Fubarberry
@Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on Metroid Prime 4 Reemerges With New Gameplay Trailer And Beyond Subtitle 1 week ago:
Finally. It was announced in 2017, and then development was restarted in 2019.
I hope it will be worth the wait.
- Comment on $843 million lawsuit against Valve already has its own website: "The Steam Claim" accuses the biggest store in PC gaming of "overcharging" players 2 weeks ago:
A few reasons:
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I feel like any other major company with Steam’s marketshare would be far less consumer friendly than steam.
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Steam funnels a lot of money into Linux, and Linux is very popular on Lemmy. If you use Linux, you are benefiting from Steam’s success.
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Steam is just nice to use, and has good deals. It’s nice to have my games in one place, and I don’t know if any other storefront with as many nice user benefiting features as steam.
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- Comment on How you 👁 rainbows 🌈 3 weeks ago:
So how do triple rainbows work?
- Comment on natural wonders 4 weeks ago:
It was probably a year ago or more, I just remember it because the poster didn’t realize it had a butthole and didn’t tag it NSFW.
- Comment on Redfall's final update arrives with offline mode as Arkane Austin devs praise their departing colleagues 4 weeks ago:
I really respect that they added offline mode. Shows that they actually cared about the game, even if they were forced into it.
- Comment on Is lemmy now what reddit used to be 10+ years ago? 4 weeks ago:
I maybe didn’t use the best example, but it was less about people actually being religious and instead if they used any sort of popular phrasing that had any slight religious element they would try to turn it into a religion debate.
A better example is that someone might post a polish word, someone else would reply “bless you” acting like the polish word was a sneeze sound, and then the 14-year-old atheists would descend and start a debate.
- Comment on Is lemmy now what reddit used to be 10+ years ago? 4 weeks ago:
Reddit in 2010-2012 also had a lot of really insufferable atheists everywhere. Someone would say something like “thank god everyone’s ok” and get downvoted while a bunch of people replied stuff like “if god is responsible for them being ok, then he would also be responsible for the crash and shouldn’t be thanked at all”.
- Comment on A look at search engines with their own indexes 4 weeks ago:
After using Kagi a few months I’ve switched to Brave, and been pretty happy with it. It can be low on image results, but for regular web results I haven’t needed anything else.
Kagi was pretty good, but it didn’t really seem good enough compared to Brave search to justify $10 a month.
- Comment on Bing outage shows just how little competition Google search really has 5 weeks ago:
Problem is that regular Google results are also getting worse. Google has to change something about search, and they’re most worried about chatgpt being a better alternative to Google search.
- Comment on Bing outage shows just how little competition Google search really has 5 weeks ago:
Brave does have an option to use anonymous Google results as a fallback if their index doesn’t return enough results, but it will ask you before it does it.
- Comment on Nightdive Studios confirm Linux and macOS ports of System Shock are cancelled 5 weeks ago:
There are some very vocal people who will tell you that proton is just a stopgap measure, and shouldn’t be relied on for the future of Linux gaming.
That said, I know the devs have been putting in effort/patches to make sure the proton/steam deck experience works well, and I consider that just as good. All I really want from devs is actual support of the Linux platform, and if they choose to do that through a tool like proton I’m ok with it.
It’s very unfortunate for Mac users though.
- Comment on Netris is an open-source cloud gaming platform with Stadia-like features using Proton 5 weeks ago:
Stadia was pretty cool honestly, it just never caught on, and it’s game library couldn’t compete with other platforms.
It was magical feeling though, just being able to play any game from my library in anything with a screen. Any Chromecast, Chromebook, old PC, phone, tablet, etc. They could all run any game, and you could switch between them at any time if someone else needed the TV or something like that.
It made it easy to imagine a future where you don’t worry about how to play a game, or ever spend money on a new console or upgrades, or ever have to delete games so you can wait to download another game. You just think “I want to play this game on this screen” and it works.
- Comment on Oh god, kill it! 1 month ago:
Where did you get that emoji?
- Comment on History says tariffs rarely work, but U.S. President Biden’s 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs could defy the trend, researcher says 1 month ago:
I’m torn between my dislike of the CCP, and really wanting an EV for $12k.
- Comment on ASUS breaks your ROG Ally if you don't pay $200 for warranty repairs: SCAMMING COMPANY! 1 month ago:
To be fair, that’s the low power Ally with a pretty significant 20% off sale.
I’m not well educated on the power difference, but a quick google search shows the cheaper Ally gets about 60% the benchmarked performance of the more expensive Ally when plugged in. There’s also a significant drop when not plugged in, but less severe (only about a 20% drop in fps). Source
I suppose the real question is how does it compare to a Steam Deck at that price, and if the drop in power is worth the price difference.
- Comment on ASUS breaks your ROG Ally if you don't pay $200 for warranty repairs: SCAMMING COMPANY! 1 month ago:
Cheaper
Isn’t the Ally a lot more expensive than the Deck?
easier to use
I’d also question this, obviously everyone’s familiar with windows but the handheld experience is pretty rough when compared with SteamOS.
