Stovetop

@Stovetop@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Two big Final Fantasy remakes are reportedly still in ‘active development’⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Why remake perfection?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft revenues decline 31.4% to €990m⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  For me it’s a combination of them making games that all seem to represent everything wrong in modern gaming, coupled with all of the sexual misconduct among their leadership that they covered up and have still not been held accountable for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The internet is bad ux, everybody. There's too many choices.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The Biden FCC briefly brought it back but it was quickly killed by a Bush-appointed judge based on the conservative majority Supreme Court’s ruling on Loper Bright v. Raimondo which ended the practice of Chevron Deference.

  Chevron Deference was a policy that allowed federal agencies to be the interpreters of ambiguous regulations, and in this particular case the uncertainty was whether or not the internet counted as a “utility” akin to electricity and water. The updated interpretation is that the FCC doesn’t have the right to treat the internet as a utility if it is not explicitly defined as a utility by law, so net neutrality was killed.

  There is still hope that a later, more progressive Congress and administration could pass regulation declaring the internet to be a utility, or that a later court could change their minds on that interpretation, but for now it’s not looking good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elden Ring Nightreign releases May 30th⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d say you have a point if FromSoft didn’t just publish two major games within a year of each other (Elden Ring, Armored Core) and then a game-sized DLC on top of that.

  Could Nightreign have just been another Elden Ring DLC instead? I don’t know, maybe. But it’s not priced as a full game and I’m not sure why people expect it to be one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Civilization 7 not fun?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I am hoping that is the case, but I do have to say that this one boggles the mind just a little bit to be launching without significant features that the previous games had like hotseat multiplayer and limited era games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam now warns about Early Access that have not been updated in months.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think storefronts should take an extra 10% cut of any early access title sold, added to a pool to be later returned to the developer as a payout once the game officially launches. That way they still get some cash inflow while development is still ongoing but there’s financial incentive to actually finish the game eventually.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NASA Just Found the Sun’s Secret Warning Before Massive Solar Flares⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wouldn’t surprise me if Trump privatizes NASA just for the purpose of selling them off to SpaceX.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man, their reputation really has gone to shit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you want more info about some other Anglosphere countries and their comparable organizations, along with a healthy dose of “Wait what the hell are these governments doing”, the Five Eyes article on Wikipedia has a helpful table of its member states and their respective intelligence apparati.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good morning I choose creativity and recycling.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Gonna love those microplastics leeching in over time as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Redditors trying to access the banned subs after the purge, c. 2025 (colorized)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Subreddits that are critical of Musk/DOGE are getting locked/banned. There was also a ban on many LGBT/Porn/Piracy subreddits, but most were unbanned because apparently that was an “oops”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man, their reputation really has gone to shit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When I heard about the targeted moves against the FBI by DOGE, I got to thinking that the FBI is not the sort of organization you want to anger if you have skeletons in your closet. And even if you don’t, they’ll put one there to find.

  But I’m worried we’re already at the point where the entire agency can be discredited (not entirely undeservedly) just because President Cheeto and Supreme President Musk could label any findings as “fake news” and the majority of Americans would take it as fact.

  They could be the SA to whatever SS the Trump admin wants to replace them with (the Proud Boys?)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man, their reputation really has gone to shit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just to nitpick, the CIA is more the “topple governments” organization.

  I am sure the FBI is involved, but their operations are primarily internal affairs. It’s like MI5 and MI6 in the UK.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To whomever invented LED bus advertisements: I despise you.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, I don’t mind brands visible on purchased goods per se, it’s the same as a maker’s mark like artisans have added to their wares for thousands of years. It’s no more an ad than a book including the name of its author on the front.

  But it’s my conscious choice to buy certain products from certain brands, with careful considerations to quality and price. If a product is good and it is reasonably priced, I don’t care if they have a logo on there. But I don’t go buying products for the brand.

  Where ads are different is that they intrude into parts of our lives they have no right to be in.

  I want to watch some sports, but no, ads everywhere.

  I want to watch a movie, but I have to sit through all the ads first.

  I am waiting at the bus/train stop and there’s business posters everywhere, and then the bus/train pulls up and it’s covered in ads inside and out, all during my commute.

