Croquette
@Croquette@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on 7,818 titles on Steam disclose generative AI usage, or 7% of Steam's total library of 114,126 games, up from ~1,000 titles in April 2024 14 hours ago:
With how many games are released on Steam, how can AI be quantified and enforced?
- Comment on ‘An uphill battle’: why are midlife men struggling to make – and keep – friends? 5 days ago:
I have had the same 15ish friends for more than 20 years and we live in different cities, a few hours away from each other.
We don’t see each other frequently because of the distance, but we usually spend weekends together and it feels like we have not missed a beat since the last time we saw each other.
I think it is natural to have more than 10 close friends, it is like having a small community, but modern life made it very hard to keep close friends like that. And it sucks.
- Comment on Founder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts sales 1 week ago:
We haven’t seen antitrust with teeths for a while now.
Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, Apple should have been broken up in a million little pieces a long time ago, but it won’t happen.
- Comment on Founder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts sales 1 week ago:
The goal is to lose money to capture the market and once it is done, to recoup their loss and bleed the market dry.
- Comment on Connor Myers: As if graduating weren’t daunting enough, now students like me face a jobs market devastated by AI 1 week ago:
It reeks of shitty boss. I’ve heard the same bullshit from old folks 20 years ago that couldn’t use their computers to save their live.
When everyone’s an asshole, the common factor is you.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I can’t get anything cheaper than that because it’s a price I got when the reseller started business and as long as I don’t switch, I get that price.
Good for you that you can get better, but coax still has its place until internet providers up their game, but I won’t hold my breath.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I still use coax because I buy internet from a reseller third party and this is what they have. I have 400/50 for 35$, which is a lot cheaper yhan the competitors. No reason for me to change.
- Comment on 'Xbox Hardware Is Dead,' Says Founding Team Member, 'It Looks Like Xbox Has No Desire — Or Literally Can't — Ship Hardware Anymore' - IGN 2 weeks ago:
I am a 4K PC little bitch, but playing games on my 1080p TV reminded me that it isn’t all that important. Fun > Smoothness > Graphics.
- Comment on 'Xbox Hardware Is Dead,' Says Founding Team Member, 'It Looks Like Xbox Has No Desire — Or Literally Can't — Ship Hardware Anymore' - IGN 2 weeks ago:
I think that xbox controller are the best controllers for PC, so I don’t need all the advanced features, but otherwise, you are right.
Their market is now clearly gamepass + Windows. Microsoft is banking on their market share to sell gamepass and capture the market.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates Meet for the First Time Ever 3 weeks ago:
I bet my hand to the fire that Bill Gates didn’t eat avocado toast and made coffee at home and that’s why he is a billionaire today.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates Meet for the First Time Ever 3 weeks ago:
And it is still true today. Windows has the lion share of the market because we were raised with Windows and the vast majority of people don’t want to learn a new OS.
- Comment on Nexus Mods Sale Sparks Concern in Modding Community 4 weeks ago:
A big corpo comes in and offer you a life changing amount of money. Very few people can say no to that, myself included.
- Comment on Nexus Mods Sale Sparks Concern in Modding Community 4 weeks ago:
Socialism is the means of production owned by the state or the workers.
Communism is a subset of socialism, where you have a classless society. Different communist doctrines have a different view on how to achieve that.
- Comment on Nexus Mods Sale Sparks Concern in Modding Community 4 weeks ago:
Capitalism created this expectation. That’s how corpos operate. Capture the market then bleed it.
- Comment on Amazon Doubles Prime Video Ads to 6 Minutes Per Hour 4 weeks ago:
Cable TV was originally paid for so that channels wouldn’t need to play ads to be profitable. We know how this ended.
Steaming services were originally paid for so that they wouldn’t have to run ads to nlbe profitable. And we’re almost back to where cable TV is. Soon, all plans will have ads no matter how premium is a plan.
Fuck that noise
- Comment on Half of companies planning to replace customer service with AI are reversing course 4 weeks ago:
The IT paradox : -“Why am I paying for IT? everything runs fine” -“Why am I paying for IT? nothing works”
- Comment on Half of companies planning to replace customer service with AI are reversing course 4 weeks ago:
Yeah but these pesky workers cut into profits because you have to pay them.
- Comment on Home cooking 5 weeks ago:
It looks more like its boiled chicken.
- Comment on Friendly reminder that Tailscale is VC-funded and driving towards IPO 5 weeks ago:
Thanks for the info, I appreciate it.
- Comment on Friendly reminder that Tailscale is VC-funded and driving towards IPO 5 weeks ago:
I am a newbie so I am not sure I understand correctly. Tell me if my understanding is good.
Your Pi-Hole act as your DNS, so the VPS use the pi-hole through the tunnel to check for the translation IP, as set through the DNS directive in the wg file. For example, my pi-hole is at 10.0.20.5, so the DNS will be that address.
