Croquette
@Croquette@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on In New York City, Drivers Who Run Red Lights Get Tickets. E-Bike Riders Get Court Dates. 9 hours ago:
There was a video a long while ago where a cyclist got a ticket for not riding in the bike lane.
So he filmed himself riding in the bike lanes and crashing into the parked cars there and one of them was a cop.
It’s clear that politicians don’t give a fuck about cyclists.
- Comment on Itch.io apologise for "frustration and confusion" after delisting thousands of NSFW projects 10 hours ago:
Absolutely. Fuck payment processors
- Comment on Itch.io apologise for "frustration and confusion" after delisting thousands of NSFW projects 10 hours ago:
Someone’s gonna process the payment between the two banks, adding an intermediary between both banks won’t help much when it will be denied processing as well.
- Comment on Itch.io apologise for "frustration and confusion" after delisting thousands of NSFW projects 18 hours ago:
Credit cards companies forced itch.io to remove these games, otherwise they would stop processing their transactions, effectively bankrupting itch.io.
- Comment on Itch.io apologise for "frustration and confusion" after delisting thousands of NSFW projects 18 hours ago:
Without payments processors, they can’t sell games.
Having a federated platform wouldn’t mean much if the payments processors blanket ban the platform.
- Comment on Elder Scrolls Online devs detail “inhumane” Microsoft layoffs as Xbox expects the “carcass of workers” to “keep shipping award-winning games” 1 day ago:
The Excel Spreadsheet is sacrosanct. A bean counter predicted that you should make more money than last year, and if you don’t, you are worthless.
- Comment on Public transit in Chengdu, China versus Toronto, Canada 4 days ago:
This is like the 2 extremes. China with terrible human rights violation and sloppy construction and cities where even thinking about mass public transit is killing puppies.
- Comment on Has the live-service dream crashed back down to earth? | Opinion 1 week ago:
Games as a service could work. The issue is that making money isn’t enough. You need to be making more money every year and bean counters have hijacked games as a way to squeeze as much money as possible from players.
- Comment on Wall Street’s AI Bubble Is Worse Than the 1999 Dot-com Bubble, Warns a Top Economist 1 week ago:
Every AI company CEO/C-suite is gambling that they won’t be left holding the bag.
Either AI fails and CEO/C-Suite made their money already, or AI succeeds and they carved an early lead in the market and gamble even more.
Workers are only there to build the biggest stack of chips possible before it gets cashed out.
- Comment on 7,818 titles on Steam disclose generative AI usage, or 7% of Steam's total library of 114,126 games, up from ~1,000 titles in April 2024 1 week ago:
With how many games are released on Steam, how can AI be quantified and enforced?
- Comment on Founder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts sales 2 weeks ago:
We haven’t seen antitrust with teeths for a while now.
Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, Apple should have been broken up in a million little pieces a long time ago, but it won’t happen.
- Comment on Founder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts sales 2 weeks ago:
The goal is to lose money to capture the market and once it is done, to recoup their loss and bleed the market dry.
- 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 1 month ago:
It looks more like its boiled chicken.
- Comment on Zynga shuts down Torchlight 3 developer four years after its acquisition 1 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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? 1 month 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' 1 month 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 1 month 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 2 months 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 2 months ago:
I don’t know why, but this meme triggered me.
- Comment on We pink inside too :( 2 months 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.