Carighan

@Carighan@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam is 'an unsafe place for teens and young adults': US senator warns Gabe Newell of 'more intense scrutiny' from the government if Valve doesn't take action against extremist content⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a good question. I would hope so!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam is 'an unsafe place for teens and young adults': US senator warns Gabe Newell of 'more intense scrutiny' from the government if Valve doesn't take action against extremist content⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s up to each game dev to police their forums, AFAIK.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam is 'an unsafe place for teens and young adults': US senator warns Gabe Newell of 'more intense scrutiny' from the government if Valve doesn't take action against extremist content⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean yeah, no shit. The steam forums could be removed at no loss to the human race, in fact it’d remove a significant percentage of all really shitty talk on the internet if they deleted everything entirely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's Mastodon precious?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh I dis not know that! Interesting! Thanks for the correction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's Mastodon precious?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean even if it repeats “the Twitter mistake” that’d still be another 13-14 years to go. Who knows where short-form social media will be conceptually in that time and whether any competition in the space is even still relevant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's Mastodon precious?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes and no. It was already rejection at the selection stage back then, but you luckily never had to. You got one from your ISP, or your university, and you just used that. Sure, some techies had their own mail server or so but it’s just mail, just use what you got was enough for the vast vast majority of people.

  You’ve got mail!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's Mastodon precious?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly? I needed a Gmail account anyways, so I might as well use that. Same hammer-analogy, not going to buy a new one while mine is working.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's Mastodon precious?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wasn’t like the US people couldn’t have trivially prevented that by actually going to the votes instead of not voting. At some point it’s willful on behalf of the people. 🤷

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's Mastodon precious?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah that’s why I’m on Bluesky. Twitter was always just a “check whether company XYZ said something about their servers being down”-place.

  And Bluesky has a lot of these companies now. A few government places OTOH are on Mastodon. I have both, but both exclusively in this capacity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's Mastodon precious?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I just loooove how pppl believe that whether something has VC-funding or is federated has any effect at all on how people pick software and systems to use.

  I mean, users don’t even not care, because “caring vs not caring” assumes that the metric they can care about or not mentally exists in their context for judging a decision. Which it does not. Which is a very important part so many software designers of user-facing software forget, to users a short-form posting instance is a tool. A hammer. You use the one you got. Once it becomes defunct, you get a new one. You pick one that all your friends use, because hey, must be great if everyone uses it. Does it have some downsides? Maybe, but frankly it’s a hammer who cares?!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's Mastodon precious?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I tried to join Beehaw simply because a reddit community I was actively part in went there.

  I got told that’s not a valid reason to join, and that further applications from me would be ignored. I mean… okay? Sure… guess I’m no longer part of that community.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's Mastodon precious?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Which AFAIK isn’t a standard, so… 🤷

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's Mastodon precious?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably not. Currently it seems on track that you’re always first on their main instance. If you’re technically inclined you could then start hosting a federated part yourself (or joining one), but this does not change that the actual entry experience is exactly the same as on Twitter, hence why transition is so insanely smooth and painless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's Mastodon precious?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  People who genuinely think like this (as in, that users going to Bluesky is somehow bad, surprising or something only stupid people do) are the very reason systems such as Mastodon cannot work. And sadly they naturally pervade such systems, at a development, administration and user level.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Warcraft 1 and 2 Remastered and the long-awaited 2.0 patch update for Warcraft 3: Reforged have just launched on PC for Warcraft's 30th anniversary⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  All four remaining players are very happy!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cyberpunk 2077 released in December 2020. Almost 4 years later, what is your opinion on it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh yeah definitely. The expansion was such a cool thing, and the limited scope really helps it rather than hurting it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cyberpunk 2077 released in December 2020. Almost 4 years later, what is your opinion on it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  one of the greatest stories in this medium

  I mean admittedly I don’t read cyberpunk as a genre, but as an avid reader I find that hard to believe. My two standout sub-stories are the intro heist and the expansion’s main story, and while those are awesome, they’re not exactly literary masterpieces. The rest of the game’s story is… amateurish? But not in a bad way? Like, it’s servicable as the thin motivational veneer you expect from an open world game, and doesn’t stand out either way, which is more or less what you want from your open world story: To not get in the way. The last few parts are quite bad though and show how much the story must have been cut apart and pieced together to fit a release date.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cyberpunk 2077 released in December 2020. Almost 4 years later, what is your opinion on it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Difficult.

  I gave up on it initially, annoyed by it’s deluge of bugs coupled with the overall tepid and empty-feeling design.

