fartsparkles
@fartsparkles@lemmy.world
- Comment on Vampire Survivors - Open beta test for Online mode, with free roaming! 2 days ago:
Your question mark key seems to be sticking.
The only part that makes it somewhat clear what the mode is is the part they explain the differences between local co-op and online mode.
This is a list of gameplay changes compared to a standard local co-op run:
They could have been a little more explicit and called it “online co-op mode” or something, and had a paragraph explaining what it is not just how it’s different to something else.
- Comment on Google will throttle your Pixel 10's battery, and there's nothing you can do about it 1 week ago:
You can literally turn off the throttling in the Settings > Battery > Battery Health (option shows up when your battery has degraded).
- Comment on 7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux 1 week ago:
Yeah I’ve run the gauntlet of distros too (including setting up distcc across several boxes so I could run Gentoo everywhere (which is far too much of my life I can never get back).
Arch is the best of Gentoo/Slack with the ease of Ubuntu/Debian.
Also sounds like I need to buy a new card as I’m nvidia too right now.
- Comment on 7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux 1 week ago:
No I didn’t. I think the public source was a nightmare to build and get working (never tried, friends did though) and I wasn’t going to pay for it when the Wine project was publicly annoyed by the proprietary forks not contributing upstream (didn’t Wine relicense because of Cedega?).
I payed for CrossOver over the years as they had Office working pretty well and as much as I use FOSS office suites for personal use, inevitably someone sends me something that wouldn’t open and I’d have to use MS Office.
My biggest gripe with using Linux for gaming over the years was drivers and needing to switch between them since some would be good for compositors (typically the FOSS ones), others for gaming (typically the proprietary blob ones). Then there was the regular breakages etc.
I wish I had switched to Arch sooner as I’ve had so few issues with that distro given the core packages are so minimal, there’s less opinionated cruft that other distros have.
- Comment on 7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux 1 week ago:
It’s been 12 years since Gaben committed to Linux publicly and honestly. It’s impressive to see that Valve has remained committed all this time and become a stellar contributor to the Linux ecosystem.
They could have forked and kept their toys to themselves but instead they’ve continuously pushed their hard work upstream for every Linux distro to benefit from.
My behemoth of a gaming rig is to be switched over to Linux in the coming weeks, bringing my use of Windows to an end after 30+ years (my gaming rig is the only system I still have Windows on).
I’ve been using Linux since 2002 and if you told my younger self it would be the ex-Microsoft people behind Half-Life that would kill Windows, I’d have laughed you into oblivion. And yet here we are.
- Comment on Begun the kernel wars have 2 weeks ago:
I have a feeling you’re right about this. I do wish Microsoft would take the Apple approach as Apple steamed ahead with deprecating kernel-mode access.
Love them or hate them, Apple take security a lot more seriously than Microsoft these days and it’s a real shame MS see security architecture as a nuisance rather than a core responsibility of their business.
- Comment on Begun the kernel wars have 2 weeks ago:
Nope. They’re developing an alternative set of APIs in conjunction with security vendors for their products to use but it’s all still a long way off and will be optional to start with.
Given the volume of mission-critical devices security products are installed on (which the CrowdStrike fuckup highlighted), getting them out of kernel space would be a huge risk reduction for the world.
But an anticheat used by consumers on their personal devices for a game, not such a big deal.
While I’m sure MS will eventually deprecate and then kill off third party kernel drivers, it could take a decade since MS has so much business (both internal and within their customer base) that relies on legacy crap.
- Comment on 'Consumers are not okay with okay': Take-Two boss says BioShock 4 is taking so long because the company's goal is 'to make the best entertainment, not necessarily the most entertainment' 3 weeks ago:
Bioshock and Bioshock Infinite were by Irrational Games (2K Boston). Bioshock 2 was by 2K Marin.
Ken Levine shut down the studio after Infinite as they disliked the stress and scale of development - missing the days of small development teams.
That was back in 2014. Levine’s studio he set up immediately after the closure has yet to release a game but supposedly their first project, Judas, is not too far from completion (it was meant to be out this year in March but, so far, there’s no news).
- Comment on Half-a-million members sign up to new left-wing party founded in Britain 3 weeks ago:
I worry it will just split the Labour vote and result in easier wins for competing parties.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
My partner and I both came to our own conclusion that we didn’t want kids and felt the same way through multiple different relationships. But when we got together, things were different.
We’re still not 100% but we both agree that we want to talk about it more as, together, we found we actually have the desire growing within us now.
I cannot speak for you OP - you are your own person. I can only share my personal perspective which is that 22 year old me and today me are very very different people. I wouldn’t forgive my past self if I’d taken away my future self’s agency.
- Comment on what video game deserves to be in a museum? 4 weeks ago:
Ico and Shadow of the Colossus.
Also what’s the game in the screenshot?
- Comment on Sea Stranded Alien 5 weeks ago:
I need to play Subnautica again.
- Comment on yep that's me 5 weeks ago:
Show off
- Comment on yep that's me 5 weeks ago:
No they’re the bird’s nipples.
- Comment on Smart option 5 weeks ago:
When humans become less stupiderer.
- Comment on Anon isn't a Microsoft fan 1 month ago:
The why is really simple. The regular cuts are to keep salaries low by keeping the job market flush with candidates so salaries are suppressed across MS’s competitors too.
- Comment on Thank you, Thor! 1 month ago:
Probably little incentive to do so given how much money they’re making from Twitch, YouTube, etc.
- Comment on MindsEye director reportedly says the studio will relaunch the game, as around 300 staff are at risk of being laid off 1 month ago:
Turns out Leslie wasn’t the biggest reason GTA was such a huge success and they’re not taking it well…
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale 2025 has begun! 2 months ago:
OpenMW and TES3MP is a great way to enjoy Morrowind in a modern engine and with friends.
There’s plenty of mods available for OpenMW so you can make it look stunning and add loads of new functionality.
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale 2025 has begun! 2 months ago:
They’ve sold between 5 and 8 million copies of that game to date.
I think they’re doing fine without needing a sale and devaluing their product.
- Comment on A story old as time 2 months ago:
I don’t get it
- Comment on ARMA 3 Recieves Surprise Performance Update 2 months ago:
I’ve been on the Profiling branch for a couple of years and these changes are awesome. Tanoa was unplayable for me until I switched.
Kudos for Bohemia’s continued support for A3 while we wait for A4 (Reforger has also been a fantastic glimpse of the future of their engine).
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I’m passing on the Switch 2 for similar reasons.
I can either fund Nintendo to sue open source developers or I can fund Valve who are payrolling open source developers.
- Comment on Who did this 😂😂😂 2 months ago:
NCSA Mosaic is how old I am…
- Comment on Who did this 😂😂😂 2 months ago:
MS-DOS
- Comment on Papers, Please: USA Edition 2 months ago:
Sadly not
- Comment on What does “rule” mean on Lemmy 2 months ago:
My hero!
- Comment on What does “rule” mean on Lemmy 2 months ago:
Why 196? And what’s with “post before you leave”? As in, before you die?
I am oh so very confused.
- Comment on SteamOS finally released by Valve 3 months ago:
The side effect of SteamOS is that Arch Linux totally rocks for gaming.
- Comment on I'm genuinely sad about the Marathon situation 3 months ago: