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- Comment on Game franchises you like, but wish were anothet genre of video game? 5 days ago:
I always wished for a Street Fighter side scrolling beat em up.
You’ve just described the 16-bit era forgotten almost-classic, Cyborg Justice.
The learning curve is steep, and the graphics are kind of boring. But after that, it is a a co-op ongoing series of Street Fighter brawls with surprisingly deep combat and some interesting and satisfying progression.
- Comment on Game franchises you like, but wish were anothet genre of video game? 5 days ago:
Probably same thing with Starcraft, but I’ve never tried it.
Oof. Yes. I recall Starcraft II’s tutorial requiring what felt like South Korean world champion commands-per-minute play to get through maybe the third level of the tutorial.
- Comment on Game franchises you like, but wish were anothet genre of video game? 5 days ago:
just wish I could play and experience it all at my pace - family life currently precludes me from being able to invest sufficient time to play an MMO.
Wayfinder does this pretty well. There’s some rough edges from where they pivoted in the design, but I got it on sale for less than a single month of WoW, and have been playing through it at my own pace ever since.
- Comment on Why is it that when the graphics driver freaks out in your browser when watching a video, the page always turns this specific shade of green? 5 days ago:
I haven’t seen this exact screen, but since there’s very little help in this thread so far, I’ll speculate.
I’ve seen plenty of single solid color screens that turned out to be “fuck you i didn’t like something, have a plain color instead of your image” from some piece of Digital Rights Management software.
If it is DRM, the two approaches I’m aware of are:
- Try to guess what pissed off the DRM, while being treated as an enemy at every level and step of logging and debugging.
- Turn to the clear, communicative, well documented piracy community for help. Note that their solutions may not be strictly legal, but they tend to actually get me access to the thing i already paid for.
- Comment on Amazon Luna Removing Paid Games And Offering No Refunds 1 week ago:
Yes. If steam shuts down, I’ll probably just stop purchasing games entirely.
- Comment on Good luck figuring it out since it also doesn’t come with man pages 1 week ago:
Wha-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pow?!
- Comment on Linux kernel maintainers are following through on removing Intel 486 support 1 week ago:
Yes. It was speedy enough to merit a “Turbo” button to slow it down to a reasonable speed!
- Comment on Linux kernel maintainers are following through on removing Intel 486 support 1 week ago:
Holy shit! 486 support was still in there? Damn. Wow. Nice.
I don’t want to lose support for classic machines, but it’s not like the previous versions of Linux will stop being available to put on old hardware. If we were purging archive copies of old Linux kernels, then I would be alarmed.
- Comment on Why is gaming becoming so expensive? The answer is found in AI 1 week ago:
I’m so sorry.
- Comment on ‘The era of invincibility is over’: the week big tech was brought to heel 3 weeks ago:
I think we’re still waiting to learn whether he did, or not, though.
- Comment on Is school cafeteria food in America trash? 3 weeks ago:
Yes. And it constantly comes back to Reagan.
Reagan understood that Jesus loves corporations, but children.
- Comment on What happens to flies when you let them fly out the window of a car at 75 mph? 4 weeks ago:
Are we all using 4e rules? Because my GM ruled it was a “grapple”?
- Comment on Windows 11 is finally getting a movable taskbar 4 weeks ago:
My unstanding is that the Windows core team made this change as another step in their commitment to the Year of the Linux Desktop.
The moveable taskbar, specifically, eases the transition to Windows, since most Linux DE have had moveable taskbars forever.
I would tag this as sarcasm, but I’m not honestly 100% sure it’s not partly true.
- Comment on Court tells Subnautica 2 publisher Krafton to reinstate fired CEO and let him handle its Early Access release | VGC 4 weeks ago:
I’m looking forward to something like “Undersea Survival” made by the same creatives they’re taking a shit on now.
If that’s already happening, someone please link me to it.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Surprise is overrated.
Spoil the best bits early. If it gains traction, you can fill in all the earlier and later details.
Silly example: Star Wars owes it’s success today at least in part to Lucas being willing to drop into “Episode IV” first to let folks know what it’s really about.
