Whitebrow
@Whitebrow@lemmy.world
- Comment on Statement on Stop Killing Games - VIDEOGAMES EUROPE 3 days ago:
As long as people can host a server instance, does it matter?
Hypothetically, even if it costs 1000$ per hour in AWS fees to get the required hardware to run that, at least you have the option to, alternatively have a peer to peer option to play smaller version on a LAN with a max of however many players your own network can support, there could be many implementations, which at the end of the day would still allow you to play the game when the official servers (authentication or room hosts) are shuttered and inaccessible
The main point of SKG is that currently, we, as customers, are not even getting the short end of the stick, we are getting no stick, despite having paid for it.
And ultimately, at the end of the day, not our problem to try to figure this out, the point is we’re unhappy with the current situation and want things to change.
- Comment on Statement on Stop Killing Games - VIDEOGAMES EUROPE 3 days ago:
- Comment on Statement on Stop Killing Games - VIDEOGAMES EUROPE 3 days ago:
“many titles are designed from the ground-up to be online-only”
So change your design? The corporate mind cannot comprehend this.
- Comment on 'Death Stranding 2' proves more video games need to get weird, experts say 1 week ago:
The “experts” in this case are 2 teachers assistants in game design in one university weighing in on a whole swath of reasons such as financial impacts and other stuff, on which they are totally qualified to talk about.
We have reached the stage where if my son does his math homework, he should be referred to as a “math expert”, article’s a joke.
- Comment on Discord's CTO is just as worried about enshittification as you are 4 weeks ago:
Discord co-founder and CTO Stanislav Vishnevskiy wants you to know he thinks a lot about enshittification.
You don’t say.
With reports of an upcoming IPO and the news of his co-founder to hand leadership of the company over to a former Activision Blizzard executive, many Discord users are rightfully worried the platform is about to become, well, shit.
I’m sorry, about to…? As if the developments of the last 2 years weren’t a downward spiral with the game integrations, ads and garbage UI redesigns one after the next? Alright then.
- Comment on IT’S THE FEDS! 5 weeks ago:
I’m no expert but I heard you can compile the kernels to grow them yourself
- Comment on Consistency is key 1 month ago:
It’s also supposed to be consumed within 15-30 minutes of being prepared if memory serves.
- Comment on Night shift ER visitors 2 months ago:
That hole is already busy during regular business hours
- Comment on GOG seems to be considering paid membership option 3 months ago:
Pretty sure it released on both platforms at the same time, as far as I’m concerned any games that show up on GoG with no DRM take a bit of effort from GoG to actually verify and host the installers, more so when the contracts expire and they have to delist them and try to get them back
- Comment on GOG seems to be considering paid membership option 3 months ago:
Does God of War count?
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #7 3 months ago:
From the video during a cinematic sequence: “there’s somebody talking but I muted that part”
The visuals are nice but cmon, you can’t play it with no sound :/
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #7 3 months ago:
Happy to see GameInformer back
As for games: two point museum and nordhold
2point Museum has been a blast with all the commentary, announcements and fun descriptions and nordhold scratches that tower defence with meta progression itch
- Comment on What TV series have the best intros? What TV series have the worst intros? 3 months ago:
They evolved to show the status of the elements on the map as events unfolded, it was honestly a really good subtle recap of major happenings up to that point in the story
- Comment on Before you act, is this right for the company? 3 months ago:
Prison tattoos, but they’re all just corporate brands.
- Comment on Ah shit. Here we go again. 3 months ago:
Wouldn’t a liquid stool in this scenario be preferred?
- Comment on What is best Lemmy App to use on iPhone? 3 months ago:
Voyager is very much Apollo reincarnate
- Comment on Can you actually suffocate to death from holding your breath? 4 months ago:
Correct, yelling and chanting does nothing, they slapped him to a functional enough state that he managed to regain control of his faculties
- Comment on Can you actually suffocate to death from holding your breath? 4 months ago:
The video is showing something called a freediving blackout, it’s a condition that gets triggered in divers such as the one shown, plus other factors such as hyperventilating prior to the dive.
What happens in this case is the person loses consciousness because they don’t feel the need to breathe as they have purged a lot of the CO2 the body has prior, giving them “room” to not feel the urge to breathe.
Again, as specified previously, assuming the person doesn’t die of anything immediate in the water, the body simply stops breathing.
The problem is when it starts again.
Your body, once “jolted awake” by the involuntary nervous system, will try to breathe, and it doesn’t know or care that you might still be underwater since you stopped swimming and didn’t get out of the water in time or weren’t rescued or washed ashore on some deserted island.
If you’re out of the water at this point, you’re fine, usually. If you’re still underwater, you breathe in (involuntarily) a bunch of the water (or a bunch of “nothing” if you got your holes plugged) and that’s what kills you.
Kind of ironic that in an attempt to preserve your life, your own involuntary bodily function is what ends up being the final nail.
- Comment on Can you actually suffocate to death from holding your breath? 4 months ago:
No. You can sorta do it until you pass out and then your involuntary nervous system takes over and your body breathes on its own because you’re not conscious anymore.
- Comment on Simple GOG client for Linux, Minigalaxy v1.3.2 released with improved game installs 4 months ago:
Every update would be dedicated to the GoG platform and not others, might be addressing issues with it faster too since the sole focus is just that one store and the app functionality
- Comment on Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 hits 1m sales in just one day 4 months ago:
Absolutely this and wait a year for the DLCs to release with it
- Comment on Is it weird that I have to resort the idea of "Determinism" to be able to move on? 5 months ago:
Our ancestors crawling from the sea onto land millions of years ago is what got us in this mess in the first place.
Don’t crawl. Swim. Swim away.
- Comment on Anon gets corrected 5 months ago:
Is this the latest iteration of “tits or GTFO”? I haven’t been keeping up
- Comment on what was the last game you played in 2024? 5 months ago:
Necrosmith
- Comment on Is it time to start a campaign against kernel-level anticheat? 6 months ago:
With you on this, regardless of the method used, no app has any business running or snooping outside of the container that it was set up in. And this doesn’t just apply to desktop operating systems, mobile and entertainment consoles too.
I’d even take it a step further, that nonsense shouldn’t be on my machine in the first place.
Want to run anticheat stuff? Run it on your own crappy servers at your own cost and processing power. Live detect it through packets that are sent to you and are being processed, be it voice or input.
Whatever happens on my machine is none of your business.
- Comment on Click here? 8 months ago:
That thingy Elon sticks in people
- Comment on You're not you when you're dooming. 8 months ago:
Give it some time…
- Comment on Steam's new disclaimer reminds everyone that you don't actually own your games, GOG moves in for the killshot: Its offline installers 'cannot be taken away from you' 8 months ago:
If there’s a grace period, perhaps, however:
- Steam does not provide installers for games, this means that whatever game you want, needs to be 100% functional and already be parsed/deployed/installed by steam on your hard drive.
- That game needs to be DRM free, meaning that it has an executable available that can be launched without steam running or requiring any sort of authentication or input from the steam servers/services before being able to launch, play or even interact with the menus
So only the DRM free games will remain, and only the installed ones at that. Anything that wasn’t will be lost to the wind the moment the distribution service or storage (yours or theirs) bits the dust…
- Comment on Steam's new disclaimer reminds everyone that you don't actually own your games, GOG moves in for the killshot: Its offline installers 'cannot be taken away from you' 8 months ago:
They’re called offline installers for a reason.
- Comment on Steam's new disclaimer reminds everyone that you don't actually own your games, GOG moves in for the killshot: Its offline installers 'cannot be taken away from you' 8 months ago:
Exactly, the game publishers and distributors are often not the developers themselves. Only one to distribute direct in recent memory was World Of Goo 2, and even that was sold primarily through the Epic store.
