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- Comment on Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 sucks up to 180 Mb/s of internet bandwidth while in flight — equivalent to 81GB of data per hour 5 weeks ago:
Checkmate! I don’t even have 180 mbps internet lane. Deal with it Microsoft!
/s
- Comment on Recommend me your favorite linear games! 5 weeks ago:
I had a good fun with Bulletstorm. Kind of a game where you can put your brain on hold and enjoy the ride.
- Comment on [Mental Outlaw] The End of Ad Blockers In Chrome 1 month ago:
Isn’t Falkon pretty much dead?
- Comment on Intel finds cause of overheating CPUs, provides another BIOS update 1 month ago:
Intel finds cause of overheating CPUs… it’s crappy design!
- Comment on [USA] How can sales tax brackets affect purchasing behavior when prices are pre-tax? 1 month ago:
That’s what’s so dumb with it! As I said, in EU you see the final price, including tax. So “healthier option” with lower tax would instantly be seen as cheaper than “unhealty” one with heftier tax. This way it could actually work.
- Comment on [USA] How can sales tax brackets affect purchasing behavior when prices are pre-tax? 1 month ago:
Yeah, I was talking about local stores mainly. Online it’s understandable as every state has its own view on taxes, same as each state in EU (we’re not federation though).
- Comment on [USA] How can sales tax brackets affect purchasing behavior when prices are pre-tax? 1 month ago:
As a regular European I never even understood why US shops list prices without tax. It feels just dumb. When I go to store here the store is required to show final price on tag - meaning including tax and recycling/author fee if there’s one. Seems much more user friendly.
- Comment on Is linux actually gaming ready or is it just not for me? 2 months ago:
When either of those things happen it is a good idea to run steam (lutris, bottles) from terminal to see what it’s trying to do while “not working”. Helped me couple times.
- Comment on Wireless mouse with silent switches recommendation 2 months ago:
I have two problems with this.
- I consider Razer the most over-hyped and over-priced peripheral producer. The products I’ve seen were not bad, but did cost at least twice as much as their feel suggested. I don’t want to support this.
- Tilt-wheel. Every mouse I’ve held that had tilt wheel was PITA in the long run. I probably grip the mouse wrong, but I very often tilted the wheel instead pressing the button.
- Comment on Wireless mouse with silent switches recommendation 2 months ago:
Soldering should be fine, this will probably end up as long winter evening project at some point. Was it possible to re-use gliders after dismembering the mouse?
Swelling problem won’t be fixed as easy. The material of the wheel just expanded, the rubber is twice as big as new one to the point it can’t fit in its hole in the mouse. Internet is full of the same problems, it was either defective batch or it reacts with some specific agent in some people’s sweat. Never the less, the only way is to replace the whole wheel. Need to find out which of my friends have a 3D printer…
- Submitted 3 months ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 17 comments
- Comment on Did... did Adin Ross give Trump the CyberTruck him and his idiot friends shot up? 3 months ago:
In rightly picked units (°C) room temperature is slightly over 20, so there’s that… ;-)
- Comment on Is this normal for girls or just a extreme edge case? (Serious question) 3 months ago:
Just don’t have him near african and european swallows and you’re good.
- Comment on If you could substract* a leader from this world which one would you choose ? 3 months ago:
Ctrl+A to save you plenty of clicks.
- Comment on How come neither burps nor hiccups are usually painful, but a combination of both is? 3 months ago:
Or in worse case scenario: SS Sneezeshart
- Comment on It’s official: No Nintendo console has lasted as long as Switch without being replaced 4 months ago:
Well, technically yes, but why pay even a couple quids when I already have purchased the game on PC? Of course there’s this “To support the dev!” but honestly… How much he’s going to make from such a purchase after all?
This is why I find Steam Deck the most tempting handheld console, because it can play (almost) all the games I’ve purchased over last decade on both Steam and GOG. I’m no Nintendo fanboy so I can happily live without Mario or Zelda.
- Comment on It’s official: No Nintendo console has lasted as long as Switch without being replaced 4 months ago:
Exactly. Not only the games are still (even after many years) very expensive with no “steam sale” level of discounts, it’s Nintendo’s behavior that is the most off putting part in the equation.
- Comment on It’s official: No Nintendo console has lasted as long as Switch without being replaced 4 months ago:
Ha, I have no friends so couch co-op is out of the question… /s
- Comment on It’s official: No Nintendo console has lasted as long as Switch without being replaced 4 months ago:
I really do like the idea of switch and might be a potential buyer, but… as a long time PC user woth zero console experience I’ll pass. I don’t want to (re)buy games that seems to be quite overpriced on Nintendo. So if anything, I’d be buying Steam Deck.
- Comment on A supermarket trip may soon look different, thanks to electronic shelf labels 5 months ago:
Tbh Apple Vision pro was probably designed to add more visual spam, not reduce it…
- Comment on Is Disco Elysium playable in short bursts? 5 months ago:
That is brilliant and that’s shat I love about old Fallouts.
- Comment on Is Disco Elysium playable in short bursts? 5 months ago:
Well, since I’m not native speaker I sometimes tend to miss some words/context without reading “subtitles” during voiceovers. On the other hand I’m glad there’s voiceover because it usually helps with immersion.
Fail to progress reminds me of my playthrough of Fallout 1 with very low INT character. Some conversation were priceless. It was usually things like “Mmmhm, unga bunga, huh” from my character and then sigh from the NPC like “Oh no, another village idiot…” I highly recommend to at least check some of these low int conversations on youtube - hillarious.
- Comment on Is Disco Elysium playable in short bursts? 5 months ago:
Nice, thank you. This should be very helpful in case I won’t have time to play at all. Which is what sometimes happen, life is life, so you never know…
- Comment on Is Disco Elysium playable in short bursts? 5 months ago:
Thank you for heads up. Will definitely give it a try.
- Comment on Is Disco Elysium playable in short bursts? 5 months ago:
I manage to play usually about 4 nights a week, so about day or two between sessions. This should be okay.
Reading all the comments, it looks like DE might be great pick for this interrupted play through. Glad to hear that, because everyone says it’s a great game.
Even though I have games like Skyrim or Kingdom Come at my account, it’s almost impossible to dig into those with this kind of gaming schedule. LA Noire was really great game for this.
- Comment on Is Disco Elysium playable in short bursts? 5 months ago:
Glad to hear that. Although I’m not fast reader (not even in my mother tongue) I like reading when it is meaningful. I chewed through Planescape: Torment after all…
As for time, I’m not strictly limited to exactly 1 hour. It’s just I simply can’t play 5 hours straight like a teenager can… so one hour was an estimate. Sometimes it’s an hour, sometimes it’s two.
After all it looks DE should be ok and this short burst shouldn’t spoil it. Thank you.
- Submitted 5 months ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 14 comments
- Comment on As someone who is aging. Late thirties. How can I keep my finger on the pulse of current trends, particularly in music? 6 months ago:
Apart from usuals like spotify or bandcamp, 8cd also like to introduce gnod here: www.gnod.com
I do not use it very often, but it’s quite nice to browse the recommendations based on what you were recently listening once in a while.
- Comment on I hate the term "Boomer Shooter" 8 months ago:
Well, this one is a bit special case. One of a generation…
- Comment on How will I find financial stability if I live in a third world country with a toxic sociopathic/narcissistic mother, I have no skills (at least I think so), no time and therefore no money? 10 months ago:
Every (almost) language uses words and rules at random compared to what you grew up in. It’s jist how human brain works IMO.