Quazatron
@Quazatron@lemmy.world
A peace loving silly coffee-fueled humanoid carbon-based lifeform that likes #cinema #photography #linux #zxspectrum #retrogaming
- Comment on Which game have you been most patient for? 1 day ago:
Half-Life 3.
I’m still waiting, Gabe. No pressure. You do your thing.
- Comment on EA invents new microtransaction nightmare as it breaks paywall promise on Skate: rent a playable area for 24 hours or buy a premium pass, bucko 4 days ago:
I think of this practice as a tax on herds.
You want to belong in a trendy group, you board the hype train and pay the tax to belong in the herd.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 week ago:
It’s not hard. I loathe hard games, we used to have them in the 80s because, well, how much can you pack in 48 kilobytes? You had to kill the player over and over to get longer engagement time.
Nowadays, with the amount of storage we have available, it makes no sense to make the game hard unless you are targeting the
masochisticcompetitive crowd. You can use it to tell a good story, or pull the player into an immersive reality. - Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 week ago:
It depends on your tastes in games, of course. It’s quite linear, it’s got some puzzle element, some boss fighting, but what it makes it good is the storytelling. Good characters, lovely scenarios, compelling writing.
Feels a bit like Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice, or the Amnesia series: there’s a story there, and some gaming elements thrown in to keep you going. I’m quite liking it, I want to know what happens next.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 week ago:
A Plague Tale, Alien Breed, Hellslave. Quite the mix, huh?
- Comment on Advice on which retrogaming handheld I should buy? 1 week ago:
I already had a powerful computer with a great screen in my hand, so I bought a controller to attach to my phone. Works for me.
- Comment on Waymo raises massive $16 billion round at $126 billion valuation, plans expansion to 20+ cities 3 weeks ago:
I wonder how many people per year you can move with that amount of money applied to light rail.
- Comment on Day 568 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 weeks ago:
I always know it’s Halo when I look at the screenshot and take a moment to understand what the hell is supposed to be pictured.
- Comment on More memory-driven price rises - Raspberry Pi 3 weeks ago:
Small price to pay for people to have their funny memes and deep fakes.
- Comment on Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool — Project Genie crashes stocks. (A.K.A . Investors panic because they don't understand what "real" videogames are) 3 weeks ago:
Don’t follow me for advice, I know nothing about this stuff other than “line is down - buy, line is high - sell”
- Comment on Elon Musk Is Rolling xAI Into SpaceX—Creating the World’s Most Valuable Private Company 3 weeks ago:
This capitalism looks and smells a lot like good old USSR style communism.
- Comment on Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool — Project Genie crashes stocks. (A.K.A . Investors panic because they don't understand what "real" videogames are) 3 weeks ago:
Good. Time to buy.
- Comment on The world is trying to log off U.S. tech 3 weeks ago:
All his decisions can be reversed by the next president.
And then reversed by the next next president. Do you think this kind of trust violation blows over just like that?
The orange Cheeto threatened to annex a fucking European country. And nobody in the US told him otherwise. The Democrats seem to be too busy eating popcorn and waiting for elections.
- Comment on AI controls is coming to Firefox 3 weeks ago:
Can someone please put a responsible adult in charge of that damned organization?
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee" 3 weeks ago:
Yep, time to wipe my Epic account.
- Comment on Legal action over 'unfair' Steam game store prices given go ahead 3 weeks ago:
When you can’t compete, sue.
- Comment on What is immersion to you? 4 weeks ago:
I can get immersed in incredibly simple games, like Baba Is You. I have simple rules to follow and a world that conforms to those rules. I can tune out reality and immerse fully in the game.
The main thing is that I don’t need hi-res realistic 120 fps graphics for this to work, I don’t know if this is because the way my brain is wired or because I was raised in the 8 bit era and imagination was a significant part of that immersion.
- Comment on Cloudflare shows a massive drop in http traffic 5 weeks ago:
Well, good luck with that. :-)
- Comment on Cloudflare shows a massive drop in http traffic 5 weeks ago:
Whatever it was, it was temporary. Sorry to have wasted your time.
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- Comment on Day 553 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 5 weeks ago:
I bought the collection a few years ago and played nearly all the titles.
There’s something about these games that makes them feel “off” for me and I can’t quite put my finger on it.
I mean, there’s guns and aliens to shoot, huge buildings and large terrains to cross with cool vehicles. Yet, it never clicked with me. It feels like the games have no soul.
It’s a weird feeling that I could never explain properly.
- Comment on AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns 5 weeks ago:
Take all those billions and go unfuck Teams. Thank you.
– millions of office workers
- Comment on SOMA, off the backlog after nine years 5 weeks ago:
Yes, everything you like about the original is there. The storytelling, the philosophical undertones, the brain wracking puzzles. Except that everything is way larger, with much to explore, new gadgets to master and characters to interact. They dropped some of the stuff that annoyed me in the original, like the machine guns and mines.
The puzzle difficulty is spot on, so if you played the through the original you’ll find the first puzzles easy but then they ramp up.
I’ve finished the main story and now I’m going back to get the 100% stars, as one does. I’m sure I’ll buy the DLC for this one as well, as I did for the original. Its is that good.
- Comment on SOMA, off the backlog after nine years 5 weeks ago:
Soma may be my favorite Frictional game, even though I played nearly all the Amnesia series.
I think I’ll install it again after I’m done with Talos Principle II.
- Comment on I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows 1 month ago:
That will most likely never happen, so stop lying to yourself.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 month ago:
I’m finally playing The Talos Principle II. It has been in my waiting list for a long time. I’m a big fan of the original and I’m currently hooked on the sequel. It has everything I love about the first one, only in a much larger scale. The storytelling is spot on, the puzzle difficulty is tweaked to make it easy for beginners to get the hang of things but gets quite challenging later on even for hardened players. There’s lots of new artifacts and mechanics to learn and some of the old classics like the laser connectors.
If you loved Portal and Portal II, this is for you.
- Comment on Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public 1 month ago:
Bring back Geocities next.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
As they say in my county: “go and die far from here, so I can’t smell you”.
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney argues banning Twitter over its ability to AI-generate pornographic images of minors is just 'gatekeepers' attempting to 'censor all of their political opponents' 1 month ago:
On the other hand, all I have in my Epic account are the free games. I expect those cost his company money.
Even so, I feel dirty and will close my account. I can get the titles I really like in Gog or Steam.
- Comment on This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again 1 month ago:
Selling artificial intelligence to natural idiots.
