A_Random_Idiot
@A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
- Comment on Starfield 2 May Be Better Off Not Actually Being 'Starfield 2’ 1 day ago:
The amount of loading screens to get anywhere was properly annoying compared to previous games.
Which is why once you got to a planet once and unlocked it, you fast traveled everywhere. cause that cut the amount of loading screens by like 80%
I mean, I understand. I get it. We’re not gonna get wide open planet to space real time transitions and shit, because they are using a game engine that has almost 30 years of institutional inertia behind it. There are just limitations to things that they have to deal with, and from a technical point of view its kinda impressive the shit they continue to kludge into the engine with each game, but it does have its limitations… and I think its long past time for them to figure out a new engine (and I mean new engine, not just rename the current engine again like they did with NetImmerse>Gamebryo and Gamebryo>Creation)… just not UE5, preferably. I would like to get playable framerates without spending 6000 dollars on GPUs, lol.
- Comment on Starfield 2 May Be Better Off Not Actually Being 'Starfield 2’ 1 day ago:
The pessimist in me believes that Starfield, and the Oblivion remaster, are testing probes to see how their community/customers will accept big changes to bethesda-style games.
Starfield testing if gamers will accept the abandoning of Bethesda hand crafted worlds with lots of detail and hidden little unmarked interest points, and replacing it with low effort, low cost random generation.
Oblivion Remaster an attempt to test if gamers will accept Bethesda abandoning modding, since Oblivion:Remastered does not support mods (but players/modders still found a way to force them, only because everything but the graphics is still on the old, original engine)
and I think both of these should be ringing major alarmbells for what they are planning with TESVI
- Comment on Cloudflare CEO warns AI and zero-click internet are killing the web's business model 2 days ago:
what is that, some successor to geocities? or is the naming convention purely coincidental
- Comment on Cloudflare CEO warns AI and zero-click internet are killing the web's business model 2 days ago:
Wild and magical, where we…upon getting our first connection to this wide world of wonder, would just explore. Clicking every link with wild abandon and discovering magic behind every one of them. No need for caution, Viruses we rare, Malware barely existed, just spread wings gliding over vast lands of unbridled discovery… Not even realizing 16 hours had passed and you had missed sleep, the adrenaline of adventure keeping you going, wide eyed and focused.
God I’m depressed now.
- Comment on Cloudflare CEO warns AI and zero-click internet are killing the web's business model 2 days ago:
the pesky linearity of time as we understand it.
- Comment on Cloudflare CEO warns AI and zero-click internet are killing the web's business model 2 days ago:
when the internet was a wild and unexplored frontier, and we were adventurers charting the unknown.
- Comment on Cloudflare CEO warns AI and zero-click internet are killing the web's business model 2 days ago:
god what I wouldnt give to go back to the days of the mid 90s, when the internet was nothing more than a collection of tech weirdos, with websites being nothing more than passion projects with no advertising, no SEO, no search engines, etc etc.
- Comment on Android updates: thanks I hate it. 3 days ago:
I was given an old Galaxy tab 8 on friday. I played with it for a while, and it was super snappy and quick.
Then it updated
then updated again
then updated again.
And finally again.
Ended up with OneUI6.1
Tablets like 1/3rd as snappy as it used to be.
If thats how big of a shit pile UI6 is, then I pray to got UI7 never gets on my tablet.
- Comment on Android updates: thanks I hate it. 3 days ago:
There is no Windows 8 in Ba Sing Sei.
- Comment on Nintendo Anti-Piracy Policy Device Lock Update Warns of Console Bricks for Unauthorized Use 3 days ago:
I think all the console makers sell consoles at profit anymore.
Hence why the prices are stupid high.
- Comment on Nintendo Anti-Piracy Policy Device Lock Update Warns of Console Bricks for Unauthorized Use 3 days ago:
I’m sure this totally wont backfire and screw over legitimate owners due to some totally unforeseen glitch or idiocy on nintendos part.
- Comment on Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout 4 days ago:
Sure pal.
- Comment on Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout 4 days ago:
Sure buddy.
- Comment on Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout 4 days ago:
oh wow the .ml user is getting super offended over criticism of china/russia.
how original
- Comment on Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout 4 days ago:
back in our day, our stupid wasnt malicious mass destruction or food tampering.
