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- Comment on Feel the burn 5 weeks ago:
You didn’t EMPTY THE GREASE TRAAAaaaAAYY!
- Comment on How to port any N64 game to the PC in record time 5 weeks ago:
Honestly, this article shouldn’t be called how to. I’m trying to make heads or tails of this documentation but I would love to see more. I just want to recompile Mystical Ninja starring Goemon as it’s my favorite N64 game from my childhood.
- Comment on Google is redesigning its search engine — and it’s AI all the way down 5 weeks ago:
💯
- Comment on Google is redesigning its search engine — and it’s AI all the way down 5 weeks ago:
Large language models are going to replace search. Naturally concise recommendations are easier for humans to interact with than a swath of web pages. The problem that you get here is this is going to disincentive the creation of new web content outside of the walled gardens we already have. The walls are just going to get higher.
- Comment on Final Fantasy Maker Square Enix Will Aggressively Pursue a Multiplatform Strategy After Profits Tumble 1 month ago:
Just a thought, remakes like this tend to appeal to people in the PC crowd. We’ve all moved to PC for various different reasons. Better games, better prices, better hardware? Emulation and software preservation is the name of the game for a lot of people. Those people are working everyday to make things like the steam deck the dream game console they always wanted. That’s the kind of person who will go back and replay Final Fantasy 7 four or five times.
- Comment on Nintendo Says It Will Reveal Switch Successor By March 2025, But Not At The Direct Next Month 1 month ago:
Oh no … Anyway
- Comment on Valve graphics dev gets Gamescope working on NVK with Explicit Sync 1 month ago:
I’m so stoked for this! I want this in Nobara and Bazzite Asap!
- Comment on Nintendo DMCA nukes 8,535 GitHub copies of Switch emulator yuzu 1 month ago:
Nintendo is going to be the company that makes or breaks the legitimacy of the DMCA. If it wasn’t for the DMCA they wouldn’t have a leg to stand on as they’ve lost in court several times before.
Honestly I think they’re going to start having problems in places like Europe if Nintendo can be classified as a “gatekeeper” on their locked down hardware.
- Comment on MattKC announces plans to develop an open source DIY WiiU gampead 1 month ago:
There are a lot of Android based Pocket devices out there like the retroid. Imagine having a retroid or ayn odin that can also double as a wii u controller.
- Comment on Open source NVIDIA Vulkan driver NVK gets more enhancements 1 month ago:
Once Nvidia works with Gamescope, I think it will be high time to move the rest of my gaming PCs over to Bazzite. I hope these changes are getting us over to that reality.
- Comment on Can an online library of classic video games ever be legal? 1 month ago:
The same reason a movie theater owner why they can’t show Pee Wee’s Big Adventure every weekend. Value is derived from exclusivity. Exercising your “rights” to a work means preventing anyone from having access to the work unless you are paid when and how you want.
- Comment on A Weary Trump Appears to Doze Off in Courtroom Ahead of Criminal Trial 2 months ago:
Oh yes!
- Comment on $70 titles are doomed to go “the way of the dodo” says Saber Interactive CEO 2 months ago:
Everybody who plays videogames has had this experience
Pay 70$ for a game:
- it’s digital only
- comes loaded with Micro transactions
- grinding mechanics that have a pay to skip function
- single player campaign: 13 hours
- buggy and unfinished glitches and freezes
- PC port locked at 30fps, runs Denuvo.
- gets removed from my library in a few years because “It’s too expensive to maintain and licensing reasons”
“I’m never getting ripped off like this again”
STUDIO executive “I wonder why no one wants to buy these games… Must be the price.”
- Comment on The Crew has started disappearing from game libraries after its closure last month 2 months ago:
- Comment on Let's discuss: Resident Evil 2 months ago:
Rem4 has the energy of a movie that was made because James Cameron walked into Capcom main offices, met with the presidents, stood in front of a whiteboard and wrote “Resident Evil$” making sure the s was notably a bit red dollar sign $. Everyone applauded and then they made whatever the hell they wanted.
I and I love that about it.
(Note: this is basically how we got the move Aliens 1986)
- Comment on Homer 2 months ago:
If he wasn’t, he is now. They made a musical episode about it called “Goodbye Middle Class” where they illustrate this with him.
