VindictiveJudge
@VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world
- Comment on Saw this at the store this morning, took a double take 2 days ago:
So, there are these things called candy cigarettes. They are candy shaped like cigarettes. Despite simply being things like bubble gum or chocolate, it turns out that people who ate them as kids are about twice as likely to smoke real cigarettes as adults. This has resulted in them being banned as advertising tobacco products to children in a good number of countries. This add for nonalcoholic beer specifically saying that minors can buy it can easily be argued to be the same kind of thing, with the same kind of legal response. If consuming non-alcoholic beer as a minor results in significantly higher rates of alcohol consumption as an adult, then ads for non-alcoholic beer that target children, like the one shown, might be worth a ban.
- Comment on Cancelled Quake 4 expansion gets surprise GitHub release after former XCOM 2 developer discovers it on an old hard drive: 'This essentially saved my life' 4 days ago:
Well, Deathloop is set in Tyvia…
- Comment on Cancelled Quake 4 expansion gets surprise GitHub release after former XCOM 2 developer discovers it on an old hard drive: 'This essentially saved my life' 4 days ago:
Death of the Outsider is the game after 2. It’s technically a stand-alone expansion rather than a game, though; it’s more like Dishonored 1’s Knife of Dunwall and Brigmore Witches expansions than it is a proper Dishonored 3, it just runs on its own executable rather than from a menu within Dishonored 2.
- Comment on Cancelled Quake 4 expansion gets surprise GitHub release after former XCOM 2 developer discovers it on an old hard drive: 'This essentially saved my life' 4 days ago:
Technically, Deathloop is Dishonored 3. Death of the Outsider kind of killed the base gameplay premise that Dishonored 1 and 2 were built on, though, so I wouldn’t expect a true Dishonored 3… ever, really.
- Comment on WTF Is Happening To The Video Game Industry? 1 week ago:
teams of hundreds of devs are working 996: 9 am to 9 pm, 6 days a week
And probably being about as productive as if they were working 9 to 5 four days a week. Exhaustion is really bad for productivity.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I used to be on both startrek.website and world, then Stamets revealed what a shitshow st.ws was and I abandoned that account. And what do you know, one of their moderators was suddenly very publicly an asshole.
- Comment on Fallout 5 officially in pre-production, being built on Elder Scrolls VI engine 4 weeks ago:
They’re making it in Creation 3, which is almost certainly a new iteration of Gamebryo/Creation Engine.
- Comment on Refer to the chart 4 weeks ago:
The thing is, it’s the same voice actor, but they didn’t use the usual filter.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
I have some blank floppies I use as coasters. Seriously, though, just changing the physical format the games are distributed on would be a very smart move.
Nintendo not just keeping physical media but going back to cartridges with the Switch and now the Switch 2 has been a fantastic move for them. They increased the price of their console, same as MS and Sony, but it hasn’t gone up nearly as much since the system has barely any storage space in it. And it doesn’t really need the storage because games don’t need to install to compensate for the relatively low optical drive read speeds. Sure, games are the same price or even a bit higher so total cost of ownership after a few years is probably comparable, but the lower buy-in cost has caused them to rapidly gain market share.
- Comment on Anon ruins christmas 5 weeks ago:
It doesn’t have land, but it does have ice. People have walked to it from Canada.
- Comment on My pizza doesn't list the temperature it should be cooked at 1 month ago:
Or it could be LLM slop.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 2's co-lead designer was asked to make Baldur's Gate 4 after Larian declined: 'Having to compete against Baldur's Gate 3? That would be insanity' 1 month ago:
Even if they really want to use an existing series for the brand recognition, they could do Neverwinter Nights or Icewind Dale or something.
- Comment on 50 Iconic Vehicles From Video Games 1 month ago:
They also list the Fenrir motorcycle and cite the movie Advent Children instead of the one game it appeared in, which is Dirge of Cerberus, even though they cited the X-Wing as being from Battlefront.
