TheDarkKnight
@TheDarkKnight@lemmy.world
- Comment on How is Russia not Financially Crippled? 11 months ago:
India kinda got fucked by Europe in the earlier chapters, lol we let em have this one I say.
- Comment on Former Rockstar animator reckons it's "gonna be a long time" before GTA 6 comes to PC 1 year ago:
Meh, I’ll skip it then.
- Comment on What game did you last finish? What did you think of it? 1 year ago:
How are you doing controls for Terraria on SD? Every scheme I’ve tried has been super clunky but I love that game and it is perfect for SD.
- Comment on On Starfield And Hogwarts Legacy’s Single TGA Nomination Between Them 1 year ago:
Hogwarts was fun, not really all that groundbreaking in any particular way but it was a good take on that universe for sure.
- Comment on On Starfield And Hogwarts Legacy’s Single TGA Nomination Between Them 1 year ago:
I don’t hate it, I’m mostly just ambivalent to it. It felt like Bethesda’s Ubisoft moment, where they went from being a company that had been doing something really well and switched to doing something really safe…which is iust boring and generic nowadays. For the first ten or fifteen hours it was like ooh my first Bethesda game in ages! And then I put it down and never felt compelled to go back. I don’t hate it, I don’t love it, I don’t really feel anything towards it. Skyrim grabbed me from jump street and I was all in, same with FO…idk I really wanted to like Starfield…but I just never really felt anything towards it.
- Comment on GTA 6’s Publisher Says Video Games Should Theoretically Be Priced At Dollars Per Hour 1 year ago:
You seem like the kinda fella that could appreciate Brotato too :-)
- Comment on GTA 6’s Publisher Says Video Games Should Theoretically Be Priced At Dollars Per Hour 1 year ago:
It’s like people don’t know Brotato even exists!
- Comment on How should I go about making an online identity that can't be tracked by advertisers? 1 year ago:
Great field, you’ll love it. Except on vacations!
- Comment on How should I go about making an online identity that can't be tracked by advertisers? 1 year ago:
Hahaha suddenly one day you do wake up and find yourself working in Cybersecurity when all you wanted to do originally was block some annoying ads.
- Comment on Maybe this isn't proper shopping but $18.50 for four veggie burgers, buns, and danish seems like a lot 1 year ago:
For comparison I was in Germany recently and to a supermarket, 6 half liter beers (variety of em too), nice bottle of wine, cheese, crackers, salami and some dessert type chocolate crackers…$20.
- Comment on America is so great we privatized taxes 1 year ago:
Yes, agree with that. Health Insurance is just to ensure you have to have a job it feels like.
- Comment on Sony Defends PS Plus Price Rises - IGN 1 year ago:
“We’re garbage at cloud gaming but give us more money!”
- Comment on America is so great we privatized taxes 1 year ago:
And to your point, traditional insurance (home, auto, etc) pretty much targets a specific profit margin of about 3% or $0.03 for every dollar they take in. They tend to get eaten alive by competition when they get greedy, unlike a lot of other industries. But rates increase as costs increase ro maintain that 3% target…and costs have increased a LOT in recent years.
It’s a pretty misunderstood industry tbh, and not without its own issues for sure. But overall it has its purpose and is heavily regulated to ensure they’re playing responsibly.
- Comment on Why do many folks play follow the leader even into adulthood? 1 year ago:
Yep, well said. For OP’s question… It’s pretty common to see a leader bring his whole group with him/her wherever they go and people follow because having a good leader is pretty tough to come by. I know a lot more people loyal to a particular person than a particular company.
- Comment on This concept for budget double decker airline seating 1 year ago:
Y’all getting kinda thicc too, no offense.
- Comment on What kind of upbringing makes an incel? 1 year ago:
Maybe it’s on the incels themselves, mostly. Not to be rude and not including those with severe mental disorders but life is hard and everyone is mostly the result of your own choices. If we constantly create excuses and look for someone else to blame for this particular group, I think we do them more harm than good.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
You can support the side of peace for all people regardless of Palestine or Israel. Civilians should be left alone and both sides have committed atrocities against the other. Fucking awful situation.
