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- Comment on New packaging can warn you when meat has spoiled 1 day ago:
Meat spoilage is not always obvious. A piece of meat can look fresh and firm inside a sealed package, yet still harbor microorganisms that make it unsafe to eat.
Literally the first line of the article
- Comment on Elder Scrolls 6 Is Powered By New Version Of Creation Engine 1 day ago:
this shuts down rumors that bethesda will move to unreal engine for ES6
It shuts down rumors that Bethesda will move to pure Unreal Engine for ES6, though I never believed that to be the case.
I see the Oblivion remaster as a bit of a proof of concept of sorts - the potential to have the world, scripts, logic, and physics running on the Creation Engine that devs (and modders!) are intimately familiar with while running the visuals on a separate Unreal Engine layer.
Shedding the need to do extra work on fancy lighting and graphical effects so they can focus on optimizing the bones / structure seems logical to me, but then again this is the diluted Microsoft-era Bethesda we’re talking about so who knows.
- Comment on What are your thoughts on Reanimal? 4 days ago:
LN1 and LN2 were made by ThQNordic
Both were made by Tarsier Studios, as is Reanimal. THQ Nordic is the parent company / publisher.
- Comment on DEAD OR ALIVE New Project - Teaser Trailer 1 week ago:
DOA had a high - mid - low attack/defend/counter/hold system.
A player who understands the core mechanics will have an easy time wrecking a button masher
- Comment on Tesla's flashing lights 1 week ago:
- Comment on Anon finds a cool rock 1 week ago:
Why can’t I go back Anons?
🍄🟫
- Comment on Horizon Hunters Gathering reportedly delays Horizon 3, as Sony prioritizes multiplayer PS5 game 1 week ago:
Back in the day, I bought some Fortnite VBucks to get a couple skins and emotes. It wasn’t really to “show off to others”, I was just tired of looking st the same starter character and all of the gameplay based aspects of the game are free so I figured “Why not”. I did the same in some F2P MMOs like Vindictus and Black Desert.
In shooters, I usually don’t engage with skin mechanics because they are, in most cases, immersion breaking. I like my firearms black or maybe with some FDE furniture, I might do some cosmetic customization as long as it’s believable enough for the setting. Definitely not spending real money on any of that stuff.
- Comment on What's up with "Plex Servers"? 2 weeks ago:
I do have Infuse and the pro subscription!
It’s not really a “first party” (for lack of a better term) solution so the UI is not consistent with the other apps.
Personally, I don’t really like Infuse’s UI arrangement and use it exclusively for content that has Dolby Atmos.
Many of my friends / family aren’t all that techy, usability is key and having access to that content through a single app / single name is pretty important.
- Comment on What's up with "Plex Servers"? 2 weeks ago:
friends dont let friends use plex
Emby and Jellyfin still don’t have Apple TV Apps. Many of us bought a Lifetime Plex Pass ages ago and it still does what it’s supposed to. Migrating / starting over with something else is quite an undertaking when what you already have is working fine.
storage is very cheap now
In what universe? I bought two refurbished 12TB enterprise HDDs for $80 USD each back in 2024. The same type of disks are now $250+ each.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
John Woo’s Max Payne
- Comment on Ubisoft target audience when they play a good game 4 weeks ago:
Using MMOD doesn’t track playtime for the man game
- Comment on Spotify’s 3rd price hike in 2.5 years hints at potential new normal 5 weeks ago:
$20 was the cost of a whole CD Album, I don’t remember singles selling for that much. Or maybe you’re referring to the phenomenon of having to buy a full Album just for the one song you like?
I prefer to buy Albums, and these days new Vinyl usually comes with a lossless digital download redemption code.
At the same time, I still subscribe to music streaming services. I’ve got some ambient / background music playlists that are days and even weeks long - I’m not going to allocate make local storage space to them, let alone pay $9,000
These services are amazing for music discovery. I live having an album or playlist finish and then getting “radio” of similar music to hear and discover.
- Comment on Bethesda announces a new Fallout... reality show 5 weeks ago:
What the hell? Premise they’re going with just makes it any other gameshow. Missed opportunity to have each “Vault” have some kind of unique experiment or twist.
- Comment on Micron addresses Crucial exit backlash: 'We are trying to help consumers around the world' — company warns that DRAM drought could last until at least 2028 5 weeks ago:
Micron used to be our default go-to for SSDs and memory (independent repair shop)
They are now blacklisted for purchase, even their SSDs, even if the competitor’s price is substantially higher.
- Comment on I just want to play a game... 1 month ago:
There’s plenty of media with the same level of restrictions. The difference is that Steam is putting those restrictions in a convenient bulleted list right at the point of purchase - everywhere else, you’re expected to play ball and find out as you go along.
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses a GOTY award over use of gen AI 1 month ago:
Well, without giving away too much, you have a world where, every year, everybody of a certain age is erased. Every year, those with one year left to live set out to try and stop that from happening - and for ~77 years, none of them have returned.
This sets the stage for exploration of grief, loss, and associated trauma. In most games, there’s death everywhere but the emotional side is relegated to a 3 minute scene with sad piano music before the characters get back to the action. In this game, they drill a lot deeper and it really makes the characters come alive.
They’ve nailed the blend of sadness, joy, and even comedy.
This is all then set in a backdrop of some of the most visually interesting environments ever presented in a videogame with a completely insane musical score that brings all of those moments to life, the game is effectively a frisson machine.
