Ludicrous0251

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dragon Quest Monsters: The Withered World announced for PS5, Xbox Series, Switch 2, Switch, and PC⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I had a similar experience as a kid and decided to pick up the latest incarnation on the switch. I didn’t get as far as I would have liked, but it’s alright.

  They leaned into the modern Pokémon mechanic of monsters bopping around the world on screen, which to me ironically makes the world feel more empty because the void between encounters feels enhanced as you dance around the monsters. Had to force myself into encounters with monsters I didn’t want because there’s so much less RNG.

  Like Pokemon Arceus, the graphics are sparse and uninspiring, dont expect BotW-level art design. And don’t get me started on the writing. Overall it’s a meh tier game with a fun catch-em-all breed-em-all mechanic - if I had more time in the day I could probably get into it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Literally any of the * Simulator games. Was just scrolling my Lemmy feed and “Car Mechanic Simulator” popped up, but there’s Farming Simulator, and Truck Driving Simulator, Power Washing Simulator, etc. etc. etc.

  I can kinda maybe see the appeal of ONE of these games as a cozy break, but there’s like a dozen different ones, and they have like annual releases. Has the Simulated Car Mechanic experience really changed that much from 2015 to 2018 to 2021 to 2026 that you need a whole new game each time? None of them interest me, but the volume confuses me.

  To a certain degree I feel similarly about sports games. I do more readily see the appeal of the genre, but do you really need to churn out a new full release each year? I can’t fathom why people are paying full price for a game that is 99% the same as last years version - same engine, rules, gameplay, but they updated that one teams away jersey to be the new shade of purple, kicked out the retirees and added the dozen or so notable rookies. That’s a $5 DLC, not another $60.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LEGO Batman Legacy of the Dark Knight hacked by DenuvOwO⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “Your game could get downloaded 1,000,000x on a piracy platform, at $60 a pop, that’s $60M in lost revenue. Pay us $30M and we will prevent this - a bargain.”

  Reality, none of those pirates would have paid full price for your game, and it’ll get cracked anyways - you just made it worse for paying customers and deterred anyone who doesn’t want to voluntarily install a rootkit virus on their computer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I would like to play a calm game⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Minecraft on easy mode can be a good calm game with friends, let’s you build and explore together without much pressure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I type an apostrophe and use print screen on a European Spanish keyboard?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Alternative to print screen is to use whatever screen shot tool is built into your OS (Screenshot on Mac & most sane Linux distros, Snipping Tool on Windows)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will James Bond be on MGM+ after it leaves Netflix?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  do I now have to pay for MGM+ so I can watch all the movies?

  Have to?… No…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ELI5: How does Frame Generation even work?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because it’s not actually reducing any overhead. What you get it fewer high-fidelity “really” frames each second, in exchange for roughly 2x (or more) low-fidelity “fake” frames

  So a 60 FPS game before may run at 100 FPS after, which is really only 50 real FPS + 50 fake FPS.

  Also some of the frame generation algorithms are tied to upscaling, so textures and everything are loaded in lower res, and an algorithm guesses what’s missing.

  The more you let the computer guess what’s supposed to be there the faster it runs but the less accurate it gets.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I can now save my game in Pokemon Yellow again after 25 years.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The adapter I shared has no solder except that which you put into it. It solders into place just fine with a little flux, I’ve had 0 issues in ~20 games from this.

  Be sure to clean your iron tip, I had a little bit of difficulty on the first one I did because I have had the same iron tip for like 10 years. A $2 replacement made life much easier. Probably also could have just hit it with sand paper. And double-check polarity on the connection points - watch a couple of YouTube videos to confirm you’ve got +/- right. I think it’s wonky on some carts.

  The ones that are soldered and often suck are the ones OP posted. Be sure to check the battery voltage before you install those ones because they use cheap batteries and duds are common.

  I’ve also seen people go the cave man approach and just un-solder/pry off only the battery (from the attached “arms” that connect to the board) on old carts and just tape a new battery in place but that’s an approach for monsters and psychopaths.

  I’m a bit foggy on the details but I think Pokémon Silver / Gold were a little trickier because the RTC changes the PCB layout and the battery is actually mounted on top of a chip, so space gets a little tight and you have to build a bit of a solder bridge up to the connectors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I can now save my game in Pokemon Yellow again after 25 years.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  FYI on the next one - they make CR1616 battery holders (like this) which allow future you to swap in new batteries whenever you want without additional soldering

  I figure if I’m gonna do it, may as well just do it once

  Enjoy having your old games back!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I use way too many substitute tools.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh I love a good bolt plug.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In reference to kitchen wrap (aluminum, paper or plastic), do you prefer to tear up against the lid, or down against the box?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there a built in serrated cutter? If so, use that. If not, use box, it tends to be sturdier than the lid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Kagi Worth It?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Going directly there does not count as a search - you should be fine on that count. Again, you can test for free with their 100 free searches if you’re concerned :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Kagi Worth It?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I use Kagi! I average about 1,000 searches/month, so well in excess of the lower tier, but I started with 300 and there’s nothing inherently wrong with it as long as you only use it that often. I’ve grown accustomed to using search instead of bookmarks, and doing simple things like math in the browser instead of a dedicated app, which could help prune some of that usage.

