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- Comment on Does anyone else find it suspicious that there wasn't any criticism on here about Stop Killing Games until after it hit 1.4M signatures? 3 days ago:
I don’t find the absence of criticism suspicious. The petition makes sense.
What I do find suspicious is the sudden emergence of criticism now that it looks like it might succeed. I smell astroturfing and media manipulation.
- Comment on According to one source Linux hits over 6% desktop user share 3 days ago:
Here is the source:
It’s under Operating Systems, in the User Device Demographics section, near the bottom of the page. Options are Windows, iOS, Android, Macintosh, Linux, Other.
- Comment on Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z – the Mountain Dew of Ninja Gaiden games 1 week ago:
In future, I suggest posting just once, and using Lemmy’s cross-post feature to reach your other target communities. This would allow clients to avoid flooding users with duplicate posts, and allow users to discover related discussions in different communities.
- Comment on Subnautica 2 saga turns messy: Former devs sue Krafton, as publisher accuses them of ‘betrayal’ | VGC 1 week ago:
“The current Early Access version also falls short in terms of content volume.We are deeply disappointed by the former leadership’s conduct, and above all, we feel a profound sense of betrayal by their failure to honor the trust placed in them by our fans.”
This statement seems manipulative to me. As a Subnautica fan, I have always been interested in quality of content, not how fast it gets created. I can wait for a good game. Krafton is trying to disguise their own profit-driven expectations as if they came from me and others like me, deceptively using us as pawns in guilt-laden psychological warfare against the people who have been developing the game.
Dear publishers,
Please don’t be like Krafton.
- Comment on 'Deportation Tok' Is Taking Off [404 Media] 1 week ago:
web.archive.org/…/deportation-tok-is-taking-off-2…
Thank you, Internet Archive.
- Comment on Vintage gaming advertising pictures: a gallery 1 week ago:
I’m surprised you didn’t include this one:
- Comment on Switch 2 vs Steam Deck: the Cyberpunk 2077 face-off 2 weeks ago:
Does anyone notice much difference between 25 fps and 30 fps at these screen sizes?
I don’t have one these handhelds, but in general, I’ve found that smaller screens make lower frame rates feel a lot less choppy.
- Comment on Linux users: Are we over-reliant on Steam? 2 weeks ago:
Has anyone had any luck replicating their Proton setup outside of Steam? Or simply just running a Proton game outside of Steam after getting it set up using Steam?
I have run many Windows games outside of Steam.
I prefer to set up each one manually: Create a Wine prefix, install the game (or copy it from an existing installation), install a few key libraries like DXVK and a Visual C++ runtime, make a launch script with game-specific environment settings or launch options. Tools like Lutris and Bottles can automate much of this, in case you need a little help or just find a GUI more convenient.
This is my usual approach to non-Steam games (especially GOG), but even Steam games can be convinced to work offline with the help of a Steam emulator. It wouldn’t work with a game encumbered by DRM (e.g. Denuvo) unless a cracked version could be located, but in my experience, that’s a minority of Steam games that I categorically avoid in the first place.
So, I’m not worried about my game library vanishing if I ever lose access to Steam for whatever reason. Most (if not all) of it could be recovered with a bit of effort.
- Comment on The Future of Forums is Lies, I Guess 2 weeks ago:
I wonder if a user reputation system based on your votes of other people’s comments, and influenced by votes from folks who have earned enough upvotes from you, could be developed without turning your feed into an echo chamber like Facebook. Sort of like PageRank, but for fediverse users instead of web pages.
- Comment on AMD CPU Transient Scheduler Attacks security flaw revealed 2 weeks ago:
Mitigation for TSA requires a combination of new microcode patches for affected systems as well as updates to OS and hypervisors.
So watch for OS and microcode updates addressing these:
- CVE-2024-36350
- CVE-2024-36357
- Comment on The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers 2 weeks ago:
Interesting. Judging by that option’s name, it seems to refer to use of the HTML
<meta>tag to refresh a page.developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/…/http-equiv
Neither this tag nor using it for refresh is new at all. I don’t think I’ve seen it used to detect bots, though. I wonder what Anubis is doing here.
- Comment on The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers 2 weeks ago:
Sorry; I shouldn’t have written Cloudflare specifically. The CAPTCHA page now contains scripts from Google, not Cloudflare. I have corrected my comment.
How do you know this?
Because a couple months ago, archive.is/archive.today started showing me CAPTCHA pages instead of the archived articles when I use Firefox with scripts disabled. The current page contains scripts hosted by Google, which I won’t enable, so I can’t read the archived articles.
