Dark_Arc
@Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg
Hiker, software engineer (primarily C++, Java, and Python), Minecraft modder, hunter (of the Hunt Showdown variety), biker, adoptive Akronite, and general doer of assorted things.
- Comment on What are your favorite 1000+ hour games? 4 days ago:
I mean, fishing is more comparable to mining in RS2, there are other skills (typically refinement oriented skills) that have more down time between clicks.
Combat I definitely feel needs refinement. Though, I actually do like the fact that combat is not “I have a bow and I’m shooting something 1 tile in front of me and/or safe spotting.”
The skills are only trained in one area, but they have interactions across areas. You use resources gathered in the forest in town and in the mines. The weapons you make in the mines can be tuned to any other location (etc…)
Andrew does a pretty decent job of explaining the thought process here if you’re interested: store.steampowered.com/…/4442331835939160237
A lot of this is to solve the long time MMO issue of “new content is released but it’s only for high level players and long time layers in general have a ton of advantages in the new area.”
- Comment on What are your favorite 1000+ hour games? 4 days ago:
You should try Brighter Shores.
The original RuneScape developers and owners (i.e. Andrew Gower and his brothers) are back with a new game, at a new company, with an industry shattering $5.99/mo subscription price for all content.
No micro transactions, no pay to win, no bull shit … just a fun game with many similarities to OSRS but also modernizations, formula improvements, and lessons learned.
- Comment on Pocketpair reveals specific patents featured in Nintendo's lawsuit against Palworld 1 week ago:
The problem is a hash algorithm is exactly the sort of thing that copyright would be horrible at protecting. The source code is hardly relevant at all, it’s the operations that matter.
A big part of patents is to allow private sector research to occur. RCA failed and maybe patents should just fail too.
- Comment on Pocketpair reveals specific patents featured in Nintendo's lawsuit against Palworld 1 week ago:
like the umbrella wedge/spring to make it open automatically.
That to me is a very specific algorithm. It’s a simple mechanism but putting it together might be a bit tricky.
That’s very similar to SHA, it’s a fairly simple set of mechanisms but the actual composure of those ideas into something that works as well as SHA does takes very specific research experience. It’s not at all an abstract idea, it’s a very concrete and specific set of operations that you invented first.
Imagine if the patent was “an umbrella can open itself with the push of button” no further details. That’s close to the level of detail some software patents are argued at and effectively what the “put a game in your loading screen” patent was awarded on.
You can’t patent the idea that “an umbrella should be able to open [somehow]” so I likewise think it’s ridiculous that someone was able to parent “your game [somehow] runs another simpler game before it runs.”
Patents should be to protect very specific research so that the private sector can do said research and profit from it. Patents should not block out broad concepts. The patent in the video game situation was and should’ve been ruled as bogus. It’s not the type of thing anyone needed to research or think about, you just literally go “what if I added a game to my loading screen” and you’re in violation.
- Comment on Pocketpair reveals specific patents featured in Nintendo's lawsuit against Palworld 1 week ago:
I think patents should really only apply to extremely tricky algorithmic discoveries.
“Ingenuity patents” like that loading screen game are everything that’s wrong with software patents.
- Comment on Pocketpair reveals specific patents featured in Nintendo's lawsuit against Palworld 1 week ago:
Or at least the bar should be much much higher. Like if you’ve invented the SHA algorithm… Fine.
However, if you’ve just invented “a way to purchase something over the network via a phone”… That is not patent worthy.
- Comment on What positive things do you expect from Trumps upcoming four years? 1 week ago:
That’s just it … He’s heavily invested in alternative energy…
Tesla makes electric cars, home and industrial battery packs, and rooftop solar. It’s in his interest for Republicans to believe in climate change.
At the very least it’s in his interest for Republicans to not squash electric cars and solar power.
- Comment on What positive things do you expect from Trumps upcoming four years? 1 week ago:
Yes, there are a lot of them still lurking…
Liberty Tabletop, American Blanket Company, American Giant, Craftsman, etc
- Comment on What positive things do you expect from Trumps upcoming four years? 1 week ago:
Republican voters
- Comment on Should I bring in the battery for my electric mower in the winter? 2 weeks ago:
IIRC heat is the bigger issue for lithium batteries.
They’re temporarily less effective in cold weather but excessive heat is the battery killer.
- Comment on After Era of Bloat, Veteran Video-Game Developers Are Going Smaller 3 weeks ago:
Nintendo is in a very envious spot in general. Hell, I think Nintendo makes some great games, I just wish they wouldn’t force me to buy yet another computer solely for the purpose of playing their games. I haven’t owned a Mario Kart or Zelda game in years but I’d love to play if I could do so on PC/Linux.
- Comment on After Era of Bloat, Veteran Video-Game Developers Are Going Smaller 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, maybe I’m just wrong in general … The above doesn’t look that different from say black ops 6 footage.
I definitely wish for a return to the linear format (or simi linear where there are a few concurrent linear quests going on). I think straight up open world just lends itself to making a lot of walking simulators.
Halo Infinity was one of the most boring games I ever played between the weapons sounding like toys and the spread out objectives with no clear central mission.
