Ephera

@Ephera@lemmy.ml

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why so many Steam games have weirdly similar (and forgettable) names⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, the companies would rather not, though, because people may think you need to play them in order…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why so many Steam games have weirdly similar (and forgettable) names⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, roguelikes are roguelikes, because there was literally a game called “Rogue” way back in 1980: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_(video_game)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why so many Steam games have weirdly similar (and forgettable) names⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Duskbloods is the new FromSoftware game, so there’s no chance anyone will forget that.

  Oof, I had already forgotten it before they mentioned FromSoftware. It sounds like a teenage vampire drama…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does all AI graphic design have the exact same style?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I would assume, they even explicitly tell the model to use this default style, if the user doesn’t specify anything else, because it is so easy to generate.

  At least, this started early last year and there were fairly distinctive points when each chatbot’s outputs started looking all the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it okay to have more than one account on here?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You also don’t want to use another account for ban evasion. If you’ve been banned from a community or instance, then don’t post there with your other account.

  Well, and if you have too many accounts, it can also be annoying to people. For example, there’s a user on here called cm0002, who’s made it his mission to repost content from lemmy.ml communities to other instances.
  Lots of people just think that adds noise and would like to not see his reposts, ergo block him. But he also has a user account on virtually every Lemmy instance, so you have to blocks a ton of accounts…

  But yeah, if you’re a normal human being, likely neither of these are a problem. 😅

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do Pokémon have different names in ENG?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, but *portmanteaus. 😅

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wiki Documents at Least 44 Instances in Which Sony Says You Own Your Games⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  GDPR says that data should only be kept as long as necessary for the fulfillment of what the user requested or consented to. So, I would say automatic account deletion after inactivity is a good idea for complying with the GDPR.

  But you would typically implement that by sending out an e-mail before the deletion, to give the user a chance to keep their data. The GDPR does not block you from implementing that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stealth Games Are Flawed (And Hard To Fix)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  While watching, I was thinking that roguelike could be a solution here. Cool to see that it’s actually working out.

  If I remember right, Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead is also stealth-y + a roguelike. Gonna have to try that again. I believe, I actually found it too tense last time around, but might’ve just been past-me. 🫠

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feudal Tactics is awesome!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Tried it by now and I have to say, it is a lot tenser than it has any right to be…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feudal Tactics is awesome!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s on F-Droid: f-droid.org/packages/de.sesu8642.feudaltactics

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Under-fives and pregnant women told to avoid runny eggs when eating out over salmonella risk⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oof, I understand that there’s a low chance, so don’t want to panic everyone, but always a bit weird to only tell one group to avoid it, when it’s not exactly healthy for the rest either…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why doesn't Android save app memory into storage instead of killing the process in RAM?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Problem is that it’s not at all trivial to implement, so it often isn’t implemented.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not a single one⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It was decided after Fukushima under Merkel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Poll: Will you buy GTA 6 when it launches on your platform?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I also imagine there’s lots of folks who have their handful of games in rotation that wouldn’t care to buy a new game anyways. And then also lots of folks, who just don’t have the hardware for it…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will PS6 Be Like a Nintendo Switch? Sony Says Its Next-Gen Console Will Enable 'A Seamless Experience That Can Be Enjoyed Naturally Beyond the Living Room'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe, the Playstation implementation streams from your console, so primarily good for in-home streaming…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I deal with children following me around in video games?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They mention it at the beginning: www.luanti.org

  It’s basically a community-developed platform for Minecraft-like games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's a word for "I actively endorse it for others even though I dislike it”?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, it was a bit of a joke, because we do tend to take them a bit too serious. 😅

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's a word for "I actively endorse it for others even though I dislike it”?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Religionsfreiheit” ? 🙃

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is a game that you know is bad but really enjoy(ed)?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm, it’s been probably a year since I downloaded it, so not sure, downloading it works in general. But how are you downloading it? Directly from the webpage? Or did you install Luanti and are downloading it through the “Content” tab in there?

  Might need an older version of Luanti, I’m not sure…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is a game that you know is bad but really enjoy(ed)?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh man, mine is proper raw. The whole gameplay takes place on this map and like, two other locations:

  Bird’s eye perspective of a castle in a blocky game.

  The gameplay is basically just:

  • resources appear over time in chests (near the quarry and such)
  • pick up those resources and walk to a building nearby
  • click “upgrade” on that building

  Sometimes you also have to click in that second building a few times to craft something, then walk to a third building and click “upgrade” there.

  This is a quote from the solo dev:

  the game currently has only about 50% of the content I had planned […] I’m still quite dissatisfied with many things. As feedback, I’ve often heard that the combat system isn’t intuitive and is rather boring, which I can completely understand. Resource gathering is also still quite dull. As long as I don’t have really good ideas for both, I don’t think it makes sense to expand the game with new content.

  So, it’s unfinished. The dev themselves says that it’s kind of terrible. And it’s an idle game, which many folks would hardly consider a game to begin with.

  But yeah, I had fun. Every time you upgrade a building, it looks different afterwards. And so, just seeing how the map develops over time and what new things would get unlocked by each upgrade, was cool.

  I think, in particular that it’s such a niche game, where you really don’t know what to expect, that kind of made it for me. It doesn’t follow “good” game design rules, which make other games all feel quite samey. The rawness was kind of the appeal.

  I guess, now I need to link to the game. But yeah, don’t complain to me, if it is terrible. You have been warned: content.luanti.org/packages/1248/castrum/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Caption this.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sharknado

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There are basically 4 types of files : text, image, audio and audio visual, right ?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Archive” is probably the word you’re looking for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There are basically 4 types of files : text, image, audio and audio visual, right ?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, unless it is an in-memory database (which isn’t too common), it needs to be stored on disk at some point. And for storing things on disk, you use one or more files.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's called swordfighting and it's a respectable sport.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I heard “dick jousting” before…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it safe to use a non-gaming computer for light gaming?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks. 🙃

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Proof that math is real⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Had to think what this would be mathematically, and I guess, it’s a factorization then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it safe to use a non-gaming computer for light gaming?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My lappy has an AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS with integrated AMD Radeon 780M graphics card.

  In terms of dungeon crawlers, I frequently play !dcss@lemmy.ml. I’d leave that game running 24/7, if it didn’t also happen to be near-instantaneous to close and re-open. It uses practically zero CPU.

  I’ll also play simple 3D games at times, like !luanti@lemmy.ml and !openmw@lemmy.ml. You’ll hear the fans when those are running, but there’s still quite a bit of head space performance-wise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastermind without the fiddly pegs?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/ has many good ones. It also has versions of Mastermind and Sudoku. 🙃

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Slice of ketchup anyone?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, ketchup doesn’t have to be horrendously processed. You can get a basic ketchup by mixing purreed tomatoes, vinegar, salt and sugar.

  But sure, whatever these burger chains typically serve as ketchup, that has many more ingredients…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the deal with IPv6?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I always thought the typing thing was just people coming up with silly reasons, because they don’t like change, but when you do networking stuff, you actually need to type out IP addresses rather often.

  Either because you need to manually set a new address. Or because you can’t reach the device via network until you’ve typed in its IP address, so can’t copy-paste it then either.