EvilBit
@EvilBit@lemmy.world
- Comment on Google’s $45 Million Contract With Netanyahu's Office to Spread Israeli Propaganda 9 minutes ago:
Not all heroes wear capes. Good on you, friend.
- Comment on Google’s $45 Million Contract With Netanyahu's Office to Spread Israeli Propaganda 14 hours ago:
Ah, no, not that. Never worked there. But I did leave a fintech job on principle. Making rich people richer made me wonder if I should go in and do my job worse every day.
- Comment on Google’s $45 Million Contract With Netanyahu's Office to Spread Israeli Propaganda 15 hours ago:
I quit Google in as many ways as I could many years ago.
I’m doing my part!
- Comment on What's *your* favorite way to play old games? 2 days ago:
The Analogue Pocket is awesome, but kinda sucks for Game Gear games that use Start (NBA Jam, Mortal Kombat, etc.). But it’s gotten me into collecting old cartridges even though I can emulate exactly as well, sometimes even better.
- Comment on I Built a Mobile-First Retro Gaming Website (Because I Couldn’t Find One That Worked Right) 4 days ago:
Yeah honestly make it work reasonably well and allow you to load your own ROMs or use a cloud storage or something and charge $5 through Patreon or whatever and I’d like it a lot more than clicking through the sketchiest ads ever.
- Comment on Llama 5 days ago:
ONLY 1% OF PEOPLE CAN SOLVE THIS PUZZLE
- Comment on Is playing horror games a good way to get desensitized to fear, or it gonna backfire and make my anxiety worse? 6 days ago:
I’ve been playing VR horror games since the HTC Vive came out, and there is truly nothing like it. I’d been playing flat VR since the original Alone in the Dark and NOTHING compared to even janky indie VR horror when done right.
If you have a PSVR2 or PC headset, The Exorcist Legion is a pretty solid example.
- Comment on Is playing horror games a good way to get desensitized to fear, or it gonna backfire and make my anxiety worse? 6 days ago:
I think RE7 is probably the scariest by a good margin. I played it on PSVR and it was amazing. 8 has a really intense section and 4 has its moments for sure, but they’re both significantly more action-focused.
- Comment on Is playing horror games a good way to get desensitized to fear, or it gonna backfire and make my anxiety worse? 6 days ago:
I think if you ramp up properly, it could work. Don’t dive straight into hardcore VR survival horror, but work your way up from creepy to scary to terrifying and see where that gets you.
- Comment on Microsoft Still Can't Say How Much the ROG Xbox Ally X Will Cost Due to "Macro-Economic" Conditions, Despite Announcing Release Date and Availability Details(Leaked prices $549.99/$899 for Ally/Ally ) 2 weeks ago:
That emulation engine just runs Windows games, not Xbox games.
I think you’re right in that they highly prioritize cloud data and subscriptions, but that’s where the Game Pass road leads. Native apps on a subscription service now, bets all hedged for a possible all-cloud semi-distant future.
- Comment on Microsoft Still Can't Say How Much the ROG Xbox Ally X Will Cost Due to "Macro-Economic" Conditions, Despite Announcing Release Date and Availability Details(Leaked prices $549.99/$899 for Ally/Ally ) 2 weeks ago:
You’re all good! You didn’t come across as condescending, just rightly pessimistic about Xbox’s brand. My friends and I have been diehard Xbox players for decades at this point, and now we’re all starting to feel like Microsoft is dropping every ball they can get their hands on. It’s depressing.
- Comment on Microsoft Still Can't Say How Much the ROG Xbox Ally X Will Cost Due to "Macro-Economic" Conditions, Despite Announcing Release Date and Availability Details(Leaked prices $549.99/$899 for Ally/Ally ) 2 weeks ago:
That’sa marketing campaign, not a strategy. To be clear, I’m saying native Xbox games will run on Windows and vice verse, which is a lot more than a marketing campaign based on what devices can stream cloud games.
- Comment on Microsoft Still Can't Say How Much the ROG Xbox Ally X Will Cost Due to "Macro-Economic" Conditions, Despite Announcing Release Date and Availability Details(Leaked prices $549.99/$899 for Ally/Ally ) 2 weeks ago:
It’s possible you’re right, but strategically, I think the Xbox brand is a lost cause on its own. PlayStation is just beating it up and stealing its lunch money at this point. On the PC side, Steam rules the roost and makes money hand over fist running other people’s games on other people’s operating systems. So it looks to me like the only valid move is to see if the combined PC/Xbox ecosystem can compete with either of them or, optimistically, both.
The catch will be that they need to position it properly and we all know how awesome they are at that coughxboxonecough. If they sell it as “buy an Xbox like you always have and it’ll play tens of thousands of PC games too OR buy a Windows PC and it can play Xbox games natively or with backwards compatibility now” then I think they have a shot.
