evujumenuk
@evujumenuk@lemmy.world
- Comment on Parallel Empires 1 day ago:
I don’t know, since I didn’t have to specifically buy anything to get that throughput. So, in my case, it cost me nothing.
It was just an ISP-provided router and an older Mac Studio. I didn’t check but there’s a good chance the wireless link actually supports even higher bandwidth; at the time, I was bottlenecked by the 1 Gbps connection to my ISP.
- Comment on Parallel Empires 2 days ago:
USB-A, FireWire and that video output converged to Thunderbolt, which also means I can connect several displays to e.g. a 2021 MacBook Pro. The separate headphones and microphone jacks got merged as well. After the whole Touch Bar brouhaha, the card reader and HDMI also made their return.
So the one connector we did lose is Ethernet. Which, to be fair, is a bummer indeed. Luckily, we can easily push a Gigabit over Wi-Fi nowadays.
- Comment on What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you? 1 week ago:
I don’t deny that Old Prey was an innovative game. But stating that everything that wasn’t Doom was stripped out while implying that nothing else was added in feels a bit disingenuous.
- Comment on What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you? 1 week ago:
What aspects of the newer Prey make it more like Doom than the older Prey? To me, that’s kinda like saying, “System Shock was just Wolfenstein 3D 🎶 in space 🎶”
- Comment on Why does everyone hate Income tax ? 1 month ago:
Income tax doesn’t do anything to the 1%. You have unrealized gains, and borrow against your assets? You owe zero tax.
A wealth tax, or income tax on yet unrealized gains, would be better. Of course, that comes with its own set of issues. But, I don’t think they are insurmountable.
- Comment on HELLDIVERS 2 coming to Xbox 1 month ago:
It really looks like Microsoft made the worst call with their Series S compatibility mandate. Now games come out so late that any Xbox owner is automatically a Patient Gamer, without the upsides. That’s if a port is released at all.
These days you can play games like Death Stranding more than half a year earlier on your iPhone.
- Comment on Who is up for a coleslaw popsicle? 1 month ago:
Utilization of models begets training of more models.
Kinda like CSAM.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
It’s a gross approximation, but…
Your desktop or laptop computer is probably toast, your phone probably isn’t.
- Comment on What's the deal with Signal? 6 months ago:
Session disables forward secrecy for no reason.
Personally, I assume it’s a honeypot.
- Comment on Steam Deck sales drop hard following the Nintendo Switch 2 announcement 6 months ago:
The Switch catalog was limited in no small part because the device just couldn’t give acceptable performance for a lot of contemporary cross-platform games. That, of course, didn’t matter for first-party titles.
Switch 2 performance is projected to end up somewhere around a base PS4, with better GPU but somewhat diminished CPU. However, it’s going to have more memory than the Xbox Series S that teams had trouble porting their games to.
The Switch 2 might benefit a lot from this generation’s extended cross-gen period. Add that to franchises like Fire Emblem, Metroid, Mario, Mario Kart, Pikmin and Zelda, and the average consumer is going to think of Steam as the “limited” platform.
A lot of conjecture, and maybe Switch 2 will turn out to be a monumental flop. I’m cautiously optimistic.
By the way, the old, selective policy that Nintendo exercised is pretty much a thing of the past. Just browse through the eShop for three minutes.
- Comment on Norwich restaurant charges £100 for a pineapple pizza 6 months ago:
I’d like to imagine their pineapple pizza was the absolute best there is on planet Earth, but in spite of (or maybe because of) that they just fucking hate making it.
Basically, the Ronnie O’Sullivan of pie shops.
- Comment on Are there any games like Starfield? 7 months ago:
When Squadron 42 finally comes out, it’ll be just considered commentary on contemporary issues. Basically like Job Simulator… in space
- Comment on Quintuple-Decker Bus 7 months ago:
When the generation parameters take up more space than the image itself…!
Well, screen space at least.
- Comment on Balatro is now out on Mobile. Humanity is doomed. 10 months ago:
Maybe check out Monster Train. That one also landed on Arcade pretty recently.
- Comment on In its first week, Immortals of Aveum had a peak count of just 751 players on Steam. 1 year ago:
Hopefully, it sold more on consoles. Otherwise, numbers like this could kill a fledgling studio outright.