TommySoda

@TommySoda@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reporter suggests Half-Life 3 will be a Steam Machine launch title⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My friend that let me borrow his copy of Half Life 2 back in the day would probably say the same thing. And he’s probably just as credible at this point. If it ain’t coming from Valve directly there’s really no reason to believe it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Larian CEO Responds to Divinity Gen AI Backlash: 'We Are Neither Releasing a Game With Any AI Components, Nor Are We Looking at Trimming Down Teams to Replace Them With AI'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They honestly should have expected this given peoples visceral reaction to anything AI. Personally, I have huge problems with AI and refuse to play most games that have used it. I think it’s poisoning every creative industry and replacing important jobs while using vague the excuse that it makes things “easier.” I’m willing to give Larian the benefit of the doubt simply because of their previous games being amazing, but imma wait for the reviews on this one. This game is still going to be in development for another 4 years and none of us will no what’ll happen between then and now, but for now I’ll remain hopefully optimistic

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Maker Promises ‘Divinity’ Will Be ‘Next Level’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  With the money they made from BG3 they have the means to make Divinity the best it can possibly be and I couldn’t be happier for them. The first two Divinity games were great, don’t get me wrong, but they were basically low budget when compared to the money they got from Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast to make BG3. I imagine they basically have “fuck you” money now and can do whatever they want. I can’t wait.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American exceptionalism⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah but I just wanna eat cigarettes. They make my mouth all tingly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American exceptionalism⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, nicotine is a nature pesticide made by tobacco plants. It’s kinda the same with capsaicin and humans love that shit. In a life or death situation this would probably be preferable to dying, at least.

  Realistically this is probably an older manual and shouldn’t be followed to the letter. You should not be eating less than 2 cigarettes a day.

  No, seriously, don’t eat cigarettes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Introverts Rock⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, as someone that is an introvert and had social anxiety, the mixup does get a little annoying. Being an introvert with social anxiety when growing up was a absolute nightmare in my experience. Especially because I wanted to socialize but couldn’t bring myself to do it. It’s a constant back and forth between “I need alone time” and “I wish I could talk to people” and it made me hate myself for being introverted. Luckily I’ve managed to mostly get over it as I’ve gotten older and now I’m happy with being an introvert. Now I’m in your boat and most people don’t even realize I’m introverted until they get to know me more personally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big Brother Is Watching Your Online Criticism of ICE Crackdowns⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My guess is that they don’t quite have the resources to do anything about it but are more than happy to let everyone know they are doing it to scare people. We’ve already seen how abysmal their ICE recruitment numbers have been and I highly doubt they’d be able to do anything against more than 50% of the entire population with what they currently have.

