Stovetop

@Stovetop@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Interesting choice⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  No no you see, they are cultured expats, it’s completely different. “Immigrant” is a dirty word for dirty people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨InfernoPlus - I ported Morrowind to Elden Ring⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  InfernoPlus may be one of the greatest game modders of our generation, and I am glad he uses his powers for evil.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨deep fried memes from before covid dump (open post)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Love me some good deep fried memes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elden Ring on Switch 2 Is a Disaster in Handheld Mode - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The Switch 2 is actually decently beefy for what it is—give or take certain specs, it’s about comparable to the PS4, which Elden Ring launched on and ran fine on. But Elden Ring is simply a poorly optimized game overall. It ran like shit on PC after it launched, they eventually got it into a mostly good state years later (or maybe people just upgraded hardware to the point they could brute force it to be stable).

  But I guess trying to port it from x86 to Tegra for Switch 2 is another thing entirely that they apparently weren’t prepared for. If all they did was shove it behind an emulation layer or something (yikes if so), I can see why it’d suck. But given just how held together by duct tape the game is in general, I wouldn’t be surprised if they simply lack the resources or expertise to really optimize for a different architecture.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI at the World’s Biggest Games Event(Gamescom) Booked Random Meetings for Attendees⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Just have your AI assistant attend the meeting and take notes for you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Resident Evil Requiem Trailer - GAMESCOM 2025⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not much “gameplay” but honesty I’d watch this movie.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Direct Announced for Tomorrow Focused on Kirby Air Riders⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Seconded. Switch 2 at this point is mainly just worth it if you have a backlog of Switch 1 games that you want to play in better quality.

  Donkey Kong is the first true “must buy” (MKW is good too but it’s mainly just for people who have played MK8 to death and want something new). It’s gonna be a bit for another tentpole franchise to carry the console further towards being a compelling purchase.

  I’m not sure Air Riders will be that game either. I love the original Air Ride to death and I’m really looking forward to Air Riders, but I don’t think it carries a console. Metroid Prime 4 is probably the next big decider for a lot of people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Speeding overtaking driver who left cyclist with life-changing injures in “horrendous” hit-and-run crash jailed for four years⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not blocking you because I believe in doing what anyone else should do when they see someone else being harassed, which is to intervene.

  Stop stalking OP. I don’t care if you think your reasons are justified, this is not okay to do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Speeding overtaking driver who left cyclist with life-changing injures in “horrendous” hit-and-run crash jailed for four years⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Let me be clear:

  Everything you are talking about is not an OP problem. It’s also everyone else in this thread’s problem despite your insistence that it should be.

  This is a you problem, and the easiest way to fix it is if you do what literally everyone else here is recommending: block them and move on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Speeding overtaking driver who left cyclist with life-changing injures in “horrendous” hit-and-run crash jailed for four years⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s called cross posting, it’s an incredibly widespread practice, and it’s a common courtesy to share content between multiple applicable communities where there may be different people to see it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Speeding overtaking driver who left cyclist with life-changing injures in “horrendous” hit-and-run crash jailed for four years⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  All I see in their comments is that you’re apparently stalking this person? The fuck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 396 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t say it’s “slow” per se but it does feel different, and in some ways I believe it’s not as good as its predecessors.

  One consideration is that it does not have the 200cc mode that MK8 added after the fact. It’s currently (maybe permanently?) at the default max speed of 150cc.

  Another consideration are the courses. Previous MK games use circuit courses, where you start at the finish line and you race in 3 or more laps in a circle that goes back to the same finish line. MK8 fleshed out a bit more by incorporating lengthy straightaway courses where you start at point A and race to point B with laps being more like checkpoints along the way, but the majority were still circuits. Mario Kart World, on the other hand, is primarily straightaway style tracks with only a small smattering of circuits, because it’s attempting to integrate everything with the open world map they made. So the majority of races feel harder to pace because most of them do not repeat themselves.

  There’s also the fact that they doubled the number of characters in each race compared to MK8. MK8 had 12 racers per course, MKW has 24. All of those racers are still picking up items, still tossing red shells and blue shells everywhere, still spamming lightning, etc., so it feels a lot more chaotic.

  Accommodating that aspect is the fact that it now takes 20 coins to hit max speed instead of 10, because they assume you’re going to get hit by more things that you can’t avoid, so it can take longer to ramp up your speed from the beginning of the race.

  Final consideration off the top of my head is that you no longer choose parts of a kart like you did in MK8, you simply choose a racer and choose a cart, and your stars are based only on a combination of those two factors. It is more difficult to optimize for things like acceleration, max speed, and turning because you can no longer mix and match parts that exactly fit your stat preferences.

  So my opinion at least is that MK8 is still the better Mario Kart game, and just considering how huge it is and the fact that it still runs well on Switch 2 tells me that it’s still worth keeping it around. MKW is still a fun game and I’d recommend it for Mario Kart fans looking to change things up a bit, but it tried a lot of new things, not all of which work as well as I think they could have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Final Fantasy X programmer doesn’t get why devs want to replicate low-poly PS1 era games. “We worked so hard to avoid warping, but now they say it’s charming” - AUTOMATON WEST⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was thinking this recently when watching footage of Dread Delusion, a 2024 game that looks like something out of 1999.

  It’s a visually interesting game, maybe not profoundly so, but it gave me a passing thought about what makes a game more “artistic”. I was looking at a rocky wall texture, low res enough to count the individual pixels, but I still recognized it as rock. And then I asked myself what takes more skill: a high fidelity AAA game that just megascans a real rock surface to capture as much detail as possible, or a game like Dread Delusion trying to convey the idea of a rock in as little detail as possible.

