Glide
@Glide@lemmy.ca
- Comment on You finally figure that mysterious voice commanding you is not the devil 16 hours ago:
“No, you don’t understand, if you just don’t think about the consequences of the things you say or do, this is really funny!”
You should genuinely be embarrassed to post this kind of stuff.
- Comment on You finally figure that mysterious voice commanding you is not the devil 21 hours ago:
Ah yes, nothing like a little chauvinism to start my day. Women should be seen, not heard, amirite guys?
/s just in case.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Yes.
- Comment on Your all-time favorite game? Let's discuss the best options! 1 week ago:
Based list. Outer Wilds in particular chef’s kiss.
- Comment on Your all-time favorite game? Let's discuss the best options! 1 week ago:
I’m a teacher, and as soon as students figure out I play games, they inevitably ask me this question, but I largely think it’s an unfair question to ask someone who games as a genuine hobby rather than just a kill time.
I like to tell them that’s a really impossible question to answer and instead offer them my favorite franchise of games: Monster Hunter. I feel like I can more reliably say that I am a massive fan of the franchise, with it reliably being my favorite videogame franchise, without that seeming weirdly inaccurate considering the wide variety of genres and sub-genres that make up video game interests.
To say that Monster Hunter Rise is my favorite game would be a massive disservice to the captivating, genre-breaking storytelling power of Hades, my deeply rooted love of the flight mechanics in Elite Dangerous, my history as a brief world record holder for a Mario title, the thousands of hours of Team Fortress 2 I’ve shared with friends, or my experiences grinding World of Warcraft arenas to the top 0.5% of players. And I’ve somehow listed 5 formative titles from the top of my head without even representing my deep passion for rhythm games, with Hi-Fi Rush being a genuine contender for that “favorite game” slot that I am arguing doesn’t exist. So I don’t answer with any of these games, because not only would my answer be fundamentally untrue, but it’s not really the question my student means to ask, either. They want to know what I am into, and giving them a standout franchise that automatically gets my money when a title is released gives them a much better answer than any one title could ever do.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
There are a lot of genuine answers to this, but the simplest one is perhaps the best: because who decides which authority is correct?
Authoritarianism is bad because it gives justification to our bias’.
The “good” authorities you think of when you ask this question are authorities not because they are authorities, but because they have the knowledge/training/practice/experiences that give them a greater expertise on a given subject. Authoritarianism supposes that, those things aside, there’s something inherently good about someone in a position of authority. This is factually incorrect.
We (are supposed to) grant authority to those that earn it, and use it responsibility. Likewise we (are supposed to) strip it away from those that abuse it, or failing to maintain strong standards of ethics and practice. Authoritarianism, as a school of thought, discards that process, instead suggesting that the authority is the authority because people need that in their lives. Fuck that.
- Comment on What is the point of the Nicole spam? 2 weeks ago:
It’s just meat based ddos.
What a fascinating sentence.
- Comment on Please tell me I'm not going nuts 2 weeks ago:
My friend, I respect your desire to believe that the world is a better place than it is, but this is pure cope.
We have no evidence of any of this being a possibility, and you catch a murderer by finding evidence of intent, not waiting for someone to get hurt.
- Comment on Poor guy 3 weeks ago:
Of course he is. His entire wealth is rooted in arapatheid. The irony of him claiming to be a victim of racism is so dissonant from reality that I genuinely struggle to find good words to describe it.
- Comment on Itch.io California Fire Relief Bundle - 422 items (187 games) for $10 3 weeks ago:
If someone already owns Tunic and is considering this, I would say to just directly donate the money.
Or just like… Donate through the bundle and consider trying out some minor projects created by people who are trying to make something cool? Why turn down access to these games out of some form of perceived superiority? This notion that since you’ve never heard of these other titles they can’t possible offer anything of value to you is kind of a spit in the face of struggling artists of all types.
- Comment on Eurogamer: we can't recommend the PC version of Monster Hunter Wilds 4 weeks ago:
Please reread. I had to make the game look mediocre (low, not lowest) to have an enjoyable experience on a $750 hand-held PC.
I was getting 60-80 fps on high settings in the beta on my 3070ti, when frame generation was broken. I have not tested on my home PC yet.
- Comment on Eurogamer: we can't recommend the PC version of Monster Hunter Wilds 4 weeks ago:
The experiences people are reporting with this game are so strange to me.
I loaded the game today during a 1hr break at work on my Legion Go. It took ~10 minutes to do the shader compilation, I opted to turn frame generation on, and the game defaulted the settings to high, which felt awful. After turning the settings to low, turning the up scaling quality from “Max Performance” to just “Performance,” adjusting the sharpness up to .6 from .5, and then tweaking some other settings I don’t care about (cloud textures? I barely look up) or outright hate (why games continue to push aggressive motion blurring is beyond me - it looks horrible), I started playing.
I experienced a stutter whenever I step into a new space, or load a new cutscene, but it smoothed out in a fraction of a second. While the graphics don’t look the best, the game plays smooth. I did the opening sequence with no stutters, got to the not-tetsucabra fight, and maintained 45+ fps throughout the entire fight, with no stutters or issues. At points, the monster ran into a cave, which aided my hand-held PC and kept the game running at a smooth 60fps for those sections. This is directly in-line with my experiences running the benchmark on this machine, which averaged ~45 fps on nearly identical settings.