  I’m in the waiting room at the doctor’s office having a panic attack about the results of some recent tests and there’s a dumb ad on the wall with some smiling white lady staring directly at you, who has everything figured out and can now live life to the fullest thanks to her doctor having prescribed [DrugName]™.

  That’s the shit I can’t stand. When it’s not possible to simply exist in life without some entity trying to extract capital from you at every turn.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is the Nintendo Switch 2 the end of innovative consoles?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Those are all great improvements but I’d consider them more iterative than innovative.

  I’d consider the Wii to be a truly innovative console, but everything else of theirs mostly iterates on their previous successes or market trends.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game Pass sets quarterly revenue record, sees 30% growth in PC subscribers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think Fable is releasing this year, they’ve still shown barely anything and it was missing entirely from their recent developer direct of high profile 2025 games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My Honest Opinion⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I really enjoyed the “Hobbit: Extended Edition” project which condensed the three films of the Hobbit trilogy down into a single film, and as an unofficial fan-made project, is only available online for free.

  Under that proposed gradient, I’m not sure where that would fall, given that it is a transformative work which uses the work of others to make them redundant (in this case, the original trilogy and the studios which would have otherwise profited from those sales).

  I feel like there’s a better way to divide it, but it will be difficult to negotiate the exact line against the long-held contradictory ideas that art should both be divorced from its creator once released but also that the creator is entitled to full control and profit until the expiry of its copyright.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My Honest Opinion⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But not AI generated!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My Honest Opinion⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d even be worried that bad actors would abuse the tag to take legitimate footage of something they want to discredit and reposting it everywhere with AI tags. They could take control of the narrative if enough people become convinced that it’s AI-generated and use that to flip the accusations back on the people trying to spread the truth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EA lost $6 billion in market value, following FC 25 & Dragon Age underperformance news⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think Bioware’s future is now entirely riding on Mass Effect 4. Which…does not inspire confidence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video Game History Foundation's long-awaited digital library will be available online next week⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hopefully this is a free resource available for all and doesn’t just turn into the games journalism equivalent of JSTOR.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump pardons Ross Ulbricht, Dark Web pioneer and creator of Silk Road. WHY? He was serving two life sentences, never getting out. Why pardon him?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  TL;DW it helped secure the Libertarian vote.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Warner Bros. President stepping down following poor financial results⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My hopes were so high when I saw this headline only to be shot down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yeah, but anything could be inside. Even $20!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s an incredibly callous way to treat people who are vulnerable and wrestling with addiction. They need help and support, not abandonment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Large Language Models in Video Games?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure about Switch, but PS5/Xbox support mouse and keyboard inputs if a game is designed for them.

  Voice recognition seems more likely to me, though. PS5 already has an advantage there because every Dualsense controller has a mic in it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Large Language Models in Video Games?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know what sounds more robotic, the AI or the script read for the player.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Large Language Models in Video Games?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That is…actually far better than I thought it would be. It’s clearly not ready yet, but I could see the potential.

  The AI model is too happy to serve the whims of the player, but if there was a better model that could actually be hooked in to me hanics like personality scores or reputation, I could see that as an interesting gameplay system. It also needs more checks on what they are and aren’t supposed to know (e.g. why would a Skyrim NPC associate the name Batman with heroism, or why would they know who Gandalf is?).

  A (digital) setup like Westworld is probably in the cards someday. Hopefully with more checks in place to keep the AI from rising up though!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel for you OP, I hope we all get to live in the more accepting world we deserve someday.

  Apologies as well if my previous comment also sounds a bit unsympathetic, which was not my intention but it does to me on a re-read. I’m sure there’s a lot more discomfort that comes with living under these kinds of rules than just what games you are or aren’t allowed to play that I did not give enough consideration to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I do hope you get to play and enjoy the game, but no way should the developer compromise on their vision of the game just to comply with a fucked-up morality regulation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After the catastrophe of Concord Sony is reportedly cancelling other projects including a God of War live service game⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Live service games that become successful can make billions of dollars, so everyone is trying to be the next big one. Having a ton of concurrent live service projects is the “throw shit at a wall and see what sticks” strategy. They expect most to fail but hope that the 1 that succeeds makes up for it and then some.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After the catastrophe of Concord Sony is reportedly cancelling other projects including a God of War live service game⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Monthly fees optional. These days I’d assume the battle pass model is more common.