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- Comment on "Palworld is going to be the survival crafting game everyone always wanted" and "people will be shocked" at how big 1.0 is, says Pocketpair publishing lead 3 days ago:
With the Steam Input button remapping, isn’t everything?
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 1 week ago:
Lutris is GPL-licenced, so isn’t it the opposite of stealing?
- Comment on Rude 1 week ago:
“Whew, I’m gonna need a breather after taking that last breath”
This is absolute poetry. FFS, our bodies are such absolute half-baked hack-jobs that we can’t even honk properly.
- Comment on Despite encouraging min-maxxing, The Binding of Isaac is so bad at it 1 week ago:
I find that it’s your damage output that’s much more the indicator of whether it’s viable, I don’t think I’ve every considered movement speed as something worth prioritising!
- Comment on Despite encouraging min-maxxing, The Binding of Isaac is so bad at it 1 week ago:
Ever since time-sensitive elements were added to the game things that slow down your run became another risk to consider. Got loads of money to burn in the arcade? Well now you need to consider whether it’s worth skipping boss rush for!
- Comment on Can AI do 40% of your job? Block’s Jack Dorsey thinks so. 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on VPNs Can’t Make You Anonymous Online. Don’t Be Fooled by Anyone Who Says They Can 2 weeks ago:
Answered in the article:
And you’re not anonymous to the VPN itself when using its services because you’re essentially swapping the visibility into your online activity from your internet provider to your VPN provider. That’s fine if your VPN has an audited no-logs policy and runs on RAM-only or full-disk encrypted servers to serve as an extra layer of protection.
- Comment on Ring cancels Flock deal after dystopian Super Bowl ad prompts mass outrage 4 weeks ago:
Because suddenly a large number of people who didn’t know now do?
- Comment on Control Resonant - Gameplay Reveal 5 weeks ago:
Login-walled. Can you not even watch youtube videos without signing in now?
- Comment on The developers of PEAK, explaining how they decided on pricing for their game. 1 month ago:
Don’t let me tempt you with !freegames@feddit.uk!
- Comment on [UFO 50] I cherried (won without a single rematch) Bushido Ball with every character 1 month ago:
Noted!
- Comment on [UFO 50] I cherried (won without a single rematch) Bushido Ball with every character 1 month ago:
This is one of the games I’ve accepted I’ll never cherry, I’ve completed it once with a vast number of continues!
- Comment on What is the definitive way to play certain games? 1 month ago:
Have a search for “universal pokémon randomiser” (there are apparently loads of different forks of it now), it’s main feature is to randomise which pokémon you encounter, their types, moves, etc, but you could skip that and just set “change trade evolutions” and “catch em all mode” to get exactly what you want. I would recommend playing it randomised though!
- Comment on Austrian Supreme Court rules that FIFA loot boxes are not gambling 1 month ago:
In this video game, despite the random allocation of individual digital content from the Packs, the human player can use their own skills to control the course of the game with a probability suitable for success, thus establishing a rational expectation of winning
A game of poker or even blackjack requires skill, so I guess that means it’s not gambling?
- Comment on Spotify’s 3rd price hike in 2.5 years hints at potential new normal 2 months ago:
If you do want to use Spotify then find 5 friends who also want to and set up a family plan
- Comment on Question about the Switch 2 port of Civilization VII: does it support multiple controllers for local multiplayer? 2 months ago:
Some of them still are! I played some Golf With Your Friends recently, that has the classic hot seat experience. The Jackbox games are different but also good for a party.
- Comment on Xbox 360 superfan amasses all 1,353 North American discs after two‑decade collection spree 2 months ago:
It sounds more fun if you read it in an Aussie accent
- Comment on Discord's IPO could happen in March 2 months ago:
Depends what you use it for. I see people use it for group chats, video calls, and forums, all of which would have different replacements.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Pottering? Or is this the long-awaited golf expansion?
- Comment on World's Best-selling Video Game Consoles 2 months ago:
More than things like the Phillips CD-i which makes the Wikipedia list, so they’re at least distinguishing between consoles and PCs
- Comment on World's Best-selling Video Game Consoles 2 months ago:
Wikipedia seems to think they are. I’ve seen “home consoles” used when you want to exclude handhelds, what makes you say that they’re technically not consoles?
- Comment on World's Best-selling Video Game Consoles 2 months ago:
Looks like the data is a little out of date, seems the PS5 has outsold the 360 now. Also why are handhelds missing?
- Comment on After getting Silent Hill 'back on track,' Konami wants to make it an annual franchise 2 months ago:
Nothing screams quality like releasing to an arbitrary schedule rather than when the games are finished, eh?
- Comment on Google sues web scraper for sucking up search results ‘at an astonishing scale’ 2 months ago:
Ah but you see every youtube user granted full rights for google to do whatever they want with their videos by uploading them, it’s all totally legit of course!
- Comment on Steam winter sale is now live 2 months ago:
There were three steam games posted in !freegames@feddit.uk yesterday!
- Comment on Tencent ‘Horizon clone’ pulled from stores as Sony settles lawsuit 2 months ago:
Seems a bit mad that with all their money and a game already made they couldn’t be bothered to file off the serial numbers a bit more. I imagine this happens all the time with licencing deals, I know for instance Warcraft was originally written to be a Warhammer game.
- Comment on What are your gaming highlights of 2025? 2 months ago:
Depending on the system it can be really easy to dump/rip your own discs. Hacking a Wii for homebrew requires jumping through a few hoops but then you can dump Wii, GameCube, and even Gameboy games. You can dump WiiU games by inserting an SD card and going to a single web page in the browser!
- Comment on 🍺 🍻 2 months ago:
Entomologists reserve the term bug for Hemiptera or Heteroptera, which does not include other arthropods or insects of other orders such as ants, bees, beetles, or butterflies. In some varieties of English, all terrestrial arthropods (including non-insect arachnids and myriapods) also fall under the colloquial understanding of bug.
Sounds like those entomologists should have tried a bit harder either in educating the masses or choosing names!
- Comment on 🍺 🍻 2 months ago:
Does “bug” have a technical definition? If so then it’s news to me and everyone who uses it to mean pretty much any small invertebrate (or microorganism, or software defect).
- Comment on Question: Is it possible to put Linux on an x86 Chromebook? 3 months ago:
I’ll second this, seemed to work without any issues. You can even install ChromeOS Flex on it if you still want to use a Chromebook after they stop getting updates!
