Krompus
@Krompus@lemmy.world
- Comment on Microsoft patent describes in-game advertising triggered by boss fights, loading screens, and cutscenes 1 week ago:
Make a live USB and just fiddle around with it. Note that a proper install on NVME will be much snappier. Don’t nuke Windows until you understand the basics of Linux and have decided you want to daily drive it. Back up your data of course. Dual boot is often more trouble that it’s worth, Windows loves to fuck up your bootloader and partitions, I got fed up unfucking it and began unplugging my Linux drives while updating Windows, and eventually just wiped it.
If you’re serious about it, try to source hardware that is well supported rather than just slap it on a random machine and hope for the best.
- Comment on A first-person 3D adaptation of Zork I 3 weeks ago:
OP is likely to be eaten by a grue.
- Comment on QWOP 8 months ago:
100%. There’s even another person in the background cosplaying as the QWOP player. :)
- Comment on ChocChoc 8 months ago:
He has “resting bitch face” normally, so he decided to start smiling for these videos. It drives engagement, like your comment. :)
- Comment on Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period 8 months ago:
Yep, Switch 1 was much more interesting, and I still skipped it in favour of PC / Steam Deck.
- Comment on Among 2025 games with over 10K reviews, Deltarune is the most highly rated 8 months ago:
Damn, have a look at each of them, there is some excellent gaming here.
- Comment on Do you preorder games? 8 months ago:
Never. I hate the preorder exclusive bonuses; it’s anti-consumer bullshit, especially in an age where every game is available as a digital download, even the physical copies usually require downloads. Publishers are enticing customers to pay while hype is high, before the product is actually available, before quality has been proven and before reviews are published.
I hate gift cards for the same reason, you’re giving money to corporations before they’ve provided anything to you.
Hold on to your money, wait for reviews, then pay them for the finished product if you still want it.
I also think the rising launch prices of AAA games is bullshit, especially for singleplayer games. I’ll usually wait for a decent discount.
- Comment on 9 months ago:
They somehow made it look bland as hell. They added a fucking basketball court? Are they targeting Chicago Bulls players?
- Comment on This is why we can't have nice things 9 months ago:
Ooh that takes me back, B was my mid-90s family computer’s 5.25" floppy drive. :)
- Comment on Control Resonant - Announcement Trailer | PS5 Games 9 months ago:
At least there’s a chance they’ll just give it away for free.
- Comment on Divinity - Cinematic Announcement Trailer 9 months ago:
It would be completely fine as a cutscene in an 18+ rated game, but it was a bit much for a trailer revealed at an (all ages?) event with no warning at all. Extremely detailed melting flesh and interspecies copulation was not on my bingo card.
Wishlisted, looking forward to more info.
- Comment on It turns out Saudi Arabia will own 93.4 percent of EA if the buyout goes through, which is effectively all of it 9 months ago:
Yeah Respawn is a good dev, just a shame they got bought by EA and scrapped Titanfall 3.
- Comment on It turns out Saudi Arabia will own 93.4 percent of EA if the buyout goes through, which is effectively all of it 9 months ago:
EA (Respawn) peaked at Titanfall 2 and hasn’t released anything good since. I set them to Ignore on Steam a few years ago.
- Comment on Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games) 9 months ago:
You just reminded me of a funny feature I found in Elite Dangerous (space MMO) to prevent combat loggers (quitting suddenly during combat): if you press Alt+F4,the game doesn’t immediately exit, but shows you a Quit dialog (to main menu or desktop), and there’s a lengthy countdown if you’re near hostile ships. :)
Doesn’t prevent it entirely, but I thought it was pretty crafty.
- Comment on We have just released a grand DLC, War Sails, for our game, Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord 9 months ago:
I’m in it for blood, not gold.
- Comment on We have just released a grand DLC, War Sails, for our game, Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord 9 months ago:
#Ad
Sorry, Mordhau’s mêlée combat completely surpasses Mount and Blade’s for me, I tried Bannerlord but there is simply no going back.
- Comment on Female tourist takes down phone-snatcher in Argentina 10 months ago:
V’là
- Comment on Female tourist takes down phone-snatcher in Argentina 10 months ago:
The Canadian French keyboard layout has é where / and ? would be on an ANSI keyboard. It’s actually a very common typo for English speakers using that keyboard layout (more commonly capitalized like downÉ since ? requires Shift). What’s your setup?
- Comment on Female tourist takes down phone-snatcher in Argentina 10 months ago:
Pretty surey tap to pay has a $100 limit, any more requires card and PIN.
- Comment on 10 months ago:
🤦
- Comment on 10 months ago:
It’s surprisingly easy. uBlock Origin in Waterfox (Firefox fork). The audio ads still “play”, but silently.
- Comment on 10 months ago:
If you don’t pay for Spotify Premium, and you don’t have an ad blocker, Spotify Free is riddled with VERY LOUD AND DISRUPTIVE ADS.
- Comment on Go Green 10 months ago:
Could do, weed and shrooms go well together.
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 10 months ago:
Let’s see some benchmarks.
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 10 months ago:
You can mod games on Linux though, some just need a bit of fiddling, just look it up. Never tried Civ 6 but people say it’s possible.
- Comment on It's official: EA is going private. 11 months ago:
I set EA to Ignore on Steam two years ago. Ubisoft too.
- Comment on GTA V was released on this day, 12 years ago 1 year ago:
GTAO is trash, always has been.
- Comment on Day 354 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 year ago:
It’s awesome, enjoy! FYI you can assign right stick to camera control, and raise the framerate with interpolation.
- Comment on Day 354 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 year ago:
🌈🏰
- Comment on 'Xbox Hardware Is Dead,' Says Founding Team Member, 'It Looks Like Xbox Has No Desire — Or Literally Can't — Ship Hardware Anymore' - IGN 1 year ago:
Overpriced, battery not included, haptics suck compared to DualSense, face buttons get stuck sometimes (it’s clean), the cheap rubber coating started wearing and peeling after the first month of light use, triggers are too stiff, drops bluetooth connection randomly, you need a stupid overpriced dongle for lower latency, and I just prefer the symmetrical PlayStation layout, never understood the offset sticks.