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- Comment on Actor Noel Clarke arrested over allegation of attempted rape in 2007 8 hours ago:
After the years of stories of how rude, unkind, smug, self absorbed, and arrogant they are, I’m not surprised ‘rapist’ is getting added to that list.
Hopefully justice prevails for the victims.
- Comment on A Baldur's Gate HBO series is in the works, will be set directly after Baldur's Gate 3 with new and returning characters 3 days ago:
It’s almost as if they factored the cost of licensing a third-party IP into the price.
- Comment on What's with companies naming things "MyNoun"? 5 days ago:
There’s no place like
/home - Comment on What's with companies naming things "MyNoun"? 6 days ago:
It started with making office computers personable for home use in Windows 95 e.g. “My Computer”, “My Documents”.
This carried on into web services like My Yahoo, or terms like My Account.
Smashing it into one word was also a thing back in the late 90s / early 00s because it (a) was easy for searching in older search engines and (b) sounded like Apple’s iPod, iMac etc (MyPod, MyMac).
Continued use today is usually because of either (a) it’s been called that for a couple of decades already or (b) the product manager is themselves old and has forgotten how old the trend of trying to make those new fangled computerybobs sound welcoming and friendly.
- Comment on Why is Valve being sued for almost $900 million, but Epic Games wasn't sued when they bought Rocket League and Fall Guys to remove them from steam? 1 week ago:
If Epic spent half as much money as they are suing organisations and instead funded developing their shop into a gaming community platform like Steam, they’d probably have caught up by now.
- Comment on Ubisoft target audience when they play a good game 3 weeks ago:
Half-Life was the same. The game doesn’t spoon feed you a narrative, the same way real life doesn’t have a narrator (at least one outside of your head).
You need to pay attention to your surroundings, listen in to NPCs talking, read posters on the wall, etc to piece together the story.
It was and is one of the cooler ways to do storytelling in my opinion. Cutscenes etc are fine but for a first person game, I love the immersion of the story happening around you rather then being loredumped on you while you’re agency is taken away from you.
- Comment on Circumcision classed as possible child abuse in draft CPS document 4 weeks ago:
It’s genital mutilation. It’s been done for religious reasons, cultural reasons, social reasons, for slavery reasons, and more.
But cutting up babies’ genitals for any reason except medical intervention for relevant pathologies is genital mutilation.
- Comment on Linux will be unstoppable in 2026 - but one open-source legend may not survive 5 weeks ago:
Firefox. Silly clickbait titles…
- Comment on Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life 1 month ago:
I wouldn’t know
- Comment on Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life 1 month ago:
Like wooden knife with a wooden wood
- Comment on Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life 1 month ago:
We’ve got four different sized ones in our house!
Next they’re going to say they don’t own any wooden butter knives…
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Steamdb lets you filter out games with less than x reviews which I’ve made liberal use of over the years.
- Comment on What are some lower size games that work well on linux handhelds? 1 month ago:
I’d just take a look at the Steam Deck Verified pages as that’ll give you a good idea about a game (at least though Proton).
- Comment on I support this 2 months ago:
It’s like saying thank you to someone for flushing the toilet.
- Comment on After Apple originally announced the first version of Halo in 1999, Xbox apparently called Bungie and said "'Steve Jobs can't have that. We're going to buy you.'" 2 months ago:
Apple already has the Game Porting Toolkit which is made by CodeWeavers - D3DMetal can run a lot of Windows games like Proton’s DXVK/VKD3D. MoltenVK is a little behind to fully empower VKD3D on macOS; it’s not as smooth sailing as Proton.
The biggest issue is that Apple are still hoping developers spend the time to work on converting shaders to Metal, implement Game Center, UI and Accessibility features etc so the game feels like a native app.
Which is dumb. As was Metal (they should have just made Metal as a Vulkan abstraction layer).
Valve took the smart route and while they love developers using the Steam SDK, at least with the Steam Overlay they can still offer a native-like feeling experience.
