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- Comment on Intel finally notches a GPU win, confirms Arc B580 is selling out after stellar reviews 3 days ago:
AMD has much better Linux drivers than Nvidia though, so that line of reasoning doesn’t really work.
- Comment on What do we think will be GoTY and which game do we think should be? 2 weeks ago:
I was thinking of getting it, what’s up with Stalker 2?
It’s very buggy and an absolute mess from a technological perspective. The NPC simulation has been restricted to a tiny radius around the player, so you can for example see snipers spawn in when you get close to their towers. Even with that limited distance, the game is very CPU bound and performance takes a huge hit in populated areas. In general the NPC AI is pretty braindead and much worse than previous Stalker games. I’ve had to reload earlier saves a couple of times due to NPCs randomly getting hostile, the conversation UI staying permanently on screen and other progression stoppers. The graphics completely rely on TAA or DLSS and look like a checkerboarded mess without them. Despite all that though, I think it’s a pretty fun game and a remarkable achievement given the circumstances of its development.
- Comment on What happened to gaming? 2 weeks ago:
To me it sounds more like the social media algorithms put you into the “gaming tech” corner so that’s all you see. Indie gaming is huge and not at all about graphics. Look at the currently popular games on Steam and a ton of them are technologically very basic.
- Comment on New Steam Controller 2 and VR controller designed got leaked 3 weeks ago:
So did the Deck but it ended up being quite comfortable.
- Comment on HORI Steam Controller releases in the USA in December 1 month ago:
No rumble is a deal breaker for a $60 controller. I think I’ll stick with 8bitdo and maybe wait for a new Valve controller.
- Comment on Cloud Imperium quietly steal Star Citizen developers' weekends from under them with mandated overtime in the lead up to Citizencon 2 months ago:
Unfortunately par for the course in game development.
- Comment on What prevents Linux from being installed on mobile devices? 2 months ago:
Nothing really. Someone else already wrote that Android is technically Linux. But you can also get “regular” Linux on mobile devices, it’s just a matter of using a distribution with mobile-friendly UI as well as getting driver support for the phone’s hardware. Ubuntu touch exists for example, but only works on a limited number of devices and even on supported devices it’s not really good enough for the average user yet.
- Comment on Nintendo and Pokémon are suing Palworld maker Pocketpair 2 months ago:
Only thing I can think of are maybe the catching mechanics (which are straight out of Legends: Arceus). No idea if these would be considered unique enough to be patentable, guess we’ll find out.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of August 25th 3 months ago:
I’ve been playing the new Guild Wars 2 expansion “Janthir Wilds”. Very enjoyable, with a nice setting and soundtrack.
I’ve also been giving Deadlock a go. So far hasn’t really clicked for me though. Doesn’t help that I’m not a big MOBA player, the only one I’ve enjoyed so far is Heroes of the Storm.
- Comment on It genuinely upsets me that Valve spent their time and resources on another Dota variation 3 months ago:
I’d love to get another singleplayer game as well, but I’ve accepted that Valve is just unpredictable. I’m sure they haven’t given up on Singleplayer and we’ll get another singleplayer game… at some point. Their previous game was the fantastic Half-life Alyx after all.
- Comment on Dead Cells receives its final major update today, seven years after release 3 months ago:
Reading the full statement, it sounds to me like there was more to it than just the game’s development coming to an end. It sounds like it might have been a very sudden decision by the publisher, with possible negative consequences for the development team.
In principle I agree though, there is no issue with a game just being finished at some point, especially a single player one.
- Comment on #StopKilligGames update: Finland just passed the threshold. 4 months ago:
I don’t agreee with it starting the wrong conversation. Something does need to be done about companies denying access to a game you bought and that’s the conversation it starts. If this proposal lands on the EU negotiation table, I can guarantee you that the games industry will lobby against it, and heavily. There is no chance the EU will just go “OK sounds good, make it so!”. Heck, the chances are higher that if they pass an actual law, it will be so watered down that it won’t do anything at all. But then at least we tried.
