Carighan
@Carighan@lemmy.world
The strength of life to face oneself has been made manifest. The persona Carighan has appeared.
- Comment on Why do all the new TVs expect me to have a platform AS WIDE as the fucking thing?? Fucking shit!! God awful absolutely dumb thoughtless design choice 4 days ago:
The wider the TV gets, the more stable a two-feet-at-the-ends design becomes compared to a single central foot.
Plus if you need anything else, VESA mounts are super-standard and you just get whatever you need then use it on every Tv you buy.
- Comment on Hardspace: Shipbreaker now on GOG 4 days ago:
Yeah, and there’s a fair few routes they could go with this.
My favorite would probably be dedicated co-op, with variable player counts. That is, from 2 people where it’s two very different multi-role characters up to 4-6 where everyone only has a single role.
It would just be quite difficult to design every ship so it has enough to do for everyone, but it’d allow for much bigger and much more detailed ship layouts if multiple people of varying specialized roles are working on it simultaneously.
Alternatively, and maybe I’d love that even more, super large ships that are separated into “sectors”. You can see other players working next to you, and if you aren’t in a game with someone else, you’ll see random other players there.
- Comment on Cult of the Lamb Announces Free Major Update: Sins of the Flesh 4 days ago:
Oh that’s awesome, I have been meaning to get into this. And I still will, though right now Signalis, Tunic and Persona 5 Tactica are first on the list. 😅 Too many games, too many sales.
I tried the free demo on the Switch though, and really liked it. The art style easily carries what would otherwise be a good but not stellar game.
- Comment on Hardspace: Shipbreaker now on GOG 5 days ago:
Fantastic news!
I highly recommend this game if you enjoy"work" type games, here you slice up ships in space and chuck them into the correct bins.
- Comment on Former Mass Effect lead writer says new narrative-focused studio will "avoid painting ourselves in a corner" 5 days ago:
Yeah this sounds like modern serials, end everything on a cliffhanger and never commit to anything. Which was basically their problem already.
- Comment on The Difficulty Paradox 5 days ago:
I really don’t agree with: get stronger must also have world get more difficult. This is how you get scaling difficulty, where you never feel like you’re going anywhere, because every upgrade is made pointless by enemies just becoming more dangerous in turn.
But in the other case - you get stronger but the world doesn’t get stronger around you, say you keep fighting the exact same lame enemies as in the beginning - then why even continue playing?
The greatest challenge was right at the start. Unless the later parts are exceedingly brief, just letting you bow out on a power rush, why have all those later parts that just end up being trivial?
Shouldn’t the former difficult enemies at least become the trash and new, tougher, enemies get introduced to uphold the difficulty as your new abilities and upgrades make the old ones trivial? - Mimimi say goodbye with two big Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew DLC expansions releasing December 6thwww.rockpapershotgun.com ↗Submitted 6 days ago to games@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Comment on What it takes to close Microsoft Edge (⏩ 2x) 6 days ago:
In a way what you do proves vendors like MS or Apple right in doing what they do, btw. They lock systems down to prevent average users from fucking up their systems with stuff they download from the internet.
Forcing a specific browser (see Apple just enforcing it all be safari) to prevent the user getting around security checks you can build relying on that one browser is just one step of that.
And every time someone blindly shoots themselves in the foot with a tool then tries to blame the company for what they themselves did wrong, the number used in meetings to justify more programmer time spent on locking it all down goes up by 1.
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What companies have they ruined?
The aforementioned Epic.
- Comment on Youtube has started to artificially slow down video load times if you use Firefox 1 week ago:
I had this the past ~3 days, but now it’s gone as of yesterday evening.
- Comment on Google Play Store operates at 70% profit margin, Epic v Google court case reveals 1 week ago:
I wouldn’t trust shit either of these two companies argues.
This is probably technically correct, but in some really constructed way. And the reply by the Google lawyers will again be technically correct, but again be utter horseshit in some legal manner.
Suffice to say, people spend a lot on mobile apps. A lot.
- Comment on Steam Deck OLED is now available 1 week ago:
No i don’t, because my phone doesn’t have an OLED screen. Easy fix.
- Comment on SteamOS 3.5.5 Update 1 week ago:
No, got it after that - previous - update. Might be a slow rollout thing.
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- Comment on Quizzle – Can you guess the word in fewer than twenty questions? 1 week ago:
Yeah I noticed the past two days already that it answers with an LLM, and that of course gets stuff wrong quite frequently.
- Comment on On Starfield And Hogwarts Legacy’s Single TGA Nomination Between Them 1 week ago:
Well calling Starfield impressive but also immediately-boring would be a massive understatement.
It almost feels like a benchmark. With all the gameplay depth and immersion that goes along with running one. It’s not bad at what it does, quite the opposite in fact. It’s stellar. But there’s just so little to it, despite the massive world fulll of blips and bits. It’s Skyrim driven to an insane extreme: Even wider, even grander, even more impressive. And even more shallow. Much more shallow.
