Nelots

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic Games Launcher preview arrives - Native Linux support, Fortnite for Linux is coming and upgraded Easy Anti-Cheat⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  the Shadiversity of gaming. Massively overcompensating for his inferiority complex and forever doomed to live in the shadow of his more successful brother.

  I don’t know, Shad wrote one of the worst books I’ve ever had the displeasure of reading, it’s pretty hard to beat that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would you want to live forever in an infinite game?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I understand the “issue”. I don’t even disagree with you, at least so far as an afterlife is concerned—according to everything we know, an afterlife is not possible. I do disagree wholeheartedly that a copy of you is not you, at least in a broad, all-encompassing sense, but I find the whole thing irrelevant regardless. The problem is your inability to engage with the hypothetical that it is somehow, magically perhaps, the real you and an afterlife is real… your unwillingness to do so is not thought provoking, just irritating.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would you want to live forever in an infinite game?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I explained it multiple times and even made comparisons to help understanding the issue.

  Right, you mean the multiple explanations and comparisons for why it makes no sense that nobody here has agreed with.

  You changed the question. That is not what the question in the original post and the article is about. You crafted a new question with new rules, just to justify for you to have right in a discussion you do not understand.

  Alright, I’ll admit it’s not the exact same question. But living in an imperceptible simulation would change nothing about our lives or the way we perceive it. In that sense, it doesn’t change anything about the actual meat of the question. From our perspective it would still be our one and only true reality, a true afterlife, yada yada. All this does it give another potential mechanism for how it could happen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would you want to live forever in an infinite game?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The question makes perfect sense to literally everyone else here (as seen by the dozen answers already given), that you’re not able or willing to engage beyond your assumption that it isn’t is on you.

  I don’t understand what you’re so held up by. Is it the infinite time thing? Okay, then the “game” goes on until the heat death of the universe. This is effectively the same question, as a period of time that long may as well be infinite to us.

  Is it the copying thing you were going on about in another comment? Okay, add another hypothetical to circumvent this. Our universe is a perfect simulation being run by a Superintelligence beyond our comprehension (a real one, not some chatbot the annoying orange wants to rename). We are already code in a machine, “death” just means having your code moved out of the main simulation and into a separate afterlife simulation. No copying is needed, this is the original “you” code being moved over. Would you be okay with/like this?

  This is the exact same question but with an unnecessary added layer of philosophical baggage that you wont engage without for some reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m mainly playing 3 games right now.

  I’m slowly but surely making my way through Valheim 1.0 with a friend who’s mostly only available during the weekends. Very fun, despite the two of us having very different gameplay styles. He enjoys looking up guides and cheesing things using tips from pros, while I like to figure out things naturally and will avoid cheese like I’m lactose intolerant. He’s the builder this time around, so things have gone mostly his way. I’d probably have more fun alone, but I know damn well I could never sit down and finish a game as long and grindy as Valheim by myself.

  I’ve also been playing a lot of Helldivers 2 with a group of friends. I have a bit of a love-hate relationship with this game. There’s 5 of us now (which has been problematic in a 4-player game), and yet somehow NONE of us are ever together unless its something really tough like a flag raising objective. We just don’t really have the team play part of the game down yet (despite having several hundred hours in it), which leads to us often getting a bit tilted in the moment.

  Alone, I’ve really been enjoying Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter. The second chapter came out recently, so I finally pulled it out of my backlog to play. This is VERY different from my normal games (first ever JRPG, aside from the original Pokemon games), but I’ve been having a lot of fun with it. I really like running around and seeing all of the NPCs’ own little personal stories evolving in between each quest. I’m playing on the hardest difficulty, and I’m pretty glad I am, because I’m hardly struggling outside of boss fights. Which is strange to me, because I tried the demo for this game when it first game out like a year or two ago on the same difficulty and remember finding it incredibly difficult.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would you want to live forever in an infinite game?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is not about “realistically or theoretically”, it is impossible.

  Do you… not understand the point of a hypothetical question? Nobody cares if it’s possible. We are, for the sake of the question, positing that it IS, in fact, somehow, completely possible, and asking what you would do in that situation. In THIS pretend scenario, it IS the real you, so it is irrelevant if it’s not possible IRL.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 783 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree completely. Though its not just nostalgia, nowadays I tend to be so worried about making a decent house that I end up stressing over it and not enjoying it at all. Everything has to have a function, a proper block palette, the layout and terrain needs to look natural, etc. Waaay too much thought goes into what should have just been something simple like where to put my enchanting table and bookshelves.

  So instead I’ve recently been challenging myself to build “ugly” things like nonsensical square houses and giant wool rainbows, and it’s surprisingly hard (and fun). I’m so used to building decent looking houses that I genuinely struggle to just build random crap now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 783 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a really cool post. Reminds me of my old unimpressive and frankly ugly Minecraft builds. I was never an amazing builder, but I always felt pride towards what I build regardless of how it turned out. Maybe child me had a healthier mindset.

