altkey
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- Comment on Just stand still and don't speak 1 day ago:
sudo meow
- Comment on *FREEEEM*; *sad birthday boy noises* 5 days ago:
Typical Derry folks: fearing everything to the point of joining a redhead clown
- Comment on Finally, a USB standard that can provide the data AND power requirements of a city. 5 days ago:
The mouthfeel vs the current
- Comment on Save as PDF 1 week ago:
One time nothing really worked I used a pikepdf python lib. Open file -> Guess pass -> Resave. I was surprised it’s that simple.
- Comment on The developers of PEAK, explaining how they decided on pricing for their game. 1 week ago:
1.99 prices > 2.00 prices
Maybe I adapted to that with time, like .99 always felt like a scam pricing strategy, but for me everything involving number nine is worse than, say 1.20. Double nines are the worst. Flat prices with zeroes make me more confident and interested somehow.
- Comment on Gatetonium 2 weeks ago:
All hail the Malware Man
- Comment on E gjithë bota është shqiptare 4 weeks ago:
It’s migraine-inducing edgy with such color choice, but the bar is so low they’d need to dig down to reach the C tier from B they deserve. The B in B tier is not for Bad, but for Better than average.
- Comment on Help is needed 1 month ago:
Merzboy
- Comment on Anon reality checks your fantasy 1 month ago:
Happy Anon have not experienced many deaths in their circle and is in the fever dream of a teenage maximalism. Ngl it’s sweet to be them.
- Comment on Anon reality checks your fantasy 1 month ago:
I don’t see it seeded in the Tolkien’s world for times after LotR, but having no great evil to cooperate against would put a lot of alliances to the test before they’d learn how to live in peace. This may take a lot of pages if not tomes.
- Comment on Journalists convinced a AI Vending Machine Things to give them free stuff like a PS5 1 month ago:
They are desperate for any usecase they can sell LLM for.
- Comment on Thanks, Google. Very cool. 1 month ago:
Last.fm the website had stats for curious availiable at all times, but yearly wrap is indeed something smartphone apps invented.
- Comment on "Media consumption" 1 month ago:
While the last bit seems true and I would like to have games soften their needlessly rough edges, some games are easier to redo than the others, and most require making decisive stylistic choices, some making it either a worthy tribute or a shitshow. I think, there can be a low-tier study examining and classificating different approaches.
Take for example Quake 1, that was aimed at delivering QoL-oriented updates without changing anything else. Or Yakuza series having a couple of generations of remasters that did have a huge benefit of reusing world scenery, animations and movesets, models across many games. Then, Pathologic 2 that required a complete recreation. And, in contrast to that, purely visual updates, sometimes of questionable value.
From the management standpoint, remasters are more predictable and usually more streamlined than creating original content. Take Diablo II Reforged. Devs had D4 engine ready, D2 as a reference and D3 as an anti-reference since it’s presentation was rather unpopular. There were nearly no unpredictable parts and all teams in this project can start working right away. It could be easily outsourced, also one can borrow some experts from other teams short-term rather than having them full-time. This isn’t only cheaper, it also synergetic with existing projects and comfortably manageable.
But I can see deeper remastering works being unpopular not because they are more expensive than asset swaps, but because, well, to pitch that before the board of directors, you need to, first, know the value of mechanical changes yourself, and second, having board understanding it too or at least become convinced by your rhetoric. That’s so if everything is transparent, and these changes aren’t happening under the table after securing the budget first, that, I believe, is how it sometimes happens. The board usually can’t tell the difference in handling gameplay and the only thing they can discern is graphical fidelity between original and projected result, the efficiency of the workflow, the budget. While I can tell some more involved scene like fighting games have people educated about the importance of game mechanics, frame-sync etc, I’m sure that games made for more general public get greenlit by the least curious decision-makers. That select layer of governance is probably why the word ‘remaster’ sometimes gets perceived as a pejorative.
- Comment on Anon's neighbors have chickens 2 months ago:
not sure if it’s legal for them to own chicken
Anon lives in a society.
