chemical_cutthroat
@chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world
- Comment on Video Games Need to Be Cheaper to Buy 4 hours ago:
And the DLC and “Deluxe” editions… The price of a AAA game is well over $100 now.
- Comment on Does the fact Stoat.chat doesn't have E2EE mean the server owner can read any and all messages, including DMs? 16 hours ago:
Thanks for the stoat note.
…I’m sorry.
- Comment on Does the fact Stoat.chat doesn't have E2EE mean the server owner can read any and all messages, including DMs? 17 hours ago:
Technically yes. Likely they still use Transport Layer Security that will encrypt the messages in transit, but that encryption is controlled by the company, and not the end user. What that means is that your messages are safe from randos in the cafe on the same wifi as you, but if the company wanted to, they could read them. It also means that if messages are subpoenaed then they can hand over the unencrypted messages to the authorities.
I tried looking at their documentation to see what was going on under the hood, but there were a lot of connection errors and dead ends. They seem to be open source, though, so if you are so inclined you can comb through their code to see what kind of encryption they use.
Personally, I’d stay away. It doesn’t seem like something that I could put my trust in.
- Comment on So Deep 2 days ago:
This just in: Scotland new capital of Humanity!
- Comment on Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face 4 days ago:
frfr on god
- Comment on 17 years* 1 week ago:
It’s not so much the users as the mods. I haven’t met one I liked. Tend to sniff their own farts a little too deeply.
- Comment on 17 years* 1 week ago:
I’m glad I blocked the blahaj.zone instance just to get it crossposted into a barely relevant community.
…sigh. Here I go blocking again.
- Comment on choose to imagine atlas happy 2 weeks ago:
That’s pretty bad for a renewable, though. Most of the time you only get one at a time, and that one doesn’t provide much…
You know what, I was all on board with making this joke when I started writing, but the more I typed, the less I wanted to continue. So, yeah, I’m sure you can see where it was going. I’m done.
- Comment on Forza Horizon 6 - Official Gameplay Teaser Trailer 3 weeks ago:
Here’s hoping they have more than three blocks of city streets to race on…
- Comment on Think about it 4 weeks ago:
My super power is crippling anxiety and the ability to overthink any situation. Awesome.
- Comment on Tried to carefully install the faucet immediately after gluing and caulking the sink 5 weeks ago:
Prop it up on some milk cartons like my old landlord did.
- Comment on "But why? You can just do that with a <big tech company> account." 1 month ago:
Bitch that fucking swear jar is goddamned full.
- Comment on Anon reality checks your fantasy 1 month ago:
Try not to suck any dicks on your way to the parking lot!
- Comment on does this count as a science meme? :3 1 month ago:
Died before I was born.
- Comment on Not like that Timmy! 1 month ago:
Teacher has a thing for those salty chocolate balls.
- Comment on Trump baselessly says Rob Reiner died because he was anti-Trump, politicizing the director's killing 1 month ago:
I hope Trump dies soon. It used to be just silently like syphilis or a brain hemorrhage. Now, I’d be kinda OK with hearing him scream.
- Comment on Anon's neighbors have chickens 1 month ago:
I moved into a house with roommates who had chickens. It wasn’t great. The chickens were cool, but they attract vermin. We had a real rat issue for a while, and they wouldn’t believe me that the rats were going after the chicken feed/poop, as well as the warmth of the coop. Then, they got tired of tending to the birds and rehomed them. Sure enough, the rat problem vanished.
- Comment on Skyrim on Switch 2 ships with severe input lag and a huge 53GB file size despite being capped at 30FPS 2 months ago:
I liked it the first two times. I don’t need a third.
- Comment on Skyrim on Switch 2 ships with severe input lag and a huge 53GB file size despite being capped at 30FPS 2 months ago:
They just dropped a very mediocre Metroid title, and Mario Kart was middling at best, so they are down two franchises this generation already. If they make another clone of BotW then they are gonna be down a third, and they’ll have to make it up with Mario, but Donkey Kong didn’t inspire hope on that front, so I’m not sure what I have to look forward to…
Oh. Pokemon… Well, I’m not holding out hope there either after Scarlet/Violet.
- Comment on Skyrim on Switch 2 ships with severe input lag and a huge 53GB file size despite being capped at 30FPS 2 months ago:
Well, damn. I didn’t know that. Oh, bother.
- Comment on Skyrim on Switch 2 ships with severe input lag and a huge 53GB file size despite being capped at 30FPS 2 months ago:
Zelda and Mario are first party, so I get that, but Xenoblade kills me. I need a rerelease of Xenogears, Xenosaga, and Xenoblade on PC.
- Comment on Skyrim on Switch 2 ships with severe input lag and a huge 53GB file size despite being capped at 30FPS 2 months ago:
Wasn’t this already on the first Switch? How did you fuck this up? It was already done.
Honestly, I’m kinda over the Switch 2 at this point. All of the games that have come out for it look empty and soulless, and there hasn’t been anything to make me truly want to spend $500 on another piece of kit. They’ve had long enough to put out some quality, and the promise of “$80 for a game ensure we can continue to deliver quality” is just the corporate bullshit we all knew it was. This is the WiiU all over again.
- Comment on Hands-On With The Anbernic RG DS; The DSi Reimagined (my review) 2 months ago:
I was just about to say that I usually trust Russ will all my retro gaming handhelds, but I’ll gladly take a second opinion. Glad to see that you follow him as well and aren’t afraid to put your own thoughts out there. Nice work!
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Not only that, but charging full price for a game and then charging $15-20 for cosmetic DLC is fucking wild. If I’ve paid you $60+ for a title, I expect the full experience. If you want to add some shit a year down the line to lengthen the life, I’m on board, but day one DLC that costs more than the base game was played out the moment Bethesda graced us with horse armor. I’ve gotten more joy out of Vampire Survivors than I have out of any Ubisoft and EA games in the last 20 years combined.
- Comment on Anon lives in 2056 2 months ago:
Technically, if he was blowing Clinton, Clinton would be the first LGBTQ+ President, right?
- Comment on Hades II - Post-Launch Patch 1 Preview & Notes 3 months ago:
Gotcha, that’s what I saw. Thanks.
- Comment on Hades II - Post-Launch Patch 1 Preview & Notes 3 months ago:
I’m curious, because I just “beat” the game last night. I’ll try to be spoiler free, but if someone hasn’t beaten the game, don’t read on. Is the “true ending” what you get when you go up, do the thing, and then go down and do the other thing? Like, when you get the achievement? Or is it related to finding the missing threads, so to speak? I’m just curious on if I’ve already seen the ending that’s been changed, or if there is more.
- Comment on Borderlands 4's latest update aims to deliver more performance fixes, ends up causing more stuttering for some 4 months ago:
re there any true UE5 success stories? I feel like the whole engine is a lost cause.
- Comment on What is it called when you believe the U.S. political parties shouldn’t exist? 5 months ago:
A nation of toddlers all screaming for something different and being unable to come together on a single point.
- Comment on Gamers frustrated as Hollow Knight: Silksong crashes stores on launch 5 months ago:
This feels like cherry picking (there is probably a better pun in there). The sentiment I saw when the servers went down was overwhelming support for the Dev and the happiness than an indie game is doing with AAA games can’t; bring down steam.