On the local side, the pi-hole is the DNS for all the services on that subnet and each service automatically populate their host name on pi-hole. I can configure the DNS server in my router/firewall (OPNSense in my case)
So when I ping service.example.com, it goes through the VPS, which queries the pi-hole through the tunnel and translates the address to the local subnet IP if applicable.
So when I have the wg connection active and my pi-hole is the DNS, every web request will go through the pi-hole. If the IP address is inside the range of AllowedIPs, the connection will go through the tunnel to the service, otherwise, the connection will go through outside the wg tunnel.
Does that make sense?
- Comment on Friendly reminder that Tailscale is VC-funded and driving towards IPO 5 weeks ago:
How does WG work on the local side of the network? Do you need to connect each VM/CT to the wireguard instance?
I am currently setting up my home network again, and my VPS will tunnel through my home network and NPM will be run locally on the local VLAN for services and redirect from there.
I wonder if there is any advantage to run NPM on the VPS instead of locally?
- Comment on What are the benefits of a server having multiple public IP addresses? 5 weeks ago:
It is a lot simpler nowadays. Download Caddy, put a 2 line config and you are good to go.
- Comment on Zynga shuts down Torchlight 3 developer four years after its acquisition 1 month ago:
D4 is objectively a worst game than LE, I agree. But in my situation, when I play looter, I play D4 because I can get right in. I haven’t played this season, but in 2 mins I could be logged in and on my way to do what I like in D4.
D3 already had adventure mode, so the MMO argument is not valid. D4 iterated on that.
In D4, once you’ve unlocked everything in a realm (hardcore or softcore), the unlocks that matter (skill points, obols and paragon) are forever unlocked in or out of season. You don’t need to do renown unless you want the gp reward and the xp boost. It does not block your character to be at its strongest, unlike LE where I need all the totem slots and passive points in the campaign for each char.
I have 150ish hours in both, thoughI haven’t played LE in a while because I don’t have the will to go through the campaign again and the performance isn’t that great. Though it’s mostly because of the campaign. The performance is just another friction to add to that.
To get the skip in LE, I need to get to act 5, skip to act 9 and complete the quests for totems and passives. I need the keys for the dungeon skips as well.
You can start monoliths after your specialization, but you’ll be level 20ish for level 58 content. So you either twink (not possible on the first character of the season), need to know your build extremely well and still do the campaign rewards after that.
In D4, I create my char, jump in the game, do the introductory mission for the season event and play the game as I want.
LE game loop, just like PoE and D4, is what keep people coming in, and the LE get in the way of that for a lot of people. I play looters for the loot, as the genre implies, not the milquetoast story that I am forced to play.
D4 has got the mechanic right for that and other looters could iterate and benefit from the mechanic.
- Comment on Zynga shuts down Torchlight 3 developer four years after its acquisition 1 month ago:
The campaign is long for what it is. The time travel adds absolutely nothing to the gameplay.
- Comment on Zynga shuts down Torchlight 3 developer four years after its acquisition 1 month ago:
Let’s take D4. For all its flaw, you can start a character without having to re-find all the Lilith statues and nothing is locked behind the campaign.
You venture out in hell tides or do a few dungeons to unlock some legendary aspect right off the bat.
This is what I want with Last Epoch. The campaign is essential because it unlocks totem slots and passive points. Taking an hour and a half of content (probably more if you don’t have as much experience as you) I don’t want to do just so I can start playing my character as I want is not fun.
I only have an hour a night max, every few other nights, so these 2-3 hours to “start” a character is 2-3 nights for me.
When a new season start in D4, I name my character, assign my 10 skill points and go do whatever I want. It it takes a min and I’m started and I don’t need prior equipment to do so.
- Comment on Zynga shuts down Torchlight 3 developer four years after its acquisition 1 month ago:
I know that skip, but it’s not a real solution. Why is it a problem to let people enjoy the gameplay loop without forcing them to go through the pacing of the story?
- Comment on Does anyone use a phone without a protective case? 1 month ago:
I tried to use my phone without a cover, but it’s so thin that I don’t like the feeling. So I went back to my cover only for the added thickness.
- Comment on RuneScape studio Jagex confirms layoffs 'to reduce complexity, increase agility, and ensure we are fully focused on the areas that matter most' 1 month ago:
PR speak need to die and anyone caught using it should be shamed into oblivion.
- Comment on Zynga shuts down Torchlight 3 developer four years after its acquisition 1 month ago:
Last Epoch needs to let us skip the campaign once it has been done once.
I do not play these games for the dogshit story, I want to kill stuff and get new loot and the story gets in the way of that.
Same thing with PoE (haven’t tried PoE2). I don’t want to have to rush 5-6 hours on a new char just to get through the dog shit story.
Diablo 3 fixed that a decade ago. Shouldn’t be that fucking hard.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I totally agree with you then.