I mean, imagine being able to play every Steam Deck-compatible game on your Xbox console OR your Xbox handheld by default, even if you bought it from Steam. That’s a goddamn value proposition if I ever saw one. Then they just need to try and win market share from Steam through distribution and ecosystem, which would be their next big battle.
Of course, I say all this as though they aren’t going to epically deuce the futon like they always do.
- Comment on Microsoft Still Can't Say How Much the ROG Xbox Ally X Will Cost Due to "Macro-Economic" Conditions, Despite Announcing Release Date and Availability Details(Leaked prices $549.99/$899 for Ally/Ally ) 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think they’ll scuttle the brand, I think they’ll make Xbox a standard for compatibility backed up by custom hardware targets. Like the generation after next might be System X and System S, but you could have a custom PC build that certifies as “exceeds System S” and thus any app can reliably run at that level of quality as a guaranteed minimum. You could still buy an Xbox, but it would be more like a Steam Machine. And a handheld would simply be “any System S certified handheld, including the Xbox first party device”.
- Comment on Microsoft Still Can't Say How Much the ROG Xbox Ally X Will Cost Due to "Macro-Economic" Conditions, Despite Announcing Release Date and Availability Details(Leaked prices $549.99/$899 for Ally/Ally ) 2 weeks ago:
Actually I think this is the only way to save Xbox, at least as a very first baby step. I’d bet you dollars to donuts that in ten years, there will be no functional distinction between Xbox and Windows gaming, and Xbox games will be running on PCs.
- Comment on Microsoft Still Can't Say How Much the ROG Xbox Ally X Will Cost Due to "Macro-Economic" Conditions, Despite Announcing Release Date and Availability Details(Leaked prices $549.99/$899 for Ally/Ally ) 2 weeks ago:
Just imagine what they’ll have to name the sequel.
It’ll be like Street Fighter games in the 2000s. Get ready for Super ROG Xbox Ally X Turbo HD Remix Plus Alpha Double Upper.
- Comment on PS5 Confirms New Local Co-Op Game Coming in October 2025 5 weeks ago:
I’m finding Game Rant is pretty obnoxious like that all the time.
- Comment on Since we're doing magic eyes now... 1 month ago:
I was mildly obsessed. It felt like the future! I miss technology like that. I’m kinda excited for all this AR stuff people are talking about because I haven’t really been excited by the latest and greatest shiny black rectangle in a long time.
- Comment on Since we're doing magic eyes now... 1 month ago:
Yep. Anything worth doing is worth overdoing, I always say.
- Comment on Since we're doing magic eyes now... 1 month ago:
Thanks! It was a pain to set up the little screen trick but for what it’s worth, I won the contest!
- Comment on Since we're doing magic eyes now... 1 month ago:
About 21 years ago (😩) I made a stereoscopic photo for some online contest. I was pretty proud of it.
- Comment on Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss - Closest modern equivalent? 1 month ago:
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Grok Is Calling for a New Holocaust | The chatbot is also praising Hitler and attacking users with Jewish-sounding names. 1 month ago:
You replied to “It was modified to make these kinds of responses much more likely” with the rebuttal that it’s “statistical”. When something has a varying degree of likelihood, that’s exactly what statistical means.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Grok Is Calling for a New Holocaust | The chatbot is also praising Hitler and attacking users with Jewish-sounding names. 1 month ago:
You literally don’t know what the word “statistical” means.
- Comment on Those posts for little home gadgets that show up on social media, kinda like "as seen on tv" stuff but since it's tiktok/insta and other such sites, what would those be called? 1 month ago:
I think we can call them astroturfed garbage.
- Comment on Poop In A Box 2 months ago:
There’s a VR game that I think has a flat port as well, called The Last Worker. You basically play The Last human working at an obvious Amazon analogue. It’s pretty entertaining.
- Comment on Why was file search much faster in Windows XP than in subsequent versions? 2 months ago:
8 was designed terribly, but the engineering was unbelievably good. It was more streamlined and stable than it had ever been, it was just skinned by a tablet-obsessed moron.
- Comment on What's the e-reader you would buy if you were in the market? 2 months ago:
As I understand it, Onyx Boox/Palma devices are great, but Onyx is a flagrant violator of GPL FWIW. For a full size reader I always recommend/second the Kobo Libra Colour and for a Palma replacement, the Bigme Hibreak is fantastic and also comes in color for a great price.
- Comment on Pick-ups from the Vancouver Retro Gaming Expo 2 months ago:
It really was brutal, but in the way that makes you very aware that it’s your fault for sucking at it.
- Comment on Pick-ups from the Vancouver Retro Gaming Expo 2 months ago:
I used to sing Sub Terrania’s praises long before it was cool. That game is a gem. The development team was a bunch of demoscene madmen who were able to wring miracles out of the Genesis.
Their later game, Red Zone, is a technological flex like nothing else.
