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- Comment on The Half-Life Delusion 1 day ago:
I agree with the author’s assessment that Uncharted and the Last of Us use the right tool at the moment for their stories.
I don’t get the criticism about Call of Duty and Halo following Half-Life’s success of limited cutscenes and scripted events to tell their stories. In fact as soon as the article started these were the exact games I thought of to rebut his point. They are the best story based FPS games of their generation and they don’t need an open world that’s believable in absence of its own protagonist.
Far Cry/The Division/Ghost Recon are all Open World shooters with a believable world. They have terrible (IMO, feel free to disagree) stories though.
I thought his analysis was interesting just not sure what the point was and if it was what I thought it was that Half-Life negatively influenced stories in games then I disagree.
- Comment on Child support 3 days ago:
Nothing gets past you two
- Comment on Upscaling is actually good (as an option) 4 days ago:
Upscaling an old game on fixed hardware that can’t output at high resolutions is good.
Upscaling a new game as part of the graphics pipeline instead of optimizing it is terrible and shouldn’t be accepted by gamers that have to spend $1000+ on a GPU
- Comment on "There comes a time when we all declare the war is over": Former PlayStation Studios boss Shawn Layden on the future of video game consoles 1 week ago:
That quote is just horribly disturbing to me. He’s basically letting the mask drop that their endgame isn’t to make great games, it’s to make you hopelessly addicted to screen time that you obsessively play and spend
- Comment on Your all-time favorite game? Let's discuss the best options! 1 week ago:
All time favorite game is so hard to narrow down. I’d traditionally always say Mario 3 and I stand behind that but there are so many great games that stand beside it. Donkey Kong Country, Half Life, San Andreas, red dead redemption 1 and 2.
I think if I was trapped on a desert island, I’d be fine with any of these as my only game
- Comment on [Social Engineering] My Scammer Girlfriend: Baiting A Romance Fraudster. 2 weeks ago:
Really good read. Worth it for anyone with the time to devote to a long post
- Comment on Forza Horizon 5 Will Require a Microsoft Account to Play on PS5 2 weeks ago:
Oh I was referring to FH but yeah that makes sense for Split Fiction
- Comment on Snopes Twitter got hacked. Twitter screws up the response 2 weeks ago:
I didn’t have to DM random people on X but I did have to go through the account lockout support process 4 times and it took 3 months before I finally got someone to respond to my request at twitter. I then deleted my account 5 minutes later
- Comment on Forza Horizon 5 Will Require a Microsoft Account to Play on PS5 2 weeks ago:
Why do you need an account of any kind to play a single player game?
- Comment on Anon shares his taste in music 5 weeks ago:
Yes steam gardens is great. Such a funky tune!
- Comment on Anon shares his taste in music 5 weeks ago:
Ok but Mario slaps so I wouldn’t be offended at all if someone suggested that. Dire Dire Docks, Gusty Garden Galaxy, Super Mario Bros 3 athletic theme? Yes please
- Comment on Most of Lemmy right now 1 month ago:
Corrupt according to whom? Because if you ask me who is corrupt DJT and Elon Musk top the list of corrupt politicians and business men.
- Comment on A troll (https://lemm.ee/u/shinigamiookamiryuu) is a new moderator of AskLemmy on Lemmy.world. What can be done about this? 1 month ago:
Thanks for the information, I’ve decided to block this user based on the evidence. Hopefully the rest of the mods of that community will take that into consideration when judging whether that user can serve the community effectively as a moderator
- Comment on PlayStation Says Outage Was An "Operational Issue"; Offers PlayStation Plus Members 5 Extra Days 1 month ago:
Glad to find out we aren’t the only fools that push to prod at 5pm on a Friday. Big companies like Sony do too!
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Not everyone who is right wing is a loser. Everyone in that crowd was though
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Considering the audience is made up of right wing losers, you aren’t 100% wrong. He was giving a very special wave to the audience
- Comment on Make sure you get in early fellow Patriots! 2 months ago:
This is a legitimate pump and dump scam. Probably the worst post ever to this community which is saying something.
- Comment on Fyi... Hold shift to run. 2 months ago:
You run by default, you hold shift to walk. Everyone knows that
- Comment on Outrage as Wikipedia changes grooming gangs article to ‘moral panic’ from the 'Far-Right' 2 months ago:
Wikipedia can be edited by anyone and lots of pages go through these edit wars and it takes time sometimes for the dust to settle and bans, etc. to happen. It looks completely fine as it f right now.
