Fubarberry
@Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on Paramount Plus is getting yet another price hike 6 days ago:
Do people actually pay for Paramount+? I figured people just got it for free with Walmart+.
- Comment on The 8-Bit Guy: How Cathode Ray Tubes Work [18:32] 1 week ago:
Now the question is who did it better, 8-bit guy or Technology Connections?
- Comment on Metroid Prime 4 Reemerges With New Gameplay Trailer And Beyond Subtitle 1 week ago:
Finally. It was announced in 2017, and then development was restarted in 2019.
I hope it will be worth the wait.
- Comment on OpenAI pauses ChatGPT-4o voice 'Sky' that fans said ripped off Scarlett Johansson 5 weeks ago:
I feel kinda bad for the voice actor they used. Her voice was (potentially) going to be famous as the “AI” voice (similar to Siri), and instead that won’t happen because she happens to sound like Scarlet Johanson.
- Comment on Netris is an open-source cloud gaming platform with Stadia-like features using Proton 1 month ago:
Stadia was pretty cool honestly, it just never caught on, and it’s game library couldn’t compete with other platforms.
It was magical feeling though, just being able to play any game from my library in anything with a screen. Any Chromecast, Chromebook, old PC, phone, tablet, etc. They could all run any game, and you could switch between them at any time if someone else needed the TV or something like that.
It made it easy to imagine a future where you don’t worry about how to play a game, or ever spend money on a new console or upgrades, or ever have to delete games so you can wait to download another game. You just think “I want to play this game on this screen” and it works.
- Comment on Students’ Leaf Blower Suppressor To Hit Retail 1 month ago:
Decibels are a logarithmic scale, so it scales exponentially. Because of this, reducing by just ten is actually very significant and would reduce the perceived volume by half, and would reduce the actual sound pressure even more than half.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
It’s a backend identification, likely used to target advertising in the future.
They’re also tagging people with their suspected age bracket.
- Comment on Hugging Face is sharing $10 million worth of compute to help beat the big AI companies 1 month ago:
This is pretty great news honestly. I see a lot of pushback against AI, but realistically I don’t think there’s any chance of getting companies to stop AI development.
If it’s going to infect every part of our lives either way, I’d much rather we focus on making it actually widely available to individuals, where people can use it privately for their own benefit, rather than it being one more way that tech giants take control of our lives.
- Comment on Using Ubuntu may give off a hipster vibes to the average PC user, but within the Linux community its has the opposite effect. 1 month ago:
Windows is less of a “walled garden”, and more like a shared garden where the other gardener is really inconsiderate and will mess up your part of the garden whenever it doesn’t align with their vision.
- Comment on Shadows Of Doubt's sharpshooter assassins keep missing and leaving huge piles of wasted ammo everywhere 1 month ago:
Shadows of Doubt is an incredible game, and I highly recommend it.
The snipers missing their shots is a pretty funny problem honestly, sounds more like it’s an issue with how they identify that they have a clear shot rather than an actual accuracy issue.
Also, part of how the game simulation works is that when one of the simulated people decides to commit murder, they have to acquire a weapon to do so. So if someone decides to kill as a sniper, they will either already need the gun/ammo for it, or they will seek out a black market dealer to buy from. However apparently once they’ve bought ammo, that ammo becomes unlimited, leading to the huge ammo piles when they can’t actually get a clear shot on their target.
- Comment on Counterattack 1 month ago:
I know a guy who installed a large flood light on the back of his truck. He officially has it as a work light, but he uses it to flash tailgaters and people who follow him too close with their high beams on.
- Comment on Vanguard takes screenshots of your PC every time you play a game 1 month ago:
I don’t know exactly, I was just referencing what was said in the article I linked above, which has quotes and statements linked from both the hacker and some apex/eac teams.
