Goodeye8

@Goodeye8@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Begun the kernel wars have⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You're viewing from the perspective of what would be best for the playerbase. These decisions are made based on what's the cheapest possible solution to have the playerbase shut up about cheaters so they wouldn't drive away potential customers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Begun the kernel wars have⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  "Into the kernel" is largely fear mongering.

  Until it actually gets exploited.

  And it's such a weird argument to make that just because some other app uploads your entire documents directory (which to be clear is also not okay) you shouldn't care about being forced into an potential attack vector that can take over your entire computer. Do you also leave your home server unsecured because Google is tracking you through your phone?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Player Spends $32,000 on NBA 2K25 in Just Five Months⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that's a bit farfetched. I don't think any AAA dinosaur feels threatened by Balatro, and if we talk specifically about sports games Balatro is not a threat because that genre has formed its own thick bubble that Balatro could never penetrate.

  The more obvious reason is probably true, lawmakers are simply too stupid to tell the difference between using gambling motiffs and actual gambling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do AI data centers manage to *consume* water, but when I cool my house, my A/C *makes* water?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And what happens to the heat? Heat can't just magically disappear which means water can't cool without heat being able to dissipate somewhere. So it would have to dissipate heat into the dome. What happens to the dome if you keep pumping hot vapor into the dome? It heats up. If it heats up the water vapor stops cooling and the entire cooling system stops working.

  I'm not saying it couldn't work in theory, I'm saying it doesn't work in practice because the dome would have insanely big, maybe the size of small nation big.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Final Stretch Towards Release - Skyblivion Development Diary⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Then as long as you're fine with the poor performance Oblivion remaster is excellent. It's Oblivion (almost) as you remember it, the main difference being the ability to sprint (which doesn't actually change) and fixed attribute points leveling (which I welcome because the original levelling system was stupid where you needed to level minor skills to get +5 bonuses for attributes).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastercard release a statement about game stores, payment processors and adult content⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In online stores Visa and MC are the big ones. If we exclude China, Visa and MC make up 90% of all online purchases worldwide. For online stores they are the two players who matter. Losing one is a significant loss of revenue, losing both will kill the store.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"We approached payment processors because Steam did not respond" - Australian pressure group Collective Shout claims responsibility for Steam and Itch.io NSFW game removal⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You do realize that was not the end of the sentence?

  But just for you I added the word games and then moved the structure around.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony calls Tencent game ‘slavish clone’ of Horizon in new lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was expecting something where the Chinese IP courts rule in favor of breaking IP laws or at the very least turn a blind eye. This current article doesn't count because there's no resolution here. As for AliExpress, they have an entire process in place to handle IP infringement and they actually ban sellers off the platform if they continue infringing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony calls Tencent game ‘slavish clone’ of Horizon in new lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You mean decades of behavior of which you so far haven't presented even a single one. Guess what, one example is better than 0 examples.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony calls Tencent game ‘slavish clone’ of Horizon in new lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Explaining means you actually explain your point instead of throwing out random examples of others doing something similar and then mockingly asking "I wonder why they wouldn't care".

  You also seem to be moving the goal post with every post. You said China doesn't care to engage in IP fad, I showed China absolutely does engage in it. Now you're saying of course they do because they flount the rules themselves. Actually they don't. A few years ago Beijing IP court decided a Chinese artist had to pay around half a million to a Belgian artist for plagiarizing his work. I guess you're about to find another excuse to shift the goal post once again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony calls Tencent game ‘slavish clone’ of Horizon in new lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Then you should've made that argument instead of arguing that it's justified because centuries ago something was stolen from them.

  But I'm not sure how you got the impression China has no interest in engaging with the IP rights when last year they filed more IPs than anyone else in the world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony calls Tencent game ‘slavish clone’ of Horizon in new lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Genocide enablers are fair targets in all situations.

