stephenc
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- Comment on Is there something like F-droid, but for windows software? 1 year ago:
You can 100% use winget install [softwarename] if it doesn’t collide with another piece of software of the same name.
And throwing everything in a user directory causes tons of issues that I’ve seen when something is expected to be installed the way Windows needs it to be.
- Comment on Is there something like F-droid, but for windows software? 1 year ago:
And creates huge fucking issues by not using the actual installers and doing user installs in many, many instances. Winget just works, which was my entire point.
And I’ve seen little to no important FOSS projects that weren’t available from winget, which you’d know if you’d actually try it.
- Comment on Is there something like F-droid, but for windows software? 1 year ago:
How do people like scoop and chocolatey better than winget? Winget is thousands of times more reliable and useful to me.
- Comment on Capcom President Thinks Game Prices Are 'Too Low' - IGN 1 year ago:
Maybe you should stop spending millions on overblown graphics, motion capture, voice acting, and other bullshit and just make a game like you did in the old days then, Crapcom.
- Comment on A new smartphone again? Rethink unhealthy culture of frequent upgrades 1 year ago:
It’s actually planned obsolescence by phone companies pushing updates that artificially cripple our phones and making us believe that they are becoming worthless. Every single phone will slow down over time, even if you reset the whole thing to clear out whatever you’ve installed. Sure, you’re going to need a new phone eventually when software advances past the technical limits of your device, but that’s not what’s happening; nothing has changed that much since you bought your phone but suddenly your phone is slow and not working nearly as well and the only thing to “fix” it is to buy a new phone.
It’s all a scam to make us all carry around tracking devices and to spy on us. Phones are garbage and belong in the trash can.
- Comment on Idris Elba: Actors in video games like Phantom Liberty is 'sign of the times' 1 year ago:
It has negatively affected games for years by creating a world where “games” are style over substance trash that care more about gimmicks and story and other trash than the game itself. There is a very tiny pool of actual gaming left, but when you compare that to games back when games were, you know, actually games, when nearly every single game that came out was an actual game and not 5000 hours of boring, who the fuck cares story, gaming was better. That’s right, it was. And maybe, just maybe, if you go back in your gaming history and play actual games with actual effort made into making the game part fun and next to zero effort put on stupid, worthless, pointless, waste of time story, you’d understand this.
- Comment on Idris Elba: Actors in video games like Phantom Liberty is 'sign of the times' 1 year ago:
I swear, people use “gatekeeping” as a weasel word to mean “THIS KIND OF RATIONAL THOUGHT GOES AGAINST MY PROGRAMMED VIEW OF THE WORLD BOOOHOOO!” You don’t “gatekeep” videogames by saying gaming is about actual gaming and not some horrible amalgamation of a poorly done game and some failed writer’s self-insert fantasy power trip forced on people every five steps you make in a “game”.
Take a deep breath and re-think your position. Games aren’t meant to have overblown, intrusive stories. They suffer from them.
- Comment on Idris Elba: Actors in video games like Phantom Liberty is 'sign of the times' 1 year ago:
A “story” can happen around a character as long as it’s contained within the context of the game itself (show, don’t tell). But when you bring the game to a screeching halt and have a bunch of flapping mouths spouting exposition for hours on end, THAT DOES NOT BELONG IN A VIDEOGAME.
- Comment on Idris Elba: Actors in video games like Phantom Liberty is 'sign of the times' 1 year ago:
Why couldn’t they just make that story driven game into a book, or movie, or TV show? THREE TYPES OF MEDIA exists for story and people want to push that into videogames. How does that make any fucking sense?
I play games to PLAY A GAME, not have something “connect with [me] on a personal level”. Maybe you should re-think why you play videogames in the first place.
- Comment on Idris Elba: Actors in video games like Phantom Liberty is 'sign of the times' 1 year ago:
Games aren’t supposed to be films. Set up a setting where your game is taking place and a reason for you to do what you’re doing and then shut the fuck up. Original Doom. Old Mario games. So many classic, real games only care about the gameplay and not all this damn story that is a diversion these days from the actual gameplay. No wonder modern gaming is trash.
You want a game that’s a movie? Just make a damn movie. Problem solved. Get overblown, intrusive story trash out of videogames.
