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- 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 day 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 day 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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.
- Comment on 'Valve does not get anywhere near enough criticism': DayZ creator Dean Hall says the 'gambling mechanics' of Valve's monetization strategy 'have absolutely no place' in videogames 1 week ago:
The thing with Valve is that, outside of this monetization of online games, they’ve unquestionably had an enormous positive impact on all sorts of things in this medium just by way of sheer market forces. They’ve done a lot of great open source work, and they’ve helped create a viable exit ramp from Windows.
I don’t know about the exit ramp for a casual user, if you mean ditching Windows altogether, since that’s not really happening. But what did happen - Microsoft didn’t get to own the central position in gaming on their own platform, and Steam is a program that installs other programs uninterrupted - just to take a sense of what rights it has there for almost two decades. They had GFWL, now MS Store, integrated with XBOX, and they still aren’t mentioned as a PC marketplace anywhere besides having a monopoly on Minecraft. There hasn’t been their IE for games, and it’s awesome. I can’t say Valve and MS even compete there, but having eggs in two different baskets is better than having them in just one. Two different monopolies instead of one.
- Comment on 'Valve does not get anywhere near enough criticism': DayZ creator Dean Hall says the 'gambling mechanics' of Valve's monetization strategy 'have absolutely no place' in videogames 1 week ago:
Casinos and gambling venues IRL are almost always their own thing, you can’t go one by mistake and you shouldn’t see them surfacing in unspecialized common spaces, e.g. on Olympics stadium.
In videogames the casino element penetrates recreational spaces that were mostly safe from that for years. Not as a shadow scheme with reselling/gambling on some third party site - this can’t be stopped - but in the game itself. Valve’s promotional algorythm walks around the lobby giving everyone free spins coupons, that not only reaches mentally unstable addicts, but also normalizes the practice of jerking the slot machine from time to time for the larger userbase. Every actor in that trend is a self-serving agent, but their collective influence puts a foot in the door and proclaims that gambling is a casual part of a daily life and there’s nothing wrong in seeing it everywhere, even parting with a couple of bucks recreationally, that in the end makes bazillions to the house.
- Comment on Sad to see 1 week ago:
At least it took him five days, not five years to know they aren’t compatible.
- Comment on thats all 2 weeks ago:
Fella fails.
- Comment on concert 2 weeks ago:
Iirc ticket services helped it a lot. Having a sizeable market share they were able to rise them accross all events and venues.
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- Comment on One of my favorites 3 weeks ago:
Neat sha(mbles)
- Comment on Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately? 3 weeks ago:
If I don’t see that, am I the problem? 🤔
- Comment on What is the most overrated game gamers hype up? 3 weeks ago:
Whaaaaa…?
That’s wild. And an instant buy too.
- Comment on What is the most overrated game gamers hype up? 3 weeks ago:
I’m pissed most youtubers cherished it like a God’s own baby. It led me to finally unsub from Angry Joe I forgot I followed from earlier years. There were just a few bloggers who said they didn’t like it or pointed any problem with it.
- Comment on What is the most overrated game gamers hype up? 3 weeks ago:
The hype building up behind CP2077 made me curious, but I couldn’t care about it after ten hours in. I’m still not sure if it’s not my type of game/storytelling, or that I wanted too much from it (or was prepared to hate it as an ordinary reddit contrarian), but I feel like I don’t understand why people liked it or want to replay it now.
In contrast I do know Doom: Ethernal was definetely not my type. I’m a huge Doom/Quake fan, and jumping puzzles, gimmicky mapmaking, maraudeurs, resource farming routine, the fact you can’t kill stuff without constant QTEing were frustrating. The way they constantly show you how awesome and brutal you are in the cutscenes is just damn cheap. For me it was a downgrade from short but breathtaking Doom 2016. I’m happy it makes money to do great remasters with new episodes though.