  Obligatory Fuck ICE

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11's adoption is much slower compared to Windows 10, claims Dell⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I run into that same issue from time to time. Another one I run into is when I click on items on the task bar it doesn’t bring it up as the active window even when everything else is working. I have to ALT+tab to bring up any Window or minimize every window just to find the one I want and it is absolutely infuriating.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11's adoption is much slower compared to Windows 10, claims Dell⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I use windows 10 at home while I use windows 11 at work. The only thing I like about windows 11 is tabs in the file explorer. Besides that I’ve had to deal with Windows Explorer crashing on a daily basis, task bar freezing completely multiple times a week, certain software straight up not working that I need to get work done, programs crashing that work perfectly fine on 10, internet connectivity issues (usually DNS for some fucking reason), periodically hearing the disconnect sound for a device even when everything is still working, awful drop down menus, needing to change the registry just to get basic features that 10 has, and the list goes on and on. At home everything just works. I’ve been testing Linux and have been getting better stability than Windows 11 and I feel like every week there’s a new problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bungie admit to Destiny 2 having an audience problem, as they try to figure out how to not make a "dead live game"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My friends convinced me to play Destiny 2 a couple years back. It was pretty fun and I was definitely enjoying myself for a couple days. But that’s when I found out they vaulted all the previous content from when the game came out. Felt like I was starting the game halfway through the story with no concrete starting point so I lost all motivation to play it again. I didn’t pick up the game so I could read up on the story line and watch youtube videos just to understand what’s going on. You’ll never get that many new players if the first thing you have to do when before you play it is do homework.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MAGA, splitting hairs.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t understand how they can even defend it. Best case scenario they are saying that raping women is perfectly fine as long as they’re old enough. I get that with some of the extreme MAGA out there really do believe this kinda shit, but I’m sure bullshit like this is why we see more and more people leaving MAGA every day. It’s no surprise that Republicans are getting absolutely destroyed in almost every election lately when you see what they act like and I feel like that will be their eventual downfall. They see these echo chambers online and believe that is an actual representation of what all republican voters think. A lot of people seem to forget, but most people still sit somewhere in the middle especially outside the internet. There’s still an argument to be had about how ignorant people were when it came to the election last year, but bitching about what already happened is never going to get us moving forward.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jeff Bezos reportedly launches new AI startup with himself as CEO⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  With how much external funding gets shoved into AI startups these days, I feel like 90% of AI startups are basically just a pump and dump with extra steps and targeted at investors. He’s probably already gotten millions in investments already just by this announcement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thief 1 & 2, the grandfather of the stealth genre⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never been able to enjoy any other stealth game because of Thief 1 + 2. I played them back in the early 2000s and they were the very first stealth games I ever played. I think because they are the grandfather of stealth games and are, in my opinion, the peak of stealth games, I ended up setting my expectations too high for other games and always left them slightly or even massively disappointed. Even the shitty parts of Thief 1 where it feels more like a barely even like a stealth game, they are still better than games that call themselves stealth games like Assassin’s Creed.

  In modern stealth games it doesn’t really punish you for being clumsy or getting caught. In most of those circumstances it just turns into an action game. Even some of the good stealth games like Dishonered very rarely punish you. In Thief if you get caught 7 out of 10 times you are just screwed. Garrett isn’t a strong and well trained fighter like you are in most games, he’s just a Thief and that’s what he’s best at. Combat is never the smart or reliable option. And in harder difficulties you straight up fail the mission if you kill anyone.

  Another thing that sets Thief apart is that it treats you like a regular dude and not some badass super human that always has all the info you need for a mission. Sometimes you get incomplete maps that you have to take notes on yourself. Sometimes you don’t even get a map that is reliable and you have to use it based on vibes. Sometimes you get thrown into a mission completely unprepared go up against enemies and situations that are extremely difficult. Sometimes you get missions that are super straight forward and easy if you know how to be a thief.

  All in all, these games are definitely peak stealth games. The first one is waaay more manly and some of the missions are just awful. But the good ones stand out and you definitely feel relieved when you get to them. The second game is 10x better than the first and has a lot less bullshit and a lot more stealth. Plus you get all kinds of cooler stuff because of lore reasons and it just makes it so much more enjoyable. I highly recommend to anyone that truly likes stealth games to play them if you haven’t. Thief 1 is a decent 8/10 for me and Thief 2 is an easy 10/10, especially for the stealth genre.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Last I heard there was a massive problem with cheaters and are planning a lot of microtransactions. Like, I’ve heard that in some cases every other lobby has a cheater. Not sure if that’s still an issue, but if it is imma still avoid it. It was definitely fun when it first came out and I hope they do something about the cheaters or already have done something about the cheaters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This was probably on the back burning and barely being worked on until they saw if Oblivion Remastered would be successful or not. They’re under Microsoft now and they could get shut down for any and every reason. And especially so if they waste money on developing a game that wouldn’t be profitable.

  As much as I hate the idea of remastering all their games instead of just making another fucking game, Fallout 3 is incredibly unplayable on modern PCs. You have to spend 5 hours modding it just to get it to work properly and even then it will still crash 4 times in the span of one day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft just changed where your Word documents live — here’s why it matters⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’d be surprised how many people actually need that. My boss is one of them and I constantly have to explain to him why shit like this is bad for us. We’re currently in the process of upgrading all our PCs to Windows 11 and I’m trying to convince him to let me install Linux on all the computers that don’t meet the hardware requirements. Fortunately we use an older version of Microsoft Office that doesn’t come with all the bullshit, but there will eventually be a day where we will have to “upgrade” that too. And because of this, I’m also trying to convince him to switch to something like LibreOffice.

