Stovetop

@Stovetop@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Asus ROG Xbox Ally Gaming Handhelds Cost Up to $999.99, Preorders Open Now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s just Xbox branded, though. ROG controls the device and I don’t think it likely that Microsoft is hedging the future of Xbox on a (likely) one-time business arrangement. This was just the compromise for Microsoft’s failed in-house handheld that never saw the light of day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you think of any now?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t say I’ve ever heard the one about classical music making people “smarter”, but it would not surprise me if some music is simply more distracting than others. Most classical music is inoffensive enough to the ears that it’s ok to use as background noise, and the lack of lyrics doesn’t distract language processing.

  What I’d be more curious about though is if there is any significant impact to quality of work during tests/study time/reading time with background noise like classical music versus just having dead silence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump to be welcomed by giant Epstein banner outside Windsor Castle⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The man will either die before he experiences consequences for his actions, or he will die as a consequence of his actions. But agreed, I don’t think he will ever experience consequences before then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Modder injects AI dialogue into 2002’s Animal Crossing using memory hack⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A great example was someone did this with Skyrim a while back. In the dialogue they convinced the NPC to join their party. But there isn’t any code logic to allow that, so the NPC is talking like they joined the person’s party, but the gameplay itself doesn’t support it.

  That’s the exact type of scenario I was thinking as well. I had seen another video for Skyrim with AI dialog where they used it to haggle with a merchant who agreed to drop the price of an item in the shop. But an item’s gold value is baked into the game itself. An NPC can say they’ll lower the price, but it will still cost the exact same (barring the normal modifiers based on skills/quest completion/disposition/etc.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 423 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s very big on the open-world model, and the party being a lot more dynamic opens up a lot of choice for how you want to build your standard batch of characters.

  There are still times during the story where members of the party will split up, essentially to spotlight each character at least once, but most of the game gives you a lot more party composition choice than Remake.

  They simplified some of the character progression, but expanded the Synergy feature from the Remake DLC that allows characters to do special attacks with other characters, which is cool and helps mix things up. Certain combos of characters can be good just for their synergy abilities. And the new party members in this game are just fun.

  Everyone also has more capability to deal with flying enemies or enemies at range, just built into their standard moveset. I found flying enemies to be really annoying in Remake, but fine in Rebirth. And everyone has the option to obtain a set of elemental damaging abilities that help with staggering foes to avoid having to use as much MP on spells.

  On the topic of pressuring/staggering, they also improve that a lot, where the conditions to pressure an enemy are more varied and easier to pull off, which you can learn by using Assess on an enemy just once.

  Everything feels familiar to Remake, so I’m sure if someone simply doesn’t like anything at all about Remake, they may still not like Rebirth. But for anyone who likes remake except for a few peeves with combat or how limiting the game feels in terms of exploration/story railroading, Remake vastly improves all of that.

  If there’s only one potential gripe specific to Remake that I may not like as much, it’s just that a lot of the open world mechanics feel a bit Ubisoft-y, but it didn’t really feel as tedious to me to do them all. It’s worth doing enough of them to upgrade the BGM for each zone, at least!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 423 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Love this game. I will say that not all of its systems are perfect, but I do believe that it is worth pushing through to get to Rebirth, which is simply bigger and better in every way (including photo mode).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What threw me about the remake too is that a lot of the FLUDD mechanics are more annoying when you can’t partially press the trigger. It felt like it made more sense when you could “regulate” the flow with how strongly you pushed, but triggers on Switch controllers are only off/on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Might be a PieFed thing, I’ve never seen it on Lemmy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tragedy can bring out the Worst in people, but also the Best⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Instructions unclear, shot my hookup in the neck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Etsy Curse⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is incredible.

  I was right to respect witches.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Larry Ellison overtakes Elon Musk as world’s richest person⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah fuck Oracle, too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Russia, more like. There was a huge amount of Russian-sponsored disinfo found to be circulating during the Brexit referendum.

  The main link between the US and Brexit is only that the US is currently following Russian masters as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Android’s most beloved launcher may be done for good⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If it’s not on the primary list, however, they get sorted alphabetically when scrolling through.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Average UK house price rises to record £299,331, says Halifax⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair point! Grass is always greener, I suppose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Average UK house price rises to record £299,331, says Halifax⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I only wish that was the case in my area. The average price for a house in my state is $660,000.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Average UK house price rises to record £299,331, says Halifax⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Only £300,000?

