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- Comment on No Man's Sky 10th anniversary Cosmos update is here, and that means orbital bases, space station ownership - and yes, you can finally fly to the sun 1 day ago:
I would be fine with that. But i couldnt recreate the approximation of the 2014 trailer in 10 years. I never had the pleasure to see a single cool planet of which i could hop off and do some mediocre space battle. Its just such a frustrating game and i really liked the original artstyle.
Anyway, i should really put NMS in my filterlist because it gets me angry and worked up every single time. Ugh. Stupid.
- Comment on No Man's Sky 10th anniversary Cosmos update is here, and that means orbital bases, space station ownership - and yes, you can finally fly to the sun 1 day ago:
Yeah, thats a bit revisionist? I will always be mad what a fucking liar Sean Murray was pre-release. There is just no dancing around that fact. He also wasnt some suit from the publisher. He is just creditet as programmer on the game on wikipedia(you know boots on the ground good guy). Almost every promise he uttered was broken. He was on the fucking Conan late night show and educated us on how hard they had it(and on top lied about every single feature the game would have).
And yeah, they redeemed themselves. But i have to say that 10 years later i still regret my purchase. I revisited the game every other year or so after several bombastic update trailers. I’m still not impressed or even entertained. Also they got rid of the only thing i ever really liked at release: the artstyle. Which makes me even more angry. Fuck this game. I should get a hold on myself. I should let it go after 10 years of free update. But seriosly fuck this game and fuck Sean Murray.
- Comment on LemmyMan® Dinner 2 days ago:
PSA: you really shouldnt eat uncooked beans and other legumes btw. They are toxic.
- Comment on DLSS 5 comes with a massive 50-60% performance hit, so I hope you like lower frame rates with your dose of AI image enhancement 1 week ago:
Yeah, okay that sucks. But makes comparisons easier i guess? Nvidia wins at default unless you want good open source Linux drivers. Which arent a lot of people to be fair.
I really hope Intel will still release consumer GPUs in the future. The B580 was a pretty nice GPU at MSRP. But i couldnt even recommend it to anyone because it almost always was 30% above MSRP where i live. With that price you could have gotten just a better card in every metric.
- Comment on DLSS 5 comes with a massive 50-60% performance hit, so I hope you like lower frame rates with your dose of AI image enhancement 1 week ago:
Yeah, sorry. I meant Hairworks.
- Comment on DLSS 5 comes with a massive 50-60% performance hit, so I hope you like lower frame rates with your dose of AI image enhancement 1 week ago:
I’m not in the US and AMD has always been cheaper for me. Hardware Unboxed made a few videos about pricing in recent years and in the regions they covered AMD was also always cheaper than Nvidia. Aside from a few outliers.
- Comment on DLSS 5 comes with a massive 50-60% performance hit, so I hope you like lower frame rates with your dose of AI image enhancement 1 week ago:
I agree. Especially the marketing department hyping up their upcoming products to an unhealthy degree really hurt their reputation. Because those promises always failed to deliver in the last >decade.
But personally i’m now 12(?) years only on AMD cards and i was never plagued by all the famous downsides AMD GPUs supposedly and actually have. Which doesnt mean there are tons of valid criticism to made against them.
I get why Nvidia was and is the market leader. They offered the most feature complete and fastest products most of the time. Always with a bit of proprietary fuckery involved which personally always turned me off. There are a lot of valid reasons why somebody would prefer a Nvidia card right now or in the past.
My point was that i dont get why they are so disproportionally more popular. If you wanted the fastest halo product… sure there wasnt a contest since the 290X(which still is debatable). But AMD had almost always pretty great midrange offerings which most consumer buy anyway. Especially in the last three generation they had their shit together and were IMHO pretty competitive in every price bracket besides the very high end. Still, they lost even more market share.
- Comment on DLSS 5 comes with a massive 50-60% performance hit, so I hope you like lower frame rates with your dose of AI image enhancement 1 week ago:
PhysX, G-Sync, HairFX, etc.
The writing was on the wall for a long time already.
I will never get how Nvidia got THAT popular amongst gamers. Like sure, Nvidia always had some benefits in certain usecases. But how many people were actually capturing game footage as a job and needed the best hw encoders? How many gamers also used their gaming rig also as a workstation for things where CUDA is essential? A lot! For sure. But not >90% market share a lot.