  Uploading all of our shit to OneDrive is not only a bad idea because we have our own secure servers in house, but it’s also a bad idea because we deal with a lot of files that could get us sued if it was leaked online. We don’t even let our servers connect to the internet for that very purpose. And it’s not a matter of if, but when windows starts uploading all of our shit to OneDrive it will be a complete disaster. And I’m sure there are a lot of guys doing IT at various other companies all trying to explain to their boss the same thing I am while they ignore the issue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Following Microsoft's mass layoffs, former Elder Scrolls Online and Blackbird devs form worker-owned studio⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is just a hunch I have, but I’m pretty sure the reason why so many high-end and very well made indie games are starting to outnumber triple A games is a direct result of layoffs like this. It’s not like all these thousands of people would choose a different career just because they can’t work on one specific company. And if we can get more games like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, I’m all for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Discord Breach Might Be Worse Than We Thought, As The Hacker Is Said To Have Two Million Age Verification Photos⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh no it’s that thing everyone would say would happen!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Employees regularly paste company secrets into ChatGPT⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So what you are saying is that if I went to ChatGPT and asked super nice what [blank] company secrets were it would know the answer? There would be no way to fact check it, but I do find that incredibly funny.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You are so naive it’s almost impressive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Alright, then show me your text messages and location data over the past year. If you have nothing to hide then it should be no big deal, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EA CEO says company values will 'remain unchanged' under the new ownership of Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushner's investment firm⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I played it too and I 100% agree. However, I feel like it’s always a good thing to keep in mind is that the best time to play an online shooter is when it first comes out. That way you get to at least have fun before all the casual people move on to other games and the sweaty people are the only ones left. My friends convinced me to try Fortnite just a couple years ago and all that happened was I got stomped every match and was like “this is fun for you guys?” I’ve been playing Overwatch since release and it’s basically impossible to get a match I’d consider “fun,” so to speak. I just wanted to get in on the fun for Battlefield before it turned into all sweats. Now I’d prefer to just avoid it all together.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EA CEO says company values will 'remain unchanged' under the new ownership of Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushner's investment firm⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not gonna lie, I was pretty stoked for Battlefield 6. Haven’t played one since 3 and all my friends were gonna get it. Guess I’ll just go fuck myself and keeping playing Overwatch or something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Extremists are using Discord to radicalize American youth, officials warned this year⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, they’re using the internet in general. Discord is just a platform that they can talk on and it’s fairly easy to use. It’s not like Discord advertises these servers and gets people to join them. What’s really happening is that these people are either seeking out these servers or are being sent invites from people already inside.

  My point is that Discord is not the issue. If they crack down on Discord they will just find somewhere else to go. You’d have to control the entire internet in a similar way to Russia or China in order to actually stop it this way. It’s a societal issue that they are trying to solve by censorship instead of actually fixing the underlying issues that push people to extremism. I’m sure the majority of these issues would be solved by a system that actually prioritized mental health and getting people the help they need instead of one that pushes these people out of society because they are “insane.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thousands protest in London over Trump UK visit⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah yes, you are correct. My bad lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thousands protest in London over Trump UK visit⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  While I kinda agree, I wouldn’t wish him upon anybody else. I say Russia can have him. He’s basically a celebrity over there anyway. Him and Jason Segal would probably be really quick friends.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chairman Comer Invites CEOs of Discord, Steam, Twitch, and Reddit to Testify on Radicalization of Online Forum Users - United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Who are the ones really celebrating his death? The ones that thought he was an asshole or the ones that are using his death in every way possible to push their own personal agendas? I betcha in private these people are laughing their asses off and being waaaay more disrespectful than any of us have been.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford Tells Borderlands 4 Critics To 'Code Your Own Engine,' Calls It a Game For 'Premium Gamers'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Bro you didn’t code your engine either you just used Unreal Engine 5.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US | Republicans investigate Wikipedia over allegations of organized bias⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s why I just downloaded Wikipedia. I’d take an out of date one rather than an “approved” one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Google getting rid of all the things that made people want an android phone over an iPhone.