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- Comment on Day 290 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing 2 days ago:
Do the arena wall features look like a face to anyone else?
- Comment on Day 289 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing 2 days ago:
Anyone know if the original save games are compatible with the remaster?
- Comment on After Years of Struggle, Blizzard Has Found Itself in Uncharted Territory: Overwatch Players Are Having Fun Again 2 days ago:
For the uninformed:
That was when Blitzchung, in his post-tournament win interview, uttered a brief sentence in support of Hong Kong (and implicitly in support of human rights). Blizzard responded by revoking his prize money, banning him from tournaments, and firing the interviewers who happened to be on camera with him at the time.
This action took place late at night (well outside of US business hours) and was accompanied by a letter that some analysts pointed out had peculiar phrasing patterns that one might expect from native-Chinese speakers writing in English. The excuse given was a tournament rule prohibiting any act that “brings you into public disrepute, offends a portion or group of the public, or otherwise damages Blizzard image.”
To answer your question:
In his subsequent BlizzCon speech, Blizzard president Allen Brack gave a speech in which he “apologized” for the vague act of failing to live up to their high standards for themselves. This was a typical, predictable, corporate non-apology, allowing them to say “I’m sorry” for something other than the harm they inflicted. Neither Brack nor Blizzard apologized for the actions taken against Blitzchung or the interview hosts. The punishments were not reversed. (I think Blizzard eventually responded to massive public pressure by somewhat reducing the duration of Blitzchung’s ban, but never lifted it entirely or restored the interview hosts’ contracts.)
A few years later, Activision Blizzard was bought by Microsoft. Bobby Kotick, the CEO at the time of the Blitzchung decision, is no longer there. We don’t know who else participated in that decision, so we don’t know if they are are still making decisions at Blizzard.
- Comment on I’m in dire need of a new monitor but, it seems, it is harder to find a good one than I thought. 1 week ago:
This site does detailed reviews, including measurements, photos, and comparisons:
www.rtings.com/monitor
www.rtings.com/review-pipeline/monitorThey let votes determine which models to review next:
This one is good for digging up details about specific models, such as what panel is used or where it was made, also with comparisons:
Simon over at tftcentral used to do the best monitor reviews. Sadly, he shifted his site to an OLED-focused one a few years ago, and perhaps because serving gamers with disposable income makes more money. Nevertheless, he knows what he’s talking about when it comes to displays, his tech articles are still good (if you can find them on the new site), and he might still review IPS models once in a while:
For me, IPS beats OLED, because:
- OLED suffers from burn-in after some years. Some vocal gamers on Reddit don’t seem to care about this, arguing that you’ll throw away the monitor before the burn-in becomes a problem. I think this is irresponsible (unnecessary e-waste is awful), and wasteful (I keep using my tools until they die).
- A good IPS panel will have only mild glow at off-angles. It’s visible around the corners if I’m playing very dark games and sitting very close to the screen, but even then, it’s never bothersome, since I don’t spend much time staring at the corners of the screen.
- In addition to gaming, I spend lots of time reading text. IPS is generally great for this. OLED panels vary in this area, in some cases even using weird subpixel layouts (e.g. BGR) that defeat font rendering systems like ClearType, making the text anything but sharp. Eye strain sucks.
I haven’t been following display tech news in the past year or so, but when I was, LG.Display’s “IPS Black” panels were on their way to market with a promise of higher contrast ratios than traditional IPS. I think Dell or HP were going to use them. By now, more of their kind might exist.
- Comment on Larian Studios Talks About Its Future 1 week ago:
Thank you for summarizing the key points.
- Comment on Subnautica 2 Dev Vlog - Road to Early Access 1 week ago:
Please be at least as good as the first one. <3
- Comment on Tesla’s Remarkably Bad Quarter Is Even Worse Than It Looks 1 week ago:
!business@lemmy.world
- Comment on This is the E3 trailer of Half Life (1997) 1 week ago:
The OGs like Wolf3D and Doom did not even have mouse support for aiming until much later.
