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- Comment on After getting Silent Hill 'back on track,' Konami wants to make it an annual franchise 19 hours 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’ 1 week 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 1 week ago:
There were three steam games posted in !freegames@feddit.uk yesterday!
- Comment on Tencent ‘Horizon clone’ pulled from stores as Sony settles lawsuit 1 week 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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!
- Comment on [Android] How is Florisboard not popular? 4 weeks ago:
They both seem to cover that fortunately
- Comment on [Android] How is Florisboard not popular? 4 weeks ago:
Oh that’s cool
- Comment on [Android] How is Florisboard not popular? 4 weeks ago:
Not something I have any interest in using, so afraid I’ve never tried it
- Comment on [Android] How is Florisboard not popular? 4 weeks ago:
I tried it out recently but the gesture typing seemed way worse than heliboard
- Comment on Timesplitters Remake 4 weeks ago:
Excellent news!
- Comment on Fifo's Night - An Excellent (Free) 3D Platformer 4 weeks ago:
Why no link to the actual game?
- Comment on Timesplitters Remake 4 weeks ago:
I’ve been hurt by every TimeSplitters announcement I’ve seen for the last 20 years, do I dare to believe that it’s once again time to split‽
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
This is the key thing that everyone comparing it directly to consoles seems to be completely missing. Even if you’re only buying new steam games the costs are going to be way lower, but you could buy this and just play free giveaways or emulate your own old console games, and suddenly it’s a bargain (like any PC).
- Comment on Classic text adventure Zork is going open source, but I'm side-eyeing Microsoft's announcement about it hard 5 weeks ago:
Did we really need an article saying “I think this other bit of text might be written by a robot”? Of all the things you criticise Microsoft for, that’s the one to go for? Or perhaps it’s the other side of the coin, Microsoft unusually did something quite nice so the author had to find something about it to criticise?
- Comment on Top 200 Most Common Passwords | NordPass 5 weeks ago:
You didn’t fill in the survey when the password inspector sent you that email? Rude!
- Comment on Top 200 Most Common Passwords | NordPass 5 weeks ago:
Can’t run the risk of being fingerprinted, privacy and anonymity first!
- Comment on In 1982, a physics joke gone wrong sparked the invention of the emoticon - Ars Technica 5 weeks ago:
“After all, when using text-based online communication, we lack the body language or tone-of-voice cues that convey this information when we talk in person or on the phone.”
This quote is from 1982 and yet we all still fall into the same trap today
- Comment on The story of a crazy Half-Life 2 bug, as told by former Valve dev Tom Forsyth (Mastodon thread) 5 weeks ago:
This is actually an incredible coincidence; I love reading these stories but it’s usually in the context of a speedrunner exploiting them rather than a poor dev asking “how did this ever work!?”
- Comment on What is your favorite Metroidvania? 5 weeks ago:
I recently played the original via Primehack, a fork of Dolphin Emulator which (among other things) modernises the controls
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me" 5 weeks ago:
That’s the thing, for many Windows users it has been giving you a good time for years. Windows 10 was actually pretty nice to use when it came out; it’s life has been a classic death-by-a-thousand-cuts of becoming spyware, but the users are so used to it they aren’t aware that their delicious drug isn’t giving the same high and is now fucking them up.
- Comment on How Google’s DeepMind tool is ‘more quickly’ forecasting hurricane behavior 5 weeks ago:
Is “AI” just a meaningless buzzword? Like, is there actually anything in common between this hurricane tool, the LLM chatbots, and the image-generation stuff?
- Comment on Valve has ‘a pretty good idea’ of what Steam Deck 2 is going to be, but it’s not ready yet [VGC] 1 month ago:
Do we think it’ll be ready when they can give it specs to match the steam machine so there’s a single target for developers, or the more exciting option of building something arm-based using whatever fex wizardry is going on in the frame?
- Comment on fragile masculinity 1 month ago:
Male gardeners as depicted in popular fiction:
A real alpha male helps you carry The Ring to Mordor
- Comment on To the rapidly aging person reading this: GameFAQs is 30 years old, and people are sharing their memories of the venerable guide hub 1 month ago:
Don’t go for a whole guide, pick something smaller like all the recipes or a map of Dry Dry Desert (two things I remember printing off back in the day!)
- Comment on Rise of the Tomb Raider (SteamDeck) 1 month ago:
Well if you add the games to steam then you can launch them all from game mode
- Comment on Rise of the Tomb Raider (SteamDeck) 1 month ago:
The official itch launcher works on Linux too!
- Comment on Musk Exploits AWS Outage To Unfairly Slam Signal, Promote His Shittier Chat Software 2 months ago:
Amusingly the last Signal outage I remember was actually caused by Musk when he tweeted “use Signal” and so many people did that it took down their sign-up servers
