Croquette
@Croquette@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Nexus Mods Sale Sparks Concern in Modding Community 1 day ago:
A big corpo comes in and offer you a life changing amount of money. Very few people can say no to that, myself included.
- Comment on Nexus Mods Sale Sparks Concern in Modding Community 1 day ago:
Socialism is the means of production owned by the state or the workers.
Communism is a subset of socialism, where you have a classless society. Different communist doctrines have a different view on how to achieve that.
- Comment on Nexus Mods Sale Sparks Concern in Modding Community 1 day ago:
Capitalism created this expectation. That’s how corpos operate. Capture the market then bleed it.
- Comment on Amazon Doubles Prime Video Ads to 6 Minutes Per Hour 3 days ago:
Cable TV was originally paid for so that channels wouldn’t need to play ads to be profitable. We know how this ended.
Steaming services were originally paid for so that they wouldn’t have to run ads to nlbe profitable. And we’re almost back to where cable TV is. Soon, all plans will have ads no matter how premium is a plan.
Fuck that noise
- Comment on Home cooking 6 days ago:
It looks more like its boiled chicken.
- Comment on Zynga shuts down Torchlight 3 developer four years after its acquisition 1 week ago:
D4 is objectively a worst game than LE, I agree. But in my situation, when I play looter, I play D4 because I can get right in. I haven’t played this season, but in 2 mins I could be logged in and on my way to do what I like in D4.
D3 already had adventure mode, so the MMO argument is not valid. D4 iterated on that.
In D4, once you’ve unlocked everything in a realm (hardcore or softcore), the unlocks that matter (skill points, obols and paragon) are forever unlocked in or out of season. You don’t need to do renown unless you want the gp reward and the xp boost. It does not block your character to be at its strongest, unlike LE where I need all the totem slots and passive points in the campaign for each char.
I have 150ish hours in both, thoughI haven’t played LE in a while because I don’t have the will to go through the campaign again and the performance isn’t that great. Though it’s mostly because of the campaign. The performance is just another friction to add to that.
To get the skip in LE, I need to get to act 5, skip to act 9 and complete the quests for totems and passives. I need the keys for the dungeon skips as well.
You can start monoliths after your specialization, but you’ll be level 20ish for level 58 content. So you either twink (not possible on the first character of the season), need to know your build extremely well and still do the campaign rewards after that.
In D4, I create my char, jump in the game, do the introductory mission for the season event and play the game as I want.
LE game loop, just like PoE and D4, is what keep people coming in, and the LE get in the way of that for a lot of people. I play looters for the loot, as the genre implies, not the milquetoast story that I am forced to play.
D4 has got the mechanic right for that and other looters could iterate and benefit from the mechanic.
- Comment on Zynga shuts down Torchlight 3 developer four years after its acquisition 1 week ago:
The campaign is long for what it is. The time travel adds absolutely nothing to the gameplay.
- Comment on Zynga shuts down Torchlight 3 developer four years after its acquisition 1 week ago:
Let’s take D4. For all its flaw, you can start a character without having to re-find all the Lilith statues and nothing is locked behind the campaign.
You venture out in hell tides or do a few dungeons to unlock some legendary aspect right off the bat.
This is what I want with Last Epoch. The campaign is essential because it unlocks totem slots and passive points. Taking an hour and a half of content (probably more if you don’t have as much experience as you) I don’t want to do just so I can start playing my character as I want is not fun.
I only have an hour a night max, every few other nights, so these 2-3 hours to “start” a character is 2-3 nights for me.
When a new season start in D4, I name my character, assign my 10 skill points and go do whatever I want. It it takes a min and I’m started and I don’t need prior equipment to do so.
- Comment on Zynga shuts down Torchlight 3 developer four years after its acquisition 1 week ago:
I know that skip, but it’s not a real solution. Why is it a problem to let people enjoy the gameplay loop without forcing them to go through the pacing of the story?
- Comment on Does anyone use a phone without a protective case? 2 weeks ago:
I tried to use my phone without a cover, but it’s so thin that I don’t like the feeling. So I went back to my cover only for the added thickness.
