cosmo
@cosmo@lemmy.world
- Comment on Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter, a JRPG, just got released on Steam—and this is a big deal because this game is to PC what Final Fantasy VII was to PlayStation. 1 week ago:
For all the good things about Trails there’s a lot of flaws as well. There’s a lot of weak plot lines, reused assets (lack of npc variety being one) and there’s quite a few logical leaps happening as the series has progressed. The games are ambitious for sure, but let’s not pretend that hasn’t had its own shortcomings.
For me Trails as a series is very much a case of being better than the sum of its individual parts, and that great, but you’re vastly overselling the importance of this series. I enjoy both Trails and Final Fantasy, but it’s wild to put them on the same field like this. Square Enix has more than 5000 employees. Falcom has about 80, I think. The scale is so wastly different.
- Comment on Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter, a JRPG, just got released on Steam—and this is a big deal because this game is to PC what Final Fantasy VII was to PlayStation. 1 week ago:
It’s 98% turn based. 100% if you don’t want to spend a few seconds building stagger.
- Comment on It's Not Just You: Music Streaming Is Broken Now 2 weeks ago:
It was kind of easy for me, as I already used Plex for video, but Plexamp has been such an amazing experience for rediscovering my own music. The radios, sonic matching and DJ algorithms are fantastic. I’m sure there’s other similar solutions, but it’s really worth investing in, imho.
- Comment on It's Not Just You: Music Streaming Is Broken Now 2 weeks ago:
Almost no one can, or have equipment that can make the difference. That being said, the difference between an old mp3 and a new one is sometimes noticeable at the same bitrate. The encoding algorithm has improved a quite lot since the late 90s. I keep flacs as a master format that I make new encodes from when I want it on my phone and such though.
- Comment on It's Not Just You: Music Streaming Is Broken Now 2 weeks ago:
Nah. I don’t bother with that. I can’t listen to unlimited amounts of music anyway, and buying fewer albums I care more about makes me listen to them more instead, I’d say. I already have a massive music catalog going back to the early 2000s when I pirated a lot and just kept around.
- Comment on It's Not Just You: Music Streaming Is Broken Now 2 weeks ago:
Mostly Qobuz.
- Comment on It's Not Just You: Music Streaming Is Broken Now 2 weeks ago:
Qobuz
- Comment on Plex got hacked. 2 weeks ago:
Fair enough.
- Comment on It's Not Just You: Music Streaming Is Broken Now 2 weeks ago:
When I discovered that it was possible to buy and download drm free lossless flac-files i went back to buying music again. Never looked back tbh.
- Comment on Plex got hacked. 2 weeks ago:
Well. If you’re not streaming why have such a service in the first place? If I didn’t stream remotely with Plex (and share with my friends and family) I’d just go back to running Kodi on my htpc like I did ten years ago.
- Comment on The EU still wants to scan all your chats – and the rules could come into force by October 2025 1 month ago:
I, at least, managed to get most of my family to switch. I told them it was the only way they’d get pictures and updates of my son. The one small victory I’m satisfied with.
- Comment on what video game deserves to be in a museum? 1 month ago:
This. All of them needs to be preserved.
- Comment on Steam Users Rally Behind Anti-Censorship Petition 1 month ago:
No worries! The article lacked a lot of important information, absolutely. What worries me a lot is that this activist group also isn’t friendly towards LGBTG groups and has been trying to get games like GTA banned, as well as Detroit: Become Human, to give a few examples. I find it worrying when these kinds of activist groups gets a fot inside the door, because they sure won’t stop at banning incest games (whether it’s porn or a serious attempt to create a meaningful story about abusive relationships). No one really cares about the porn games that much, I think.
- Comment on Steam Users Rally Behind Anti-Censorship Petition 1 month ago:
It’s dictated by the law in my country. It’s either legal or it isn’t. VISA doesn’t need to meddle. I have to follow the law, and so do they. We don’t need arbitrary whims on top of that.
- Comment on Australian anti-porn group claims responsibility for Steam's new censorship rules in victory against 'porn sick brain rotted pedo gamer fetishists', and things only get weirder from there 1 month ago:
There’s a toggle for the store that hides porn games. It’s not visible unless you yourself actively click on it saying you want to see them. If you see garbage it’s on you.
- Comment on Steam Users Rally Behind Anti-Censorship Petition 1 month ago:
It isn’t about the actual games being targeted. It’s everything about the implications of having a private company dictate what content I can buy with my own money. If they cave to lobby group once, they will do it again. Next time it might be something you care about instead.
- Comment on Waterfox 6.5.10: Bing terminates search syndication deal 2 months ago:
A quick search tells me that DuckDuckGo and other larger partners will keep access, for now.