wizardbeard
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- Comment on Anon loves GOG 1 week ago:
🤓 Um, akshually you still don’t OWN the games, it’s still just a license (has been since at least the SNES era if not earlier). The difference is that since you can digitally maintain your own complete DRM free copies of the install media, it’s the physical equivalent of “having the game cartridge” (for old systems without online patches). In other words, if the company says the license is no longer valid then they can’t prevent you from installing/copying/backing-up anyway.
It’s just important to note that depending on your local laws, it’s still not true ownership, but more like “possession”.
- Comment on I see you 1 week ago:
I just turn off read receipts if it’s really a problem, or let them see that I’ve read it. Who cares?
The whole point of this shit is asynchronous communication. They can interpret my actions however they like, and get over it or not as they like.
- Comment on The N-company be like: 2 weeks ago:
Their original Virtual Console NES games on the Wii had the roms extracted from them, and they were found to have ROM header data matching how the emulation community formatted it, with files set up the same way as online communities did things. Theoretically they could have put that there themselves so their in-house made emulator followed the conventions of open source ones, but people think it’s more likely they just downloaded the ROMs from the internet and they came that way.
- Comment on The crazy bastards, they've finally done it 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on [Opinion] If Hideo Kojima Games Aren't Safe, No Games Are Safe - Aftermath (Luke Plunkett) 4 weeks ago:
I love Kojima and what he produces, but this shit isn’t new. Konami dropped him with MGSV ~90% done. He’s beloved enough that he’ll find support.
- Comment on Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists 4 weeks ago:
Hey now, that’s Palantir’s job!
- Comment on Life 4 weeks ago:
In general, people don’t tend to give themselves actual down time anymore (not looking at a screen. taking a walk, reading a book, or sitting around type shit) so when we have that level of relaxation all the built up anxiety and exhaustion comes crashing down all at once. So sleep.
- Comment on Genderfluid 🚿 4 weeks ago:
Bluetooth shower speaker. Most even have control buttons too, so you can adjust the volume, pause/play, skip/rewind, etc.
- Comment on Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Remake Trailer 4 weeks ago:
Last I checked you can import it when you first run it, or from an option menu somewhere, and it adds it to the options you have when starting a new save. I just followed instructions from the GitHub.
- Comment on Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Remake Trailer 4 weeks ago:
Each game is meant to playable as a standalone thing, any direct storyline continuation from previous titles is covered in the game itself. Technically Ocarina of Time and Majora’s mask are a pair with MM as the sequel, but either can be played alone with no real loss of context. MM does build on gameplay of OoT though.
It’s not a spoiler to say that across the game series it’s generally a plot about some reincarnation of the three central figures of Link, Zelda, and Ganon. There’s often implied reincarnations of other characters too across multiple games, but that’s mostly just callback fluff for fans. There’s one game set first in the in universe timeline that sets up the impetus for the reincarnation cycle, and one game that splits the timeline into a few branches based off three different interpretations of the ending.
The two main newest ones, Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom, are a two-fer as well, and are a new timeline or convergence of the split timelines depending on who you ask.
For a first time player, don’t worry about it. Whichever game you play will give you what you need to know. Any understanding of the “grand series plot” just adds some extra oomph to scenes in later released games than OoT and MM.
- Comment on Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Remake Trailer 4 weeks ago:
For anyone lamenting they don’t have a Switch 2, or looking for OoT with QoL improvements for cheaper than whatever Nintendo’s asking price is, there is a free PC port of OoT that will run as fast as your hardware can handle it without messing up gameplay speed etc, has a ton of switchable QoL features, and has mod support for using 3DS (and better) graphics/models. You can even use Master Quest’s edited dungeons with all the benefits of the 3DS version.
It’s called Ship of Harkinian. All you have to do is provide a copy of the game ROM.