- Comment on Fake ‘One Battle After Another’ torrent hides malware in subtitles 2 months ago:
She said what now?
- As new Yakuza announcements dropped, top walkthrough writing guy in anglosphere refuses to play these at allbsky.app ↗Submitted 2 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 15 comments
- Comment on Divinity - Cinematic Announcement Trailer 2 months ago:
Watch Gorey Gobline rise through the ranks of Larian!
- Comment on There is software/a technology company/a game named after most of the elements in the periodic table 2 months ago:
For Xenon - Intel integrated graphics for budget segment were branded as Intel (Iris) Xe.
That’s one great copypasta. Idk when one should post it tho. Any ideas?
- Comment on The importance of protecting patient privacy in healthcare 2 months ago:
Itching vagina William:
- Comment on Lying can be so complicated 2 months ago:
Jerome is Big 😳
- Comment on So next time you see a rat remember they paid for sex in their previous life. 2 months ago:
Make sex to 1 buttock (1!)!
- Comment on Moisturize me 2 months ago:
Or a .nomedia file in a folder irrc.
- Comment on Many Top MAGA Trolls Aren’t Even in the U.S - Elon Musk’s new X feature has been very revealing. 2 months ago:
He and his friends want these chaos and evergrowing divide for they make people easier to manipulate. Truth won’t hurt the elites if it doesn’t exist, if everything is a lie. Demasking US patriot-bots as foreigners won’t affect maga subscribers, it just further discourages everyone else from even talking to them.
- Comment on Gaming Pet Peeves 2 months ago:
Heal-over-time systems in CoD-like shooters lack feedback and are unreliable in terms of measuring difficulty of a task and feeling like you did something special. Everything becomes boringly average.
- Comment on Gaming Pet Peeves 2 months ago:
Another one is QTE in the middle of a cutscene, ugh.
- Comment on Vermintide 2 is currently free on Steam 2 months ago:
EAC works on Linux, FatShark just didn’t initially choose that option, and about a year ago game became playable again. IIRC you should choose a beta workaround version in your steam client for that.
Yet, it’s fair to feel salty about that. Versus is a fine gimmick but wasn’t worth introducing EAC, like gatekeeping mods wasn’t too. It is too heavy-handed for a game with a small, tight-knit community, that would rather play a four Bardin game than install wallhack or aimbot for whatever reason.
- Comment on We have one at home 2 months ago:
The logo circle is so big and vulgar it looks like a fake gucci bag. It’s great they got rid of that.
- Comment on 🤔 Interesting Theory. 2 months ago:
Double barrel Bill
- Comment on 🤔 Interesting Theory. 2 months ago:
I start to get tired of these jokes, if they are jokes at all. What’s to get from them, with them? While I don’t think it hurts his base at all, it does occupy others and stirs some of them wrong. Like that meme playing into the stereotype of gay people being grotesque and shallow movie-esque characters. Playing with that bone thrown to non-believers is not productive, even Epsteing files are irrelevant because him sucking off Clinton or diddling kids in the past does nothing to his current reign, destruction of economy, mass imprisonment. He can eat a cock, a pussy, or shoot a person on Main St., but nevertheless the damage he does right now, his cult and his friendly elites are what really matters. His supposed blowjob is a nothing-burger, but also a cutting board to break lemmy-like communities around how homophobic these, present assumptions are, and they do sound ill-biased.
- Comment on Roblox to block children from talking to adult strangers after string of lawsuits 2 months ago:
Them having an office large enough to moderate in-game communications, on every popular language? They have some billions to spare. Serving kids requires a lot of work they have neglected for a very long time.
Facebook was a vehicle for hateful, genocidal messages in Myanmar, and they seemingly got of the hook having no person understanding local language on the market they occupied.
If Roblox primarily targets kids, they can’t go without agressive moderation, psy-help on demand, things one would find obvious, but these are never required, not to say it’s not that sexy as getting profits and cutting corners.
I don’t know if their business model would be viable if they started things right from the beginning, but it would be more stressful to them to finally start doing something about that.
