Adulated_Aspersion
@Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world
- Comment on [Digital Foundry] Oblivion Remastered PC: Impressive Remastering, Dire Performance Problems 23 hours ago:
People from the original title want to capture the essence of buggy Berhesda gaming for future generations!
How thoughtful!
- Comment on Trump, in blue, sleeping at Pope Francis' funeral 23 hours ago:
Do we have a video of this pose for like 30 seconds or anything?
Or is this like a mid-yawn capture?
- Comment on Sales of Hard Drives for the End of the World Boom Under Trump 3 days ago:
Precisely. Kiwix has a search and browse function. Just sort by file size to get the biggest groups of data.
- Comment on Sales of Hard Drives for the End of the World Boom Under Trump 3 days ago:
Replying to my own reply.
I keep a couple of thumb drives with both a Kiwix installer and a full backup of some select downloads.
- Comment on Sales of Hard Drives for the End of the World Boom Under Trump 4 days ago:
Kiwix.org
Download the App, and you can then download a full backup of Wikipedia, PHP Manuals, the “Survival Library”, Ted Talks, FEMA guides, etc.
- Comment on Microsoft starts final Windows Recall testing before rollout 1 week ago:
This exactly!
- Comment on 30 Years of PlayStation History Secured in Underground Vault with 650TB of Data | Retro Gaming News 24/7 3 weeks ago:
Lemme get that torrent seed. I will figure out the logistics of storage.
- Comment on I really need these games ported to Steam. What do y'all have on your lists? 3 weeks ago:
I was wanting Sony (or someone) to port at least Sly and Jak to PC
Same for me on infamous. Come on Sony.
- Comment on I really need these games ported to Steam. What do y'all have on your lists? 3 weeks ago:
Mercenaries / 2
- Comment on Yes, in the 1980s we downloaded games from the radio 3 weeks ago:
I updated the calendar function on my watch with a windows 3.1 program that flashed the screen black- and- white in an epileptic nightmare.
You put your watch into update mode, and then held the face towards the computer screen.
- Comment on YSK that a new internet/account bypass during Windows 11 installs already exists. Here is a 7 step guide. 4 weeks ago:
Install. Linux. Mint.
My sarcasm has less steps than this workaround. A linux install has less steps than that.
- Comment on I'm leaving the US for good, anything I should do before I leave? 4 weeks ago:
Yet
- Comment on Are old people usually attracted to other old people? 5 weeks ago:
There is a reason why retirement homes and nursing facilities are the #2 highest locations for STIs, behind college campuses.
- Comment on frenly warnin 5 weeks ago:
The swastika was also appropriated by the Nazis. In Indian cultures, it is a symbol of blessings and prosperity. You still won’t catch me sporting that shit anywhere.
- Comment on Your all-time favorite game? Let's discuss the best options! 5 weeks ago:
Come on, now…
- Grind to gather resources.
- Make a potion to fortify intelligence
- Male a potion to fortify alchemy
- Drink potions
- While potions are active, make another set of fortify intelligence and alchemy potions, which - as a result of your potion-enhanced intelligence and alchemy skill - now fortified even stronger and longer.
- Repeat steps 3 and 4 a few times to become the smartest god-like being around for an infinite amount of time.
Game-breaking, but I would absolutely do it in real life if I had the option. I want the brains!
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 show that the future of RPGs is in games way more ambitious, weird and unexpected than anything Bethesda and Bioware have to offer 1 month ago:
Completely agree. BioWare started it’s downward trend when it thought it could cash in on MMORPG billions by creating Star Wars: The Old Republic. Don’t get me wrong, Bioware made awesome games until ~2010. They were bought out by EA in 2007, and that is where we can clearly see that passion was lost. Good games still came out, but they weren’t great.
I will always hold a special spot in my heart for the Elder Scrolls. I’ve played since Daggerfall in the late 90s. I got into Fallout later, but went back and played the originals (except for tactics). A lot of people hate on Skyrim as being janky, but I was there for the original release. Did it have issues? Of course, and it still does. But this was 11 / 11 / 2011 we are talking about. Skyrim was doing things that no one in gaming was doing well, and they told a good story to boot.
The issue that I have with most studios is that they step away from the ideas of furthering or completing a story just because they can’t think of a new gimmic or mechanic to make it hugely profitable. They need those profits to justify the staggering wages paid to the CEO’s. Not to the writers, programmers, or artists.
So Bethesda lost a lot of love when they (like BioWare) attempted to cash in on MMORPGs with Fallout 76.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 show that the future of RPGs is in games way more ambitious, weird and unexpected than anything Bethesda and Bioware have to offer 1 month ago:
But BioWare games used to be the top tier gaming company standard for excellence. Bethesda used to release amazingly ambitious titles that were unmatched (albeit buggy!).
Greed outweighs the love of games.
- Comment on FuckYourHeadlights - A community for people to organise and vent about ridiculously bright lights 1 month ago:
The main issue I see comes from regular headlights being replaced with LEDs and other High-Intensity bulbs. Don’t get me wrong, Bubba with his lift kit is just redneck high-beams, but I get more frequent glare from someone in a Sentra who decided to put LEDs in her stock headlight assembly that wasn’t made for LEDs.
- Comment on FuckYourHeadlights - A community for people to organise and vent about ridiculously bright lights 1 month ago:
I disagree with this.
A mirror of the other hand…
- Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US? 1 month ago:
Plus, think about the logistics of that.
Goods produced in the US are categorically more expensive due to infrastructure, cost of living (and therefore wage expectations). If we could wave a magic wand to transplant an effective manufacturing facility from Pakistan and place it in rural Mississippi, hire Americans to do the work, and begin pumping out goods, the price to produce the goods would increase substantially.
Americans wouldn’t be able to afford American made goods, which is true even now. Many Americans try to buy American “when possible”, but cost quickly outweighs patriotism.
- Comment on Is this a c/ for making fun of conservatives? 2 months ago:
I remember how France dealt with some of their kings. Great kings. Some have even said the best kings.
- Comment on Only 22 countries have never been invaded by Britain 2 months ago:
I guess Britain’s attempt to restore order in the colonies that recently became the US doesn’t count?
- Comment on Google will use machine learning to estimate a user’s age 2 months ago:
GrapheneOS.
- Comment on GOG’s New Plan To Weaponize Its Community’s Wishlist Of Games To Pressure IP Holders 2 months ago:
You can literally request Nintendo IP there. Doesn’t mean that it will come true, but I requested literally all Mario amd Zelda games as soon as I found out.
There is no comparable equal to those titles on PC.
- Comment on Treyarch co-founder pleads guilty to grounding firefighting plane with drone during LA wildfires 2 months ago:
Well, this guilty person stood up, plead guilty, and accepted the sentencing.
That is the key difference. People who will never admit fault or guilt will invariably delay the end of the trial and resulting sentence.
- Comment on MIT builds swarms of tiny robotic insect drones that can fly 100 times longer than previous designs 2 months ago:
I’ve seen this episode of Black Mirror.