PieMePlenty
@PieMePlenty@lemmy.world
- Comment on PS5 FPS preferences 3 weeks ago:
If you are into the classic battlefield games at all, maybe try Battle Bit?
- Comment on Where to start as a beginner 3 weeks ago:
Install linux somewhere, ssh to it and set up a web sever and an ftp server. Access it locally and then access it from the internet. This should be your first goal. It will make you comfortable with the command line and linux. You can try a montero node then.
- Comment on Tough Shit 5 weeks ago:
I one held a shit in for a week. Literally 7 days. I was in the hospital and forbidden from using the toilet and using the portable bag toilet in the room with 6 others was not gonna happen so I held it in. Nurses gave me laxatives because they were concerned but I beat them too.
After finally being allowed on the toilet, I basically filled the bowl to the top and clogged the toilet. Yes, it hurt. I now know why and I’m never doing it again.
- Comment on Why does the PC gaming industry still use such deceptive pricing? 1 month ago:
I don’t know how to feel about Nintendo pricing. On one hand, all of their games keep their value long after release, but that also means they are hard to get cheaply. I know when I sold my 8 3DS games a few years ago, I made about 230 eur which was pretty good for some used games. I dont play their games anymore but I’m not sure I’d even want to now since they never drop in price.
- Comment on Stop killing games 1 month ago:
From what I gather, you want specifics in an initiative. You are getting ahead of yourself. What this initiative signals is the need for change and legislation in video games. If passed, the next step is sitting down with representatives of both consumers and video game producers where specifics are drawn.
You don’t start an initiative with specifics. If you start an initiative that way, you are presenting a one-sided list of demands where the only representation is the consumer. Unless people start dying over shutdown video games tomorrow, this is the only good shot at actually getting some consumer protections in this industry.
If you want change, you will sign this petition. If you don’t, you won’t. It’s as simple as that.
- Comment on Steven Spielberg is ‘a big PC Gamer’ — loves shooters, and insists on keyboard and mouse 1 month ago:
Mouse for aim, wii nunchuck for movement.
- Comment on Ubisoft comes crawlin' back to Steam 1 month ago:
And those “reasons” were plentiful. Most importantly is their market share. From a purely business perspective, if a distributor has 200% more users and charges 100% more while offering the same features, they will be the better choice - purely from en economical perspective. 30% is ok because you will reach a larger audience and if so many publishers disagreed with Steam’s cut, they wouldnt all come crawlin’ back would they? In other words, the market dictates the price and the market has decided that price is 30%. It doesnt matter who does or doesnt defend it. Thats what it is.
- Comment on Ubisoft comes crawlin' back to Steam 1 month ago:
Well I guess I’ll just stop buying things then because all Im doing is contributing to some billionaire’s cocaine fund. This is capitalism. I learned to live with it. When the time comes to sieze the means of production and give power back to the proletariat, I’ll be there to help. Until then, I’d rather give Gabe my money so he can shove more ships up his ass than give it to Sweeney because at least Gabe will throw a penny back into linux gaming. Ill take the crumbs if I can get them because Im not a 21 year old student with a burning desire to change the system anymore.
- Comment on Ubisoft comes crawlin' back to Steam 1 month ago:
AFAIK it falls to a lower percentage if you sell more copies. As to why I dont mind the fee as a consumer; valve invests its earnings into linux gaming and does cool shit like that. I can’t remember the last time i aplauded ea or ubisoft or epic for doing something like that. Oh yeah… it was never. Id sooner applaud Microsoft for investing into a non lucrative venture like accessible gaming accessories. But they aren’t on the same playing field… so from them, I’d expect it.
If i were a developer, I’d let valve eat the 30%. The amount of customers they bring to the table, deal with chargebacks, host the files. That shit isn’t free. Epic has to take such a low amount because they don’t have as many users and can’t produce such sales numbers and don’t have to deal with as many chargebcks and don’t have to waste as much bandwidth hosting the files.
- Comment on Mini PC for Jellyfin 2 months ago:
Check the CPU, every NUC has a different one. An 11th gen i3 will generally offer better performance than a N100 but a N100 may offer slightly better power efficiency.
- Comment on Mini PC for Jellyfin 2 months ago:
NUC is good for transcoding if you really need it. NUC11 i3 i think has 30w tdp and draws sub 10w at idle and does transcoding fine. Check specific HW codex support for your needs but stick to Intel beacsue they will generally be the best in this space.
Also can confirm Jellyfin doesnt run well on a rpi4. No problem on a NUC.
- Comment on Peter Molyneux thinks generative AI is the future of games, all but guaranteeing that it won't be 2 months ago:
So heres the thing, people can make bad games sometimes. People can make more than one bad game in a row. People can overpromise and undeliver.