- Comment on Despite Steam's concerning domination over the market, one of the things that I love about it is... 2 weeks ago:
I agree. The last time i looked at the Steam forums it was pretty bad. Comically stupid posts which i only know as over the top satire from other places.
But tbh they always sucked. Sure, there werent constant “this game is woke because it contains women/poc” posts >10 years ago. But otherwise it was always a cesspit for really stupid and awful people. Maybe its really worse than before but the bar was already so fucking low.
- Comment on We all know that Mr Beast, Logan Paul, and KSI are all horrible people. Why do they still have subscribers? 2 weeks ago:
I understand the concept of taste and having not the same as i do. I understand that kids, young, dumb, horrible[…] people exist. I understand that not anybody is a terminally online old fuck who remembers the good old pre web 2.0 days and is hypercritical of most modern online content. Then there is that orange fuck…
Still i also just dont get it. Its just garbage made by garbage people acting like garbage. Its so bad. Its so obvious. Why all these fucks still have careers just doesnt make any sense to me.
I think this is a rare case where i’m not out of touch and its the children who actually are wrong.
- Comment on Sometimes you just have to know 2 weeks ago:
i would get the fuck out too if somebody started to rip apart my ceiling before he catches me
- Comment on Steam Frame Updates 3 weeks ago:
Head strap, controller straps and a silicone nose light blocker beeing a separate purchase is fucking laughable. Especially that lightblocker not beeing included with every headset is just weird. What does that piece of shit silicone cost in production? 10 cents?
Man, i still want a standalone headset with a linux based OS and newer SOC than Q3 soooo bad. But i wouldnt have bought it for 800-1000$ and even less for what ever the fuck it will cost under _ current market conditions_.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Yeah, the emojis alone sadly(i fucking hate them) arent a red flag by themselves anymore. But fucking up the formating in your promotional post with no attempt to fix it after an hour? Suuuuure. Even if it isnt the result of some agentic work flow(which it is)it would show a lack of care that doesnt signal any reason why i should care about your project?
- Comment on European Commission rejects new laws for Stop Destroying Videogames 2 months ago:
As it is the tradition in the sector, I hope the industry will listen to player communities and agree on better sunsetting standards so communities can continue to meet and play together.
lol. lmao even.
- Comment on Xbox is closing Ninja Theory, and Double Fine and Compulsion may not be far behind 2 months ago:
Sure, just close up any studio that actually was able to release worthwhile games under the MS umbrella in the last few years. That will help the Xbox brand. lmao.
As much as i hate MS they still had some brownie points left in my book because they financed Psychonauts 2, that Lighthouse game, the two Sensuas, etc. But without that what can they even deliver? Yet another shitty Halo which cant improve on anything compared to 15 year old prior titles? Forza Sloprizen? Bethesda remastering/remaking/re-releasing a past TES game? The most mediocre output obsidian ever had over a long stretch of time? Activisions COD mines? yaaaaawn
- Comment on Ashes 2063 - An extremely polished post apocalyptic Doom conversion complete with drivable motorcycle, trading towns, a John Carpenter-esque soundtrack, and it's free! 2 months ago:
Played a few levels in VR via the Team Beef Doom thingy on a standalone headset. It was pretty damm cool.
- Comment on Valve to no longer offer physical gift cards due to scammers 2 months ago:
tbf, i was able to pay with my normal bank account on steam in the past. so its not as bad for me. but i dont trust my bank either tbh.
- Comment on Valve to no longer offer physical gift cards due to scammers 2 months ago:
oh, ffs. well, piracy it is then.
- Comment on Forza Horizon 6 immediately beats its predecessor's all-time Steam record with 130,000 concurrent players – and that's only counting people willing to pay $120 for early access 3 months ago:
Yes.
A… friend played online before release on linux with a PS5 controller. It felt sick, he said.
- Comment on systemd 3 months ago:
Yeah, but how do you feel about this sentence an old colleague used to say: “I like Ubuntu. Its a really good program!”
