CMLVI

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Duverger's law - Wikipedia⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s saying that they do run all the time, and then when the election is over, they disappear and do nothing until the next election. This is likely more in reference to National races or big federal seats.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pluralistic: The online community trilemma⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, this would be good in my mind. I don’t even care if it’s just the communities my instance is federated with only; I would imagine I land with an instance that shares my values, so their federation I’d be OK with (hypothetically). I just don’t want to feel like I’m missing out by being somewhere else and not knowing/being aware of a portion of the community. I want the discussion just as much as I want the information presented.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Pokémon Go is giving delivery robots an inch-perfect view of the world⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh cool. So now they will offer a service for customers (e.g. Palantir, US Govt, whatever ABC agency) to accurately pinpoint locations of people based off of images. Luckily our phones don’t have backdoors into them and surely won’t have a way for Face Unlock images to be seen, and functional real-time updates on any given person’s location? And with how much these phones are used for communication, surely they won’t also have evidence of perceived dissent, all in a nice little rectangle package.

  I understand that Apple and, I guess sorta, Google aren’t necessarily willing to allow this, and it might not be legal, or any number of other hurdles, but it’s just one step easier for actors who want to and have the means to do so. Good lord this place sucks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve says 5,863 titles earned over $100,000 on Steam in 2025⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  True. Gaming landscape feels weird rn, looking at it from current standing. Tough sledding for aspiring devs. I’m also right about that age where nostalgia tends to make everything new look a bit less shiny, so I may be choosing not to see the best current offerings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve says 5,863 titles earned over $100,000 on Steam in 2025⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like you’d have to control for the obvious asset flips or just random, I guess, spam games thrown out on a daily basis. I don’t think it’d move the needle that much tho

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, saw the previous post. I’d argue that is a pretty good use-case for AI. Throw together a quick reference, see how you feel about it before putting 2 dozen hours into making the image yourself, just to find out the concept doesn’t work. Just make sure you do the work yourself at some point lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox as a platform is officially dead⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If I can get my Xbox game library and saved progress onto the PC, great. Sucks I’ve double bought some titles but whatever I guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games with friends⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We have been playing Fall Guys and Party Animals a bit, but we’re kinda mixed between console and PC right now, so we’re limited. We were also playing Kart Rider: Drift, but I think it got taken off Steam and is now on another Storefront? Idk. It’s a fun little Mario Kart clone. Chained Together is a blast for a little while, if not just to rag on whoever sucks the most. Left 4 Dead but modded always looks fun, Golf with your Friends is a favorite of mine. Ultimate Chicken Horse looks like it’d be a good time as well (or any of those short form building course building games). RV There Yet is a PEAK style game (or whatever you’d call it) that I’d say looks a little more varied in activities that looks like a blast as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Federated End-to-End Encrypted Messaging is Coming Soon⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fediverse and Linux have to be the most unholy tech union in existence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Be Wary of Bluesky⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Insanely well said. It seems like the goal with much of the discourse is just “my choice is right and everything else is wrong, and I’ll work backwards from there”. Not everyone uses social media the same way, not everyone has the same goals, not everyone wants the same features, not everyone values the same levels of privacy. And the running narrative with differing opinions on this seems to just be base-level tribalism. Just look at the insults here, lobbed solely because someone made an account with a social media platform that doesn’t align with your preferences.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We made a Fediverse community on Fluxer⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think they mean Voice Chat with VC lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MMO Ashes of Creation spirals into a legal dumpster fire, as investor claims creative director Steven Sharif siphoned millions away from the company while it was drowning in debt⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I know he put out a bunch of stuff initially to support his side, but that hasn’t really stood up to scrutiny

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MMO Ashes of Creation spirals into a legal dumpster fire, as investor claims creative director Steven Sharif siphoned millions away from the company while it was drowning in debt⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d be surprised if it were, but I still have some friends from other MMOs who bought in and are in denial. Sharif has some master plan and corporate shills derailed it or something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MMO Ashes of Creation spirals into a legal dumpster fire, as investor claims creative director Steven Sharif siphoned millions away from the company while it was drowning in debt⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are still people defending Sharif around the internet too. Less than before but I remember right when news broke, people fully believed it was the boards fault, completely ignoring that there was no board.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The developers of PEAK, explaining how they decided on pricing for their game. ⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Finally, someone who thinks like me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stardew Valley Creator Shuts Down Rumors Haunted Chocolatier 'Will Be Abandoned,' Insisting: 'It Will Come Out When It’s Ready' - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Idk what it is about players now, but if there is an announcement, they want the game out immediately. Another game I follow is being made by a small dev team, and they give somewhat regular updates. Multiple a year, generally timed to monthly, but like Dec got skipped for holidays. It’s almost daily someone is claiming the game isn’t coming out, it’s a scam, the game doesn’t exist, etc. And this wouldn’t have anywhere near the fan base ConcernedApe is dealing with. Just shut up and let people make the game…they don’t owe you a game, or updates about the game.

