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- Comment on PlayStation Studios Removes Nearly All PC References From Websites 3 days ago:
Nothing concrete, but their stated goal is to play any pc game on it, similar to what steam did with the deck. That was enough to scare off sony
- Comment on Steam lawsuits in a nutshell 3 days ago:
They made such a wonderful bug beautiful world and filled it with fetch quests and chests. I swear ubisoft should focus on making worlds, then hand it off together studios who know how to write stories and fill those worlds
- Comment on PlayStation Studios Removes Nearly All PC References From Websites 3 days ago:
So, not defending them because it’s still a stupid choice, but their reasons were not because PC bad, but because Xbox announced their “Play PC games on the next Xbox”. Meaning Microsoft’s next console could play PS games now (if they bought the PC version). Sony doesn’t want their rival console to play their games, so they revoked it.
I still think it’s stupid, exclusives are stupid, but that’s the actual reason before many more people claim that sony hates PC players. (I mean they do, but not for the reason you think)
- Comment on PlayStation Studios Removes Nearly All PC References From Websites 3 days ago:
It was Xbox. Their “You can play anything on the next xbox” made Sony pissed, and that’s ultimately why they scaled it back.
- Comment on Steam lawsuits in a nutshell 3 days ago:
I’ve never seen it put so well. Yes it’s a monopoly, but unlike most bad monopolies it didn’t get there from being predatory, or anti competitive. Ironically with the Deck I’d argue by allowing other launchers and stores they’re surprisingly pro-competition.
It’s that every single other store (except GOG) has done everything in their power to be as anti-consumer pro-business as they can and just have destroyed themselves. EA’s Origin from the start was a buggy mess with bad DLC. Ubisoft was just an Assassin’s Creed store and pissed everyone off by forcing it and not giving a single reason to be over there except “You can’t buy Valhalla anywhere else”, proving how little PC players needed to play Valhalla. Microsoft had a strict 5-install limit of installing games over the lifetime of the purchase, and you had to use their shitty “I solidly work 15% of the time” microsoft store. Everything other store was just hot garbage made up by MBAs who had zero interest of serving the consumer.
But now “We’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas!”
- Comment on Steam On Linux Use Skyrocketed In March - More Than Double The macOS Gaming Marketshare 4 days ago:
I think we’re both right in a way. They won’t care about Windows specifically, but Windows to them isn’t the product anymore. It’s the entrypoint for users to Microsoft services, which is why they advertise so much in Windows now for OneDrive, Office, Copilot. You’re essentially already in their store just by using Windows. So the real loss isn’t that people aren’t using Windows, it’s that people are cancelling OneDrive and Office subscriptions. That is what is going to be noticed.
- Comment on Steam On Linux Use Skyrocketed In March - More Than Double The macOS Gaming Marketshare 5 days ago:
What’s really interesting to me is these numbers:
OS Total % of Players Monthly Change Windows (Total) 92.33% -4.28% Windows 11 64 bit 66.85% +10.57% Windows 10 64 bit 25.36% -14.89% Linux (Total) 5.33% +3.10% Arch Linux 64 bit 0.34% +0.15% Linux Mint 22.3 64 bit 0.27% +0.13% Ubuntu Core 24 64 bit 0.14% +0.06% Linux Mint 22.2 64 bit 0.07% +0.02% Ubuntu 25.10 64 bit 0.06% +0.06% Manjaro Linux 64 bit 0.06% +0.06% From this, it’s roughly that Windows 11 + Linux = (-) Windows 10. So people really are pissed about migrating to 11, and leaving in droves. 5% of the market is huge. This is not being ignored my Microsoft. Rough number I see is there are 14M Steam users in the US. 5.3% of that is 742,000 computers. 742,000 points of entry into OneDrive, Office, Xbox, and of course Copilot that will never be exposed to them. That’s millions in potential revenue lost.
- Comment on Starfield - Free Lanes Update 5 days ago:
It’s fine. It’s not going to get any better with age. Look people will say it’s crap, it’s shit, it’s horrible. It’s not. It’s just, fine. It’s not amazing, it’s not groundbreaking, it’s just plainly fine.
The real issue is that they obviously had a lot of really cool ideas that were all left half finished or cut it out for the sake of simplicity. We can’t have advanced mining, that’d be too complex. We can’t have too many story lines, it’d confuse people.
So, treat it as it is, it’s an okay game, it’s fun, it’s just not going to be RDR2 or Cyberpunk. I’d say it’s solidly worth 30-40 dollars. Pick it up if it’s on sale.
