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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone Snuck Into a Cellebrite Microsoft Teams Call and Leaked Phone Unlocking Details⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Article without paywall: androidauthority.com/cellebrite-leak-google-pixel…

  Includes the screenshot and a link to the GrapheneOS thread.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ROG Xbox Ally runs better on Linux than the Windows it ships with — new test shows up to 32% higher FPS⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Powershell has some nasty little quirks, and the command naming is user-hostile, but god damn is it great to pass objects around instead of parsing and reparsing text.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ex PlayStation exec says Sony can't keep "increasing the graphics power" with new consoles after tech plateau, but PS5 has already "made almost every game a better game"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But most importantly, more fun!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I love stardew valley. looking for an alternative that is made for controller experience.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I never tried with KB/M so I can’t say. But I never really felt it was deficient. Selecting stuff from the menus certainly would have been faster with a mouse, but it was perfectly tolerable. If anything, like animal crossing, it adds to the slow play.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I love stardew valley. looking for an alternative that is made for controller experience.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What don’t you like about it? I played it just fine with an Xbox controller

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG Has Had To Hire Private Investigators To Track Down IP Rights Holders⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I should support them more

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has InZoi been better than the Sims in your opinion?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t it supposed to be filled with AI? Like isn’t that the entire point?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game - Official Announcement Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It worked for fighting games for decades. Mortal Kombat, Tekken, Super Smash Bros? All sold well. Smash is still a top seller on Nintendo platforms and has never had a season model.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it me or does it seem like review bombing on Steam has become so much worse recently?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’ve also segregated reviews by language. So now when a single group starts review bombing (usually China, from the reports I’ve heard) the rest of us are unaffected.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Once again, looking for PS2 game suggestions!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  en.wikipedia.org/…/List_of_best-selling_PlayStati…

  I’d just start reading at the top and play some that look fun. Sales are a fair proxy for “good” games. I’m sure there are ratings lists too, if you feel so inclined.

  (You can probably skip all the sports games, though.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rock Band 4 to be delisted on tenth anniversary following the expiration of its licenses⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t name any cases off the top of my head, but I don’t see a reasonable court equating hypothetical future earnings with present losses.

  Like if it was “he stole my harvest of beans that I was going to sell at market” then yeah the harm is obvious, but when it’s “well I’m not selling the beans now, and I’m not planning on selling them in the future, but someday I might, therefore no one else should be able to appreciate beans in the meantime” that’s ridiculous. Especially since piracy is not theft; the number of beans has not changed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rock Band 4 to be delisted on tenth anniversary following the expiration of its licenses⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s certainly ethical, if not legal.

  You could make a good argument in court, too. Hard to show damages when there’s no possibility of profit because you’re not selling it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rock Band 4 to be delisted on tenth anniversary following the expiration of its licenses⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The digital download isn’t going away either (yet).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's official: EA is going private.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What do you mean “before”? This right now is the start of that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've been playing 'Ruby's Rebalanced HALO: CE' mod and it is fantastic.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  bruh not even a link? steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=29…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lara Croft is a Sociopath⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe. The bad guys show up with a lot of guns to take whatever they want. She shows up for archaeology first, and ends up having to stop the objectively bad guys.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Borderlands 4 Dev Gearbox Asks PC Gamers to Wait 15 Minutes for Shaders to Compile in the Background While Playing After Reports Indicate Recent Update Causes Stuttering - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  old.reddit.com/r/unrealengine/…/lyzqq8n/

  Found with a single search. Short answer they can, long answer it’s more complicated. In any case, runtime compilation should never a be a thing on console.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doug Bowser Retiring From Nintendo, Successor Announced⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Devon Pritchard will take on the role. She currently serves as the Executive Vice President of Revenue, Marketing and Consumer Experience.

  Profitability. That’s not reassuring.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Embracer is leveraging AI "in ethical and sustainable ways", says new CEO, insisting "human authorship is final"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  AI tools can be a “power multiplier” he said, though insisted this isn’t “corporate speak” but “words we’re hearing from studio heads and heads of production”.

  So not from the people actually doing the work or buying the products.

  I also don’t see any acknowledgement of the training source data, so I’m assuming that despite his assurances about authorship, it’s been trained on license violations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Today's featured article on Wikipedia: Myst V: End of Ages⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Obduction was okay, great world but really a slog to play. I got up to the end and couldn’t be bothered to actually finish it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Borderlands 4 boss tells players "please get a refund from Steam if you aren't happy" as Randy Pitchford continues his very public crashout over the FPS's performance woes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Problem is, there’s no such thing as bad press. Here we are talking about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash: 'If you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor, you're going to be disappointed'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Is Borderlands really all that popular still? Like I remember seeing the first few games everywhere, and people talking about them, but that was years ago. I realize I’m biased but I would expect to hear something about them…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This game is fantastic.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Most of the quality is below even amateur level. Like middle school level writing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New moderator for this community!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Should they be consolidated into one post then? It’s just bothersome to see a bunch of ads (because let’s be real, trailers are ad material) dumped in quick succession. The only ones I’d watch are for games I’m interested in playing, but for the ones I really want to play, I’d rather go in mostly blind so I won’t watch those either.

  It’s not just one trailer, either, it’s announcement, release date, “now on steam”, cinematic trailer, gameplay trailer, release announcement trailer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New moderator for this community!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Trailer dumping: useful content, or ad spam?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  BoTW did pretty good. Prime 1 was relatively open world. In BoTW, you could get to a lot of places, but some were still semi-gated by damaging cold, damaging heat, inability to climb slippery walls. In Prime 1, you could get to a lot of places, but some were still semi-gated by damaging heat, damaging radiation, inability to climb spider ball tracks. But in both games, if you knew the tricks, you could get around those gates (though in BoTW this was intentional, in the Prime games it was not).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Wins $2 Million Lawsuit Against 'MiG Switch' Distributor⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You are in the extreme minority. The Switch 2 is already selling better than the original.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scary games. . ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Amnesia, obviously

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The number of mis-issued 1.1.1.1 certificates grows. Here’s the latest.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah. A CA that issues fraudulent certificates will have its signing certs revoked by the root CA.

  But that requires actual fraud. This sounds like someone used 1.1.1.1 for testing, when they should have used 192.0.2.0/24 or something. That subnet is specifically reserved.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Valve trademark for 'Steam Frame', looks like we're getting new hardware⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I was thinking TV, but there’s already Samsung’s The Frame™.