Here’s hoping Steam Machine etc is incredibly disruptive as if it’s a decent workstation too, there’s a dwindling number of reasons to not use Linux (Adobe / Affinity / Office / AutoCAD / MinecraftBE / Fortnite).
- Comment on Fuck Microsoft 2 months ago:
Nah practically every office uses TempleOS and Lotus720.
Come on, dude. You’re in lemmyshitpost.
- Comment on What is your favorite Metroidvania? 2 months ago:
I’d say the second one was even harder too.
- Comment on Can someone please identify this plant ?? 2 months ago:
Looks like it could be a Bushwillow. Combretum malabaricum / Malabar Madhu Malati ?
- Comment on While we eagerly await the second coming of Steam Machines, it's worth remembering what a gloriously awful mess Valve got itself in over a decade ago 2 months ago:
Really well articulated.
Valve have enabled a critical mass of “target platforms” that enables both the community and developers to get things working on Linux, which all other distros are about to benefit from.
I’m likely going to buy all the new Valve hardware out of principle. The Deck is incredible, but I still have my beefy gaming rig. But my living room wouldn’t mind a Steam Machine (and my girlfriend is definitely after both a Steam Frame and Controller 2.
I’m taking time off work in a couple of weeks and I’m moving over to Linux completely - I too have felt the inertia of dual booting and find myself in Windows far too often.
- Comment on Today is the birthday of His Majesty the King 2 months ago:
If he wanted me to celebrate, he’d have made the day a public holiday.
- Comment on While we eagerly await the second coming of Steam Machines, it's worth remembering what a gloriously awful mess Valve got itself in over a decade ago 2 months ago:
The failure of the Steam Machine is why Valve hosted Khronos group at their office to kick off Vulkan and funded LunarG etc in the early days to get things moving quickly.
Valve took their time but this new hardware range is based on years of learning and solving the problems from their original foray into hardware and Linux for gaming.
And I’m so thankful for it!
- Comment on Our first look at the Steam Machine, Valve’s ambitious new game console 2 months ago:
And while the Link hardware was cancelled, they still put out updates for it. I think the last update was only a month or two ago.
Steam Controller 1 also got cancelled but they’re still shipping updates and showing that device too.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
GCompris or TuxPaint are great for younger kids. They’re free/open source and have versions available for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
- Comment on Ridiculous 3 months ago:
You need to turn it upside down and look at it in a mirror to get the full effect.
- Comment on Necesse Version 1.0 | Launch Trailer 3 months ago:
Is it any good?
- Comment on Xbox: "Price Increases Are Never Fun For Anybody" 4 months ago:
The very definition of enshittification:
Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. I call this enshittification, and it is a seemingly inevitable consequence arising from the combination of the ease of changing how a platform allocates value, combined with the nature of a “two-sided market”, where a platform sits between buyers and sellers, hold each hostage to the other, raking off an ever-larger share of the value that passes between them.
- Comment on Sony trying to warn the player they're settling for a lesser horse 4 months ago:
What game?
- Comment on OpenMW 0.50.0 for Morrowind has a first Release Candidate with gamepad support and a gamepad UI 4 months ago:
Hopefully a full release will mean the TES3MP project picks up steam again. I don’t think there’s been an update for a year now.
- Comment on Steam's latest beta lets you easily check if you have Secure Boot enabled before firing up Battlefield 6 or Call of Duty 4 months ago:
I was doing that until Microsoft pushed an update that fucked it up. I can’t be bothered paying attention to Windows updates to know when they’re patching a Secure Boot club vulnerability that’ll bork my machine so I’ve had it off since.
I’m being lazy but I’m looking forward to Windows 10 support ending so I can get off my ass and switch over to Linux fully. An old Windows 10 image can sit in a dusty VM with GPU pass through for the odd game that doesn’t work though Proton or natively.
- Comment on Steam's latest beta lets you easily check if you have Secure Boot enabled before firing up Battlefield 6 or Call of Duty 4 months ago:
Please drink verification can.
Imma sit out this game. Zero interest in secure boot since I can’t dual boot with it enabled.
Honestly, if Overwatch doesn’t need this shit, I don’t see why Call of Battlefield needs it either.