Olap
@Olap@lemmy.world
Scottish loon sometimes in Caithness, usually in Edinburgh. Likes rugby, F1, reading, cooking, and irn bru
- Comment on UK Retailer GAME To End All In-Store Video Game Sales 6 days ago:
Me too Shyfer, I buy 2nd hand a lot
- Comment on UK Retailer GAME To End All In-Store Video Game Sales 6 days ago:
Noy hugely surprising given next gen consoles to all be without disc trays even
- Comment on Almost a third of household smart meters not working properly, says Citizens Advice 5 weeks ago:
Almost like relying on wireless connections is a recipe for disaster for longevity of any tech. We can’t build anything any more to last more than a decade
- Comment on Surge Engine, the open source Sonic-like game engine (and game) gets upgraded 5 weeks ago:
Now of f-droid too!
- Comment on The RTS genre will never be mainstream unless you change it until it's 'no longer the kind of RTS that I want to play,' says Crate Entertainment CEO 1 month ago:
Beyond all Reason in a similar space
- Comment on “Untitled Star Trek Origin Story” film officially added to Paramount Pictures' 2025-2026 lineup. 2 months ago:
Archer returns!
- Comment on Star Trek DS9: Quark's Root Beer Analogy (LaserDisc) [4K] 2 months ago:
This is a fantastic upscale. Laserdisc obviously a great source too. Maybe one day we’ll see some releases…
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Discovery | 5x01 "Red Directive" and 5x02 "Under the Twin Moons" 2 months ago:
So good to have trek back!
- Comment on 6 months ago:
Classics FPSes included Unreal Tournament 2004 and Quake 3. Both scale from 1 on 1 to 16 players well, meaning days of fun. Xonotic the open source clone, which is also very good
Worms is a hoot, can hotseat or LAN, armageddon I think the high point of the series. Hedgewars a more than worthy OS reimagining
RTSes are soo many, Warcraft 3, C&C series, or Total Annihilation all modded, all great. My choice is Balanced Annihilation or OpenRA for 2023 and OS
4X have classics like civ, but Stellaris a worthy choice too. Open source here includes unciv
Racing games are often a hoot too. You can get far too serious here if you want, but I recommend SuperTuxKart for some mariokart like action
Scorched3d another option for artillery fun. But generally Open Source all offer LAN gaming!
- Comment on Paramount+ confirms series order for 'Starfleet Academy' 7 months ago:
Species 8573 Boothby?
Guinan lives forever, whoopy to make a return?
- Comment on Paramount+ confirms series order for 'Starfleet Academy' 7 months ago:
Nice. Tilly back?
- Comment on What's your favorite game through the ears of Original Soundtrack? 8 months ago:
Doom 2017
Total Annihilation - if you put the CD on a player it played!
Red Alert
GTA 3 Vice City
Mass Effect
- Comment on Just Stop Oil protestors interrupt UK’s biggest games event EGX 8 months ago:
Severe OG at a video games tournament
- Comment on SexualActivityRecord 9 months ago:
An operating system. An app? Fair enough. An OS? Are you out of your mind?
- Comment on SexualActivityRecord 9 months ago:
Wtf? Who gives this kind of information to an OS?
- Comment on What Does Fabric Conditioner Do? And Should I Use It? 9 months ago:
Personal preference really. I don’t with soft water in Scotland. And generally wash at 40, air dry (dehumidifier a must for a family), and don’t iron. Using a non-bio powder. I also add a colour catcher though, which keeps those black metals blacker
- Comment on My First Post 10 months ago:
Tha sin sgoinneil!
Hashtags not so much usage
- Comment on Microsoft’s Xbox Series S Parity Demands Are Now Handing Sony Free Wins 10 months ago:
You think split screen is new? You think this hasn’t been done before? You think this is the first generation of consoles to bitch about one of them?
Whinging about the S is a small brain reply to Microsoft who aren’t willing to compromise. And good for them. There is plenty of hardware in an S and devs if they want to sell more need to target it first. No use crying about a design decisions made years ago wrt the hardware envelope. Drop some shit, make it work, run some flamecharts, optimise some more
- Comment on Microsoft’s Xbox Series S Parity Demands Are Now Handing Sony Free Wins 10 months ago:
Looking like shit is fine if it still plays! Look at the success of BattleBit. A timely reminder for EA working on the next Battlefield
- Comment on Microsoft’s Xbox Series S Parity Demands Are Now Handing Sony Free Wins 10 months ago:
I’ll bet bandwidth more. Dynamic loading of assets isn’t an old technique - it’s ancient, but the more detailed everything becomes, the harder it is. Some of the textures are incredibly large in modern games dev now too. But shipping lower res versions can be prohibitive also with SSD space at a premium.
But essentially if you want to target the current generation. Build it for the S first!
- Comment on Microsoft’s Xbox Series S Parity Demands Are Now Handing Sony Free Wins 10 months ago:
Wow, I’ve never had such a condescending reply - even on Reddit!
The article is clearly lacking in details like you described. But did you know that we used to have open world RPGs like Balders Gate 2 run on what are now potatoes?
Here’s another hint. World state will be measured in 100s of MB. Twice means there’s still loads of gigs left to play with. The S has loads of CPU too. This will be almost entirely a look problem
- Comment on Microsoft’s Xbox Series S Parity Demands Are Now Handing Sony Free Wins 10 months ago:
It isn’t clear why here. I presume performance, in which case drop some polygons, reduce some particles, limit lighting bounces. It’s an RPG - gfx are secondary!
- Comment on Federation issues? 10 months ago:
It made it there eventually. Stuck in a queue I suspect somewhere
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- Comment on Small Voyager Easter Egg from Picard Season 2 Episode 2 10 months ago:
Damn nu-trek actually cares!