- Comment on How to Actually Clean Install Windows 11 1 year ago:
If you would do any searching regarding Pop!OS you would see tons of posts and articles saying that it hasn’t been updated in forever and it’s not just graphics drivers and such that need updating, it’s essential OS packages. You’re running the Windows 7 of Linux distros and spouting the same arguments as they do.
- Comment on VR still makes 40-70% of players want to throw up, and that's a huge problem for the companies behind it 1 year ago:
Putting a bunch of APIs together in such a way as to create an entire copyrighted OS inside of another one 100% should be. You want to make DirectX itself for Linux, fine. But don’t tell me you think putting it and a ton of other Windows libraries together – even ones made “clean” – to run an OS very closely to its target OS (and this isn’t emulation, it’s making your own version of an OS) is not a problem.
Like I said, making Wine and using it casually for a single person isn’t the real issue here. It’s concerning, yes, but when a single user is using it for their own purposes, I think there’s nothing huge to be concerned with. When a major gaming corporation is using it as part of their own software running under a piece of their own hardware for financial gain – really? You don’t see the issue? How has Microsoft not seriously put an end to this already? If Microsoft is giving their blessing to this, they are opening up all sorts of copyright infringement across the board for software of all kinds.
Maybe if your mind is tainted by “Free software is holy and can never be wrong”, you have this idea that it’s fine. Free software is fine on its own as long as it follows a set of ethical and legal rules. Wine is definitely not doing this by allowing Valve to take their fork and making it part of their Switch-like hardware. Valve is specifically going full on Linux to avoid paying Microsoft for the rights to Windows on their machine, and this is simply wrong, no matter how you look at it.
I cannot believe anyone sees me as in the wrong on this issue. Valve should have pushed harder for native Linux gaming, but they failed, so they should have given up. Instead, they decided to do the wrong thing with something that should have been stopped from day one.
- Comment on How to Actually Clean Install Windows 11 1 year ago:
I have yet to find a distro besides Fedora that is actually reliable and works well with everything with minimal tweaking. Ubuntu and its derivatives are horribly unstable and finicky and everything else has its own issues. Fedora just works.
- Comment on VR still makes 40-70% of players want to throw up, and that's a huge problem for the companies behind it 1 year ago:
Trolling? No. What part of my history makes you think that?
Wine (and by extension, Proton) is simulating a Windows install with no Microsoft license. How is this not a clear violation of Microsoft’s TOS? I can see if you are just using it personally how it can be a grey area, but VALVE IS USING IT PROFESSIONALLY, INCLUDED WITH THEIR INSTALL, FOR PROFIT. Microsoft should sue the fuck out of them.
If you think that’s a troll, you have issues with reality. You can’t just create your own version of Windows (even one like Wine) without repercussions. Get over yourself.
- Comment on How to Actually Clean Install Windows 11 1 year ago:
Yes, that.
- Comment on How to Actually Clean Install Windows 11 1 year ago:
Pop!OS is becoming more and more out of date and problematic. Honestly Fedora is the only version of Linux worth using these days (there’s some gamer variant of it I can never remember that’s probably fine too).
- Comment on VR still makes 40-70% of players want to throw up, and that's a huge problem for the companies behind it 1 year ago:
I can’t believe people are still on the VR gimmick train. 99% of what they want from VR is interactivity which can be done with a standard computer screen and the Wiimote-like controllers. Looking around with your head is neat-ish but is really the primary cause of the motion sickness and essentially cuts you off from the real world which can be incredibly dangerous as well.
Companies have tried to make VR a thing for decades now, and now that graphics and hardware technology have advanced, they’re doing a major push trying to make it an acceptable, “it’s everywhere now, so many people are using it” thing when it’s really not. It’s a niche device with a market share less than Linux or MacOS and yet they say those are too niche and insignificant to care about while praising VR. It’s time to give it up and accept that VR is a worthless gimmick, and if you want interactivity, find better ways to do so without making people sick and cutting them off from the world around them.
- Comment on Amazon To Start Running Ads In Prime Video Series & Movies, Will Launch Ad-Free Tier For Extra Fee 1 year ago:
Because it’s the right thing to do and those greedy shits make a fortune off of ads and don’t need our money and okay I know, I know, MORE MONEY. Greedy shits. I mean… wouldn’t the ads be more valuable if they knew more people were watching? Or something?
