Tattorack

@Tattorack@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Clean butt⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Bottle of water. Wash with hand.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First-party Switch 2 games—including re-releases—all run either $70 or $80⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm… I’ve heard a few things about Sonic All-Stars too. Guess I should give it a shot.

  Would be cool if Crash Nitro Kart isn’t still a PlayStation exclusive…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First-party Switch 2 games—including re-releases—all run either $70 or $80⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t wait to wait 2 years and then pirate it.

  But besides that; are there any good PC kart racers?

  (Emphasis on “good”, because I already know about Super Tux Kart, used to play it a lot more than 10 years ago, but today it feels very… Clunky and dated).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Switch 2 Launches on June 5th Worldwide; 1080p Screen With 120 FPS and HDR Support, Docked Mode 4K Resolution Support Confirmed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  You can download and keep the installers forever in your personal storage somewhere, and install them without the need of Internet connection.

  When you buy a game from GOG you’re buying without DRM and have all the installers available to download as backups. Regardless of what the fine print may say, this is effectively owning your games forever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Switch 2 Launches on June 5th Worldwide; 1080p Screen With 120 FPS and HDR Support, Docked Mode 4K Resolution Support Confirmed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup. Install either Heroic or Lutris (though Heroic is a little better). I think there’s also a plugin to allow you to access Heroic through the Steam frintend, but in Desktop Mode, when installing a game through Heroic, it’ll add it to your Steam library, which means you can access it in Game Mode too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you dislike your dependency on Android? To the rescue comes Mobile Linux "PostmarketOS" - Funded via Donations, Focus on Reliabilty for 2025⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Can Linux mobile OSs install apk apps?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Switch 2 Nintendo Direct Will Be 60 Minutes Long, Nintendo Confirms⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  For the past 20 years that also included fun gimmicks. They sometimes fail, as with the Wii U, or were good but… Kinda just a gimmick, like the 3DS. But Nintendo has been making their consoles pretty unique from every other console. The DS format and the Wii are still very unique consoles. The Switch 2… Not so much…

  I don’t doubt the Switch 2 will see success, but how it’ll stand out from everything else like the Switch originally did is still a question.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Switch 2 Nintendo Direct Will Be 60 Minutes Long, Nintendo Confirms⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That first part really resonates because I experienced the DS lite. I didn’t see many phat NDS consoles, but kids everywhere had a DS lite. Mariokart did insanely well on that console, but not just because it was Mariokart, but also because of the download play feature.

  It seems like Nintendo wants to replicate something like that through it’s virtual game card sharing feature. But it also seems like it’s a feature on the original Switch, so I wonder what new things they’ve planned.

  I too will be surprised if the Switch 2 does better than the Switch. The 3DS, arguably the real sequel to the NDS, as opposed to the DSi, didn’t really touch the same highs that the DS lite did.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Switch 2 Nintendo Direct Will Be 60 Minutes Long, Nintendo Confirms⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m honestly curious is the Switch 2 will follow in that success.

  Credit where credit is due; lots of kickstarters and small private companies have tried making something like the Switch for years, but very few people knew or cared about them. Then Nintendo pulls it off, which leads to the Steam Deck, which then compells a whole market to spring up for similar format devices.

  Now there is a market, with competition from all sides, and Valve seems to be the one most are talking about for this format. Besides crushing emulators, how will Nintendo compete?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Switch 2 Nintendo Direct Will Be 60 Minutes Long, Nintendo Confirms⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe that’s the point. You begin the video, the host says “Hello, and welcome!”, then you immediately stop the video having just watched 15 seconds.

  “That was a pretty interesting Nintendo Direct!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG seems to be considering paid membership option⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The only one that sounds good to me, perhaps, are the voting rights. I’d pay for that. Patreon artists and creators do this sort of thing, and if this is something GOG needs to do to get by, then fine by me.

