TheHobbyist
@TheHobbyist@lemmy.zip
Just a stranger trying things.
- Comment on SteamOS massively beats Windows on the Legion Go S 23 hours ago:
The imagine if their cloud runs the game using proton. The provider with the lowest overhead would have lower costs and thus a cheaper service. If Microsoft doesn’t do it, someone else could.
- Comment on $80 for Borderlands 4 too costly? Randy Pitchford says, "If you're a real fan, you'll find a way to make it happen" 1 week ago:
The video game landscape is already filled to the brims with more games than I need to play for the rest of my life and you want me to hurry up to pay for a game as it comes out, to ditch out the full price when my computer would suffer for the lack of latest gen hardware when I could easily find a large amount of fantastic games for less than 10 bucks and comfortably max out their settings?
Like, the witcher 3 with all its DLC, a fantastic game which is 10 years old but got a free graphics upgrade and with all its DLC, worth hundreds of hours of gameplay and a memorable experience is less than 10 bucks, as we speak, both on steam and gog.
Most people already have more games than they have time to play. Patient gamer has never been more rewarding. We fall too often for the fear of missing out the experience of missing out on the hype of a new launch…
I finished GTA 4 and 5 like a year ago, on my steam deck. I couldn’t care less if these games came out like 10 years ago. It gives me the flexibility to play them how I want to.
- Comment on CD Projekt exec says "the right thing to do" is release a real Nintendo Switch 2 cartridge for Cyberpunk 2077, not a game-key card, in message to other studios: "Do not underestimate the physical edit 3 weeks ago:
I would encourage you to support GoG before you have to rely on them, otherwise if everyone does like you they may not be able to sustain their business.
It’s a bit akin to waiting for a crash before putting your seatbelt on.
- Comment on Japan orders Google to unwind deals with smartphone OEMs 1 month ago:
Interesting, I wonder if this is a result of Google antitrust efforts in the USA and Europe? These things propagate and when someone takes action, it can motivate others to do it too. Quite encouraging.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 1 month ago:
Seems he’s using the same orange tan as the other orange guy haha
- Comment on BYD announces charging tech that’s twice as fast as Tesla’s 2 months ago:
Sorry didn’t mean to sound condescending, but capacitors can indeed output their charge at extremely high rates but have terrible energy storage capacity. You would need an unreasonably large capacitor bank, but it is technically feasible as that’s what the CERN has. But in this case batteries are a more suitable option, they can still be tunes between energy and power to fit the exact use case more appropriately.
- Comment on BYD announces charging tech that’s twice as fast as Tesla’s 2 months ago:
Capacitors, lol
- Comment on Waking up an hour before you intend to 2 months ago:
Isn’t that something you solve with snooze? Like put the alarm for the earlier time, set the snooze time to 15min and hit snooze until you want to wake up?
- Comment on Day 236 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing until l forget to post Screenshots 2 months ago:
Beautiful :)
- Comment on Day 236 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing until l forget to post Screenshots 2 months ago:
I see a lot of praise for this game but have not looked a lot into it. How would you describe it and what makes it so good? I’m letting myself be convinced for my next game to play :)
- Comment on Trump tariffs threaten the future of physical video games, analyst warns 2 months ago:
True, many games sold physically are still faced with the risk of disappearing, due to DRM…
- Comment on "The insultingly low salary you would have accepted is still too high." 3 months ago:
I think the requested salary amount plays a big role. If a typical 100k annual role was rejected on salary misalignments despite requesting 60k, I would be much more critical of the company.
- Comment on Make a JBOD Enclosure video 3 months ago:
I’m personally still very much interested in HDDs with their better cost/GB, though it is true they have a shrinking lead over SSDs. I hope to move to SSDs completely for large storage space.
- Comment on Make a JBOD Enclosure video 3 months ago:
I wish there were friendlier PSUs to these kinds of setups. Standard ones are often too large (yes even SFX), overpowered, with too many different cables instead of focusing on high efficiency at low loads and the specific connectors for disks.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 finally officially revealed 4 months ago:
The joycon sliding on the table, is that a mouse-mode? @1:11 in the reveal trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=itpcsQQvgAQ
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
The way DLSS3 and 3.5 work (though not DLSS4 it seems) is they always guess a previous frame, never a next frame. They always rely on an authentic frame and guess an intermediate frame between prior to it, because they need to know the end state and interpolate backwards from it.