Look, I’m just trying to get us all free Disney+ here, okay? Help me out here. :)
- Comment on But my WiFi is just fine! 1 year ago:
Too old and achy to run snekbois all over the place any more (I used to), if wifi isn’t good enough, tough.
- Comment on Amazon To Start Running Ads In Prime Video Series & Movies, Will Launch Ad-Free Tier For Extra Fee 1 year ago:
Dear every single streaming service:
MAKE. THE. AD. TIER. FREE. FOR. EVERYONE. STUFF ALL THE ADS IN YOU WANT.
MAKE. THE. AD-FREE. TIER. PAID.
This way people can watch everything without having an elitist “I’M PAYING FOR ENTERTAINMENT” section of the world who are the only ones that can talk about all these new shows unless they sail the high seas with an eye patch on, which is yet another argument for MAKE THE AD TIER FREE FOR EVERYONE.
- Comment on RPG experts on why we love Baldur's Gate 3, and the future of the genre 1 year ago:
You don’t need a story-heavy should-be-a-TV-show-instead RPG to have persuasion and deception options for fights/encounters, you know.
- Comment on Terraria developer bashes Unity, donates $200k to open source alternatives 1 year ago:
Story for me in games should be one that sets up the reason you’re playing the game and that’s basically it. No endless dialog or narrative during the game. Small bits of things that can advance the plot is fine, but most games these days seem to talk endlessly about things.
Terraria has zero of that. You’re in the Terraria world and that’s it. No real story to tell besides what happens in the world (show, don’t tell). It’s fantastic.
- Comment on RPG experts on why we love Baldur's Gate 3, and the future of the genre 1 year ago:
It’s on Steam, just Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord, just like the original.
- Comment on RPG experts on why we love Baldur's Gate 3, and the future of the genre 1 year ago:
Amazes me how invested we are in “games” that are 99% story, 1% tedious gameplay and call “RPGs”. Meanwhile, a beautiful, awesome modern take on the original Wizardry dropped, a game that says “fuck story, fight through this dungeon for your goddamn life, have some real RPG mechanics instead of 500 pages of dialog every five seconds” and no one seems to care.
JRPGs ruined western CRPGs long ago and the original BG was one of the ones that did it.
- Comment on Terraria developer bashes Unity, donates $200k to open source alternatives 1 year ago:
One of the, if not the best games in the last 15+ years.
I’m not exaggerating. At all. I am not a fan of a vast majority of “popular” modern games and think gaming has been on the decline since the mid-90s. Terraria is the one shining, beautiful, wonderful spot in a massive pile of garbage “AAA” and “modern indie” titles that just gets gameplay right, with no gimmicks, no BS, no story, nothing but gameplay.
It’s one of my favorite games of all time. So all this makes me very happy.
- Comment on Monitor Alignment Alignment Chart 1 year ago:
Meetings are detrimental to my coding time. If they want me to sit around doing nothing for hours on end they should just tell me to do that instead of dragging me into a room with other people talking about how important they think they are. If they really want information about what I’m doing, email exists.
- Comment on Monitor Alignment Alignment Chart 1 year ago:
Ultimate Pure here with a single monitor. Because I know how to position windows and use such cutting edge modern features as RESIZING and ALT-TAB. Woo!
Multimonitor makes my neck hurt.
- Comment on Nintendo switch 2 akin to PS4/XBO power 1 year ago:
So stop playing games that are more graphics than gameplay. It is strange when Nintendo actually decides that graphics shouldn’t matter and releases a good, baseline system that has broad appeal with a lot of simpler games then suddenly they get scared that some ELITE GAMERS need ultramegasuperHD graphics and everything goes out the window.
It’s really pathetic. It’s what’s holding back PC gaming, the idea that its “top” games (style over substance trash) need $2000+ computers to run acceptably.
- Comment on Apple Maps will finally be getting offline downloads 1 year ago:
You could give an iOS user a current Android phone that has an iOS-like launch screen and an Apple logo on the back and tell them it’s the new iPhone with a whole bunch of new features.
I mean, why don’t we just do this anyway? iPhone is obsolete at this point.
- Comment on Statement from Linus Tech Tips about Madison's accusations 1 year ago:
Oh my fucking lord, who cares? Linus has always been a manipulative shitlord and a bastard hyping and doing whatever clickbait will make him millions of dollars this week. Unsubscribe from his manipulative trash and stop talking about him and let his scammy, garbage little YouTube enterprise die as it should have years ago.