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- Comment on Nvidia blocks access to video card driver updates for users from Russia and Belarus. 3 weeks ago:
Sanctions have not succeeded in lessening support or created regime change. They are a siege warfare tactic, and a way of inflicting suffering upon the masses of people. There’s plenty of books on the topic, I’d recommend Sanctions as War, edited by Stuart Davis and Immanuel Ness.
- Comment on Diablo Coming to Sega Dreamcast 3 months ago:
I’ve played Devilution X on my Anbernic handheld and it was serviceable enough, I got to like level 17 before I ran out of steam on my rogue.
- Comment on Here's why modern gaming suuuuucks. 4 months ago:
There’s a lot of games that do very well that don’t fall into your stereotypes.
Sure, CoD sells the best. That doesn’t mean Disco Elysium sucks though, or Citizen Sleeper, or Stardew Valley, or Sekiro, or Psychonauts 2, or Hollow Knight, or any number of great games. Games that were impossible when manufacture was monopolized by Nintendo’s cartel, or when cartridges were required and made games cost $60 in 1995.
Gaming is not immune from dialectics. It too exists in a tension between contradictions. It is both terrible, and wonderful, as it was during the golden age you are highlighting from the past, when games cost far more money and were available to far fewer people. When there was no way for one person (Stardew) or two (Hollow Knight) to be able to make and distribute an entire game without submitting themselves to subservience under a publisher.
- Comment on Jaw-Dropping SNES Mod Fixes One Of The Console's Biggest Problems | Time Extension 4 months ago:
One chip SNES already have super sharp pixels, this just brings 2 Chip SNES up to the standard set by the one chip models.
- Comment on ANU asks pro-Palestinian encampments to disband as students claim ‘witch-hunt’ taking place 5 months ago:
I wasn’t aware my replies had to be on your preferred timeline. As if your “too bad” comment wasn’t itself childish, much less your brain dead take on the extremely peaceful protests.
- Comment on ANU asks pro-Palestinian encampments to disband as students claim ‘witch-hunt’ taking place 5 months ago:
History will remember the students fondly. It won’t remember you at all.
- Comment on ANU asks pro-Palestinian encampments to disband as students claim ‘witch-hunt’ taking place 5 months ago:
No.
- Comment on ANU asks pro-Palestinian encampments to disband as students claim ‘witch-hunt’ taking place 5 months ago:
Then don’t do it.
- Comment on Nearly all Nintendo 64 games can now be recompiled into native PC ports to add proper ray tracing, ultrawide, high FPS, and more 5 months ago:
Idk about this, but the Mario 64 decompile was recompiled to run on my Anbernic 353 at 60fps, runs amazing. So I think it should be at least theoretically possible.
- Comment on Biden really, really doesn’t want China to flood the US with cheap EVs 6 months ago:
Tell me you know nothing about Chinese EVs without saying you know nothing about Chinese EVs.
- Comment on Favourite controllers 6 months ago:
For 3D games:\
- Xbox Series X controller with added ExtremeRate back paddle kit.
For PC games:\
- og Steam controller
Most of the time I use the Dualsense Edge though, because I rarely use controller on pc and almost never turn on my Xbox.
- Comment on Biden really, really doesn’t want China to flood the US with cheap EVs 6 months ago:
China charges nearly double for its EVs outside of there Chinese market. They tend to do what most companies do, charge the highest price that people will still pay. China domestically is the most competitive market in the world, so they have $10,000 high quality EVs, but they don’t have to do that elsewhere and so they don’t.
- Comment on How rental ‘libraries of things’ have become the new way to save money 6 months ago:
Obligatory Library Socialism Link: librarysocialism.org
- Comment on How rental ‘libraries of things’ have become the new way to save money 6 months ago:
Libraries of things should be state run and free at point of use. They should also be integrated into communities in a way that makes them easy to access. Instead of everyone having a lawn mower, you check out an electric mower once a week, on a date that you’ve reserved it, and the entire community uses it, or if in a large community, your immediate neighbors use it, and then it’s returned for the next people to use it.
Libraries of things should not only be for things you use once a year. They should be for just about everything that you don’t use every day.
Usafruct >>>>>> UsusFructisAbusus.
- Comment on Choose your difficulty 6 months ago:
Tb is back, haven’t you heard?
- Comment on "PSN isn't supported in my country. What do I do?" Arrowhead CEO: "I don't know" 6 months ago:
The developers can host a few servers, sure, that’s an option. If that’s the method they take, they also release what’s known as a dedicated server utility, that allows anyone to launch a dedicated server on their machine, or to rent out a server in a hosting center. You can find this model in games such as Counter-Strike, Quake, Unreal, and some of the Battlefields.
