RightHandOfIkaros

@RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm bored and desperately search for a proper game⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  Stellaris is a great realtime 4x strategy game. They have a lot of paid DLC, but you can pick and choose which modules you want. Some are purely cosmetic options while others make gameplay changes, and they go on sale pretty often. Worst comes to worst, you can usually find the DLC on key sites as well for pretty cheap. Paradox also started a subscription based service that gives you access to the DLCs, maybe you can subscribe for a month and try out which DLCs you like.

  Project Zomboid is an incredibly hard resource management survival game. It is also very detailed, meaning you need to maintain everything about your character from their hydration, to their weight and fitness. Its a slow burner type game, but when the action picks up, it gets tense. Its also a “forever” game, in that theoretically, if your character never dies, the game never ends. The map is huge, big enough to feel different pretty much every time you play. Its also multiplayer, which is pretty fun.

  Farming Simulator can be a fun, chill game to play. Its not as resource management intensive as a game like Project Zomboid, but it can be a good game to relax with.

  Ragnarok Online is an older (2003) MMORPG that I recently discovered, and while I am not much of an MMO Enjoyer (I hathe the “Disneyland” or theme park feeling most have where I have to wait in line at NPCs and bosses), Ragnarok Online’s player population is consistently low enough to not feel like that while also being high enough to feel like the game is not dead. Just don’t play on the official servers from the Steam client. Use a client that connects to private servers, the economy is really bad in the official servers.

  King Arthur: Knights Tale is a pretty fun Strategy RPG. I haven’t been able to play that much of it, but what I have been able to play was pretty fun. Check it out, it might be interesting to you if you liked Divinity and games with combat like XCOM or Fire Emblem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shork⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Why? So they can graduate? :(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Really Who watch it?⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Because this opinion here on Lemmy is a minority opinion. Most of them aren’t as unpopular as they are here. Theyre not totally garbage, but they can be an amusing watch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finally found him⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Dude, its NCD. We never watch our backs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chubby Girls :3⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I am pretty sure we agree, the upper end of “Normal” just below “Overweight.”

  I was remarking more to the fact that Nikkes are androids which are considerably heavier than normal people. So would the android definition of “chbubby” also be the same? I wonder.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oblivion Remaster Rockets Past 100K Players on Steam Hours After Launch - Insider Gaming⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  They dropped the trailer and the game at the same time. Its a pretty well done remaster/remake so far. Minor visual bugs but thats kinda to be expected at this point. Nothing totally gamebreaking though. Runs well enough on Xbox and considerably better on a PC. Xbox performance mode gives it a high framerate, though I am unsure if it is 60 or 120 fps, I would assume probably just 60.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'The Rising of the Shield Hero' Season 4 Releases First Teaser, Reveals Staff Information and Song Info⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I hope its better than the Turtle Arc. S3 was a good turn though, so I am sure it will be much better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game Boy clone maker Anbernic suspends all shipments to US⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The Chinese child and adult slave labor that is currently used to build these products isn’t any better.

  Nobody thinks about that. They just see the price and pretty much always pick the cheaper one. Ignoring the fact that Chinese work conditions are way worse than American work conditions, and the MSRP reflects that. People feign that they care about it until they actually have to pay, then cry that they cant buy the exploitative product because its more expensive now. Since they cant see the exploitation, its easier for them to justify it because it gives them a better price.

  Red, blue, or magenta, the political landscape of the people involved doesn’t matter. People being greedy and selfish is way older than American politics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finally found him⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait a minute, this isn’t Non Credible Defense. Is NCD leaking again?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yes, Ma'am.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, age 10, season 30 lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chubby Girls :3⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, is Bready “chubby?” How far beyond the normal weight bracket for one’s height and muscle content do they need to be in order to be considered “chubby?” Certainly by Nikke standards Bready is heavier than the rest, but is she really “chubby?” Or is she merely overweight, not quite obese, and “not fit?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kujirai <3⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I do not, because I am 33, and she is not a hag but a young woman.

  (I am in fact, not 33. Or perhaps I am, you will never know, Reader. That’s my secret to know, and yours not to.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I feel that lines are drawn, and I'm no longer on your side.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Going back to your Hexbear account? I mean, Hexbear has a pretty negative reputation, I don’t know if I would publicly say your other account is there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Backstabbed in a Backwater Dungeon: My Party Tried to Kill Me, But Thanks to an Infinite Gacha I Got LVL 9999 Friends and Am Out for Revenge | Key Visual⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That is certainly one of the anime titles of all time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's a cancelled game you really miss?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Super Mecha Champions on PC.