- Comment on RuneScape studio Jagex confirms layoffs 'to reduce complexity, increase agility, and ensure we are fully focused on the areas that matter most' 2 weeks ago:
PR speak need to die and anyone caught using it should be shamed into oblivion.
- Comment on Zynga shuts down Torchlight 3 developer four years after its acquisition 2 weeks ago:
Last Epoch needs to let us skip the campaign once it has been done once.
I do not play these games for the dogshit story, I want to kill stuff and get new loot and the story gets in the way of that.
Same thing with PoE (haven’t tried PoE2). I don’t want to have to rush 5-6 hours on a new char just to get through the dog shit story.
Diablo 3 fixed that a decade ago. Shouldn’t be that fucking hard.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 and Palworld devs wish players understood that 'easy' additions and updates are sometimes really hard: 'That's half a year's work. That takes six months' 3 weeks ago:
I wish my clients would understand that, and my code is a lot simpler than a video game.
- Comment on Low quality cropping will officially launch on Lemmy in 2025 3 weeks ago:
If it catches on, these seats will be the base price and seated places will become premium. It will impact everyone that travels by plane.
- Comment on velosaur 5 weeks ago:
I don’t know why, but this meme triggered me.
- Comment on We pink inside too :( 5 weeks ago:
If you cook a salmon through, the inside becomes a light pink. If you google images of cooked salmon, you both the orange you speak of, and the light pink described as salmon pink.
- Comment on We pink inside too :( 5 weeks ago:
Salmon pink is a real color. But I think it refers to the cooked salmon, and not raw salmon.
- Comment on After getting Stardew Valley to 'a good place' with update 1.6, Eric Barone is now fully focused on his next game 1 month ago:
The old Terraria trick.
- Comment on Ben Shapiro's sister 1 month ago:
Well she is physically attractive. Doesn’t mean she’s a good person.
- Comment on What's a cancelled game you really miss? 1 month ago:
I am most probably not good at the game, but in Wasteland 3, it felt like you needed the first round advantage, otherwise you would get blown to pieces before you could even act once. That burned the game for me.
- Comment on Anon makes life choices 2 months ago:
It is something I am learning myself, but without the experience to back it up, it’s really hard to understand truly.
- Comment on Virgin Physicists 2 months ago:
Don’t sneeze right next to it with that kind of precision.
- Comment on PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now 2 months ago:
It forces you to be patient. You fit the bill
- Comment on PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now 2 months ago:
Pay to play baby! Let’s reinvent the banking system by doing the same exact shit.
- Comment on PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now 2 months ago:
IMO, GPU prices have an impact. Modern gaming has a bad habit of not optimizing games relying on people getting newer GPUs for performance.
Mix that with the pre-order/early access monetization, and we are to a point where games have made their money before release, and beans counters don’t want to put money in QA because there is no quantifiable ROI (there is a ROI, but it is hard to quantify), which is a no-no in their world.
Indie games have a tendancy to be less GPU demanding, and thus, usually have a better performance experience
- Comment on I left negative feedback on ebay for dropshipping and the seller has messaged me four days in a row asking me to change it 2 months ago:
Dropshippers don’t advertise themselves as such.
- Comment on Let me tell you something, I haven't even begun to peak. 3 months ago:
My kids are still young, so it might change, but I hope they stay with with me forever.
I love them so much and I will be sad when they will leave home.
- Comment on Common Ground 3 months ago:
Yeah, no nuances here.
- Comment on Freedumb 3 months ago:
The IT paradox :
- “Why am I paying you when everything works?”
- “Why am I paying you when everything has gone to shit?”
You are right that vaccines worked so well because mostly everyone had them, and mostly everyone has to take them for them to work.
Village idiots got a support system and crossed the threshold where the herd immunity has diminished enough for outbreaks in communities.
- Comment on transformations 3 months ago:
I wish they would have shown me the top picture 15 years ago, it makes so much sense.