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- Comment on Half-Life 2 peaks at 52,000 concurrent players, 20 years after its release 8 hours 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 8 hours 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 22 hours 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 2 days 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 2 days 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. 3 days 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 week 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' 4 weeks 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' 4 weeks 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 1 month ago:
You okay?
- Comment on Someone Put Facial Recognition Tech onto Meta's Smart Glasses to Instantly Dox Strangers 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Nintendo Cease and Desist in 3… 2… 1…
- Comment on Starfield: Shattered Space - Official Launch Trailer 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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. 1 month ago:
Let me guess, UltraAV whitelabels Kaspersky…
- Comment on Microsoft now allows you to reprogram the Windows Copilot key, but there's a catch 1 month 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 2 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 2 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 2 months ago:
Acclaim Studios Cheltenham was developing the game but it was cancelled due to the collapse of Acclaim and eventual bankruptcy.
- Comment on August 30th 2024. America adopts the metric system. Never forget. 2 months ago:
Unless you’re reaaaally small
- Comment on Tumblr to move its half a billion blogs to WordPress 2 months ago:
Fucking bring it to meee
- Comment on Remedy and Annapurna announce a strategic cooperation agreement on Control 2 2 months ago:
They could have gone Unix and not contributed upstream like PlayStation did.
Oculus was a device. Valve built SteamVR literally for the Rift (I had the original developer model and using Steam was pretty much essential). Valve also ensured that SteamVR supported other devices too when they came to market, levelling the playing field and enabling consumers to pick and choose hardware without having to buy games across multiple different marketplaces.
Valve pay their employees what they’re worth and share their success with them rather than devaluing them and extracting value from them. That’s pretty good going. And given how much they do with so few, it says a lot about their culture and ethic.
I don’t know about other gamers but I dislike EGS because it’s simply an inferior product and I vote with my wallet. If they offer me more value than a competitor, I’ll gladly use them. I use GOG, itch.io, and Xbox GamePass so it’s not like I’m averse to other platforms. I just don’t see why, if a game is on EGS and Steam (and not on GamePass), what value is there to me as a consumer with going with EGS?
- Comment on Remedy and Annapurna announce a strategic cooperation agreement on Control 2 2 months ago:
Yet consumers get more value from Steam as a platform where that 30% cut has helped fund a powerful gaming platform, remote game streaming, driven developers to release builds for macOS and Linux and license users for all platforms with a single purchase, an open source handheld gaming device, an input library that enables practically any input device to be used and for controls to be remapped even if the game doesn’t support it, the best VR headsets and room-scale VR, popularising VR and making it mainstream, contributing to upstream to further gaming on Linux, enabling DirectX games to execute natively on Linux, several of the most popular multiplayer games on the internet, enticed PlayStation to release games on PC, putting indie developers on a level playing field with the biggest studios, enabling developers to release games mid development to help them self fund the game’s development, support the modding scene, and so much more.
Epic may charge developers less but that doesn’t offer me, a consumer, any extra value.
Instead their platform and its lack of investment and innovation make the purchases I have made in their store feel less valuable and cumbersome as their competition increase the value of their offerings.
I’m not saying they’re the bad guys but the argument that developers get more money doesn’t really matter if that 30% cut is felt justified to consumers.
And with the upcoming untethered VR offering from Valve on the horizon, which will no doubt be powered by open source with their improvements upstreamed, that 30% cut feels even more justified when Linux becomes fully capable of VR thanks to my purchases.
- Comment on Do I need to store this in the fridge when opened? 2 months ago:
- Comment on Costs Less? When That Happened? 2 months ago:
This slogan was from the 90s (1993/94 maybe?).
- Comment on Samsung TVs will get 7 years of updates, starting with 2023 models 2 months ago:
Because it’s an internet enabled device running a fully fledged operating system that will have bugs and vulnerabilities that need to be fixed all the time.
- Comment on New Starfield free update added a ground vehicle 2 months ago:
Technically it’s Morrowind under the hood as they scrapped Daggerfall’s XnGine and licensed NetImmerse/Gamebryo for TESIII which they’ve been maintaining ever since (currently called Creation Engine).
- Comment on What is this plug on my wall for? 2 months ago:
Thanks Satan’s Maggoty Cum Fart !
- Comment on Paradox delay Prison Architect 2 and cancel preorders: "improving the performance has proven to be a task that will take time" 3 months ago:
This is what happens when you don’t have a passionately obsessed lead developer like Chris Delay behind the helm who writes a performant, purpose-built game engine from scratch.
I really worry that PA2 won’t have the magic of the original and be a typical Unity game engine project with slapped together code from a mixture of asset packs until it vaguely works.
