naticus
@naticus@lemmy.world
- Comment on New Xhitter policy just dropped 9 hours ago:
I’m about 80% sure the point of the reply was that you didn’t use a comma. “Bluesky people” vs “Bluesky, people” means two different things.
- Comment on Half-Life 2 is currently 100% for its 20th anniversary 1 day ago:
Oh hell, mine too back in August. Guess I’ll have to take it out drinking next year.
- Comment on Day 87 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 5 weeks ago:
Yeah I heard something like that too, but I never heard of any success.
- Comment on Day 87 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 5 weeks ago:
Every time I see a post about Spore, I get sad I never played Dark Spore (despite owning it) before it got shut down.
- Comment on Day 69 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 1 month ago:
Some day I need to actually give this a go beyond what I played originally. I haven’t played this since the alpha days forever ago, and it looked like it had a lot of potential, but I didn’t have the patience. I think I helped fund it through their own site to play the super early build and then got the steam key from that when it released a long time after.
- Comment on "Quick" security check... I had to do 15 of these... 2 months ago:
Theseus who? I only know tHESEUS.
- Comment on An important update on Concord 2 months ago:
I know, how dare they?! Wait, am I allowed to respond in agreement with you???
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Yeah I quit WoW in 2009 and never went back, which would have been 15 years ago now, and lines up with what the OP was saying for timeline. I remember all the coming class changes that would homogenize things drastically, and already being rather annoyed with how things already were, I dipped without a regret, other than losing touch with friends from there. I’m only in contact with a few of them at this point and that’s a little sad, but we all move on eventually.
- Comment on Today's featured article on Wikipedia: Outer Wilds 2 months ago:
A friend begged me to play this and I just didn’t for a couple years despite owning it. Once I finally did it quickly became an all-time favorite. You should fix this yourself.
- Comment on Broken Sword - Shadow of the Templars: Reforged | Release Date Announcement Trailer [19.09.2024] 2 months ago:
I demand the goat puzzle be left intact for a new generation of gamers to become infuriated.
- Comment on Day 30 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 2 months ago:
Big “QUIT HAVING FUN” energy.
- Comment on Next Heroic Games Launcher release to include initial GOG Galaxy support 3 months ago:
I don’t know of an instance where it’s not used as DRM. Maybe on F2P games since there’s no license management? Would be interested in knowing where you’ve found it isn’t used. And yes, more clarity on what is happening under the hood would always be welcomed by me. I do feel I have a decent grasp of things just because of my IT background and work with cyber security, but closed source software will always have its secrets.
Also, definitely like the play on words with your username lol. I have a domain that is a pun on my last name, so I always like seeing creative ways people use their own names.
- Comment on Next Heroic Games Launcher release to include initial GOG Galaxy support 3 months ago:
I completely agree with you that Steam itself is DRM and that we use it for convenience.
But I do disagree with the same statement about GOG Galaxy because it doesn’t provide the same digital decrypting functionality that all DRM provides. They don’t do it because they don’t have to, proven by the ability to download the EXE and BIN files directly even in Galaxy. I liken the Galaxy app to using a VPN or other network tool like Hibachi people have used when a game only had couch co-op support.
Either way, your point is made, but I don’t see an issue with running a client app that provides so much. I don’t inherently trust Valve or GOG, but they haven’t done anything that I know of to betray me as a gamer or consumer. I do NOT however see a point in running a client app that also has additional launchers required afterwards like all Ubi games. DRM on top of DRM is anti gamer imo.
- Comment on Next Heroic Games Launcher release to include initial GOG Galaxy support 3 months ago:
That’s news to me, but looked it up and confirmed you’re absolutely right. That blows my mind, because in many circumstances it can be impossible for players to connect, especially in a double NAT situation or you’re playing on a network you have no control over (e.g. university network).
But comparing a safety feature to a technical requirement is a bit misleading here, no? This is more about making sure gamers can just play rather than having to reconfigure network equipment, which they may or may not have access to.
