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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dragon’s Dogma 2 Title Update 1.050 Adds ‘Start New game’, Max 30fps Option, More⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I recently bought the OG Dragon’s Dogma for $6. There are a ton of QoL and fun mods that improve gameplay, no DRM crap, and the game performs really well overall. Zero reasons IMO to buy DD2 right now and put up with an inferior experience and Denuvo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection - Announce Trailer | PS5 & PS4 Games⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Heh yeah Galactic Battlegrounds is so unfairly underrated IMO. People who knew of it brushed it off saying it’s just a reskinned AoE - but there’s so much more to it. I fell in love with it all over again last year, after I discovered a couple of excellent mods: the first being Expanding Fronts, which brings new civilizations, units, maps, music and QoL improvements. The other being cnc-ddraw - which fixes graphics/compatibility/resolutions and does some excellent upscaling. The game is so much fun with this, been playing local multiplayer with my friends using ZeroTier and we have massive battles against bots, its amazing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection - Announce Trailer | PS5 & PS4 Games⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know about second best, but it’s in the top 5 for sure. The other three for me being the Rogue Squadron series, Galactic Battlegrounds and tie between the two Episode I games (Phantom Menace and Racer).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MSI teasing a handheld gaming PC like the Steam Deck⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Luckily there are better options than SteamOS for other hardware, such as ChimeraOS and Bazzite - you get pretty much the same features as SteamOS + optimizations got non-deck hw + extra goodies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The full source code for GTA 5 has been publicly leaked⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The core ideas remained the same, only difference is that they’ve got more roadblocks now which makes it considerably tricker (security measures in the OS + anti-cheat + encryption/DRM + server-side checks etc).

  But modern day cheating goes beyond memory editing, for instance there are things like aimbots which can work at the GPU/driver level, or input automation/macros which work completely ouside of the game so normal anticheat measures may not prevent it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The full source code for GTA 5 has been publicly leaked⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Unlikely, unless the source code for the anti-cheat system and server-side codes have been leaked as well.

  Leaking the source code for just the game isn’t really going to help cheaters. But it may help modders for making mods and stuff. These mods may or may not be detected by the anti-cheat system though.

  If they coded the game properly, the server won’t allow the client to connect if any of the files have been modified or it can’t talk to/detect the anti-cheat system. So assuming that’s the case, any mods that may come out of this would be for offline gaming.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fextralife 2023 Awards⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No mention of TotK? Lame.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some helpful gaming websites you wish people knew?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  areweanticheatyet.com - shows the current level of compatibility on Linux with games using anti-cheat systems.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doom at 30: how a LAN session changed my life⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm, somehow I never really used 10BASE2/5 stuff.

  My first “LAN” party was playing OMF2097 and other DOS IPX games over a null-modem cable (which I made myself by hacking up a regular serial cable - was so proud of myself when I got it to work lol). Of course, it was only limited to two PCs, but still fun nonetheless. After the DOS era, my first "proper"LAN party was over 10BASE-T (Cat3) during the Win 9x era, and then we quickly moved into the Cat5/100Mbps world. So somehow I completely skipped over coax LANs, even though I started with MSDOS, RS232 and BBS door games. Or maybe I used them unknowingly at school or something. But it feels really strange to hear others reminisce “fondly” about T-connectors and terminators, when even though I’m from the same era, I never saw them. Or maybe I’m from an alternate timelime where they didn’t exist at all…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for insight - Games on a school managed Chromebook⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To add to this, I’d also like to recommend dos.zone - tons of cool, old school DOS games, playable right in your browser - and some of them even have mobile/touch controls, and even multiplayer support!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grim Dawn - Grim Dawn Version v1.2.0.0 is now available! - Steam News⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t wait for the updated Diablo 2 mod to take advantage of the new features!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yuzu - Progress Report October 2023⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The GPU driver manager sounds pretty useful. From a PC gamer’s perspective, it seems pretty wild that you could just switch between driver versions like this on the fly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve says it is committed to the Steam Deck, has a "road map"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Bazzite supports dual-booting, so if you really wanted to, you could wipe your deck right now, install Windows, and then install Bazzite.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Trek Online and Neverwinter MMO devs Cryptic are the next Embracer-owned studio to suffer layoffs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve played it for a bit, didn’t like the controls - felt pretty clunky, like the camera controls in particular. Still, better than SWTOR though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Diablo IV is free-to-play on PC through Battle.net until Monday⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That only works if the game is good enough to get you hooked in the first place…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cyberpunk patch 2.02 now available⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Looking at all those fixes makes me glad I haven’t tried the new 2.x update yet. The question now though is, should I wait for a few more months to see if they fix more bugs? 🤔

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Diablo 4’s Season 2 patch rebalances each class and nearly every Unique item⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  PD2 Season 8 is shaping up really well, in case you’re interested.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Diablo® IV is coming to Steam⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I couldn’t even bring myself to finish the campaign, it was just so soulless and grindy, I gave up halfway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Idris Elba: Actors in video games like Phantom Liberty is 'sign of the times'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Batman Begins (2005) had an all-star voice cast from the movies:

  • Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne/Batman
  • Michael Caine as Alfred Pennyworth
  • Liam Neeson as Henri Ducard/Ra’s al Ghul
  • Katie Holmes as Rachel Dawes
  • Cillian Murphy as Dr. Jonathan Crane/The Scarecrow
  • Tom Wilkinson as Carmine Falcone
  • Morgan Freeman as Lucius Fox
  • Tim Booth as Victor Zsasz
  • Mark Boone Junior as Detective Arnold Flass
  • Ken Watanabe as Ra’s al Ghul (decoy)
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't laptops have proper low power states where useful stuff like downloads can run during sleep/with the lid closed?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t developed a desktop app in ages so I’m probably not the best person to ask this, but my understanding is that if you develop a modern UWP app, then it automatically be S0 aware, and you can make use of WinRT APIs to execute background tasks. The user can also choose whether or not to allow this activity. I’m not sure if the WinRT APIs can be called from a regular Win32 app. For Win32 apps, as far as I’m aware, they should get suspended by the DAM automatically (and services may get throttled), but Windows may choose to unsuspend/unthrottle these apps if it thinks some critical activities are happening. I never looked into what it deems as a “critical activity”. Personally though I always disable S0 so that my laptop suspends as you’d expect it to

  Bottomline is, if you’re making a UWP app it should all just automatically work, and if you’re making a Win32 app you need to look more into the DAM. There’s some info on that here: learn.microsoft.com/…/desktop-activity-moderator

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't laptops have proper low power states where useful stuff like downloads can run during sleep/with the lid closed?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Why don’t laptops have proper low power states

  Actually, they do, it’s called the “S0” low power state, and it’s part of the ACPI standard. Microsoft calls this “Modern Standby” in Windows (and “suspend to idle” in Linux) , and it’s pitched to do exactly what you’ve described.

  The only problem is, the implementation sucks. Most users actually hate the S0 state because it consumes so much power - on some laptops, even the fans may continue to run on S0, and your laptop may overheat if you’ve closed the lid and chucked it in a bag.

  Also, because Microsoft and Intel have been pushing this so much, the “standby” mode now defaults to S0 instead of S3 (full suspend-to-RAM) like it used to be, back in the day. So many users actually actively seen to disable S0 and go back to S3, via registry hacks etc.

  So why is S0 so bad? Part of this is due to the limitations, long history and the variable nature of the x86 platform. All the power-saving stuff was implemented as an after-thought - both at the hardware and software levels, whereas ARM, at least the modern ARM ecosystem, was developed with mobile usage and power saving from ground up. An x86 PC is also made up of components from disjointed manufacturers, and we need all those components to implement the same standards so that it all works well as expected. So for instance, if a particular component isn’t capable of entering a low-power or active standby state, then it won’t - and you can’t do much about that.

  The second half of the problem comes with the software. All applications must be modern standby / S0 aware, if not, one of two things will happen: that app will keep the system awake, or the app will get suspended by the Desktop Activity Manager (DAM). Either way, the app must be capable of running in the DRIPS phase (deepest idle runtime platform state), which rules out most Win32 apps (basically almost every app that’s not on the Microsoft Store).

  Finally, the reality is that most PC users don’t care about modern standby regardless - and why should they, when they’ve all got smartphones, which handles notifications well? Also, hardly anyone does large file downloads these days, and the people who do still download, wouldn’t care about doing it while on battery (and if they do, they can take manual actions to lower the power consumption, such as switching to a power saving plan and turning off the display etc).

• ‘Isekai action RPG’ Mononoke no Kuni announced for PlayStation, Switch, PC, iOS, and Androidwww.gematsu.com ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨migrated to lemm.ee from reddit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You your chance to say “stay a while and listen”. :|

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Phone/computer screens in movies and TV series⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh, as an IT guy, I love seeing computer screens on TV. They’re either a good laugh, or they can be quite interesting.

  Among the interesting/iconic interfaces:

  • The 3D “Unix” system in Jurassic Park
  • The Matrix
  • Minority Report

  I also love seeing vintage/fake-vintage interfaces in movies, such as SolarOS (a take on Solaris) in Tron: Legacy

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  and all the hilarious ones such as the infamous “I’ll create a GUI in Virtual Basic to track the IP address” scene in CSI.

  Also, here’s a bonus link for you retro fans: www.windows93.net

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows Updated and is Pushing More Stuff⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s actually a good thing IMO, Microsoft is giving people more reasons to switch to Linux. How kind of them!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did Android's update support become so inconsistent?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  become so inconsistent

  Your title implies that it was consistent at some point, but it wasn’t. Android updates were never consistent. In fact, it’s actually become more consistent in recent years, since the introduction of Project Treble. Most mainstream flagships now offer 4 years of updates, with some manufacturers even offering 5 years (Google and some Samsung flagships).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some RPGs for someone who doesnt like most RPGs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Pixel art

  • Chrono Trigger
  • Octopath Traveller
  • Final Fantasy VI