UnfortunateShort

@UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Path of Exile 2 is free to play this weekend (Aug 29 - Sept 01)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Which, tbf, gives you the amout you pay back in ingame currency, of which you will need at least some if you want to trade stuff / the MMO experience

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No Man's Sky: Voyagers update releases today, introduces customizable "colossal, fully furnished, completely bespoke Corvette-class starships"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s okay. As the other comments pointed out, it kinda feels like a really cool tech demo. Lots of systems to look at, but everything is disconnected. That’s what makes the game feel shallow. You can completely ignore most stuff without any consequence

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No Man's Sky: Voyagers update releases today, introduces customizable "colossal, fully furnished, completely bespoke Corvette-class starships"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I was about to say, I put 2000 hours in League of Legends and I’m not sure whether I enjoyed that either :D

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No Man's Sky: Voyagers update releases today, introduces customizable "colossal, fully furnished, completely bespoke Corvette-class starships"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I really don’t know what to think about this game. It definitely has come a long way, but to this day, it feels… Shallow.

  It’s a sandbox game where building, crafting and trading are not great, not terrible. It’s also an adventure game, but the story is overall very predictable and combat is again, not great, not terrible. It’s a multiplayer game, except no, not really, since you don’t share quest progesss and almost never meet random people (if you aren’t close to the center of the galaxy).

  I’m about 200h into it and still can’t tell you if I like it or if it just keeps me busy. I have high hopes for Light No Fire tho.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UltraRAM scaled for volume production — memory that promises DRAM-like speeds, 4,000x the durability of NAND, and data retention for up to a thousand years, is now ready for manufacturing⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  RAM = accessible anywhere (very simply put) D = Dynamic = loses data if power is gone

  This is NVRAM tech, NV standing for ‘non volatile’. That means it keeps the data if power is lost. You only need to re-write if you read that data. There is probably a hardwired option to do this immediately, perhaps even capacitors to ensure this goes through even if you happen to lose power that very moment.

  Consumes extra energy, may add some latency to reads, but there’s more to being fast and non-volatile at the same time. May be wort it, may be not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A lengthy discussion was had⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just putting this out here: You can be anti-zionist, pro Palestine, and not pro Hamas at the same time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Checkmate.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Plot twist: Original Martin Luther

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, sorry, yes I mean a microwave + convection oven combo. Didn’t know how to translate that properly. My mom got one and it’s basically an air frier, a microwave and a mini-oven in one. Pretty cool stuff

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ingl, a microwave oven with air circulation is pretty neat. That last part is important tho

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Surprise!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Girly boys are way hotter than girls, change my mind

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great Advertise⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The trees on the left are strangely offset upwards, there is a line down the windshield which I have never seen on a bus like that, the bus also does not have a door at the front, which they typically do, and to a lesser degree that yellow looks like it belongs to a school bus, while this clearly isn’t one

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EA CEO Says No $80 Games for Now: 'We're Not Looking to Make Any Changes at This Stage'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I did not forget this, I never knew about it to begin with :D

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EA CEO Says No $80 Games for Now: 'We're Not Looking to Make Any Changes at This Stage'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not enough sales data from Nintendo’s little experiment yet. Don’t hold your breath, ‘this stage’ won’t last.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨chained⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is so cringe, it almost turns me on

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China’s First High-End Gaming GPU, the Lisuan G100, Reportedly Outperforms NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 4060 & Slightly Behind the RTX 5060 in New Benchmarks⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Uhm, excuse me, but I don’t think the 5060 qualifies as “high-end”. I’m not saying that matching it is not an achievement, but that headline is weird at best

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New gaming website "This Week in Video Games" launched by Skill Up⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  No analytics scripts show up that’s true, but they explicitly claim the right to use it in their privacy statement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New gaming website "This Week in Video Games" launched by Skill Up⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Great idea, immediatly tarnished by using third party tracking tools (Google Analytics).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft EULA demanding consumers destroy delisted games adds fuel to Stop Killing Games movement⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I know everyone loves to hate Ubisoft, but this is quite the common term. Also it only even applies when the agreement is terminated, I don’t even know how that would look like. I have never heard about a usage agreement being terminated, unless you yourself violate it (e.g. get banned for cheating).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beaches⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You wish they were like this, but in addition you are supposed to strongly look biologically male / female depending on what’s in your pants and only wear pants / dresses accordingly. Also please behave like they expect to and only like in bed who and what they allow you. And also please share their religion and fuck what science has to say about your sex.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't be a single father to 2 caterpillars.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I miread the community as ‘Lampy Shitpost’ and am worried about my mental health at this point*

