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- Comment on Mojang reveals The Sift as the first new Minecraft dimension in 14 years 3 days ago:
I don’t see how Steam would make any difference.
- Implementing any kind of DRM is the game developer’s prerogative.
- Allowing other versions is possible, again, at the developer’s convenience.
- No other launcher needed besides Steam (and Steam is very far from being only a launcher)
- Steam Workshop (because fuck Forge)
- Comment on Mojang reveals The Sift as the first new Minecraft dimension in 14 years 3 days ago:
Ah yes, the famous DRM.
Some launchers allow you to play fully offline, but only after you’ve authenticated and started the game at least once with a real Microsoft account. The launcher has a sophisticated validation mechanism to ensure this: it is stored in a boolean value in a JSON file.
- Comment on Anon reflects on a mistake 5 days ago:
She even recognised some of them.
- Comment on Mercenaries Recompiled - Teaser | Launching 9/26 | PC and Linux (Proton) Native Compatibility 6 days ago:
Those two are mutually exclusive. An application that uses Proton can’t be natively Linux-compatible, and an application that is natively Linux-compatible can’t run using Proton.
natively on a Windows PC or on Linux via Proton
Sounds like it’s a Windows build, but the developers also provide first party support for running it on Proton.
- Comment on Mercenaries Recompiled - Teaser | Launching 9/26 | PC and Linux (Proton) Native Compatibility 1 week ago:
Linux (Proton) Native Compatibility
I had to sit down and drink a glass of anhydrous water after reading that…
- Comment on Anon fears The Hand 1 week ago:
It would be the single most active gambling economy.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Did it hurt to carve out the fevered flesh? Did it hurt to sever the gangrenous foot?
- Comment on DSP clears Wolverine's motorcycle section without player input 1 week ago:
Sure, but you paid $70 for it. In the business, people like that are called “suckers”.
- Comment on Hideo Kojima's PHYSINT Game Moves to Xbox From PlayStation 2 weeks ago:
They’ve always been violently litigious against any kind of preservation effort. Apparently this goes back to the Super Famicom/SNES generation.
- Comment on Anon likes Space Jam 3 weeks ago:
There’s no way in hell a Galaxy-class starship has enough delta-v in its cargo bays to meaningfully affect its trajectory, not to mention that the thrust vector wouldn’t be aligned with the ship’s center of mass. All that would achieve is the starship going out with a fucking
fart_reverb.mp3. - Comment on Hideo Kojima's PHYSINT Game Moves to Xbox From PlayStation 3 weeks ago:
(the Kirby in question is a Stålenhag-esque war machine engaged in a fight against ownership and preservation, Nintendo doesn’t get a free pass for having a highly marketable mascot)
- Comment on Anon reads Don Quixote 3 weeks ago:
If that principle applied throughout history, anglophones would have evolved either an armored ass or no ass at all. I believe they are pathologically incapable of grasping the phonology of foreign languages. Just ask any native English speaker the name of the Soviet Union’s general secretary that succeeded Stalin and preceded Brezhnev… realistically, nine out of ten will have no idea, and the remaining one will say he was some “cruise chef”.
- Comment on /fit/ finds what works 3 weeks ago:
Erm, actually, neutrinos aren’t massless. The Super-Kamiokande experiment has observed neutrinos to oscillate between electron-muon-tau lepton family numbers (or flavors), which means that they experience time, which means that they necessarily travel slower than the speed of light, which implies that they have a nonzero rest mass.
- Comment on /fit/ finds what works 3 weeks ago:
they aren’t particularly likely to interact with you either so all else being equal they’re the safest of the emitters to have inside you
First time I’ve heard of this. Care to give a source?
- Comment on Anon is a Witcher 4 weeks ago:
I’d love to know what you think this “commentary from the beginning” is. Please, elaborate.
- Comment on 12 TB of Valve's data from 2003-2013 has leaked online, and Episode 3 content isn't off the table yet 4 weeks ago:
Half-Life 3 was in development between 2013 and 2014, but dropped because Source 2 wasn’t ready, according to Geoff Keighley’s The Final Hours Of Half-Life: Alyx. It sounds like it never got further than an early gameplay concept, but saying that it was never even started is incorrect.
- Comment on 12 TB of Valve's data from 2003-2013 has leaked online, and Episode 3 content isn't off the table yet 4 weeks ago:
But it is a reasonable possibility. More plausible than most predictions. Valve employees have stated that Episode 3 was in some stage of development when it was cancelled, and that several unsuccessful attempts had been made to continue the series. There’s a very good chance that related material is in the leaked data, even if it isn’t the next mainline game.
