Fubarberry
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- Comment on Brazilian Wandering Spider 3 weeks ago:
Alternative wording is gives you an erection for the rest of your life.
- Comment on ZOOM Platform store announces new tool to run Windows games on Linux with Proton 1 month ago:
It’s based on top of the new Unified Linux Wine Game Launcher (UMU) that recently had a first release, along with protonfixes to ensure everything works as well as possible.
Cool to see UMU starting to show up in the wild. And since it plans on using a compatibility list for games to automatically set up games correctly, the more UMU gets used the better it will become.
- Comment on Microsoft Edge gets "unfair advantage", browser makers claim 1 month ago:
Windows is absolutely abusing their position as the dominant OS to push their other products. The number of “no don’t do that” messages and pop ups when trying to install chrome on a windows computer is clearly anti-competitive, and the only reason microsoft has been getting away with it is because Edge/etc hasn’t achieved enough market share.
- Comment on New Map Shows Community Broadband Networks Are Exploding In U.S. 1 month ago:
Do you live off grid?
- Comment on New Map Shows Community Broadband Networks Are Exploding In U.S. 1 month ago:
Definitely seeing that where I live. One of the local electric companies started offering gigabit fiber for $75, where most people were paying a lot more than that for DSL or low quality satellite (which were the only choices before). It’s been a huge improvement for those people, and it’s forced some of the long stagnant Telco companies to actually compete and start rolling out fiber of their own.
- Comment on What can be the reasons for self-sabotaging behaviours when it comes to relationships? 1 month ago:
I think some people sabotage relationships for the same reason they throw video games. They have fears/suspicions that it’s going to not work out, and rather than be a victim they want to have some control over the outcome. A loss or failed relationship doesn’t hurt as bad if they caused it to end the way it did.
However in your case, it sounds more like a fear of something different. It’s a lot easier to keep things like they are, when a relationship gets too serious or life impacting it can be easy to be scared of the change, and instead subconsciously decide you want to keep things like they are.
- Comment on Shadows of Doubt Review Thread [~70 avg, ~70% recommend] 1 month ago:
These scores are lower than expected, possibly due to issues with the console port.
I can vouch for the PC version being incredible though, I highly recommend it.
- Comment on Steam does the opposite of forcing Arbitration on its users 1 month ago:
I’m not a lawyer: Many companies are updating their terms requiring that disputes are settled through arbitration, usually where a 3rd party selected by the company rules on the disagreement.
It’s meant to protect them from excessive lawsuit payments that can happen when you go to court.
Valve went the other way, and is saying that all legal disputes should go to court instead.
- Comment on I have no idea how to react to this. 1 month ago:
Came across a truck in a southern town covered in stickers of anime traps (some were borderline hentai), gay pride stickers, and a whole lot of gun stickers. They had a bumper sticker that said something like “the only thing straight about me is my shooting”.
- Comment on God of War Ragnarok PC port suffers review bombing on Steam due to PlayStation Network account requirement 1 month ago:
People are buying it, unable to play because of PlayStation account requirement (the PlayStation servers are having issues and not letting people log in or create an account), and then leaving an angry review and refunding it.
- Comment on God of War Ragnarok PC port suffers review bombing on Steam due to PlayStation Network account requirement 1 month ago:
Also weird, the game includes the unnecessary PlayStation overlay, which makes it unable to run on Linux. The devs were nice enough to specifically disable the overlay on Steam Deck, but all other Linux players have to set a special launch option to fake being a steam deck in order to get the game to run.
- Comment on Sony’s Concord reportedly cost $400M to develop | VGC 1 month ago:
From what I understand, it actually started concept development 10 years ago, with 8 years of active development.
- Comment on Sony’s Concord reportedly cost $400M to develop | VGC 1 month ago:
8 years of development under multiple publishers will bleed a lot of money. They also hired on a lot of “experienced devs” from different game studios to head the different departments, and presumably paid them well enough to get them to leave their original companies.
- Comment on Secret calculator hack brings ChatGPT to the TI-84, enabling easy cheating 1 month ago:
They added wifi with a extra circuit board hidden inside the calculator case. It’s connected to the calculators communication port, and pretends to be another calculator. So they can use the calculator’s built in “send” function to send variables/text/etc to the hidden card, which then uses it’s internet connection to look up answers and send the results back.
- Comment on Majima-Focused Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii Announced at RGG Summit as Next Yakuza Game 1 month ago:
The Yakuza games alternate wildly between being extremely serious dramas about underworld crime, and extremely light hearted and wacky side quests. Some people might find the change in tone breaks immersion, but I find the two extremes increase the impact of each other. When a game is serious all the time I get numb to it, there needs to be a variety of lighthearted content for me to really feel the impact of when things get heavy.
- Comment on Is overwatch 2 really that bad? 2 months ago:
I think Overwatch 1 at it’s peak could be compared to CS2.
- Comment on Is overwatch 2 really that bad? 2 months ago:
Right, that’s why the collective play amount is ~130k when the steam daily is only ~30k
- Comment on Is overwatch 2 really that bad? 2 months ago:
That’s honestly not that good, when games like CS2 are regularly pulling 2million+.
