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- Comment on Here’s a few music playlists I made for my FR campaign, which included places like Icewind Dale, Icespire Peak and the city of Waterdeep. 3 days ago:
For those of us who don’t Spotify:
- Comment on Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues 1 week ago:
Not only because it’s a single point of failure, but also because it’s a single point of surveillance.
Cloudflare can read even modify the communications everyone has with sites behind its HTTPS service. And it can monitor people’s browsing through its DNS-over-HTTP service. And it can fingerprint people’s browsers through any of its services that use JavaScript, such as its CAPTCHA-like thing.
- Comment on A massive Cloudflare outage brought down X, ChatGPT, and even Downdetector 1 week ago:
Cloudflare has become a privacy problem approaching that of Google. I would be happy to see the web collectively abandon its services, in favour of many smaller providers.
- Comment on ‘Clair Obscur’ Leads The Game Awards 2025 Nominees With 12 Nods; ‘Silent Hill f’ Has Four Nominations 1 week ago:
You’re not alone. The visuals are nice, the voice acting is good, and the music is gorgeous, but the gameplay is very repetitive JRPG combat with a minor twist.
As art, I could see it winning awards. As a game, I think others are more deserving.
- Comment on The Turbulent, Seven-Year Saga Behind Hit Game ‘Dispatch’ 1 week ago:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispatch_(video_game)
Critical Role fans will appreciate that a bunch of their favorite voice actors are involved in this game.
- Comment on Our first look at the Steam Machine, Valve’s ambitious new game console 1 week ago:
Sorry for being so wordy. ;)
- Comment on Our first look at the Steam Machine, Valve’s ambitious new game console 1 week ago:
Even if you could expand the RAM and storage,
You can.
everything else is just sitting there waiting to be obsolete in a couple years.
That’s what some people said about the Steam Deck. More than a couple of years later, it is still popular; clearly not obsolete.
I just don’t get who they’re trying to make this for. You can easily build a PC with a reasonable budget that could easily tackle things this cube probably couldn’t.
I think you’re overlooking the fact that most gamers have different skills and priorities than yours. Not everyone would find it easy to build a computer at all, let alone build a quiet and compact one with well-matched components, a tuned and convenient OS, and good support.
This device is probably not a good fit for you. It probably is a good fit for many people outside of gaming PC enthusiast circles. Especially now that Valve has established its hardware as a well-defined platform for game developers to support.
- Comment on Our first look at the Steam Machine, Valve’s ambitious new game console 1 week ago:
What’s the difference?
- Submitted 1 week ago to games@lemmy.world | 72 comments
- Comment on [Gamer's Nexus was] Contacted by the US Secret Service | The AI Surveillance Center Dystopia 2 weeks ago:
A lot of the time it fizzles out or doesn’t stand up to any kind of real scrutiny.
Which times, specifically?
- Comment on [Gamer's Nexus was] Contacted by the US Secret Service | The AI Surveillance Center Dystopia 2 weeks ago:
More importantly, it looks like Gamers Nexus (no apostrophe) is crowdfunding the deeper investigation that they want to do.
I’m inclined to think contributing to this journalism would be worthwhile.
- Comment on Gamepad for Linux Gaming? 2 weeks ago:
Sony’s DualShock 4 and DualSense controllers are plug & play on Linux. (IIRC, Sony contributed native drivers.) They work nicely over USB or Bluetooth. Their motion controls are great if you ever play certain console emulators or want to map them to mouse-like movement in Steam Input. (I use this for free look in flight sims.) The built-in touchpad is nice for navigating menus on PC games without having to reach for the mouse.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to technology@beehaw.org | 9 comments
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 2 weeks ago:
My first attempt was Dark Souls 3. I went in expecting challenging but rewarding battles, and a mysterious world to explore. Unfortunately, I found myself bored within an hour every time I played, and gave up on it after maybe a dozen sessions.
I tried Elden Ring maybe a year or two later. I stuck with it for longer, but the experience was roughly the same. The combat felt tedious. The art and animation didn’t appeal to my tastes. The world seemed big, but desolate. The controls somehow made me feel awkwardly disconnected from my character. Nothing about the game made me care about it at all. The biggest challenge was in keeping my eyelids open.
I wonder if I would find soulslikes more appealing if I had grown up on console games. They’re clearly popular, but it seems they just aren’t for me.
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 2 weeks ago:
The game makers had no respect for players’ time.
I don’t know that game, but the importance of respecting the player’s time cannot be overstated.
