NewNewAugustEast
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- Comment on Microsoft’s Xbox to Shift Obsidian Studio to New ‘Fallout’ Video Game 1 day ago:
One and two are totally different games.
3 is probably my favorite, new Vegas is ok.
4 is where mediocre shows up and 76 is where it just doesn’t matter anymore.
The tv show is fun though.
- Comment on Scan to Verify You're Human 1 day ago:
Yes somewhat related, but the algorithm is not trying to help you find related or interesting things. It is trying to find ways to keep you engaged. That is a very different thing.
It will slowly try to direct you to outrage, polarization, addiction loops, sensationalism and clickbaity videos. It amplifys misinformation because either people fall into believing it OR are so outraged by it they want to comment or rage at it.
Youtube has an incentive to do these things: more watch time = more ads served = more revenue.
So people will tell you: just curate what you watch! That fixes it!
If you are going to curate what you watch, you don’t need an algorithm!
- Comment on Correlation implies causation 4 days ago:
Has it been proven? I see articles that suggest pathways or mechanisms.
But when I looked for a double blind study with controls, they do not find any effects at all. Arguably the majority of studies are around 8 hour periods or sleep period, not 24 hour exposure. But you would think they would find something. They did hearing tests, blood test, brain activity tests, and emotional response “feeling” scores. It just isnt there conclusively.
People started doing a lot of this research because of the wind turbines, which also are very loud, run as long as their is wind, and produce infrasound.
Don’t get me wrong: I am not defending putting loud constant noise machines near people, this should be part of a zoning regulation. That seems bad enough, infrasound or not.
- Comment on GOG seemingly shares that they are considering physical PC 'big box' games. Maybe? 5 days ago:
Lol what? I’m “grasping”?
I do not want physical media. It’s wasteful and gives me no benefit, takes up space and has a limited lifetime.
How is that grasping?
- Comment on GOG seemingly shares that they are considering physical PC 'big box' games. Maybe? 5 days ago:
Will the physical media get scratched, have bit rot, or no longer have a device it will work in?
At least with a file I can simply back it up, buy a new drive, put it into my server, leave a copy at a friends house and all the other ways we back up our data.
I dobt really care about lending a game, but they can come over and play it if they want.
Selling it seems like more hassle than its worth, and frankly even now we (collective we as in all of us) are simply throwing away DVDs, cds, and until recently older games.
I would rather just know that I have a game I can play anytime forever and that’s that.
- Comment on Killing ownership is the method, killing the secondary market is the objective. 5 days ago:
I don’t want to resell anything, I don’t care.
Valve has been very good to me. I can plan by my library on any machine I want anywhere I want. They have kept titles available for me to download that the publisher took down.
They keep my save files, they provide overlays in game, they provide a game recording and chat system.
Everything I buy from them is so deeply narked down that reselling isn’t even worthwhile anyways.
On top of all of that they contribute to a free os, including giving back upstream.
That’s not dumping, those are just facts. Basically so far it’s the best gaming service yet.
I do worry it will go away, but all the games are also backed up locally so it really doesn’t matter that much.
- Comment on The same adult daughter who has trouble loading a dishwasher efficientlyly... 5 days ago:
I am not sure what bad taste in pizza has to do with dishwashers, but if my kids bought dominoes I would be upset too.
- Comment on GOG seemingly shares that they are considering physical PC 'big box' games. Maybe? 5 days ago:
I don’t think it matters for this discussion. As long as I can download the files once, that’s fine. Just like if I bought a disc: once I take possession of it, I need to manage it.
I don’t expect that I can walk into a store 5 years later and just get another physical disc, so why would I expect that with a file? I need to take care of them myself.
That said even though they are not publishers, GOG, Steam, and humble bundle have been pretty good about keeping things available long after i bought them. I can still pull my whole humble bundle catalog (and soundtracks) down with a script.
- Comment on GOG seemingly shares that they are considering physical PC 'big box' games. Maybe? 6 days ago:
Gog already makes books and collectibles like I mentioned?
- Comment on GOG seemingly shares that they are considering physical PC 'big box' games. Maybe? 6 days ago:
I really don’t want more packaging. Just give me a download to the file.
I see zero reason to want more plastic like a disc, but I could understand why someone might want a box with a book, a manual, maybe some items from the game.
My kids order stuff like this all the time from the independent game makers they like to support. Their book shelves have their favorite books and box sets of games, and they like it.
I guess my point is: for indy game makers, this is already a thing.
- Comment on PlayStation’s Physical Media-Free Future Isn’t Just Concerning, It’s Offensive 1 week ago:
Yep. Might as well do it somewhere.
Nice to call me a dumbass. You a soby booy licker or what?
- Comment on Time to bring back physical media on PC? 1 week ago:
To your point:
Tiny sample size: but there is a cool test where a person played the CD and the Vinyl of a song to a group of friends. They choose the Vinyl as best sounding. So he then digitally recorded the record and tried again, playing the vinyl and the recording of the vinyl. Nobody could tell the difference!