  It also reminds me of my older brother’s builds, who understood the concept of block palettes in the worst way possible. Any time we built on a superflat creative world, he would always build his houses out of obsidian and replace the grass floor with diamond blocks and gold block roads in a massive square around his city. And because old minecraft worlds were pretty small, I could always see it from my cities… Thinking back, I’m 50/50 at this point on whether he actually liked how it looked or if he only did it because he knew it pissed me off lol.

  I unfortunately always ended up restarting my worlds and could never stick with one for a long time (a habit I still have) so I wouldn’t be able to do this even if I still had an xbox.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Who’s Deciding The Fate Of This Game?' The Secretive Process Of Getting A Game With Sexual Content On Steam⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  While that’s very much true, that’s not really what I take away from it. The bible could be 100% true and this wouldn’t really change anything in this particular case.

  What it instead tells me is that people will pick out whichever parts of the bible suit their biases and follow them, all so they can feel good about themselves despite ignoring the half of it they don’t like. I also don’t see many Christians avoiding mixed fabrics despite their god supposedly saying that’s a no-no two different times.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably a bit niche of a game series, but Dungeon Defenders. It’s an Action RPG / Tower Defense hybrid that I loved as a kid. And all the sequels kinda sucked for one reason or another. I’ve played all of them a little bit too much, so I’m going to go into way too much detail here lol.

  The first game was one of my all-time favorites on the xbox 360 as a kid (which is kinda funny because it has like 100x the content on PC). The game was riddled with cheaters and hacked items, but damn did I have fun anyway. My friends were practically begging me to play anything else when they came over to hang out.

  Then they made Dungeon Defenders II and charged $20 for it in early access. I bought the game in a heartbeat because I loved the first one so much. But it just turned into an always-online, live-service game without any actual story, that forces you to buy multiple microtransactions for necessary QoL features in order to play the game in the way it’s intended. Eventually the game went free-to-play and pushed that model even harder. Its a shame, because underneath all the bullshit it looks like a fun enough sequel.

  Then Dungeon Defenders: Awakened came out. Half sequel, half remake of the original (time travel shenanigans), it had a lot of potential and it’s one of only two games I’ve ever backed on Kickstarter. The game is basically a modernized Dungeon Defenders, with some new content and a boat load of QoL additions. They even release all future content for free instead of as DLC like the original, so its a one-time purchase (and very strange coming from the same studio that runs DD2). Unfortunately, it was too damn similar to the original and didn’t do enough on its own. DD1 had a community dev team adding new maps and content for over 10 years, so why the hell would you buy the new game who’s original content amounts to like 6 new maps? The game did eventually get more content, and is honestly not a bad purchase at this point imo, but it could never catch up to the original.

  Funny enough, the original DD1 started getting new DLC again a few years ago, so all three of these games are being developed simultaneously by different teams despite being sequels to the last.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 743 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Even the sleep mechanic is exclusive to single player

  It’s actually not, it’s only disabled by default. The speed up will only take affect the moment every single player is sleeping, so it’s not something you’d want in a massive public server with 73 players online, but for a small group of friends it works fine. Highly recommended, unless you like sitting around for 30 IRL minutes reading in the dark every night. Speaking of, one thing that IS exclusive to singleplayer is unfortunately the fast forward button, so reading really sucks and I always turn up skill gain speeds in MP.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What games did you sleep on for too long?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t really play a lot of new games anymore, so I guess the last time I slept on a game for too long was The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth. This was many years ago, I’ve got 1,200 hours in the game now and 100%’d it multiple times. Butt I can’t stand potty humor, so seeing literal giant piles of crap all over the map and dozens of fart related items always immediately turned me away from the game any time I looked at it, despite knowing I’d love playing it. Eventually I gave in and bought it, and surprisingly, the poop didn’t bother me much because they don’t really make it look especially gross (except for tainted blue baby… fuck you, tainted blue baby). The farts were still bad, but most of those items suck so I can gladly ignore them.

  For a while I was desensitized to the potty humor, but then they released the Repentance DLC with the character tainted blue baby, and… ugh. If you don’t know what he looks or plays like, feast your eyes on this wonderful wiki page and see how many results show up when you Ctrl+F “poop”. He’s a character based around the released bowels of a corpse who attacks by defecating. As much as I love the game, the potty humor remains my least favorite part of it by far, and I wish Edmund McMillen wasn’t such a freak sometimes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the rarest Steam achievement you got?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  CoD BO3 zombies cheevos are insanely common for how hard they are

