p03locke
@p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Freelance Video Game Journalists Are Propping Up The Industry, And Many Are Being Paid Dogshit In Return 1 week ago:
The entirety of the internet is unusable without ad blockers.
- Comment on Ubisoft boss says it knows players think it has an 'inconsistency in quality,' so it delayed Assassin's Creed Shadows to flip that script 2 weeks ago:
If buying isn’t owning, then piracy isn’t stealing.
- Comment on Tencent collaborated with Snoop Dogg for Fortnite, officially adding the 'C-Walk' as a dance, a notorious gang sign for the Crips. 2 weeks ago:
Q: How does Snoop answer the phone? A: I’ll make the song.
- Comment on "EU-Linux:" Petition calls for the implementation of an EU-Linux operating system in public administrations across all EU countries 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, makes sense to North Korea, too. I’m not sure they’re an example to follow, though.
To be clear, nation states controlling the tools that their employees and, potentially, wider population communicate and access information is a dystopian vision, and I cannot agree with that point at all.
Wow, what a way to take the most extreme POV possible on an issue.
- Comment on BioWare Has No Plans for Dragon Age: The Veilguard DLC as It Turns Its Attention to Mass Effect 5 2 weeks ago:
Yep, we already beat that dead IP into the ground, so let’s do it for another one!
- Comment on AI Slop Is Flooding Medium 3 weeks ago:
Shitty tech opinions were flooding Medium before, so it’s not much of a difference.
- Comment on Vampire Survivors: Ode to Castlevania DLC Coming - 31st October 4 weeks ago:
Konami died the moment they fire Kojima and embraced the god of pachinko machines.
- Comment on Star Citizen Expose Paints a Fairly Bleak Picture: 'There's No Actual Focus on Getting the Game Done' 4 weeks ago:
Chris Roberts is still rich, and could probably retire right now without worrying about anything. He could tank the company, and he wouldn’t care.
- Comment on The Great Escape's weird 2003 game 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Oblivion Horse Armour dev looks back on hated DLC – “We had no idea what we were doing” 5 weeks ago:
The sad part is that most of the whales aren’t actually that rich…
- Comment on Hong Kong plans to install thousands of surveillance cameras. Critics say it’s more proof the city is moving closer to China. 5 weeks ago:
If they didn’t want to be annexed by China, they shouldn’t have signed a treaty to do so.
- Comment on Steam's new disclaimer reminds everyone that you don't actually own your games, GOG moves in for the killshot: Its offline installers 'cannot be taken away from you' 5 weeks ago:
If anything is a “Bethesda-killer”, it’s games like Outer Wilds, not The Outer Worlds.
- Comment on Alan Wake, Control developer agrees €15m convertible loan from Tencent 1 month ago:
This is not the place for commas. This calls for a slash.
Alan Wake / Control developer agrees
- Comment on Ubisoft's Board is Launching an Investigation Into The Company Struggles 1 month ago:
- Comment on Ubisoft's Board is Launching an Investigation Into The Company Struggles 1 month ago:
Well, it also doesn’t help how much they are “accidentally” insulting multiple racial groups trying to make an Assassins’ Creed game.
- Comment on Don’t ever hand your phone to the cops: Digital IDs make it tempting to leave your driver’s license at home — but that’s a dangerous risk. 1 month ago:
I have a question: Is a FAQ case law?
- Comment on Google’s GameNGen AI Doom video game generator: dissecting a rigged demo 2 months ago:
The demo was neat, but it was hilariously overhyped, even in the abstract paper. It was pretty damn obvious that the researchers were just trying to continue funding their research with a PR push.
The more interesting aspect was the potential for better AI video processing, not creating a game engine. You can’t create a game engine without a series of defined rules, and you can’t define those rules without documenting it in programming language.
- Comment on "Modding is pretty big" says Baldur's Gate 3 director as over 1m mods are installed in less than 24 hours 2 months ago:
That kind of ownership clause is pretty standard for mods, especially when the game officially supports mods. Game studios don’t want to run into legal issues if they release some DLC or patch that happens to implement features that another mod included.
- Comment on Anon goes to Long John Silvers 2 months ago:
God, that’s so accurate.
Although, you could replace “brand” with “adult”, and it would work for memes that kids have propagated.
- Comment on Anon learns how to lucid dream 2 months ago:
Then I woke up, at first impressed that I did that. Then I just couldn’t help but wonder if I was just dreaming that I lucid dreamed and that the choices I made were actually just a part of the dream.