- Comment on The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion - 02-10-2023 1 year ago:
Cyberpunk!!
- Comment on Why wasn't former President Bush of the USA, charged with any crimes, when we marched into Afghanistan and Iraq by his orders, under pretenses? 1 year ago:
Even Powell? Always assumed he resigned once he realized he’d been used to sell that false evidence for Iraq.
- Comment on Open source community figures out problems with performance in Starfield 1 year ago:
I guess though I mean it is expected at this stage of game development for this genre to have seamless planet travel. Like it didn’t have to be NMS or Elite Dangerous, they could’ve copied something like how Jedi Fallen Order did it, where basically your ship takes off from the planet, jumps to hyperspace and loads the next one during hyperspace and lets you know when you’re ‘arriving’ (aka when the destination is loaded). It ends up being the same thing as what Starfield basically does but handles it much more deftly.
Idk, just saying there’s better ways they could’ve handled it even if the engine couldn’t handle seamless planet travel in a traditional sense.
- Comment on Should I just quit urban and social life for a rural and lonely life? 1 year ago:
Yeah, do it. 100%.
- Comment on Tim Sweeney says Epic Games Store is open to devs using generative AI 1 year ago:
Man this is one legal mess we’re going to have to iron out as a society. I see both sides, obviously a creator doesn’t want their work to be utilized in a way they don’t approve…on the other hand we severely limit ourselves on AI development if we don’t use the collective work of society as a whole. And policing may be a LOT harder than people realize…taking that too far while it protects authors and creatives may ultimately mean falling behind in this area to competitive countries.
For games, at least it kind of makes sense to want to use a model that doesn’t have things trained from libraries or television/movies. You don’t want to be talking to an NPC in a Star Wars game that keeps referencing Harry Potter as an example lol…might be a little immersion breaking haha.
But also, AI usage could bring development a step forward. Indie devs may be able to produce AAA quality experiences on their normal budget, or conversely hobbyist may be able to create Indie-level games.
I see AI bringing us potentially marrying a lot of silos of entertainment in the future. We may move beyond movies, TV shows, gaming into more collective “experiences” that combine the best aspects of all of these mediums.
Idk what the answer is but it’s going to be interesting to see how it plays out.
- Comment on Study: Streamers Now Wasting Record Amounts of Time Finding Something to Watch 1 year ago:
Broke out of this habit by forcing myself to have a handful of games I’m playing concurrently. Some that are right up my alley, others that are gems from outside of my typical interests, a few that are flyers. I try to pick from that group first before going to the libraries…but mainly because my library is out of control and everywhere. One thing that helps is Playnite as a launcher…that keeps all your libraries in one place and makes it really easy to manage.
- Comment on [MEGATHREAD] Starfield - Your experiences! 1 year ago:
Man, preach
- Comment on [MEGATHREAD] Starfield - Your experiences! 1 year ago:
Boy oh boy everyone hates inventory limits and tedious management but devs still feel the need to make sure we have a reason to return towns and what not as the excuse.
Like fuck you, give me a better reason than inconveniencing the fuck out of me while I was out in your world having fun.
- Comment on Strange New Worlds continues to rank in the Nielsen US streaming top ten 1 year ago:
Fr, I’m not a trekkie but now I’m a trekkie lol.
- Comment on Kevin doesn't share though 1 year ago:
Guitar picks, little known fact!
- Comment on I feel superior 1 year ago:
Lol I still check it on PC sometimes but Lemmy has completely replaced it on mobile for me.
- Comment on Microsoft will sell Activision Blizzard streaming rights to Ubisoft 1 year ago:
Still an awful company
- Comment on How is former president of the US Donald Trump still free when a lot of the accomplices in things he has been indicted for are already in jail and or prison except him? 1 year ago:
Seems weird to think that something that accomplished absolutely nothing is a good use of taxpayer money but go off fam on the midwest.