Deyis
@Deyis@beehaw.org
- Comment on Lionhead's secret best game, and one of the greatest ever abandonware games - The Movies - turns 20 today [Eurogamer] 1 day ago:
I occasionally feel like I hallucinated that whole game so it’s nice to know that other people have played it.
- Comment on The oldest Minecraft server, MinecraftOnline, is being shut down by Microsoft 1 week ago:
I was shooting heroin and reading “The Fountainhead” in the front seat of my privately owned police cruiser when a call came in. I put a quarter in the radio to activate it. It was the chief.
“Bad news, detective. We got a situation.”
“What? Is the mayor trying to ban trans fats again?”
“Worse. Somebody just stole four hundred and forty-seven million dollars’ worth of bitcoins.”
The heroin needle practically fell out of my arm. “What kind of monster would do something like that? Bitcoins are the ultimate currency: virtual, anonymous, stateless. They represent true economic freedom, not subject to arbitrary manipulation by any government. Do we have any leads?”
“Not yet. But mark my words: we’re going to figure out who did this and we’re going to take them down … provided someone pays us a fair market rate to do so.”
“Easy, chief,” I said. “Any rate the market offers is, by definition, fair.”
He laughed. “That’s why you’re the best I got, Lisowski. Now you get out there and find those bitcoins.”
“Don’t worry,” I said. “I’m on it.”
I put a quarter in the siren. Ten minutes later, I was on the scene. It was a normal office building, strangled on all sides by public sidewalks. I hopped over them and went inside.
“Home Depot™ Presents the Police!®” I said, flashing my badge and my gun and a small picture of Ron Paul. “Nobody move unless you want to!” They didn’t.
“Now, which one of you punks is going to pay me to investigate this crime?” No one spoke up.
“Come on,” I said. “Don’t you all understand that the protection of private property is the foundation of all personal liberty?”
It didn’t seem like they did.
“Seriously, guys. Without a strong economic motivator, I’m just going to stand here and not solve this case. Cash is fine, but I prefer being paid in gold bullion or autographed Penn Jillette posters.”
Nothing. These people were stonewalling me. It almost seemed like they didn’t care that a fortune in computer money invented to buy drugs was missing.
I figured I could wait them out. I lit several cigarettes indoors. A pregnant lady coughed, and I told her that secondhand smoke is a myth. Just then, a man in glasses made a break for it.
“Subway™ Eat Fresh and Freeze, Scumbag!®” I yelled.
Too late. He was already out the front door. I went after him.
“Stop right there!” I yelled as I ran. He was faster than me because I always try to avoid stepping on public sidewalks. Our country needs a private-sidewalk voucher system, but, thanks to the incestuous interplay between our corrupt federal government and the public-sidewalk lobby, it will never happen.
I was losing him. “Listen, I’ll pay you to stop!” I yelled. “What would you consider an appropriate price point for stopping? I’ll offer you a thirteenth of an ounce of gold and a gently worn ‘Bob Barr ‘08’ extra-large long-sleeved men’s T-shirt!”
He turned. In his hand was a revolver that the Constitution said he had every right to own. He fired at me and missed. I pulled my own gun, put a quarter in it, and fired back. The bullet lodged in a U.S.P.S. mailbox less than a foot from his head. I shot the mailbox again, on purpose.
“All right, all right!” the man yelled, throwing down his weapon. “I give up, cop! I confess: I took the bitcoins.”
“Why’d you do it?” I asked, as I slapped a pair of Oikos™ Greek Yogurt Presents Handcuffs® on the guy.
“Because I was afraid.”
“Afraid?”
“Afraid of an economic future free from the pernicious meddling of central bankers,” he said. “I’m a central banker.”
I wanted to coldcock the guy. Years ago, a central banker killed my partner. Instead, I shook my head.
“Let this be a message to all your central-banker friends out on the street,” I said. “No matter how many bitcoins you steal, you’ll never take away the dream of an open society based on the principles of personal and economic freedom.”
He nodded, because he knew I was right. Then he swiped his credit card to pay me for arresting him.
- Comment on ‘I’ve never used it and probably never will’: Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu says he won’t use AI to make music [VGC] 2 weeks ago:
i have a hard time imagining a scenario where AI output is preferable to the alternatives.
Oh that’s easy, it’s when you need the thing cheap and now.
I used to work at a friend’s start-up where, charitably, his approach to business was archaic. “We don’t need to advertise because good word-of-mouth is good enough, and what’s the point of having a website and social media?” kind of archaic. Without a doubt, he would be using AI for absolutely everything.
- Comment on What is the most overrated game gamers hype up? 4 weeks ago:
Red Dead Redemption 2
It’s the same old Rockstar formula of having you travel back and forth over the map just to do a normal mission and falls short of giving the cowboy fantasy everyone touts it as being. They added enough detail that your horse’s balls shrink in the cold but made it so easy to get money that whilst your merry band of outlaws are complaining about how little they have, I struggled to find more things to buy with immense hoards of cash. And the bounty system doesn’t work. And the multiplayer was total ass. And part way through the fantastical cowboy simulator, it adds goofy sidequests of time travel and robots. Rockstar couldn’t decide what to make the game so they tried to make it everything, leaving it lacklustre.