- Comment on GTA 6 Price Finally Confirmed, Features a 'Single-Player Experience' at Launch 1 month ago:
Sometimes the key function works by keeping critical files on the disc and never installing them to the system. Might install the art assets but not the executable, for instance.
- Comment on GTA 6 Price Finally Confirmed, Features a 'Single-Player Experience' at Launch 1 month ago:
Games haven’t actually been played off of the disc in ages, though. The system typically just uses it for installation to the HDD or SSD and then as a key to allow the user to run the program.
- Comment on GTA 6 Price Finally Confirmed, Features a 'Single-Player Experience' at Launch 1 month ago:
Blueray Discs, which max out at around 30-40GB of data at the top of my head
Single layer BDs are 25GB, but dual-layer BDs are 50GB and released simultaneously in 2006, 2010 introduced triple-layer discs with 100GB capacity, and we’ve had quadruple-layer discs at 125GB since 2018. I’m not sure I’ve ever even seen a single layer BD, to be honest.
- Comment on Anon the Hutt 1 month ago:
And in addition to being essentially a narco-state, the Hutt Cartel is also a rump state, being the remnants of the Hutt Empire, which was the largest and most powerful nation before the rise of the Galactic Republic.
- Comment on The 1996 experience 1 month ago:
Minerva Mink
She only had two starring shorts because the showrunners decided she was too sexy for something aimed primarily at kids. Didn’t even get to the suits asking them to tone it down, they just decided they had crossed a line all on their own.
- Comment on Congratulations! 1 month ago:
- Comment on I still can't get over Skyrim. Are there any games that can replace it? 2 months ago:
It’s not done yet, but it’s very close.
- Comment on Valve to no longer offer physical gift cards due to scammers 2 months ago:
I had a manager that spent a good twenty minutes explaining to this little old lady that the guy asking her to send gift cards was not Jason Momoa.
- Comment on FINAL FANTASY VII REVELATION - Reveal Trailer 2 months ago:
I was kind of hoping they’d continue the other theme naming for the FF7 series and call it Final Crisis.
- Comment on something to be reinvented 2 months ago:
Well, you could send a lump of pure gold. That would have atoms but no molecules. You could try it with silver or iron, too, but the surface would probably start to oxidize before you got it into the box.
- Comment on something to be reinvented 2 months ago:
They actually repealed that in 2022. I’d guess the problem has to do with the destruction of mail sorting machines during Trump’s first term and a decline in people mailing letters.
- Comment on wat 2 months ago:
Nope. Quantum entanglement is when two particles are made to have the same states. Measuring one tells you about the other one in much the same way you can tell what someone you’ve never met before looks like if you’ve seen their identical twin. Also, much like how punching one twin in the face and breaking their nose has no effect on the other twin fifty miles away, doing something to one half of an entangled pair does nothing to the other. In fact, because they’re no longer identical, the particles aren’t considered to be entangled anymore.
Entanglement can be used for encryption, but it can’t be used to transmit data.
- Comment on Splinter Cell designer says “one of the difficulties with modern stealth games” is realistic lighting, as environments are now so much “harder to read” 2 months ago:
Or make lighting less of a factor in detection. Line of sight only worked just fine for Dishonored, and Assassin’s Creed used to have a fantastic social stealth system.
- Comment on 60% of PC gamers have no plans to build a new PC in the next two years — AI pricing crunch on RAM and other components paralyze enthusiast market 2 months ago:
This is what I do. The only parts left from the original build are a pair of 2TB HDDs installed back when it was a Win7 system.
- Comment on Single player, open world, fantasy, RPG games 2 months ago:
Hawke is like Shepard; you can customize them, but the pre-made face model has more detail than what you can make in the character creator.
- Comment on Day 664 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 months ago:
Bloom was brand new. Devs didn’t have access to it at all until that console generation and took a while to figure out how to use it right.
The ‘real is brown’ phase was similar, with devs suddenly being able to use color grading and having no idea how to use that responsibly.
- Comment on First Skywind progress video since 2024 3 months ago:
Most Skyrim SE mods are compatible with Skyrim VR, so there’s a chance.