- Comment on Shadows Of Doubt's sharpshooter assassins keep missing and leaving huge piles of wasted ammo everywhere 1 month ago:
Shadows of Doubt is an incredible game, and I highly recommend it.
The snipers missing their shots is a pretty funny problem honestly, sounds more like it’s an issue with how they identify that they have a clear shot rather than an actual accuracy issue.
Also, part of how the game simulation works is that when one of the simulated people decides to commit murder, they have to acquire a weapon to do so. So if someone decides to kill as a sniper, they will either already need the gun/ammo for it, or they will seek out a black market dealer to buy from. However apparently once they’ve bought ammo, that ammo becomes unlimited, leading to the huge ammo piles when they can’t actually get a clear shot on their target.
- Comment on What is Reddit doing 1 month ago:
They’ve been working since the API price change, so nearly a year now.
- Comment on What is Reddit doing 1 month ago:
On android, I would recommend using Stealth or Geddit to browse reddit. Stealth has a mode where it scrapes old.reddit.com (and bypasses the API), and Geddit uses the RSS feed to pull content instead of API.
Downside is neither app will let you interact, but I don’t have any desire to generate content for reddit anyways.
- Comment on Vanguard takes screenshots of your PC every time you play a game 1 month ago:
I don’t know exactly, I was just referencing what was said in the article I linked above, which has quotes and statements linked from both the hacker and some apex/eac teams.
- Comment on Vanguard takes screenshots of your PC every time you play a game 1 month ago:
I’m not entirely clear, but it sounds like the hacked Apex games were on computers at different locations, which would make me think they were likely hacked remotely without physical access to the hardware. The hacker claimed he performed the hack by using a vulnerability in the game process, and that his hacking method only let him compromise the game and didn’t give him any access to the people’s PC itself. The developers said that it was EAC itself being exploited, but that the specific exploit shouldn’t allow him access to owner’s PC.
The combination of statements makes me think this was a remote hack that exploited vulnerabilities in EAC/Apex Legends. Thankfully there seeming wasn’t an escalation to give full access to the PC, but considering the level of access that kernel anticheat has I would be very concerned about the possibility for any future hacks that compromise anticheat systems.
- Comment on Vanguard takes screenshots of your PC every time you play a game 1 month ago:
Kernel anticheat also doesn’t work, Valorant is full of cheaters, and Apex Legends players had their game remotely hacked installing cheat software mid tournament match. And an increasing number of cheats bypass the computer/console all together, and replace inputs to the computer to allow macros or aim-botting. Recently a monitor was announced for league of legends that will track enemy players movement and location for you from the video feed alone.
The best way to prevent cheating are with good server side anticheat. Another possibility is that companies can offer secure computers through a live streaming service like Geforce Now, which would be more secure than kernel anticheat without any of the privacy issues.
- Comment on Vanguard takes screenshots of your PC every time you play a game 1 month ago:
League of Legends I think just started using it as well, breaking it’s linux support.
- Comment on Spooky throwback Elder Scrolls 'em up Dread Delusion leaves early access in May 1 month ago:
I’ve been watching this game closely for some years now, pretty excited about it.
- Comment on isopods are friends 2 months ago:
I wasn’t able to find an original, but I would assume it was either talking about the fact that they’re crustations and not bugs, or talking about the different regional names for them (roly poly, pill bug, potato bug, etc)
- Comment on Former Blizzard president wants to be able to leave a "tip" after completing $70 games: "I wish I could give these folks another $10 or $20" 2 months ago:
This idea seems laughable for big AAA games/studios, but I don’t actually hate the idea for smaller indie devs. Especially since some indie games are so dirt cheap.
- Comment on $70 titles are doomed to go “the way of the dodo” says Saber Interactive CEO 2 months ago:
I think that is partially what he’s saying. When you price a game at $70, it means that people will have higher expectations of it then a $20-40 game. You’re even expected to justify why it’s worth $10 more than a $60 game.
So you have all these AAA games that had huge budgets, and are being priced at $70, but because of the budget it’s highly risky for the company if it fails. But the high price also means higher expectations, and high expectations/hype will sink a game if it doesn’t live up to those expectations.
Basically you can sell a game for $30, and people will enjoy it for what it is. Sell a game for $70 and it better be perfect.
- Comment on PROOF 2 months ago:
No to seeing the edges from the middle, I’ve been to Kansas and couldn’t spot the edges.
As for the shape, my theory is more like a pizza with a thick crust. I haven’t been able to verify though, NASA keeps rejecting my proposals for investigating further.
- Comment on PROOF 2 months ago:
Centrifugal force moves the Earth’s mass outwards, so it’s thick at the edges and thin in the middle.
- Comment on Noita - Noita Epilogue 2 Update 2 months ago:
This is one of the better sales I’ve seen on it, really tempted to get it finally.