What about ghostarchive.org?
I haven’t used that site enough to have a consistent picture of what it’s doing. When I tried it a few minutes ago, it directed me to a CAPTCHA wall for submitting an article, but not for reading. I’ll try to remember to look at it again periodically, to be able to answer this question in the future.
- Comment on The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers 2 weeks ago:
She told me she’s […] also thinking about a version that doesn’t require JavaScript, which some privacy-minded disable in their browsers.
As someone who is keenly aware of the privacy and security problems that come with allowing web scripts, I hope she prioritizes this soon. It’s really disappointing to find sites that were readable without javascript suddenly inaccessible since adopting Anubis. The more sites that do this, the more people are pushed toward enabling scripts by default, exposing them to a great many trackers and web exploits that would otherwise be blocked.
- Comment on The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers 2 weeks ago:
Unfortunately, archive.is has moved behind Cloudflare, subjecting readers to having their reading habits (both the articles and the referring communities) tracked at a large scale.
I suggest this archive link instead:
- Comment on Microsoft has never been good at running game studios, which is a problem when it owns them all 2 weeks ago:
I look forward to the small new game studios that will surely appear as the big old ones are consolidated and/or dismantled.
It’s disappointing to see things we like fade away, but as the sun sets in one place, it rises in another.
- Comment on Microsoft has never been good at running game studios, which is a problem when it owns them all 2 weeks ago:
I look forward to the small new game studios that will surely appear as the big old ones are consolidated and/or dismantled.
It’s disappointing to see things we like fade away, but as the sun sets in one place, it rises in another.
- Comment on Do you prefer Performance mode or Quality mode? 2 weeks ago:
This is basically alien to me. I think it has to be game specific.
Sufficient in this context means an amount that depends on the game.
- Comment on Do you prefer Performance mode or Quality mode? 3 weeks ago:
sufficient performance > sufficient beauty > power usage > max beauty > max performance
I set a frame rate limit in most 3D games, to avoid inflating my electricity bill for barely noticeable FPS or effects improvements. Plugging my computer into a Kill-A-Watt was enlightening.
- Comment on How to play games from GOG and Epic Games on Linux, SteamOS and Steam Deck 3 weeks ago:
Another Lutris advantage: it doesn’t come with all that Electron bloat.
- Comment on Here is another cozy co-op game recommendation 3 weeks ago:
Thanks for pointing this out. I think I’ll give the free demo a try.
- Comment on How to play games from GOG and Epic Games on Linux, SteamOS and Steam Deck 3 weeks ago:
I’m glad they mentioned Minigalaxy, which looks simpler than Lutris and lighter than Heroic.
- Comment on Stop Killing Games consumer movement hits some major milestones 3 weeks ago:
A portion of those signatures will turn out to be invalid, so we have to keep going past 1 million if this thing is going to fly. Aiming for 1.4 million might be wise.
- Comment on We did it! 🥳 3 weeks ago:
Almost, but not quite. A portion of those signatures will turn out to be invalid, so we have to keep going past 1 million if this thing is going to fly.
- Comment on Organic Maps fork CoMaps launches on major app stores for iOS and Android 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Unexpectedly wholesome exchange after a poor performance from me in Rematch 3 weeks ago:
It’s relieving to see that they calmed down in the end, but I don’t think that makes up for being a dick when feeling frustrated.
I wish the gaming community would teach people to take pride in good sportsmanship. It’s arguably harder than mechanical or strategic skill, and it’s usually more valuable.
- Comment on China Moved an Entire Historical Building Complex Using Walking Robots - Core77 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Young men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman 3 weeks ago:
Man collecting handsome salary and amazing healthcare in exchange for betraying his entire country tries to shift the public focus onto people trying to make their lives less miserable with video games.
- Comment on Are there any Android controllers with split D-pads? 3 weeks ago:
That’s curious, because on the PlayStation 4 controller, the D-pad direction buttons are all part of a single piece of plastic.
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You can see this when pressing one direction button, as the other three tilt along with it. The sensors behind this plastic piece are separate, but as far as I know, that’s true in all D-pads.
- Comment on Are there any Android controllers with split D-pads? 3 weeks ago:
In what way is the D-pad on a PlayStation controller “split”?
- Comment on The Expanse: Osiris Reborn Will Take Cues From Mass Effect, Souls Games and More 4 weeks ago:
I guess Tom Nook is in for a surprise.
