Cagi

@Cagi@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't we just gather up all the ocean's trash and all the nonrecyclables, put them in a rocket, and launch it into the sun?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just dig a hole in a subdusctoon zone and let tectonics reclaim the materials.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nine trillion dollar investment in 'Super-AI' isn't that much, says SoftBank CEO.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Almost 10 percent t of the entire planet’s GDP isn’t that much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whatever happened to racing games⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Racing in VR is such a great experience, I’d love to see more of it. Simulation and arcade style. But you’re right, we need one with a robust, slow paced progression system. I remember really enjoying unlocking everything in NFS Porsche Unleashed, going through the eras, starting slow but getting slowly faster. Then NFS Underground 2 came out and still stands alone as the best example of racing progression by a large margin. Then it’s like the gameplay design has been going further back in time since then. I am using the same simple progression mechanics in new racers that I used in Sega GT 2002, and they were old then.

  As to why, it feels like they don’t have AAA budgets anymore. The high quality simulator games like the Dirt series have to spend their whole wad getting the physics and performance right, there’s not much left for anything else, so it’s just menus and a simple money system. That’s just my guess, it could just be they need to hire a couple RPG designers among the gear head ones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Womp womp⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Evil grants don’t apply for themselves. YET.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Citizen Expose Paints a Fairly Bleak Picture: 'There's No Actual Focus on Getting the Game Done'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Its a genuine early access game. It’s no more a tech demo than any other. You can be wrong about a game you don’t play, refuse to try, and don’t know anything about all you want. An uninformed is less than valueless, a misinformed one is worth even less. We’ll keep having fun in it without you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Citizen Expose Paints a Fairly Bleak Picture: 'There's No Actual Focus on Getting the Game Done'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember that one hangar! Oh nostalgia. You should try it again there’s a game there now.

  They haven’t been saying two years away every since since 2016. It’s a running joke that they say it every year, but it’s not actually happening. That one in 2016 made everyone facepalm, even employees. Chris Robert’s is pathalogically optimistic about a lot of things, lol. Even in the Star Citizen community, we make fun of that sort of thing. We paid for Star Citizen early access, we have Star Citizen each access. If we get Squadron 42 as well, great! If not, it’s not that big a deal. Disappointing, but the world will go on.

  I think they believe their times when we say them. The scope of things said after the 2 years thing in 2016 increased by quite a bit when their funding had another boom. They aren’t intentional lies so much as just being wrong an feature creep making dust of previous plans. But they have a lot more to show now than they did before, it is being made in good faith. It’s just had a slow start to build the studio from nothing and a lot of budget increases.

  It’s definitely got a Duke Nukem Forever type problem. We will see a finished game one day, but the development has seen a lot of design changes partway through. We’ll see if we end up with a mess, but we will end up with something, I believe. And again, if not, it’s still just a videogame. We’ll live.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Citizen Expose Paints a Fairly Bleak Picture: 'There's No Actual Focus on Getting the Game Done'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t listen anyone here, positive or negative. Try the next free fly and see for yourself. Too many feelings for an honest answer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Citizen Expose Paints a Fairly Bleak Picture: 'There's No Actual Focus on Getting the Game Done'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Jesus, go touch grass dude. If you don’t like the toy I’m playing with, you don’t need to devote this much energy trying to tell me I’m wrong for enoying it or being excited for more. It’s a videogame. Who cares if it never comes out. I’m excited if it does, I’ve already got my money’s worth if it doesn’t. It’s not worth this much energy to defend or denigrate. So I’m done. Post your misinformed opinions all you want, just try Star Citizen with an open mind one day during a free fly. Let’s just play the games we like and ignore the others and be done with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Citizen Expose Paints a Fairly Bleak Picture: 'There's No Actual Focus on Getting the Game Done'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Everyone knows what they buy when they it. No one was tricked. People who play the game keep playing it because it’s fun. EA and Ubisoft investors are indeed shittung themselves, using the magazines they own to twist this into a story to fare because they aren’t getting paid, while happily taking the ad revenue your misinformed salt provides.

  People with opinions on Star Citizen but only know about it through the hive mind and shitty artices means nothing. Especially when they try to tell the people who actually play the game they are wrong about their own experiences because the hive mind says so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Citizen Expose Paints a Fairly Bleak Picture: 'There's No Actual Focus on Getting the Game Done'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why do you need to publicly hate a all? These people are enjoying a toy they aren’t supposed to so now everyone has to hear your feelings on it? Y’all are nuts. Ignore the game I you don’t like it like you do with every other game you don’t like.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Citizen Expose Paints a Fairly Bleak Picture: 'There's No Actual Focus on Getting the Game Done'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I postedthat video because it was the first one I found, it’s not a grand conspiracy to trick you. Watch the actual live one then, I don’t care. Still looks like a fun game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Citizen Expose Paints a Fairly Bleak Picture: 'There's No Actual Focus on Getting the Game Done'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol, one of us certainly has been lied to. Your Las post is blatantly false, your first is basedon how your guess about how AAA game design works. I’ll trust the many, many game devs who actually play the game and roll their eyes at comments like yours.