I’ve watched his first video, but I really don’t agree with many of his points. He only barely acknowledges this being a proposal and then gets lost in the details. He’s clearly against any measures that have the slightest potential to be a disadvantage for game developers, which I guess is understandable from his perspective as a developer. But he doesn’t seem to particularly care about the consumer’s rights, basically saying the problem is solved as soon as the publisher makes it clear at purchase that people are only buying a temporary license. He’s also trying to discredit supporters of the initiative by saying they don’t know how the industry works, despite quite a few people in the industry supporting the initiative as well.
- Comment on #StopKilligGames update: Finland just passed the threshold. 4 months ago:
Really doesn’t matter whether the proposal as it is in the petition is completely realistic or not. The point is to get this topic into the EU parliament. It’ll be their job to work out a solution that works for both consumers and developers.
- Comment on Most important map 5 months ago:
Unilever‘s ice cream brand has various different names in different countries.
- Comment on don't use ladybird browser lol 5 months ago:
I see. The developer once using a generic “he” on a different project and being snarky about it would be pretty low on my reasons not to use Ladybird, but I had no intentions to use it anyway, so eh.
- Comment on don't use ladybird browser lol 5 months ago:
Maybe I’m missing something, but these seem to be the build instructions. What part is gendered in there?
- Comment on Why Britain is the world’s worst on homelessness 5 months ago:
Comparing a city to a country doesn’t really work.
- Comment on Zhang Yimou to Direct ‘Three-Body Problem’ Movie 5 months ago:
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a book series getting so many adaptations in such a short time.
- Comment on Beginner gamedev projects? 7 months ago:
I wouldn’t start with retro hardware, those systems have a lot of quirks and limitations that will make development much harder than it needs to be for your first projects. Instead I’d suggest using a modern toolkit like Gamemaker if you want to avoid programming, or an engine like Godot. Lots of good tutorials available for either.
- Comment on Microsoft closes Tango Gameworks, Arkane Austin and others 7 months ago:
Man, the state of the games industry is just sad. Also makes me question my career working in an adjacent field, despite my job being safe for now…
- Comment on Not only are they watching you, they're judging you. 7 months ago:
Those 2019 people were just another year away from finding out what an actually crazy year looks like.
- Comment on The Fallout show's been a pleasant surprise 8 months ago:
IMO the story is not really worse than the games’ writing. Fallout as a universe never really made sense. So for me, it being fun and campy is enough and just what I’d expect of a Fallout show.
- Comment on Let's discuss: Kirby 8 months ago:
Kirby’s adventure feels really modern for an NES game, still holds up great to this day. The difficulty is also closer to what people are used to nowadays, compared to the punishing difficulty of many NES games. One of the few NES games I played through completely.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
The lemmy devs should really focus on proper content deletion tools. It’s not just the images, it’s very strange and inconsistent overall. When I delete a comment, it’s seemingly still visible to many people and collecting up/downvotes even many hours after I deleted it. On the other hand, when a post gets deleted, it’s completely gone, to the point that I can’t even look up the discussion that I had within that post, just my own comments on my profile.
- Comment on Emotion-tracking AI on the job: Workers fear being watched – and misunderstood 9 months ago:
I’m glad to live in a place where that kind of surveillance is already illegal. I recently read that in some places, it’s already commonplace to track every single keystroke and mouse click on workers’ PCs. That’s bad enough even without putting AI and facial recognition into the mix. Truly dystopian.
- Submitted 11 months ago to technology@beehaw.org | 23 comments
- Comment on Get ready to hear more about "pre-internet" times 11 months ago:
Wait, are analogue clocks supposed to be a thing of the past now? I have like 3 in my home and know many other people, including young people, who still have them.
- Comment on Am I doing HDR wrong? 1 year ago:
To be fair though, the first sentence when you bring up the OLED Deck’s product page right after “Introducing Steam Deck OLED” is “A high dynamic range screen, a longer-lasting battery, faster downloads, and much more”. HDR is then mentioned like 5 more times on the product page, so I don’t really get why people miss it.
- Comment on Am I doing HDR wrong? 1 year ago:
They’re wrong, the OLED Deck definitely has an HDR screen. Not sure why two users in this thread claim it doesn’t.
- Comment on Am I doing HDR wrong? 1 year ago:
Incorrect, it does have an HDR display. See the product page.