- Comment on How Do We Actually Know the Big Bang Happened? 5 days ago:
I think that’s the neat thing, that science doesn’t ever full know anything. Religion is the opposite, they “know” something and then try to prove it. Science is like “Evidence points to this, but who knows? If new evidence comes out that contradicts it we’ll look into that too”
- Comment on i just got an ad in my lemmy inbox. 5 days ago:
oh man watch out, you might be posted about here on mildlyinfuriating
- Comment on i just got an ad in my lemmy inbox. 5 days ago:
Christ, you’re offended by me saying it was a joke that no one got hurt by? The most you were inconvenienced was hitting delete, and that offended you? That’s your bar for offense there. One joke ad hitting your inbox one time offended you. This is why we’re made fun of, this right here, why people say we can’t joke anymore and this gives them credibility in that statement. There will always be someone who cannot simply move on. It always has to be a big thing that personally offended you.
- Comment on i just got an ad in my lemmy inbox. 5 days ago:
The joke I’m pretty sure was “Wouldn’t it be weird if we had ads here”, it’s cool man, no one got hurt, it was a joke. If it happens tomorrow I’ll be upset.
- Comment on i just got an ad in my lemmy inbox. 5 days ago:
Yeah not in the best taste, but everything today should be taken with a grain of salt
- Comment on Fewer People Playing Fortnite Is Just One of Epic's Many Problems, Analysts Say 1 week ago:
LOL no shit, I have two separate threads going on, one about Tim Sweeney here and another in /c/movies about Sydney Sweeney! That is amazing, I did not understand why you posted the image but damn, that was stupid of me. I don’t care it stands, and I stand by my opinion of Sydney!
- Comment on Fewer People Playing Fortnite Is Just One of Epic's Many Problems, Analysts Say 1 week ago:
God she’s just not likeable. I’ll admit that she was great in White Lotus, but it’s because she was seemingly just playing herself! She did a great job at being an unlikable brat!
We just watched “Anyone but you” as a joke, and man what a shit job she did. Ironically she did really great at the beginning of the movie, by the end it was just a trainwreck. Funny enough, I also dislike Glenn Powell, but that movie made me like him more. It was a shit script and he honestly did a pretty good job with it. While there are many better than him, it does take talent to take a shit script and try to make something of it.
- Comment on Fewer People Playing Fortnite Is Just One of Epic's Many Problems, Analysts Say 1 week ago:
Ad then they bitch. All. The time. About it.
We keep choosing the worst possible choices for the customer but the customers are going somewhere else! Why?!?!
Gonna need captain big brain over here for why Valve has a monopoly.
- Comment on Fewer People Playing Fortnite Is Just One of Epic's Many Problems, Analysts Say 1 week ago:
I just don’t understand. Their engine powers the vast majority of AAA games, and a huge chunk of non-AAA. I know they charge for this engine. How the hell are they strapped for cash. And before you comment, I know the answer unfortunately.
They had fortnight. A competent executive team would see that as a fluke that is great, but not dependable long term, and plan for investing that money back into the business but always prepared for the popularity of Fortnight could dip, but it wouldn’t matter because the core of their business would carry it.
Instead, it sounds like they had a standard executive team, where they thought the money from fortnight would last forever, it would never die, and line would only ever go up. They stupidly made a bunch of wrong decisions, and are now all shocked pikachu that Fortnight’s popularity is waning after almost a decade. So of course it’s the workers who should be fired now, not the executives, no of course not.
- Comment on "It's gone baby... it's all gone"| Sigh .....‘Project Hail Mary’ Author Andy Weir Says Paramount Rejected His ‘Star Trek’ Pitch: Their “Shows Are Sh**” 1 week ago:
All modern science fiction TV shows and movies have been heavily influenced by the original Star Trek — except for the current batch of Star Trek shows,'” Weir said
Damn came out swinging. And… Th I agree with him. It’s pretty clear krutzman threw out the guidebook for his shows and it is pretty clear in them. Personally, the only ones I’ve enjoyed are SNW and the third season of Picard, and Lower Decks is on my watch list. They just don’t have the spark.
SNW has a great cast that I think all brought different energies that matched earlier trek shows. They encounter new things and phenomena which challenge them. Importantly too, not every episode is a “zomg the world is ending”. It’s real people making real decisions. I just don’t like the other ones because it feels like “this action replaces the need for writing”.
- Comment on New Rumored Xbox Game Pass Tier Includes Only First Party Games 1 week ago:
Oh man I love when companies make stupid tonedeaf decisions like this.
Hey you know how we haven’t made a great first party game in over a decade?