  So what's your issue with people going after China? After all it's fair game because China is also a genocide enabler.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"We approached payment processors because Steam did not respond" - Australian pressure group Collective Shout claims responsibility for Steam and Itch.io NSFW game removal⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you know that you can edit your comment before you post? Because if you post and then edit the rest of comment in later others might miss that when replying? Anyway, not that you've actually addressed something in your previous comment I'm going to respond to that. I'm going to ignore what you've said right now because that shit is just too dumb to respond to.

  idk, what are YOU gonna do?

  I already complained to my government.

  are cis people gonna finally fight for trans autonomy or are they gonna act like us having autonomy is too insane?

  The fuck are you on about? I'm not against trans people. We should all have humane levels of rights.

  are you gonna finally listen to us like when trans sex workers told you a decade ago that banks, the police and payment processors are policing our money or are you gonna let the issue fester because you don't want your family to know you stand with trannies and whores?

  Again, the fuck? I'm also pro sex work because sex workers regularly get exploited and I think legalizing and regulation sex work would make their lives safer. Also do you see how insane you act? I disagree with you on one thing and then you automatically assume I also disagree with you on (probably) all the other things. You're turning me into a villain in your own mind, and for what purpose? So you could dehumanize me? You're acting exactly like the conservatives who hate your guts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"We approached payment processors because Steam did not respond" - Australian pressure group Collective Shout claims responsibility for Steam and Itch.io NSFW game removal⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay, the smug "you're not one of us so don't speak" argument... Alright, then we're just not going to have a discussion. Just don't forget that if one of these groups ever use payment providers to suppress trans rights you supported this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"We approached payment processors because Steam did not respond" - Australian pressure group Collective Shout claims responsibility for Steam and Itch.io NSFW game removal⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In this context it's definitely a hot take considering the prudish neighbor was able to make freaky shit "illegal" anyway, and in far greater capacity than any single government could. Rape and incest ain't for me but I take serious offense when they get banned because a handful of people decide for the rest of us how the world is supposed to look like without anyone else getting a say in the matter. At least if they went the legal route the process would've a) been transparent and given an opportunity for others to make a case and b) not instantly affect the entire world.

  This "scary government is going to take away your rights" just leads to private enterprises taking away your rights without any oversight. This entire thing is a case in point. The government can take away your rights but at least you have a way to fight for your rights, what are you going to do against oligopolistic payment processors taking away your rights?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop Killing Games is facing a complaint in the EU that uses nonsense logic to accuse the movement's founder of failing to disclose financial contributions he never made: 'It's not paranoia if they re⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn't say that. I agree that the first one counts and that's an exception to the rule. The second you better bring out point by point examples of how DE does monetization as horribly as EA or Ubisoft because I've heard otherwise. And I think with the third the vast majority of people would agree it doesn't count.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop Killing Games is facing a complaint in the EU that uses nonsense logic to accuse the movement's founder of failing to disclose financial contributions he never made: 'It's not paranoia if they re⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Destiny after the Activision split

  And who was the CEO of Bungie during that period? Pete Parsons who had a senior marketing job at Microsoft before joining Bungie. Parsons also had no problem laying off hundreds of people at Bungie while continuing to expand his classic car collection. Dude has big publisher energy all over him. In fact he was the person I was thinking of when I said some people will do it for the money.

  Warframe

  First of all, Warframe is a F2P game which means they need SOME sort of a revenue stream. And from what I've heard Warframe monetization is one the best on the gaming market. It doesn't feel like you have to pay to have good time. And they actually removed an accidental slot machine from their game because they didn't want to incentivize whale behavior.

  Basically the entire mobile market.