- Comment on Vanguard takes screenshots of your PC every time you play a game 1 month ago:
I’m not entirely clear, but it sounds like the hacked Apex games were on computers at different locations, which would make me think they were likely hacked remotely without physical access to the hardware. The hacker claimed he performed the hack by using a vulnerability in the game process, and that his hacking method only let him compromise the game and didn’t give him any access to the people’s PC itself. The developers said that it was EAC itself being exploited, but that the specific exploit shouldn’t allow him access to owner’s PC.
The combination of statements makes me think this was a remote hack that exploited vulnerabilities in EAC/Apex Legends. Thankfully there seeming wasn’t an escalation to give full access to the PC, but considering the level of access that kernel anticheat has I would be very concerned about the possibility for any future hacks that compromise anticheat systems.
- Comment on Vanguard takes screenshots of your PC every time you play a game 1 month ago:
Kernel anticheat also doesn’t work, Valorant is full of cheaters, and Apex Legends players had their game remotely hacked installing cheat software mid tournament match. And an increasing number of cheats bypass the computer/console all together, and replace inputs to the computer to allow macros or aim-botting. Recently a monitor was announced for league of legends that will track enemy players movement and location for you from the video feed alone.
The best way to prevent cheating are with good server side anticheat. Another possibility is that companies can offer secure computers through a live streaming service like Geforce Now, which would be more secure than kernel anticheat without any of the privacy issues.
- Comment on Vanguard takes screenshots of your PC every time you play a game 1 month ago:
League of Legends I think just started using it as well, breaking it’s linux support.
- Comment on Spooky throwback Elder Scrolls 'em up Dread Delusion leaves early access in May 1 month ago:
I’ve been watching this game closely for some years now, pretty excited about it.
- Comment on Reflections on Xenoblade Chronicles 2 months ago:
Xenoblade 1 has the most interesting setting and best large scale story, but I feel like it falls short of the other games everywhere else. I really feel like default movement speed is too slow, or that the world desperately needs more in it. The world feels huge, and your people feel slow, and it just feels bad to go places. Combat is also slow and generally the worst of the series, but I really like the inclusion of the monado and its abilities.
1’s DLC was better, but I’d still rank it below the other games.
2 is rough around the edges with controversial character design, but I loved the characters, story, and end game combat. The combat started very poor, and took most of the game to get good, but somewhere near the end it finally clicked and became my absolute favorite combat system of any game. I found myself wanting enemies to have as much HP as possible for fights to last as long as possible. I wasn’t personally bothered by the “waifus”, and I actually kinda enjoyed the gacha system since it was separate from any microtransactions and cores are easy to get.
2’s DLC Torna was really fun. The combat is much better starting out than 2’s combat, although it doesn’t quite reach the same heights either. Overall very fun though.
3 is the most polished by far, but while it’s overall combat is more polished than 2’s, it doesn’t quite reach the same levels of or fun as two’s late game combat does. I enjoyed the story most of the way through (especially chapter 5) but I thought the ending was maybe weaker than it should have been.
3’s DLC was super fun, the way that everything I did turned into skill points was super engaging. It was also great to play as Rex again after bonding with him in 2.
XCX was the first game I played in the series. The larger story has some significant issues, but the side stories are often really good. The combat is an improved version of XC1’s, and I found it much more tolerable. The world is amazing, one of my favorite open worlds. The mechs are awesome. The game has insane power scaling, you’ll go from dealing 6 damage with an attack to millions with a late game build, and it feels amazing. You get a real sense that you’re growing exponentially, and it feels good. Movement is the best of any of the xeno games, it just feels good to run around. It makes me kinda confused why movement in the other games is so slow when they can make it feel this good. Overall a great game, just very different from the others.
- Comment on Reflections on Xenoblade Chronicles 2 months ago:
I’m a huge fan of turn based combat, but I do really enjoy combat in XB2 and XB3. The issue is that the combat isn’t very fun at the beginning, but gets progressively better as you progress through the game and unlock more combat systems. 2 is especially guilty of this, it takes most of the game to become good, but then becomes literally my favorite combat system of any game. It’s one of those combat systems where I want the enemies to have as much HP as possible so that I can fight them for as long as possible.
