC: Impressive Remastering, Dire Performance Problems 1 week ago:
Exactly. It’s not the engine, it’s what you do with the engine.
- Comment on [Digital Foundry] Oblivion Remastered PC: Impressive Remastering, Dire Performance Problems 1 week ago:
unrealengine.com/…/layers-of-fear-reimagines-horr…
Also, “I don’t know what I’m talking about, so your list is invalid” isn’t the dig you seem to think it is.
- Comment on [Digital Foundry] Oblivion Remastered PC: Impressive Remastering, Dire Performance Problems 1 week ago:
Right. So it’s not the engine, but what you do with it.
- Comment on [Digital Foundry] Oblivion Remastered PC: Impressive Remastering, Dire Performance Problems 1 week ago:
So it’s because the developers paid attention to optimization and polish to ensure the game ran well on the largest number of devices.
My point exactly. It’s not the engine, it’s what you do with it and how you do it.
- Comment on [Digital Foundry] Oblivion Remastered PC: Impressive Remastering, Dire Performance Problems 1 week ago:
I tried it again recently and starts out tolerable but gets worse the bigger your city gets, even when you lower settings. It would be one thing if the game looked amazing and had these deep, detailed simulations… but it just looks okay and the digital corner-cutting trickery becomes obvious when you start looking closely. I feel like there is something fundamentally wrong under the hood of Skylines 2.
- Comment on [Digital Foundry] Oblivion Remastered PC: Impressive Remastering, Dire Performance Problems 1 week ago:
So what you’re saying is that Tekken being a fighting game just magically made a “bad engine” run well?
- Comment on [Digital Foundry] Oblivion Remastered PC: Impressive Remastering, Dire Performance Problems 1 week ago:
Fortnite, Wukong, Tekken 8, Layers of Fear, Firmament, Everspace 2, Dark and Darker, Abiotic Factor, STALKER 2, Jusant, Frostpunk 2, Satisfactory, Expedition 33, Inzoi, Immortals of Aveum, Starship Troopers: Extermination, Ninja Gaiden 2 Black, Lords of the Fallen, Robocop, Myst (UE5 remake), Riven (UE5 remake), Palworld, Remanant 2, Hellblade 2, Subnautica 2… and the list keeps growing.
When a big studio skips QA and releases a broken game, it’s not the engine’s fault, it’s the studios fault. As long as consumers tolerate broken games that can maybe be fixed later (if we’re lucky) then companies will keep releasing broken, unfinished, unpolished, untested games. Blaming UE5 is like blaming an author’s word processor for a poorly written novel.
- Comment on [Digital Foundry] Oblivion Remastered PC: Impressive Remastering, Dire Performance Problems 1 week ago:
Can we please stop blaming UE5 for sloppy development and poor QA?
- Comment on Well played, Todd: You can see Skyrim, or at least its tallest mountain, from the edge of Oblivion Remastered 1 week ago:
That game is called Arena. It was the first Elder Scrolls game.
- Comment on The past 18 months have seen the most rapid change in human written communication ever 2 months ago:
This reminds me of some stuff in Charles Stross’ Accelerando. The book mentions how AI was rapidly filing patents and lawsuits and all this stuff by itself constantly. It was terrifying as a fictional idea, but here we are, it’s real.
- Comment on fuck this asshole 2 months ago:
“…illegal protest…”?
Oh right, the US Constitution doesn’t exist any more.
- Comment on How can A person find out if they were hired as a DEI or fired because of it? 2 months ago:
The point of DEI is to overcome bias. If you are hiring, and you have a white guy and a woman of color, and the woman is a better choice, are you actually able to recognize that fact or will you be biased in favor of the white guy without even realizing it? And yes, the “without even realizing it” is literally the most important part, and the reason DEI programs/training are necessary.
So being “hired as a DEI” means you were hired for your qualifications despite being at a disadvantage due to social biases, and being “fired as a DEI” means you were likely the victim of overt discrimination.
- Comment on Don't forget where we came from and what shaped us as a species. The Jungle. 3 months ago:
Our ancestors have been using sharp sticks, heavy sticks, and sharp rocks since they could walk upright, so I’d support that, too.
- Comment on Amplitude announce Endless Legend 2, an oceanic 4X with Manor Lords outfit Hooded Horse as publisher 3 months ago:
Together? Because I’ve never been able to play any of their games without major desync problems. The same desync bug has been in every one of their games since the beginning.
- Comment on [Discussion] Should Twitter links be banned from lemmy.world? 3 months ago:
That is an excellent point.
- Comment on [Discussion] Should Twitter links be banned from lemmy.world? 3 months ago:
Twitter no longer exists.
But X links should, indeed, be banned.
- Comment on Yep, you did. 3 months ago:
It seems to me that they were both right. If I didn’t know better, I’d be inclined to think that the wealthy and powerful used their works as a roadmap instead of a warning.
- Comment on It shows you love them 3 months ago:
The CCP is right wing, so they’re getting a double-scoop of red-hued authoritarian desert. Nothing contradictory there.
- Comment on David Fincher used AI for the 4K restoration of Seven 3 months ago:
Are the existing home releases different? It sounds like Finchers problems are mostly image quality issues, not changing the actual content of the film like Lucas did.
- Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted? 4 months ago:
Jury nullification is a Constitutional Right.
Not that the US Constitution is worth a damn in 2024.
- Comment on What your coffee preparation method says about you 5 months ago:
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Downvoted for lumping tea in with coffee. How dare you.
- Comment on What your coffee preparation method says about you 5 months ago:
You know what, this is really accurate. I won’t touch Ubuntu or a pod machine. I will use an old percolator, if necessary, but it’s not something I would ever pick over other options. I also bounce between other distros just as often as I bounce between coffee brewing methods!
I wonder where openSUSE falls on this paradigm? Moka pot, maybe?