  I’ve actually played the game, bought it and have no regrets. Hundreds of hours, new friends, new experiences. You passively absorbed the groupthink. I don’t care if it ever finishes, I’ve gotten more than enough fun per dollar out this game already. Cry about it if you want, just do it quietly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Citizen Expose Paints a Fairly Bleak Picture: 'There's No Actual Focus on Getting the Game Done'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh but you don’t understand, this game is taking a long time to finish. That’s totally worth aaaaallll these circle jerk posts and vitriolic responses. It’s like ten holocaust wrapped in a 9/11. Everyone has to know how much they hate Star Citizen. They hate other games too, but this one feels good to hate loudly and publicly beyond any other game, so it must be true. It’s not weird at all to bully people for having fun because the internet says their game is taking a long time. The fact that riling people up by spreading misinformation makes tabloids money is not relevant to the situation. The people playing the game are wrong about their own experiences. The internet can never be wrong, the hive mind is always correct.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Citizen Expose Paints a Fairly Bleak Picture: 'There's No Actual Focus on Getting the Game Done'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So? A bunch a rich people voluntarily funding game development isn’t some moral failing. I paid $45 and have access to all the same content as whales. If someone⁰ stupidly spends their life savings on pretend spaceships and regrets it, it’s not on Star Citizen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Citizen Expose Paints a Fairly Bleak Picture: 'There's No Actual Focus on Getting the Game Done'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not, I’m calling them capitalist run businesses, which they are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Citizen Expose Paints a Fairly Bleak Picture: 'There's No Actual Focus on Getting the Game Done'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Everything that challenges my feelings is a lie!”

  You sound like MAGAs discussing immigration under a Fox News post. Circle jerk of hate based on misinformation, but trying to talk reason to people who love to hate the thing they hate and don’t want to stop is not going to work. Keep on believing gaming journalists from disreputable tabloids who invent controversy for clicks. The engagement on Star Citizen hate posts is massive compared to others. Hating Star Citizen is directly more profitable for these sites. There is no oversight on truthfulness in gaming news.

  No, it’s not an FPS. It’s 99% a space sim like Wing Commander with a few FPS parts. It is a full AAA game, maximum fidelity, 30-40 hour campaign. You don’t even know what you’re talking about. You could a tally watch the video you have so many opinions about, but oh that’s right, it’s a conspiracy if it’s good.

  Not released? I have hundreds of hours in Star Citizen and have enjoyed them all. That’s not very much compared to many, many others. They are growing in players and revenue for 10 years. That doesn’t happen to bad games. They release massive updates every quarter. They just bought a new campus in Manchester so they can hire more devs, on top of the existing thousand. It’s a genuinely fun game, right now, enjoyed by many. You don’t have to be one of them, but your tinfoil hat nonsense is just vitriolic skepticism from reading these tabloids, not critical thinking.

  We’re out there, flying around, having a great time wanting y’all to join our space shenanigans. Just try it the next free-fly with an open mind. Even if you tried it before, try it now, it is improving every quarter, it’s a different beast now than a few years ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Citizen Expose Paints a Fairly Bleak Picture: 'There's No Actual Focus on Getting the Game Done'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Squadron 42 is feature complete and is in optimization and polish phase. 30-40 hour campaign. It looks amazing. youtu.be/1H-0x4xk2Xk?si=Q3SmA_skltVVUkiy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's been 30 years and I still can't get over the fact that the French word for "potatoes" is "ground apples." Have The French never had an apple?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, it’s like how apple juice is jus de pomme.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wagon Train to the Stars⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In cowboy times they went to Fairhaven, Ireland.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨France to transfer up to 20 Mirage 2000 jets to Ukraine in 2025, media says⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have flown these before, let me in coach! en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EF2000_(video_game)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some online conspiracy-spreaders don’t even believe the lies they’re spewing, researcher says⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like a lot of rank and file conspiracy theorists just want to feel smart and special. When they disagree with facts it’s because that makes them feel smarter than all the experts despite being wrong and much dumber. It’s a way to feel smart without putting in any work. A way to feel better about their wasted lives.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I plug this in? Old Black & Decker Hedge Trimmer.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I did a Google search for “power tool extension cord” and got some results that look like they’re made to fit the plug on your tool.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨End nuclear fusion!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Mylar balloons should be outlawed. They get sent free and land on power lines WAY too often. Over a thousand mylar balloons caused power outages are recorded in just Southern California alone in a typical year. The cost of repairing the damage might even exceed the revenue of mylar balloon sales.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisofts stock tanked this morning ahead of the markets opening⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And never good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Empires fall⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Look upon my works and despair.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's coming! :(⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  IE was had a near monopoly on browsing for a long time after Netscape Navigator enshittified (the true first door).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would it be weird if I took something my neighbor put out for trash?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a well established tradition of hand-me-down furniture being put out in alleys in East Vancouver. When you move and have no furniture, you can just tour the alleys and come away with a coffee table and a sofa or a couple of chairs. Did it a few times. You gotta know how to check for bed bugs though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I think Sims is a dead franchise now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Relative to its time, yes, but Sims 3 is peak Sims. It improved on 2 in every way, but the thing they did the best and left out of 4 was the create a style tool, which allows you to make any surface any texture and colour like. You could have a wooden sweater and metal carpet. No limits. You could make uncanny replicas of most homes, furnishings and all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jedi Survivor could have been great⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t played the second one, but in the first you were never not aware you are in a videogame. It was a nonsensical labyrinth of gimmicks. It is a 3D metroidvania, almost. It really sucked the life out of the story so I’m in no rush to play the sequel. I’ll be bored and it’ll be on sale one day and I’ll try it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indestructible quartz crystal can store 360TB of data for billions of years⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Nice. We need something like this. Digital archiving is still best done on magnetic tape as disk and flash drives all fail after a few decades. But even for regular users, it’d be nice to keep a digital copy of family photos that lasts forever.