EvilBit
@EvilBit@lemmy.world
- Comment on Some Older PC games I have, just wanted to share. 1 day ago:
I remember them boasting that an architect contributed to the level design. Turns out, real world environment design didn’t map to early 2000’s game design very well.
Now designing a modern VR game or something, that might be a different story.
- Comment on Everyone talking about the Indiana Jones game lately, so I gave in and bought it. It's a 10/10 recommendation from me! 2 weeks ago:
It says, flugeldufel.
It says, auschgefarben.
- Comment on Have your parents or grandparents told you that you are a crybaby for complaining about the financial challenges young people face today? They are wrong and here's why. 3 weeks ago:
My father is a full-tilt Republican Asshole and if his father was alive today, I think he’d kick my shitty father’s teeth in for what he’s become.
- Comment on Evan Almighty and flushed away 3 weeks ago:
Exactly. Going away from claymation was not the best, but it still has plenty of good humor and fun in it.
- Comment on Evan Almighty and flushed away 3 weeks ago:
Flushed Away is a perfectly unironically enjoyable film.
- Comment on Drink the climate change away 4 weeks ago:
I’ve read about ballers who pop the top and drop the appropriate weight of dry ice in. There are tutorials out there but it’s scarier than I’m willing to take on.
Don’t look at me though, I use Drinkmate.
- Comment on If Orange Dickhead dies before taking his oath again will sucession still be applicable? Like Vance the new pres and Johnson the new VP? 4 weeks ago:
Technically it would be suck-sectional.
- Comment on Is a Quest 3 really worth it? 4 weeks ago:
I agree that there’s a ton of good stuff coming from the indie scene and also some amazing modding of existing games out there (check the Flat2VR discord - they just modded full VR support with motion controls into Silent Hill 2 Remake), but despite all the complaints about the PSVR2 library, there is more than enough gold in there to keep a lot of people entertained for a very long time, and some of it is truly AAA stuff. The headset itself is extremely well designed and easy to pick up and play, and the amount of tech you get is pretty nuts.
I’ve heard it’s pretty minimally supported on the PC because they’re kind of trying to get away with building half of a bridge (spoiler: it won’t work) but even without features like haptics and eye tracking, it’s a reasonable baseline headset. There may be some Bluetooth inconsistencies for some though, if I remember correctly.
- Comment on Is a Quest 3 really worth it? 5 weeks ago:
I will echo some of the other sentiments.
Meta sells a lot of their tech at a loss. You are not buying a VR headset with just your dollars. You are taking a huge kit of cameras and sensors hooked up to the world’s most advanced internet-connected telemetry and strapping it to your face. The data it gleans is how you’re covering a large portion, if not the majority, of the cost.
In my opinion, a PS5 and PSVR2 is the best way into VR for most people right now. I have that and a Valve Index and while the Index is awesome, it’s pretty dated and fiddly and while my computer runs it pretty well, catching up to more modern tech will cost me $2000 in upgrades and the fuss associated with building/upgrading/buying/migrating a PC.
I’m hoping Valve releases their rumored standalone headset sometime before the end of the world.
- Comment on 2024 Administration is Shaping Up Like a Comic Book Villain Squad! 5 weeks ago:
Good note. My edit, based on your feedback:
Tom Homan – Stupid, shitty, greedweasel who will sell the country out for self-enrichment
Elon Musk – Stupid, shitty, greedweasel who will sell the country out for self-enrichment
Pete Hegseth – Stupid, shitty, greedweasel who will sell the country out for self-enrichment
Kristi Noem – Stupid, shitty, greedweasel who will sell the country out for self-enrichment
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Ugh. Fucking AI slop. As if Lemmy was so huge it was actually worth putting that garbage on here antsy.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Dude, I’m not disagreeing with your point, but your presentation is beat up from the feet up.
Caveat: been drinking because gestures at everything
- At one point, you say it’s $950 a year after establishing that the actual cost is $950 after two years.
- Your investment counterexample arbitrarily includes a $200 monthly additional investment which blows everything up and makes the example pretty much incomparable
- Your investment counterexample also assumes an immediate initial outlay of $950 rather than distributing that over 24 months.
