Truscape
@Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
… Can’t tell if slop or you’re just using the same color pallette used by slop comics…
- Comment on Fallout lead Tim Cain argues games industry crisis hasn't reached the level of the 1983 crash: 'I don't think there's ever been a worse time in the games industry' 1 week ago:
The funny thing is I think we are in the same situation except now the free distribution of games on the internet means the supply side issues are even less relevant to the game industry. The losers might end up being consoles again.
- Comment on Fallout lead Tim Cain argues games industry crisis hasn't reached the level of the 1983 crash: 'I don't think there's ever been a worse time in the games industry' 1 week ago:
One of the reasons the 1983 crash was so harsh was because brick and mortar distribution and producing expensive cartridges made self-publishing and indie development much more difficult. Hell, the Commodore 64 never had any problems throughout the crash because games were distributed on tape and floppy disk, and hobbyists could easily create new games much cheaper than console counterparts.
I would argue we have the same echoes here. The winners will be the indie PC and mobile devs alongside digital distribution platforms like Steam (Valve) and GOG where anyone with talent and ambition can enter.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Yes.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I like riding on a train/trolley :3
- Comment on Accepting Cookies 1 week ago:
There’s your problem, pally.
- Comment on Accepting Cookies 1 week ago:
Essentially, when browsers started to initially implement toggles to block third party cookies more than a decade ago, advertisers in response pressured website hosts to mark their cookies as “essential/required” (AKA forced cookies). You will not get the same revenue as a website host if you do not play ball with this, and some go even a step further by routing/disguising their cookies through trusted domains (google, amazon, etc…) to mask the “true source” , in an attempt to mitigate detection from basic browser filters.
Ublock Origin and the like are pretty good at catching most of them through crowdsourced lists though.
- Comment on Accepting Cookies 1 week ago:
Advertisers get around that by masquerading their cookies to appear not third party.
- Comment on PlayStation boss says single-player games won’t come to PC going forward | VGC 2 weeks ago:
Emulation’s gonna bring them here anyway XD
- Comment on I was a husky boy and look how I turned out 2 weeks ago:
Nah, I ended up an engineering nerd. You’d be surprised.
Athletic + husky is the outcome of quitting team sports but keeping the diet XD
- Comment on Forza Horizon 6 Leaks And Is Being Pirated On PC More Than A Week Before Release 3 weeks ago:
That would be stripped out by the cracking team before release. The scene doesn’t forget to test things, you know (also many countries where cracked games are hosted/more prevalent are places where foreign copyright law doesn’t matter much).
- Comment on Wall TV 3 weeks ago:
He’s got that supportive spirit, that counts :)
- Comment on Sony PS5 sales drop 46%, even before recent price increase 3 weeks ago:
You can use it on PC! :D
- Comment on try out my AI agent bro, it'll change your life bro, I swear... 4 weeks ago:
During the “Gold Rush” era (Wild West 1800s), there were plenty of people descending onto California to try and make their fortunes by staking out land to mine and pan for gold.
However, the first millionaire wasn’t anyone who got lucky staking out a mine. It was the largest store owner in the area selling all these prospective miners their shovels to dig with.
- Comment on Day 657 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 4 weeks ago:
Oh yeah the new california map is amazing, but some of the quest designs have me scratching my head at times.
- Comment on Deluxe poppy seed cake 5 weeks ago:
Fuckin’ A, I’ve seen better looking ones in MREs.
- Comment on Deal with it, Libby. 5 weeks ago:
Literally the same bucket setup from 28 Days later
- Comment on Deal with it, Libby. 5 weeks ago:
Insulation looks like a solid rating of “no” though.
- Comment on Why are Steam games priced unfairly in Euros indifferent to where one resides? 5 weeks ago:
Prepaid cards have to be loaded with a specific currency and usually are part of a pre-existing payment processor (VISA/Matercard in the US).
