FarceOfWill
@FarceOfWill@infosec.pub
- Comment on I have a dream 6 hours ago:
Tyranno dactyl chump
- Comment on "My 'Microsoft will probably be a good steward of the brand' statement isn't aging well" - id Software co-founder John Carmack speaks out after devastating Xbox layoffs 1 day ago:
Wait, the plan was to get recurring revenue out of single player games by tying them to gamepass.
This failed, for entirely predictable reasons, and now MS is holding a load of very mature, stable game studios and needs them to male checks notes double the revenue (actually, profit). This simply isnt posssible.
Theres a story out from early in the year about MS requiring a 30% profit margin across the firm which when applied to games is just nonsense. Not ambitious or unrealistic, nonsense.
Games is a terrible fit for MS and the companies who allowed it to buy them for stability are realising that.
- Comment on "You Can't Rule Out The Possibility That Executives Are Idiots" - John Carmack On Microsoft's Gutting Of id Software 2 days ago:
"You can’t rule out the possibility that executives are idiots, but that shouldn’t be your default belief. I don’t think there is any obvious path that would have doubled the revenue from Id games.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Equal parts textures and arranging duplicate data next to each other for fast streaming
- Comment on Killing ownership is the method, killing the secondary market is the objective. 6 days ago:
Some of us quit when we couldn’t use RiF. Literally dozens of us
- Comment on Shopworker sacked for tackling suspected bacon thief 4 weeks ago:
I say this a lot but in general theyre not stealing it to eat, theyre stealing large amounts of high value meat to sell it on down the pub.
Theyre actually preventing people from buying good food by nicking it all. We are not talking about someone taking one loaf of bread because theyre hungry.
- Comment on AI Economics for Dummies 4 weeks ago:
The mules are inevitable, shovel faster
- Comment on There's never been an easier time to boycott Microsoft, the most boring video game publisher in the business 4 weeks ago:
At least gamepass and the ms aquisition spree gave us Pentiment.
Seems a small thing to have released after buying half of the industry but thats microsofts problem. Maybe they can sell them all again when they get bored.
- Comment on 'We Are Well Above Our Forecasts' — 007 First Light Sales Are Now at 3 Million, IO Interactive 'Very Confident' It Will Be Profitable 5 weeks ago:
“We give big fat bonuses to our teams if they do hit a few goals,” Abrak said.
Didnt they fire the team?!
- Comment on Police chief warns anti-white bias claims could drive UK policing ‘back to 60s’ 5 weeks ago:
The entire point of this is to build a perception that lets them make massive changes to the police once theyre in power.
- Comment on ‘Evil’ Palantir Should Be Nowhere Near the NHS, Staff Say 1 month ago:
Even if he is perfectly normal, perhaps we shoukd question why palantir led by crypto fash thiught he was the right person for the job.
- Comment on Game Consoles Are Pricing Themselves Out of Relevance 1 month ago:
Fixed hardware for devs to target for games is great, thats the advantage of consoles.
Honestly one of the xbox problems is theyve fragmented “xbox” so much you have to start caring which one you have for different games. Huge mustake.
- Comment on Game Consoles Are Pricing Themselves Out of Relevance 1 month ago:
I think theres an argument here for making consoles better at other computing stuff to be more relevant.
Not sure they can market that effectively tho even if it might help overall.
- Comment on The media smear campaign against Zack Polanski is working wonders 2 months ago:
Im certainly happier voting for them in local council elections
- Comment on People in north of England twice as likely to be killed as Londoners, report finds 2 months ago:
It says a quarter of all accidental deaths are caused by poisoning.
Maybe london just has fewer mushrooms idk
- Comment on Ex-Overwatch Director Says Tracer's Butt Was Never "Nerfed" 2 months ago:
Mass effect sure loves its cutscene cameras being at butt height.
- Comment on Epic Games Pins ‘Fortnite’ Comeback on Disney Partnership (a Disney extraction shooter) 2 months ago:
Basing the success of your ip on other peoples ip doesnt seem like an amazing long term move tim.
- Comment on Graveyard Keeper is available for free on Steam right now 2 months ago:
Its extremely grindy compared to stardew, but thats what it is. Its a very good extreme grind stardew.
- Comment on Nutritional Hexes 3 months ago:
The only way to find it is to eat less and less ubtil yiu lose weight tbh. Cico is vacuously true.
- Comment on Owlcat is using generative AI for The Expanse Osiris Reborn, but the final game will be "100% human made" 3 months ago:
Doesnt that guy want his ai to own the copyright of the art it makes?
- Comment on I started playing WH40k Rogue Trader and I'm digging it, but I know virtually nothing of Warhammer. Any super basic world info I should know going in? 3 months ago:
Abelard, tell these vagrants who they have the honor of dying to today.
- Comment on Jensen Huang says gamers are 'completely wrong' about DLSS 5 — Nvidia CEO responds to DLSS 5 backlash 3 months ago:
Weird to say it changes geometry when all the vids clearly have identical geometry before and after
- Comment on Jensen Huang says gamers are 'completely wrong' about DLSS 5 — Nvidia CEO responds to DLSS 5 backlash 3 months ago:
In this case the customers are giving an opinion in a matter of taste.
- Comment on Xbox just revealed Gaming Copilot is coming to "current-generation consoles" later this year 3 months ago:
project Helix is a rack mounted xbox. I get it now.
- Comment on Xbox’s leadership shift proves it: the gamer era is over, AI runs the show now 4 months ago:
Yeah, the situation is largely the same as when everyone was convinced xbow wouod quit making consoles (or worse with hardware prices now).
Cant see how this can go well.
- Comment on Xbox’s leadership shift proves it: the gamer era is over, AI runs the show now 4 months ago:
Winning every year since the launch of the ps1.
- Comment on I say kill 'em all. 4 months ago:
Im not loving a plan where i get bitten twice in a few hours.
Instead of going outside and rubbing plants on me ill stay inside and fill the air with poison.
- Comment on British inflation hits lowest in almost a year 4 months ago:
Going in the right direction does not mean its good.
When people hear “good news” about inflation they expect prices to be stable*, and they just arent yet.
*or go back to how they were, which is a problem the boe alone cant be expected to educate on.
- Comment on British inflation hits lowest in almost a year 4 months ago:
Its 3% or so. No it isnt good.
- Comment on Fighting games have a product design problem 4 months ago:
As an outsider the reason i domt bother with these is you have to know every damn iframe and move flow timing perfectly to even know what the game is.
Theres one point in this article about a practice mode thats totally wrong.
Then later one saying single player should teach you this stuff. This is right.Reimagining these games as a 2d souls like would be incredible. But then, those games have loot and xp to soften the harsh reality of the skill ceiling. Would fighting games lovers accept that? I think no.