Blackmist

@Blackmist@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New UEFI vulnerabilities send firmware devs industry wide scrambling⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s that necessarily a good thing?

  I remember suddenly needing a firewall on my PC back in the days of the Blaster worm.

  Do we really want all those crappy IoT devices open on all ports to the general internet?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baldur’s Gate 3 boss says gamers don’t want mass subscriptions⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If only they’d carried on with that idea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft Exec Says Gamers Need to Get 'Comfortable' Not Owning Their Games for Subscriptions to Take Off⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not really, Ubisoft.

  Much like music, movie and TV, you just need to make sure your content is both available for purchase for people who don’t want a subscription and consistently available on a subscription service for those that do.

  It’s when you start fucking around and taking them off again because somebody else is offering you more for exclusivity that we get pissed off and just pirate things. You can’t expect Assassin’s Creed Black Flag to still be making you a noticeable amount of money, but a subscriber can rightfully expect it to be on your service.

  I’m of the opinion that if a game is on a subscription service, be it PSN or Game Pass, then it should stay there except in very extreme circumstances. A game can take weeks to play through, and it’s only going to take one large game going AWOL at 90% completion for me to sour on the whole idea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some of the best mini-games youve played? (games inside games)⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Gwent.

  I didn’t like the standalone version, but the in-game one had just the right level of puzzle to keep me at it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI comes up with battery design that uses 70 per cent less lithium⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it just a 70% smaller battery?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This console generation seems skippable⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It was the same on Reddit as well.

  PC gamers supposedly everywhere, meanwhile you can barely buy a decent GPU for the price of a PS5.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wi-Fi 7 quietly took off while everyone was looking at AI⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hell, my ethernet networking doesn’t support the speeds wifi6 supposedly delivered.

  Realistically, as long as it’s faster than your internet connection, you’re unlikely to give a fuck either way.

  I only upgraded to gigabit ethernet for game streaming from my upstairs PC.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Google allowed to remove purchases from our Play Store accounts without telling us?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And on another note, why is it not backwards compatible with older apps?

  I’ve got games and a bathroom speaker I can’t access because I got a new phone. Are we just expecting devs to sit there updating their apps forever to meet new stupid requirements?

  Fuck the whole Android ecosystem. It’s completely broken from top to bottom.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games that force you to make hard choices⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think Witcher 1 actually did it better.

  The gameplay is a tough sell though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Truly inspirational⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Only for adult body weight.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feddit.UK has finally kicked the bucket- and what happens next.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, unless I own all my own data, the Fediverse doesn’t really solve anything. Sure, I could host a server just for me, but if everyone did that would it even work? Or would it collapse under the load of all the data whizzing about behind the scenes?