This is described here: en.wikipedia.org/…/Deep_learning_super_sampling#D…
I’m not sure how AMDs frame gen works, is it different?
- Comment on Nvidia Announces RTX 50's Graphic Card Blackwell Series: RTX 5090 ($1999), RTX 5080 ($999), RTX 5070 Ti ($749), RTX 5070 ($549) 4 months ago:
The performance improvements claims are a bit shady as they compare the old FG technique which only creates one frame for every legit frame, with the next gen FG which can generate up to 3.
All Nvidia performance plots I’ve seen mention this at the bottom, making comparison very favorable to the 5000 series GPU supposedly.
- Comment on There's fucking ads in board games now 4 months ago:
Thank you for clearing it out. Important detail indeed. You get what you pay for I guess?
- Comment on AMD introduces Ryzen Z2 Series, confirms Valve Steam Deck update 4 months ago:
I can’t seem to find the source, it only says AMD, but the AMD keynote has not happened yet, where is the information from actually? Is it a leak?
- Comment on So that's when I deleted my account 5 months ago:
What was the subject of the email? Because if they are alerting you to some security issue regarding your account, I think it is reasonable to prevent the user from unsubscribing, otherwise how would they be alerting you and would you then blame them for not having alerted you?
Of course, if this is a marketing email, that’s something else but then is it an important message regarding your account and products you are using?
- Comment on I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store 5 months ago:
Gog does. The game manor lords is in early access on gog.
- Comment on Intel Arc B580 'Battlemage' GPU announced - 1440p Ultra gaming for $249 5 months ago:
With its 8GB, the 4060 performs quite poorly when scaling up the resolution. There’s a great video by hardware unboxed showing how limiting 8GB are, in 1440p.
- Comment on European Citizens' Initiative to Stop Destroying Videogames: 7 countries have now passed the threshold 5 months ago:
Indeed, I’ve shared this with friends but we need more people and more awareness! This is a golden opportunity, if this tentative does not succeed, who knows how long until next time?
Of course, if a person with large following spreads the word, it can have a great effect, but please do not wait for this to happen, do not rely on this. By individually spreading the word, we are putting much more weight on it and giving it a much better shot.
This is a serious shot! Take it.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
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- Comment on Day 101 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 6 months ago:
Thanks! That’s what I wanted to know, I’ve been eyeing the game and interested in getting it. I think I’ve even seen it on gog, so that’s great!
- Comment on Day 101 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 6 months ago:
How’s the game nowadays? I think I recall the game having some issues when it came out, assuming it’s true, are they all now resolved?
- Comment on DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO – Launch Trailer 7 months ago:
In japanese for those who want the original experience:
- Comment on Currently downloading The Witcher 3 for the first time. Got any advice for me? 7 months ago:
The story was difficult to follow, for me, and plays a significant role in the game and is likely to influence your decisions. What I wish I did and what I recommend you, is make sure you pay close attention to it in the beginning, knowing who’s who, who’s battling who and why. Consider taking notes haha
- Comment on Stop killing games 7 months ago:
It’s impressive how this initiative has gathered 360k votes in no time yet completely stagnated ever since. I don’t think it means that the initiative is done, actually I am quite optimistic it can pass, but these things go in waves. I think every time there is a new coverage on the initiative it launches it higher, we just need some folks who have some local presence in the EU to get their audience to act. Perhaps some famous video game streamers? Has that been done already?
- Comment on Denmark is the 6th country to pass the #StopKillingGames EU threshold - 340K out of 1M signatures in total! 8 months ago:
And the Netherlands are 6th! But the hardest part will be reaching that Million threshold… We still have a lot of time, but the pace has certainly slowed down the last few weeks compared to the skyrocketing in the early days. I think we will need to have more awareness spread around the campaign, perhaps try to reach mainstream media in some ways…