  Maybe it’s cause GTA6 and TES6 are in dev hell and it’s become a meme that they aren’t releasing, but still. It’s top-shelf annoying behavior.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s insanity lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Brother it’s so bad. I’ve been trying to help a friend do one recently, or at least plan it, and I’ve watched my previously $85 2x16 sticks of GSkill DDR5 (like the cheapest option I had) shoot up to like $260 in under a month has been insane. It’s not even good ram…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Helldivers 2 Coming to Xbox - Crossplay Will Unite Players From All Platforms⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s about what I do. Jump on for a few rounds every few weeks just to do it, but the gameplay loop doesn’t keep me long term. I just don’t care to level/unlock stuff like that anymore really, not without a greater purpose. But it’s fun when I play, and I’ll absolutely help some Xbox homies kill some bots.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Helldivers 2 Coming to Xbox - Crossplay Will Unite Players From All Platforms⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is big. I think they teased this with the destruction and current remaking of the Helldivers Training Facility. It’ll come on line when Xbox is released (don’t quote me, I haven’t checked timeliness at all. Just my thoughts from way outside!)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The bizarre, dismal page you see if you open YouTube without an account.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My recommended is decent but every now and then it’ll try to throw some weird shit in there. Loves recommending me off-shoot Fox channels because I have the main one blocked. Seems like every few months it pops up. But yeah, I get a lot of MTB, Motocross, and OSRS stuff cause it’s what I tend to watch. Some random car YouTubers (Rob Dahm ILY) and random video essays about interesting stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MMO Hype Train: Dune Awakening stumbles, trips, and sometimes sprints in its early experience⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How would you have a multiplayer online game without forced online play? It’s a requirement of multiplayer (I guess barring LAN, but what is the likelihood of anything being “massive” multiplayer while on LAN) and online. That’s like 2/3 of the name

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As The Outer Worlds 2 hits $80, director says "we don't set the prices for our games" and wishes "everybody could play" Obsidian's new RPG⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I made it maybe 20 min before I un-installed. I don’t vibe with Fallout in general (but I’ll suffer through them) and with the writing style, just wasn’t my thing. Maybe the 2nd one is a bit more polished and I can get into it cause I heard good things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are KF users being banned?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re free to make your own instance if you disagree with bans or moderation, and others are free to defederate from you if they don’t wanna see it. What exactly is the issue, that you don’t get a captive audience?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After a lengthy legal battle and billion-dollar loss, 'Fortnite' is back on iOS⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It helps that it’s trending towards being a pre-built PC more and more, and I do think that will help in some regard. If the PC and Xbox versions are able to be the same, then dev costs go down, and you get a pretty solid idea of what a good lower-to-mid tier spec PC can do and optimize for that. It also would hopefully mean that more and more catalog becomes playable on PC, but who knows how far back that would go. Maybe Microsoft would make an emulator that you log-in to for access to 360-onward games? May be extreme wishful thinking there tho lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Awooo⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is fucking killing me right now. Same with “we get to say the F slur again” like…you were never not allowed to say it. The only repercussion was some people fucked with you less, and that’s still the case. Y’all just use it as a battle cry now.

  Same mfs were mad that Bud Light made a few cans of gay beer haven’t let go either, but their rules say they get to hold the grudge but Dems can’t be mad at Chic Fil A.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will all these multiplayer games being released without support for LAN or hosting our own servers no longer be multiplayer when the company shuts down the servers?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Unlikely to care, realistically. I play multiplayer games with friends; I cannot think of the last time I wanted to play Gears of War 2, or Forza Motorsport 3, or any number of other games I’ve played with friends in the past that I own copies of.

  I get the sentiment behind this, and I do think there should be a backend set up for private lobbies through P2P connection for when the inevitable occurs. But on the scale of things I’m worried about daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly, this doesn’t register at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any lemmy instance that's truly liberal enough to tolerate a completely divergent point of view ? The EU norms are not for me, and I'm also far far away from the MAGA politics of USA !!!⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think he’d prefer you to make assumptions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oblivion Remastered Impressions (and Discussion Thread)⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah performance is my absolute biggest issue rn. I’m getting like…70-80fps on med on a 2080ti. Other than that, I’m very happy with it, although I’m only about 4 hours in

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hmmm⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Liberals, that’s what.