dubyakay
@dubyakay@lemmy.ca
- Comment on The aws outage is so funny, I can see which companies are amazon scums. 14 hours ago:
Also allow things fail gracefully, independent of each other.
- Comment on "United States" in French (États-Unis) would have made a very confusing acronym 23 hours ago:
Because no one can say Magyarország, and it’s easier to make fun of being Hungary for Turkey.
- Comment on Windows 11 Debloat Script/Program? 3 days ago:
Not yet anyway!
Time to ditch that mouse. Don’t let it be your excuse for staying a hostage.
- Comment on Windows 11 Debloat Script/Program? 3 days ago:
Naga X is among the supported devices. You just searches for Razor instead of Razer, most likely.
- Comment on Japanese Government Calls on Sora 2 Maker OpenAI to Refrain From Copyright Infringement, Says Characters From Manga and Anime Are 'Irreplaceable Treasures' That Japan Boasts to the World 5 days ago:
Are we talking about pages like webmd?
- Comment on oh no! reddit gives up on totally not NFTs! 5 days ago:
If you are using Voyager or similar clients, they are not visible.
- Comment on 4chan fined $26K for refusing to assess risks under UK Online Safety Act 1 week ago:
Maybe UK payments processors should bar purchases of 4chan passes then.
- Comment on Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how? 1 week ago:
Forgot to mention, back then we would optimize fps for refresh rate. 120Hz CRT monitors with 120 fps constant was the sweet spot for a while (until people started playing in multitudes of 60 fps on LED-based displays). It’s entirely possible that if your fps is not optimal, you can’t clear larger gaps or gain as much momentum in QW/Q3/CPMA or similar.
I’ve never played HLDM or CS, so I’m not that familiar with derivatives in those games.
- Comment on Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how? 1 week ago:
Quake / Quake World was really the epitome of “not how it was intended to be played”. It introduced zigzag, wallhug and bunny jump through some clever exploitation of game mechanics, and completely changed its game play plus that of future fps games of the time. And people would just come up with stupid maps where you could do fps-parkour. I often did it myself for hours on end, just jumping around a map alone or with friends while chatting or listening to music.
A very short demo of how crazy it could get, speed indicator top right. 320 was the default movement speed.
- Comment on In bizarre move, Framework embraces deeply extremist views 1 week ago:
Manipulative article and you can already see the kneejerk reactions in the comments.
- Comment on Great games you would recommend from before 1990? 1 week ago:
I’ve seen someone else mention these, but I have to recommend then as well:
Maniac Mansion (1987). It’s the first SCUMM (Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion) engine game that all its successors use (Indy 3 & 4, Monkey Island, Sam and Max Hit The Road, etc). Really hard game play from what I can remember, and it has a sequel too, Day of the Tentacle (1993), which is absolutely hilarious.
Laser Squad (1988) was among my favourites growing up, they are the precursor to UFO/XCOM (the original from 1993).
Elite (1984), a technological marvel for its time. It’s still playable today, and if you liked any of the other space exploration / trader / miner games (E:D, Star Citizen, X4, Freelancer, etc) you will love this.
King’s Bounty (1990). I could have sworn this was from earlier. No matter. It’s the precursor to Heroes of Might and Magic.
Spy vs Spy (1984). Really fun split screen couch pvp. You set traps in a house with doors everywhere in various places that you hope your opponent will forget about while also hunting the other one and beating each other in a brawl. It can get hilariously complex. But needs another player as there’s no AI from what I can recall.
Creatures (1990). It’s a platformer where you control a cute bear trying to rescue other cute bears from evil potatoes and mushrooms and birds. And that’s where the cuteness ends. Every platformer level finishes in a so called torture level where the cute beat to be rescued undergoes some crazy mutilation by chainsaw, sharks, acid. Has a sequel, Creatures II (1992) and a spin-off (kinda), Mayhem in Monsterland (1993).
Summer Camp (1990). Another platformer, story driven with fun mini games. Has a sequel, Winter Camp (1992).
- Comment on Logitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15 - Ars Technica 1 week ago:
Ploopy time!
- Comment on Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses 1 week ago:
I get it. Pomme bad. Why does this even need to be an “app”? Is it just a wrapper for a website?
- Comment on kurzgesagt – AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel 1 week ago:
world no thank you
- Comment on kurzgesagt – AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel 1 week ago:
While not wrong, this is now quite a bit dated. Kurzgesagt acknowledged being called out for it and addressed it via various channels. One of them here:
- Comment on One iPhone led police to gang who sent 40,000 snatched phones to China 1 week ago:
British Bong Cooperative
- Comment on Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without an online account 2 weeks ago:
What classes require windows? You can run most things in Linux. And for the cases where my classes had instructions on how to set up something on Windows, for Linux and MacOS they just had a foot note saying “You are on your own”.
- Comment on Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without an online account 2 weeks ago:
How would they force that on IoT installs? You think people would be happy to have online-only creds set up on kiosks, terminals and parking meters?
- Comment on Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without an online account 2 weeks ago:
My work offers alternatives.
But even if, my work laptop is just something I remote on from my desktop and switch around seemlessly.
- Comment on Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without an online account 2 weeks ago:
Win2k?
- Comment on I'm looking for a particular community in Lemmy. It's kind of like ask Lemmy, But with really bad responses. It's more of a joke community. I've seen it in the past but can't find it 2 weeks ago:
It’s also just that idiot repost bot taking posts from other instances.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
There’s no reason to upgrade from a 3080 currently.
- Comment on Shortly After Xbox Game Pass Prices Spiked, the Page to Cancel Game Pass Subscriptions Was Overwhelmed 2 weeks ago:
If you have a backlog of games that you have bought, why do you need an online subscription for them? Or am I misunderstanding something?
- Comment on Can you please help me pick a gaming desktop for my son that can run Monster Hunter Wilds? 2 weeks ago:
What about Sunshine/Moonlight instead? Assuming they have a good PC themselves.
- Comment on Former BioWare lead writer reads the runes on EA-Saudi deal and speculates that 'guns and football' are in, 'gay stuff' is out, and the venerable RPG studio may be for the chop 2 weeks ago:
They will just become packers at Amazon.
- Comment on Former BioWare lead writer reads the runes on EA-Saudi deal and speculates that 'guns and football' are in, 'gay stuff' is out, and the venerable RPG studio may be for the chop 2 weeks ago:
canon
Doubt.
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 2 weeks ago:
You lose all the ear-vitamins that way.
- Comment on Fear not, and enjoy this mere interlude to its fullest! 2 weeks ago:
The universe ending is not actually fact. It’s just a theory.
- Comment on Israel Knesset panel advances bill to execute Palestinian prisoners 3 weeks ago:
Except it’s illegal to prove your Jewishness based on genetics in Israel. DNA tests are highly regulated and only medical and/or court order approved.
Probably because it’d reveal that Palestinians are just as semites as the Jews that lived in these lands before.
- Comment on OK what is your Roman name? 3 weeks ago:
This is some soylent green stuff lol.
I’m guessing you eat these as a way to not be really bothered with eating meals?