- Comment on MOUSE: P.I. For Hire releases on Steam 4 months ago:
Hello, i put so far 10 hours into the game and i like it a lot. But you are correct. The style and setting is immaculate. But the gameplay just isnt. It has tons of little issues because they crammed to many mechanics into the game while none of them truly shine. Its alright. But it isnt deep or needs a lot of skill. I’m more than happy with a vibes based game where the gameplay stimulates me just enough while looking forward to progess the story further. But your assessment is just correct. If i leave out the artstyle, setting and story out of the equation its a 6/10 game. Maybe 7/10 at best because you could argue it still feels better than the sum of its parts.
- Comment on Forza Horizon 6's Japan map is the series' best yet 5 months ago:
I know i’m just a bitter old man and this isnt a rant worth reading about. I just need to get it out of my system. Feel free not to read it or downvote it after you read it anyway while you realize it truly wasnt worth it.
Its going to be the best racing game of the year probably. Its going to be the choice for most people who just want a fun AAA Simcade Racer.
But i just watched a preview and it still hasnt improved on anything i was critical of in FH3 10 years ago. Which also means if you unlike me like Horizon you wont be dissappointed. Yay(unironic).
But personally as a bitter old man really dont know why i should pay for the same game 4th time in a row. I’m so whelmed. Also i’m a bit annoyed how the marketing team in the announcement purposefully pushed my buttons as a racing enthusiast and long time Forza fan. They didnt lie. But i still feel a bit cheated after seeing whats what with independent reporting on the preview.
And yeah my comment is as vague as it gets. But i dont feel like writing a 10k word essay about my feelings on the franchise. I just need to vent a bit because i would be so happy about a new title i could be excited about in this almost dead genre.
Also, just fuck Microsoft. Also fuck TAA which is visible through YT compression.
Wah, wah, wah, etc.
Alright, thats it. I hope you guys/gals gonna have a more pleasant day i had today.
- Comment on It's important to remember that real art comes from people, not AI. 5 months ago:
wrong. real art comes from brazilian money
- Comment on I'm new around here, and learning about all the different instances and the culture/history behind them has been fun but overwhelming. Is there somewhere I could go for a crash-course? 5 months ago:
idk where to find a crashcourse but here are my opinions(!) on top of my head after nearly 3 years on different instances:
- hexbear and lemmygrad are to be avoided by all costs. weird tankies. they are blocked by most instances either way.
- .ml(stands for marxist leninist) is the instance of the lemmy devs(i think?) and is still populated by a lot of non-lunatics. But i blocked the whole instance either way.
- idk what the deal is with quokk.au(?) users but i noticed over the years that they tend to post weird shit/takes.
- kbin was a fediverse alternative to lemmy. kinda fell apart a few years backs. a few instances are still around. they are alright.
- mbin is the successor/a fork of kbin. if you want to try a different ux to lemmy its worth a look.
- beehaw was already a pretty tightly knit community before the reddit api debacle a few years back. they have self proclaimed higher posting standards.
- db0 is an anarchist instance. good for piracy topics. otherwise i dont care or have an opinion on them. tend to be a bit more ai tolerant i believe.
- lemmy.world was/is the biggest instance. they get/got a lot flack for some reasons and others. most of the drama was imho pretty overblown.
- feddit.org is an european instance. most of its users are german.
- piefed is yet another fediverse alternative. i like it.
otherwise there is stuff like lemdroid with a focus on android or instances with a focus on anime. but tbh just start using lemmy and make your own experiences and feel free to block all the weird shit you dont want to see.
- Comment on Confirmed: PS5 console prices are being raised by $100 | VGC 5 months ago:
This comment. But now imagine not beeing computer literate. While consoles lost a bit of their appeal in ease of use the last two generation they’re still a nice little walled garden where most of the stuff is just working for you in the background.
I havent bought a current-gen console since the 360 for various reasons. But i get why somebody just wants a playstation and not a gaming pc.
- Comment on Dumb bitch 5 months ago:
Yup, bashing on arbitrary “generations” is stupid. The whole “okay, boomer” meme manifested after thousands of ridiculous articles about blaming the youth for buying less diamond rings or whatever. It just turned around the absurdity. That was the funny part. Just seriously blaming our elderly is stupid the same way.
- Comment on Zapp "Matthew" Brannigan, 26:41 5 months ago:
Now i want to see those other 4 sources
- Comment on woops 5 months ago:
its been 10 years
- Comment on Motorcycle parts 5 months ago:
thats a common mistake people make. its not carburetor.
its a motorcycleburetor
- Comment on Posting slop 5 months ago:
