Whitebrow
@Whitebrow@lemmy.world
- Comment on GOG seems to be considering paid membership option 3 weeks 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 weeks ago:
Does God of War count?
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #7 3 weeks 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 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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? 5 weeks ago:
Prison tattoos, but they’re all just corporate brands.
- Comment on Ah shit. Here we go again. 1 month ago:
Wouldn’t a liquid stool in this scenario be preferred?
- Comment on What is best Lemmy App to use on iPhone? 1 month ago:
Voyager is very much Apollo reincarnate
- Comment on Can you actually suffocate to death from holding your breath? 1 month 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? 1 month 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? 1 month 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 1 month 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 2 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? 2 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 3 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? 3 months ago:
Necrosmith
- Comment on Is it time to start a campaign against kernel-level anticheat? 4 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? 5 months ago:
That thingy Elon sticks in people
- Comment on You're not you when you're dooming. 6 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' 6 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' 6 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' 6 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.
- Comment on How is anime and manga more popular than comics and western cartoons? 6 months ago:
The sheer volume and variety of anime and manga is why it has such a reach
There’s only about a dozen things that always pop up when you mention western animations, regardless of the genre or target audience
Why? My personal guess is that it costs too much/doesn’t generate a lot of profit and that due to that, series don’t build on top of each other like they do in Korea or Japan
Example off the top of my head, Korea has a lot of “awakened player” stories like Solo Leveling, the anime of which you may have seen recently; those stories are good because they keep building off of each other, eliminating the boring tidbits and coming up with more creative ways for the stuff that is interesting, and more importantly, its current, not 10 years ago, not 20, they refine the genre every season and it gets incrementally better, something that has simply not been happening in the west for a good long while now.
- Comment on Anon's body is a machine 6 months ago:
Is there another way besides scooping it from the bowl? I don’t like when the dirty toilet water touches my spoon
- Comment on Palworld faces the difficult choice of whether to become a live-service game or stay buy-to-play, PocketPair’s CEO says 7 months ago:
Up you go, needs more visibility
- Comment on Any good games that break the mold 7 months ago:
If you enjoyed that, I’d also recommend lil guardsman, similar responsibility, different mechanics and a lot more forgiving
- Comment on What are some game series you would like to see revived? And if possible, which entry should the new game follow from? 7 months ago:
- Comment on Dead Rising remaster will make Frank West less of a creep 8 months ago:
I don’t care that they remove it from the base version of the game, but if you’re going to remake the damn thing I want the full, authentic, experience. If it requires me to download “horndog pack” as a free add on, so be it. Getting anything less is just a subpar product that isn’t worth discussing.
- Comment on Giant FAQ on The European Initiative to Stop Destroying Games! 8 months ago:
There’s a few listed here:
delistedgames.com/extinct-list/
But the problem is usually much larger where a game requires you to login to play even the single player component but is unable to do so with entire services going down, such as gamespy or others, more on that here:
tvtropes.org/pmwiki/…/DefunctOnlineVideoGames
The list grows ever larger and even some online game news publications have their own lists, small example below:
kotaku.com/dead-games-2023-delisted-servers-offli…
There’s quite a few others, but I do agree with the point that there should be an aggregate for all of these, that could be presented as a universal list that hopefully stops growing in the coming years.
- Comment on So is the global IT crash fixed yet? 8 months ago:
Happy to see my meme is getting extra usage ❤️