  Developers back in the day would have absolutely killed to have the hardware capabilities we have today. No longer needing to worry about fitting games on a tiny disc or cartridge measured only in MB, not even in GB. Even Dread Delusion, despite looking like a PS1 game, could not have fit on even 3 PS1 discs. But it was those very limitations that made developers really have to think carefully about their content, the total scope of the games they wanted to make, how much detail they could afford to include, etc.

  I don’t think those limitations necessarily made games inherently better, because there were still a lot of bad games back in the day. But it meant that everything had more deliberation to it, where a developer would create a game that was one really good idea instead of a game made of 20 just “okay” ideas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not surprised. The bar for entry to become a teacher in Texas is substantially lower than many other states.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What I'm playing 🐭📖 Moss: Book II | You can high-five the mouse!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it works best sitting down. The scenes are generally a fixed perspective, but you do at least want to give your head a bit of room to look around because sometimes there’s small details hiding behind parts of the environment you can peek around, and honestly it’s just a beautiful game to take in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨beamed poop...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And it moves us all, from surface to ship!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨beamed poop...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can get beamed up, shit and all, but rematerialized from the pattern buffer without shit.

  And then the extra matter from the unrestored shit will get repurposed by the replicators for tonight’s dinner.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Battlefield 6 cheats day 1 of early access. Depite kernel level anti cheat, forced secure boot TPM 2.0⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am not sure what the user above is thinking, but to play devil’s advocate:

  One thing that modern AI does well is pattern recognition. An AI trained on player behavior, from beginner level all the way up to professional play, would be able to acquire a thorough understanding of what human performance looks like (which is something that games have been developing for a long time now, to try to have bots more accurately simulate player behavior).

  I remember someone setting up their own litmus test using cheats in Tarkov where their main goal was just to observe the patterns of other players who are cheating. There are a lot of tells, a big one being reacting to other players who are obscured by walls. Another one could be the way in which aimbots immediately snap and lock on to headshots.

  It could be possible to implement a system designed to flag players whose behavior is seen as too unlike normal humans, maybe cross-referencing with other metadata (account age/region/sudden performance anomalies/etc) to make a more educated determination about whether or not someone is likely cheating, without having to go into kernel-level spying or other privacy-invasive methods.

  But then…this method runs the risk of eventually being outmatched by the model facilitating it: an AI trained on professional human behavior that can accurately simulate human input and behave like a high performing player, without requiring the same tools a human needs to cheat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unneccessary long context menus on YouTube Music⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Even better

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unneccessary long context menus on YouTube Music⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Definitely ways they could make that cleaner.

  • Remove from queue: have this as an option only from the queue itself, not from the song currently playing.

  • Go to: merge into a single “Go to…” button, press it for a submenu listing Artist/Album/Song Info

  • Report: Useless. Vet your own shit, Google.

  • Pin to Listen Again: Just use “liked songs” like a sane person.

  • Dismiss queue: same as remove from queue.

  • Stats for nerds: should only be visible with an advanced or developer option in the app settings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Charging to tour rental properties...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s only 50 cents if you’re looking at 10 other properties managed by the same service. In practice, it’s $5 if you were only looking to tour a single place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Charging to tour rental properties...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You do that when you submit an application, not when you are just looking. Those details are none of their business if I have a look and decide no.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PlayStation 6 Console And New PS6 Handheld ‘Canis’ Specs Leak, It’s Claimed - Insider Gaming⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think that’s a bad thing, though. It’s not like I’d be bothered if someone with a GPU 5 years older than mine is able to play the same game on PC.

  This is what consoles just should be. No longer locking games to specific generations, letting newer hardware run older titles better, and letting developers continue developing for lower hardware targets to include more people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic Games just won its antitrust lawsuit against Google again⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The issue though is that Chinese companies have the ability to tap into the massive domestic market in China in addition to international markets, while non-Chinese companies are locked out of the Chinese market unless their Chinese competitors get a cut. So the Chinese developers who get that additional profit from domestic Chinese players end up with a lot more financial weight to throw around than non-Chinese developers, who easily end up getting bought out or pushed out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic Games just won its antitrust lawsuit against Google again⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Traditional devs need to be ready to compete

  I think that is the problem, though. The Chinese market is inherently anti-competitive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gamers Bombard Visa & MasterCard With Emails and Calls Over Steam and itch.io Censorship⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Smartwatch-sized screenshots too for some reason?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The european mind can't comprehend this⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly better stats for the US than I thought they’d be. Surprised that my state’s obesity rates are better than any number of European countries despite the situation here still not seeming great.

  Wondering if that is an endorsement of things my state is doing right or an indictment of the countries in Europe that are somehow worse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Idibiks Oiho⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry, not looking to be accusatory, that’s on me for my own lack of additional context.

  Most of these buildings are abandoned due to white flight. The resources needed to support and maintain urban communities are disproportionately allocated to white, suburban growth, and the shells left behind were intentionally kept out of the hands of minority communities and left to rot.

  In my area, a lot of old mill towns have had their mills be repurposed as community centers, offices, business hubs, etc. after the mills were left abandoned for a number of years. The latest project near me is a beautiful looking conversion for subsidized housing for 60+ year old residents.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Idibiks Oiho⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, if you think it’s better to strip old buildings of value to make wealthy brick buyers happy instead of repurposing those old buildings for the public good of underserved communities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Idibiks Oiho⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Related note: a lot of salvaged brick is stolen. Old rust belt cities like Detroit, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, etc. have so many abandoned brick buildings. People set fire to the building to collapse the wooden supports, and when the mortar holding the bricks together is heated by the fire, the pressure of the hose from responding firefighters helps flake it off and clean the brick. Then people show up a few days later, grab all of the undamaged bricks from the rubble, and sell it to unscrupulous distributors who flip it for a premium on new developments looking for that expensive aged brick look.