kazerniel
@kazerniel@lemmy.world
- Comment on Valve Addresses Steam Machine Anti-Cheat Concerns, Says It's Working Towards Support 1 day ago:
Oh this might be what pushes larger companies to drop kernel level anticheat! That would remove the main issue that keeps my gaming on Windows.
- Comment on What game is a guilty pleasure of yours? 1 day ago:
I guess Genshin also counts. The monetisation is horrible, the character designs are facepalm-worthy, the localisation is so bad it makes me wince, Paimon is the worst, but damn, I love the exploration gameplay, landscapes and music 🤷 (Also it helps that I’m f2p, so at least I’m not supporting Hoyo’s predatory practices…)
- Comment on What game is a guilty pleasure of yours? 1 day ago:
all those Artifex Mundi hidden object games :D
They’re essentially reskins of the same simplistic gameplay and weak stories for like 15 years, but sometimes I still get in the mood for one :D
I love the better ones’ environmental art, but I’d be wary to pick up ones made in the last few years bc I’m pretty sure they started to use AI as soon as it became available, due to the conveyor belt nature of the genre.
EDIT: Ok apparently I was wrong, and they just altogether stopped releasing their games on PC since the pandemic O.o
- Comment on Powdertoy: FOSS falling sand 1 week ago:
wow this is really fun!
- Comment on Uh oh: Ubisoft postpones its quarterly financial report at the last minute and halts stock trading 1 week ago:
Hmm sadly that’s a very different gameplay to Just Dance, here’s an example. In JD they record dancers with motion capture, and you need to follow that choreography, while the game tracks your accuracy with a phone, console controller, or camera.
So it needs a bigger production team than FLOSS indies can probably manage :c
- Comment on Uh oh: Ubisoft postpones its quarterly financial report at the last minute and halts stock trading 1 week ago:
The only Ubi game I play is Just Dance Now. Sadly I can’t think of a non-Ubi alternative to that gameplay :/
- 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 4 weeks ago:
this extension seemingly only lists third party DRM.
That could be the case! Unfortunately I can’t see any documentation about it on their website or github repo.
- 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 4 weeks ago:
I’m playing with mouse and keyboard, so not sure that’s possible with the Android version.
I saw a Linux Genshin launcher on github a while ago, but iirc it carries some ban risk that I don’t want to expose my account to.
- 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 4 weeks ago:
I don’t know of a bulk tool, but the Augmented Steam browser extension shows a DRM warning above the purchase button when you go on a game’s Steam store page.
- 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 4 weeks ago:
And many games haven’t been assessed either. I plug my Steam account into ProtonDB, and apparently 51% of my games can be made to run perfectly on Linux, 10% are various levels of broken, but the remaining 39% has no information. I guess it’s because I have many indie games in my library.
- 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 4 weeks ago:
The only thing I want to say is that the “10%” that don’t work are usually pretty popular.
Yeah, like I’m glad Linux support is increasing among games, but my main daily driver game (Genshin) still doesn’t support it 🤷 And I don’t think Hoyoverse will be spending work on Linux support when they are raking in so much cash from their mostly mobile playerbase. From what I can see Linux userbase hovers around 0.3% in China, and that’s Hoyo’s main market.
- Comment on mercy merci 4 weeks ago:
website
this is such a cute idea 🥹 now I imagine them running little Wordpress blogs
- Comment on one bright second 5 weeks ago:
Reminds me of that Kurzgesagt video about Optimistic Nihilism:
“Close your eyes. Count to 1. That’s how long forever feels.”
- Comment on one bright second 5 weeks ago:
Nope, I think humanity will be long gone by then, so it doesn’t really matters what happens after that.
- Comment on i enjoy high fructose corn syrup too 1 month ago:
Got the same in the UK, had to disable uBlock for Cloudflare to let me through.
- Comment on wax on 1 month ago:
Yea, I’m vegan, so I’m mindful of milk and honey (and yes, they’re disgusting), just never really thought about what process wax exactly came from.
- Comment on wax on 1 month ago:
I never thought about it, but beeswax is kinda disgusting, basically ass-grease :P
- Comment on Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards 1 month ago:
I had to as well, until my mid 30-s 😬 (Hasn’t happened in a few years though.)
Still remember when they asked for ID to buy one of those Y-shaped potato peelers 😂 How tf I could hurt someone with that, peel them??
- Comment on Who the fuck needs an x axis anyway 2 months ago:
The axis makes sense with the label, they just didn’t label every data point.
- Comment on Rogue.site is a new worker-owned, reader-funded gaming site 2 months ago:
I hope it works out for them!
- Comment on Help. 3 months ago:
Even if it’s not actively a scam, there are some bizarre life stories out there. E.g. my mom’s (Central European) friend in her 60s who had a long-distance relationship with a married Turkish guy until recently. They met (and banged) each other a grand total of once, but they were sharing morning tea on video call for years before and after that - they had no common language, only used Google Translate to talk??? And she gathered up her meagre savings to to Turkey every year on the off-chance that she runs into him in a millions-population city??? (No they didn’t arrange meetings. The guy didn’t really seem to want to meet her anymore, probably related to being married lol.)
And somehow this “relationship” went on for like a decade before she finally broke up with him.
- Comment on Help. 3 months ago:
The bizarre thing is, some of them do understand how LLMs work. There was that article about a married woman with an LLM boyfriend. She’s very active on Reddit (edit: or at least was until a month ago), and based on her comments I saw back when the article was published, she seems to know perfectly well that it’s all just a statistical model of smoke and mirrors, and yet continues with the extreme emotional (and financial) investment 🤷
- Comment on Help. 3 months ago:
holy shit, that movie is 12 years old 👴
- Comment on Help. 3 months ago:
This is not significantly different than the therapy model, but the user can fail to see through manipulation compared to “friends/people who don’t actually GAF” about maintaining a strong relationship with you.
That’s why therapists have ethical guidelines and supervision. (Also they are typically people who are driven to help, not exploit the vulnerable.) None of these are really present with those glorified autocompletes.
- Comment on Palestine Action ban coupled with Online Safety Act ‘a threat to public debate’ 3 months ago:
for me it says that a mod removed it
- Comment on Water Snek 3 months ago:
thanks for finding the source, pretty interesting!
- Comment on Fun bites 4 months ago:
thank you, great antipasta <3
- Comment on The UK Stop Killing Games petition has reached 100.000 signatures 4 months ago:
- Comment on The scientific method 4 months ago:
- Comment on Signatures skyrocket for Stop Killing Games campaign after big youtubers take up the cause, resulting in 100k signatures in 2 days. (Details on how to help in text body of post) 4 months ago:
Ah sorry I misunderstood your comment then, I thought there was another one besides that.