- Comment on Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Remake Trailer 4 weeks ago:
At this point we already have the ridiculously extensible PC ports. There’s no shot that there won’t be mods to bring over whatever QoL this remake adds (assuming it’s anything not already in the port) within weeks of release. I’ll give it maybe a year or two for homebrew graphics mods to catch up or for someone to extract the new assets into a mod.
And there’s no debate regarding the 3DS remaster anymore. You can just shove its graphics into the port if you prefer them and flip a few settings to toggle the changed behavior.
Plus everyone knows the best way to play is with the Beatles in OOT mods (seriously go search up the stupid fucking fever dream that is the remixed OST).
- Comment on Feels Like 2016 Was When It Started 5 weeks ago:
I’m still frustrated by that shit. There were actual instances of bad shit happening in gaming news media that got drowned the fuck out by all the culture war grifters and rampant fucking incels.
- Random “ok but not GOTY” indie games getting GOTY level reviews, then people finding that the dev and the journalist(s) had a history of bar crawl pictures on twitter together.
- Leaked industry email lists where journalists openly were asking other journalists to take it easy on their dev roommate’s first release.
- A few big names in games journalism getting shit canned for writing honest reviews about how mediocre some AAA game was, when that game bought an ad on their site to the tune of a full site retheming around the game.
- Undisclosed referral links.
- Undisclosed sponsorship of good reviews.
- Some games trying to use the fact they had LGBTQIA+ representation to paint valid critiques as the same thing as bigoted harassment, when some of the critique was even coming from LGBTQIA+ folx.
- A few no name indie devs caught faking harassment and hate DMs.
It was a few big issues, a scatter of medium issues, a few minor things only noticable to obsessives, and then a massive clusterfuck of actual stalker/*phobe bullshit slopped on top.
I’m happy that shit like responsible disclosure started happening in the end, but what a fucking mess.
- Comment on Source Skin Rendering 5 weeks ago:
Not sure about skin rendering, but way back when Half Life 2 was new, one of the ways it pushed things forward was with the facial rigs and animations.
At least as far as I remember from gaming news at the time.
I remember reading that it was a big leap in terms of matching real facial muscles to the 3D rig face “muscles”, and in using those little dot things to capture actual facial movement of some of the line reads. I think Valve’s discovery and/or usage of the fact that real eye iris angles are offset by about 2 degrees was also something that was noted as a big move forward past the uncanny valley.
- Comment on Every Landlord I've Had In Australia 1 month ago:
Come on, you gotta at least use some primer first. Kilz that shit so you seal in all the mold. Then it’s forced to become structural, and in a few years you can use your well trained mold to grow extensions to your units!
- Comment on Can your ISP see a spike in your internet usage even if you are using a VPN? 1 month ago:
Your ISP will be able to see the usage, and will almost certainly be able to tell that it is VPN usage. They won’t be able to tell what you’re doing or where you’re truly connecting to, just that you transferred whatever quantity of encrypted data with the VPN company at whatever time.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
!piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com is the main piracy community on Lemmy and links to a community wiki.
- Comment on They won't be happy 1 month ago:
Thanks! Corrected now
- Comment on They won't be happy 1 month ago:
Always have been: !surrealmemes@lemmy.dbzero.com
Run by the OG mothposter.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
It was probably the “gold standard” modern port of the OG DooM/DooM II/Hexen etc games. There are some other source ports made for multiplayer, some made for cranking the graphics up to 11, some made to ensure exact match to original engine behavior for speed running purposes, but GZDoom was kind of the standard the community had settled on.
There are full “boomer shooter” style indie games built off of it and the expanded features it offers, like 3D model support and greatly improved lighting. Then the lead dev went a little bonkers (I don’t know the specifics) and people forked it into this and have kept improving it.
- Comment on Cookies policy 1 month ago:
They also adjusted the color to make it all more flesh colored.
