magic_smoke
@magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on Drop OSS - an open-source, self-hosted alternative to platforms like Steam and Epic. 1 week ago:
Not if they’re re-packs :)
- Comment on Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital" 1 week ago:
Anyone who puts their own art on a pedastol deserves the anguish that comes from people enjoying it the “wrong” way.
I say this as someone who’s been making games since their early teens.
Furthermore, as much as they are the norm in gaming, proprietary software licenses where a fucking mistake, and I’d staple my ballsack to the ceiling before I’d license any code I care about with one.
Even if that means not getting cutting edge toolkits.
- Comment on Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital" 1 week ago:
Maybe stop treating private server owners like criminals, and get back to releasing server binaries like we used to?
The original developers of these games aren’t the only ones capable of hosting them.
Furthermore, for many games, these are tacked on features to an already competent single player that doesn’t need online support.
This argument falls apart for anything that isn’t live service, which is basically everything I play…
- Comment on Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital" 1 week ago:
For centuries stories have never been owned by one person.
Bards would re-tell them, adding their own twists and artistic choices.
Stories where never meant to be owned.
- Comment on Bought a "less than lethal" launcher with pepper balls. Tried loading it. Ball exploded in the mag after I pat it into the launcher. Should have done better. 1 week ago:
As someone who’s had their closest family member eat their own gun, good choice.
Your loved ones thank you for it.
- Comment on AI banners: what owner sees vs what I see 1 month ago:
- Comment on Nintendo Confirms EU‑Only Switch 2 Revision With User‑Replaceable Batteries 1 month ago:
Or just use an American usb-c wall wart.
- Comment on Apparently, calling out hellaverse for bad writing and characterization is a homophobic hate crime. (Saying this as a bisexual man who supports his transgender brother) 1 month ago:
South Park
Okay, fuck off.
- Comment on Valve raises Steam Deck prices by more than $200 2 months ago:
So the frame is either gonna be two grand or just cancelled I guess lmao.
- Comment on Does the engine a game uses factor into your decision to buy it or not? 3 months ago:
No they’re right, Bethesda’s technical team is on crack and needs to fuck off next door to idtech and ask them nicely how to make a real engine.
- Comment on US bans any new consumer-grade routers not made in America 3 months ago:
Doing routing/firewall in software is a lot more flexible, and easier to patch when vulnerabilities come out. Keep in mind those edgerouters look like they have dual core embedded MIPS CPUs. My dell power edge is a full blown rack-mount server that could run your plex instance.
That’s what makes up for the lack of dedicated asics.
As for the four NICs they are as follows:
1gb - wan (to modem) 1gb - config (to config vlan on switch) 10gbps - main lan trunk to LAN switch 10gbps - trunk line to public server VM host (DMZ’d from rest of lan, each VM has its own vlan/subnet/firewall ruleset)
They don’t act as a switch because it handles packets, not frames, allowing/dropping/denying them based on rules set in software.
- Comment on US bans any new consumer-grade routers not made in America 3 months ago:
Tell that to the poweredge r210 ii in my closet running PFsense with its CPU barely getting touched despite four NICS, two of them 10gbps.
You’re thinking of switching hardware.
That being said I might go hit up mikrotik while I still can.
Worst case I just buy em like I do my FPV flight controllers: from Ali Express
- Comment on AI generated t-shirts... 4 months ago:
You scared the shit outta me because I thought this was official femtanyl merchant for a second.
- Comment on Plastic hinges on modern headphones 4 months ago:
Mod mic is a stick on mic so you wouldn’t have anywhere to stick it.
- Comment on Plastic hinges on modern headphones 4 months ago:
A good pear of over the head headphones and a modmic.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
Fake money for criminals because that also means diy hrt, recreational drugs, and piracy.
Its not all money laundering y’know! Sometimes its the good criminals!
- Comment on Video Games Need to Be Cheaper to Buy 5 months ago:
How much of that money goes into marketing, and executive pay checks?
- Comment on Come on, I left Napster running and my mom got Choco Tacos. 5 months ago:
I mean yeah normally I’d agree with you but progress was still going in kind of the right direction, albiet slowly then.
We’ve spent some years backsliding now, and honestly I do miss the part where things felt like they where getting better, not worse.
- Comment on So disappointing 5 months ago:
AI slop
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 sales stumble over Christmas 6 months ago:
Pay for hosting with XMR and stop fucking re-using usernames.
Releasing software anonymously/pseudonymously isn’t that difficult…
- Comment on World's Best-selling Video Game Consoles 6 months ago:
I think that last part hits it hardest. Especially when you consider most of the 360’s sales where US.
- Comment on World's Best-selling Video Game Consoles 6 months ago:
I’m actually shocked how low 360/ps3 are.
I felt like everyone I know has at least owned one, and they where more consoles where actually used as Netflix boxes back then out of necessity due to lack of good smart TVs or set top boxes.
Plus they had an extra 5 years of being around, not to count the fact most early adopters bought another twice, especially with the 360 due to RROD.
- Comment on World's Best-selling Video Game Consoles 6 months ago:
I’m actually shocked how low 360/ps3 are.
I felt like everyone I know has at least owned one, and they where more consoles where actually used as Netflix boxes back then out of necessity due to lack of good smart TVs or set top boxes.
Plus they had an extra 5 years of being around, not to count the fact most early adopters bought another twice, especially with the 360 due to RROD.
- Comment on My kitten loves his hammock in the bathroom window, but my neighbor's trash pile ruins pictures 6 months ago:
“I don’t get it’s its always wild to me to see HOAs being run by the shittiest of people in your country and apparently they can do whatever they want.”
I envy your naivitivity. That’s literally just how all leadership works here. I’m so fucking tired dawg.
- Comment on My kitten loves his hammock in the bathroom window, but my neighbor's trash pile ruins pictures 6 months ago:
Unironically yes, new families affording homes is more important than a return on investment for people who are lriveleved enough to own them.
Housing as an investment is fucked, and nobody but the individuals living their should own a home.
- Comment on My kitten loves his hammock in the bathroom window, but my neighbor's trash pile ruins pictures 6 months ago:
Yeah I’ll take ugly neighborhoods over predatory organizations run by nimby’s designed to keep housing prices up.
- Comment on Indie game developers have a new sales pitch: being ‘AI free’ 8 months ago:
Yeah he also had a single testicle, what’s you’re point?
- Comment on Indie game developers have a new sales pitch: being ‘AI free’ 8 months ago:
Lmao what is this comment?
Are you really conflating the idea that people want art made by people with racism and hard-right politics?
- Comment on The Pennsylvania Ave. Ikea 8 months ago:
More like the one at dashcon…
- Comment on Slightly Unfair 9 months ago:
Shit not being white will get you arrested for making a clock.