  Downloading offline installers/backups, however… That would be locking away a feature that exists now to everyone that has bought a game. That means locking away a feature from customers who have spent money on a product already… Likely for the explicit point of being able to get installers that don’t need an online connection. If they choose to do this, they’d be desfeting their own purpose.

  For context; I bought most of my games on GOG. I don’t really buy games anymore, and my Steam library is low absolutely massive, however. Both of those reasons are because I’ve been subbed to Humble Monthly for a few years. But ultimately when I go looking to buy a game, my preference is to buy from GOG specifically because it’s offline and DRM free.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubi, it's $70 and people are vary of your mile wide puddles that drop 75% in price after half a year⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It can be a bit of both. You can tell a good story that also stats true to the historical events. Not being being able to do that shows a lack of skill and imagination.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubi, it's $70 and people are vary of your mile wide puddles that drop 75% in price after half a year⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Except The Last Samurai isn’t remotely historical.

  Tom Cruise’s is very roughly based in a French admiral. That admiral got sent specifically to Japan to create political relations with a certain faction of Samurai to further French interests there. The French admiral was made samurai as honorary title and put into service of the household.

  During the final battle (which was a castle siege, and both sides were using guns), the French admiral was released from service and sent home.

  If a movie or a series were to be made of this, and if it were to be somewhat accurate, it’d be closer to a political thriller with some battles in between.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubi, it's $70 and people are vary of your mile wide puddles that drop 75% in price after half a year⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought so too in the beginning. But the English character in that series is more of a… Useful tool that gets used. He has no agency and he never realises it throughout the entire series.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubi, it's $70 and people are vary of your mile wide puddles that drop 75% in price after half a year⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Joke’s on you; neither are OK. The Last Samurai is only good to those with weird exotic ideas about Samurai, Japan, and that time period.

  Would be cool if there was a series about the actual French admiral that movie is based on, and all the political miandering that happened in that time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Assassin’s Creed Shadows devs roast Elon Musk amid feud with Hasan⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is… None of this is important.

  Bloody hell, people in the comments getting worked over a social media altercation… On Twatter of all places…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs | The free open-source Microsoft Office alternative is being downloaded by nearly 1 million users a week⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Good. Finally. It’s about time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Devs of Monster Crown: Sin Eater a 2D monster taming RPG want to 'take that concept to its absolute limits'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You know, when you combine the term “2D monster taming RPG” with “absolute limits” literally everyone is going to think taming and fucking.

  Anyway, Cloud Meadow exists so they got competition…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why would an all loving god create hell?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re making a dumb conspiracy out of nothing.

  I was curious after reading your posts, so I looked up the most famous person I know out of history from the period of ancient history with a name starring with “J”. Which is of course Julius.

  And I found this, which goes a long way to explain a lot about the shape of letters and how they were used. This was answered on a stack-exchange for linguistic history:

  “(linguistics.stackexchange.com/posts/…/timeline)

  As others stated, on monumental inscriptions, the name of Julius Caesar would look similar to

  IVLIVS CAESAR

  However, saying it was “spelled with an I instead of a J” may be misleading, because ‘J’ as a later innovation did not arise from thin air: while ‘I’ and ‘J’ were not distinguished in Roman times, they existed as graphically distinct variants of the same letter, which always looked more like ‘I’ in capitals, but could sometimes look more like a (dotless) ‘ȷ’ in everyday cursive script.

  The distinction was originally just a matter of natural variation within people’s handwriting, but in time, a habit tended to form where the first and/or last letters in a word may come to stand out more, resulting in ‘ȷ’ being used more often than ‘ı’ in those contexts, just like a better-defined ‘v’ would stand out more than a more fluidly-written ‘u’. I think this pattern can be observed in a few of the Vindolanda tablets for example. I consider it somewhat natural for the first bit of handwriting to be written more carefully or incisively than what follows.

