FooBarrington
@FooBarrington@lemmy.world
- Comment on A shit situation 1 day ago:
Oh, you call your aunt that too?
- Comment on meow 3 days ago:
Meow!
- Comment on BeyBlades Made Ever More Dangerous With 3D Printing 3 days ago:
When I was a child in kindergarten, one time we managed to make two beyblades produce a spark. To this day, that’s one of my proudest moments.
- Comment on Nvidia's latest DLSS revision reduces VRAM usage by 20% for upscaling — optimizations reduce overhead of more powerful transformer model 5 days ago:
No?! Have you read the title of this post?
- Comment on What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes? 5 days ago:
It pissed me off when I went through the intro cutscene, and after jumping into the helicopter blades, it started the whole cutscene again.
- Comment on Nvidia's latest DLSS revision reduces VRAM usage by 20% for upscaling — optimizations reduce overhead of more powerful transformer model 5 days ago:
What? No. If DLSS requires less memory, you can use more memory for other things.
- Comment on Nvidia's latest DLSS revision reduces VRAM usage by 20% for upscaling — optimizations reduce overhead of more powerful transformer model 5 days ago:
Less VRAM usage means you can use higher-quality models and textures.
- Comment on Signatures skyrocket for Stop Killing Games campaign after big youtubers take up the cause, resulting in 100k signatures in 2 days. (Details on how to help in text body of post) 6 days ago:
But that’s what’s happening, games like AC2 are being taken from people.
How the hell were people supposed to know that the game would be taken from them when they bought it? You are aware that clear communication on that issue is literally one of the objectives of Stop Killing Games?
Have you done any thinking & reflection on the campaign?
- Comment on Signatures skyrocket for Stop Killing Games campaign after big youtubers take up the cause, resulting in 100k signatures in 2 days. (Details on how to help in text body of post) 6 days ago:
First, how the hell did you get that from what I wrote?
Second, do you really think art is this replaceable? “Oh, we don’t need old movies and music, we have better ones now, so let’s just take away the copies people have already bought”? What a sad way to look at art.
- Comment on You got it, buddy 1 week ago:
Ask someone what “Caniformia” is and most would probably think you’re talking about some region on the US West Coast.
You’re obviously talking about noobs who aren’t watching TierZoo 😎
- Comment on Signatures skyrocket for Stop Killing Games campaign after big youtubers take up the cause, resulting in 100k signatures in 2 days. (Details on how to help in text body of post) 1 week ago:
Because it’s a massive time and money investment, because the market and gaming landscape has changed, because mechanics and approaches can be patented, …
It’s a game with a story. You can’t just create a literal copy of that story since it connects to the story of the games before and after it. Come on, this isn’t hard to understand.
- Comment on Why was file search much faster in Windows XP than in subsequent versions? 1 week ago:
It’s fairly common knowledge that SSDs outperform HDDs in both sequential and random reads, and while the file size & number of files have an impact, it doesn’t negate this difference.
A quick search confirmed that SSDs perform better in your scenario than HDDs. I don’t care enough to spend time finding proper references, because again - this is simply common knowledge.
- Comment on Why was file search much faster in Windows XP than in subsequent versions? 1 week ago:
Of course SSDs are still much faster reading massive amounts of tiny files than HDDs are. Obviously random read speeds are much, much better, but even sequential reads of tiny files are a lot faster.
If you disagree, please provide numbers or references.
- Comment on Signatures skyrocket for Stop Killing Games campaign after big youtubers take up the cause, resulting in 100k signatures in 2 days. (Details on how to help in text body of post) 1 week ago:
Of course it’s ridiculous and untrue. You can’t “just” develop a game like Assassins Creed 2.
- Comment on Why was file search much faster in Windows XP than in subsequent versions? 1 week ago:
Yet HDDs were also much slower than SSDs
- Comment on Maybe just stop at "GOAT", Anthropic... 1 week ago:
- Comment on Most soups are just more watery hot bread dips 1 week ago:
Soups would be great if they weren’t so wet
- Comment on Signatures skyrocket for Stop Killing Games campaign after big youtubers take up the cause, resulting in 100k signatures in 2 days. (Details on how to help in text body of post) 1 week ago:
I’m not aware of really any small developers pulling stunts like Ubisoft is doing. And there’s always the option to limit new laws to bigger publishers, like the EU is doing with the DMA.
The art argument is not nonsense, not sure where you get the idea. Games like Assassin’s Creed 2 have influenced many people in their design choices for their own games.
And of course there’s something wrong when a company takes away access to singleplayer games you bought, just because they use always-online DRM and don’t want to pay for the servers. These games don’t take away space from new games, it’s a ridiculous idea that them dying off is improving the situation for new games. It’s also ridiculous to think “hey, someone can just develop a game like the old one!”.
- Comment on Signatures skyrocket for Stop Killing Games campaign after big youtubers take up the cause, resulting in 100k signatures in 2 days. (Details on how to help in text body of post) 1 week ago:
How is it selfishness to want to keep the product you bought? To preserve things that contribute to art and culture?
- Comment on Microsoft is moving antivirus providers out of the Windows kernel 1 week ago:
AFAIK the Crowdstrike issue wasn’t a driver update, just virus definitions outside the driver, so your method wouldn’t have helped.
- Comment on Hytale, once touted as the Minecraft killer, is ceasing development 1 week ago:
Thanks for the recommendation! I’m specifically looking for a text guide that outlines the tech progression - doesn’t have to be in-depth, just a rough “first get this kind of thing, then this one”.
These kinds of games tend to be a bit opaque for me, having such a guide would allow me to read up on things when I can’t progress myself. Do you happen to know one?
- Comment on New Nuclear Throne beta build adds 60/120FPS support and quality of life features 1 week ago:
Yeah, quite the surprise. They really fucked up with the previous-to-last update and left the game broken way longer than acceptable, but it’s nice that they’re improving things a bit now.
- Comment on Hytale, once touted as the Minecraft killer, is ceasing development 1 week ago:
Is there a good overview of the progression somewhere? I vaguely remember buying it a while ago, but couldn’t really get into it.
- Comment on A cuppa Jill 2 weeks ago:
Fourteen is a terrible nickname for water
- Comment on Nier creator Yoko Taro reveals the sad reality of modern AAA game development, “there’s less weird people making games” 2 weeks ago:
Not sure what you mean - “Mario and Princess Beach” is obviously peak cinema
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
There’s really no way to do this without making the whole driver source-available, as there’s no way to update it to a new Kernel without full source access. That’d be great, but the manufacturers will fight tooth-and-nail against that, especially since the drivers can contain trade secrets.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
The APIs are part of the Linux Kernel, so you’d be forcing the Kernel to completely change their development policy of internal breakages being allowed. That’s a no-go.
- Comment on Attention moderators and admins! Risk of "zombie" communities on remote instances (and how to avoid) 2 weeks ago:
Can you… can you literally not read?
But if you can’t read, how did you read the quoted part?
Please explain how you simultaneously can and cannot read.
- Comment on Elden Ring Nightreign's new "enhanced" boss fights have leaked early, thanks to nosy modders 3 weeks ago:
Again, please be explicit. Do you think the mod was created & uploaded by FromSoft?
- Comment on Elden Ring Nightreign's new "enhanced" boss fights have leaked early, thanks to nosy modders 3 weeks ago:
What exactly is your implication here? That FromSoft created & uploaded that mod by themselves, or what?
