RightHandOfIkaros

@RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: You should enable peak refresh rate in Android⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  If you can’t tell the difference between 60fps and 120fps, you need to see a doctor.

  Now, not seeing the difference between 120fps and 144fps is understandable, and between 120fps and 240fps I can also understand. But having seen 60fps and 120fps side-by-side, there is just as much difference as between 30fps and 60fps.

  I switched to 120fps displays where possible years ago and haven’t really wanted to go back. Except for the two CRT TVs I have, but I have those because they are CRTs, not because of their refresh rate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anime_irl⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t believe I actually have to say this, but no more giving birth in Voice Chat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pink Gremlins⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Most of these characters are from NIKKE lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just in case you've been living under a rock: The Crew is playable again!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Not for modern Xbox titles, because Xbox online commectivity travels through the Xbox Live API, like Steam games often use Steam’s API. PlayStation never really had a central online service, and if they did it was always garbage/insecure.

  Sure, developers could try to emulate modern Xbox Live API, but since it is still currently in active use, Microsoft could easily shut it down like Blizzard does with WoW server emulators all the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Whitelight] You Don't Hate Remasters Enough⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe this person is ×shudders× British and by CBA they mean “can’t be arsed?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just in case you've been living under a rock: The Crew is playable again!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Too bad it doesn’t work for console though. Server emulators are almost always PC only, and in some very extremely rare cases, PC and PS3/Original Xbox.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Helldivers 2 was almost a free-to-play game, could've changed Sony's live service trajectory⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I tried playing with PS players about 11 times, and every single mission ended with me being team killed and kicked right before extract, but after all the objectives were completed. I’m not giving them another chance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Completionist gives answers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t really believe this. This just seems like someone lying about the situation after they were caught. He’s still making himself into a victim, rather than just showing the money was donated and moving on, leaving himself out of it.

  My biggest issue is that he spends a long time explaining what was going on, but at the time when it was happening, he didn’t mention any of the stuff he brings up now. Its like he is updating the autopsy report after the fact. If he was contacting these charity groups like he says he was, why did he not provide at least his initial contact emails? When it comes to charity, I don’t see why anything would need to be proprietary or secretive, so their response could be included as well. Even including messages about the alleged infighting about who and where to donate to. That would have cleared everything up instantly. But that’s not what happened. He also doesn’t include any proof of this new explanation backstory.

  To me, this just sounds like “Sorry I got caught, here is an explanation I came up with later that includes zero proof of any of it happenening so you’ll just have to trust me bro. And I finally donated the money like you all wanted, see? I was actually the Good Guy and Victim all along!”

  Maybe I got it all wrong. But this does not seem genuine to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Helldivers 2 was almost a free-to-play game, could've changed Sony's live service trajectory⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Being paid is better. Less cheaters and griefers on new accounts ruining everyone’s game.

  There are still plenty of griefers (mostly PlayStation players in my experience, shich is Why I have crossplay disabled and dont join ransoms anymore), but imagine how many more would be there if they could use bots to keep creating new accounts to claim the game for free.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video Game History Foundation Offers Retro Magazine Subscriptions⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Bagged, boarded, and sealed with a certificate? Won’t that just encourage speculation purchasers calling themselves “collectors” to try to resell them at absurd prices in a few years?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: YouTube views went down since mid-August because they no longer count views of not logged in users⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I saw Josh Strife Hayes talking about this and I think he was collecting some data to potentially do a video on it? Will be interesting to see the results and if they match up with this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Setting up a DOS/Win98 system for gaming⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Quake and Doom are early enough to be okay. But for later games, like Elder Scrolls Adventures Redguard, DOSBox has a lot of problems with those titles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Setting up a DOS/Win98 system for gaming⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Emulation is generally not very good for DOS, primarily because DOSBox is really bad with anything 3D. Its emulation of 3dfx cards might as well be non-existent.

