Blackmist
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- Comment on Statement on Stop Killing Games - VIDEOGAMES EUROPE 16 hours ago:
protections we put in place to secure players’ data
The player data that we are required to agree to share with 1643 trusted data partners in order to connect to your service? That player data?
Go fuck yourself, you ghouls.
- Comment on Founder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts sales 20 hours ago:
According to Wikipedia, they started it in 2015 with Beasts of No Nation and stopped in 2018 with Roma.
Lots of others did it during covid though.
The last time I actually enjoyed a cinema was a tiny little place in Iceland that appeared to have two screens, a ticket stand and a snack stand, and had one old guy running between all of them like a novelty act. This is how a cinema should be, not some horrible 12 screen thing showing the same Marvel shite at 20 minute intervals.
We did see Die Hard 4 though, so it wasn’t all fun and games. Still it could have been worse. It could have been Die Hard 5…
- Comment on The driver for my mouse occupies over 1 gb 21 hours ago:
Going to be quite a bit heavier than that if you run it on a different CPU architecture though. And even if you’re not running on mobile, Apple still opened that can of worms a few years back. Linux too, I guess.
Honestly, I don’t mind HTML for a UI. It resizes nicely to fit a large number of devices. It looks pretty much the same no matter what you’re running it on. But it should just be that, a UI layer. Otherwise the solution you were looking for was a website, and not a dozen 500MB chunks of Chrome installed around my PC.
- Comment on Founder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts sales 22 hours ago:
They could easily do so on a console or game streaming service, just give you like 2 hours and then switch it off.
I think Sony actually do that as part of one of the PSN tiers.
But I think the main driver behind no longer doing demos is that when they started analysing it, they found it mostly reduced sales. A lot of people were no longer interested enough to buy it after playing, at least not at full price. I gotta admit, back when demos were common on the front of magazines, there were very few that I actually purchased on the basis of the demo. The ones I did buy, I’d have probably got anyway, like Metal Gear Solid 2.
- Comment on Founder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts sales 22 hours ago:
I think it was Netflix that went through a period of releasing movies in cinemas and putting it on streaming on day one.
It was such a resounding success that they no longer do that.
I guess MS has deep enough pockets to not realise their folly yet. PSN Premium/Extra isn’t as good value from a consumer point of view, but it also hasn’t killed their own console. What that cannibalises is the “wait for a sale” people, who would likely have paid £20 for a game a year or two down the line. I think that’s a more manageable than losing all the day one £65 sales.
- Comment on Filter feeder behavior 1 day ago:
Twice, I’d imagine.
- Comment on Bitcoin investor moves $8 billion worth of crypto after 14 years, originally bought for less than $210,000 — 80,000 BTC transferred from Satoshi-era wallet 1 day ago:
Oh look, new money was old money all along.
Guess even they are cashing out.
- Comment on Anon describes experience 1 day ago:
Doubtful, but if anything mine would be more accurate. Fewer calculation steps to lose precision on. I think most spreadsheet software fudges floating point precision anyway. A computer programmer may accept that 0.1+0.2 is not 0.3 but an accountant or mathematician would not be having it.
I think she was just shit at maths tbh. As a kid you sort of assume all the teachers know more than you about every subject, and that’s not the case at all.
- Comment on Anon describes experience 1 day ago:
When I went to Tenerife, the chip and pin machine said “numero secreto correcto” and I’m still not convinced Spanish is a real language.
- Comment on Anon describes experience 1 day ago:
We had computer classes where we had to learn about spreadsheets.
To do a number plus ten percent we had to put in A1+A1*10/100
I did A1*1.1 like a normal person.
She then went round to make sure everyone had put it in correctly. Got annoyed at me and changed A1 to something else to expose my folly.
Was visibly annoyed when it showed the right answer.
- Comment on Microsoft has never been good at running game studios, which is a problem when it owns them all 1 day ago:
Halo predates BF2 by nearly four years.
- Comment on Microsoft has never been good at running game studios, which is a problem when it owns them all 2 days ago:
The first few were really good on console. I played the first one on PC as well and there was definitely something missing with mouse and keyboard controls.
You have to remember that most FPS on consoles were pretty terrible back then (e.g. Medal of Honor series), and there was a lot of experimentation to try and find a control scheme that didn’t completely suck, along with just the right amount of aim assist. Other devs were still wrestling with that into the Xbox 360 era. Sony put so much effort and money into Killzone, and it wasn’t anywhere near as good as Halo.
Plus, split screen co-op made it very popular. It’s one of the few games to keep that into the modern era as well.
- Comment on Microsoft has never been good at running game studios, which is a problem when it owns them all 2 days ago:
I assume a lot of the top level staff stick about until their contractually obliged period for getting a massive payday is over, and then look very closely at whether they actually want to be told what to do by a bunch of suits all day long.
Realistically they’re working to make somebody else richer at that point, and there’s only so much enthusiasm anyone can have for that. Certainly not enough for the long hours needed in the games industry.
- Comment on Microsoft has never been good at running game studios, which is a problem when it owns them all 2 days ago:
Bizarre Creations had the misfortune of being owned by both of them before being shut down.
It really shows that something is fucked up in businessland that they’re so bad at managing studios, when managing studios is literally all they fucking do.
