jacksilver
@jacksilver@lemmy.world
- Comment on Day 5 of posting an indie game I found that I think looks cool - Demon Tides 1 day ago:
I played the prequel (at least it looks like it’s tied to this game) called Demon Turf. The animation was really interesting and the world building was cool, but the platforming itself was only okay and some of the boss battles just felt broken. Hopefully they learned from that game to make this one even better!
- Comment on Xbox’s leadership shift proves it: the gamer era is over, AI runs the show now 4 days ago:
To be honest Phil’s just done a bad job at the helm or maybe wasn’t empowered to do the things that needed to be done. Everything since the xbox360 has been weak from Microsoft, although Sony has really only held on due to some banger first party games.
Nintendo continues to understand that you need to offer something different in the console space to remain relevant. While the steam deck (and other handheld) are coming for the switch, they at least offer something unique.
- Comment on Video games are losing the "attention war" to gambling, porn, and crypto, according to industry report 6 days ago:
I mean, at that point a lot of games are also gambling.
- Comment on Quantum teleportation demonstrated over existing fiber networks — Deutsche Telekom’s T‑Labs used commercially available Qunnect hardware for the demo, claims 90% average accuracy 1 week ago:
This is about “teleporting” information not physical material (if my understanding is correct)
- Comment on Favorite Mario Party... 1 week ago:
Yeah, 8 was the last one I remember enjoying. I think I tried one of the switch versions, but the boards were really boring. The fun things I liked in 8 was that the board events changed the map/pathways a fair amount.
- Comment on Man jailed for a year after endorsing neo-Nazi views and making antisemitic speech at Sydney rally on Australia Day 1 week ago:
I mean, I’d hope you’d have to prove intent to commit a crime, which would be the crime. Saying the words alone shouldn’t be a crime.
- Comment on Mewgenics becomes the most-played roguelite ever on Steam 1 week ago:
Let’s be honest with ourselves combocore is really just another phrase for rhythm games, which let’s you aggregate things like guitar hero (rythmncombos) and DMC (actioncombos), as it’s all about hitting buttons at the right time interval. Surprisingly many darksouls also fall into the combocore/rythmn category - sekiro and Lies of P (with their parrying/dodging timing) which we’ll now call soulcombos.
Now we just need to start promoting this through the steam tags.
- Comment on Mewgenics becomes the most-played roguelite ever on Steam 1 week ago:
And yet I tend to like most games that fall into the “rouge lite” category. It feels too broad and yet also seems to work to classify games.
I think it may just be a bit like “RPG” or “Action” that are actually very wide categories that now have a lot of subcategories to help better explain them.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I tried Calibre web and Kogma.
Calibre is just bad software at this point, it’s clunky and not really designed as a server.
Kogma was fine, but a web only interface made it hit or miss. The big selling point for me with audio bookshelf was the ability to download local copies.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Oh yeah, the multiple libraries is a good point!
- Comment on 1 week ago:
You can read using the web client or dedicated apps (android and ios). I feel like the clients work just as good if not better than similar software.
I haven’t tested how it handles two versions (audio/ebook) of the same book, but I have ebooks and audio books and it works well for me.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
The only real downside I’ve run into is it’s very opinionated about folder structures around authors.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
The one I’ve enjoyed the most is www.audiobookshelf.org, it may be “focused” on audio books, but works really well for everything. It also supports offline mode (meaning downloading local copies in the app).
- Comment on YSK that murder is now legal in California. Fully legal. Slaughter a family of four by driving over the speed limit. Go home. 1 week ago:
Yeah, everyone seems to be forgetting the secret to getting out of jail in the US - be rich.
- Comment on USA Used Claude AI Model to Capture Nicolás Maduro 1 week ago:
This seems like a lot of fluff to make anthropic/Claude sound impressive. They don’t state what it was used for, but I’d imagine it was just general purpose text processing.
- Comment on Trump nominates hospitality executive to lead National Park Service 1 week ago:
I’m sure that the guy is probably terrible, but at the surface level this isn’t the worst pick. Hospitality isn’t all the national parks are, but it is a significant part of the public facing side.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Ah, if your preference is pixel graphics then Blasphemous 1 & 2 would probably be your pace if you haven’t played them.