  Which is a very different market. Mobile game developers couldn't even ask $20 for their game let along $60-$70. It's not comparable to the traditional computer gaming market.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Neither can Steam. Visa and Mastercard make up 90% of all online purchases outside China. If they cut off Steam then Steam is effectively dead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop Killing Games is facing a complaint in the EU that uses nonsense logic to accuse the movement's founder of failing to disclose financial contributions he never made: 'It's not paranoia if they re⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can you give me 3 examples where the developer is monetizing the game like EA or Ubisoft would?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop Killing Games is facing a complaint in the EU that uses nonsense logic to accuse the movement's founder of failing to disclose financial contributions he never made: 'It's not paranoia if they re⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Except developers don't have the same incentives. Publishers are incentivized by profits. Developers are usually incentivized by wanting the world to see their artistic output.

  Of course some of them will do it for money because some people are just like that, but overall the industry would probably be in better hands if the developers got the long end of the stick and the publishers got the short end. Right now in the AAA market it's the opposite and it shows.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop Killing Games is facing a complaint in the EU that uses nonsense logic to accuse the movement's founder of failing to disclose financial contributions he never made: 'It's not paranoia if they re⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I took it as "Look at all this labour he's been doing. He must be getting paid". They can't fathom someone working on their dream for free.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘The age of game mechanics is over’, claims Shadow of the Colossus director Ueda | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It really is. I would go as far as to call it a clickbait article. The title is intriguing but the only addition to the statement is that that the era is over because every game doesn't need to release with something new. And that's essentially the whole article as the rest is just filler.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of July 20th⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I decided to give Vintage Story a try. I was not prepared for what I was about to experience. I can already say it's not for everyone. It's like if you took Minecraft survival mode and then turned it into an actual survival mode. One of the first things everyone makes in Minecraft is a pickaxe. It took me about 2 hours to get the first pickaxe and then another 10 hours (though I did a lot of other things before upgrading my pick) to get the next tier of pickaxe. I probably would've gotten it quicker if I had only focused on that but I had a lot of other survival needs that had to deal with. But to go over what you need to make your first copper pickaxe.

  Obviously you need copper. Copper bits can spawn above ground (and a small hint that everyone mentions. If there's copper on the ground there's a small vein of copper right below it in the first layer of sedimentary rock). When you've collected enough copper you need to smelt it and cast it. To smelt copper you can't use wood, you need to use charcoal. How do you get charcoal? You make a charcoal pit and burn wood into charcoal. You need an large amount of wood. How do you get wood? You make an axe. How do you make an axe? You flintknap an axe head and combine it with a stick. Now we can smelt copper but how do we cast it? For that you need to create a pickaxe mold. To create a pickaxe mold you mold clay and then fire it in a pit kiln. A pit kiln is pretty much a hole in the ground that you fill with the clay mold, dry grass, sticks and wood and then let it burn for a whole in game day. When you have a mold you put molten copper into the mold. But you can't just take molten copper and stick it into the mold. You need a crucible to hold the liquid copper and tongs to hold the hot crucible. A crucible is made the same way a mold, you form it from clay and the fire it for a day. Tongs are probably the easiest part of the part of the process as you need just sticks and rope (which you make from cattails). If this feels like it takes forever it's because it does. This is why it's not for everyone but my god did this push the right buttons because unlocking the pickaxe felt like a real milestone.

  And in case what I did for the next 10 hours I probably harvested about 1000 tule plants to make a thatch roof. I started a farm and collected different kind of seeds (because you need to rotate crop to keep the soil healthy). I made a cellar because your food will spoil within days if you don't stick them in the cellar. I collected enough copper to make a copper anvil so I could make more advance copper tools. I prospected the land to find tin and lead veins so I could make other metals than copper. I foolishly believed making leather might be easy so I hunted some animals until I looked up leatherworking and then gave up because I hadn't found limestone (or it's equivalent) to start the tanning process. Instead I started to make compost from the leather which I will later use as a fertilizer. Oh and I made a fruitpress to make juice from all the berries I've found.