- Comment on Switch performs better running games through an emulator emulating the switch than natively. 2 months ago:
Don’t worry, Nintendo will make a switch 2 and all the problems will be fixed!
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- Comment on What a feeling that was 3 months ago:
Maybe the blue ray box should have an entire SSD in them or some kind of NextGen Compact flash as long as it’s a standard format and not a proprietary format like a switch game. You can buy blank CDs, DVDs, SD cards and there are standards in place to make them readable by entire fleets of devices.
It’s harder for games but I’m coming at this from a games preservation angle.
Games keep getting bigger and require installation to drive to effectively load assets quickly. I really envy the ability to not have to perform an installation to the device. If your game was simply its own storage device again then you could have that plug and play like experience back and also have that ~4GBps read that even the cheapest NVME drives can offer.
I have DVDs, but I also have MKV files, and I have the ability to go between these formats. I suggested something like flatpak because a universal physical media image format for games would be just one more way to easily preserve content offline indefinitely and neatly keep it pretty platform agnostic.
That was my train of thought. I know the likelihood of this being done by a real company is slim to none because of DMCA and over engineering another format is pointless if they can force everything to be download only IRL but I would like to push back and I can’t easily archive all this stuff forever on an ever growing 48TB Nas on my home. I would like offline ownership and convenience please.
If it’s going to be too expensive for a company to put Alan Wake Two onto physical media then I’d like a way to do it myself so it continues to work when epic decides they want to pull a Warner Bros and rip it off the internet forever and claim it was a loss to get tax breaks. It would also be cool if it didn’t have to install and it just started.
I understand the difficulty involved with that but we’re halfway there with software running containerized on Linux.
A man can dream.
- Comment on What a feeling that was 3 months ago:
I want this so much. I dream about making cartridges that are glorified PCIE NVME caddys and the slot on your console being essentially a PCIEx4 slot.
Maybe we could port some games and wrap them up as flatkpaks.
I’m just spit balling but it could work.
- Comment on Where's Our Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League Review? (IGN denied review code) 4 months ago:
I really can’t wait to see the Matt McMuscles “Wha’ Happun’??” Episode about this game.
I just don’t want to think this mess anymore. Please Matt, save me from the thinky pain!
- Comment on OpenAI says it’s “impossible” to create useful AI models without copyrighted material 5 months ago:
OpenAI now needs to go to court and argue fair use forever. That’s the burden of our system. Private ownership is valued higher than anything else so … Good luck we’re all counting on you (unfortunately).
- Comment on Wonderful holiday scents 5 months ago:
Y’all haven’t lived until you’ve had “The smell from when you’re standing in line for E.T. the ride” scented candle.
- Comment on God of War Creator Is Unhappy With New Games and Kratos' Story 6 months ago:
His tone, the way he mocks other creators, comes off as (for lack of a better term) developmentally stunted. I understand if you disagree with the product because your vision is different, but the way he expresses it is so reductive that it’s hard to see his points as valid beyond his feelings.
With that being said, It’s been awhile since I’ve seen David Jaffe and he’s kinda got a “We’ve got Dan Harmon at home” vibe about him now.
- Comment on Let's meet those headlines 6 months ago:
Uripades? Umendades?
- Comment on What game did you last finish? What did you think of it? 7 months ago:
If it’s short then it’s next on my list!
- Comment on What game did you last finish? What did you think of it? 7 months ago:
Show me the champion of LIGHT!
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
Piracy is a moral imperative. I donate to these projects whenever I can.
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- Comment on SteamOS will be coming to other handhelds before you can install it on your PC 'because right now, it's very, very tuned for Steam Deck' | PC Gamer 7 months ago:
I think it’s worth checking out some diy alternatives that get the job done. I built my own “steam box” with some cheap Ali Express parts (Elsa 5700xt and Erying motherboard with core I9 equivalent engineering sample) to great success. The OS is key. I’ve found two that work very well:
chimeraos.org (requires AMD GPU) github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/ (Works with Nvidia but it’s unstable using steam full screen at times)
I’ve had a great level of success with ChimeraOS so far.
- Comment on You just won the Mega Millions 10 months ago:
I agree, it feels like what I said but with more well thought steps 😅
- Comment on You just won the Mega Millions 10 months ago:
All of it. I would give every dime away. I would buy homes for as many people I know. I would seed the future that I want the people I care about to live in.