TheBeesKnees
@TheBeesKnees@lemmy.sdf.org
- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 2 weeks ago:
I haven’t played in ~a year, but afaik yes! The benefits of selfhosted servers. I think there were 3-4 servers going strong on the weekends. Unfortunately, a lot of those players were the… worst kind. Hyper competitive, 10k hours, surrender the second something goes wrong types. Still amazing to see any activity this long!
My understanding of the situation was one of the creators/founders/idk said they don’t want to do anything more with guns. Hence why subnautica has no “real” weapons and no NS3. This was a long time ago with some old tweet(?). I don’t know if a community-funded thing would get support from the original creators.
- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 2 weeks ago:
The whole ordeal with the game engine is so… ironic. They opt’d for it because they wanted the infestation to spread dynamically and it wouldnt work with existing engines… so one whole custom game engine later… the infestation feature they desperately wanted was scrapped anyways.
At least it benefited from being easy to mod… the modders are the real MVPs. Kept the game alive with everything from performance, to matchmaking, to balancing.
I’d absolutely support a crowdfunded "“NS3"”… but I don’t know if that’s feasible without the official company’s sign off? Like it couldn’t just copy the core gameloop/aliens because of copyright? I can’t imagine it feeling the same without Skulks, Gorges, Lerks, Fades, Onos. The way they traverse the map and fill a niche would be hard to beat.
- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 2 weeks ago:
Let me preface by saying NS/NS2 are my all-time favorite games
NS2 had a terrible launch.* It was unstable, terrible performance, limited to no tutorials, and no match matching system. The game has an intense learning curve, and players who had thousands of hours from NS1 / Early Access. It’s also a game where cooperative play was imperative, so the matches really stink for everyone when teams are unbalanced / one guy curbstomps the other team.
It did eventually address those things, but much of it came too late. I so desperately want NS3 to bring it new life… but that doesn’t ever seem to be coming. I want more games where I get to be the alien/creature/monster!
My desperation hit an all-time high when I started making a game in Godot… ;-;
*To be fair, they also needed to launch ASAP because they needed the money to stay afoat
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- Comment on Anon stops showering 5 months ago:
I think we need to clarify things a bit here. “Clean hair” and “Shampoo’d hair” aren’t the same things.
Everyone should clean their hair. Most people use shampoo for that, but it’s not good for all hair types. Curly hair usually suffers with shampoo use.
- Comment on *agressively keeps pressing 0* 6 months ago:
This typically works, but one time the AI said “Sorry, we’re unable to help you. Good bye” and hung up the phone.
Mind you, this was after 10 minutes of going in nonsensical loops of their options… I have never felt so baffled and enraged at the same time.
- Comment on Has Google Search gotten so much worse in the last couple of weeks? 10 months ago:
Oh god, yes this too. All the sponsored location spam drives me crazy. I love when I zoom in to a location and it doesn’t ANY of the shops besides STARBUCKS^tm^
- Comment on Has Google Search gotten so much worse in the last couple of weeks? 10 months ago:
It has definitely been getting worse over years, but I specifically meant the last couple of weeks. I could still find what I needed between all the garbage… now I can’t even find it after adjusting the search multiple times.
- Comment on Has Google Search gotten so much worse in the last couple of weeks? 10 months ago:
If you can’t do better, then at least add some cute cat pictures in it. At least then I’ll feel a crumb of joy with every wasted effort!
- Comment on Has Google Search gotten so much worse in the last couple of weeks? 10 months ago:
Unfortunately, I’m usually searching software development issues and half the results are a decade old (and are no longer relevant for the language anymore). Assuming “after:xx” works too this night help, thank you!
- Comment on Has Google Search gotten so much worse in the last couple of weeks? 10 months ago:
You honestly though the most used search engine has been abandoned by everyone? Maybe share what you’re using instead of just being pretentious?
- Comment on Has Google Search gotten so much worse in the last couple of weeks? 10 months ago:
Aside from DDG, these are all new to me. I’ll take a look this week, thank you.
- Comment on Has Google Search gotten so much worse in the last couple of weeks? 10 months ago:
I’ve been swapping around search engines too, but they still seem bad. I always end up back at Google just because I know how to manipulate the search terms better.
- Comment on Has Google Search gotten so much worse in the last couple of weeks? 10 months ago:
I’ve used Kagi’s free trial. I’d turn to it when nothing else was helping and it did really well, but recently it hasn’t been helping either. It’s probably still fine for most things, but I’m often searching niche developer/programming things that are too burried under SEO/AI spam to find anymore.
- Submitted 10 months ago to [deleted] | 146 comments