Whitebrow
@Whitebrow@lemmy.world
- Comment on Click here? 3 weeks ago:
That thingy Elon sticks in people
- Comment on You're not you when you're dooming. 5 weeks 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' 5 weeks 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' 5 weeks 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' 5 weeks 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? 5 weeks 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 1 month 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 2 months ago:
Up you go, needs more visibility
- Comment on Any good games that break the mold 2 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? 2 months ago:
- Comment on Dead Rising remaster will make Frank West less of a creep 2 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! 3 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? 3 months ago:
Happy to see my meme is getting extra usage ❤️
- Comment on Escape From Tarkov studio boss says he "did not foresee" players would get mad about charging extra for PvE 6 months ago:
It’s just the cult of goblins going in, looting and then storing it all in your backpacks in your hovel. There’s occasional enemies and you need to outmaneuver or outgun them, or both. If that’s your jam, it’s great. But overall it’s just a miserable experience, especially when playing solo.
- Comment on This roguelike deckbuilder is software development meets Inscryption 9 months ago:
Dev_hell - for those who don’t wanna click
- Comment on Toilet without borders 10 months ago:
It’s the plumbing of the toilet. Shaped like a S
- Comment on Watching ads while grandma is choking on a fish bone 1 year ago:
I hate that I read it in the exact voice from the movie. Thanks
- Comment on Terraria developer bashes Unity, donates $200k to open source alternatives 1 year ago:
Truly a blessing and a curse
- Comment on [Discussion] What is your go-to movie that you will never turn down? 1 year ago:
Pirates of the Caribbean
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 to Feature as Much as 512 GB of Internal Storage, 8-Inch LCD Screen - Rumor 1 year ago:
The “joycons” don’t bring me joy. They make my hands cramp and are only full of cons.