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- Comment on Journalists convinced a AI Vending Machine Things to give them free stuff like a PS5 4 hours ago:
They are desperate for any usecase they can sell LLM for.
- Comment on Thanks, Google. Very cool. 18 hours 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 day 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 4 days 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 4 days ago:
She said what now?
- As new Yakuza announcements dropped, top walkthrough writing guy in anglosphere refuses to play these at allbsky.app ↗Submitted 5 days ago to games@lemmy.world | 15 comments
- Comment on Divinity - Cinematic Announcement Trailer 5 days 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 5 days 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 weeks ago:
Itching vagina William:
- Comment on Lying can be so complicated 2 weeks ago:
Jerome is Big 😳
- Comment on So next time you see a rat remember they paid for sex in their previous life. 3 weeks ago:
Make sex to 1 buttock (1!)!
- Comment on Moisturize me 3 weeks 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 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
Another one is QTE in the middle of a cutscene, ugh.
- Comment on Vermintide 2 is currently free on Steam 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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. 4 weeks ago:
Double barrel Bill
- Comment on 🤔 Interesting Theory. 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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.
- Comment on 'I've had so many projects that have been discontinued lately': Nier creator Yoko Taro says he's been working on plenty of games—but they keep getting cancelled before he can announce them 4 weeks ago:
I think it’s better not to release something than to release something weird
He wrote wearing Emil’s head.
- Comment on Ratioed 4 weeks ago:
BOSS HOG GETS NO CRANKING TODAY, AWOOO
- Comment on My BF never bakes anything. Get up this morning and there is a sheet of these cookies on the counter. Is he trying to tell me something? 4 weeks ago:
Gingerbreed that cake, now.
- Comment on Why is the package that you want to check feel so warm? 5 weeks ago:
That’s the one ordering them.
- Comment on GTA 6 dev Rockstar says recent firings were due to leaks of "confidential information" and were "in no way related to people's right to join a union" 1 month ago:
Rockstar patched out a bunch of radio music they had time-limited licenses for. I don’t think you would notice that, though there are mods to bring them back. Performance-wise it only had problems with integrated graphic cards under Windows in my expirience. Haven’t tried it on Linux.
- Comment on Microsoft killed Win 10 support to rob you of your rights. Fight back by installing Linux. 1 month ago:
We haven’t seen the worst of it. Most people won’t care about lack of security updates unless nagged by MS directly. What damages older platforms worse is incompatible apps, especially Chromium-based browsers and Electron-based apps, and therefore individual websites that block outdated versions.
If you are to join a chat with your boss in MS Teams, you need to make it work. That won’t fly on older versions of Win10, neither on previous OSes. But their service’s web version, probably limited, works as long as Firefox keeps working on aging systems, while Chrome gave up a long ago, and may abandon Win10 too if they’d like to.
When that would happen, when there would be a popular piece of software requiring a non-negotiable switch, that would pronounce Win10 a dying platform. That may be more of a streamlining choice on devs’ side rather than an obvious necessity, but who cares? If baby me had Steam or a favorite meme page stop working, I could’ve cried to my parents until they fix it with money.
Like in marketing, you don’t sell the product itself, you sell vibes, benefits of ownership, not wheels but miles. Win11 should become a choice of ultimate convinience, usability, comfort - compared to erroring out Win10 PCs. This needs enough momentum, and the end of Chromium on W10 is the best thing that would happen to modern MS targeting existing users.
- Comment on Nothing’s new bloatware includes Facebook services that can’t be uninstalled 1 month ago:
The problem with Meta (also russian Yandex) is that it was caught having web-side trackers that send stuff to localhost, where it gets caught by Meta apps and then sent to Zucker servers. This two-bit scheme was noticed by researchers and isn’t there anymore, but it is a clear display why having these apps preinstalled is a problem. Regular ads are better than Mark looking over your shoulder whenever his meta pixel triggers.
- Comment on Nothing’s new bloatware includes Facebook services that can’t be uninstalled 1 month ago:
That does sound edgy and pointless, like x dot com, but it fits their focus on visual style and branding over everything else.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
The idea of unified interface layout itself wasn’t bad, that’s the implementation. It felt like they both didn’t have people testing desktop UI at all and didn’t have any idea how to leverage that idea on a desktop.
Things they could do:
- Seamless device switching, projecting and control across Win platforms over local wireless;
- Crossplatform app development, with a wordpress-like UI wrapper;
- Tiling DE, so you can have a couple of vertical mobile-like apps contained in their constant positions for ease of use.
Let it be an ecosystem where every new Windows device can be an opportunity multiplier. Like how KDE Connect makes my phone a media remote or a mouse+kb, and my PC a handler of recent photos I took with my phone today, no cloud involved. With their huge marketshare they could’ve pushed anything they wanted onto hardware producers as a demand and put Apple out of game entirely.
Instead, we had horizontal scroll in Start menu, fullscreen Calc app, no third party desktop app bothering with Metro interface, everything being like a worse Win7 and the only living reminder of Metro phase ever existing being rectangular squares in w10 Start, now retired for MacOS copycat. GG WP M$. It could’ve been your turning point going into smartphone age, but you had too much money and yesmen to care.
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 1 month ago:
Idk what was your problem, but mine was not reading on filesystems when the choice occured and not knowing how awesome BTRFS is with incrimental backups.