Basically you’re comparing two wildly different scenarios, which makes your point seem pretty broken, regardless of how right your actual thesis is.
TL;DR: Cancel your MMOs, play retro and discounted indie games, and stay in school, kids.
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- Comment on What is stopping the vice president from ever murdering the president? 1 month ago:
Yes, but Republicans do what they want with no consequences, so check and mate.
- Comment on you can say segs on the internet 1 month ago:
Same thing happens with social security numbers!
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- Comment on you can say segs on the internet 1 month ago:
Check it out, it just shows up as asterisks when I type it.
- Comment on Day 103 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 1 month ago:
It’s like Max Payne 1, only better in every conceivable way. It’s the perfect sequel.
- Comment on Day 103 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 1 month ago:
Max Payne 2 is one of my favorite games of all time. It’s the only game I ever finished, then beat 2-3 more times in succession on increasing difficulties just to get a different ending.
- Comment on Are there any historical or modern day true stories (like the story of The Buddha) of someone born rich and privileged who just walked away from their family and turned down money and an inheritance? 1 month ago:
Absolutely. It definitely takes some delightful liberties with WHY Blackbeard takes a liking to Stede and why Stede leaves his family in the first place, but the overall arc is based on a true story.
- Comment on Are there any historical or modern day true stories (like the story of The Buddha) of someone born rich and privileged who just walked away from their family and turned down money and an inheritance? 1 month ago:
Stede Bonnet was a wealthy landowner who walked away from his family to buy a boat and become a really bad Pirate of the Caribbean. Blackbeard took his ship, decided for some reason he kinda liked the guy, taught him a few things about piratin’, then went his own way. Bonnet did better after that, but he was eventually captured and hanged.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stede_Bonnet
Were you looking for a story of inspiration and success instead of history’s worst midlife crisis? If so, oops.
- Comment on 'It Has Plateaued': Should We Be Worried About Console Gaming's Future? 1 month ago:
Yes. The writing is on the wall, I think. Between Valve and Microsoft, I think the line between console and PC is about to blur, hard.
Valve starts selling a new generation of Steam Machines, Microsoft develops a handheld and pivots the Xbox brand to be a PC gaming label standardized to a handheld and set-top form factor, and suddenly Sony and Nintendo are swimming in a much smaller ocean. The PlayStation 6 not being PC-compatible suddenly makes it “a weird non-PC” instead of a category leader, and the Switch 2 by all accounts just becomes an echo of the previous generation, treading water on Nintendo franchises.
- Comment on Suggestions? Games that won't make me feel alone? 2 months ago:
Midnight Suns is perfect for you. It’s part team tactical deck building combat, part superhero relationship simulator. You alternate between fighting evil as part of a squad of heroes (the DLC includes Deadpool) and spending time hanging out and talking with other heroes. And it’s just a phenomenal game all around.
- Comment on Until Dawn Remake Is Being Criticized For Looking "Way Worse" Than The Original 2 months ago:
Original is awesome. I feel like the remaster basically just turned it yellow and deleted the fog and called it a day.
- Comment on Until Dawn Remake Is Being Criticized For Looking "Way Worse" Than The Original 2 months ago:
I feel like we’re only a year or two away from announcing a game and it’s remaster at the same time.
- Comment on Consume 2 months ago:
Sorry for sucking!
- Comment on What are we going to learn? 2 months ago:
Gift in German means poison.
It wouldn’t surprise me if they are on the opposite side of “lol German words are compounded like crazy” and look at us as “lol English has a different word for everything now get me a drink from the cool closet before I put you in the sick house, you shield toad.”
- Comment on Tencent, Guillemot Family Said to Consider Buyout of Ubisoft 2 months ago:
Gotcha, that makes sense. Thanks!
- Comment on Tencent, Guillemot Family Said to Consider Buyout of Ubisoft 2 months ago:
But I’m just asking, naively, is 10% a “buyout” by any reasonable definition of the term? I thought that was just a “stake”. I thought a “buyout” meant buying all of someone’s stake.
- Comment on Tencent, Guillemot Family Said to Consider Buyout of Ubisoft 2 months ago:
I’m not a finance person, but selling equity capped at 10% isn’t a “buyout”, is it?