  It's a real survival experience and I'm definitely enjoying the complexity of it all. There's an in-game survival guide that is pretty informative so I don't need to go online to understand how something works. The game also has a very customizable gaming experience. You can very much tailor your experience to be a bit less survival or significantly more survival. You can also modify the worldgen to fit your needs which is something that got removed from Minecraft. There's also a really good modding support. So far I've added the Carry On mod that lets me move chests and barrels around because when I expanded my base (to have more space for my stuff) moving my stuff around was a pretty annoying experience. I also have my eye on some other mods but those require starting a new playthrough and I want to get a bit better grasp of some of the mechanics before pulling the trigger on a new playthrough.

  TL:DR I absolutely recommend Vintage Story to anyone willing to put in the effort it demands. You will be rewarded for that effort.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo touts high employee retention rate after loss of Microsoft jobs rocks Xbox Game Studios⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I understood your point because we're on the same side and I took a generous interpretation of what you said. Now that I've taken a really critical look I have no fucking idea what you were trying to say because the numbers make no sense.

  If I correct your 500 and 4 years, your statement becomes "Nintendo sold their consoles at industry pricie for the average console lifecycle". Oh the horror, Nintendo does what every other console seller does. And the part about selling a reskinned game at full price every 2 years? If I'm being generous I'd say you're talking about BOTW and TOTK. But that's not 2 years and it's not a reskin and your argument implies multiple games but I can barely come up with one.

  Your entire comment could've been only the second part and it would've been just as informative as what you actually wrote. That's how worthless your fucked up numbers have made the point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo touts high employee retention rate after loss of Microsoft jobs rocks Xbox Game Studios⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Using years and hundreds of dollars is not min/maxing precision. That's a stupid excuse for something you should own up because your made up numbers detract from your point. If the numbers don't matter then this shouldn't make your argument look ridiculous.

  Nintendo, the company that makes gamers pay them $5000 for a new console every year, and then $800 for a new skin of the exact same game every month, and calls it innovations and consumer friendliness.

  You can't just make up numbers and expect to have reasonable argument. By making up numbers you're just opening yourself up to criticism (which it seems you can't take) even if the actual point you're making is right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Star Wars Outlaws flop - Guillemot blames waning interest in the franchise⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I got it for free and I still didn't finish it. It had some interesting ideas but a lot of the gameplay elements were extremely shallow, the main character was annoying, the story was boring and I couldn't get it running on Linux and I wasn't going to boot into Windows just to play this game.

  I probably would've been disappointed had I paid any money for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Subnautica 2’ Leaders Say Krafton Sabotaged Game Over Payout [new events in the Subnautica 2 story]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We don't know the exact state of the game but what we know is that it's early access ready. If previous Unknown world games are of any indication it's still 2 years away from final release. They might make some money back with early access but it's guaranteed to be negatively reviewed under the pretense that it will not be properly finished. The release is already guaranteed to take a financial hit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Subnautica 2’ Leaders Say Krafton Sabotaged Game Over Payout [new events in the Subnautica 2 story]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Standard practice has been to fuck over the developers after release. They haven't released Subnautica 2 yet. They're screwing the developers over before they've cashed out the game. That's the part that made it implausible in my mind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Subnautica 2’ Leaders Say Krafton Sabotaged Game Over Payout [new events in the Subnautica 2 story]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn't want to think they're completely incompetent so I decided to do some digging. That $250 million is actually part of their acquisition deal. Krafton technically bought Unknown Worlds for $750 million. $500 million was paid up front and the extra $250 million was due for 2026 if Unknown Worlds met the performance clause. That $250 million has nothing to do with the sales of Subnautica, it's part of the buyout.

  This could mean they were always going to try and stiff Unknown Worlds. It also means it's probably less about the people working at Unknown Worlds getting stiffed and more about the leadership expecting a payout that was agreed upon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Subnautica 2’ Leaders Say Krafton Sabotaged Game Over Payout [new events in the Subnautica 2 story]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That's according to Krafton and we know they will bend the truth to create a narrative. But even if it's true I still think Krafton are the assholes here. I'm less concerned when people in positions of power don't get their position enabled bonuses, but Krafton is also taking away whatever bonus the actual workers were originally promised.