Stovetop
@Stovetop@lemmy.world
- Comment on Are modern Final Fantasy games bad? 2 hours ago:
To explain the joke:
!Half of the early FF games weren’t released in the West until later on. FF1 was, but 2 and 3 were not. So when 4 released outside of Japan, publishers thought it would be weird to have the numbering go from 1 to 4, so 4 released internationally as FF2. And then 5 got skipped over as well, so when 6 released internationally, it was released as FF3. However, they wanted to standardize the numbering starting with FF7, because FF7 was a Big Deal™, so for players outside of Japan, the series numbering suddenly jumped from FF3 to FF7. And the skipped games were later released internationally, so the numbering is now consistent with the initial Western numbering now largely forgotten.!<
- Comment on Funkwhale Wants to Filter Out Far-Right Music 1 day ago:
Just ban country music and you’ve covered like 80% of it.
- Comment on MapQuest Lets You Name The Gulf of Mexico Whatever You Want 4 days ago:
Gulfy McGulfface
- Comment on We're remaking Morrowind as a Skyrim mod. Here's a charity livestream we held on the weekend. 4 days ago:
Clarification: Skyblivion is making most of the assets from scratch, but requires users to own Oblivion in order to import some additional assets and the full voicework which is still coming from Oblivion. There’s an installer which checks for both.
- Comment on Xbox studios head Craig Duncan confirms 'Fable' is delayed to 2026 5 days ago:
Expected this when Fable was absent from their developer direct last month.
Not happy, but that’s gamedev these days.
- Comment on First Gaming PC 6 days ago:
FWIW Civ VI is actually not PC exclusive; it was at launch but now there are ports for every major platform. Civ VII also had a simultaneous launch on pretty much everything under the sun.
Satisfactory is another good base builder/exploration type game which is currently PC exclusive, though I know console releases are planned someday.
- Comment on Elon Musk Given "Chainsaw For Bureaucracy" By Javier Milei At CPAC 1 week ago:
And Musk wasn’t.
- Comment on Elon Musk Given "Chainsaw For Bureaucracy" By Javier Milei At CPAC 1 week ago:
All good! English is a dumb language that does a poor job of differentiating objects in sentences.
- Comment on Elon Musk Given "Chainsaw For Bureaucracy" By Javier Milei At CPAC 1 week ago:
Elon Musk isn’t taking a chainsaw to plutocracy like he claims to be doing with bureaucracy.
- Comment on Elon Musk Given "Chainsaw For Bureaucracy" By Javier Milei At CPAC 1 week ago:
Chainsaw for Democracy*
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X blocks links to Signal, the encrypted messaging service 1 week ago:
Didn’t Signal get big after Musk endorsed it? What gives?
- Comment on Final Fantasy iOS game shuts down over unfixable bug 2 weeks ago:
Guessing it’s likely due to Apple’s approval process. You can try to patch 1 major issue but they won’t approve an update unless it also adds compatibility for all of their new standards and features.
Not to say that’s unreasonable of Apple, but if the game’s not making money on that platform anymore I can understand the decision to just pull it rather than sink more resources into supporting it in perpetuity.
Plus it’s just not a good remaster anyways, they really bungled up the multiplayer capability. I don’t think anything of value has been lost.
- Comment on Two big Final Fantasy remakes are reportedly still in ‘active development’ 2 weeks ago:
Why remake perfection?
- Comment on Ubisoft revenues decline 31.4% to €990m 2 weeks ago:
For me it’s a combination of them making games that all seem to represent everything wrong in modern gaming, coupled with all of the sexual misconduct among their leadership that they covered up and have still not been held accountable for.
- Comment on The internet is bad ux, everybody. There's too many choices. 2 weeks ago:
The Biden FCC briefly brought it back but it was quickly killed by a Bush-appointed judge based on the conservative majority Supreme Court’s ruling on Loper Bright v. Raimondo which ended the practice of Chevron Deference.
Chevron Deference was a policy that allowed federal agencies to be the interpreters of ambiguous regulations, and in this particular case the uncertainty was whether or not the internet counted as a “utility” akin to electricity and water. The updated interpretation is that the FCC doesn’t have the right to treat the internet as a utility if it is not explicitly defined as a utility by law, so net neutrality was killed.
There is still hope that a later, more progressive Congress and administration could pass regulation declaring the internet to be a utility, or that a later court could change their minds on that interpretation, but for now it’s not looking good.
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 2 weeks ago:
I’m suggesting that if Trump wants to be the one to cross the Rubicon, let Trump be the one to cross it. No need to meet him on the other side first.
