jordanlund
@jordanlund@lemmy.world
- Comment on Highguard will permanently shut down on March 12th. 1 hour ago:
I can’t help but think there’s money in acquiring all these completed assets and coming up with a story based single player game around them.
The creative part is already done! Pop it into a non-GaaS structure and see what happens!
I’d have LOVED to explore the world of Brink and it was set up to be another Assassin’s Creed Assassins vs. Templars vibe… and it all fell apart…
- Comment on Apple Accidentally Leaks 'MacBook Neo' 17 hours ago:
Wasn’t that also the name of a Microsoft Surface device? 🤔
- Comment on YouTube Shorts and Instagram Reels are making you dumber, according to science 2 days ago:
- Comment on Dark patterns killed my wife’s Windows 11 installation – OSnews 3 days ago:
Weird, I recently bought that same phone and did not have that problem. Why?
“Do you want to transfer your files from another device?”
No.
Just no. I don’t need your help, I can do this myself. Previous phone is backed up to my NAS, I can restore what I want from there.
I see a new phone as an opportunity to leave stuff behind. It’s on the NAS if I REALLY need it.
- Comment on Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS 3 days ago:
It’s definitely a shitty hardware thing.
- Comment on Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS 3 days ago:
“Now updating, please wait!”
I mean, technically not “down” but not exactly usable either. 😉
- Comment on Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS 3 days ago:
Fiber gear is a little different and I’d rather deal with this than the bullshit data caps and price hike games with Comcast. 😉
- Comment on Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS 4 days ago:
The dodgy WiFi gear from my fiber provider requires a hard re-set at least once a week. I had to do that just today.
- Comment on Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS 4 days ago:
And when your Internet goes down, you can’t even work locally.
Genius!
I’m sure CoPilot in the cloud already took that into account though and goes off on all sorts of tangents with the user disconnected.
What could possibly go wrong?
- Comment on Not good if this is a sign of things to come for anything else. 4 days ago:
Youtube link so you can get to the transcript and such:
Sega hired a junk removal company to get rid of dev kits and cartridges as eWaste.
Instead, they sold it to the guy who got raided.
Sega accuses him of buying stolen material.
- Comment on Microsoft has etched palm-sized slabs of ordinary glass into data “books” capable of storing 4.8 terabytes — the equivalent of roughly 2M books or 200 4K movies 1 week ago:
“Holographic Storage” - en.wikipedia.org/…/Holographic_Data_Storage_Syste…
- Comment on Microsoft has etched palm-sized slabs of ordinary glass into data “books” capable of storing 4.8 terabytes — the equivalent of roughly 2M books or 200 4K movies 1 week ago:
Oh, look, it’s the latest mass storage tech that will never be commercially produced!
- Comment on Amazon Wins $6 Million in Damages Against Pirated DVD Stores, Plus Domain Takeovers 2 weeks ago:
Can it really be an infringement if there’s no physical source though? That’s the question.
Say someone does an online comic strip, I download the images, re-format them for print, and sell a print version.
There is no physical version to bootleg, the only reason a physical copy exists at all is because I put the time and effort into making one.
Same with the “Calvin peeing on things” car stickers. King Features and Bill Watterson could absolutely produce those themselves, but don’t. Watterson refuses to license the character for anything.
At the same time, they also haven’t gone after the people who are producing them.
- Comment on Amazon Wins $6 Million in Damages Against Pirated DVD Stores, Plus Domain Takeovers 2 weeks ago:
For gaming, lets say you have a title region locked to Japan but someone sells an unlocked pirated version.
Should they be able to sue for a product variant they very well could make but are choosing not to?
There’s the whole “no harm” rule, if they aren’t being harmed by selling to people who are not and never will be their customers…
- Comment on Amazon Wins $6 Million in Damages Against Pirated DVD Stores, Plus Domain Takeovers 2 weeks ago:
No, but they shouldn’t be allowed to sue for physical piracy on products they do not produce physically.
- Comment on Amazon Wins $6 Million in Damages Against Pirated DVD Stores, Plus Domain Takeovers 2 weeks ago:
“Since Amazon has never released some of these Prime Video series on DVD…”
It’s almost as if the answer were right there…
- Comment on Designer claims ‘most’ of Highguard’s dev team have been laid off, weeks after launch | VGC 2 weeks ago:
There’s probably money to be made in purchasing the IP of these failed live service games and using the assets and art to make good single player games with an actual story.
I’d play the hell out of an Assassin’s Creed ish game in the Brink universe.
- Comment on Is the Xbox One X a good console/4k player in 2026? 3 weeks ago:
Xbox One X is still a better choice than the Xbox Series S.
Let me explain:
It has more RAM than the Series S, so Xbox One titles and backwards compatible titles will run with Xbox One X enhancements that the Series S cannot run.