As a counter example, as I played Like a Dragon games back to back, I’ve seen the sentiment that the third game, the first unremastered game in a chronological order, is the worst one for a modern gamer, even called Blockuza for enemies behavior. While I can understand that, I find it’s bearing one of the greatest emotional moments for the main character, as well as the less confusing storyline that 4 and 5 tried to pull. The 6th game revisits the same vibe space, but does so in a more technologically advanced and experienced way, and it means a lot. So I think the antihype there can be unfair too.
- Comment on Phil sieged for David can dab over Gaza 3 weeks ago:
Being a stupid person drinking stulid juice, I think they should be a bit more responsible than me with their media visibility.
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- Comment on The crab housing market 3 weeks ago:
The original situation is more like a disabled person getting a topmost flat in a 9 floor building without an elevator.
- Comment on When you say you don't like linux on Lemmy 4 weeks ago:
That’s your alt, right?
- Comment on Halloween is coming up, folks. So here's your sixth idea for a costume (Baby approved) 4 weeks ago:
It’s like first in recent years that I got cold. Freaky weather dropped almost to zero at evening for a couple of days and then got super warm again. I have a runny nose while I can go around outside in a tee. Unpredictability, chaos - is what global warming is. A lot of complex processes affect weather in the ways you can’t predict with just your guts like you could before. And, globally, we can only suppose what parts of our global supply chain would break down in coming years.
- Comment on Xbox: "Price Increases Are Never Fun For Anybody" 5 weeks ago:
I’d say I’m not a fan of their main monopoly getting bigger. Hardware lock or not, I want MS competing on par with PS, Nintendo, even though I cringe at buying a console for a game. This field got a bit leveled due to Sony giving up on some past exclusives (with a tasty price, nonetheless), but I just don’t trust a personal PC monopolist to be the one to dismantle the current dumbness and taking the higher ground from the very start.
Btw, I now recall some future Rouge Alley handheld version on Windows got announced as xbox-branded, with a probable verification status. It’s not a bad decision at their part, but I feel like that’s not only sneaking into another niche-move, but also a move to bite Valve, still-irrelevant on general console market, before they take some ground with their, ugh, Leenix or something.
- Comment on Xbox: "Price Increases Are Never Fun For Anybody" 5 weeks ago:
They tried to push w11-xbox compatibility to push all consoles aside, and I can’t say if it works and if it means stonks, but I can see the current lead not being enthusiastic about R&Ding and producing new hardware, exclusive games. OEM software is a stable bird feeder, and AI integration is their next big king, so they just fixed their position in gaming market by buying several big companies and seemingly quit plans on console market. They are too big and to diverse to fall, but I think ditching a brand equal to sweaty Halo parties of the past and all these long-going console holywars wouldn’t bring much in the perspective of years, not several quarter past today.
- Comment on Oh yes 5 weeks ago:
I imagine Kim’s arrival was a sudden event, and instead of getting a uniform sewed to fit, they had to rely on refitting a bigger size model, so they are wearing it like a camping tent. The bottom of the hat was reworked as it’s easy to do, but the top wasn’t resized accodingly. They could be not used to wear a formal uniform being in their position, or recently promoted to have it, or somehow made their original unfit to stand with Kim. Whatever, there’s probably a joke about one-size-fits-all, overly relience on utilitarism in soc-auth countries, but I don’t think the guy standing in a photo op with Kim didn’t have rights and/or connections to get a fitting uniform, or, if they are not that far up - for their boss to not care about it beforehand, for yes, Kim and his subordinates won’t laugh at that.
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 5 weeks ago:
lets just say you shouldn’t talk about Gabe Newell while standing on or sitting in a Microsoft campus
Ugh, that evil G-man with his S-word!
- Comment on JFC, who did this?! 5 weeks ago:
It’s in the end of the last Dark Tower book. What he wrote can be reworded as ‘Do you have sex only for the orgasm alone, or for the whole process of it?’. And it wasn’t the weirdest part of said series.
- Comment on Relooted - Game made by South Africans has been bombarded by right-wingers 5 weeks ago:
Much more relevant are the last two numbers in nvidia classification. A 2060 is miles behind a 1080. The first 2 numbers just represent the generation, not how “strong” it is.
I know what these numbers are. I thought it’s obvious from my comments.