Which means one of two things: the vinyl setup was better and/or the CD was not mastered in a appealing way. Likely is number two.
- Comment on PlayStation’s Physical Media-Free Future Isn’t Just Concerning, It’s Offensive 1 week ago:
Yep. No sense in complaining at all the other places.
- Comment on Time to bring back physical media on PC? 1 week ago:
They really aren’t the best, for a lot of reasons, but I should not have brought that up. If anything you are saying the mixes and mastering for vinyl are best.
Anyways my point still stands. These are incredibly environmentally nasty. The music industry loves them because they can sell the same music to you yet again.
- Comment on PlayStation’s Physical Media-Free Future Isn’t Just Concerning, It’s Offensive 1 week ago:
Because this is freaking everywhere. People won’t shut up about it, and it’s Sony. Have people not been paying attention?
- Comment on PlayStation’s Physical Media-Free Future Isn’t Just Concerning, It’s Offensive 1 week ago:
Rolls eyes. This is getting so boring.
- Comment on PlayStation’s Physical Media-Free Future Isn’t Just Concerning, It’s Offensive 1 week ago:
Blah, blah, blah. So tired of hearing about this.
Nobody should be trusting Sony, disc or no disc.
Rootkit anyone?
Twice Linux promised and then removed with a bait and switch?
So Sony isn’t going to have physical disks, so fucking what. Just other thing on the pile.
- Comment on Time to bring back physical media on PC? 1 week ago:
That’s one of the use cases NFTs were meant for, noncustodial transferable digital property.
How would you: make the key transferable and secret, while still notifying the original vender it happened, and collect payment, and keep me from selling and turning off the key?
And once the vendor went away, no new keys would be issued. So why make a public crypto ledger, when their ledger suffices?
Just like an NFT. Useless in this case too.
- Comment on Time to bring back physical media on PC? 1 week ago:
similarly to vinyls for music.
This one sucks so much. Vinyl coming back is awful.
- It is heavy, it costs a lot and takes a lot of energy to transport
- it is made of plasticizers, usually phthalates with lead as a stabilizer
- it degrades from every use
- the waste chemicals are often dumped into rivers and streams in poor populations
- a lot of energy is used in the steaming and pressing
- the sound quality is not as good as people think it is (inner distortion anyone?) and the “warm” and “feel good” sound are easily replicated in other ways. I don’t want to dwell on this one. Lets just say mastering and your equipment have a lot to do with this.
- Comment on End of an era? 1 week ago:
OK, I was looking over Does It Play and a lot do let you play without updates, although the site notes those can have a lot of issues before being patched.
It was more than I would have thought, since everyone I know with a ps5 seems to spend more time getting updates than actually playing, lol.
- Comment on End of an era? 1 week ago:
Or old enough to not care that much. What am I going to do with more plastic?
BUT, I should have been more clear that I was talking only about ps5 and ps5 owners. I would never own one. Their online account is annoying and I have never forgiven them for the rootkit.
I was surprised to find out that there are games that will play without the internet. Although every ps5 MUST be connected to the internet first to link the disc drive to the device.
I used Does It Play to look at the games, and a lot of them will not work without updates. I assumed all at this point, which is why I said what I said.
- Comment on If Steam were to shut down tomorrow how much money would you have lost in total on games / DLC ?? 1 week ago:
Keeps going.
- Comment on If Steam were to shut down tomorrow how much money would you have lost in total on games / DLC ?? 1 week ago:
Congratulations. You ignored the interesting part and killed the chance of a conversation about it.
How pedantic of you.
- Comment on If Steam were to shut down tomorrow how much money would you have lost in total on games / DLC ?? 1 week ago:
Ok, then the question didn’t need the extra fluff:
How much have you spent on steam. Is that what they want to know?
- Comment on If Steam were to shut down tomorrow how much money would you have lost in total on games / DLC ?? 1 week ago:
I am completely fine with that. I wouldn’t really expect anything different.
Nobody wants my steam account, they want and have their own, so its fine.
- Comment on If Steam were to shut down tomorrow how much money would you have lost in total on games / DLC ?? 1 week ago:
I don’t get the question.
The money is gone now, so it’s already “lost”.
Or do you mean how many games did I buy that I have never played? That is an interesting metric I guess.
- Comment on End of an era? 1 week ago:
Were there any ps5 games that could play from the disc offline anymore?
I guess that was my point: that ps5 players already were used to having to deal with online content.
- Comment on End of an era? 1 week ago:
I don’t understand why anyone cares.
I can’t think of a single game that didn’t require an install and then updates before playing anyways.
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale 2026 Has Begun 2 weeks ago:
Alyx really uses the VR very well, easily the best VR game I have played. Bonus that it is actually interesting on top of being good at VR.
- Comment on What is your favourite gaming console you have played? 2 weeks ago:
Steam deck. Does it count? Plays everything you see here and more.
Consoles are kinda meh. Can’t do much with them.