To me, the GoW gameplay looked a little to heavy and stiff (especially for it being GoW).
- Comment on 1 week ago:
If you think this looks good, then the newly announced castlevania game will blow you away - www.konami.com/games/castlevania/…/en-us/
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, it felt kinda empty and repetitive. I think if the combat was better I might have kept playing.
- Comment on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month 2 weeks ago:
Sounds like we are talking about different kinds of “access”. My original post was just lamenting that to the general web, discord is like a black hole. Things go there and never come out as you can only access the content through its app.
- Comment on Riot Games lays off roughly 80 employees from 2XKO team 2 weeks ago:
That’s fair, I guess I was focused more on the bigger players in fighting games which usually focus on fictional worlds/fighters.
- Comment on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month 2 weeks ago:
A lot of discord content is private, and those that aren’t require you to have discord to search. On top of that, I’m pretty sure you need to join a server before you can search it’s contents.
Since I don’t use discord, there is no real way for me to access content hosted on it. Compared to Reddit or a Forum, I don’t need to be a member of the community to access information shared there.
- Comment on In the future, it will be considered unbelievable that repairing a product used to be more expensive than buying a new one 2 weeks ago:
Just look at houses or cars (which are designed for repairability) and you’ll see that building new is almost always easier and cheaper (although that doesn’t mean it’s never worth it to repair).
A good example is any electrical or plumbing work in a house. You need to identify the issue, access the problem area, fix the problem, then patch the area back up. This is why repair and maintenance is such a huge part of home ownership.
Sadly as things become more complex and minituraized the ability to repair them also becomes more difficult. You can sometimes cannabilize multiple pieces of electronics to create a functional one, but it’s almost impossible to repair a motherboard/circuitboard for a tv/laptop/electronic. And that’s not even getting into plastics, which are almost impossible to work with after they’ve been finalized for a product.
- Comment on Riot Games lays off roughly 80 employees from 2XKO team 2 weeks ago:
That’s really weird
- Comment on Riot Games lays off roughly 80 employees from 2XKO team 2 weeks ago:
What?
Are there fighting games with real people?
- Comment on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month 2 weeks ago:
At least public githubs aren’t difficult to access and/or crawl. The big issue with Discord is that there is a wealth of information locked behind a proprietary system.
Unlike forums or even reddit, there is not way to get to most of the information posted on discord.
- Comment on England’s poorest areas have 70% more vape shops and bookmakers than wealthier ones 2 weeks ago:
It’s also such a detriment to sports. In the US they relaxed sports betting laws a while back and it’s ruined watching sports on the tv (and in some ways in person).
Its also been frustrating to watch sports betting scandals continue to pop up over and over again. The most ridiculous is the recent NCAA basketball point shaving, where a bunch of players on college teams (even low ranked ones) were purposefully rigging games to make millions.
- Comment on The radical woke subliminal message in Bad Bunny's halftime performance 2 weeks ago:
Clearly we’re in the minority, but I did not think it sounded good at all. It’s a hard event (even acoustically), and he clearly was singing live, but it felt like he was struggling to keep up with the beat. Although I’m also very hit or miss with rap, so I’m also probably biased.
The message and showmanship was good and regardless of how it sounded, I think people will talk about this performance for a long time.
- Comment on The radical woke subliminal message in Bad Bunny's halftime performance 2 weeks ago:
Its both a huge event and platform so it makes sense why artists would want to perform at the superbowl.
As for why he was picked, I think I’ve read some reports that the NFL is really trying to grow the sport in South America. Between the fact that they’ve saturated the US market and that every attempt to expand in Europe has been rough, I think they realize they don’t have many other choices.
- Comment on Google Translate is vulnerable to prompt injection 2 weeks ago:
Not sure if you really want to know, but a Google paper is where transformers (backbone of LLMs) were first mentioned (2016 I believe). Google initially used transformers for translations and eventually search, but OpenAI experimented with them for text generation (gpt 1+) eventually leading to chatgpt.