  *might be unrelated to this platform

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good boy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s one way to learn lock picking I guess

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Outer Worlds 2 Can't Be Anti-Capitalist When It's Charging Us $80 To Play It⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course you can - if an adequate share of that money goes to the devs, the only issue is the money that doesn’t go to the devs. And they very likely don’t have much control over that money

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo warns Switch 2 GameChat users: “Your chat is recorded”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Um, yeah, like, every single OSS one using E2EE

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And gay men. I'm sorry. I'm weak for it⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ice coffee (🍨+☕) or iced coffee (🚮)?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cut up those shitposts⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I seriously wish there was something better to avoid leftovers. Brushes and whatever this shit is do not seem very sanitary to me, and for sure it’s annoying you have to use them at all. Can’t they do some durable coating and direct the water to hit shit with higher pressure? I feel like there is next to zero innovation in the toilet industry

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welp⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I heavily support not talking about politics 24/7, I heavily discourage not caring at all

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We gonna fight⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem is not public arguments, but groups rejectimg other groups for ideological reasons. I personally know people who are like “you can be a communist and you can be wrong”.

  The reality is that there are left groups, especially far-left groups, who will already dismiss your opinion on everything for not categorically rejecting a social markets economy. Doesn’t matter if you agree in all other points.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a little torn on your comment, because om the one hand you are right and on the other these lawsuits have nothing to do with the designs or art style at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CD Projekt exec says "the right thing to do" is release a real Nintendo Switch 2 cartridge for Cyberpunk 2077, not a game-key card, in message to other studios: "Do not underestimate the physical edit⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s funny, I would point put the amazing gameplay in particular as their no. 1 selling point, if I had to choose anything. But the discussion what’s good and what’s bad aside, they just didn’t deliver on their promises.

  I was fed the story of a GTA contender. A life-sim where your choices matter, starting with your origin story, which was supposed to already have great impact. And what does reality look like? Well, your origin story gets you a different tutorial mission and you get a few extra dialog options that do nothing. Your character always behaves exactly the same outside of that and it changes nothing about the story. It’s hardly even referenced by other characters at all, something Mass Effect and Dragon Age did better forever ago. The one big difference I noticed is that Jackie matters even less to you as corpo, which makes all the emotional stuff feel even more out of place and awkward, since you lose the offrenda mission. Hurray.

  As for life-sim aspects, you can eat in some select few cut scenes, otherwise eating is useless and doesn’t even come with generic animations. You cannot even eat your useless food at a stall in the city or have a drink at the countless bars in the game just for fun. Except for cutscenes and in your, save for the wardrobe, useless apartment of course. You can also take a useless shower, or wait in bed instead of literally anywhere else. Wow.

  You can randomly date a select few characters out of nowhere by choosing a random dialogue option. At least this yields you an almost sex-scene and a bonus quest… Followed by optional, awkward staring in your apartment and no further impact at all. Funnily enough your gender has a greater impact on the game than your backstory that way.

  NPCs are generally dumb and you can’t really interact much with them at all. Police is dumb and easily outsmarted as well, but also always punishes you by death for anything. MaxTac is really tough actually and beating them yields you… Nothing! Nothing at all.

  You do get a couple of choices throughout the story, but do they really change all that much? I would argue no, they don’t. Most of the time they cause some characters you barely know to live or die. Not the really important ones of course! We need those and there aren’t that many. I think one of the most interesting interactions in the entire game is the one with the ranom Natwatch guy, because you can’t really forsee the consequences for once.

  Then there are a couple of different endings, some of which are actually hard to find. I think in retrospective, they are the main thing, besides the very varied gameplay, offering replay-value. The thing is, you don’t need to replay the game to see them all.

  Is Cyberpunk trash? No, of course not, I’ve had my fair share of fun. I’m actually in my third playthrough to do liberty city, because everyone says it’s amazing. As for the main game only, I can’t help but be disappointed by the countless things this game doesn’t do. Including many low hanging fruits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CD Projekt exec says "the right thing to do" is release a real Nintendo Switch 2 cartridge for Cyberpunk 2077, not a game-key card, in message to other studios: "Do not underestimate the physical edit⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They arguably did worse, because NMS didn’t just polish the game, they retroactively added most of the content + didn’t release a DLC. Cyberpunk falls short of what has been promised to this day.