Same with EA. It’s just a wasteland of dead companies. The list of studios they’ve closed is bigger than the list of ones they still own.
- Comment on Microsoft has never been good at running game studios, which is a problem when it owns them all 2 days ago:
We’ve bought these studios that are loved by gamers for their niche content.
What do you mean they’re not making the next Fortnite? Shut them down immediately.
- Comment on The driver for my mouse occupies over 1 gb 2 days ago:
I’m not 100% convinced that an emulation layer isn’t as heavy as a browser.
We had things like Java and QT, and none of it really took off. Apple is probably to blame here as well, for wanting everything to be native to iOS and ignoring the reality that developers don’t want to make five different versions of their software.
- Comment on Thanks to the "you need to buy a new PC for running W11" bullshit, scammers are selling ewaste at full price to inexperienced people 3 days ago:
I just got an N150 Mini PC for about that. Should be decent as a Jellyfin server.
- Comment on Thanks to the "you need to buy a new PC for running W11" bullshit, scammers are selling ewaste at full price to inexperienced people 3 days ago:
I used to have that CPU, but found it absolutely dying on it’s arse for VR Chat (which is notoriously badly optimised). I got a i5-8400 instead, which is about twice as fast for single threaded work (which is still the main bottleneck for most games). Your overclock would take it a decent amount of the way there, but most people aren’t going to do that, and it was getting a bit iffy even when I replaced it. Runs hot as well, I expect.
Since then they’ve got about twice as fast again. You don’t have to spend a lot on them to get that either. A Ryzen 9600X will have me set for the next 15 years (assuming they don’t ditch x86 CPUs altogether). AMD being competitive again has down wonders for performance boosts. Motherboards seem a lot more expensive these days though.
- Comment on Thanks to the "you need to buy a new PC for running W11" bullshit, scammers are selling ewaste at full price to inexperienced people 3 days ago:
Yeah, those are basically Mini PC prices. The CPU alone used to cost more than that.
The specs look perfectly adequate (I’m still running very similar for daily use), and 1TB SSD and 32GB RAM should keep you going no matter how many tabs you open or how bloated your PC gets.
Personally I’d get a new Ryzen Mini PC for that kind of money just for the form factor, but they’re hardly a scam. The main issue is that the crowd this is aimed at have very little use for a PC these days.
- Comment on The driver for my mouse occupies over 1 gb 3 days ago:
Yeah, I can see how it ended up like that, and it would at least be nice if Windows accepted that and had one copy of the browser rather than every app installing it’s own just in case of breaking changes.
And it would also be really nice if it only clogged the system for when it needs to show a UI, but I’ve got a ton of background processes that are also running a browser just in case today is the day that I finally need to see them. Just looking down task manager now at some suspect large processes, I can see a Razer “mouse driver”, Epic, Discord, Steam, Nvidia, Oculus, NordVPN, Signal…
None of these things need to be running a browser while I’m not looking at them.
But hey, lets throw another 32GB of RAM in there, and another dozen cores, and maybe we can achieve the dream of running each of them all in their own fucking operating system as well…
- Comment on Let people enjoy things 🙄 3 days ago:
He says on the “I hate Reddit” forum.
- Comment on Has Xbox Considered Laying One Person Off Instead Of Thousands 3 days ago:
Eh? They’ve been chasing the one-off Xbox 360 high for two generations now, and are nowhere near it. Sony have near full dominance in the console space. Valve have so much dominance in the PC space that they’ve got people to try Linux.
The aim of GamePass was that people would stream games and not need a console at all, and that just hasn’t happened for them. Their entire gamble was on cloud gaming, and it’s not paid off at all.
- Comment on Has Xbox Considered Laying One Person Off Instead Of Thousands 3 days ago:
As much as the higher tiers of PSN aren’t as good value as GamePass, it’s certainly lead to higher quality games for Sony’s platform as they can still get sales revenue from shorter or niche games, rather than just looking at a single figure and laying off whole studios.
I’d much rather pay money for a full game now (and I’ll be honest, my day one purchases this gen are limited to games I’m really interested in), or wait and play on sub later (and it’s about 18 months I think for games to go “free”), than have half a game on sub now and get nickle and dimed for the rest of it.
- Comment on Do you prefer Performance mode or Quality mode? 4 days ago:
Performance, but Death Stranding 2 looks weird (really washed out) in that so I left it on quality. It’s not a fast paced game, so I’m ok with that.
- Comment on The driver for my mouse occupies over 1 gb 4 days ago:
Actual driver code: about 500KB. If that.
- Comment on 4D Salmon 4 days ago:
Braid definitely has a large section like that, and a great final stage.
- Comment on Is anyone else not feeling that patriotic for July 4? 4 days ago:
Sounds like a great day for a false flag attack to solidify the masses against a perceived threat.
- Comment on School legend 4 days ago:
This is what happens when you let children watch the Tate brothers.
- Comment on The driver for my mouse occupies over 1 gb 4 days ago:
The sad reality of the end of Windows dominance.
- Comment on Uber Eats or something idk 5 days ago:
I’m a middle aged man. I’ve paid my mortgage. I’ve got savings. My pension is doing alright. I’ve got my shit together.
I still eat beans on toast more often than I get a takeaway. You don’t need to send half your dinner money to the silicon valley cunts that are fucking everything up. Support your local food places by going in, that way they get all the money.