- Comment on Battle Bun 2 months ago:
Lugaru
- Comment on Karl Bushby: Made a bet in 1998 that he could walk from Chile to England. 27 Years later, Still walking. Survived Darién Gap, 57 days in a Russian prison, Traversing the Bering Strait on shifting ice 2 months ago:
Just what community do you think this is?! I don’t come here for interesting, quality content and the wikipedia article doesn’t even mention anything about him shitting on a post!
- Comment on "It's extremely frustrating and also f*cked up" - one of the world's best indie studios is facing shock closure following confounding Steam ban [Eurogamer] 2 months ago:
disingenuous for the developer to pretend this was a surprise
Given that the game is going to release on Epic Games Store, GOG, and Humble Store, I actually do find it surprising.
Steam / Valve seems to be the outlier here.
The description of the scene that got the game banned is not even remotely sexual, just a bit weird / uncomfortable which is the entire point they’re trying to make. And that scene is not even in the game anymore.
- Comment on PetSmart won't let you leave a review if you have adblockers on 2 months ago:
Is it possible that their review form functions on some kind of script language that is commonly filtered by ad blockers?
Browsing the site on mobile / without an Ad Blocker, I’m not seeing any ads. Might just need to reduce the filtering level.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
👋 Repair shop owner
Between the three issues you mentioned, charge port are the most common I see with Acer whereas hinge issues are actually on the rarer side compared to other manufacturers.
With Acer, charge ports are pretty memorable since they’re soldered to the mainboard rather than being on an easy to replace daughterboard or cable.
Ultimately, charge ports issues are usually a user problem rather than a quality issue. There should always be extra slack on the cable when charging, the systems should be on a flat level surface, and the device should never be transported with the charger connected to the port.
Someone who has had repeat problems related to their laptop’s charge port is going to have a real bad time if they switch to a system that uses Type C ports.
- Comment on Alberto Mielgo defends the Marathon cinematic as "not AI," denies his team touched Bungie’s plagiarized material and calls the art theft incident a genuine mistake that was "blown out of proportion" 2 months ago:
Well, I stand corrected, I hadn’t been in the loop as to how deep this really ran.
They probably would have saved a ton of money and bad PR by just paying ANTIREAL for this work.
- Comment on Alberto Mielgo defends the Marathon cinematic as "not AI," denies his team touched Bungie’s plagiarized material and calls the art theft incident a genuine mistake that was "blown out of proportion" 2 months ago:
How does one […]
This is the key element. I don’t think this is a case where a team collectively chose to steal someone’s art.
If the theft was deliberate, it was probably an individual, with how big these projects are it’s not hard to consider how that may have flown under the radar.
I could also see one team member collecting assets to serve as inspiration and another implementing them without realizing they weren’t created in house.
With how exhausting the current state of the world is, I could even see a burnt out employee tossing something together without remembering where the asset came from.
Not trying to excuse what happened, the original artist is definitely owed for this, but there are other potential explanations for this beyond intentional malice.
- Comment on If Microsoft ended Windows 10 support, why is it still getting updates like every other day? 2 months ago:
If you opted into ESU, those would be the security updates that you opted to receive.
- Comment on Want to play the latest multiplayer games? Just go into your bios settings or upgrade your PC if it doesn't have TPM chip. 2 months ago:
Way I see it, there’s two ways to address the “cheating” issue in multiplayer online games.
First, let’s establish that game cheats typically involve using another application to modify the game’s running code while it is loaded in memory.
Historically, anti-cheat has largely taken a “reactive” approach. Try to detect the hook / modification taking place, ban the player if it is detected. These systems and bans were often circumvented. There are entire games that I stopped playing because the experience was ruined for me - GTA Online and the late stages of Titanfall 2 are standouts in my mind.
With how the Windows device security landscape has changed In the 2020s (MacOS has had something similar for ages), there’s now the option of taking a “proactive” approach by preventing application memory from being tapped in the first place. These technologies, notably Secure Boot and TPM, help mitigate rootkits and malware that might steal sensitive information from application memory, as well as paving the way for other protection measures like disk encryption.
And that’s the main part they’re interested in - by ensuring the entire process up through the kernel cannot be tampered with, the anti-cheat is going to be highly effective at pre-empting anyone from attempting the cheat to begin with.
It really sucks that, in the curent landscape, that means there are a handful of games that I can’t play on my Linux devices. But it also makes sense - Proton runs with many layers beneath it, which would make it trivial to tamper with memory and engage in cheating.
I’m hopeful that we’ll someday see a solution that opens up the opportunity for the same degree of integrity protection in Linux so that anyone can enjoy any game on the operating system of their choosing.
- Comment on Want to play the latest multiplayer games? Just go into your bios settings or upgrade your PC if it doesn't have TPM chip. 2 months ago:
Indeed you can!
If you enable the core isolation and memory integrity features, which rely on the TPM, the system will slog down to less than potato speed.
- Comment on Want to play the latest multiplayer games? Just go into your bios settings or upgrade your PC if it doesn't have TPM chip. 2 months ago:
secure boot is being used to lock your control out of your own system
Care to elaborate?
- Comment on Want to play the latest multiplayer games? Just go into your bios settings or upgrade your PC if it doesn't have TPM chip. 2 months ago:
They are.
Kernel level drivers with known security vulnerabilities are blocked from loading in Windows 11.
This is functionality of the core isolation / memory integrity protection, which rely on Secure Boot and TPM to function.
- Comment on Valve released a new VR helmet? 3 months ago:
Simmers of the world would like a word with you
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Game is pretty fun, it had me typing out some pretty silly stuff that had me chuckling