Your choices in a dream are colored by the reduced mental output you have when you’re dreaming. In a dream, you might make a lot of dumb decisions than make perfect sense in the dream, but are immediately illogical when you think about them awake.
With lucid dreaming, you have an increased self-awareness, but you’re still in a low-activity brainwave state.
- Comment on Anon boots up a game 2 months ago:
your reign of terror shoulda ended with Indigo Prophecy.
Well, at least it ended with JASON!
- Comment on Why EU leaders should get off Musk's X 2 months ago:
Why
EU leadersPeople should get off Musk’s XFTFY.
- Comment on Anon isn't a fan of Judas 2 months ago:
If you’re not first, you’re last. -Ricky Bobby
- Comment on In Leak, Facebook Partner Brags About Listening to Your Phone’s Microphone to Serve Ads for Stuff You Mention 2 months ago:
The company added that it does not “listen to any conversations or have access to anything beyond a third-party aggregated, anonymized and fully encrypted data set that can be used for ad placement” and “regret[s] any confusion.”
That doesn’t sound like kooky bullshit to me. That sounds exactly like what the OP’s title suggests.
- Comment on Chinese company busted showing off humanoid robots that actually have humans inside 2 months ago:
(N.S.F.W.)
And paywalled.
- Comment on 'AI is coming for all of us:' Mass Effect, Metal Gear Solid, and Baldur's Gate voice actor Jennifer Hale weighs in on SAG-AFTRA's games industry strike 2 months ago:
we’ll burn out from endless selection of predictable movies and other entertainment
We aren’t already doing that? Even without AI, most of today’s writers suck ass, and corporate meddling has stomped out risk taking. Writers have no chance to build experience with good shows with longevity. With no risk, there is no creativity.
All of the good series were ones from cable TV. Breaking Bad, Sopranos, old Star Trek, Mr. Robot, Babylon 5, House, Rick and Morty, Game of Thrones (even if it ended badly), Better Call Saul, The Expanse (which died immediately after it switched to Amazon), Gravity Falls. About the only streaming series I really enjoyed was Loki, and that only lasted two seasons. Anything else might have a good first season, but they chop out any sense of character development by making these season 6-8 episodes long. No episodic content. No character development. Just go go go towards the seasonal end goal. And then get cancelled, because they didn’t get a chance to shake out the mediocre ideas and improve their direction. Can you imagine Star Trek:TNG being represented by only their first season, and then cancelled as a result of that?
All of the recent good movies were from directors that had a chance to take risks back in the 2000s, and are now given full creative control to do what they are good at. Dune was a great movie, but it simply adapted the source material, and was given enough budget and resources and creative control to Denis to produce what it needed to be. How many good directors will be left when the old guard retires?
All of the good games are from indie series now. Concord is being getting review-wrecked and shat on, while people focus more of their attention on an fucking asset-flip game about a squirrel with a gun. All of the good bigger studios are gone, fully absorbed into the Microsoft/ZeniMax/WB/EA empire. Only the first or second-time indie game developers are the ones producing good games.
Hell, at this point, maybe AI would do a better job than the shit that’s out there. I doubt it, though. It’s too half-baked right now.
- Comment on Gearbox's first Risk of Rain 2 expansion gets hammered on Steam as developer admits the PC version 'is in a really bad place' 2 months ago:
From what I’ve read they tried to combine the console and PC version into a unified single version.
JFC. Starting off with something that is cross-compatible is one thing, but trying to merge the two codebases together… that’s a 2-3+ year effort, minimum.
- Comment on Where is Naomi Wu? 2 months ago:
The GPL is not a China-backed agreement. China can do whatever the fuck it wants, because that’s how dictatorships roll.
- Comment on Gearbox founder says Epic Games Store hopes were “misplaced or overly optimistic” 2 months ago:
Steam is just ok to for what I want from a store/launcher.
It’s not just ok, compared to the alternatives. A games library that cannot be matched, regular sales, easy no-frills refunds, cloud saves, beta support, family mode, big picture support, seamless integration with the Steam deck, which in its own right, has pushed right-to-repair and Linux gaming to new heights. The competition doesn’t even have any of this stuff, including the console market, and if they can’t compete, they don’t deserve my money.
No digital game store is worth your loyalty.
I’m fine being loyal to a privately-owned company that actually gives a shit about its customers. As long as Gabe is still alive and they will continue to be privately-owned, the company will stay in good graces.
- Comment on Government Legislation and Regulation Is Coming For Video Games 2 months ago:
It’s not an article. It’s a blog post. That’s the problem.