Strayce
@Strayce@lemmy.sdf.org
- Comment on Why does it seem like every TV series I've ever watched gets cancelled/rushed/incomplete ending, while movies (even those in a film series/trilogy) rarely face the same problem? 4 days ago:
Different financial goals. Movie series are designed around a hype cycle to put out a major blockbuster every few years or whatever and produce massive ROI. Series are produced by streaming providers primarily to entice new customers on to their platform and rake in subscription fees. Once they have the customers from season one, there’s less incentive to keep pumping money into the series.
- Comment on Can cats see color? 6 days ago:
They do, but differently than us. They trade some sharpness and colour perception for field of view, low light vision, and speed / motion tracking. 30fps to a cat would look like a series of stills. Source via Archive.org
- Comment on Mecha Comet is a modular Linux handheld coming soon to Kickstarter for $159 2 weeks ago:
The product website says the enclosure will be available as (I guess?) stl files, so that’ll be a good starting point.
- Comment on What's the greatest joy you have gotten from a video game? 2 weeks ago:
Dialing in to a local BBS to play 4-player deathmatch DooM 2, circa 1995.
- Comment on A post about a dead game 2 weeks ago:
Oh I remember that. Played pretty regularly for a couple years during lockdown IIRC then completely forgot about it. Shame, it was pretty fun.
- Comment on Pornhub Is Now Blocked In Almost All of the U.S. South 2 weeks ago:
Not that they won’t try, but it’s very difficult to blanket ban VPNs. There are very legitimate business reasons to use them and it isn’t necessarily easy for ISPs to distinguish between a “recreational” VPN connection and an employee VPN’ing into say, a work datacenter. Industry will kick up a massive fuss about it.
- Comment on Pornhub Is Now Blocked In Almost All of the U.S. South 2 weeks ago:
In other news, VPN subscriptions have skyrocketed in the U.S South.
- Comment on Can't sleep at night 3 weeks ago:
Okay but bardcore is a real thing
- Comment on Young man killed in Christmas Day fireworks incident in Melbourne 3 weeks ago:
Holy fuck what a depressing looking suburb. I’m not surprised he wanted to blow shit up.
- Comment on How do we know the government doesn't just have a secret hardware backdoor in all our devices? 4 weeks ago:
We don’t. The point is to reduce attack surface relative to target value. People use a VPN for piracy, for example, not because it’s totally secure, but because rights holders generally aren’t going to bother going after a single person when they’d have to go thru a VPN provider as well. OTOH someone doing it on clearnet is being logged by their ISP and the data is right there. OTOOH, the three letter agencies are absolutely going to bother if they have a tip that you’re doing something really dangerous to the status quo.
- Comment on How Threat Actors Exploit Brand Collaborations to Target Popular YouTube Channels 5 weeks ago:
Jesus fuck at least touch up your AI slop before vomiting it on the internet
- Comment on Outer Worlds 2 no longer exclusive to Xbox, is now coming to PS5 – WGB 5 weeks ago:
The first one wasn’t even good.
- Comment on Meal prep 1 month ago:
I mean that’s true too, assuming you don’t destroy your air fryer first.
- Comment on Meal prep 1 month ago:
Okay this is a shitpost, but ffs don’t try this. That’s a small electric fan-forced oven. There’s a nonzero chance the airflow will splash water all over the inside, which is absolutely not liquid proof. Water + electricity == bad.
- Comment on I guess at least I can opt out... 1 month ago:
Straight to the recycle bin, then.
- Comment on You know what would be cool? If all those (job name) simulator games could all be joined. 2 months ago:
!outside@lemmy.world
- Comment on Dont you DARE correct my asdhfhska 2 months ago:
This feels like some AI bullshit. Like, the correction is statistically more likely in the training data.
- Comment on Premium Ads 2 months ago:
Fucking called it
- Comment on This is a real food I just found 2 months ago:
But is it though?
- Comment on Colours of Blood 2 months ago:
- Comment on I just opened an overpriced can of fancy soup and on the label, along with the expected stuff like 'gluten-free' and 'GMO-free,' was 'mustard free' and 'celery free.' Is that a thing now? 3 months ago:
Mustard isn’t a super common allergenAFAIK, but I have heard of it. People can be allergic to anything.
- Comment on I found a weird IP address on my network that had transmitted an insanely small amount of data. I put the address in my browser and got this. what the heck am I looking at? 3 months ago:
Even if it isn’t changing IP, you still want it in your DHCP table so that IP doesn’t accidentally get assigned to something else. It’s unlikely but it can happen.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of September 29th 3 months ago:
The Forever Winter. Released in early access due to popular demand. It’s rough, divisive, and difficult as hell. It’s also incredibly grim and hauntingly beautiful. It’s a PvE-only, stealth-based, extraction (non-)shooter where you scavenge resources to survive in the shadow of a military-industrial complex run absolutely amok. You are incredibly underpowered, to the point where if you need to start shooting, you’re probably already dead. Gameplay is tense, frightening, and really drives home the overwhelming feeling of being a small fish in a really fucking big pond.
I’m not sure I’d recommend it in the state it’s in, if at all, but it’s definitely making me feel some kind of way. I don’t normally enjoy extraction shooters, but I find myself coming back to this one. Not that it’s really a shooter. Maybe that’s what’s doing it for me. The most divisive part is the water mechanic. It’s a key resource for your settlement; If you run out of water you lose all your stuff. But, it drains in real time not game time so the it’s kind of a big commitment at the moment. Personally I understand both sides of the argument and I haven’t decided where I fall yet. It’s definitely worked on me because I find myself thinking about the game when I’m not playing, but if I end up taking a break I’m not sure I’ll have the commitment to build back up from scratch again.
- Comment on How do I avoid enshitification of my keyboard and mouse 3 months ago:
I picked up a wireless Cooler Master mouse on impulse for $20 from a bargain bin and it’s … Actually okay. The software doesn’t even need to stay running. You open the util, change the settings, close it, and that’s it. Downside is the cable… While it is technically USBC, they’ve done that thing where the port is recessed in a specifically shaped divot that only their cable will fit.
- Comment on Aussie Government announces Loot Box and Gambling content classification changes - Vooks 4 months ago:
Be cool if they could do something about the amount of gambling ads attached to sports. But no, it must be video games that are bad.
Tbh I’m glad they’re recognizing loot boxes as a problem, but this feels backwards. Like, a single, completely optional slot machine in an RPG that only takes and pays out in in-game currency gets you an R rating, but a predatory real-money gatcha mechanic is only worth an M.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 4 months ago:
Not really. They have a lot of bits and in-jokes which are going to seem incomprehensible to anyone from the outside, but most of them are pretty chill if you engage in good faith. It’s like a lot of tech communities; if you don’t do your research and ask intelligent questions, you’re likely to get told to RTFM.
- Comment on Bazzite Linux gets keyboard-less installation (good for handhelds) and smaller updates 4 months ago:
Installed this on my Legion Go today. Took about an hour, all hardware supported out-of-the-box. Hardest part was mapping the controller. Haven’t actually played much on it, but I’m very impressed with the experience so far.
- Comment on Are there any video games in the Warhammer universe that are actually good? 5 months ago:
Speed Freeks is extremely underrated. It plays like Unreal Tournament x Twisted Metal.
- Comment on Are there any good casual/low-stress mobile games that aren't filled with microtransactions? 6 months ago:
Short answer: yes.
Shattered Pixel dungeon is based on pixel dungeon, adds a bunch of new stuff and is reasonably actively developed.
- Comment on trending on facebook 6 months ago:
That AI moderation thing is working real well I see.
