BreadstickNinja

@BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Oh god': There's a buried Steam help page that shows how much money you've ever spent on the platform, and you may not want to know⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  $11,000 over twenty years. Jesus.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Can I ask what distro you’re running? Some of the gaming-focused ones like Bazzite still seem to gather some comments about working better with AMD, though it seems like there are some workarounds. I am resolved to leave Microsoft behind completely at the W11 switch so I’m trying to get my bearings!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Can you elaborate on the incompatibility of the newest GPUs? It looks like Nvidia publishes a Linux driver for the Blackwell series and there are a number of AI applications (like supporting Triton and pysam-based methods) which seem harder to get working on Windows than on Linux.

  I’m considering switching over but I hear mixed things about Nvidia support. Some people seem to say it’s a pain to get the drivers working and others seem to think that’s an issue that’s been resolved. Not sure what to think in terms of how difficult the switch would be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dan Erickson, creator of ‘Severance’: ‘I thought Apple would discourage us from critiquing the capitalist structure, but that never happened’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Your critique of capitalism is selling a lot of subscriptions for us.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Can you use a VPN to spoof a different location, or would your payment details prevent that from working?

  The high seas are always a last resort if you have no other options.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baldur’s Gate 3 Dev Larian Says Its 'Full Attention' Is on Its Next Game, 'Media Blackout' for the Foreseeable⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Going quiet, heads down, focusing on the product instead of the hype. Larian doing it right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Builders of Egypt, a 3D city-builder set in ancient Egypt with beautiful graphics, released on Steam (demo available)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We city builder fans have been spoiled recently! This looks cool.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baldur's Gate 3 Is Being Review Bombed By Chinese Gamers After The Game Awards⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Still has 96% recent and 96% overall positive reviews and an “overwhelmingly positive” overall rating.

  I don’t think they’re making much of a dent. The article is pretty unclear though on why Chinese gamers are mad, other than that there was a possible “dodgy translation.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Witcher IV — Cinematic Reveal Trailer | The Game Awards 2024⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I booted it up recently, and it holds up really well. It hits a perfect balance of narrative and action while largely avoiding repetitive fetch quests and the like. And both of the DLC are excellent - Hearts of Stone has the best plot line in the game while Blood and Wine has the most beautiful locations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Witcher IV — Cinematic Reveal Trailer | The Game Awards 2024⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I sure hope CDPR is up to the task. Witcher 3 is one of the greatest games ever made, but I’ve been burned by Blizzard into knowing that a great trailer doesn’t portend a great game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For me, Cyberpunk 2077 was uninteractive and has low replayablility value.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You wanted to go down; I wanted to go up. I was so annoyed when I finally realized there’s no way up to those amazing skyscraper walkways in the downtown. Those buildings are just blocks with no entrance.

  I figured that as you moved up in the world eventually that whole area would become accessible, but it’s just decoration.

  I didn’t hate it. Maybe a 6.5/10 game with some cool moments. But it felt like the corners they cut would have been the coolest parts of the game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, super shocked he took a break from saying dumb regressive shit about gaming to say dumb regressive shit about Palestine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ex developer at Bethesda quit his job after 14 years and made this heavy metal horror game as a solo dev with no publisher⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s considered doom metal or stoner metal. Metal has a huge number of related subgenres. Sludge metal has more screaming. Stoner metal has more guitar riffs. Doom metal is like stoner metal, but heavier and with lyrics about Dungeons and Dragons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Timberborn Update 6 - Wonders of Water is live!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Time to lose another hundred hours!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ex developer at Bethesda quit his job after 14 years and made this heavy metal horror game as a solo dev with no publisher⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Dopethrone by Electric Wizard

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Avatar: The Last Airbender Is Getting a AAA RPG With Saber Interactive and Paramount Game Studios - EXCLUSIVE⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And so the cycle of hype and disappointment begins anew. The unending samsara of the Avatar fandom.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft's Board is Launching an Investigation Into The Company Struggles⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I bet at first it seems like multiple consultancies, but the more they investigate, the more they realize it’s just minor variations on one consultancy copy-pasted around the map, and at a certain point, investigating each one just feels same-y and boring.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sea of Stars – Throes of the Watchmaker DLC – Indie World Showcase 8.27.2024⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In my opinion, the game runs out of steam about halfway through, so the issue may not be on your end.

  It started really strong but it felt like a lot of the initial promise didn’t pay off.

  Still a decent game, maybe a 7/10. Just not as great as I hoped it would be after the first couple of hours.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon pretends to be a girl online⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve always said, if you’re going to stare at someone’s ass for the next 200 hours…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Black Myth: Wukong launches to almost 1.5 million concurrent players⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So if I posted a review saying that Black Myth: Wukong is as badass as when Rosie the Riveter invented COVID in a Chinese lab, would they be upset?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What games popularized certain mechanics?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Alien Resurrection on PSX was the first game to use the dual-stick control scheme. Halo came out more than a year later.

  Funnily, it was reviewed poorly at the time: Image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Louis Rossmann's response to harsh criticism of "Stop Killing Games" from Thor of @PirateSoftware⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Blizzard swore off local multiplayer after what happened with StarCraft esports. The Korean leagues ran huge tournaments and made a ton of money off Blizzard’s IP and essentially told them to pound sand. Now everything has to go through their servers so they control the ecosystem.

  Same with how Blizzard now owns every custom game you make. They learned their lesson with DOTA/LOL and feel like all that money should be theirs.

  All of which seems to indicate that this is a real problem. People can play Brood War forever, but what happens when the SC2 servers go down?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elden Ring – Patch Notes Version 1.13⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A bunch of the ones I was missing were pot carriers near the starting area, haha. I got all the hard ones and missed the gimmes.

  A couple of the last ones would be extremely challenging to find without a guide, though not impossible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elden Ring – Patch Notes Version 1.13⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I did the same, had +20 blessing but otherwise no summons or ashes. Still took four hours of grinding before I got the run. I did use a black steel shield +4 which negates holy damage, though you can still run out of stamina. Tough fight.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elden Ring – Patch Notes Version 1.13⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This patch probably makes that fight slightly easier since some of the changes are buffs to that fight’s summons as well as standard ashes and revered ash bonuses.

  If you are 1v1ing him then you may not get any relief, haha.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Death Occurs in the Dark’: Indie Video Game Devs Are Struggling to Survive⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn I hate having options

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Death Occurs in the Dark’: Indie Video Game Devs Are Struggling to Survive⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As I get older I find I just don’t even have the time for AAA games. Other than Elden Ring, I haven’t played a AAA game in goodness knows how long. 80-100 hours of playtime is basically a year-long commitment.

  I love that there are so many indie games that offer a more compact experience and seem easier to put down and pick back up. Much more my speed these days.

  I agree though that we’re at a point of oversaturation. Steam is full of shovelware and barely discernable clones of crafting-survival games. But I hope the studios doing interesting work are able to survive this period so we can continue to benefit from their creativity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stay Mad⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My trans friends are what keeps me committed to voting Biden no matter how disappointed I am in him. Things are already really scary for them right now and I can’t be complicit in making them worse, even through inaction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Galaxy S10 til the wheels come off⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My S10e is cracked but only all over the backplate. Which is also no longer really attached to the phone. I’m driving this thing into the ground.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Advice Needed: How to get immunotherapy treatment in a rural area where the clinics do not administer the shots?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed, the drops under the tongue are a lot easier to do at home than the needles. Though I’m not sure about delivery - for whatever reason my allergist always required me to pick them up in person from his office. Not sure if that’s regulation or just a quirk of that one practice.