- Comment on After Era of Bloat, Veteran Video-Game Developers Are Going Smaller 3 weeks ago:
Because graphics still sell games. You can do simplified graphics like Nintendo and still sell games, but lots of people want the photo realistic experience and the bar for that has gone way way up incrementally over the years.
- Comment on Is china as bad as america makes it out to be? 3 weeks ago:
I think you should pick up a civics book and/or lookup what a monarch is.
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- Comment on Are there any apps or sites that collate all the patch notes for games? 4 weeks ago:
I’m happy to say, IMO, you’re still using the meta RSS client haha
- Comment on Are there any apps or sites that collate all the patch notes for games? 4 weeks ago:
I use Inoreader on both desktop and mobile (they have a very feature rich app, synchronize your experience up, and have a generous free plan).
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This works to some extent. I have a house that used to be a rental.
I had one lady tell me she couldn’t take MY HOUSE off their list because I am not the guy who signed up for the mail. Even though that guy hasn’t lived here in years.
Someone else used this address for a business… After they no longer even lived here. So I had to take that up with the state and got their business license revoked.
- Comment on Why are peole hating on .world? 1 month ago:
I’m eyeing Piefed and Sublinks. I’ve done a lot with Python and Java… Maybe at some point I’ll find the time to contribute more than the bit of PR review I’ve done for Sublinks.
I’m also watching mastodon, particularly because they’re working on groups… And I don’t mind the Twitter style, I’ve just come to prefer following topics over people… And hashtags just get flooded with low effort crap.
- Comment on Why are peole hating on .world? 1 month ago:
Well that’s good!
And right, I had the exact same thought… It seems like the lemmy devs are not highly experienced web developers, at least not that have worked on anything at the scale lemmy became after the Reddit exodus.
- Comment on Why are peole hating on .world? 1 month ago:
That’s actually really terrible for federation performance, particularly because lemmy doesn’t do batch synchronization. So basically every comment, post, like, and community is being sent to all Lemmy servers as individual sequential requests. That’s a lot to handle.
- Comment on PROOF: VALVE IS RIPPING EVERY PC GAMER OFF. 1 month ago:
My biggest issue with Tim Sweeny is he’s convinced that Microsoft Windows is not somebody else’s property but rather a camp that’s controlled by its users. Meanwhile he can obviously acknowledge Fortnite and similar are his property.
He seems to use a bad experience with some Linux users as his justification for this massive cognitive dissonance and lack of interest in funding and developing for a truly independent platform (Linux) like Valve has.
- Comment on Do I really need DOCSIS 3.1 modem? 1 month ago:
Can’t comment on the DOCSIS, I don’t know enough about it to not be making stuff up.
Regarding WiFi though… The simple answer is if you’re not having trouble accessing the WiFi in the places you use the WiFi and you’re getting the full speed that you’re paying for, there’s not a ton of a reason to upgrade the router.
The exception to this is that most routers only get a few years of security updates like most phones… That can potentially leave your network more vulnerable as the router might not properly block unsolicited traffic from making it to your devices. There’s a solid argument that you should just have your devices secured via their own firewalls though.
The Google routers are nice for the average Joe because they just kind of work and keep themselves updated (and Google tends to keep the hardware they sell under the Nest name receiving security updates a VERY long time compared to the competition). Netgear has been my go to for years but their update mechanism is … fairly manual in my experience.
I’ve since moved to having a pfSense box for the firewall and routing side of things and using my old negate router in access point mode (I’m much less concerned about this setup).
I’ll add that I don’t recommend WiFi for gaming… And that most people have more download speed than they really “need.” Files really haven’t gone up in size much (sure games have) but evening else… meh (?) So like, by all means if you don’t want to spend money, don’t… you’re probably fine.
- Comment on Headlamp tech that doesn’t blind oncoming drivers—where is it? 1 month ago:
Honestly it just feels like so much stuff is car hostile at this point… Like I went to leave a store the other day and I couldn’t clearly see oncoming traffic because the shrubs were too high and right next to the road.
I wish I could say that was a really uncommon experience.
- Comment on Headlamp tech that doesn’t blind oncoming drivers—where is it? 1 month ago:
Honestly a huge portion of the problem is asshole drivers that just don’t turn off their brights and their fog lights or that tailgate the vehicle right in front of them while their headlights are mirror level.
I’ve seen brand new trucks with LEDs that were so easy on my eyes then I’ve seen the exact same model of truck via rearview mirror only after I passed it because the lights were beyond blinding.
They need to enforce maximum luminosity laws with an iron first; it’s ridiculous that people get away with this stuff.
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It’s weird how well this applies to various arguments I’ve seen on Reddit against Crytek regarding Hunt Showdown’s recent issues.
- Comment on (Religious) What would i be labeled? 2 months ago:
Deist is IIRC some number of gods probably existed and set the world into motion but do not play a role in day to day life.
- Comment on People seem to really dislike Destiny 2. Why haven't they ended it yet? 2 months ago:
The latest expansion genuinely did shake up the enemies. They still need to … change something. It seems like maybe they will with the next expansion changing how they present the story. We shall see.
- Comment on Games like Splitgate? (Halo?) 2 months ago:
Possibly keep an eye on Diabotical Rogue… Definitely not what you want right now, but it has potential.