I don’t think this is true, at least not for the original PC Doom, but I don’t have a record of it handy. shrug
- Comment on This is the E3 trailer of Half Life (1997) 1 week ago:
What shooters had you been playing that required using buttons to turn? I’m pretty sure Half-Life didn’t invent mouse look.
- Comment on Doom (2016) now DRM free on GOG 2 weeks ago:
You are mistaken. Heroic simply uses an affiliate link to generate money for the project.
- Comment on Does the 2 hour refund limit on Steam affect game design? 2 weeks ago:
IMHO, two hours is not nearly enough to get a feel for a game. At least, not for the sorts of games I tend to play. I spend longer than that just working through initial technical issues, configuration, and (in games that have one) the character generator.
I have to conclude that Steam’s return window is either intended to be just enough to see if you can get it running, or as much as Valve could talk publishers into tolerating.
- Comment on Day 268 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing 3 weeks ago:
The environment looks real enough. The “cats” look like weird demon creatures created by some entity that only knows dogs.
- Comment on Adult gamers of Lemmy how do you find time to game without being exhausted of the screen? 3 weeks ago:
I usually sit at a desk all day and all evening, and find that these things help:
- Good chair. Height adjusted for my keyboard/mouse height. Upright back. Lumbar support. Comfortable-but-supportive seat.
- Good posture (when I remember to pay attention to it).
- Split keyboard. Mechanical switches that don’t require too much pressure.
- Good display. IPS panel. Brightness turned down much lower than the default. Calibrated, optionally to a slightly warm color temperature.
- Muted room lighting. Nothing behind me bright enough to reflect much on the screen.
- Comfortable clothes.
- Cup of water. Regular trips to the kitchen to keep it filled.
- Frequent short breaks. Start the laundry. Get a snack. Look at objects outside. Wash a dish. Bring in the mail. Make the bed.
- Exercise. At least 10 minutes daily; preferably 30 minutes or more. Stretches. Squats. Rhythm games that require movement.
- Comment on After 8 years, I'm finally releasing my first video game today: Game Over - A Musical RPG?? 3 weeks ago:
For those who didn’t notice that OP posted 3 links:
(They look like a single link because there’s nothing separating them.) - Comment on Game of clones: Colossal’s new wolves are cute, but are they dire? 3 weeks ago:
Nope. They are not.
- Comment on Middle-Aged Man Trading Cards Go Viral in Rural Japan Town 3 weeks ago:
Okay so did they go viral or are they just popular in this one small town? Word mean things
Pedantic is a word.
Also, your criticism of the author’s use of words would have had more impact if you had pluralized correctly.
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- Comment on Marathon | Save the Date Trailer 4 weeks ago:
Not much of a trailer, but I think it qualifies as a teaser.
- Comment on Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how? 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Sintopia, a hell city-builder/management game x evil god game hybrid (with an independent overworld where you can cast spells), releases demo on Steam 4 weeks ago:
Dungeon Keeper clone?
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 4 weeks ago:
Have you considered making a Linux virtual machine now, and learning small things a few minutes at a time between other tasks? That ought to give you a head start when it comes time to commit.
- Comment on Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how? 4 weeks ago:
Then you purchased a wrong game
Perhaps.
But you’ve made a lot of assumptions in your comment, and you’re mistaken about most of them.
I played the side quests. Many came with a good story, but a story is not gameplay. Nearly all of them were copy/paste instances of a small pool of tedious tasks. There were a few good exceptions, but very few.
I explored the world, as much as one can “explore” something that is fully labeled with point-of-interest markers. They lead the player to a repetitive handful of uninspired encounters, cloned over and over again.
It has plenty of other flaws as well. If you loved it, then I’m happy for you, but I found the gameplay boring.
The strengths I found in The Witcher 3 were its story, lore, characters, and Gwent. Not its gameplay.
To each their own, I suppose.
- Comment on Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how? 4 weeks ago:
An argument could be made that Gwent offers better gameplay than the larger game in which it resides.