Zarxrax
@Zarxrax@lemmy.world
- Comment on A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"? 4 days ago:
Exactly this. Yoshi’s Story was a follow up to Yoshi’s Island, often considered one of the greatest 2d platformers of all time. I spent weeks if not months completing Yoshi’s Island. Then when Yoshi’s Story came out, I rented it and completed it over the weekend.
- Comment on First/notable 3D games where you could dive below water (and walk on land) 5 days ago:
I think tomb raider let you swim underwater.
- Comment on Classic Gaming: Retro Gaming Growing Up 1 week ago:
I’m a little younger, I grew up playing the NES. I had so much fun and some of my best memories are from playing those games with friends and stuff. But I find it really hard to revisit most of those games based on their own merit.
There is definitely a thing about playing games together with another person that can be magical. And that isn’t gone. You can still do that today with modern games. So in that regard, I don’t think there is anything particularly special about 80s games. Heck, it wasn’t until the N64 that it was common for more than 2 people to be able to play together. A bunch of guys hanging out and all playing a game together was great.
I think losing that is just a factor of growing up. You move on from your friends, maybe you don’t make any new ones, you start mainly playing against faceless strangers online… It’s not a problem with the games, it’s a problem with the players.
- Comment on Why do people like Mario Kart? 1 week ago:
It’s fun because you never know what will happen. It’s not totally random, the more skilled players will tend to win more often than not, just not every time. Also there are other game modes than just racing. Back when me and my friends played on SNES and N64, it was almost always battle mode.
- Comment on What did Musk and Trump fall out over? 1 week ago:
Nah, musk has said some stuff that you don’t come back from. There is no way Trump says “eh, he accused me of being a pedophile but it’s all good”.
- Comment on MultiVersus officially closes down and is delisted today 2 weeks ago:
I bought the first Nickelodeon game a couple months after it released, and the online was already dead, I literally couldn’t find a match. Just went ahead and got a refund on it.
- Comment on MultiVersus officially closes down and is delisted today 3 weeks ago:
It really sucked because Smash Bros is basically the only other big platform fighter on the market. Multiversus was set up to actually be a viable alternative to smash, it was massively popular at first, and they had such an amazing library of characters to pull from. The game had everything going for it. And they just blew it. So badly.
- Comment on Looking to get into Sonic games 3 weeks ago:
Well, you could play the original Sega Genesis games, since that’s where it all started.
- Comment on Game media preservation, where? 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Fishing games? 1 month ago:
The only fishing game I’ve ever played was The Black Bass on the NES. Being an older game, it has fairly simplistic gameplay that’s actually very similar to the fishing mini games that you see today.
- Comment on What's everybody using for AI art and video generation nowadays? 2 months ago:
I like swarmui. It’s an easy to use interface for generation, but it’s built on top of comfyui. The easy interface can handle most common scenarios, but if you need a really complex workflow, you just click over to another tab and you have direct access to the actual comfyui, to build up whatever workflow you want.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 2 months ago:
I don’t really feel like going down the rabbit hole of trying a hundred different distros to maybe find one that works. My experiences with those two were that things were completely broken, randomly. Like just trying to boot the USB installer would lock up half the time, the installer itself would fail partway through most of the time, when things got fully installed, trying to update or install new things would just fail randomly. The kde desktop would crash just from me changing settings in the kde menus.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 2 months ago:
They are ranked number 3 and 13 on distro watch, so they are hardly unknown. And lots on Linux YouTubers were talking about how great they were.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 2 months ago:
My priorities are being able to run Davinci resolve and Steam games. Nobara ticks those boxes while advertising itself as user friendly. I have heard too many stories of people having trouble getting this stuff running on something like Linux mint, so I didn’t go in that direction. I need to do more with my computer than just view web sites or write code.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 2 months ago:
A couple weeks ago I attempted to switch over to Linux. Tried installing both Cachyos and Nobara. It was kind of a shit show, nothing worked correctly, stuff was erroring out and crashing left and right, and after a couple days I gave up.
Today I went ahead and installed windows 11. There were some issues… It wouldn’t recognize my CD key, and I accidentally wiped a partition from the wrong drive. But as for the os itself, I spent a few hours getting things set up, and it’s not as horrible as I thought it would be. I was able to simply turn off most of the shit like copilot and recall, and all the advertisements, and I pretty much have it working as I want it to.
