HarkMahlberg
@HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth
People keep asking me, and I haven't really had an answer, but now yeah, I'm thinking I'm back.
- Comment on Payday 2 is getting updates again from the looks of it 1 week ago:
It's also incredibly scripted. If you down a guard, use fly cheats, and drop his body bag out of bounds, you will see a new guard spawn in the map and attempt to B-line it to the body bag's position. Even if you and your team play perfectly, the game goes out of its way to force a fight. The harder missions are not stealth-able despite seeming that way at the outset.
- Comment on Payday 2 is getting updates again from the looks of it 1 week ago:
As someone who played this game, did not buy any DLC, and eventually pirated all the DLC, I can tell you the game is not balanced if you
A) don't have a group of 3 friends to play with,
B) don't buy at least some of the DLC,
and C) don't get some of the good DLC weapon mods as random drops.That's right, you buy the DLC and then get a CHANCE to get the content you paid for by succeeding at a mission. You only get 1 drop per mission, and it could be armor, clothing, masks, mask paint, and weapon mods. Grinding out the few solo-able/stealth-able missions for more drops becomes an enormous chore.
I don't miss this game. Interesting to see it getting resurrected, but they'd have to really fix the loot system.
- Comment on Nvidia finally reveals what controls devs actually have for DLSS 5, and don't worry folks, there are TWO main sliders to control the AI filter 1 week ago:
Speech to text took "doubt they're ever" and gave you "doubt the river*?
- Comment on Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital" 1 week ago:
In this sense, Chet is right, the 'democracy' of consumers has prevailed, and the people have spoken. They said 'digital.' I myself have been a PC gamer for over a decade now and I can't remember the last time I bought physical media.
"You as the consumer have forced the large corporations hand, and you've told them 'Stop with retail.'"
But then Chet shows his entire rancid asshole by actively ignoring the power dynamics between corporation and customer. The corporation always has the upper hand because the customer CAN ONLY buy what the corporation is OFFERING to sell. The corporation is always, at all times, presenting the customer with a false choice. A customer who has shitty internet and has to purchase all physical media, they may be in the democratic minority but that doesn't mean we feed them to the wolves. But an ex-Valve writer wouldn't know shit about that, they haven't shipped a physical game since Portal 2. What choice did you give consumers for Counterstrike, 2023? Half Life Alyx, 2020? **Dota, 2013? **
Once you, apparently, regretted your decision to invest almost entirely in digital, you didn't start buying Crimson Desert discs while you could, nor did you abstain from making digital purchases altogether. Now it's too late, says Faliszek.
Suck my dick, clown.
- Comment on There Is No Reason To Buy Another PlayStation Or Xbox 3 weeks ago:
It's funny, the Steam Machine has a weird identity problem.
We talk about it like it's a PC, and what a detriment it is to not be able to upgrade the GPU, like why else do you have a PC. But you can't upgrade console GPU's either. And it's still a plug-in-and-play box, no building required.
We also talk about it like it's a console, and what a detriment it is that a console costs over a thousand dollars and is digital-only. But the next generation consoles are almost certainly going to be as expensive if not more, with no disc drive either.
The SM is a glass half full and a glass half empty. It's the best of both consoles and PC's, or the worst of both worlds.
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- Comment on PlayStation’s Physical Media-Free Future Isn’t Just Concerning, It’s Offensive 4 weeks ago:
They basically put all their eggs in the Gamepass basket, and Gamepass sure as hell wasn't physical discs. If it was, it would just be Blockbuster... which is actually kinda funny to think about.
- Comment on Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as Protection 4 weeks ago:
Check his profile, as a tankie he has supreme authority on what goes on in other fediverse instances.
- Comment on End of an era? 4 weeks ago:
I hope you don't misunderstand me by my saying "something" to imply it's anything substantial, significant, or even good. I'm very anti-AI in all aspects of our lives, just so you know where I'm coming from.
Yes, the theft of intellectual property and art to train AI models is in keeping with their laziness, and yes, the models don't improve our lives in any way. But they can't exactly steal the electricity needed to power data centers, nor can they steal the silicon required to manufacture all the CPU's, GPU's, SSD's, and RAM they require. All those things are enormous capex and opex, and that's what I mean by "something."
That's a lot of work they're doing to push AI, and the only plan I can think of to recoup those costs is to expect taxpayers to foot the bill: they want municipalities to pay for the increase in electricity costs, cover the pollution and devastation their DC's generate, all without creating jobs and opportunities in the region (because why would they pay labor a fair share, yuck). And the finale, when all those investments fail to generate any profit they want a government bailout to keep from going belly up.
I just don't think any of that is worth the effort you know what I mean?
- Comment on End of an era? 4 weeks ago:
Welp, I'm the fucking idiot today lol. Thanks!
- Comment on End of an era? 4 weeks ago:
I agree with you, but then isn't it strange that AI does a whole lot of something instead of nothing? Like, the high amount of effort they put into making AI a big thing runs counter to the laziness of getting paid to do nothing.