  I gave it a serious go a year ago after also getting the expansion. I wanted to not use any mods but ended up having to use one anyways, as CDPR still couldn’t be arsed to fix some keys being hardcoded so changing your keyboard layout is annoying as stuff gets in the way. Luckily, fans fixed that issue and made all keys rebindable. <3

  I will say… I enjoyed it. It’s nothing superb to me, but it was a thoroughly enjoyable romp. It’s big upside were the visual design, in particular during the expansion and its high points like the top floor of the tower or the sequence at the space port, the great voicework and Songbird in particular and when you meet her. I also liked the expansion and the tutorial stories a lot.
  It’s weak points to me were the open world itself which feels pointless and a thin, lifeless, facade plus the main story itself. Character progression was also super broken back in the days but by the time I played felt a lot better, so I’m not really holding it against the game. That being said, there were still quite a lot of bugs and glitches. Nothing major a reload here or there could not fix, but still considering how long the game has been out.

  So yeah, solid 7/10 for me. The expansion is fantastic, wish the whole game were like that!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the context of the leaked Warcraft II remake, do you still trust Blizzard to produce good games?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To me the big drop in noticable internal politics happened somewhere shortly before or around the Overwatch release.

  The original design of that game as-released showed a lot of the old design paradigms of Blizzard. But then all post-release direction was the “new” Blizzard, focus on e-sports, numerical balance over gameplay feel, competition over social engagement. The game is an interesting showcase for the fall of Blizzard as a whole in a lot of ways.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game of the day - Return of the Obra Dinner - did you enjoy it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  IMO the best indie game currently on the market overall, and definitely the by-far leading in puzzle/logic games.

  Such an amazing experience. The underlying pacing is so genius, where the game snowballs. Slowly at first, then faster and faster and faster as you finish.

  Also, that scene with that music is just amazing when it kicks in, and really threw me for a loop when it happened. “The fuck?!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk Fans Are Losing So Much Money to Crypto Scams⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean it makes sense to target these people. If you’re stupid enough to believe the shit Musk or Trump spout, you’re also stupid enough to not see these very obvious scams.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OrcaSlicer V2.2.0 Official Release⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I love it, but I’ll be honest I still use Cura for 99% of my slicing. Just too used to it, and since my printer isn’t controlled from the PC and I copy the gcode onto an SD card, it makes little difference to me except that Cura feels more organized in its UI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"You'll end up in a van down by the river" if you do drugs, don't go to college, etc. advice never includes the warning: "Don't suffer major Depression that gives you complete apathy for existence."⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah but like, if you’re feeling depressed, have you tried feeling happy instead? Durr! /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean there’s probably a lot who don’t, but they’re busy firing missiles at civilians in Ukraine to get around their 15y work camp sentence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta has suspended several Threads and Instagram accounts that track the private jets of celebrities such as Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Kim Kardashian, and Donald Trump⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was able to do it myself! the cost of running a Lemmy and Mastodon instance for myself is so cheap… I’m actually shocked more people aren’t doing it!

  I mean what for? It costs even less to use an existing Lemmy or Mastodon server given the minimal load you add.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Professor Layton Games, what's your experience?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For me I like them, I just wish:

  • The puzzles were tougher.
  • The story wasn’t as thin and spread out. It’s fine, but just not a lot of story for the amount of time it has to last.

  I will say that as a result, my by-far favorite entry in the series is Layton vs Ace Attorney since it uses the combination of both “gameplay types” to cram more story “meat” into the same length of adventure. It’s also a wee bit darker, which actually helps it a lot IMO.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not allowed to work from home⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  can’t wear headphones

  Wow, imagine coding without podcasts or music…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenCritic now has user-reviews including pros&cons and shows user score⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hrm, I’ll be honest then, you’re the very very first time I hear someone wanting to consume game reviews meta aggregation in a chronological way (instead of by-game). Not once seen this sentiment before.

  I dunno, it’s just not how people use these pages I would assume. You create search shortcuts for them, not RSS feeds. You want to look up what various reviewers at large say about a specific game, more so because this changes over time (so would a feed udoate each time the score changes? Only once on the very first review? Only once it stops updating for X time? What if that takes months?). It’s the polar opposite of once you have 2-3 reviewers who mirror your personal take well where you might want to know each time these people post a new review.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'It Has Plateaued': Should We Be Worried About Console Gaming's Future?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Uh, yes of course? The customers for a console and a handheld PC aren’t the same so naturally the former wants a game posted to the console?

  🤷‍♀️

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'It Has Plateaued': Should We Be Worried About Console Gaming's Future?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, sorry, you’re not going to try have a neutral perspective about this, are you?

  But humor me, why are so many Switch still being sold if other stuff is so superior? After all, like you said, they’re quite comparable and hey, Deck seems strictly superior. Right?