fartsparkles
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- Comment on Skyblivion - The Path to Release (Development Update) 2 days ago:
My guess it’s to test out what they’re building for TESVI by getting a smaller studio to test it out in something they’ve already got design docs and scripts for.
- Comment on Skyblivion - The Path to Release (Development Update) 3 days ago:
I’m sure Fallout London feel the same way too!
- Comment on Skyblivion - The Path to Release (Development Update) 3 days ago:
I completely agree with you! But I am worried they’ll get overshadowed by Bethesda/Microsoft’s marketing budget…
- Comment on Skyblivion - The Path to Release (Development Update) 3 days ago:
They’ve gotta push hard because the official Oblivion remake in Unreal is supposedly due out sometime in 2025.
- Comment on Every mosquito you kill with your hands makes them evolve to be better at avoiding you. 4 weeks ago:
Counter: you’re killing the ones that like the taste of a human and thus they’ll evolve to avoid humans.
- Comment on Anotha one 5 weeks ago:
What are the burned markings for?
- Comment on New Steam Controller 2 and VR controller designed got leaked 5 weeks ago:
I’m going to miss those concave trackpads from v1 but fuck yes, this is really happening!
- Comment on Bat Identification Guide (by @bedupolker.bsky.social ) 1 month ago:
You’re tearing me apart, Lisa!
- Comment on Opera labels every other browser 'f***ing boring' in an inexplicably sweary promo reel. Oh, and updates its gamer-focused Opera GX browser a little too 1 month ago:
Yeah, I find it boring when my browser doesn’t release predatory pay day loans apps to third world countries.
- Comment on What are your favorite 1000+ hour games? 1 month ago:
Story generators. Best kind of games, in my opinion. It’s truly amazing how the interconnection between numerous systems can result in totally unexpected and memorable experiences no scripted game could provide.
- Comment on Half-Life 2 peaks at 52,000 concurrent players, 20 years after its release 1 month ago:
Live service? More like dead service. Am I right, guys? I’ll see myself out.
- Comment on Half-Life 2 peaks at 52,000 concurrent players, 20 years after its release 1 month ago:
Pick up Black Mesa or see if there is a demo. It’s a fan-made remake made recently that might be easier on your eyes. Additionally, you can open up the developer console and enter:
sv_friction 6This the movement friction from the default of 4 to 6 to make the game less slidey.
The motion in HL1 is quite odd as you somewhat slide around rather than walk. It was quite normal back in the old days of Quake but if you’ve played mostly modern shooters, I can totally get how odd (and potentially motion sickness inducing) it is.
- Comment on You Pay For It, We Own It - Sony's $7.9B Lawsuit 1 month ago:
No no no, OP told us it’s been ages now so we’re in the “dogmatically apathetic” stage, right before “crywank”.
- Comment on Petition: Create a public consultation on freedom of speech and disinformation 1 month ago:
Why anyone would downvote this is beyond me. More than ever, we need to strengthen regulations across the board when it comes to knowingly spreading misinformation, failing to do due diligence if you’re in a position of power and spreading unverified information, privacy and right to be forgotten with AI, and so much more.
- Comment on These Guys Hacked AirPods to Give Their Grandmas Hearing Aids 1 month ago:
You can still use the hearing test feature by browsing this link on your Apple device:
- Comment on People born after 2000 have never seen the cosmic microwave background on their TV set. 1 month ago:
Sixth and Seventh Generation video game consoles were still using scart/composite/component outputs for CRT up until their discontinuation in 2017 so I’m pretty sure a lot of kids would have had a CRT to game on as well was watch TV in their rooms.
Remember, kids typically get the hand me downs when the adults get new shiny.
- Comment on Even Microsoft Notepad is getting AI text editing now 1 month ago:
Switching to Sublime Text as my default text editor everywhere was game changing.
- Comment on Star Citizen Expose Paints a Fairly Bleak Picture: 'There's No Actual Focus on Getting the Game Done' 2 months ago:
I’d gladly take a single functioning system rather than wait another 12 years of my life for this Kickstarter project to deliver.