It was actual stupid shit, like trying to jump over your friend as he raced towards you on his bike, or falling off a roof, Shit that only hurt yourself, if anyone. Wasnt breaking and entering, wasnt destroying shit. wasnt anything like that.
- Comment on Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout 4 days ago:
My question was “was there ever a good trend from tiktok”
Icebucket challenge was from before tiktok existed.
So kinda proving my point.
- Comment on Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout 4 days ago:
yeah, the cinnamon challenge was dumb… but it didnt involve mass destruction, psychotic behavor, or contaminating food\ in stores.
So its hardly comparable.
- Comment on Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout 4 days ago:
Lots of chromebooks have bog standard barrel jack plugs.
- Comment on Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout 5 days ago:
I remain utterly convinced that Tiktok is nothing but a chinese psyop experiment to see how far they can manipulate people into actions that would otherwise be prevented by our brains screaming in self preservation.
Has there ever been a “good” trend on tiktok? Every week its just another destructive thing that gullible idiots are being tricked into doing.
- Comment on Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout 5 days ago:
What i saw they were shorting the charging ports, not the USB slots.
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 6 days ago:
Lemmy constantly falls into the same social trap as reddit: that we think we’re some monolith of consumerism and when we believe something we think everyone else will be on our side.
I dont know why you are whinging about this when literally no one is making this claim. In fact, we are talking about the exact opposite of it.
Go on YouTube and look up the hundreds of videos from the past few months alone of scalpers and other Pokemon buyers getting into actual physical fights, buying literally 10+ of those huge box sets, and camping out at those vending machines and buying literally everything in them the minute they restock.
I’m a vendor at comic and anime conventions here in the US. I did a show last month that was literally 99% Pokemon cards and merch, and everyone was buying that shit up regardless. There were actually maybe five booths including my own that weren’t selling just Pokemon stuff, if at all.
Yes, thats the legions of people we were talking about, before you came in with this weird tangent.
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 6 days ago:
and for every one like you.
Theres people who buy multiple of the console.
One person in my family bought 4 of the Nintendo Switch. One for him, his wife, and one each for each of their two grand kids.
and they also buy multiple copies of games, so they don’t have to worry about wanting to play a game someone else is already playing.
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 6 days ago:
Its also fucked up that the switch is still 300 dollars, despite being released over 8 years ago.
What happened to consoles getting cheaper? You know their cost to manufacture it isnt the same as it was 8 years ago.
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 1 week ago:
and none of it matters, cause they have literal legions of fans that will ride their ride, no matter how much it costs, no matter how poorly made it is, no matter how much nintendo spits in their face.
So Nintendo sees no significant economic repercussions from their behavior, and thus has incentive to change.
- Comment on Windows 11 users reportedly losing data due to Microsoft's forcedWindows 11 users reportedly losing data due to Microsoft's forced BitLocker encryption 1 week ago:
Its why I switched to Linux.
- Comment on YSK: Regulations don't exist because governments like them... 1 week ago:
I think thats just a subset of the whole “Government should be run like a business” mindset.
- Comment on Hundreds of smartphone apps are monitoring users through their microphones 2 weeks ago:
Yes.
Not to you or me, but there are tons of people, even here, that are absolutely incredulous towards the idea that its possible.
- Comment on If you're still on Lemmy... 2 weeks ago:
Luigi is a bright, shinning example of what happens when the powers that be stop listening to the complaints and needs of the peasantry.
You’d think they’d have learned that the last several dozen times lords got too high and mighty and triggered a violent revolt/uprising… but alas…
- Comment on A quarter of a century after its original release, Capcom’s legendary Breath of Fire IV returns to PC! 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, Give it a shot if you have the chance.
Worse case is you’ve given it a fair shake and still don’t like it, and thats perfectly valid.
Its not a bad game, personally I think its in the top ranks for best games of all time, but not every game meshes with every persons likes/dislikes, and its perfectly okay to just shrug your shoulders and say “I gave it a fair shot, but i just couldnt get into it”
- Comment on A quarter of a century after its original release, Capcom’s legendary Breath of Fire IV returns to PC! 2 weeks ago:
Glad I’m not the only one with that view.
Never played BoF4, but glad its on PC and playable now… Just hope the hype makes BoF3 get the same treatment… cause my PS1 disk has a crack in it and I really miss the world that BoF3 built.