Though I guess they ARE getting paid doing nothing, with how many data centers are getting cancelled.
- Comment on End of an era? 4 weeks ago:
So was Enron? I'm not sure why you chose 1993, companies have been shitty across all of time and space.
- Comment on Physical disc production ending in January 2028 for new games releasing on PlayStation consoles 4 weeks ago:
Microsoft may not even have a next gen console, let alone one with a disc drive.
- Comment on WTF Balatro take 2 4 weeks ago:
If you're trying Plasma gold stake, keep an eye out for Wee Joker. I have a hunch that it can scale hard enough if you thin/fill your deck with 2's and grab every Mars you can afford.
- Comment on WTF Balatro take 2 4 weeks ago:
Give it 5 minutes, his luck might change.
- Comment on WTF Balatro take 2 4 weeks ago:
I somehow lost a gold stake run on Erratic deck that started with 10 8's and 8 Kings. Jokers on game over were Rough Jem, Hanging Chad, Constellation, Blueprint, and Baron. I had 15 Kings of Diamond, 10 more Kings of other suits, 3 Kings were steel, and I was playing Flush House level 9 (Kings full of 8s). Best hand scored 1.5 million. Died on ante 8 Big Blind, couldn't draw enough steel kings.
I don't even know anymore. If you don't have a fist full of RSSK's by ante 3 then I don't think you can make it.
- Comment on ESA bafflingly declares private Minecraft servers 'illegal' 4 weeks ago:
The biggest bullies who suffer the slightest jabs always cry the hardest.
- Comment on ESA bafflingly declares private Minecraft servers 'illegal' 4 weeks ago:
They don't know the difference. Oh, you're right, that was easy.
- Comment on GTA 6 Price Finally Confirmed, Features a 'Single-Player Experience' at Launch 4 weeks ago:
Give him some slack, double negatives can be challenging for some people.
- Comment on ‘Grand Theft Auto VI’ Going Digital-Only Is a Car Crash for Physical Media 4 weeks ago:
I mean I love the idea of a physical library of branded thumb drives - in an alternate universe, USB would be fast enough to stream an entire game from a thumb drive, and your entire game library would be stored in bespoke furniture, like this cassette container.
But yeah, every big tech boom is followed by a big tech bust: dotcoms, crypto, VR/metaverse. AI will eventually join their ranks, it may just take longer than we would hope. And when it does, the price of hardware will eventually stabilize, with software to follow.
- Comment on ‘Grand Theft Auto VI’ Going Digital-Only Is a Car Crash for Physical Media 4 weeks ago:
If there's any optimistic "stick it to the man" future to be dreamed of, it's one where publishers go back to shipping Big Box-style packages, with 3-5 Blu Ray discs. But even that is woefully unrealistic - Rockstar is just cementing what Valve has known for years: why pay for packaging when the player just downloads the whole game anyway.
- Comment on ‘Grand Theft Auto VI’ Going Digital-Only Is a Car Crash for Physical Media 4 weeks ago:
Dear god, I can't imagine a game publisher wanting to distribute SSD's with their games on them. The price of memory is skyrocketing right now -- not just RAM, but solid state flash storage too.
Chad Kroeger wants you to look at this graaaaph and weep.
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Sorry, Santa Monica is locked into God of War like it's a 30 year mortgage.
- Comment on Microsoft Announces Significant Price Rises for Xbox Series X and S, 2TB Model Discontinued 5 weeks ago:
"Sorry I didn't hear you, did you say make it slop? Say no more chief!"
- Microsoft
- Comment on Microsoft Announces Significant Price Rises for Xbox Series X and S, 2TB Model Discontinued 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on GTA 6 Price Finally Confirmed, Features a 'Single-Player Experience' at Launch 5 weeks ago:
I learned we have a word(s) for those people now: Ball and Gun Gamers
- Comment on GTA 6 Price Finally Confirmed, Features a 'Single-Player Experience' at Launch 5 weeks ago:
Found IGN's list of things and that sounds about right.
- Comment on GTA 6 Price Finally Confirmed, Features a 'Single-Player Experience' at Launch 5 weeks ago:
Speaking of game installation, dare I ask, do we know how many terabytes this thing will take up?
- Comment on GTA 6 Price Finally Confirmed, Features a 'Single-Player Experience' at Launch 5 weeks ago:
Blocking stuff off means, what though? Any game with 2 editions and a difference in content can be seen as glass half full or half empty: the higher edition "adds content to the lower edition", or the lower edition "blocks content from the higher edition." Usually the missing content is vehicles, guns, skins, costumes, etc.
But if they're blocking parts of the map, or he story, then that's a whole different beast.
- Comment on GTA 6 Price Finally Confirmed, Features a 'Single-Player Experience' at Launch 5 weeks ago:
I hope you find the help you need.