Valve’s steam gift cards are sold in the same currency as well, and are usually usable for accounts in the same country of origin (read the back fine print)
- Comment on Why are Steam games priced unfairly in Euros indifferent to where one resides? 5 weeks ago:
As a Californian, I feel the same way. Some of my friends live in states where prices aren’t as affordable to them, so I try to gift games from time to time.
- Comment on Why are Steam games priced unfairly in Euros indifferent to where one resides? 5 weeks ago:
Steam pre-empts that by tracking payment methods and using all known connection locations to try and prevent VPN hopping (If you are using a VPN to Argentina, you better have a card from an Argentine bank and hope your VPN never drops).
Places like the Eurozone simply are screwed because of the legal circumstances. If people are using payment methods other than cryptocurrency (which is not accepted on steam), it is relatively easy to find their location and charge appropriately.
As for the partial form of identity thing, it is hard to create a system that would not be subject to abuse. I believe that Valve’s current telemetry practices are not unreasonable given the lack of restraint for the user. The only expectation is that attempting financial shenanigans will have consequences, and shall be traced from that data. That’s fine.
- Comment on Is there a fast way to tell what episode of a series a video file is? 1 month ago:
I’m in a similar boat with my own ripped media, and the answer is there’s no simple automated way (that’s why it’s easier to “acquire” from a source that already has things labelled and organized on the internet rather than do things yourself). Your best luck is to check the index of episodes on the back of the box and try to use the thumbnails to line up titles with the episodes manually.
- Comment on Got gifted an XBOX360 S. What now? 1 month ago:
Plutonium Launcher fixes the BO1 PC port, it works great now.
- Comment on Cave Story+ gets surprise update with mod support, console improvements ported to PC 1 month ago:
Can’t believe I didn’t think about this until now, but I think Steam Workshop support (or the potential for more streamlined mod distribution), would probably go a long way.
- Comment on Cave Story+ gets surprise update with mod support, console improvements ported to PC 1 month ago:
We take those, I suppose. Sweet!
- Comment on Cats: I Don't Know Nuffin' 1 month ago:
Considering the east german border patrol dogs were adopted into loving homes after the wall fell, I think so.
- Comment on Do we know how much apps would cost if we had to replace as revenue with subscription fees? 1 month ago:
It’s a question that doesn’t have a simple answer (even with publicly available data), but for the individual, it wouldn’t be much if the service was decentralized and the burden of hosting is placed on the user or a small community (think about how most game servers work that can host tens or hundreds of players by community members out of a surplus PC or cheap VPS, or something like a forum for a small website), but the issue is once we factor in scale to the equation.
If Youtube became a paid subscription, a majority of the userbase would cease using the platform overnight (and single-pay is outright unsustainable due to the costs of being a hosting platform for video content), and it’s more than likely that users would turn to piracy or sharing accounts rather than paying the fee directly.
Windows does have a one time license fee, but their issue is less about monetization and more about monopolistic enshittification. The only cure for that is owning what you buy and not having centralized control, which is only seen in open source/free software platforms such as Linux Distros.
Facebook has the same issue as Youtube to a degree, and largely is sustainable purely due to the network effect brought by the low entry cost of $0 to the user (despite being able to make plenty of money off them through telemetry and ads). A price tag of any sort would break their model as well, along with any other social media platform such as Snapchat.
tl;dr: the only reason the current incumbent platforms are profiting to begin with is because they have a “free but at a hidden cost” as their entire business model, so any price above $0 erase their userbase and relevance, along with being unsustainable.
- Comment on Meanwhile in California 1 month ago:
It depends on the area, but it’s not uncommon to drive more than 30 or 40 miles a day for a work commute in California (especially if you’re trying to live in a cheaper area away from where the jobs are located).
- Comment on Now meeting... 2 months ago:
AI slop? In my shitpost comm?
- Comment on real 2 months ago:
Wait, that’s weezer.