- Comment on Can some please explain to me why it is that your health insurance can deny you medication, even if your doctor says you need it? 1 month ago:
Allegedly.
- Comment on Can some please explain to me why it is that your health insurance can deny you medication, even if your doctor says you need it? 1 month ago:
That was so rude, but also hilarious. It was a big lobby that night, but Luigi was really keeping everyone chill.
- Comment on Ubisoft Finally Confirms Assassin's Creed: Black Flag Resynced, the Remake We All Knew Was Coming 1 month ago:
Thank you!
- Comment on Ubisoft Finally Confirms Assassin's Creed: Black Flag Resynced, the Remake We All Knew Was Coming 1 month ago:
I really want to play this, but I cannot in good conscience give money to Ubisoft.
Sadly, Ubisoft’s godlike digital rights protections are perfected in ways that my meager search engine typing skills could never trivially counter on a boring afternoon, assuming I don’t find a free pack-in copy before then on some kind of random mall kiosk plug and play TV game device.
Woe is me that I’ll have no choice but to ignore this game until a copy literally falls into my lap through random chance because software wants to be free.
Bunch of dumbasses at Ubisoft’s leadership ought to relearn that the paying games industry runs entirely on good will.
- Comment on Contractual trap on remote working job offer 1 month ago:
For what it’s worth, a case like yours was what I needed to get HR to clean up their act at my company.
I documented each candidate we lost, and I documented the increased job offer prices we needed as we ran low on qualified candidates.
Pretty soon, HR was on the same page, and this stuff stopped.
Anyway, who knows if their engineering manager will do the work to fix it, but at least you have them a chance.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Oh, here’s another. I’ve actually never had “the site” go down, since I moved here. Being federated, most of Lemmy is up, even when a single instance goes down.
My home instance went down once, so I just read along on another instance until it came back up.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
You’re not wrong.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Oh yes. No ads is nice!
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
There’s like twelve different client apps for Lemmy, right?
I left Reddit when they broke my favorite client app. Seemed destined to go down hill from there.
- Comment on What do you think might happen if Luigi Mangione isnt found guilty? 1 month ago:
There will certainly be statues. That’s probably inevitable.
- Comment on To yoink is to be human. You weren't using that part of your soul anyways 1 month ago:
You’re exactly right.
But maybe we should continue to try a few more years of treating corporations like really big evil people that can abuse everyone smaller than them, kill the planet, and commit crimes, while avoiding consequences.
I can see both sides. (This is sarcasm. We may yet need to yeet the folks pushing for corporate personhood a long way off a short cliff.)
- Comment on ‘I think the franchise is dead’: Saints Row design director says IP owner ‘ghosted’ his prequel pitch | VGC 1 month ago:
I would buy that.
- Comment on AI advice 1 month ago:
Dang. I haven’t always been able replicate these, but every model I’ve tried provides increasing dumb answers to this.
(These are semi-ethically sourced from small non-web non-data-center models, stolen, in turn, from the original thieves who created them from stolen data.)
So, I’d recommend taking the walk. It’s a great opportunity to stretch your legs and clear your mind before or after washing your car!
Sure, why not both? Take a leisurely stroll to the carwash, and once you reach it, jump into the driver’s seat for some washing fun! It’ll be like a little adventure where you get to combine two activities into one. 😉
Both walking and driving would be great options, depending on your personal preferences and circumstances.
- Comment on BREAKING: PlayStation is shutting down Bluepoint Games (Demon's Souls/Shadow of the Colossus remakes) 1 month ago:
Exactly. It’s the gamers who are wrong.
- Comment on Amazon blames human employees for an AI coding agent’s mistake | Two minor AWS outages have reportedly occurred as a result of actions by Amazon’s AI tools 1 month ago:
If I would manage devOps, I would demand that AI code has to be signed off by a human on commit taking responsibility with the intention that they review changes made by AI prior pushing
And you would get burned. Today’s AI does one thing really really well - create output that looks correct to humans.