Croquette

@Croquette@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Xbox Hardware Is Dead,' Says Founding Team Member, 'It Looks Like Xbox Has No Desire — Or Literally Can't — Ship Hardware Anymore' - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I am a 4K PC little bitch, but playing games on my 1080p TV reminded me that it isn’t all that important. Fun > Smoothness > Graphics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Xbox Hardware Is Dead,' Says Founding Team Member, 'It Looks Like Xbox Has No Desire — Or Literally Can't — Ship Hardware Anymore' - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that xbox controller are the best controllers for PC, so I don’t need all the advanced features, but otherwise, you are right.

  Their market is now clearly gamepass + Windows. Microsoft is banking on their market share to sell gamepass and capture the market.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nexus Mods Sale Sparks Concern in Modding Community⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It looks more like its boiled chicken.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zynga shuts down Torchlight 3 developer four years after its acquisition⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨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'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨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'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know why, but this meme triggered me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We pink inside too :(⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 :(⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The old Terraria trick.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ben Shapiro's sister⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well she is physically attractive. Doesn’t mean she’s a good person.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's a cancelled game you really miss?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Dropshippers don’t advertise themselves as such.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let me tell you something, I haven't even begun to peak.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, no nuances here.