In theory yes, Google should face no consequences for publishing an inaccurate map. There’s actually an old tradition of publishing maps with at least 1 inaccuracy in order to catch forgeries, which has never been a legal issue in the US. It shouldn’t be any more controversial than a published document choosing to call Jerusalem “Al-Quds”
In practice, I imagine Trump will throw a tantrum and try to argue that Google doesn’t have the right to say no to him. And if that’s the stance he wants to take, disregarding the constitutional protections that Google ought to have, let his administration waste time and resources arguing that in the courts. If he wins, then we can all stop pretending the constitution means anything, and if he loses, it’s a blow to his ego, resources wasted, and we can turn the focus on other companies to say they have an ethical obligation to change the names back.
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 2 weeks ago:
Why wouldn’t it? Google’s just a company, not an arm of the government. At best, maybe there is some sort of accreditation process to have their maps called “authentic” or “accurate” or whatnot, but I’ve never heard of any US law that penalizes the publication of an inaccurate map.
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 2 weeks ago:
I mean, they are to an extent. The laws of the US are ostensibly supposed to allow citizens to call things whatever they want. If the government wants to throw a hissy fit and say the constitution is meaningless after all, let them do it. At least then we could give up all of the pretense that they are supposed to care about what it says.
- Comment on Elden Ring Nightreign releases May 30th 2 weeks ago:
I’d say you have a point if FromSoft didn’t just publish two major games within a year of each other (Elden Ring, Armored Core) and then a game-sized DLC on top of that.
Could Nightreign have just been another Elden Ring DLC instead? I don’t know, maybe. But it’s not priced as a full game and I’m not sure why people expect it to be one.
- Comment on DeepSeek Proves It: Open Source is the Secret to Dominating Tech Markets (and Wall Street has it wrong). 2 weeks ago:
A lot of other AI models can say the same, though. Facebook’s is. Xitter’s is. Doesn’t mean I trust them for shit.
- Comment on DeepSeek Proves It: Open Source is the Secret to Dominating Tech Markets (and Wall Street has it wrong). 2 weeks ago:
Deepseek is not open source.
- Comment on Is Civilization 7 not fun? 3 weeks ago:
I am hoping that is the case, but I do have to say that this one boggles the mind just a little bit to be launching without significant features that the previous games had like hotseat multiplayer and limited era games.
- Comment on Steam now warns about Early Access that have not been updated in months. 3 weeks ago:
I think storefronts should take an extra 10% cut of any early access title sold, added to a pool to be later returned to the developer as a payout once the game officially launches. That way they still get some cash inflow while development is still ongoing but there’s financial incentive to actually finish the game eventually.
- Comment on DeepSeek iOS app sends data unencrypted to ByteDance-controlled servers 3 weeks ago:
Ah, the ol’ Blahaj Pik-a-choo
- Comment on Protecting the US from hackers apparently isn't in Trump's budget 3 weeks ago:
Part of it is honestly that they believe themselves to be good, smart people, and therefore they aren’t a target for hackers. Bonus points if they’re also devout Christians and believe misfortune only comes to those who deserve it (and I don’t deserve it).
I barely use computers/My password is hard to guess/I don’t reply to scam emails/My laptop or phone is too new/I have McAfee Antivirus/My nephew knows computers and would help me if I ask…these are the sorts of things that people (not even just Boomers) think somehow keeps them safe.
They think people only get hacked if they’re too poor to upgrade their tech or if they’re trying to do something illegal online. And they have blind trust in corporations and their banks. Wouldn’t surprise me if a good plurality of Americans still believe their money in the bank is kept in the form of gold buillon in a vault somewhere and is therefore safe from theft.
- Comment on Google abandons 'do no harm' AI stance, opens door to military weapons 3 weeks ago:
Don’t be evil (to the shareholders)
Do the right thing (for our stock value)
Do no harm (to our profit margins)
…
Line must go up (before it comes down) ((wishful thinking))
- Comment on Good morning I choose creativity and recycling. 3 weeks ago:
Gonna love those microplastics leeching in over time as well.
- Comment on Redditors trying to access the banned subs after the purge, c. 2025 (colorized) 3 weeks ago:
Subreddits that are critical of Musk/DOGE are getting locked/banned. There was also a ban on many LGBT/Porn/Piracy subreddits, but most were unbanned because apparently that was an “oops”.
- Comment on Man, their reputation really has gone to shit 3 weeks ago:
When I heard about the targeted moves against the FBI by DOGE, I got to thinking that the FBI is not the sort of organization you want to anger if you have skeletons in your closet. And even if you don’t, they’ll put one there to find.
But I’m worried we’re already at the point where the entire agency can be discredited (not entirely undeservedly) just because President Cheeto and Supreme President Musk could label any findings as “fake news” and the majority of Americans would take it as fact.
They could be the SA to whatever SS the Trump admin wants to replace them with (the Proud Boys?)
- Comment on Man, their reputation really has gone to shit 3 weeks ago:
Just to nitpick, the CIA is more the “topple governments” organization.
I am sure the FBI is involved, but their operations are primarily internal affairs. It’s like MI5 and MI6 in the UK.