Godort
@Godort@lemmy.ca
- Comment on android 2 days ago:
If you want to entertain yourself you’ll carry a guitar with you.
This just guarantees that you’re going to hear Wonderwall by the white guy with a guitar at literally every party you go to.
- Comment on android 2 days ago:
Having experience with both, I can tell you that a safety razor is way easier to use than a straight razor, and gets you the same result in half the time.
- Comment on [minor spoilers] Promise Mascot Agency 6 days ago:
I bounced off of this game initially because I didn’t care for the mascot management aspect. I think I need to revisit it with adjusted expectations as most people love it so I must be missing something.
I much preferred their prior game, Paradise Killer.
- Comment on If you got in a time machine 1 week ago:
Writing all the songs on the disc is amateur hour. You cant look at them while it’s playing to skip to the right track unless you know the CD perfectly.
It’s better to write it on the insert, even if it means you have to keep it in the case and not in a CD wallet
- Comment on what are in you're top 3 favourite games of all time? 3 weeks ago:
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Chrono Trigger
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Link to the Past
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Super Mario RPG
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- Comment on Next BioShock Game Suffers From More Development Hell After Failing an Executive Review 4 weeks ago:
The game’s narrative was identified as an area that was particularly in need of improvement and will be revamped in the coming months
I really don’t trust executives to be the arbiters of what is considered good narrative. I hope they didn’t just kneecap the writing because it wouldn’t appeal to as many people as possible.
- Comment on Is it possible to make wireless charging broadcast electricity throught an entire house similar to how wifi can broadcast to the entire house? 4 weeks ago:
I would seriously doubt it, not because it’s impossible, but because it’s massively impractical.
It turns out that wireless charging is shockingly inefficient. The antennas you would need are way bigger than you could carry practically, and the amount of power you receive is very tiny compared to the amount of voltage you’re pushing through.
A YouTuber I like actually built a setup like this in a recent video.
- Comment on MFW I read an opinion that displeases my brainslug 4 weeks ago:
I think brainslugs are bad, actually.
- Comment on Omg Tracey 5 weeks ago:
Axiodeez nuts
- Comment on Where are all the successful "red cities"? 5 weeks ago:
Absolutely, thats something you get with population centers, but I think they’re farter right politically than most major US citites.
- Comment on Where are all the successful "red cities"? 5 weeks ago:
Miami, maybe. But I think they’re still pretty left in comparison to the Rest of Florida
- Comment on It's the truth 5 weeks ago:
The jar with the stern chinese woman on the label contains wonders.
- Comment on What should I get my online friend for their birthday? 1 month ago:
Satisfactory was a phenomenal video game that you guys can play together. Not quite like Minecraft, but similar.
- Comment on Are password managers secure to use? 1 month ago:
Bitwarden is FOSS but requires some technical setup and has no redundancy.
Bitwarden offers a cloud-based service in addition to self-hosted options. I choose to pay $10/year to get access to store OTP codes and easy Yubikey enrollment
- Comment on Modder behind the 'Swiss army knife of PC gaming' deletes their 20 year-old Steam account with anti-Valve manifesto: 'By the end of my bitter dealings with Valve… there was zero hope' 1 month ago:
It is very reasonable. No one forced Valve to build their business model this way, and they are one of the most profitable companies per employee, ever.
Literally every software company built their business model this way. Go open a support case with any software vendor complaining that their product won’t run on Windows 98 and see how many help you out beyond “Buy a computer from this millennium”
It would not be onerous for them to continue supporting a couple of old versions of Windows, they would just have to hire a few more people to do it.
You are failing to understand just how much has changed since Windows 98. It’s a completely different environment that requires specialized knowledge to develop for. They can’t just dust off some old source code and re-release the client the entire back-end has changed. It would be a massive undertaking that would appease about 12 people total.
Gabe would still be a billionaire. Sure, but I would argue that there are a lot of better things that Valve could be doing with those resources than supporting Windows 98
- Comment on Modder behind the 'Swiss army knife of PC gaming' deletes their 20 year-old Steam account with anti-Valve manifesto: 'By the end of my bitter dealings with Valve… there was zero hope' 1 month ago:
This issue has multiple facets and the answer changes depending on the end result you want.
The author of the article sees the problem as “Old games you bought on steam are unplayable on modern hardware”. Kaldaien sees the problem as “Steam cannot run on older hardware anymore, even if the games I bought still work there”. Both people want the same thing (To be able to play the games they bought) but are looking at it from different angles.
Ultimately, Steam is a DRM tool that has a very good storefront attached to it. If you want true ownership of the software, buy the game in a way that will let you run the software by itself. Valve expects that the overwhelming majority of its users will keep up with semi-modern hardware (In this case, a machine capable of running windows 10/SteamOS) which I don’t feel is is an unreasonable ask. However, expecting Valve to retain support for an OS that hit end of life 20 years ago is unreasonable.
I agree with the opinions of the article’s author. It would be far better to ensure that support for the old titles you bought are accessible on modern hardware rather than making sure Steam is still accessible on a PC running windows 98. This is one of those corner-cases where piracy is acceptable. You already paid for the game, you just need to jump through some hoops to play it on your 30 year old PC.
- Comment on Oh to go back... 2 months ago:
Honestly, Hackers gets a lot of shit for being ridiculous, but it only deserves it sometimes.
A lot of the actual hacking that is done in that movie is stuff like social engineering, phreaking payphones, and reading technical documentation. It’s exaggerated in the movie to make it watchable, but it’s largely based in reality.