Overspark
@Overspark@piefed.social
- Comment on Are achievements still relevant in 2026—especially when mods disable them? 1 week ago:
Developers really don’t need achievements for telemetry purposes, there are far better ways to accomplish that. At worst you can see them as a form of marketing, when you see people in your friends list getting them, but that’s about it.
- Comment on Are achievements still relevant in 2026—especially when mods disable them? 1 week ago:
On PC there are almost always mods to turn achievements back on, regardless of how many mods you have installed.
I like achievements because they give me an idea how much of the game I’ve already experienced, and because they sometimes encourage me to change up my play style. And getting a very rare achievement is always nice. They’re not super important though, so if you don’t want them I’m totally OK with that.
- Comment on The wonders of machine translation 1 week ago:
That can actually improve your health, if the donor has better gut bacteria than you. So I’d be all in favour of that!
- Comment on digital subscriber line foolishness 2 weeks ago:
OK I absolutely hate this meme format but I’m gonna make an exception for this one, since I too am a victim of PPPoE even for gigabit fiber.
- Comment on Twitch: "Hey, come back! This commercial break can't play while you're away." 2 weeks ago:
Similar to “we care about your privacy” cookie popups that try to trick you into allowing them to violate your privacy.
- Comment on Day 584 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 weeks ago:
Mine does quite well if I lock it to an old-fashioned 2.4 GHz only WiFi network. I did plenty of multiplayer in covid times and it worked just fine like that!
- Comment on What games similar to hardspace shipbreaker can you recommend? 1 month ago:
While I agree with most of the games in this list that I know, I wouldn’t class Ostranauts as a cleaning game. It’s probably closest to Shipbreaker, at least thematically. You loot derelict spaceships, but can also deconstruct hulls and systems to add them to your own spaceship. Finding a hull with serviceable fusion engine parts is hitting the jackpot, either to sell or for your own ship. While it shares the “I’m in debt for the rest of my life” vibe it’s much easier to climb out of that hole once you understand the game.
- Comment on Pixels inflation 1 month ago:
When I was a kid 320x200 was the best you could do on a (Commodore 64) monitor. With 16 colours! Which was a lot, because PC’s at that time could only output 4 colours at once on that resolution (CGA). We’ve certainly come a long way since then.
- Comment on Hooded Horse ban AI-generated art in their games: "all this thing has done is made our lives more difficult" 2 months ago:
In order to generate that texture, AI bots have already been attacking every website hosting content on the internet for the past year, to the point that they were basically DDoSed and forced to take extreme measures to stay online. Plenty of copyrighted works have been slurped up without consent from their authors, a massive amount of energy has been used to inference the models and even more energy (far more than all cryptocurrencies combined for example) is used generating things from those models. So yes, a lot of damage has already been done. Far more than killing a couple of cows.
- Comment on Hooded Horse ban AI-generated art in their games: "all this thing has done is made our lives more difficult" 2 months ago:
One way of looking at it is serving a vegan a vegan meal, after you slaughtered a cow for the first couple of tries. Some of the damage has already been done. Also, we’ve had several kerfuffles already where GenAI “placeholders” were present in a released game, and caused plenty of outrage. It’s far safer to never have those placeholders to begin with. Just draw up something ugly in Paint, at least it’ll be plenty obvious you need to fix it before launching the game.
- Comment on No more Jackie 2 months ago:
I did not expect a Guild Wars reference in my Cyberpunk content! Recently picked up GW2 again and having a blast this time, so relevant to my interests. 😂
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Yeah this. Python was already popular with the early adopters, and it’s a fairly easy language to learn and use. After that it became a network effect thing: all the best tools were already written in Python so people continued to do so.
- Comment on Hey look, a giant sign telling you to find a different job 3 months ago:
That’s because this isn’t managing people, it’s bullying people, and proper spelling isn’t really required for bullying.
- Comment on Here we go again... 3 months ago:
Nope, same here.
- Comment on 4 months ago:
It’s hilarious how different people respond to playing it solo. Some people say it’s the tensest thing ever but I’ve also seen a video from an elderly cozy gamer who thought it was the most relaxing thing she’d seen in a while. I’m more in the latter camp, been playing solo since launch and it’s been pretty chill.
- Comment on PSA: Stop using Imgur for now 5 months ago:
What do you think you’re paying with when you’re using a “free” VPN?