- Comment on Is it creepy when lemmings go digging through post votes to see who voted how on different posts and comments? 1 month ago:
I’m well aware. I’m not talking about those situations. I’m talking ~20 comments deep on a thread that has seen no other action for multiple days. And I’m not talking about it just getting one downvote between when I reply from people happening to find it.
And even then, I just check. I’m not harassing people, I’m not jumping to immediately blocking. I’m just looking to see if it is something weird going on. If there is, I block.
And I haven’t done any of this since last year. No need.
- Comment on Is it creepy when lemmings go digging through post votes to see who voted how on different posts and comments? 1 month ago:
What? Ok?
This isn’t a comment on a sub thread of a sub thread of an otherwise long dead thread jumping from no downvotes to -3 in like a single day (between the time I made my comment and the time I’m responding to the reply). I’m not actively watching this stuff and I think you’ve misunderstood what I’m talking about.
Now if you’re going to check my profile page over the next few days to a week? Then I might notice the downvotes and look, but I honestly haven’t noticed anything like that or checked votes against my comments since the event I mentioned in my last comment with that powermod, which was sometime last year.
Downvotes on a comment like mine, offering a semi-reasonable explanation for disliked behavior, are entirely expected. Hell, downvotes an any comment expressing an opinion.
- Comment on Is it creepy when lemmings go digging through post votes to see who voted how on different posts and comments? 1 month ago:
The only time I check is to try and catch if I’m being targeted by someone mass down voting me or using alts to do so. Only when I’m seeing weird stuff like every one of my comments for a while getting at least one downvote, or seeing my comments deep in a one on one conversation on an otherwise dead thread getting multiple downvotes (no one’s going to even see those except me and who I’m talking to).
Unfortunately, this has been a “you’re only paranoid if they aren’t out to get you” situation. Most give up after a day or two and I just block and move on, but it was a bit common for a few months.
I caught one of the “respected” members of my instance pulling that shit, a person who moderates multiple comms, downvoting me using their alts over multiple instances.
They accused me of doxxing them (they were actually around that time). Now I have a bunch of bans in my modlog saying that I used a slur, when I was quoting the name of an ancient meme and I edited the word out long before they did the bans.
- Comment on Treat your body like a data centre 1 month ago:
Yeah, far_university got it. Infrasound is what I was referring to specifically, and your comment has me wondering now if there’s been any attempts to measure for it around wind turbines too.
The known negative health effects from the noise pollution are bad enough, but there’s evidence of further effects than that due to the infrasound as well, which isn’t immediately obvious as it’s not within human hearing range
- Comment on Treat your body like a data centre 1 month ago:
At least something made them reconsider. Land zoned for housing development near where I live just got abandoned after multiple years owned by some shitheads who were suing the local government for not allowing them to turn it into a ground shipping hub in the middle of miles of residential land (broken up with the occasional school and strip mall type businesses), only for the land to be picked up by a group trying to build a data center claiming it would bring significant jobs to the area.
I’ve been to a few data centers for work. Job hubs they ain’t.
- Comment on Treat your body like a data centre 1 month ago:
I’ll make sure to leave plenty of illegal pollution in my surroundings, and to emanate sub-audible frequencies harmful to human health for a multiple mile radius.
Precariously balancing a terrible mobius strip of circular financing that itself props up the majority of the US stock market might be a little tough though. Anyone have any tips?
- Comment on The legendary PS2 1 month ago:
Your boyfriend is at most 25 years old, and only if you are 69.
Oooooh boy I’m glad that I already have everyone responding to you blocked.
My wife’s ~15 years older than me, and while it generally doesn’t matter more than making restaurant servers that check ID do a double take, there are times where her pulling me up past a stage of my life has resulted in me lacking some skills people normally build up during that time.
Just be safe and make sure you’re doing what is truly best for each of you. Good luck and enjoy yourself.
- Comment on CAH at it again 1 month ago:
Money
- Comment on Hooaaaaaa!! 2 months ago:
I’ve left all these bodies in the sun