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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Legendary game designer, programmer Rebecca Heineman has died⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
RIP Burger Becky
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

Side quests are the way to go, the main campaign is not super rewarding

The worst part is that you’re forced to spend at least 1/3 of your time playing grinding out the main campaign. Then you are highly incentivised to spend another 1/3 of your time not playing due to the rest mechanic. That only leaves 1/3 of your time in game for any other tasks, including extra preparation for the main quest. Not to mention the fatigue system which often leaves you unable to do side quests when you have the opportunity.

I’m glad I didn’t get any of the classes with extra lives, to be honest.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Luigi’s Mansion 3. At least if you consider 6 years ago recent. It got some really good reviews at the time, and it honestly makes me wonder if we were playing the same game.

I only persisted with the game because it was a birthday gift (and due to the sunk cost fallacy, I suppose), but I think it might be the game I’ve completed that I enjoyed the least. It looks nice, and some of the boss ghost encounters were charming, but the gameplay itself was fairly monotonous since they simplified the ghost catching mechanics from LM1 (I didn’t really play LM2, since it was on 3DS). Gooigi would have been a decent addition, but his puzzles generally just didn’t feel very fleshed out. It felt like they were either “I need two vacuums” or “I can’t fit through this grate”.

Also, I think Nintendo took the criticism that the first game was too short well and truly to heart, because LM3 might be the most filler-stuffed game I’ve ever played. Half the time when you get an elevator button, you get screwed over in some way and have to find it again. And don’t get me started on fucking Poulterkitty, when that little bastard showed up for the second time I legitimately thought about quitting the game there and then. The final boss was awful, too, which left an even more bitter taste in my mouth.

Luigi’s Mansion 3 might be the only game I’ve ever played where I thought “Thank god I don’t have to play that anymore” once I finished it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your favorite case of a game making fun of you?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
The worst part is, in Super Mario 3D Land, at least, if you even see the invincible leaf, it locks you out of getting all the stars on your save file. The game doesn’t even have the courtesy to tell you.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your favorite case of a game making fun of you?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
It’s really annoying when you’re dying to instant death pits so changing the difficulty wouldn’t help, though. I’m looking at you, God of War.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sexualized video games are not causing harm to male or female players, according to new research⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
It’s almost like sex is a natural part of human existence and it being taboo really fucks up a lot of people.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are those of us who grew up on older games more attuned to latency?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Unless it’s an HD one, there’s no input buffer so it’s impossible for a CRT to have more than a frame of input lag. And the console needs a frame to notice your input anyway.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are those of us who grew up on older games more attuned to latency?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
There are only a few reasons I can surmise that this would be the case:

CRTs don’t add any input lag

There’s no extra latency from being connected to the internet

There’s no latency from bluetooth/wireless on the controller

Because most older games are extremely badly optimised by today’s standards. The original Metroid slows to an absolute crawl when there’s more than about 4 sprites on the screen; the dragon boss in Mega Man (2, I think) was such a laggy, slippery mess that I gave up trying to beat the game; Ocarina of Time runs at 20FPS (worse if you’re in a PAL territory like I am), and that’s one of the better playing N64 games.

I think you’re either noticing one of these extra sources of delay, or you’re blinded by nostalgia.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I say that Emma Stone should divorce her husband and marry me instead.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I need to tell you something unsatisfying: your personal consumption choices will not make a meaningful difference to the amount of enshittification you experience in your life⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
It really is sad, and kind of ironic, that the first paragraph of this article is bullshit clickbait that completely undermines the rest of the text.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam is cracking down on porn games, to keep Payment Processors happy.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Any game featuring any sort of animal, including people, is evidence that sex occurred. We should ban those too.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WhatsApp messaging app banned on all US House of Representatives devices⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
We all know they use Signal, anyway.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Wikimedia Foundation Pauses an Experiment That Showed Wikipedia Users AI-Generated Summaries at The Top of Some Articles, Following an Editor Backlash.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Me saying “RIP” was an attempt at hyperbole. That being said, shoehorning AI into something for which a big selling point is that it’s user-made is a gigantic misstep - Maybe they’ll listen to everybody, but given that they tried it at all, I can’t see them properly backing down. Especially when it was worded as “pausing” the experiment.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people like Mario Kart?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I remember when I first bought my Gamecube… I had to sign an agreement that I would never play a non-Nintendo property again. “How could they ever enforce this?” I thought. Little did I know that the next day, the Sony SWAT Team would be bursting into my house to extract my Playstation. It was absolutely terrifying.

