Quazatron

@Quazatron@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic Games is officially cool with the Internet Archive preserving early Unreal games⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I prefer to buy GOG when possible, Steam second. I even have some duplicated titles across vendors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic Games is officially cool with the Internet Archive preserving early Unreal games⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Excellent that they don’t engage in Nintendo level community hostility and at least let people who care about old games preserve them.

  Stream goes one step further and actively maintains their legacy games playable. That is commitment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is the Wii good?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Wii was the only console I ever bought. I prefer playing with keyboard and mouse, so consoles were never really my focus.

  I had a lot of fun with it, it had some amazing games that made good use of the controllers. It was a great family console that even older people or people that don’t usually play could use.

  It was also great at running old school emulators for other consoles (SNES, Genesis) after some tinkering.

  It also drove home my main hate regarding consoles: they are closed systems, owned not by you but by the manufacturer. The games were and still are expensive, unlike PCs where games get cheaper over time. They can also disable the servers providing services for your console (news channel, weather channel) when they feel like you should move on and buy their next console.

  So I won’t buy another console again, even if I still love my Wii, that I power on occasionally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 takes a break on updates until 2025 | Digital Trends⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You’d expect Microsoft to have figured out how to copy Linux update methods, we have a lot of them to choose from and some are actually decent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half-Life 2 peaks at 52,000 concurrent players, 20 years after its release⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I posted from Boost for Lemmy, but formatted nothing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half-Life 2 peaks at 52,000 concurrent players, 20 years after its release⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
  52001. Brb.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half-Life 2 is currently 100% for its 20th anniversary⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Both end songs are on my playlist, I love it when the randomize function picks them up. You could say it is a triumph.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half-Life 2 RTX | Half-Life 2 20th Anniversary Tribute Video⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m still playing this game today. Undoubtedly my favorite game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been playing Eldritch. Friggin frustrating game. Ok, just one more go.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why did Raspberry Pi make their own SSD?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I do. I use a Pi-Hole at home along with an adblocker, but I’m not always home.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why did Raspberry Pi make their own SSD?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m fine with hack-a-day. YouTube requires me to sit through some ads, watch a sometimes que long intro, cut to the sponsors, more rambling, finally a couple of seconds that answer the title question, and then the obligatory “like and subscribe”. Nah.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man-in-the-Middle PCB Unlocks HP Ink Cartridges⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Remember when HP made great printers? I still have an old HP Laserjet 1100 in use. When that one dies, I don’t think I’ll be buying any other printer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Let me be the first to say “meh”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An AI-powered copyright tool is taking down AI-generated Mario pictures⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Two can play that game. I bet it is possible to create an AI tool that generates and posts Mario pictures faster than they can take them down. Why you’d want to do that I don’t know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 51 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have too many Half-life games and mods installed and refuse to remove them to make room for other, larger, games.

  Now I will have to try the bucket%.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It genuinely upsets me that Valve spent their time and resources on another Dota variation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Some games give you a story that sticks with you and you love them for that (Half-Life, To The Moon, Bioshock Infinite). Some give you an experience that sticks with you but no story to speak of (like Doom and Doom II, which I still play).

  What I dislike is having to deal with people in my games. I already do that in reality, thank you very much.

  To me games are about escaping reality.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft formally deprecates the 39-year-old Windows Control Panel⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been doing that for years. I genuinely do not know how to fix Windows anymore. Took a while for my family and friends to accept since I “work with computers” but now they don’t automatically come to me when Windows breaks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What have you played this week?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Skyrim SE, yet again. At this point it feels like a second job.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good game soundtracks?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Portal / Portal 2

  “Science Is Fun” is a great track, as are the end songs “Still Alive” and “I Want You Gone”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Outer wilds: at what point should I give up?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I played it for like an hour or so, but it didn’t click either. I’ll give it another go one day, but there are just too many games in my backlog right now

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They scared now⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  All I know about British politics I learned from “Yes, Minister” and “Yes, Prime Minister”, so I know for sure nothing will change.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any games you're planning to pick up during the Steam and GOG sales?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re an inspiration to us all. Well done, sir!

  I on the other hand may have crossed the threshold where I have more games than time to live. I’d better get a move on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am inevitable.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not the cost. I’ve not pirated anything since Steam and GOG came along. It’s just that games nowadays want you to be online all the time, force you to open accounts you don’t want, try to sell you in game items (that’s a brilliant idea to get money from certain types of people, a bit like religion, do congratulations to whoever came up with that).

  I want games to be single player playable, offline, start to finish. I’ll buy expansion packs if the game is worth it. It’s it too much to ask?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hooooly shit! has anyone else played journey?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Some games you sometimes load just to hang around. This is one of those. Lovely game.

  I’d add Valley and Sable to this group.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Winamp has announced that it is opening up its source code to enable collaborative development of its legendary player for Windows⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, sorry, I always get them mixed up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Winamp has announced that it is opening up its source code to enable collaborative development of its legendary player for Windows⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Use Audacity. You can even load all the old Winamp skins.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Images leak of Valve's next game, and it's an Overwatch-style hero shooter⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hang on, that is a single player game? I now auto-discard AAA games up front because most of them are online multiplayer affairs with fancy in-game items to purchase and silly anti-cheat gimmicks that give Linux users a hard time.

  I might look into buying this one, then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your favourite era for video games?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Try the Brutal Doom mod if you haven’t already for an added dose of violence and gore. Combine it with mods like Eviternity for huge new maps and enemies. Enjoy!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your favourite era for video games?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My first machine was a ZX Spectrum.

  I love the 8 bit games I grew up with but I’m not stuck in that timeframe. I appreciate that I can still play all my old games and the new ones.

  I just wish I had more time to enjoy them.

  Excluding the 8 bit games, the games where I spent more time are: Doom, Half-life, Portal, Bioshock Infinite, Skyrim.

  If I had to choose one, it would be Doom. Such a simple game, so much brainless fun, so many great mods.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Autotune is just a "beauty mode" camera for your voice.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And so, as humanity reaches new peaks of digital audio fidelity, people decide to dumb down vocal audio quality.

  This is why we can’t have nice things.