I dont like Molyneux as a person because he overhypes the shit out of his games. I like his past projects though. Populous, Dungeon Keeper, Black and White, Fable are some really fun games he was involved with. Even though he hasnt put out anything worthwhile in 15 years, I have no problem in trying out anything new he does. What do I have to lose anyway?
- Comment on It genuinely upsets me that Valve spent their time and resources on another Dota variation 2 months ago:
On the flip side, they still have that Valve spice. Alyx was worthy of the Half Life badge, something I was skeptical was still possible after all that time.
- Comment on The Verge Under Fire For Publishing Info About ‘Deadlock,’ Valve’s Secret Shooter 3 months ago:
Valve gives you access to a game and tells you not to spew your mouth off. A gentleman’s agreement if you will.
You spew your mouth off and valve takes access away.
shocked pikachu face
This is a non-issue of you ask me. A person, who happens to be a writer, got access to the game through a steam friend and was asked not to talk about it but thought they could just not agree to a warning and write about it anyway? I got access too and i didnt write about the game. I get to go back and play it today, they cant.
- Comment on ICANN approves use of .internal domain for your network 3 months ago:
I think it was only added in android 12.
- Comment on Real Facebook ad that doubles as a god-tier shitpost 3 months ago:
Not sure why a for profit corporation would limit its market to a specific, politically oriented, demographic. Especially when that corporations product is body hair removal - a process very much detached from all political and most social discourse.
- Comment on Day 1 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until A) I forget too post a Screenshot or B) I somehow run out of screenshots too share 4 months ago:
- Comment on HDD or SSD for a home server? 4 months ago:
Neat hack!
- Comment on HDD or SSD for a home server? 4 months ago:
Raspberry pi is power limited. HDD creates a power spike on boot as well so you may have power issues. When i used a rpi for a media server, i had to use a 25W supply. Even 20W wasnt enough and i had voltage throttling issues. 1TB HDD probably wont draw that much power but SSD is never an issue. If you dont need space and are on a budget SSD is the way to go.
If you need large amounts of space and have a budget, the HDD needs to be self powered or used with a larger device like a mini pc which has adequate internal power.
- Comment on “Immensely disappointing”: Nike killing app for $350 self-tying sneakers 4 months ago:
Not a complicated engineering problem to solve though. A weak enough motor wont be able to strangle anything even if its controlling software is hacked and turned to 11.
- Comment on Valve rumored to be working on Android emulator for Steam 4 months ago:
More like the other way round.
You can stream steam games to your phone with steam link thought.
- Comment on Growing Old 4 months ago:
I still remember the day I grew old. After forgetting my change at a self checkout machine, an younger attendant ran after me and refered to me as ‘sir’. After that day, I was no longer young. I was 29.
- Comment on World of Warcraft boss says Microsoft is happy to 'let Blizzard be Blizzard,' but I'm not sure that's entirely true 6 months ago:
We hear you valued customer, that’s why we are happy to announce Overwatch 3! Note: overwatch 2 will be inaccessible when 3 launches.
- Comment on Install Nextcloud with reverse Proxy 7 months ago:
I used docker to get nextcloud and nginx conf to reverse proxy to it. It works well and is not difficult to set up by following their guide on github. It works pretty much out of the box.
- Comment on Several indie studios tease the "iii initiative", including Darkest Dungeon/Slay the Spire/Vampire Survivors devs 8 months ago:
A non profit digital game store with 1% commission for triple A or better yet, triple I indie games.
- Comment on Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered has a warning about racial and ethnic stereotypes 9 months ago:
I haven’t played it but that doesn’t sound racist to me if the context is right. There are cannibal tribes today. They are black skinned. This is fact.
- Comment on Diablo 4's new mount costs more than the actual game 9 months ago:
Kids these days don’t know shit man. Skyrim had been out long enough to concieve a kid and watch him graduate. Oblivion might as well have been a DOS title to them.
- Comment on What game fits this? 9 months ago:
Is a cool game but i don’t see the appeal in playing it for that long. I’ve had enough after about 70 hours.
- Comment on What game fits this? 9 months ago:
Or… you know… spend the 2k on the hobby you already have. Fuck it. Might as well dig a deeper hole.
- Comment on If you were to suddenly come into possession of 12+ enterprise-grade SAS hard drives, how would you go about incorporating them into your homelab? 9 months ago:
Yeah a lot of people will say to just use your old PC thats lying around and it is a great way to start and learn but if you want something with a lower footprint (low power, quiet, cool) you’re better off buying something more suited to that task. Laptops or mini PCs are much more suited to that.
Id love to have a server rack one day but I just cant justify it drawing so much power and I can live with the drawbacks of a smaller server.