  In the case of ‘ȷ’ (often called the equivalent of “long I” in several modern languages), the distinction may also have been influenced by the standardized classical Roman habit of writing a longer ‘I’ to indicate that it was a long vowel, something they routinely did in inscription too, and which was unique to ‘I’ as the same indication was given for other vowel letters by writing an apex above them, at least when useful to reduce ambiguity. This use, in any case, is distinct from the specific shape and use that ‘J’ later evolved into.

  Another letter that often underwent shape/length changes depending on position in Roman cursive was ‘s’, and this distinction also survived into modern times as the long ſ, this time used within words whereas ‘s’ would be used at the extremities. Since this also appears in Caesar’s name in both word positions, we can reconstruct the way his name would typically have been written in Roman cursive by approximating it, at least in concept, with the modern lowercase form

  ȷulıus caeſar

  Perhaps because words that begin with ‘I’ or ‘V’ in Latin are statistically more likely to use those as the semivowels /j/ and /w/, rather that the vowels /i/ and /u/ which are more common in the middle of words, eventually — but well after Roman times, and partly after the Middle Ages — ‘J’ and ‘V’ established themselves as semivocalic forms, while ‘I’ and ‘U’ remained for the vowels, and since the informal cursive distinction in “glyph length” became systematized as swashes in printing, this was no longer just restricted to handwriting.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why would an all loving god create hell?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Except the difference is that in this case your parents know literally everything and you are only capable of doing things according to their plan.

  So if you misbehaved, your parents already know you would, and also exactly how, long before you were even born, and it’d all be part of their plan.

  So… Why are you being punished again?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨fetching bleach after this one⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The twitter LLM huh? I guess we’ll soon hear Musk throw a tantrum over this on his feed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨fetching bleach after this one⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This… Gotta be a photoedit or an AI-gen, right?

  … Right…?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨6 years and 1 prolonged delay later, Xbox is still calling "incredible" Hollow Knight: Silksong one of its "upcoming games"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  True, but some pretty good clones have come out since Hollow Knight, so it’s not impossible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨6 years and 1 prolonged delay later, Xbox is still calling "incredible" Hollow Knight: Silksong one of its "upcoming games"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It doesn’t have to be the best game of all time. It just has to be at least as good as Hollow Knight.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fucking leeches⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone that used to hang out on the Discord server I’m part of justified it because “the world is divided between winners and losers. For there to be winners there have to be losers.”

  He was a real privileged asshole who worked in accounting for the US military. Loved how his paycheck was bigger than most soldiers, even some officers. Bitched for nearly a whole month about how the Obama administration was giving “free handouts” when the US pulled out of Afghanistan and gave all the veterans a care package.

  I argued with him a lot. Nobody liked him. This is the kind of person the people from OP’s meme are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Split Fiction's Josef Fares says they'll never offer microtransactions: "Just make games. Period."⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, I mean, there haven’t been microtransactions in their games yet…

  So we can take his word for it, for now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Github: Nintendo Submit DMCA Notices to Ryujinx Forks⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nintendo hates all emulators. Ryujinx is just another one on their chopping block.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baldur's Gate 3 and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 show that the future of RPGs is in games way more ambitious, weird and unexpected than anything Bethesda and Bioware have to offer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Aggressively cliché” huh?

  So… Where are all the realistic medieval sandbox RPGs? You know, of the kind set in an actual historical period?

  Or… Or… How often has capturing the freedom and complexity of D&D in a videogame been attempted so accurately?

  For something to even approach becoming a cliché there’d have to be a lot of that particular something done in exactly that particular way. So please do give a nice long list of games exactly like Kingdom Come Deliverence and Baldur’s Gate 3, because clearly everyone must’ve missed them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Github: Nintendo Submit DMCA Notices to Ryujinx Forks⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It does. Piracy is a service issue. The games exist. They’re easy to emulate. Company tries to pull off artificial scarcity. Players become pirates

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon Boycot March 7-14th | No Purchases. Its time to disrupt the system.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I still can’t believe Amazon got away with it.