The DLC’s for 2 & 3 have a modified combat system that comes online much quicker, and is almost immediately fun. XB2 Torna is a good choice IMO as a title that can be played out of sequence, while offering good combat that gets going much faster than the other games.
- Comment on Reflections on Xenoblade Chronicles 2 months ago:
The combat does speed up some the farther you progress, and there are some classes, characters, and items that will speed it up more. Agnus characters (who are based on the XC2 characters) are much faster (and in my opinion) far more fun to play as.
- Comment on isopods are friends 2 months ago:
I wasn’t able to find an original, but I would assume it was either talking about the fact that they’re crustations and not bugs, or talking about the different regional names for them (roly poly, pill bug, potato bug, etc)
- Comment on Former Blizzard president wants to be able to leave a "tip" after completing $70 games: "I wish I could give these folks another $10 or $20" 2 months ago:
This idea seems laughable for big AAA games/studios, but I don’t actually hate the idea for smaller indie devs. Especially since some indie games are so dirt cheap.
- Comment on $70 titles are doomed to go “the way of the dodo” says Saber Interactive CEO 2 months ago:
I think that is partially what he’s saying. When you price a game at $70, it means that people will have higher expectations of it then a $20-40 game. You’re even expected to justify why it’s worth $10 more than a $60 game.
So you have all these AAA games that had huge budgets, and are being priced at $70, but because of the budget it’s highly risky for the company if it fails. But the high price also means higher expectations, and high expectations/hype will sink a game if it doesn’t live up to those expectations.
Basically you can sell a game for $30, and people will enjoy it for what it is. Sell a game for $70 and it better be perfect.
- Comment on PROOF 2 months ago:
No to seeing the edges from the middle, I’ve been to Kansas and couldn’t spot the edges.
As for the shape, my theory is more like a pizza with a thick crust. I haven’t been able to verify though, NASA keeps rejecting my proposals for investigating further.
- Comment on PROOF 2 months ago:
Centrifugal force moves the Earth’s mass outwards, so it’s thick at the edges and thin in the middle.
- Comment on Noita - Noita Epilogue 2 Update 2 months ago:
This is one of the better sales I’ve seen on it, really tempted to get it finally.
- Comment on Roblox Studio head: 'you can say, okay, we are exploiting child labour'... 2 months ago:
I have heard that different video game related income jobs are some of the most profitable available in a lot of lower income countries. Things like levelling up new accounts for players can make them more money than most of their other available options.
So I’m not surprised to hear that Roblox can be a big money maker for those people. And it has been a decent gateway into game development for people, I know that the Lethal Company dev got his start making Roblox games for example.
- Comment on Washington's Lottery AI site turned user photo into porn 2 months ago:
The “test drive a win” where it would generate AI images of people as lottery winners was a real thing, and they have taken it down.
Only larger news outlet I see covering it is Fox news. They cite the “mynorthwest.com” as their main source, but they do say that they recieved a statement from the lottery confirming that it was shutdown for that reason:
Washington’s Lottery confirmed to Fox News Digital that it shut down the site after being made aware of the purported image.
Obviously a lot of people don’t like Fox news, but I don’t think there’s a political agenda where that statement shouldn’t be trusted.
- Comment on Firefox Partners with Qwant for a Better Web(?) 2 months ago:
I’m not that guy, but I recently switched off of DDG because I’ve been getting so frustrated with the results quality. I’m not sure if it actually got worse or not, I just know it’s not good enough.
- Comment on Discord is adding adverts "in the coming week" 2 months ago:
From what I understand, they already try to sell you nitro if you already have nitro. So I doubt they’ll exclude these.
- Comment on Discord to Start Showing Ads for Gamers to Boost Revenue 2 months ago:
Here’s the archive copy of the page, to bypass the paywall: