Crozekiel

@Crozekiel@lemmy.zip

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HOOOOONNNNKK-snewewewewwew⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone’s gonna be disappointed when they get the hat and realize it is child-sized…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Subnautica 2’ Leaders Say Krafton Sabotaged Game Over Payout [new events in the Subnautica 2 story]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This honestly feels like an “everyone sucks here” situation. It’s obviously bad that the publisher just sacked the 3 founders of a developer and replaced them with a CEO from a developer they just scuttled… But then there is this terrible sell-out deal the devs went for where 1/3 of the sale price of the company was tied up in sales performance with the deadline rapidly approaching so of course they want to put out a shiny new title for people to buy even though they keep having to cut the planned content down to almost nothing. (supposedly, obvi I haven’t played it…)

  AND THEN there is what I am calling Schrodinger’s Beta. It is supposedly right now ready for early access release (which means Krafton delaying the game is proof of being shady and avoiding the bonus), but also likely going to flop because they got rid of the founders and now they won’t have the devs to make it any good (making Krafton correct in delaying the EA because it isn’t ready yet…).

  This whole thing is a mess of pointing fingers and no one knows what’s real. Truth of the matter is probably that both sides are right. Dev’s want to push the game out to get the rest of what they feel they are owed, whether the game is ready for EA be damned. Publisher wants to not pay for any of that, downsize the dev team to finish production as cheap as possible just to drop a steaming turd with just enough name recognition to keep their line going up, but not to make enough money they can’t plausible deniability sink another developer. I hope I’m wrong, because I was looking forward to Subnautica 2 (mostly just to have a multiplayer subnautica experience), but the industry has mostly convinced me to assume the worst in everyone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why there are a lot of people migrating from Windows to Linux these days?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The amount of work I was spending to fight the recurring bloat of shit in Windows 10 was eating away at me for years… I had the OS drive in my computer die a little over 2 years ago, so I was having to re-install windows from scratch on a new drive, and going through the install process, see skype and one-drive horse-shit popping up - disabling both, running updates, and they pop back up again… It just killed my spirit. I went distro searching that same day. My laptop followed suit about 6 months later. MS will be very hard pressed to win me back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They are so dumb they want to piss everyone off for a lousy 15 minutes⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, never trust a company replacing C’s with K’s, especially if it contains alliteration. They will shy away from adding the 3rd K too publicly, but they know what it means.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨spicy one⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can’t convince me that isn’t a nipple snuck in by the image creator.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do low framerates *feel* so much worse on modern video games?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s true, but I didn’t say that was the native “frame rate” of the TVs, just a very commonly used frame rate at the time. And, at least in my experience, desync’ed frame rate and refresh rate is less of a problem on CRTs than LCDs - you don’t “feel” it as much generally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do low framerates *feel* so much worse on modern video games?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Out of curiosity, did you have an actual N64 hooked up to a modern TV? A lot of those old games meant to be played on a CRT will look like absolute dog shit on a modern LCD panel. Text is harder to read, it is harder to tell what a shape is supposed to be, it’s really bad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do low framerates *feel* so much worse on modern video games?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Part of it is about how close you are to the target FPS. They likely made the old N64 games to run somewhere around 24 FPS since that was an extremely common “frame rate” for CRT TVs common at the time. Therefore, the animations of, well, basically everything that moves in the game can be tuned to that frame rate. It would probably look like jank crap if they made the animations have 120 frames for 1 second of animation, but they didn’t.

  On to Fallout 4… Oh boy. Bethesda jank. Creation engine game speed is tied to frame rate. They had several problems with the launch of Fallout76 because if you had a really powerful computer and unlocked your frame rate, you would be moving 2-3 times faster than you should have been. It’s a funny little thing to do in a single-player game, but absolutely devastating in a multi-player game. So, if your machine is chugging a bit and the frame rate slows down, it isn’t just your visual rate of new images appearing that is slowing down, it’s the speed at which the entire game does stuff that slowed down. It feels bad.

