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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨France will replace Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Zoom, Webex and others with its own sovereign video conferencing application "Visio" for public officials⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Note, as far as I can tell from thos announcement, this does not cover all French public officials. There are 3 groups of them in France, state, local and health. This is specifically about state administration.

  Local administrations could follow national recommendations, but it would ultimately be in the hands of locally elected representatives.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meet ‘Amelia’: the AI-generated British schoolgirl who is a far-right social media star⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  That “guy” was not yet censored everywhere when I looked at their history. Every post was the same ad for yet another crypto con.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meet ‘Amelia’: the AI-generated British schoolgirl who is a far-right social media star⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I was wondering a bit about this too, what about usual obsession with dangerous blue haired feminazi. Though maybe that’s more of a US thing.

  Maybe it’s because of that too :

  The origins of the character are ironic, to say they least. An early iteration of Amelia began life in a counter-extremism video game

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meet ‘Amelia’: the AI-generated British schoolgirl who is a far-right social media star⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  If you are unfamiliar with Amelia, the chances are you will soon encounter one viral meme or another inspired by her on Facebook or X

  …no. that is not likely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Fable game removes feature core to franchise's DNA⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure, but I certainly don’t get “it’s there” from “there is something else instead that feels completely different from the original design”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Fable game removes feature core to franchise's DNA⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, if I get what they’re doing this time, it’s different.

  Heroes in Fable are driven by narrative forces, they are supposed to be literally heroes of a fable. Morality in these games is not reputation, it’s not supposed to be realistic, it’s like a natural law of the world. And, along with a few other character development traits, morality changes your character physically.

  You can even “boost” your evilness with stuff like eating live chicks. Nobody witnesses you doing that.

  There’s a whole shtick in Fable that sets it apart from most RPGs, in that, Fable never even pretends you’re a character among others. You’re one of 5 or so heroes destined to shape the story, and the rules applying to you are just different from everyone else.

  It sounds like this time, they’re going for something a lot more classic, i.e. scoring how people feel about your choices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Moder games with Abuse-like controls scheme?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve played it long ago. Doesn’t it end on a cliffhanger of sort? Or am I confusing it with something else?

  I kinda remember being annoyed with the state the plot was left in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Arknights Endfield disables Paypal payments after players report unauthorised transactions | GosuGamers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Microtransactions, and gacha in particular, are a plague. I don’t expect this terrible mess will have any significant negative impact for the game publisher, but if it does, good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 551 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The travel ticket thing

  That’s the one, the thing that let you go to random deserted islands, usually for materials. It was just never meant to be printed en masse and hoarded like capital.

  I think the idea of needing an economy between players in AC is a bit ridiculous too anyway. My only “trades” with other players, of you could call them that, were stuff like “you can go pick some of my extra blue roses, and please get me that cool red godzilla variant from your town”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 551 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  NH tends to be “softer” in general, and I do regret some choices too, includong that one a bit, but I think it would have been a lot harder to maintain to go back to all those little choices and put toggles on them. Especially with all the complaints around everything that was “wrong” back around NH’s debut (with people arguing a lot about how wrong it was).

  There have been a lot of QoL added to updates, which makes me think they did hear some of the most common annoyances people had, but if you weren’t there around the first months, you can’t imagine the level of drama going on.

  Including stuff that were only problems because of people making up their own rules and getting upset when it was not streamlined enough.

  I don’t hear a lot about that anymore, but there was a lot of people trying for a better online player economy (…yeah, not sure why). Their problem was the most common currency, bells, was too easy to cheese/get through cheating. So they turned to another “currency”, the Nook Miles Ticket. Since you get it from miles, and miles are rewarded for actually imteracting with the game a lot, it felt more “valuable” to them (hell, they put proof of work into freaking Animal Crossing).

  Since normally tickets have only one purpose on-game and that’s visiting a singular mystery island, the miles redeeming machine only gives one ticket at a time with a fairly long interaction. For normal use, it’s completely fine. But of course people wanting to use them as money complained s lot about how long it is to spit out a hundred “NMTs”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 551 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the things that don’t exist anymore in NH but was still a thing in NL is villagers can move in and most importantly out without you noticing, because you can only convince them to stay if you catch them the day they decide to move.

  In NH they’re basically stuck with you forever until they tell you they consider moving, and then you can tell them not too. And you can also try to choose a new villager by meeting random ones on desert islands (though you can still just leave it completely to chance too). Depending on who you ask, some prefer the bit of simulated independence, others can’t stand the idea of their “dream villager” leaving if they missed the day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It was certainly pushed on many PCs that had no business trying to run it, especially laptops. But honestly I’ve used both and even on a computer that could run it, I didn’t see anything that justified how much more resources it required.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d say XP was decent for its time, and 7 was kind of a sweet spot of the NT branch too. 9x tended to become unstable (especially 95, and I’ve heard Millenium Edition was awful but I never had it).

  Vista, 8, everything since 10, all terrible. Especially since Microsoft has started to push for cloud, AI, live services, automatic translation, total disregard for user settings…

  Yeah.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta has discontinued its metaverse for work, too⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a quest. I still hate meta.

  My next headset won’t be from them, and I can’t wait for them to realize they don’t give a fuck about VR anymore and abandon it for another fad.