  Yeah, it was a Gacha Battle Royale mobile port. But it was so fun to play. The community was fantastic, except the like 3 cheaters on perpetual ban cycle.

  I loved the character design, and the mecha design. The graphics could age really well being cel-shaded/anime styled. And it was unique in its category, no other BR game lets you play as a pilot and call in a mecha, or battle a mecha as a pilot, or vice versa. And the best part was that the F2P economy was pretty good. Paid players got new characters and mecha a week or two weeks before paid players that haven’t been playing the game. F2P Barnacle players could use currency earned in-game for characters and mecha and it would take maybe a week or so to get the amount needed. You didn’t even have to win, you just had to play. It was great. The cosmetics were well designed too, mostly. Except that one Ventorus skin that made the extra hands a little too big and cover more of the screen than normal.

  Sadly, the servers were shut down by NetEase, probably to make more server space for Marvel Rivals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games suitable for a livestreaming relay event?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, I see. I misunderstood what you were asking for.

  Perhaps something like F-Zero GX could work?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games suitable for a livestreaming relay event?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It would be helpful if you mention the games that are already in this list. Also, are all the players trying to speedrun the game or playing blind? Do cutscenes get skipped? Do the other players see what happened in the game before they started playing?

  A Girl Who Chants Love At the Bound of This World YU-NO took me 80 real world hours to figure out how to get the true ending (branching story, requires specific item usage at specific points in the story), but depending on the platform and intended audience it is not a game I would recommend for streaming. Although the latest remake censors the nudity, its still sexually explicit, and it contains some content I understand is from a different time and culture but I personally find replusive. Beside that stuff the story was fantastic, though. Plus, as a graphic adventure game, it’s probably not ideal.

  But, if Graphic Adventure games aren’t a problem but sexually explicit ones are, Snatcher on the SEGA CD and Policenauts on the SEGA Saturn are both quite lengthy, and lacking in the explicit department. Although Policenauts has a cool fature where loading a game save gives you a summary screen of everything that has happened up to that point, Snatcher does not.

  Metal Gear Solid might be a pretty good one, as I remember the game being quite long, cutscenes included.

  The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess could be a good pick as well.

  Danganronpa games can be pretty long as well, and are interesting to people who like solving mysteries.

  Shenmue could be a good pick because of its QTE sections, which are pretty fast and easy to lose. And everyone loves to see a streamer lose.

  Silent Hill or Yakuza series might offer something more interesting.

  XCOM 2 can be incredibly punishing to lose, and the game makes it pretty easy to lose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I watched all three of the 1990 AD Police Files OVAs.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  These were great. Bubblegum Crisis and its related proprties are peak cyberpunk superhero anime, IMO. It doesn’t get better than that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo confirms $90 price for full Breath of the Wild experience on Switch 2⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t pay $90 for it, but Hyrule Warriors Definitive Edition was definitely fun enough to keep playing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Back Pains"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Gonna need more support for that spine than that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Save your mother.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The title of this work should be:

  “The Unrelatable Experience” or “The Nightmare.”

  Also, if the genders were swapped this would be viewed pretty differently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One Piece Director Megumi Ishitani Calls For Legal Action Against OpenAI: 'Can't Stand Ghibli Being Treated So Cheaply'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What most people actually object to is a large corporation spending countless resources to vacuum up public data in order to create a privately controlled model.

  I am curious how and why this is viewed differently when it comes to something like proprietary code.

  For example, there are large swaths of publicly available repos of code. Some are licensed under restrictive licenses, and some are public domain. Many are hosted on the Internet, and many more are written in educational books and other such materials you can find in your local library. If a business, large or small, references publicly available information to create its own proprietary code which itself does not contain any actual instances of infringing code (just as AI training data files do not contain any actual images and therefore no actual infringing data), why is that considered okay? It is extremely rare for completely new, original code to be written especially when a publicly available, well known method already exists. Why re-invent the wheel?

  What I mean is, are the people that feel the way you have written upset when they see any project, from any business, large or small, that referenced anything that is publicly available? Are they upset that the names of all the references are not listed in the credits of every project ever? What is their problem with this? Does it matter whether a business that does that has 1000 employees or just 1, since the outcome is more or less the same?

