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- Comment on Half-Life 2 peaks at 52,000 concurrent players, 20 years after its release 1 day ago:
Live service? More like dead service. Am I right, guys? I’ll see myself out.
- Comment on Half-Life 2 peaks at 52,000 concurrent players, 20 years after its release 1 day ago:
Pick up Black Mesa or see if there is a demo. It’s a fan-made remake made recently that might be easier on your eyes. Additionally, you can open up the developer console and enter:
sv_friction 6This the movement friction from the default of 4 to 6 to make the game less slidey.
The motion in HL1 is quite odd as you somewhat slide around rather than walk. It was quite normal back in the old days of Quake but if you’ve played mostly modern shooters, I can totally get how odd (and potentially motion sickness inducing) it is.
- Comment on You Pay For It, We Own It - Sony's $7.9B Lawsuit 2 days ago:
No no no, OP told us it’s been ages now so we’re in the “dogmatically apathetic” stage, right before “crywank”.
- Comment on Petition: Create a public consultation on freedom of speech and disinformation 3 days ago:
Why anyone would downvote this is beyond me. More than ever, we need to strengthen regulations across the board when it comes to knowingly spreading misinformation, failing to do due diligence if you’re in a position of power and spreading unverified information, privacy and right to be forgotten with AI, and so much more.
- Comment on Ryan Reynolds Writing Non-Marvel Project to Reunite With Hugh Jackman and Director Shawn Levy After ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ 1 week ago:
Isn’t that his entire career? He’s always played the cheeky but endearing person.
- Comment on Many TV stations put a banner ad in the picture these days 2 weeks ago:
My bad. Must have made a slip up on the swipe keyboard. I meant “years”. I’ve edited my post to correct.
- Comment on Many TV stations put a banner ad in the picture these days 2 weeks ago:
That rear projection beast was the best darn television for tests until Pioneer made plasmas. I miss ours deeply and wish we’d had the space to keep it (especially for retro gaming and the yearly playing of the Star Wars laser disk).
- Comment on Random Screenshots of my Games #40 - The Invincible 2 weeks ago:
Love your posts and your little insights and review you share with the screenshots. Thanks for sharing!
- Comment on Star Citizen Expose Paints a Fairly Bleak Picture: 'There's No Actual Focus on Getting the Game Done' 4 weeks ago:
I’d gladly take a single functioning system rather than wait another 12 years of my life for this Kickstarter project to deliver.
- Comment on Star Citizen Expose Paints a Fairly Bleak Picture: 'There's No Actual Focus on Getting the Game Done' 4 weeks ago:
Next it’ll be 1000 star systems while we’re still waiting on Squadron 42.
- Comment on Asahi Linux: AAA Gaming Emulation on Apple Silicon 5 weeks ago:
That’s ridiculously cool. Really appreciate you sharing that.
- Comment on Asahi Linux: AAA Gaming Emulation on Apple Silicon 5 weeks ago:
Impressive! I thought emulation would be embarrassingly slow - my attempts to get Windows VMs running on macOS on Apple Silicon resulted in single-digit FPS just rendering the desktop. What dark arts are they conducting?
- Comment on Currently downloading The Witcher 3 for the first time. Got any advice for me? 5 weeks ago:
Just an FYI, Lemmy supports spoiler tags
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- Comment on Starfield: Shattered Space - Official Launch Trailer 1 month ago:
I wonder if you have to complete the base game before you can do this expansion?
- Comment on Anon plays DnD 1 month ago:
It’s like the PHB. You don’t need to read it cover to cover but there’s a couple of chapters you’ll want to read entirely up front and then it’s just a resource with suggestions on how to adjudicate various scenarios.
- Comment on Anon plays DnD 1 month ago:
Which I always find kind of hilarious since it’s basically expressed on the first page of the DMG.
- Comment on New Pig Race Track - The Forest Racecourse 1 month ago:
Team Ginger all the way!
- Comment on Anon goes to dinner with coworkers 1 month ago:
Not entirely. Yes there was blight affecting crops but there was more to it than that.
Huge volumes of unaffected produce were exported to England for profit - the decreased yields only impacting the market for locals. Previous famines has seen the British ban exports to ensure the local population had access to food (which also decreased the prices) but not this time around.
English landlords of Irish property were evicting their tenants who weren’t able to pay (since the blight impacted many people’s ability to work) with zero notice or rights for the tenants. Absentee landlords were extracting huge amounts of capital out of the Irish economy, owning vast swathes of the entire country.
The Irish were widely dependent on the potato as a primary form of sustenance but it was due to the potato being high in calories, cheap and easy to grow, and high density yields from relatively small plots of land (landlords dividing up the land into incredibly small divisions whilst simultaneously extracting the highest rent possible for the land).
The Irish were, in essence, forced to eat potatoes due to the extreme economic exploitation they were subject to.
Yet there was no aid from England; she simply sat by reaping profit and leaving things up to the divine - “the market will provide”. There had been efforts to change tariffs and laws but the contention in the governing party about providing aid caused the Prime Minister to resign and the subsequent government threw out all efforts (except those such as offering relief to those without land which forced many Irish to sell what land they had to gain relief and aid).