  I won’t regret their “metaverse” one bit. Killing their game dev studios is an unfortunate collateral, but, again, if it means they go out of that business, GOOD.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Question about the Switch 2 port of Civilization VII: does it support multiple controllers for local multiplayer?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It is exactly that. I never truly did that for Civ, but had fun with hotseat sessions of Heroes of Might and Magic 3. IIRC the game literally calls it that, must have been the first I encountered the term.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK police blame Microsoft Copilot for intelligence mistake⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “The AI hallucinated” should be considered a worse excuse than “the dog ate my homework”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Buy the component cable⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Made a world of difference back on my Wii (the Wii was still outputting analog).

  The original composite cable was making everything blurry with xolours bleeding all over the place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney argues banning Twitter over its ability to AI-generate pornographic images of minors is just 'gatekeepers' attempting to 'censor all of their political opponents'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But, his store has nothing to do with X. And, for example, Horses was banned from EGS too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  ineptech

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pet Peeves with Games?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess it would depend on the game, but I rarely play games where those are necessary.

  I mean, we’ve reached a state where controllers have more or less been standardized as 2 sticks, 4 face buttons, 2 shoulder buttons, 2 triggers, usually 2 small buttons used for menus/map. Plus 4 directions on the D-Pad, if it’s not used for movement. That’s a lot already.

  That said, every once in a while I do get a game in which they go absolutely crazy on stick press commands. No man’s sky use them all the time, including a baffling right stick press to sprint.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pet Peeves with Games?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Personally I don’t like having anything on stick press (at least for game controls, I can tolerate occasional use to open a menu or something). I think it feels terrible and I have no idea why this progressively became a thing on controllers since mid-00s.

  Worst use of that I’ve ever found was Fable (at least the 360 version). The game wants you to push the left stick while also using it to move to sneak.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Neither do I, but it was about 450 where I live.

  I have a big switch library, and my OG switch is not in the best of shapes. Also, I honestly expected better from Mario Kart.

  So yeah, as I said, I’m not exactly advising anyone to get one right now. I’m just saying, it’s more comfortable than the switch, it has one good exclusive game, and it runs some switch 1 games significantly better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have one, I like it as a slightly better switch, but, yeah. There’s not a lot of reasons to get one for now.

  Mario Kart World and Age of Imprisonment are disappointing, most of the other first party games are just upgrades of Switch games, including Prime 4 that’s… Meh.

  Bananza was a lot of fun, but it’s not selling a whole console.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 540 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I had an original DS, the big gray brick that’s been nicknamed “panzer” compared to DS Lite and DSi… Amusing when you see how 3DS XL and then the Switches turned out.

  After years of service the upper screen broke into a pretty LCD rainbow. At the time it was long into DSi life and 3DS was almost coming, but I still got a new white DS Lite because I wanted the GBA port. I still have that one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 540 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a bit awkward because New Horizons (Switch) is not very different from NL except it started very rough and unfinished. It removed a lot of things from NL (especially furniture customization options, which is still a shame), and at launch there was very little to do.

  Nowadays though, following several updates, it’s great. There’s still a bit of nostalgia for great stuff in NL (better Isabelle, funnier dialogues, more furniture sets and customization, and a few special villagers and cool mini-games).

  But the missing NPCs/events were progressively added, exterior furniture is a huge pro, and especially the big update along the Happy Home Paradise DLC added a ton of new items. And there’s a new update coming soon (probably the last one, and after a very long time wothout anything, but it was a bit unexpected).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You can pay $20 to reserve a hologram AI companion in a jar⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Get your fascist desktop waifu today!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 540 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  the whole thing was basically held together with duct tape at one point, and the shell’s paint is peeling

  Yeah, sounds common on 3DS. I have a Majora’s Mask edition n3DS XL, its paint started flaking on edges for normal use only a year or so from getting it.

  Got a free new shell (correct golden colour!) from support back then, so there was that at least. After that I encased my 3DS in a clear rubber protection so the paint doesn’t wear off again. But those rubber things don’t age well and start getting an ugly yellow hue after a while.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That time Apple sent everyone a U2 album: 'I DONT WANT YOU.'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are stories about people having specific versions of a song, or even making original music that they stored on Apple devices, and those devices automagically “identified” them, removed them unprompted and replaced them with something else from the cloud.

  Personally that’s why I don’t trust services that advertise “just working” and doing everything for you. I want control over what I use.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Game Boy: A Technical Marvel of Handheld Gaming⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The Game Boy in particular was from Gunpei Yokoi’s design philosophy, “lateral thinking with withered technology”.

  Honestly not a bad choice, especially for the time. Even if it was late in GB’s life, pokémon would have never worked on a system that eats 6 batteries in 3 hours.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Best-Selling Video Games Since 2020⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I consider the best “New” to be Wii by far. Good challenge, good level diversity, the right kind of chaotic fun in multiplayer.

  The first NSMB was still very basic, and U was boring and uninspired. New Super Luigi U was the best part of U, at least it tried something, but too little too late.

  NSMB2 felt like the worst example of “we need a Mario game now, pile up random shit until we have one”. I mean, they tried to have a gimmick in this one, putting it everywhere in theming and it’s… Collecting more coins than usual? And even then they don’t do anything with it.

  By the way, of course everyone is allowed their opinion, but… 30 years later, still team SMB3.