  Shit, I should move to the UK.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google gets to keep Chrome, judge rules in search antitrust case⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Who would appeal? The case was started by the DOJ and the DOJ made this decision. Google apparently paid the requisite tribute to the Trump admin to make all of this go away, and so it has.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it would be a better look⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hell if it were the gallows, wearing a necklace with a knot might have become prescribed religious attire.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hell, even the juggernauts of Microsoft and Amazon tried, and they got crushed out of the market.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨InfernoPlus - I ported Morrowind to Elden Ring⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  InfernoPlus may be one of the greatest game modders of our generation, and I am glad he uses his powers for evil.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨deep fried memes from before covid dump (open post)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Love me some good deep fried memes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elden Ring on Switch 2 Is a Disaster in Handheld Mode - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The Switch 2 is actually decently beefy for what it is—give or take certain specs, it’s about comparable to the PS4, which Elden Ring launched on and ran fine on. But Elden Ring is simply a poorly optimized game overall. It ran like shit on PC after it launched, they eventually got it into a mostly good state years later (or maybe people just upgraded hardware to the point they could brute force it to be stable).

  But I guess trying to port it from x86 to Tegra for Switch 2 is another thing entirely that they apparently weren’t prepared for. If all they did was shove it behind an emulation layer or something (yikes if so), I can see why it’d suck. But given just how held together by duct tape the game is in general, I wouldn’t be surprised if they simply lack the resources or expertise to really optimize for a different architecture.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI at the World’s Biggest Games Event(Gamescom) Booked Random Meetings for Attendees⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Just have your AI assistant attend the meeting and take notes for you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Resident Evil Requiem Trailer - GAMESCOM 2025⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not much “gameplay” but honesty I’d watch this movie.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Direct Announced for Tomorrow Focused on Kirby Air Riders⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Seconded. Switch 2 at this point is mainly just worth it if you have a backlog of Switch 1 games that you want to play in better quality.

  Donkey Kong is the first true “must buy” (MKW is good too but it’s mainly just for people who have played MK8 to death and want something new). It’s gonna be a bit for another tentpole franchise to carry the console further towards being a compelling purchase.

  I’m not sure Air Riders will be that game either. I love the original Air Ride to death and I’m really looking forward to Air Riders, but I don’t think it carries a console. Metroid Prime 4 is probably the next big decider for a lot of people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Speeding overtaking driver who left cyclist with life-changing injures in “horrendous” hit-and-run crash jailed for four years⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not blocking you because I believe in doing what anyone else should do when they see someone else being harassed, which is to intervene.

  Stop stalking OP. I don’t care if you think your reasons are justified, this is not okay to do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Speeding overtaking driver who left cyclist with life-changing injures in “horrendous” hit-and-run crash jailed for four years⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Let me be clear:

  Everything you are talking about is not an OP problem. It’s also everyone else in this thread’s problem despite your insistence that it should be.

  This is a you problem, and the easiest way to fix it is if you do what literally everyone else here is recommending: block them and move on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Speeding overtaking driver who left cyclist with life-changing injures in “horrendous” hit-and-run crash jailed for four years⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s called cross posting, it’s an incredibly widespread practice, and it’s a common courtesy to share content between multiple applicable communities where there may be different people to see it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Speeding overtaking driver who left cyclist with life-changing injures in “horrendous” hit-and-run crash jailed for four years⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  All I see in their comments is that you’re apparently stalking this person? The fuck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 396 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t say it’s “slow” per se but it does feel different, and in some ways I believe it’s not as good as its predecessors.

  One consideration is that it does not have the 200cc mode that MK8 added after the fact. It’s currently (maybe permanently?) at the default max speed of 150cc.

  Another consideration are the courses. Previous MK games use circuit courses, where you start at the finish line and you race in 3 or more laps in a circle that goes back to the same finish line. MK8 fleshed out a bit more by incorporating lengthy straightaway courses where you start at point A and race to point B with laps being more like checkpoints along the way, but the majority were still circuits. Mario Kart World, on the other hand, is primarily straightaway style tracks with only a small smattering of circuits, because it’s attempting to integrate everything with the open world map they made. So the majority of races feel harder to pace because most of them do not repeat themselves.

  There’s also the fact that they doubled the number of characters in each race compared to MK8. MK8 had 12 racers per course, MKW has 24. All of those racers are still picking up items, still tossing red shells and blue shells everywhere, still spamming lightning, etc., so it feels a lot more chaotic.

  Accommodating that aspect is the fact that it now takes 20 coins to hit max speed instead of 10, because they assume you’re going to get hit by more things that you can’t avoid, so it can take longer to ramp up your speed from the beginning of the race.

  Final consideration off the top of my head is that you no longer choose parts of a kart like you did in MK8, you simply choose a racer and choose a cart, and your stars are based only on a combination of those two factors. It is more difficult to optimize for things like acceleration, max speed, and turning because you can no longer mix and match parts that exactly fit your stat preferences.

  So my opinion at least is that MK8 is still the better Mario Kart game, and just considering how huge it is and the fact that it still runs well on Switch 2 tells me that it’s still worth keeping it around. MKW is still a fun game and I’d recommend it for Mario Kart fans looking to change things up a bit, but it tried a lot of new things, not all of which work as well as I think they could have.