  In this case, it actually would be better for them.to play on genuine hardware.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PlayStation State of Play returns this Wednesday, September 24⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Didnt they just have a State of Play? Did they forget to show something important?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Silent Hill f | Review Thread⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A game that is technically functional but neither good or bad should be a 5/10, not a 7. Which is my whole point. Access reviewers/ bias reviewers do not use the whole grading scale, they only use a scale of 7-10 which is wholly unhelpful when determining game review scores.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Silent Hill f | Review Thread⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, this is exactly what I expected. This is why I can’t trust review sites anymore. They only ever score a game from 7 to 10. I mean, IGN previously scored Concord a 7/10.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In my opinion? Yes. But I feel the same about most mainstream anime. Dragon Ball, Demon Slayer, Jujitsu Kaisen, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft starts rolling out Gaming Copilot on Windows 11 PCs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably will be pretty useful for disabled gamers. I know a quadriplegic that plays games and this would be a godsend for him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Danganronpa 2x2 Announced⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Spike finally admitting they went a little too off the rails with V3 and theyre going back to the one everyone universally agreed was the best.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why did in game cameras take so long to get good?🤔⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I have not played Amnesia, but I have played and enjoyed Alien Isolation. I would not call Alien Isolation a Survival Horror game, though. I would call it an Action Horror game. Especially the second half of the game, which is more reminiscent of the Aiens action film. While the first few hours has gameplay similar to Survival Horror, it lacks other elements that classify a game as Survival Horror IMO.

  Survival Horror as a genre (IMO, obviously) is basically Puzzle game gameplay first with optional combat that the efficient player is intended to avoid (with more than just a singular enemy or “Stalker” enemy). It contains themes and elements of horror as its most prominent story and/or art features. Its design exploits the player’s inability to see or know something that the player character sees or knows (usually via fixed camera angles that obscure enemy positions from the player, even if the design of the level would.indicate that the player character can see an enemy), causing the player to have a higher level of anxiety when they enter a new area.

  The combat will feel bad to the player, so that they will be discouraged from trying to combat enemies. Sometimes this is because of story reasons, like Silent Hill protagonists being untrained in the use of weaponry. Other times, the aim, hit chance, and enemy health are obscured to give the player a greater sense of risk like in Resident Evil (the original, as RE2 and later games switched to Action Horror). Sometimes combat is extremely simplified to the point that basically the only thing the player can do is run away and hide, like in Haunting Ground or Clock Tower.

  This is where we get to weird cases like Koudelka. Koudelka has many elements of a Survival Horror game, but because of its combat system (a randomly-initiated strategic turn-based JRPG-like combat system, think Tactics Ogre or Fire Emblem combat), and its lack of puzzles in the hours I played, I do not classify it as Survival Horror. I classify it as a Horror JRPG.

  While I agree player controlled cameras are more immersive, Survival Horror as a genre is not about immersion. As a game designer for a Survival Horror game, you aren’t trying to immerse the player, you are trying to keep them on the edge or their seat. A great way to do this is to remove information or control from the player. Removing camera control, obscuring health, etc. are all tools that you as a designer can use to increase the player’s anxiety. For example, Haunting Grounds has the “Panic” mechanic, where if the player allows the player character to become too fearful, the game relinquishes control of the character away from the player for a limited time, and the player character will take random actions that you as a player cannot control for that time. A survival Horror game designer should want to build anxiety in their game wusing their tools to do so at various paces throughout the game while not exhausting the player, and through various types of events (such as jump scares, although jump scares should really only be used once and any more than one time is indicative of a bad or lazy designer IMO) you relieve the player’s anxiety so that they do not become exhausted. This is why Safe Rooms in Resident Evil 1 and Dino Crisis have their calming music, they exist as a point for the player to relax and let go of their anxiety so that you as a designer can build it back up through more gameplay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You Turn! - an app that gives you a co-op experience with a friend while emulating (my article)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  McParland? Is he related to the famous Irish-American Pinkerton, James McParland?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yes Ma'am⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The numbers tell me its hentai without me needing to even look it up lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Content Is Too Provocative': Texas Says Yes to Anime Censorship With New 'Anti-Anime' Law⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know of thats the case, this is only what I read in the article. It’s certainly possible politicians are fighting among themselves, it happens all the time. Though I am doubtful they would fight about anime, that seems very unlikely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why did in game cameras take so long to get good?🤔⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Fixed Cameras (that is, cameras with a pre-determined location according to the player location, meaning the camera can move like in Silent Hill, not just a Static Camera like in Resident Evil) are basically a requirement for Survival Horror. This is why I say nearly all modern “survival horror” games are actually just Action Shooter games. Modern Resident Evil, Silent Hill, Alone on the Dark, etc. All Action Shooters now.