According to 3rd party websites (that may not have accurate estimates, Overwatch 1 had between 600k-1mil peak concurrent players through a lot of 2020/2021. One of those same websites now says that OW2 had about 140k peak players today when combining all players on all platforms. So it would seem there’s been a huge drop in players.
- Comment on 'Cities: Skylines II' Found a Solution for High Rents: Get Rid of Landlords 2 months ago:
For clarity, my understanding is that landlords in the game basically live rent free. Some of the buildings spawn with low numbers of apartments, so if you had a building with two apartments, 1 would be a landlord and the other tenet would pay x2 the rent.
So effectively they’re changing from having local landlords to instead paying rent to a distant landlord.
- Comment on Setting up a printer 2 months ago:
Huh, possibly bad extruder? If it’s got weak extrusion it might only be able to push it through the nozzle at higher temps.
- Comment on The two most upvoted comments on any Lemmy instance are on Feddit.dk, but you won't see them on your own instance 2 months ago:
That was a good investigation and explanation about a weird number of up votes. Thanks for explaining it.
- Comment on Peter Molyneux thinks generative AI is the future of games, all but guaranteeing that it won't be 2 months ago:
I don’t have time right now to write a full proper response, but for quests I would imagine starting out we would still use traditional random generation the bones of the quest, but use an LLM to create the narrative and NPC dialogs for it. Games like Shadows of Doubt already do a good job with randomly generated objectives, but there’s no motive for the crimes. Just taking the already existing gameplay and using LLM to generate a reason why the crime happened would help with the atmosphere a lot. Also, you can question suspects and sometimes solve the case by them telling you they saw [person] at [location] at [time], but I think an LLM could provide actual witness interrogation where you have to ask the right question, or try to catch them in a lie.
As far as the mechanics for LLMs to actually provide dialog, I expect to see some 3rd party AI startups work on it. Some kind of system where they have some base language packages that provide general knowledge and dialog abilities, and then a collection of smaller models/loras to specialize. Finally you would have behind the scenes prompting that tells the NPC who their character is, any character/quest specific knowledge they have, their disposition towards the player, etc. I don’t expect every game company to come up with this on their own, I suspect we’ll get a few individual companies offering a built solution for it starting out, before it eventually becomes built into the larger game engines.
- Comment on Peter Molyneux thinks generative AI is the future of games, all but guaranteeing that it won't be 2 months ago:
Obvious application is having NPCs that you can actually talk with. Not just about one or two topics that they have a pre-recorded voice line to tell you about, but about anything at all. And with AI speech generation as well, you could have them somewhat realistically talk back to you.
You could also have an LLM working as a kind of DM, coming up with new quests with stories and some content variety. A lot of games have repeatable randomized missions, but this are very formulaic and feel very repetitive after you’ve done a few. There’s usually no story, just a basic combat grind. A LLM could come up with actually interesting randomized quests, like a murder mystery where the murderer had a motive and you can legitimately question the suspects about anything they know.
- Comment on Setting up a printer 2 months ago:
It really sounds like you have a major problem with the printer that needs to be resolved. Without knowing any more details I would suggest making sure the nozzle isn’t clogged and possibly replacing the hot end.
- Comment on Setting up a printer 2 months ago:
I had similar printing issues with some filaments, due to heat creep. The printing would start ok on mine, but after the printer had been running awhile it would print like that. In my case heat was travelling up the hot end and Bowden tube, which was causing printing issues after a certain amount of time had passed.
There are a lot of things that can contribute to that, I ended up replacing my hot end and Bowden tube, and lowered my print temperature some.
220° is pretty high, I would try to figure out why it won’t print below that temperature and see what you can do to bring that down.
- Comment on Could an American please prove me wrong? 2 months ago:
That’s the part of France that I want to visit.
- Comment on Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford says his hopes on Epic Store were 'overly optimistic or misplaced' 2 months ago:
I see some larger publishers bemoan the fact that Epic hasn’t caught on, but it should be pretty obvious why. Markets that favor the buyer more than they favor sellers will typically attract the largest user base, and the sellers don’t have a choice to not sell where the buyers are.
Epic giving away free games is a nice buyer friendly action, but literally everything else they’ve done, from paid exclusives to poor client experience isn’t favorable to buyers. They’ve created a market that no buyers want to use unless the product is free or literally not available anywhere else.
Giving publishers/devs better cuts is great, but it does nothing for you if all the buyers are on Steam instead.
- Comment on Microsoft 'temporarily' pumps the brakes on its intrusive Windows 11 ads after receiving constant backlash from Windows 10 users 2 months ago:
Nexus mods has a new mod manager that they’re working on, and it supports linux. Unfortunately it only supports Stardew Valley and Cyberpunk at the moment, but Bethesda games and Baldur’s gate 3 are next on their planned support list.
- Comment on Hey Reddit lurkers! my ad-free, open source Reddit viewer RDX is on Android now 3 months ago:
Looks great, I’ve been using Stealth but it has trouble with albums and some other content. It also doesn’t let me search for posts in a specific subreddit.
This looks like it will do both of those things, as well as being actively maintained and improved. Thanks for making it.
- Comment on Twilio kills off Authy for desktop, forcibly logs out all users 3 months ago:
A lot of password managers support 2fa now. I use Enpass because I got a lifetime license a long time ago (it’s also available to people with Google Play pass), but I know some other popular options have it too.