- Comment on Thoughts on Mario Kart World 2 months ago:
Looks like some of the biggest changes the series has ever seen. I’m excited for it, but like many others, not excited enough for the price they are asking right now.
- Comment on How did you get your job? 2 months ago:
I basically just learned it on the job, from examining some existing queries that we used and then messing around with it, and a few tutorials on the side.
- Comment on Which is the suitable instance for creating AI communities? 3 months ago:
dbzer0 is pretty friendly to ai and has a few communities on there.
- Comment on Square Enix will be revisiting Chrono Trigger in several projects in 2025 to mark game's 30th anniversary 3 months ago:
Hopefully they will finally announce some kind of a proper remake. I thought the dragon quest xi engine would have been perfect for it, but I would settle for one of those hd2d things.
- Comment on How did you get your job? 3 months ago:
I’m kind of in between the business and tech. I make sure some of our internal software is running correctly and I run SQL queries and stuff to look for problems in our data. I can help create stories to pass to IT for them to develop fixes for issues or for new functionality in our software.
- Comment on How did you get your job? 3 months ago:
Graduated around 2008 as the economy was crashing, and struggled to find anything. Eventually got hired at a call center for a large company (about a year after I had applied for it). After a few years of that I was able to transfer into a different department where I didn’t have to deal with customers directly, then kept getting promoted to different positions until I found one I was really comfortable in.
- Comment on This Company Got a Copyright for an Image Made Entirely With AI. Here's How 4 months ago:
Headline: “This company got a copyright for an image made entirely with AI”
From the article: “In the certificate of registration, also viewed by CNET, the office said that the AI-generated components were excluded from the copyright claim.”
Clickbait aside, it’s clear that there was an element of human authorship here, and those aspects of the image are what can be copyrighted. This is in line with recent guidelines that the copyright office provided regarding AI generation.
- Comment on Multiversus ends updates, will close servers on May 30 (but will remain playable in Singleplayer) 4 months ago:
I’ve been playing this game ever since beta and have enjoyed it. It’s a shame to see it go, but I guess I got my money’s worth, since I paid nothing. Still, I can’t understand why they can’t just let people keep playing online like every other fighting game out there. I would even be willing to pay a one time fee if I knew the basic gameplay would remain available.
- Comment on Large Language Models in Video Games? 4 months ago:
I feel like if an NPC doesn’t have something meaningful to say, then they may as well not exist. Otherwise they just serve to waste the players time.
- Comment on Nvidia Announces RTX 50's Graphic Card Blackwell Series: RTX 5090 ($1999), RTX 5080 ($999), RTX 5070 Ti ($749), RTX 5070 ($549) 5 months ago:
LOL, their demo shows Cyberpunk running at a mere 27fps on the 5090 with DLSS off. Is that supposed to sell me on this product?
- Comment on Porting Dragon’s Lair To The Game Boy Color Was A Technical Triumph 5 months ago:
It looks like the rom size is around 4 Megabytes, so that is really quite impressive.
It reminds me of Dragons Lair 3 which I believe came on 6 floppies.
- Comment on Making peace with liking very few games? 6 months ago:
I’ve found that as I got older, my taste in games has narrowed significantly. I used to be able to play pretty much anything, or especially any popular or critically acclaimed games. But these days I just don’t give a shit about most of what’s out there. I do have certain genres and developers that interest me though, so I know there are occasionally going to be some new games that I really like. And every now and then I might get surprised by something too.
- Comment on Intel Arc B580 'Battlemage' GPU announced - 1440p Ultra gaming for $249 6 months ago:
Slightly better performance than a 4060 and $50 cheaper. But the 4060 is a few years old at this point, so is it actually a good deal? Questionable.
- Comment on SANA: Efficient High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Linear Diffusion Transformers 6 months ago:
Looks like an exciting model. I am curious to see how it will be with finetunes and controlnets. Could potentially be better than sdxl. It does unfortunately appear to be a non commercial license though, which might limit interest.
- Comment on Warner Bros. Admits MultiVersus Underperformed, Contributing to Another $100 Million Hit to Revenue in Its Games Business 7 months ago:
The game was in a pretty rough state when they relaunched it, but they have been slowly improving it a bit at a time (it often feels like 2 steps forward, 1 step back). I feel like the game is in a pretty good spot though. I enjoy it and am looking forward to season 4.