Flamekebab
@Flamekebab@piefed.social
- Comment on Day 481 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 hour ago:
Climbing between the same three tree branches was not my idea of fun…
- Comment on Day 481 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 7 hours ago:
I played this one purely for Desmond’s story. I found everything about Connor’s story utterly tedious and the setting meant that the buildings were awful for traversal.
- Comment on Kemi Badenoch to relaunch exclusive ‘advisory board’ for high-value donors 3 days ago:
Wasn’t there a whole scandal about this being done surreptitiously? Quiet part out loud, etc..
- Comment on For those of you who enjoy open-world games, how big of a world is too big? 5 days ago:
A wasteland that one can throw a stone across doesn’t feel like much of a wasteland to me. I don’t want realism, just big enough that I can suspend my disbelief. I want to get immersed but a “town” with six people isn’t a godsdamned town.
- Comment on For those of you who enjoy open-world games, how big of a world is too big? 5 days ago:
My go-to “too big” is True Crime: Streets of LA. If memory serves it’s a decent chunk of LA at 1:1 scale.
It’s far too big and there’s not much to do. It doesn’t help that the game is dross.
- Comment on For those of you who enjoy open-world games, how big of a world is too big? 5 days ago:
I would argue that Fallout 3’s map is ridiculously tiny.
- Comment on On new installations, Android rebinds the power button to open up Google Assistant 1 week ago:
I use Lawnchair for that.
- Comment on Please no, just stop 1 week ago:
I’ve got another one - look at my content and suggest hashtags that are relevant and popular.
- Comment on Please no, just stop 1 week ago:
I find it useful for doing tedious stuff that I can easily review - writing argparsers for functions I’ve written, for example.
- Comment on Please no, just stop 1 week ago:
I’ve yet to see AI for any of the things I’d actually like it for. It’d be good if I could use it as a natural language compatible filter for my feeds, for example. I’m interested in gaming news but have zero interest in a number of popular genres, settings, and so forth. Having an AI look at the feed and be able to spot the rough shape of stuff I don’t care about and throw it away would be useful to me and mistakes wouldn’t matter.
Similarly I could do with something on the desktop that helps me keep my files tidy. Learn the way I’d like to do things and help me keep things sorted. If unsure, learn when I’m likely to be willing to answer questions and ask for clarification then. Worst case scenario it misfiles something and there’s an interface to ask it “the file about the thing - where is that? It’s not where I would expect”.
Instead I’ve got shit like “let us summarise email for you”. If the email is long enough that I’d need a summary then it’s too important to be entrusted to the Hallucinatron 5000. If it’s short enough that it would be safe then there’s zero time saved for me. A few sentences? What an insurmountable challenge - help me, Twatbot 2.0.
- Comment on Gambling does not cause any ‘social ills’, lobbyist tells incredulous MPs 1 week ago:
The sheer amount of advertising for gambling is grim. Whilst I’m not susceptible to it, I can’t imagine it’s doing the UK any good (I find gambling extremely boring - they can advertise all they want at me).
- Comment on Mexican Government To Tax Violent Video Games It Says Make Kids Violent 1 week ago:
Whilst I can’t be bothered to look it up on my phone - we have hard data that disproves this link, last I checked.
- Comment on King Charles III dedicates Britain's first national memorial to LGBTQ+ troops 1 week ago:
Glad to see us doing the opposite of the US on this.
- Comment on Has anyone here ever doubted if your parents were your "real" parents? Is it normal to have these weird thoughts? 1 week ago:
At least for me, not for a second. I have distinctive physical traits from my father.
- Comment on When was the last time you actually laughed while playing a game? 2 weeks ago:
Saints Row (2022) had some of my flavour of silliness.
- Comment on UK and Scottish governments row over footing £24.5m bill for Trump and Vance visits 2 weeks ago:
What was it the yanks were saying a while back? Make them pay for it?
- Comment on Xbox ditching hardware and exclusive games "makes sense," former Microsoft exec and Blizzard boss says, as "only a moron would continue" making consoles as games go third party 2 weeks ago:
Which is fair enough and totally reasonable - it was purely in the context of that comment it seemed odd. You had a device that actually uses the architecture that Macs use and one that used an architecture that they don’t but… yeah. It’s not important, it just made me chuckle.
…and groan about the march of time.
- Comment on Xbox ditching hardware and exclusive games "makes sense," former Microsoft exec and Blizzard boss says, as "only a moron would continue" making consoles as games go third party 2 weeks ago:
But the Switch and beyond use ARM, the architecture Macs have used for the last five years?
It just seemed an odd thing to mention given how long it’s been since Macs used PPC. I know they used to, but I’m old enough to have used 68000k Macs too so of course I remember that time. - Comment on Xbox ditching hardware and exclusive games "makes sense," former Microsoft exec and Blizzard boss says, as "only a moron would continue" making consoles as games go third party 2 weeks ago:
I’m confused by your first sentence - the last machines they made that used PPC were in 2005. To me it reads like you’re correcting me but saying exactly the same thing..?
The fact that Macs stopped using the architecture twenty years ago makes it bit of an odd connection, I would argue. As you say, the 360 used the architecture far more recently and over 84 million of those were sold. It’s not like it was some obscure device.
- Comment on Xbox ditching hardware and exclusive games "makes sense," former Microsoft exec and Blizzard boss says, as "only a moron would continue" making consoles as games go third party 2 weeks ago:
Mac haven’t used PowerPC since 2005.
- Comment on Name a game that you found SO FUN, but no one talks about it anymore. 3 weeks ago:
Apogee’s Secret Agent. It got a lovely remaster a few years ago too.
A fun platformer that spoofs the spy genre.
- Comment on £6 million repaid to workers as Government cracks down on employers underpaying their staff 3 weeks ago:
More of this, less of the shit stuff. It’s not fucking rocket science.
- Comment on Xbox requires age verification now 3 weeks ago:
I’m using a Hotmail account from the ‘90s, fuck off.
- Comment on What is the most overrated game gamers hype up? 3 weeks ago:
I found it very strange how unfinished parts of it seemed.
- Comment on What is the most overrated game gamers hype up? 3 weeks ago:
I can see why it would be good. I wasn’t willing to endure more of its self indulgence to find out.
- Comment on Oooooh! 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Charlie Kirk's Turning Point promotes Christian 'blackshirts' in UK 5 weeks ago:
Proscribed organisation. Now.
- Comment on Cops have now arrested over 2,000 peaceful Defend Our Juries protesters 5 weeks ago:
I can’t agree with that defeatism. If nothing changes, sure, but the general election isn’t tomorrow.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
The inclusion of “fresh” makes this tremendously confusing.
- Comment on Image site Imgur pulls out of UK as data watchdog threatens fine 5 weeks ago:
Hard to say, but I doubt it. Our governments don’t ask before doing stuff - they’ve seen how stupid we are when asked basic questions.