  Zombie Chronicles and steam workshop support turning BO3 into something of the definitive classic zombies mode probably helps those statistics. BO2 has a different executable and achievements specifically for zombies, which should help heavily skew its statistics towards being actually completed, and the Origins achievements are still 3x-4x rarer than they are on BO3.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the rarest Steam achievement you got?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  All but one of my 20 rarest achievements are from the game Barony. The game has ruined my rarest achievements showcase lol. 16 of them are at 0.1%, the others are 0.2%.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does Australia tend to ban or censor video games?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Every time I see somebody talk about Postal 2, I misread it as Portal 2 and get very confused.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox Backward Compatibility on PC⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How is having access to previously xbox-exclusive games on the PC good for anyone? Seriously?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Denuvo's Dominance Finally Beginning to Crack? A New Linux-Based Breakthrough Suggests It Might Be⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They literally show half a dozen pictures of denuvo games running on Arch in the article. Several of the top posts on r/crackwatch (the subreddit mentioned in the article) about the Linux denuvo workaround. It’s called DenuvOwO. (because of course it is lol).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 723 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh yeah, I didn’t even think about shaders, though fortunately that wouldn’t bother me too much. I like real time shadows and reflective water, but I seem to be in the minority in thinking that most other shader effects are ugly outside of screen archery.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 723 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ooh, AotBT. I’ve heard a lot of good things about it. Never played it though, I’ve unfortunately come to really appreciate a lot of the conveniences of modern versions, and despite growing up on older versions of MC, I’m not sure if I’m ready to go all the way back to 1.6 lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palworld v1.0 - Official Release Changelog⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, if you don’t like the open world survival crafting genre then you’re probably not going to like the open world survival crafting game Palworld. What’s the point of your comment exactly? You know they’re not going to jump ship to a completely different genre right at full release.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a nostalgic gamer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mortal Kombat: Deception. Honestly, fighting games are one of my least favorite genres nowadays. But as a very young kid (way too young to be playing MK lol), it was a lot of fun.

  I always got my ass kicked by my older siblings, so I preferred taking turns in the story mode over playing against other people. Probably one of the reasons I strongly prefer co-op and PvE games even today, now that I think about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Poll: Will you buy GTA 6 when it launches on your platform?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How can a game be a game when…

  Well tbf, just about anything can be a game that will appeal to someone. Somebody could make a game about exactly what you described without hyperbole (like driving around and going shopping or something), call it “daily chore simulator”, and it’d probably sell surprisingly well lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Poll: Will you buy GTA 6 when it launches on your platform?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not at all surprised to see the “not interested” and “wait for a sale” options being massively ahead on Lemmy. Though it’d be interesting to see how different the “not interested” crowd would be if the option were split into “not interested at all” and “interested but wont buy for political/moral reasons”.

  The comments here imply most would vote for the second option, but I’m in the first camp myself. I’ve never been interested in any of the GTA games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Single player games⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Competitive multiplayer games are a big no, but I love cooperative multiplayer games. I’d much rather play one of them with a friend or two than play something by myself. I couldn’t tell you the last time I’ve actually beaten a single player game, I tend to get bored and lose interest half way through.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Summer Sale 2026 Has Begun⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  with mods other than just skyui for the first time this time

  Congrats, you are well on your way to becoming the type of person that spends 6 weeks making a skyrim modlist instead of playing the game, launching it for 15 minutes to make sure everything works, and then losing interest in the game after a day or two.

  I recently found out about a mod called Sentinel, and holy hell is it exactly what I needed to actually enjoy the cool looking but blatantly overpowered Creation Club armors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I just bad at games???⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Cassette Beasts took me about 40 hours to beat and close to 60 hours to fully 100% (though I did play on the hardest difficulty, which slows the game down A LOT). You’re just taking your time and that’s fine.

  I personally didn’t experience any crashes or incredibly long loading times… it ran just fine for me. What are you playing it on?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wonky witch fable 1666: Amsterdam is the kind of sexy nonsense I want from Assassin's Creed: Hexe⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Believe it or not, the people complaining about it care.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not everybody knows you shouldn’t fill up your hard drive completely. If someone doesn’t explicitly mention it, its safer to assume they don’t know so that you don’t accidentally give them advice that harms their drive. And no, saying play space instead of space (especially when your title just says 20 gb left) does not count as explicitly mentioning it. You never mention having room to spare or even knowing the difference.

  It’s clear now that you probably do, so all you needed to do was say “don’t worry I know” or even just ignore the advice entirely. I don’t know why you’re being annoyed by people for not having the info you failed to provide them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Life Is Strange⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Are we talking about the original Life is Strange? The thumbnail shows the newest game, Reunion, but I’ll assume that’s their website being dumb and we’re talking about the original. I absolutely loved it when I played it years ago, and I loved the way it made me feel powerless when my powers suddenly didn’t work. Like with Kate… I didn’t pay attention to or help her the first time I played, and I eventually replayed the game just to change that. If you haven’t played chapter 5 yet, you’re in for a treat.

  I want to play through it again and 100% it at some point. Though to be honest, idk if that will ever happen, I suck at finishing new games let alone ones I already know the ending to. Maybe I’ll give the remastered version a shot or something. There’s several other games in the series, and aside from True Colors and Reunion, which I have not played, I enjoyed them all to some extent, though not as much as the original.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 677 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never seen a car like that before… it looks like a big cat of some kind.