Yeah?
Well, what if to boost sales numbers we add a tier that ONLY gives you our lame first party games!
Because they refuse to see games as a creative artform. Or, they think they ate, but then do the worst corpo bs to them. This all reeks of some boardroom joining all their MBAs together to come up with this brilliant shit covered plan.
- Comment on Why fun tech jobs went extinct 1 week ago:
I mean it’s simple. It was a ploy to attract younger people into working for them, for long hours, less pay than they deserved, and never once to think about a union. All while they did everything they could to flood the market with more talent to deliver down costs.
Amazon and Microsoft never once gave a shit about women coders, or impoverished urban kids coding. They wanted to boost the number of coders to make the job normal, a lower salary that now you’re fighting over everyone else to get. And here we are.
Them removing the fun is just the final step of the plan. No more charade. Get your ass in here and work, and after you’ve given up your nights and weekends you better say thank you.
- Comment on Content Creator Alanah Pearce Launches Charred Pictures in Partnership With Game Devs; ‘Faith: The Unholy Trinity’ Film Adaptation, Two More Movies in the Works (EXCLUSIVE) 1 week ago:
I’m optimistic about this. She has a deep passion for games and who makes th, she doesn’t like corpos but knows how to work in their system. Could be good.
- Comment on Cops Use AI to Jail Innocent Grandmother for 6 MONTHS 1 week ago:
Exactly. Could be useful for confirming the person. Like “we found this this and this and the scene, and we believe to to be x person” AI can confirm some of that like “its a 80% match” and so they can say good, we think we’re arresting the right person.
It should NEVER EVER be used as the sole reasoning. But lazy incompetence cops will of course use it that way, which is why it should be banned from them. I do not trust that “a fee bad apples” will avoid using it.
- Comment on What Happened To Video Game Ambience? (YouTube Essay, bensmotel, 7min) 1 week ago:
Replaying mass effect right now and feel this. You go to the boarding dock area and here mechanical buzzing and whirring with a distinct wheeeeee womp… Womp… Womp…
Gives you vibes man
- Comment on Arc linux says opposing age identification is CoC violation. 1 week ago:
This guy is particularly bad. I’ve watched his videos a couple of times and he puts a heavily opinionated spin on everything.
- Comment on The US government just banned consumer routers made outside the US 1 week ago:
I totally agree, but hopefully with some advocacy we can get it from 99 to 98%. Doesn’t sound like much, but that’s 2 million people who have switched then, and whoever else may live in their house using their non-routers.
- Comment on The US government just banned consumer routers made outside the US 2 weeks ago:
Routers are incredibly simple. You can run your own using openwrt or opnsense. Then some dumb switches and access points and you’re good to go.
- Comment on Nvidia CEO Says He Gets Where The DLSS 5 Outrage Is Coming From: ‘I Don’t Love AI Slop Myself’ 2 weeks ago:
Yeah let’s smash-cut back 48 hours ago where he told us we were all wrong. Dude is Backpedaling and desperately trying to do damage control.
- Comment on Microsoft keeps insisting that it's deeply committed to the quality of Windows 11 2 weeks ago:
Yah I’ve heard enough “commitments” from corporations to know that it’s written on toilet paper. Let me know when they actually change things, until then it’s empty words
- Comment on Elon Musk misled Twitter investors ahead of $44 billion acquisition, jury says 2 weeks ago:
Shocked. Absolutely shocked. Don’t you see how shocked I am?
- Comment on Developers Were Left in the Dark About DLSS 5 2 weeks ago:
Guh. Look I’m not against AI, when it’s used in a good place. Hot take, DLSS 5.0 features could have an interesting place. HOWEVER, before you mass downvote me
NVidia is not the one to tell when a game should use something like this. This should be used as a fine tuning option if the developer thinks it legitimately will make their games slightly better, and only for super realistic games. I think Cyberpunk, where main characters are all super detailed but background NPCs are more or less fairly low poly and not detailed. It might be good. However, then it comes up against the real kicker, which is that those limitations of those engines and the hardware at the time is what made artists think about their decisions. They made design choices at the time which drove how their game would look. I said in another thread, Master Chief’s now iconic armor was because they had such heavy restrictions. It’s a few triangles of green at the end of the day.
Added to a few games where it’s been tested and fits in the artistic style? I classify that as upscaling, a proven use of AI, and fits within the DLSS brand. Slapped into every game to make all men beefy hunkcakes and all women look like OF models? That’s when it’s slop.
Sorry Jensen, you’re pushing the slop angle, and that makes me sour to the concept.