I wish more game makers understood this and prioritized it accordingly.
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 2 weeks ago:
5e progression does feel kind of bland.
I feel the 5e rules are poorly organized, too. Lots of interdependent rules scattered far from each other in the books, and sometimes buried in the middle of seemingly unrelated sections, so unless you’ve memorized multiple chapters, understanding how to resolve common situations sometimes requires stopping the game for 15 minutes while someone digs through to books to find all the relevant factors. Even when you do find the relevant info, it’s often in ambiguous language describing what could have been made perfectly clear with a few keywords. The books are pretty, and the text might be nice to read for entertainment, but they’re pretty bad the the job of being game manuals.
Does 3.5e use the d20 system? Does it have the advantage/disadvantage mechanic? I like those aspects of 5e; they’re simple and they help keep games moving along.
Maybe I should give it a try. Or perhaps 4e, which I have read does a better job of clearly defining its gameplay mechanics.
- Comment on What are your favorite games from a worldbuilding standpoint? 3 weeks ago:
Too bad they never made a sequel to Origins. ;)
- Comment on Nintendo's Creature Capture Patent Dealt Blow Amid Palworld Lawsuit 3 weeks ago:
Has anyone made Nintendo Litigation Simulator yet?
- Comment on ‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS 4 weeks ago:
Problems like those are unavoidable even on today’s Signal, because the service depends on internet peering relationships, internet service providers, mobile network operators, cell service, etc. Oh, and Amazon.
You usually don’t notice them because when any of those components experiences problems too often, affected users tend to get annoyed and switch to a more reliable one. (Also because you don’t expect to receive messages from as many people or as often as you do on Lemmy, so short outages are less likely to affect you at all.)
That would still be true in a distributed Signal, except that users could switch away from Amazon as well. Meanwhile, everyone not using Amazon would still be chatting during such an outage.
- Comment on ‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS 4 weeks ago:
We’re not talking about a distributed app, but a distributed service.
Email.
The web.
The entire internet.
The postal service. - Comment on ‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS 4 weeks ago:
But also prone to problems stemming from that same decentralization.
Exactly what problems do you have in mind?
There is no reason to assume that a distributed incarnation of Signal would have the same design as ActivityPub or Lemmy.
- Comment on ‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS 4 weeks ago:
“The question isn’t ‘why does Signal use AWS?’” Whittaker writes. “It’s to look at the infrastructural requirements of any global, real-time, mass comms platform and ask how it is that we got to a place where there’s no realistic alternative to AWS and the other hyperscalers.”
To me, this reads like sophistry.
What happened here is a predictable result of Signal’s design. They chose to build a centralized messaging system. This made things significantly easier for them than a distributed design would have been, but it has its drawbacks. Having single point of failure is one of them. (In this case, that single point is Amazon.)
Trying to direct the public’s focus onto cloud providers instead of acknowledging this fundamental shortcoming in their design is, frankly, disingenuous. Especially coming from someone in Whittaker’s position.
While we’re at it, let’s also acknowledge that centralized design in messaging networks are problematic not just because of (un)reliability, as seen here. It’s also a single point of attack for any entity seeking to restrict, shut down, or track people’s communications with each other. End-to-end encryption cannot solve those problems.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Not being a dick?
Bold of you to assume this question is about being a dick, rather than helping friends who can’t afford games, or just plain curiosity.
- Comment on Electron apps are causing system-wide lag on MacOs Tahoe 1 month ago:
cm0002 is effectively a bot account, endlessly re-posting things from .ml instances.
- Comment on yt-dlp - Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads 1 month ago:
Why Deno?
Deno is sandboxed by default and does not allow filesystem or network access.
I’m glad to see they’re using the safety-focused option by default.
- Comment on Proton Experimental adds fixes for various games not running on CPUs with high core counts 2 months ago:
It’s a rare pleasure to see a big corporation’s interests align with our own.
- Comment on AT&T will listen to your phone calls and block spammers with a new AI-powered tool 2 months ago:
Doesn’t Nomorobo block them without eavesdropping, LLMs, or excessive power consumption?
- Comment on have some standards 2 months ago:
What is 2k?
- Comment on BIG MILESTONE! We’ve just crossed 100 posts on !videogames@piefed.social. 🎉 2 months ago:
I like having someplace nice to go when the previous place grows into a noisy echo chamber.
- Comment on I refuse to by a new mouse 2 months ago:
I just about always prefer repair to replacement. Even if I’m not in love with the thing, less expense and pollution is always good.