Honestly if Steam is down at this point, I’ve got bigger things to worry about personally. Does it happen? Do I curse the name of GabeN? Sure, but it’s such a rare instance and happens maybe once a year for a matter of an hour or so typically.
But let’s not confuse using a client app as being DRM. On GOG Galaxy, it’s not doing anything DRM related other than providing you access to download the game itself. All the client is doing is providing a “friends network” that everyone is connecting to and creating a cloud bridged connection. This solves any double NAT problems, obfuscates your IP, removes any need to make network config changes, and no one has to think about it.
- Comment on Next Heroic Games Launcher release to include initial GOG Galaxy support 3 months ago:
Doing things with a direct connection to friends is something no one does anymore. Port forwarding for a game? Yeah it’s fine for people who are technically minded like I’m sure anyone in the community is, but walking a friend through it on their router just to okay with them is a nonstarter. No, the cloud connection is how this is handled now. I haven’t seen a game in a decade do it via a direct connection from player to player.
- Comment on Next Heroic Games Launcher release to include initial GOG Galaxy support 3 months ago:
While I agree it can be painful to do anything multiplayer without dedicated network support in the game itself, it’s a nontrivial thing for devs to add. Expecting every dev studio to be network experts as well as having the infrastructure for the cloud peer connections is why Steam finally added a way for games to simulate couch co-op between remote players. I try to buy games on GOG as my first choice but there are definitely factors (including price) where I’ll consider Steam instead.
- Comment on Announcing the Kawaii - A keychain-sized Nintendo Wii 3 months ago:
Yours is better, but not 12yo humor enough for me. Lol
- Comment on Announcing the Kawaii - A keychain-sized Nintendo Wii 3 months ago:
Missed opportunity to call it the Wii Wii.
- Comment on $500 aluminum version of the Analogue Pocket looks like the Game Boy’s final form 3 months ago:
Let me just dust off my JNCOs from '98. I knew they’d be back!
- Comment on I put my number in a secure form for a trusted bank and immediately got spammed 4 months ago:
You really need to tell Mom to stop spamming you.
- Comment on Help Finding a Game 4 months ago:
And here I am blown away by the screenshots and want to wishlist it, only to see I already had it on my wishlist and remember NOTHING about seeing this previously.
- Comment on [Ahoy] What genre is DOOM? 6 months ago:
When the only choices are parkour or menus? Yes.
- Comment on [Ahoy] What genre is DOOM? 6 months ago:
Parkour
- Comment on Nintendo DMCAs Yuzu forks on GitHub 6 months ago:
Only thing surprising is that it took this long for it to happen. Everyone else knew that there would be immediate forks made but seems they took a month to catch up to speed with the internet.
- Comment on You have to type www. to access the Texas DMV website. 7 months ago:
Lol oh I never said it’s a good solution. The worst part isn’t running IIS, it’s running IIS on a donation controller. The better option is using a different domain for AD than your web domain, as long as it’s a publicly registered domain for certificate purposes.
- Comment on You have to type www. to access the Texas DMV website. 7 months ago:
Hilariously, I bet it’s because their Active Directory domain is the same as their public domain, and it becomes a massive pain in the ass to hostname the root domain. Yes, externally you can do it just fine, but then it’s not consistent internally on their private network.
- Comment on What games do you recommend to play with a girlfriend 8 months ago:
Was just thinking about My Time at Portia. Pretty new gamer friendly and when things start feeling tedious, a new mechanic is introduced to make everything you were doing easier. Haven’t played My Time at Sandrock, so can’t speak for the sequel.
- Comment on Original God of War trilogy remaster rumoured to be on the way 10 months ago:
And “Remake” is really a subtitle because it’s not a remake of the original, but rather a sequel.
- Comment on 'There's almost nobody left': CEO of Baldur's Gate 3 dev Swen Vincke says the D&D team he initially worked with is gone, due to Hasbro layoffs 11 months ago:
I kept trying to figure out the joke about the name Swen Vincke and was failing. Cocks. It was right there in front of me everyone. It was Cocks.
- Comment on Microsoft Xbox Rewards app is being shut down from December 11 months ago:
Sounds like the free-est of syncs.