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- Comment on GoldenEye 007: The Accidental Masterpiece Trapped in Licensing Limbo 1 day ago:
Never tried it, but am starting to consider it (:
A similar legal fate happened to NOLF as well: youtu.be/1eDs93O-5ck
- Comment on Paging SpaceCowboy 3 days ago:
That, the goofy beartrap headshot, and the fact it was put together in DaVinci Resolve instead of Adobe and the likes 🙄
- Comment on Supporting ‘illegal aggression’ against Iran ‘the worst thing’ Australia could do, international law experts say 1 week ago:
Iran is run by an oppressive regime that kills their own people.
That would be greatly improved by bombing them on behalf of Israel, right?
- Comment on Ouch 1 week ago:
Welcome to Farmington. Population: this tool
- Comment on The Developer the Handheld Scene Depends On: An Interview With Gamma 2 weeks ago:
Glad to hear that. Keep on posting (;
- Comment on The Developer the Handheld Scene Depends On: An Interview With Gamma 2 weeks ago:
After an article on Songo#5 that one sounded a bit dry. Maybe that’s a side effect of prefering reliability over flashiness :) If there would be a second article about GammaOS, it wouldn’t hurt to flesh out the process down to specific challenges the dev overcame, just anecdotes evolving while testing and fixing stuff, or talk about how community members participated in the development of said project, what opportunities Gamma sees there. And, for a really unique kind of gear I haven’t heard of, I feel a bit puzzled as of what a second screen can bring onto the table when emulating single screen games, what other people came up with.
Btw, there’s a small typo in the Why the LineageOS? part, in image attributions concerning Fix/Fox person’s photoes.
- Comment on it keeps getting momentum 2 weeks ago:
🌍🧑🚀🔫🧑🚀
- Comment on Just stand still and don't speak 3 weeks ago:
sudo meow
- Comment on *FREEEEM*; *sad birthday boy noises* 3 weeks 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. 3 weeks ago:
The mouthfeel vs the current
- Comment on Save as PDF 4 weeks 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. 4 weeks 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 5 weeks ago:
All hail the Malware Man
- Comment on E gjithë bota është shqiptare 1 month 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 2 months ago:
Merzboy
- Comment on Anon reality checks your fantasy 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago:
They are desperate for any usecase they can sell LLM for.
- Comment on Thanks, Google. Very cool. 2 months 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" 2 months 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 3 months ago:
Itching vagina William:
- Comment on Lying can be so complicated 3 months ago:
Jerome is Big 😳
- Comment on So next time you see a rat remember they paid for sex in their previous life. 3 months ago:
Make sex to 1 buttock (1!)!
- Comment on Moisturize me 3 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. 3 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.