It has a physical disc drive for backwards compatible titles, DVDs, Blu Rays, and 4K UHD movies. The Series S is discless.
The only downside are newer games that are exclusive to Series S/X, but really, how many are there? Cyberpunk 2077 plays on the One X.
The new Forza won’t run, but the older ones should!
Source: Put the Xbox Series X and PS5 in the living room, moved the Xbox One X and PS4 to the bedroom. Still use it!
- Comment on Games you really want to play, but can't or won't? 4 weeks ago:
Heard all the good things about Disco Elysium and found it on sale for the Steam Deck… Could not stand playing a character with traumatic brain injury. I thought I did something wrong generating the character, no, fanbase assures me that’s the way it’s supposed to be… Refunded it in less than an hour.
- Comment on The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K 4 weeks ago:
65" and it’s impressive with ONE drawback… Samsungs HDR implementation SUCKS. Suuuuuuuucks.
Without HDR, everything is bright, crisp, and clean.
With HDR, it’s dark, muddy, and unwatchable.
I’ve done all the firmware updates, RTINGS calibrations, NOTHING works.
Well, nothing except disabling HDR on every device attached to it.
- Comment on The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K 4 weeks ago:
I bought one on the premise of both PS5 and Xbox Series X releasing 8K content.
We got:
The Touryst - Not a bad game, but not needing 8K either.
Ori and the Will of the Wisps supported 6K, GREAT game.
On the PS5 Pro (through PSSR upscaling)
F1 24 (at 60 FPS)
Gran Turismo 7 (at 60 FPS)
No Man’s Sky (at 30 FPS)
Pure Pool Pro (at 30 FPS with ray tracing)
[REDACTED] (at 60 FPS)
The Callisto Protocol (at 30 FPS with ray tracing)
And that’s it…
- Comment on "AI is Theft, I Have to Use It, Otherwise I'll Get Fired": GDC Reports One-Third of Game Workers Are Using GenAI for Daily Tasks 4 weeks ago:
They can, but they also don’t meet the corporate dictate of “Everyone use AI.” 😉
- Comment on "AI is Theft, I Have to Use It, Otherwise I'll Get Fired": GDC Reports One-Third of Game Workers Are Using GenAI for Daily Tasks 4 weeks ago:
Not at all wrong, just showing what can be done with virtually zero effort and time.
I could most likely perfect it in a few minutes more, still a fraction of the time of doing it by hand. I’m not extending a proof of concept to win arguments on the Internet. 😉
But as I noted at the bottom of the comment, which apparently nobody bothered to read, there are ALREADY royalty free libraries for this kind of thing. So it also has to be faster than searching libraries that are already there.
Of course that action is it’s own time sink as anyone who has gone looking for “the perfect font” can tell you.
- Comment on "AI is Theft, I Have to Use It, Otherwise I'll Get Fired": GDC Reports One-Third of Game Workers Are Using GenAI for Daily Tasks 4 weeks ago:
It did get maybe 90% there in a minute which is faster than a person would do it. Not a perfect tile, maybe take a few more interations. But not awful for cobbled together in a minute, and if your job is to come up with 50 or 100 different textures, still better than doing it by hand.
But as I noted, there are also already royalty free libraries for this stuff as well.
- Comment on "AI is Theft, I Have to Use It, Otherwise I'll Get Fired": GDC Reports One-Third of Game Workers Are Using GenAI for Daily Tasks 4 weeks ago:
Well of course not, AI did it in 1 minute. 🤣
- Comment on Guitar technology 4 weeks ago:
Does it scale to other instruments? Violin? Piano? Ukulele? LOL.
- Comment on "AI is Theft, I Have to Use It, Otherwise I'll Get Fired": GDC Reports One-Third of Game Workers Are Using GenAI for Daily Tasks 4 weeks ago:
I could see using AI for tasks that are so mind numbing and mundane it might actually be cruel to make a human do it.
“I need a perfectly tileable concrete wall texture for a video game, make it light gray with random spots of yellow and white paint.”
Took about a minute.
But then, if you’re going to do THAT, there are already royalty free libraries where it’s already done.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 studio boss calls out "hurtful", "personal" videogame reviewers - "sometimes I think it'd be a good idea for critics to be scored, Metacritic-style" 4 weeks ago:
Some reviewers are just stupid people. I remember seeing a review of a game where they continually complained about the camera… the camera that was 100% player controlled on the right stick.
Did they just, not once, ever, try to move the camera? Yeah, that would be a bad experience in a 3rd person game…
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
There was a quickplay where someone figured out how to beat the game in something crazy like 10 or 12 minutes.
- Comment on How to turn off Gemini in Gmail — and why you should | Proton 5 weeks ago:
What the column has you do is disable Gemini access in Mail, but it is still on for search.