1060 was always an entry level gpu, and is outclassed by even modern integrated graphics.
1050 was an entry level garbage of this generation, going as low as 3GB of VRAM, while 1060 got 4-6GBs. The latter is not in the best position now, after 3060 dropped, and affordable VRAM got into 10GB+ territory, but it’s still capable of enduring tasks on it’s budget. 4060 and 5060 didn’t brought as much to the table as 10xx-30xx jump did after failed 20xx imho.
Since new vcards are still trapped in an overprice bubble, used 1060s are still nice, especially coupled together. And I doubt that this discrete card is worse than integrated graphics of, say, 13gen i5 Intel, that is, by defenition, uses a part of availiable RAM rather than having it’s own soldered-in VRAM of the next gen, and also steals computational power from the CPU, that is rarely a bottleneck but cpu-heavy tasks still happen. In games, it’s titles like Vermintide 2 that exhaust mid-range machines by calculating horde logic.
Source: I do live VJing and occasional v-render on contractor’s hardware, ranging from sexy 5080 speeds to vcardless trash setups, and just a couple of days ago I was forced to use a 730 vcard that could hardly handle OBS and projecting software at the same time.
- Comment on Relooted - Game made by South Africans has been bombarded by right-wingers 5 weeks ago:
1060 is certainly low end, which is the card you mentioned. 1080 (ti) might still be considered higher end, but the 1060 has been called low end years ago.
Nvidia had a lot of cards this generation, and 1060 in 6gb variant is not as bad as you think. It’s two generations behind, because 20xx were sometimes even worse, and 50xx-40xx changes weren’t that significant as 10xx-30xx were. 10xxs won’t produce top gfxs in the recent games, but most time it’s not them being outdated, but devs fucking it up. And you casually ignored that most PCs have something like an Intel Integrates 13100 instead that barely rebders Dota.
What? That doesn’t make the models of the character and scenery any less 3D. Are we looking at the same game?
I suggest you to watch one video on original Resident Evil and how it was designed. Devs managed to do hd gfxs because they could prerender some bits, and others only existed in a POV of the player. With most of the gameplay focused on one side-scrolling perspectieve, devs limited things they need to render (like the world behind you doesn’t exist), and could’ve cut the resources required. I don’t know if they did so, but 12gb ram and 1060 are still ubreasonable.
don’t get what you’re trying to say. Yes, an 11 year old game performs fine on 10 year old hardware. What does this have to do with an unreleased, unoptimised, modern game?
Skipping over beta condition this game is in, I want this game to provide anything of value for resources consumed. I proposed an old game that does all of that in 3d, and I’m wondering why a 2d game can’t do the same.
- Comment on Relooted - Game made by South Africans has been bombarded by right-wingers 5 weeks ago:
But most importantly, it’s still a WIP.
To make it clear, I’m not barking at that dev, but at the industry that gets pushed further and further in reqs without any visible upsides.
Optimisation for lower end PCs will probably happen last.
10xx is still not a lower-end PC. Most modern PCs in the world don’t have discrete graphics card and instead use integrated Intel/AMD solutions. Buying a PC or a laptop with a discrete one is 30% addition to an already bloated price tag, so unless you know you need one you can skip it. And, unsurprisingly so, 10xx show themselves still capable, although lacking raytracing stuff.
2D in gameplay, but it’s a 3D game
No, it isn’t. The gameplay is tied to two dimensions and it lets devs leave out everything but a thin line of scenery that serves the 2d perspective.
1060 is almost 10 years old
And Sunset Overdrive is 11 yo, yep, and it’s a full 3d game with similar gfxs where you can actually navigate these three dimensions hopping through it’s map. Most of the game happens from a zoomed out pov, so there’s probably even less need for computational power and caching if they downsized textures for these scenes acorrdingly.
There is still no reason to exceed these demands, unless you go all into raytracing, VR or 4k high fps range. The most probable blunders are UE5 and lack of optimization. For a game that doesn’t call itself as a groundbreaking AAA expirience, these reqs feel misplaced.