- Comment on Exciting news! The free API you were using is no more free! 1 week ago:
And yeah sure, server costs and all. OTOH, subtitle files are tiny, so there’s only so much money you can ask for it realistically.
- Comment on It's Exhausting Trying To Read Video Game Website Headlines - Aftermath 1 week ago:
That’s probably because the definition is a personal one. In the very literal sense of the word, a headline baiting you into clicking onto it needlessly is clickbait. It baited you into clicking.
And while the author is free to use a very narrow definition, it’s entirely reasonable - and has as far as I can tell become the norm - to define it as any headline where the article only says something that would have trivially fit into the headline to begin with.
So for example, this very article could be better titled “Clickbait has made video game headlines exhausting to read”, and without being longer it would convey the crucial part of information - why is it exhausting?! - without someone having to first open and scan the article. Which, if the article were well-written, they’d still want to do, assuming the subject matter is of interest to them.
And that’s the thing: clickbait precludes being allowed this choice. By not telling you the crucial piece of information, you are forced to open the article (generating ad impressions!) to find out whether you want to read it or not, often wasting time diagonally scanning said article. - Comment on It's Exhausting Trying To Read Video Game Website Headlines - Aftermath 1 week ago:
I love how this headline, too, doesn’t tell us what it’s about. But fair enough, it’s a good way to poke fun at the clickbait problem.
And frankly, the shitty part is that by now clickbait headlines/titles have become utterly ubiquitous. To the point where most users will no longer even notice, because they’ve become 100% of headlines.
- Comment on Only You Can Prevent The Game Awards Hype Cycle - Aftermath 2 weeks ago:
Yeah I was confused by that, too.
Isn’t this like the Steam “awards” were beyond maybe some laughing about how silly the whole procedure is, nobody cares?
- Comment on YouTuber Jirard (a.k.a. The Completionist) has been accused of keeping and hoarding charity donations 2 weeks ago:
Yeah he had no qualms with 12k-30k annually being taken out for “expenses”.
- Comment on YouTuber Jirard (a.k.a. The Completionist) has been accused of keeping and hoarding charity donations 2 weeks ago:
The accusation is not that the money has not been donated now, however. It is that the money has been sitting around since 2014, while happily paying themselves “expenses” from it.
It’s just a mix of an externally paid expenses account + a tax writeoff for the years 2014-2022, so even iff the money has now been donated, that doesn’t excuse the previous 8 years and in fact, you can’t shirk legal responsibility that way.
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- Comment on YouTuber Jirard (a.k.a. The Completionist) has been accused of keeping and hoarding charity donations 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, unless it’s a specific fundraiser (as in, “We match all external donations up to X”), there’s no reason not to donate directly, in particular for cases where it’s easy enough to find a charity to directly support that isn’t someone’s personal tax deduction scheme.
- Comment on YouTuber Jirard (a.k.a. The Completionist) has been accused of keeping and hoarding charity donations 2 weeks ago:
I really want to see his response
Muta talks to him during his video, I think. Response is basically “I had no clue” mixed with some vague excuses, including some that clearly contradict what was said before.
And then does the “But I don’t know how to fix this, so if you have any idea…”, as if, you know, donating the fucking money is such a difficult thing to do. And like Muta says, they don’t even detail their operating expenses, so any accountant could have a field day with that.
- Comment on The Completionist's Charity Has Been Lying To You For Years 2 weeks ago:
I never even heard of them, but fuck. Damn. ☹️
- Comment on Amazon Lays Off 180 Employees In Its Games Division - Aftermath 2 weeks ago:
I’ll be honest, I am quite surprised they had 180 workers left there after the continuous stream of tepid stuff they’ve put out over time.
Still, sucks for the people working there, becuase I bet a lot of them at least started really driven and motivated before corporate ground their will down.
- Comment on Unity warns of likely layoffs following runtime fee decision 2 weeks ago:
“fired” is a bit of a strong word for stuffing his ass so full of money it spewing out was what ejected him from the building.
- Comment on I just want to set a timer for MY FOOD WINDOWS WHY? 2 weeks ago:
little things like this that would have only gotten updates for one version of windows to another, for ui changes or sumsuch, now get updates frequently, and since they’re ‘store’ updates now, you have even less control over them. it’s rather annoying.
This is actually not a Windows but a general modern development issue. Things need to change. Change! CHAAAAANGE! Value! Effort! Work! Endlessly! GROWTH!
Look at how many apps update every 1-3 days. It’s crazy.
- Comment on I'm so sick of dinky shitty devices with garbage rechargeable batteries 2 weeks ago:
Yeah that’s the thing, battery sizes already have standards. We need to force the industry to use them though instead of the wild west diarrhea that is current LIon and LiPo batteries.