  And also, as others have said, frame time, dropped frames, and how stable the frame rate is makes a huge difference too in how it “feels”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baldur's Gate IP overlords Wizards of the Coast reveal a new Dungeons & Dragons single-player action adventure⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Reads like it is going to be a generic slash 'em up game, but set in the DnD universe? What the fuck does dnd even bring to the table here besides advertising money? Sounds like it’s going to be a generic ass fantasy game filled to the brim with the micro-transactions that get Chris Cocks hard in the morning. I am unlikely to give it a second notice upon release.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No looky for you!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They actually do have that, warm air circulation. The real problem is though that the moisture has to go somewhere for the dishes to actually get dry. It’s why a clothes dryer won’t dry your clothes if the vent is clogged. Some of them have basically something akin to a still inside the door - a path for the warm and moist air to travel through that has a lot of right angle turns giving lots of opportunity for moisture to condense out of the air and then it can drain liquid water out the bottom. Some other models have automatic door openers, so once everything inside gets nice and hot and humid, the door pops open and it all just gets spit out into your kitchen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you’ll be waiting forever for that one. Not even sure why you would want that; I seriously doubt it would even work as a shortcut to reactos becoming a viable and mature OS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Be honest. You guessed ass and not air⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Like, who bought ALL of the vowels except I?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what was the last game you played in 2024?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Same! I’ve got over 200 hours in so far. It scratches that itch so well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's never a bad time to check your biases⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait, so rum is a dude??

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been shouting from the rooftops for years that this stuff is malware. I’m not the only one. No one listens.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grr Windows⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I fucking love running updates on garuda. Watching the little ASCII pacmans gobbling up the progress bar… And it doesn’t do it unless I tell it to so I never have the windows experience of “I just wanna play a game,oh look, 10 minutes of updates instead. Guess I’ll go make a sandwich…”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Y=-x²⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank God for the graph tho, I havnt used math like that in 20 years, and I’ve spent that 20 years getting dumber.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New mobile features are sh*t these days⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I want one but the price has kept me away… But its about to be time. I’m not one to upgrade often, I’m still on a galaxy s9 plus, which I love, but the battery is showing its age and the screen has some minor burn in after like I think 6 years of constant use.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Subnautica 2 - Official Teaser Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I panicked for a moment and thought you meant like the EA origin or whatever store instead of early access… I was wondering how they got their grubby mitts on it. Lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Technology Connections: MP3 CDs⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That all depended on the player though. I had a car stereo that played MP3 CDs that was able to see folder and navigate folder structure on the CDs. It was great, if your music was already organized in folders, by album for example.

  My desktop stereo system, however, only saw the individual .mp3 files and did like you described. It was much more of a pain, but I usually just played from a computer in winamp (rip).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Signal⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I just read the synopsis. Wtf did in just read?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chad McQueen, ‘The Karate Kid’ Star and Steve McQueen’s Son, Dies at 63⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Movies typically have more than one “star”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fence⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually, Gates is just the kernal. The OS should be called Ox/Gates.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twitter⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like they fucked up with the first one because the poster already looked like a sequel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mouse brains⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Plus Pinky can read and Brain can’t, canonically.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On Bears⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I read the title as “Oh beans” and somehow it still fits, lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Tooth Tap is far superior, I'm sorry.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the dice? It definitely made me question reality though…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Tooth Tap is far superior, I'm sorry.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This just brought me flash-backs of the absolute nut-bar I used to play DnD with that would tap dice on her teeth before rolling them “to check if they were real.”

  This is the closest thing to context I may ever have to that experience. I thought she was checking real vs imaginary, maybe she was checking if they were… ummm… real bones? wait. no.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bethesda Game Studios developers form 'wall to wall' union that includes artists, designers, and programmers⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yea, they probably have that one guy still there from the days creation engine was made that is required to be on staff for any future games to fix whatever archaic code they break. Get him on board with the union and Bethesda is probably held by the short hairs to do whatever they say.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨False Dichotomy Rule⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You likely aren’t entirely alone, but I actually dig it.