  You can use the 100 free searches to gauge how long it will last you.

  I personally don’t have any gripes with it, between the ability to rank sites and their new initiative allowing folks to report slop sites, it seems to consistently keep me satisfied.

  They do have a feedback site (https://kagifeedback.org/) where you can request new features and file bug reports. The advantage of a paid service is they are very attentive to user requests (within reason). Between their blog and changelog you can gauge how things are developing.

  My budget has the flexibility that I’m happy to pay for a service that I use every day, which is aligned with my priorities. For those who don’t have that flexibility, Brave functionally (but perhaps not ethically) is a strong second best option. They’ve been copying Kagi’s homework for a while now and can do some of the same page ranking, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PlayStation Store Dynamic Pricing Is Real⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Shoutout to sites like isthereanydeal, camelcamelcamel, pcpartpicker, and dekudeals. At least they let you know when you’re being scammed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What did people think dinosaur bones were before we officially recognised dinosaurs?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have to think they weren’t a particularly common. If I were completely ignorant and happened to stumble across a giant fossilized femur sticking out if a rock or at some sort of traveling circus, I’d probably guess giant. If I were somewhat familiar with living creatures I’d probably guess elephant/mammoth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people like my grandpa so against seeing the whole world and learning a different language?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Conservatives often have two key defining characteristics that they build their entire belief system around:

  A lack of empathy, and a fear of “other” individuals and cultures.

  These lead to a whole host of outcomes, and vary by individual. When it comes to travel I often see it expressed in how vacation is viewed.

  Many conservatives I know view vacation as being 100% about them - relaxing, eating their favorite food, seeing their favorite sights, doing their favorite things. They do not care about leaning about someone else’s experience or culture because they cannot empathize with them, and the xenophobia means they’re scared of how to even broach the subject.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What differentiates Lemmy, Kbin, Mbin, and PieFed?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Unless there’s a particular feature you’re after, like following microblogs, or better mod controls…. Meh, it’s all about the same for the end user.

  I shifted to PieFed because I like the direction they’re heading, the flexibility/volume of potential contributors Python provides, and to just generally show support for more options in the fediverse.

  PieFed features come more quickly but the apps/front ends are slower to adopt them so it’s not all sunshine and rainbows but the basic functions generally work the same no matter where you are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Block ditches 4,000 staff, because AI can do their jobs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Until you realize those 10% errors missed the decimal point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Block ditches 4,000 staff, because AI can do their jobs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Can we start placing bets on when we find out that the “AI tools” they’re using are just sweat shop workers in Bangladesh processing invoices?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Resident Evil Requiem currently peaking at over 300,000 players on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Something something denuvo. I’ll check it out when they ditch the spyware.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not defending this human dumpster, but looking at the clip there appears to be a red hat at every single seat, seems like they came in the gift bag, he just happened to be the only once dumb enough to put it on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨58 UK public libraries have parenting books with advice to encourage children to detransition⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s the problem - book bans swing both ways.

  Whatever justification you use to get books like this out of the library will inevitably be contorted by conservatives to ban books on healthy transitioning.

  IDK what the solve is here, would love to hear folks thoughts. Move it to the fiction section? Staple a disclaimer inside the cover?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  People familiar with Microsoft’s plans say that the company moving to streamline or remove certain Copilot integrations across in-box apps like Notepad and Paint in 2026, after pushback from users.

  For now…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is exactly the problem, weird policy quirks and better alternatives didn’t help the situation but quite frankly there’s no new content for the Switch 2, and the performance bump over the OG Switch is almost irrelevant because raw performance isn’t the reason people buy Nintendo systems & games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can someone ELI5 RSS/Atom feeds?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lot’s of mention of syncing settings, but the other reason for a server is scraping sites that do not provide their own RSS in order to create feeds. That requires regularly checking pages and translating new content into a standard RSS format.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Halo Zero (Unofficial remake - Amiga/MD/NeoGeoCD) by earok⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Be the crosspost you want to see in the world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the game "Horses" now barred on Steam, Epic and Humble Bundle⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Steam was the first major storefront to refuse to carry Horses, a first-person psychological horror adventure about “the burden of familial trauma and puritan values, the dynamics of totalitarian power, and the ethics of personal responsibility” set on a ranch where nude human beings in horse masks are treated as livestock.

  Publisher Santa Ragione said in November that Valve declined to carry Horses because it contained “content that appears, in our judgment, to depict sexual conduct involving a minor.” Santa Ragione disputed that characterization, but an appeal was rejected and the ban stands.

  Seems like it’s treading a very fine line…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best vertical games on Android?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Gonna go with the wildcard here and suggest Walkscape. It’s still in beta, so access requires a one-time patron sub ($4.50, then cancel) or a free written application through their portal (may take like a week to approve)

  It’s a classic runescape-style RPG where all actions cost “steps” walking. It’s designed to keep screen time to a minimum and walking time to a maximum.

  Character management is generally pretty passive and 1-handed. Definitely much more casual by nature, but encourages much more active participation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not all disabilities are visible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And, as with any standardized hardware, it’s a lot easier to ensure games and services (like Proton) perform reliably.

  Time will tell if this sells enough, but it could become the new standard for industry benchmarking/testing.