- Comment on Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without an online account 4 weeks ago:
It’s very easy, if a game doesn’t have invasive data thieving anticheat, then it will run on Linux, otherwise it won’t.
Can you be clearer about this? The majority of games I play on PC are online multiplayer.
- Comment on Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without an online account 5 weeks ago:
So I’d need to check that site for every game I want to play? Presumably if there isn’t a user report for whatever distro I’m using (how do you go about choosing one? Guessing from your comment that some work better with certain components than others) the only option is to buy the game in the hope of it working whilst preparing for X hours of faffing about to get it to work?
Protondb also looks to be focused on Steam, I’m guessing it’s like MacOS where if it’s a game not on Steam then you’re shit out of luck if there isn’t a Linux specific version?
- Comment on Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without an online account 5 weeks ago:
Gaming on Linux is better than it ever has been, but there are some games that just won’t run on Linux.
Is there any way of telling which ones will and won’t run on Linux? How does running them on Linux differ from Windows?
Avoid Nvidia graphics due to driver complexities.
Well, I’m fucked if that’s the case as both my machines have Nvidia GPUs.
- Comment on RUMOR: 'The Future of Xbox is Software Publishing' as Next Console Generation Faces Doubts 5 weeks ago:
So you also like it? You disagree with everything I said… including the part where I said I don’t like it? It sounds like you just want to be antagonistic.
If you’re deliberately misinterpreting what they said like that, you’re the one being antagonistic.
- Comment on Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without an online account 5 weeks ago:
I think more people, myself included, would be willing to consider Linux we weren’t met with people being complete assholes when asking for help or direction.
- Comment on Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs 5 weeks ago:
As ever, no negative consequences at all for Discord.
- Comment on Image site Imgur pulls out of UK as data watchdog threatens fine 1 month ago:
They’re not but there’s no recourse for it.
- Comment on Image site Imgur pulls out of UK as data watchdog threatens fine 1 month ago:
These ads for VPNs are starting to get over the top.
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- Comment on Parents outraged as Meta uses photos of schoolgirls in ads targeting man 1 month ago:
Hang on, so I need to upload government ID and/or a selfie in order to access “adult material” in order to protect kids but Meta trying to bait men with pictures of girls under the age of consent is perfectly fine? What the fuck is happening?
- Comment on Valve apologizes for ruining a Steam game's launch 1 month ago:
Valve should absolutely be doing more to fix their mistake.
- Comment on Valve apologizes for ruining a Steam game's launch 1 month ago:
That’s definitely not the norm for indie devs on Steam. They are heavily reliant on wishlists because it automatically notifies when the game is released and on sale; it’s why the call to action for indie games is to wishlist it.
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- Comment on Notorious boardgame Twilight Imperium is getting a digital version 1 month ago:
Simply bully your friends into having weekly mandated game time.
- Comment on Samsung brings ads to US fridges 1 month ago:
Shocked that they haven’t already had ads.
Has anyone used a smart fridge? I’m struggling to think of what features I’d actually end up using.
- Comment on Notorious boardgame Twilight Imperium is getting a digital version 1 month ago:
SOLD!
(Dare I even ask what happened?)
- Comment on Notorious boardgame Twilight Imperium is getting a digital version 1 month ago:
I love playing big, involved boardgames and their designs are fantastic but trying to teach it to someone and do all of the admin of resolving moves can make it feel like a chore.
For example, I’ve played Nemesis precisely once. It took HOURS to get through because of learning all the rules etc. Loved it, love the design, would be freakin’ perfect if there was a digital version which automates the faff.
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- Comment on 'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash 1 month ago:
"Code your own engine and show us how it’s done, please”
Don’t need to be a fucking pilot to know that a plane shouldn’t be upside down in the trees.
- Comment on 'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash 1 month ago:
Advanced purchasers get access to a special gamestate: “Fucked”.
- Comment on Ethical alternatives to Spotify 1 month ago:
Depends on where you live, I suppose. Where I am, you can’t have someone hook up their phone to a bluetooth speaking to play the world’s most tame Spotify playlist but they will absolutely have the radio on at all times.
- Comment on Ethical alternatives to Spotify 1 month ago:
“This is Lars Ulrich, the drummer of Metallica. This month he was planning to install a gold plated shark tank bar beside his pool, but thanks to people like you downloading his music, he must now wait a few months before he can afford it.”
- Comment on Ethical alternatives to Spotify 1 month ago:
But seriously, why do they even bother with labels then?
Labels provide the upfront capital for things like recording studios, distribution (traditionally, less so nowadays when there’s not a physical product to distribute), publicity, marketing, live shows, etc in exchange for a percentage and usually with a contract that the artist will make X many albums with them.
Although things are slowly changing, you are unlikely to be doing huge tours at sold out venues and getting your songs played on the radio unless you have the substantial money to do so in the first place.
- Comment on 'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash 1 month ago:
It’s unacceptable for games from big studios to be released in such a shoddy state. At this point, the best bet as a consumer is to wait 3 months before buying anything.
- 'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlashwww.pcgamer.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 18 comments
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of August September 14th 1 month ago:
Picked up the Indiana Jones game which is actually pretty fun. Also been trying to get into playing Total War: Warhammer 2 but a lot of it feels like an exercise in frustration (I might just not be very good at it).