A Prime Minister at the time launched a commission to investigate and it was found that the absentee landlord system was abhorrent and principally responsible for the famine.
Sadly 1/4 of the population perished, and another 1/4 simply left the country. In some ways, Ireland never recovered.
- Comment on Space noir roguelike Ostranauts is aiming for 1.0 in 2025, with help from Kitfox as publisher 2 months ago:
Neo Scavenger is such a gem of a game. I’ve been hoping Ostranauts would get since love since the premise is awesome but the textures/tiles were too low contrast / visually noisy for me to really love the game. This gives me hope.
Totally recommend picking up Neo Scavenger even not on sale - such a blast and some totally crazy things can happen in that game that makes it really compelling to play over and over even if you die.
- Comment on Risk of Rain creators Hopoo Games join Valve 2 months ago:
Shud i rite bad then?
- Comment on Risk of Rain creators Hopoo Games join Valve 2 months ago:
Snowballing
30/40min games where you’re unable to concede when loss is clear early on (causing other team mates to become stressed and rude). Games can sometimes be decided in 5 minutes yet there can potentially another half hour to go before you have a chance to requeue with different team mates.
One team mate’s mistake early on can lead to the opposing team snowballing and the rest of the team becomes toxic due to the first point.
The respawn timer increasing in length penalises the team further for being behind the enemy team, and the downtime as someone is waiting to spawn gives them time to type and be toxic.
Macro and Meta
The volume of items leads there to be objectively better builds (and meta after each patch as items stats are changed) leads expectations on all team mates to follow that meta and know which build to play otherwise they get raged on.
Map awareness is more important that aiming and it takes the whole team to remain aware of the map for success.
The lack of transparency as to why a person is losing to another (item selection, ability upgrades etc) irritates players into feeling cheated.
Competitive
As a competitive game, players are trying to prove themselves yet, as a team game, individual performance can’t make up for a weak team thus rage. Competition drives emotion.
I played Deadlock for about 10 matches but all the typical MOBA issues emerged within a couple of games, I’ve already bounced off of it.
- Comment on Risk of Rain creators Hopoo Games join Valve 2 months ago:
I have a strong feeling they’ll be working on Deadlock given their experience with third person hero shooters with crazy items that change your build.
Which is a shame because Deadlock is destined for the land of toxicity most other MOBAs exist in unless they do something meaningful to change the game’s design.
- Comment on Just Average 2 months ago:
Mean, median, or mode?
- Comment on August 30th 2024. America adopts the metric system. Never forget. 2 months ago:
Unless you’re reaaaally small
- Comment on Remedy and Annapurna announce a strategic cooperation agreement on Control 2 2 months ago:
They could have gone Unix and not contributed upstream like PlayStation did.
Oculus was a device. Valve built SteamVR literally for the Rift (I had the original developer model and using Steam was pretty much essential). Valve also ensured that SteamVR supported other devices too when they came to market, levelling the playing field and enabling consumers to pick and choose hardware without having to buy games across multiple different marketplaces.
Valve pay their employees what they’re worth and share their success with them rather than devaluing them and extracting value from them. That’s pretty good going. And given how much they do with so few, it says a lot about their culture and ethic.
I don’t know about other gamers but I dislike EGS because it’s simply an inferior product and I vote with my wallet. If they offer me more value than a competitor, I’ll gladly use them. I use GOG, itch.io, and Xbox GamePass so it’s not like I’m averse to other platforms. I just don’t see why, if a game is on EGS and Steam (and not on GamePass), what value is there to me as a consumer with going with EGS?
- Comment on Remedy and Annapurna announce a strategic cooperation agreement on Control 2 2 months ago:
Yet consumers get more value from Steam as a platform where that 30% cut has helped fund a powerful gaming platform, remote game streaming, driven developers to release builds for macOS and Linux and license users for all platforms with a single purchase, an open source handheld gaming device, an input library that enables practically any input device to be used and for controls to be remapped even if the game doesn’t support it, the best VR headsets and room-scale VR, popularising VR and making it mainstream, contributing to upstream to further gaming on Linux, enabling DirectX games to execute natively on Linux, several of the most popular multiplayer games on the internet, enticed PlayStation to release games on PC, putting indie developers on a level playing field with the biggest studios, enabling developers to release games mid development to help them self fund the game’s development, support the modding scene, and so much more.
Epic may charge developers less but that doesn’t offer me, a consumer, any extra value.
Instead their platform and its lack of investment and innovation make the purchases I have made in their store feel less valuable and cumbersome as their competition increase the value of their offerings.
I’m not saying they’re the bad guys but the argument that developers get more money doesn’t really matter if that 30% cut is felt justified to consumers.
And with the upcoming untethered VR offering from Valve on the horizon, which will no doubt be powered by open source with their improvements upstreamed, that 30% cut feels even more justified when Linux becomes fully capable of VR thanks to my purchases.
- Comment on Do I need to store this in the fridge when opened? 2 months ago:
- Comment on Anon starts vaping 2 months ago:
And 50ml of neurodivergence or, if you’re out, 50L of involuntary celibacy.
- Comment on Anon starts vaping 2 months ago:
A typical greentext recipe is to dissolve it in 100ml of lies.
- Comment on Please pick a password starting with ad and ending with min 2 months ago:
All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