This allows for the community to self police, and people will naturally end up in a community that fits their preferences, and rude or toxic players will quickly find themselves banned from the majority of servers and be forced to change their behavior or play a different game. Players can modify server settings, or make entirely new game types that the developers may not have thought about or wouldn’t have the resources to create, and people can create tools that allow servers to easily moderate their servers, and elect moderators and admins from within the community for when they’re not online. This also allows for developers to negate the need to be able to host millions of players, and when the game dies, if it does, all they have to host is a Master Server list. —— Another option, especially for games with small groups of people is to allow the game to be hosted live by one of the players in the squad or group. This is called peer-to-peer servers. In this case, and can either be done by “hosting” the game server and waiting for or inviting players, or by having the game monitor latency and automatically migrate to the best host based on connection and distance. Deep Rock uses the first of these two options, whoever starts the game becomes the host, and stays that until they close the server or quit the game. In this instance, devs host no servers except the master server list, allowing even the smallest of devs to be able to handle millions of people playing their game simultaneously without any real increase in their server costs.
- Comment on "PSN isn't supported in my country. What do I do?" Arrowhead CEO: "I don't know" 6 months ago:
Community hosted servers worked pretty damn well for a very long time, and aren’t reliant upon large amounts of infrastructure to continue being playable. In fact, I can still go play almost every game from that era that was good enough to maintain a player base without issue.
- Comment on Japanese police create fake support scam payment cards to warn victims 6 months ago:
I’ve triggered scam locks on remittance apps before also, and they were very pushy in informing me that I may be being scammed (I wasn’t, but I honestly didn’t mind too much).
- Comment on Elon Musk says it's his turn to have the remote 6 months ago:
Fully functional robotic taxis are already here, they’re just not made by western companies. It’s doubtful musks will ever work at this point, his “self-driving” is vaporware.
- Comment on House Responds to Israeli-Iranian Missile Exchange by Taking Rights Away from Americans 6 months ago:
People with family there, people doing aid work there, people working with international companies, people who are curious, investigative journalists, people interested in history in one of the oldest centers of human civilization in the world.
Saudi Arabia is a literal theocratic monarchy, who provides the funding for the majority of terror groups in the world. UAE is a theocratic monarchy supported by slavery and indentured servitude, but there’s no restrictions to go there. I get ads for Dubai travel agencies all the time.
Can’t go to Cuba though, a country that has had equal rights between genders and races longer than the US.
- Comment on Pre-Mac OS X games 6 months ago:
Upload those beyatches to a torrent site as images!
- Comment on The Don't Starve devs' new cutesy co-cop dungeon crawler is out in early access today 6 months ago:
That makes me wonder. This recent TikTok ban is really a “ Bill to Protect Americans From Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications, including TikTok”, does this mean that tencent will be effected?
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Workers adjusted real wages have not caught back up to where they were Q1 2021, and have begun declining again…
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Wouldn’t do anything to wipe out the debts of the working class. Inflation doesn’t translate to increased wages, as we can clearly see from the last few years. It would wipe out the debts of the rich, though. China’s currency is sort of artificially pegged against the dollar, a devaluation of the dollar could cause them a lot of problems also, as they’d be forced to devalue their own currency to maintain its peg.
- Comment on It is truly magic 6 months ago:
Speak for yourself, righty.
- Comment on Whistleblower 'would not' put family on Boeing 787 jet 6 months ago:
I took a high speed train to Beijing, and it was one of the best travel experiences of my life. Way above any airplane I’ve ever been on, for sure.
- Comment on unsure why we are surprised lol 7 months ago:
Yeah. Also, your instance is pretty well known for doing little about the vast numbers of hard right and alt right individuals on it who seek out and harass left leaning individuals, so it’s in both instances best interest to be separated.
- Comment on Biden 'outraged' over Israel strike on World Central Kitchen staff in Gaza 7 months ago:
And what did they do in Yugoslavia?
- Comment on Dragon Ball: First theme park to be built in Saudi Arabia 7 months ago:
Well, that’s a bummer of a place for something so cool. Would make more sense in Mexico.
- Comment on U.S. lawmaker calls China a “fascist dictatorship”, urges Western countries to confront the threats from Beijing to avoid war in Taiwan 7 months ago:
Fucking lmao. Every accusation an admission.