I haven’t yet run the benchmark or played the released game on my home PC, but the demo, which was less optimized and frame generation did not work during, played “fine.” I was unimpressed with the performance relative to the graphical fidelity in that play (though I am of the opinion that the more gritty, realistic aesthetic is ugly relative to the vibrant worlds of Generations, or Rise and in apologetically think they look better than even World), but I can’t say I had problems or felt that performance or visual quality would impede my enjoyment of the game.
This article notes specific studdering and runs the frame-health tests to demonstrate it. I suspect they’re onto something that I am not experiencing for some reason or another. That said, I ultimately think the 4k, 144+ fps gamers running expensive GPUs are offended that they can’t play this one on the highest settings, and are review bombing the hell out of this title. I’m not sure what the deal with all the “ThAt’S nOt HoW fRaMe GeNeRaTiOn WoRkS!” screaming relevant to low end systems is about, as I am experiencing notable improvements through it.
I encourage people to test on their own hardware, rather than taking reviews at face value, as I’ve begun to believe that whatever issue is occurring is deeper than “Capcom didn’t optimize!” Use the benchmark, and take advantage of Steam’s refund policy.
- Comment on Hi-Rez Studios is laying off further employees and ending development on Smite, Paladins, and Rogue Company 1 month ago:
Hi-Rez is the king of creating a new game, pretending it’s their “big thing” and then enshittifying it while their good devs are moved to the next “big thing.” They are fad chasers who are constantly in a race to monetize a market and then move on.
I’m glad it caught up with them. Couldn’t have happened to a better company. Apologies to the earnest designers and programmers that got caught in the crossfire.
- Comment on I don't need no app 1 month ago:
Except now the app pushes ads to you through notifications.
- Comment on Steam now warns about Early Access that have not been updated in months. 1 month ago:
This is what a company looks like when it’s not funded by venture capitalists that insist the line always go up exponentially.
Good on Steam for taking the time an energy to create a feature that is strictly pro-consumer.
- Comment on Anon cheats through college 1 month ago:
Capitalism is inherently short-sighted.
- Comment on Meme gift (and note in thread) 1 month ago:
Missing Fern Gully, but a pretty good list nonetheless.
- Comment on Should I avoid communities on lemmy.ml? 1 month ago:
The mods of .ml are pro China/Russia authoritarianists, and will ban you for posting comments that disagree with them. I’ve received a ban for discussing my experiences teaching Taiwanese and Chinese students, because I described the way the Chinese students reacted in the face of evidence that Taiwan is a self-governing sovereign state as “brainwashed.”
I was banned under rule 1, which is listed as being polite and civil. Trust me when I say I have said far more less polite and civil things directly to mods, so it’s concerning that politely expressing real lived experiences that contradicts their opinions on Chinese authoritarianism is what counts as being rude and uncivil around those parts.
- Comment on Should I avoid communities on lemmy.ml? 1 month ago:
Spend a week in memes and you’ll see how categorically untrue that is.
- Comment on This one is going to be controversial 2 months ago:
I’m not sure I’ve ever stumbled across a worse opinion. Amazing. Well done.
- Comment on Based Red Dead 2 months ago:
I see someone had their ego attached to that opinion.
- Comment on Based Red Dead 2 months ago:
whoosh
Of course the only person who feels the need to voice negativity about the game is also the person with a demonstable inability to read.
- Comment on Genshin Impact Game Developer Will be Banned from Selling Lootboxes to Teens Under 16 without Parental Consent, Pay a $20 Million Fine to Settle FTC Charges. 2 months ago:
Good. Now do the same to the major triple A studios attaching loot boxes to every sports game and battle royale. Why the fuck start with Mihoyo?
- Comment on Hyper Light Breaker | Early Access Launch Trailer 2 months ago:
Kinda hype. Had my eye on this one for a while. I’m a little cautious what “early access” means in this regard, though. I’ve had altogether too many rogue-likes release into early access without enough content to justify it.
- Comment on Anon's lacking pissing habits 2 months ago:
Thank fuck, tbh.
- Comment on Anon's lacking pissing habits 2 months ago:
I sit down every time I go to piss because it’s one if the few places where I can be sure I’ll be left alone. It’s not about the piss. It’s about the break.
- Comment on what was the last game you played in 2024? 2 months ago:
It’s been Jackbox every year for the past 8+ years. A side-effect of hosting the New Years Eve party for a bunch of gamers.
- Comment on Happy birthday Anon 2 months ago:
I know green text therefore we prob shouldn’t take it seriously, but still, God damn. Losing your family isn’t “lucky,” even if there are worse outcomes.
- Comment on Understanding the Hawk Tuah Phenomenon 2 months ago:
It’s still in the “ChatGPT, tell me about X” format, with headers, bullet points and all.
- Comment on what works for you to let go? 2 months ago:
Cynicism is horrible. It is slowly training your brain to always assume the worst in everything and everyone, and has little to do with expectations. Cynicism legitimizes the anger you already feel, and makes it “okay” to yell about it, rather than taking control of your emotions.
You need a philosophy that allows you to take control, not one that justifies your helplessness. Mindfulness practices, and/or existentialist thought eventually leading to positive nihilism can help you.