- Comment on Luck be a Landlord Might Be Banned from Google Play 2 months ago:
I have no idea about the game and whether it actually contains gambling content or is just being auto flagged due to the title but this kind of crap is why I hate big tech and is why I hope we eventually have a future where decentralized services rule over big tech.
- Comment on Broccoli, cheese, and MILFs 3 months ago:
Just cut into bite size pieces, toss it in oil, salt and pepper it, put it on a baking sheet and roast at 425 for around 20 minutes. Don’t fry it in a pan. It will be delicious
- Comment on Anon is a nostalgic gamer 3 months ago:
My experience playing Call of Duty: United Offensive. The community was so much better than online games today. Some times if I wasn’t in to it we’d just chat via text chat. Felt like an extended lan party almost
- Comment on What's Mastodon precious? 4 months ago:
I don’t particularly agree that it’s “greatly increased” by it. I’m on a server with them and I don’t see that much many more spammers. It seems like fearful hyperbole, I’m not saying there aren’t any I’ve certainly seen a few but it’s not as common as most people think it is.
My mastodon instance rarely ever sees spam despite having open signups either. Maybe my problem is I’m worried about future problems rather than the current state of how things are. My concern comes from personal experience with legacy socials like facebook and twitter when it comes to spam that I report and the frustration of when I get the automoderation notification back and they determine it didn’t break their guidelines.
I don’t want the cesspool of spam to become a problem on the fediverse as these experiences were a major reason I decided to join it.
I appreciate your comments again. You’ve softened how I feel on the challenge of balancing open user sign ups with moderating malicious users.
- Comment on What's Mastodon precious? 4 months ago:
I appreciate your take and the thought put into the reply. I don’t mean to gatekeep the fediverse to keep normies out because that isn’t my desire at all. Merely my stance is while I believe that low engagement is very undesirable, high volume of scammers/spammers are equally undesirable.
I’m also thinking of things from a moderator/instance owner point of view where trying to defend your instance from illegal activity, spam, and harmful content is greatly increased by having open sign ups. If the majority of engagement on your posts are from pussy in bio accounts then that is a put off from the end user as well.
Trolls and assholes will always get through if they are motivated enough, fediverse platforms usually gives the end user enough tools to block them.
Your perspective has a lot of valid points as well, I think that there is a compromise somewhere that is slightly more effective than a simple captcha that could also streamline onboarding and validating users.
I don’t want the fediverse to be an exclusive club, I am already annoyed about how things can be an echo chamber even worse than legacy socials here at times. My hope that bridges and utilities will come that help people follow each other from bluesky/mastodon and allow account migrations from either as well.
- Comment on What's Mastodon precious? 4 months ago:
It also acts as a filter to keep threat actors and spammers out. Open sign ups are actually a bad thing for the overall health of the network. Yes it also keeps out the lowest common denominator normies but those aren’t exactly the ones who contribute to the network as a whole anyway
This isn’t capitalism, there isn’t a need for growth for growth’s sake. There does need to be a more simplified way to onboard users but not at the cost of the health of the network.
- Comment on What's Mastodon precious? 4 months ago:
Bluesky is not decentralized if you have to use their relay to access the network from your PDS
- Comment on What's Mastodon precious? 4 months ago:
If the reason people only want bluesky is because it’s Elon-less Twitter then they are stupid and wrong (or just ignorant). But then they can move to the next thing in 5 years when the enshittification happens.
- Comment on What's Mastodon precious? 4 months ago:
Mastodon doesn’t silo its users, that’s what federation is for. Everything you post on the public timeline is essentially public for everyone that’s on a federated instance that hasn’t gotten blocked.
- Comment on why are fax machines still used by medical systems? 4 months ago:
Providers have a market incentive to provide the most convenient experience to their patients. The market incentive does not exist for sending information to other providers so they will take the path of least resistance to be compliant with regulation
- Comment on Nintendo sues streamer for playing pre-release, emulated Switch games 4 months ago:
Whether there is something wrong with doing that is a matter of ethics and personal values…
Regardless of those, it’s profoundly stupid to taunt Nintendo with confessions of piracy and threats to commit more