I haven’t played a single non-Nintendo game since.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Wikimedia Foundation Pauses an Experiment That Showed Wikipedia Users AI-Generated Summaries at The Top of Some Articles, Following an Editor Backlash.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
If they thought this would be well-received they wouldn’t have sprung it on people. The fact that they’re only “pausing the launch of the experiment” means they’re going to do it again once the backlash has subsided.

RIP Wikipedia, it was a fun 24 years.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Update on the ["crushed letters" issue](https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/36243859)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Have you tried printing on a raft?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whatever happened to cheap eReaders? – Terence Eden’s Blog⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah, I didn’t consider that the exchange rate in 2012 was really good. With the new price and today’s exchange rate, it would be $180 NZD, which isn’t the end of the world, but feels kind of wrong because electronics generally get cheaper the longer they’re on the market.

That being said, it isn’t just Kindles. Kobos used to be ridiculously cheap, and now they’re the same price as Kindles if not more.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whatever happened to cheap eReaders? – Terence Eden’s Blog⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
It’s crazy. I bought the then-current basic model Kindle for $90 NZD in 2012, which still works. I recently started looking for a new eReader with USB C and without the rubberised coating that slowly turns back into oil. The cheapest I’ve found is over $200.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft wants Windows Update to handle all apps⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
On the one hand, it’s about time - APT is almost 30 years old.

On the other hand, I’m sure Microsoft will find a way to make it shit.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's a good HTPC OS and software?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
It’s still in active development, but you might want to keep an eye on Plasma Bigscreen. I’ve been looking for a similar setup to you, and it seems to tick all of the boxes, at least for me.

I only learned about it recently, and I’ve been too busy to have a play with it since, but I’ll edit this post with my impressions once I get the time to have a play with it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fake reviews on Play Store by Plex staff⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Well this thread is an absolute shitshow.

Jellyfin is great, but if you refuse to let yourself understand that Plex’s ease of setup for remote access is a point in its favour - especially when sharing with non-tech savvy people - then you’re just as bad as the supposed “Plex shills”.

Plex is well on the enshittification train, and I’ve always been a bit concerned about how private it may or may not be, but there’s absolutely no way I’d have been able to share a Jellyfin instance with my grandfather, especially as his dementia got worse.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some cool projects that I can do with a 1st gen Raspberry Pi?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
If you have a 3D printer that can’t connect to the internet, you could try Octoprint.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The only way to be⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Governments could easily get Ancaps on board by renaming themselves to Government, Inc.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Anti-Piracy Policy Device Lock Update Warns of Console Bricks for Unauthorized Use⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
“Nintendo may render…the applicable Nintendo device permanently unusable in whole or in part.”

This isn’t just a warning from Nintendo that you risk bricking your console if you try to hack it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG seems to be considering paid membership option⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

and its not linux or mac

Except there’s already a Mac version of GOG Galaxy.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨- Buy Once Software⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
This clearly isn’t true though, otherwise there wouldn’t be so much FOSS software.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG seems to be considering paid membership option⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I like what GOG do, but gating features, even niche ones, behind a subscription sounds like the first step towards enshittification.

Also, I’m sure as hell not giving them extra money until they fix their platform on Linux/Steam Deck.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨- Buy Once Software⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
en.wikipedia.org/…/List_of_free_and_open-source_s…

Buy never software
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Top AI struggle to beat Pokémon game made for 5 year olds.⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

What is possible is to use the bicycle to bypass smaller walls, which means that the AI is linking the two together, which is actually scary and shows, perhaps, tiny glimpses into future AGI.

I have no love for AI, but whoever wrote this article has absolutely no idea what he’s talking about. This simply isn’t a thing in the OG Pokemon games.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One-handed games?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
One really handy thing with the Steam Deck is the ability to remap all of the buttons (as well as the two paddles on the back for each hand), so one could probably make a decent one-handed control setup for 99% of turn-based games. Even ones that require the use of the mouse, given the Deck’s touchpads.

Vampire Survivors requires nothing except the stick/dpad outside of menus (and I’m pretty sure you can use the touchscreen for menus, too).

If your friend(s) are stuck using the dpad, it might not be suitable, but Crypt of the Necrodancer only requires four buttons or left, right, up, and down (and you can assign buttons for the button combos normally required to do things like use bombs). This assumes that they like rhythm games.