  One of Survival Horror’s biggest elements is that the peak optimal way to play is intentionally avoiding combat (except mandatory bosses). Most true Survival Horror games have combat that feels bad. It either has low visibility, or the player animations are slow, etc. Tools that the developers use to try to discourage the player from engaging in combat while at the same time thematically fitting in to the genre. Compare this with modern action horror games: the combat feels good. The aim is easy, the animations are fast. The player will want to engage in combat more because that is part of the design for mainstream audiences.

  Fixed cameras also build anticipation in the player and create a more memorable playthrough experience. Everyone that played Silent Hill 1 remembers this scene forever:

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  Both Dino Crisis 1 and Silent Hill on the PS1 used this style of camera to great effect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Content Is Too Provocative': Texas Says Yes to Anime Censorship With New 'Anti-Anime' Law⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  While SB20 was originally passed with bipartisan support to fight AI-generated child exploitation, its vague and sweeping language is now the primary cause for concern. The bill’s author, Republican Sen. Pete Flores, stated that his intent was to send a “clear message” to child predators.

  Seems the intention was good but they used language that was overly broad and they clearly did not know enough about anime to be able to use the proper wording when writing the law.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There's a brand new Dreamcast game that's out, called Mute Crimson, and it's free⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe the developer only develops premium games for premium gamers?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not all mods are like that, of course. My instance admins had to ask me like three times to be a moderator for one of their communities because I refused them multiple times. I only said yes because it was an unmoderated/undermoderated (at the time), low traffic community, and felt bad that I had refused so many times.

  I used to be a forum admin for a gaming/programming forum with what I would say is high traffic (1000+ active concurrent users daily), and moderating that felt like a full-time job, and I had appointed like 10 other moderators to help. I don’t have time for that no more lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a certified True and Real rule. I checked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This behaviour undermines good faith participation. Users should not be afraid of copping bans for using the downvote button as they feel is appropriate.

  As a moderator, I can see who votes on what and how in my community. But it is not my job to really do anything with that information (except if I notice a brigading attack / vote manipulation, then I might keep an eye on users for that). So I don’t even look at them. The community hasn’t been brigaded yet, and since its a moderately low traffic community, it would be pretty obvious if that ever happened.

  But votes are information that normal users should definitely not be able to see at all. Eventually, sooner than later most likely, it will lead to “User X voted ‘wrong’ on Y” posts. You and I both know Lemmy users cannot be trusted to be mature enough to not do that kind of Fecal Flinging, especially from the comfort of online anonymity, and once that starts it’s not going to stop.

  Users upvote or downvote posts for ten million different reasons. Nobody should feel like they can’t vote how they want on a post for fear of a moderator ban or other users yelling at them. If they are engaging in vote manipulation, its a different story, but people doing that are not only using a single account, so they know what they are doing and should expect nevative consequences. I’m not disagreeing with what you’re saying, just adding on that beyond a moderator’s ethical duty regarding (not) taking action for vote activity, normal users should also be held to the same ethical duty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is something that would definitely be better to message the instance admins directly over, and not turn into a public Tomato Toss. I don’t know the specifics, but there could be a reason for this. When in doubt, contact the instance admins, and if they don’t respond or don’t do anything, then create a new account on a different home instance. That is the point of the fediverse.