  Additionally, nothing prevents private citizens from doing the exact same thing themselves. A person can go along vacuuming up publicly available data to train a model only they have access to. Would those that you talk about object to that as well?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One Piece Director Megumi Ishitani Calls For Legal Action Against OpenAI: 'Can't Stand Ghibli Being Treated So Cheaply'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hm. Not sure how I feel about a company treating an artstyle like it’s their own legally protectable trademark or intellectual property.

  I think the specific IP they have created can be their own to protect, but not the style of artwork. Just like the art style that was popularized by Blizzard’s earlier titles that were later copied in other games (such as Paladins), the artstyle alone should not be enough to initiate legal action.

  When it comes to AI, I can understand people being concerned about “unauthorized use” of training data (which honestly, how is that any different from a human artist seeing an artstyle and createing art inspired by that). At the same time, this could easily be avoided by training data made by artists that mimic the artstyle of Ghibli. If OpenAI hired artists to create artwork that is not of Ghibli property but has the same or very similar artstyle of Ghibli, nobody should have a problem with that. But I have a feeling Ghibli would complain anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Piracy was never stealing, in so far as legality is concerned in the USA, at least.

  Stealing requires the owner of the stolen thing to be deprived access of that thing. If someone steals your car, you cannot access it anymore, since it was removed from you by the thief.

  Piracy copies your car, meaning you still can access your car but someone else can drive a copy of your car. The first example is a major inconvenience to you, the second example has absolutely no negative effect on you.

  It is why instances of piracy that make it to a court of law are tried as Copyright Infringement cases, and not theft or piracy cases. When your ISP spies on you and sends you a letter after you pirate something in an insecure manner, you get sent a Notice of Copyright Infringement, not a Notice of Theft.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think one could successfully argue in a court of law that people tend to be hyper aware on April 1st, and so may have read the terms suspecting something amiss when they otherwise would not have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There was a video game store that once, for April Fools Day, included in its sale terms:

  By placing an order via this Web site on the first day of the fourth month of the year 2010 Anno Domini, you agree to grant Us a non transferable option to claim, for now and for ever more, your immortal soul. Should We wish to exercise this option, you agree to surrender your immortal soul, and any claim you may have on it, within 5 (five) working days of receiving written notification from gamesation.co.uk or one of its duly authorized minions.

  Only 12% of people that purchased that day responded, essentially confirming only 12% of people actually read the terms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “Nobody reads those EULAs, and the Defendant knows that. Therefore, the Defendant cannot hide behind the EULA as a shield because the Prosecution, having clicked Agree without being required to confirm that they read through the terms, could not have possibly known what they were agreeing to.”

  “If you are what you agree to, your Honor, then my clients are an unknown spaghetti of legal mumbo jumbo.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't Afford A Nintendo Switch 2? Buy A Switch 1, Nintendo Says - Insider Gaming⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Just don’t buy Nintendo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does Anyone Else Find the Sega Genesis' Sound Annoying?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Its not annoying when the composer knew what they were doing. Unfortunately, the Genesis, and actually all FM Synthesizer based music, is incerdible easy to make annoyibg sounds with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should we boycott games with loot boxes?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Realistically, you and the other dozen people here on Lemmy that see this aren’t going to make a difference. Its too far gone. You are free to play or not play whatever you want, but it won’t make any changes to how businesses in the gaming industry monetize their products.

  It would be nice if businesses cared about their customers, but money talks way louder than feelings. And there are too many stupid people that will keep paying for Candy Crush MTX.

  Personally, I am okay with RNG based rewards that cost real world money if the game is free to play, as long as it offers a way to get the RNG rewards by playing the game even if it is at a reduced rate. Even if it is Pay To Win, at least reviews will tell me going into it so I can decide for myself whether I am okay with potentially playing at a disadvantage or not. In some games that won’t really matter to me, such as if I don’t want to really engage with PvP, for example. But other games that are PvP focused, I probably won’t play unless the rewards are cosmetic only. RNG based rewards that cost real world money in a game that costs money just to gain access to or play the game that are not entirely optional cosmetics are stupid IMO, and so I just don’t buy or play those games.

  It sucks, but a loss of only 50 or so players from here on Lemmy is nothing to game publishers that gain and lose thousands more players naturally and not because of monetization per week.