- Comment on Star Citizen Expose Paints a Fairly Bleak Picture: 'There's No Actual Focus on Getting the Game Done' 2 months ago:
Next it’ll be 1000 star systems while we’re still waiting on Squadron 42.
- Comment on Someone Put Facial Recognition Tech onto Meta's Smart Glasses to Instantly Dox Strangers 2 months ago:
You okay?
- Comment on Someone Put Facial Recognition Tech onto Meta's Smart Glasses to Instantly Dox Strangers 2 months ago:
You’re not wrong. Research into models trained on racially balanced datasets has shown better recognition performance among with reduced biases. This was in limited and GAN generated faces so it still needs to be recreated with real-world data but it shows promise that balancing training data should reduce bias.
- Comment on Dezaemon 3D English Translation with N64DD Features | Retro Gaming News 24/7 2 months ago:
Nintendo Cease and Desist in 3… 2… 1…
- Comment on Starfield: Shattered Space - Official Launch Trailer 2 months ago:
I wonder if you have to complete the base game before you can do this expansion?
- Comment on Time Crisis Is Returning With A New AI Powered Gun That Works On Modern TVs | Retro Dodo 2 months ago:
Weirdly I’d say it was the other way around. Late 90s marketing used “AI” to inflate basic decision trees whereas “AI” in the context of this gun running an ANN model is a better application of the term. I’m old though; AI has been a buzzword since the 80s when every org wanted their own expert system (all pitched/marketing as “AI”). There was so much groundwork for these “AIs” that never really came to be - like the whole Semantic Web movement with RDF in the late 90s and ontologists in every major org. And now you can practically replicate that with few-shot.
I’m not suggesting we’re near Data, far from it, but that AI has been a buzz word for a lot longer than people have noticed. It’s just a lot of the technology is now commodity and in consumer products, so the average person gets marketed to also. I remember pitches about the C128 and big orgs like GM swinging around AI for things like “it’s got more RAM” and “we’re using a database”.
- Comment on Time Crisis Is Returning With A New AI Powered Gun That Works On Modern TVs | Retro Dodo 2 months ago:
Computer vision stuff has been labelled AI long before LLMs hit the scene and that’ll be what’s going on under the hood of this thing too. Sinden’s light gun required a big white to be drawn around the edge of the screen so that it could track the movement of the box to understand where the gun is being pointed. Which is pretty ugly and you still had to mess around with getting emulators set up to use it (thus the product was pretty niche).
If Dashine have got a model that can detect displays without the need for a border, that alone is epic. But also, by shipping a box with the gun so you can just play a game with no messing about, it’ll get better sales numbers and possibly reignite interest in light gun games outside of the emulator space. Naturally there’s no light gun games on Steam, PS5, Xbox stores right now so you need the gun on the market first before you can energize developers to ship games to them. So Dashine have been smart with this and might “trigger” a return of this genre to living rooms. Fingers crossed!
- Comment on Kaspersky deletes itself, installs UltraAV antivirus without warning. 3 months ago:
Let me guess, UltraAV whitelabels Kaspersky…
- Comment on Microsoft now allows you to reprogram the Windows Copilot key, but there's a catch 3 months ago:
Thank you! What a clickbaity title.
- Comment on Space noir roguelike Ostranauts is aiming for 1.0 in 2025, with help from Kitfox as publisher 3 months ago:
Neo Scavenger is such a gem of a game. I’ve been hoping Ostranauts would get since love since the premise is awesome but the textures/tiles were too low contrast / visually noisy for me to really love the game. This gives me hope.
Totally recommend picking up Neo Scavenger even not on sale - such a blast and some totally crazy things can happen in that game that makes it really compelling to play over and over even if you die.
- Comment on The Failed Migration of Academic Twitter 3 months ago:
Nonsense. If they were perfect, wouldn’t they have used a question mark? Your judgement of character is laughable.
(How was that?)
- Comment on Cancelled PS2 Game The Last Job Prototype Now Available For Download | Retro Gaming News 24/7 3 months ago:
Acclaim Studios Cheltenham was developing the game but it was cancelled due to the collapse of Acclaim and eventual bankruptcy.