- Comment on 'Bioshock Review' - MandaloreGaming 5 weeks ago:
Still hoping for Metro 2033. I need my gripes with Redux validated.
- Comment on 'Live-service is a red flag for us': Why one publisher is embracing an older kind of multiplayer hit: peer-to-peer, server browsers, and organic community 1 month ago:
As long as you’ve done the original Deimos open world stuff, you can just follow the main story to unlock gameplay systems.
Pablo has been cooking for the last couple of years. Most of the bad warframes received considerable buffs or reworks, and most of them will serve you well until the late-game missions (with the exception of Loki, Limbo, and Nekros; they’re pretty much useless now). Arcanes are even more busted than before. There are legitimate builds that don’t equip Energize. Melee Influence is the reigning king of melee arcanes. You can slap a basic electric status build on literally any melee weapon and have something that can take you to level cap.
Also, Stalker had a girlfriend and they’ve fucked.
- Comment on 'Live-service is a red flag for us': Why one publisher is embracing an older kind of multiplayer hit: peer-to-peer, server browsers, and organic community 1 month ago:
The Switch port is handled by Panic Button, the same studio that developed the Doom 2016 port. It’s impressive work considering the hardware limitations, but the introduction of cross-platform play made the gap between it and other platforms impossible to ignore.
- Comment on 'Live-service is a red flag for us': Why one publisher is embracing an older kind of multiplayer hit: peer-to-peer, server browsers, and organic community 1 month ago:
Warframe’s multiplayer sessions are hosted by the players, and you can feel when the game is hosted on a Switch. The ping is consistent around 300 ms, but every action will have a second of latency and the enemies will constantly rubber-band around.
- Comment on Love Wins 1 month ago:
I’ll never understand why the US refuses to modernize the horrid NEMA 5 connectors. A recessed receptacle, insulators around the base of the live and neutral blades, spring-loaded detention mechanism to keep the connector from slipping out… in its current state, it’s only two steps removed from sticking the bare wires into the socket.
- Comment on Love Wins 1 month ago:
When USB-C-compliant devices are connected, they have to negotiate which side is upstream and which is downstream. So yes, they’re hermaphroditic, just like snails.
In contrast, the USB A-to-A cable that Ugreen uses is closer to hyenas. If you know, you know… and don’t you wish you didn’t.
- Comment on Rideshare Stimulator finally gets its genAI disclosure after much Saber-rattling, and it turns out the game also uses the tech for in-game music 1 month ago:
It’s open-source, written in Rust, and has plugins from Stardew Valley to Ultrakill.
- Comment on US hires over 2,000 video gamers as air traffic controllers 1 month ago:
Delays expected as radio traffic devolves into immature giggles whenever a flight into Pensacola (PNS) or Charlotte (CLT) is spotted.
- Comment on Dev at id Software says Microsoft 'burned a lot of bridges' in the industry: 'They fundamentally don't understand art, they don't understand games' 1 month ago:
Sometimes not even money. Microslop was left holding the bag when they jacked up the price of Gamepass and suddenly it became unaffordable for a lot of customers, and spent billions on a lemon. Sony is actively alienating their supporters, rejecting their largest market, and going all-in on a game that can’t even reach five thousand daily concurrent players on Steam because they’ve already spent billions on another lemon. Bad calls and sunk costs all around.
- Comment on Dev at id Software says Microsoft 'burned a lot of bridges' in the industry: 'They fundamentally don't understand art, they don't understand games' 1 month ago:
I didn’t mean that in a very positive way.
I know there’s a post-hoc artistique justification where Alan is a hack writer and everything in the dark place is only as good as his imagination… but a poorly made game is still a poorly made game, and trying to shove half of a Max Payne action shooter into an Alan Wake game is just asking for disappointment (just ask Amnesia fans about pigs).
- Comment on Dev at id Software says Microsoft 'burned a lot of bridges' in the industry: 'They fundamentally don't understand art, they don't understand games' 1 month ago:
But they okayed American Nightmare.
- Comment on anon installs redpilled linux 1 month ago:
I broke my entire OS just to
chownthe/lib/*s - Comment on WWE wants to trademark the term 'Vice City'. 1 month ago:
On the other hand, Sky TV somehow managed to successfully sue Microsoft to force them to rename SkyDrive.