Skyhighatrist

@Skyhighatrist@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My bet, A youtuber discovered the game and made videos that did reasonably well in the indie audience, then other youtubers picked up and it snowballed some. I’ve been seeing more coverage of the game on youtube for a couple of years now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That game’s closer to 20 years old. It’s been a very long time since I’ve played it. It was way back when gaming on Linux was mostly limited to games that had a native Linux release.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nginx core developer quits project in security dispute, starts “freenginx” fork⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Your spoiler tag works fine on the web client. That is the supported way to do spoilers on Lemmy. However, Sync, if you use that doesn’t support Lemmy spoilers and only supports reddit spoilers. Unfortunately no matter what spoiler method you use, it will not work for someone, somewhere. There is no unified spoiler markup across the fediverse, but there really should be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify just changed TOS, giving them unprecedented rights to create "derivative works" from audiobooks⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I saw this getting traction on Tik Tok a few days ago warning rightsholders they have until, I think, Mar 5th to pull their content from the platform.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Detroit Become Human caught me by surprise⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately, there isn’t a spoiler format that works for all cases. There’s not much you can do. It was just a warning since you were obviously trying to mark spoilers I thought I’d let tou know they just don’t work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Recent news that they would be releasing games that would have previously been exclusive to X-Box on other platforms such as Playstation has led to many a rumour that MS may be planning to stop developing the console at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Detroit Become Human caught me by surprise⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Those style of spoilers are not supported on Lemmy except in the Sync app. For literally everyone using the web, or accessing the content through the fediverse from other federated services, those are just plain text visible for everyone to see.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your AI Girlfriend Is a Data-Harvesting Horror Show⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Krieger (The character int he GIF) built himself a virtual girlfriend. youtu.be/lMbq_Oar7gA

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whatever Happened to SimCity?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well yes, ultimately that was the problem in the end. But they had 2 good releases under EA before that happened. Somewhere along the way EA went entirely to shit and Sim City was one of many casualties.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whatever Happened to SimCity?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The series shit the bed with the online only bullshit with small maps, and then Cities Skyline came along shortly thereafter to steal their lunch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Infinite Craft, an endless crafting game, is out.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There kinda is a movie with a premise similar to that. Violent Night

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your favorite game that you will NEVER finish?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t speak for the parent, but I don’t remember ever getting past Nova Prospekt. Not because I didn’t want to, it’s just that every time I’ve started playing I get distracted right around that part. But I have a serious problem of not being able to finish games, I get distracted by other games far too easily.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your favorite game that you will NEVER finish?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wish there were more pedantic people regarding the difference. The more it gets diluted the harder it becomes to find the proper roguelikes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starfield End of the Year Update⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone, somewhere thought it looked cool and marketing people have been copying it ever since to make their site “pop”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starfield End of the Year Update⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can see why you might think that, but that’s not how it works. All of the text is downloaded up front, but is hidden initially. It is made to appear as you scroll, but it does not get the text via additional web requests. If you view the page source, or inspect element you can see it all there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jeff Bezos plays down AI dangers and says a trillion humans could live in huge cylindrical space stations⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So an O’Neil cylinder exploits rotation to simulate gravity. When set up properly it feels just like gravity we’re used to here on earth. That should at least help curb the effects of microgravity. Radiation shouldn’t be much of a problem as people would be living on the inside of the cylinder with meters of material between them and outer space.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baldur's Gate 3 out now on Xbox⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m pretty sure they meant day 1 on x-box. X-Box players get to play the polished version of the game from the moment they get it. They get the version that already has all of those patches on day one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Salesforce Signals the Golden Age of Cushy Tech Jobs Is Over⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you using a VPN?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bethesda Is Responding to Negative Reviews of Starfield on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure the game is popular enough to get quite the modding support of the community like previous Bethesda games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube intensifies fight against ad blockers showing pop-ups, and users are frustrated | Blocking ad-block users⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The only issue I have with freetube is that I sometimes like to click on the recommended videos on YouTube’s front page. If I switch to freetube entirely, I’ll lose that. But if uBlock doesn’t continue to work I will make the switch and the YouTubers I wouldn’t normally see just won’t get my views any longer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube intensifies fight against ad blockers showing pop-ups, and users are frustrated | Blocking ad-block users⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably just lucky. They didn’t roll it out to all Firefox users at once. I got it several days after other Firefox users started reporting getting the popup. I followed the instructions to update my quick fix list in uBlock and it’s gone again. However, the first time I did it it came back after a day, so it may just be a never ending game of whack a mole.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the name of the building at festivals located opposite the stage where the cameramen and lighting crews are located?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate it too, but irregardless has officially been a word in dictionaries for years now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Any idea what Google are doing? Is this because I dont use Chrome (use Firefox)? I've no adblockers.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I just commented to another user about the same things. Seems they’re doing some A/B testing or something like it. No worries, I understand uBlock has an update available that addresses it already.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Any idea what Google are doing? Is this because I dont use Chrome (use Firefox)? I've no adblockers.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s no test group

  They are almost certainly talking about a test group on YouTube, not uBlock Origin. Sites do that sometimes, it’s called A/B Testing. Where different users will get different versions of the site to test something or other before changes are rolled out for all users.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Any idea what Google are doing? Is this because I dont use Chrome (use Firefox)? I've no adblockers.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Seems to still be working for me. At least I haven’t encountered any notices yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon To Start Running Ads In Prime Video Series & Movies, Will Launch Ad-Free Tier For Extra Fee⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I ended up googling cancel amazon prime, and that led me to a page with a cancel button.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wait, is Unity allowed to just change its fee structure like that? | Confusing, contradictory terms of service clauses leave potential opening for lawsuits.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Many of the other comments on this post are misinformed and based on past versions of Godot. But Godot has recently had an update that has focused primarily on improving it’s 3D support. I get the impression that many people looked into Godot version 3.x, and never bothered to look any further. It’s true that it’s not as mature as Unity, but that takes time and it will eventually get there. But people are unfairly disregarding, at the moment based on past versions being focused on excellent 2D support but mediocre 3D support.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Severe bug with save file⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I had the same thing happen to me with BG3, but I kept trying the same save over and over and it eventually worked after a few times (Really, I only tried like 3 or 4 times before it worked.) Still don’t know what happened, but that time I didn’t end up losing any progress and it continued to work fine after that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unity adding a fee for devs for each time a game is installed, after certain thresholds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Well… not that shocked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The #Starfield gameplay loop⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That unfortunately, doesn’t appear to be true. My landing cinematics are a thing of the past no mater how I get to the landing option. Perhaps it’s a bug and not everyone’s experience.