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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BAFTA Crowns Shenmue "The Most Influential Video Game Of All Time" In Surprise Result | Time Extension⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Dreamcast was the best console of the sixth generation. If Sega hadn’t spun up MegaCD, 32x, and Saturn in such a short time, I think developers would have embraced the Dreamcast more rather than be weary Sega would abandon it for another system a couple of years later.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BAFTA Crowns Shenmue "The Most Influential Video Game Of All Time" In Surprise Result | Time Extension⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Shenmue was insanely cool when it came out in 1999. To consider Ocarina of Time came out the year before, open world games were a brand new thing. Shenmue paired that with an epic action life-sim. It was just so unexpected; so many minigame-like mechanics for doing things around the world. It was incredibly immersive and ahead of its time.

  I don’t think it has as big an impact on players as it had on developers.

  The Yakuza series sticks out as greatly inspired by Shenmue / spiritual successor, as with Persona series. Also games like Lake, Fahrenheit / The Indigo Prophecy, GTA/RedDead, FFVII Remake, all owe a little to Shenmue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Infrastructure construction in Britain is defective. The most budget UK tramway is more expensive than the most costly french tramway⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Why is this the case?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Javascript/Linux is what I call it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  *Javascript (Java is a different language altogether).

  Side thought; you just reminded me of the days when websites were running Java applets or Shockwave all over the place. shudders

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zen browser had a backdoor enabled by default⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought it just allowede easier debugging, sorry

  Fuuuuck. I wouldn’t eat a sandwich made by this person let alone a web browser. Forking and mucking around in a code base they clearly don’t understand. I get the feeling they’re one of those chmod -R 777 people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  NetHack takes me waaaay back. Blows my mind DevTeam are still working on it. I haven’t played in a few years. NetHack, Angband, C:DDA, etc are all games I play on long haul flights since they use the least battery and I’ve not been on a long haul since the pandemic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That and Dwarf Fortress; learning curve is steep but they’re rogue-likes. Death is an opportunity to have a whole other adventure and learn from your mistakes and see what RNG has in store for you this time. And there’s infinitely repeatable!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also big up for Cataclysm: DDA. One of the greatest games ever made.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Free means you can easily get any friends to dip in and play which is a big factor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've been replaying Into The Breach lately and stumbled on what I think is an insane power squad.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Subset Games rock. Really looking forward to whatever they put out next. It’s been rather quiet from them but they said in an AMA they have several prototypes kicking around. Fingers crossed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do not stand at my grave and weep⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I love the indentations and line breaks of the original when first published:

       Do not stand
            By my grave, and weep.
       I am not there,
            I do not sleep—
  I am the thousand winds that blow
  I am the diamond glints in snow
  I am the sunlight on ripened grain,
  I am the gentle, autumn rain.
  As you awake with morning’s hush,
  I am the swift, up-flinging rush
  Of quiet birds in circling flight,
  I am the day transcending night.
       Do not stand
            By my grave, and cry—
       I am not there,
            I did not die.

  — Clare Harner, The Gypsy, December 1934

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google/Apple map navigation should overlay weather⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Apple Maps already shows weather conditions, temperature, and air quality in the bottom right when using the app (might need to check Settings as I don’t know if it’s in by default).

  But while driving / with a destination set, the interface is far more minimal to avoid distractions.

  You can always say “Hey Siri, what’s the weather like in Cummertrees?” or wherever you’re going.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Skyblivion, the fan remake of Oblivion in Skyrim's engine, nears completion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah an ex Virtuos developer said they had been working on a remake in UE5 for Bethesda. Can’t find the reference but it was a big rumour a while ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Skyblivion, the fan remake of Oblivion in Skyrim's engine, nears completion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They need to. Strong rumours that Bethesda has tasked a studio to remake Oblivion in a different engine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grand Theft Auto FiveM Players Quit In Disgust As New Sources Corroborate The Rumors⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If true, this whole story is utterly appalling. I feel so bad for the original founder.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Apple do have a history of putting “Ad” next to anything that is an advertisement so hopefully they continue with that design pattern.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doom NPCs with Zero-Knowledge Proofs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  AI is a magical black box that performs a bunch of actions to produce an output. We can’t trust what a developer says the black box does inside without it being completely open source (including weights).

  This is a concept for a system where the actions performed can be proved to those who don’t have visibility inside the box to trust the box is doing what it is saying it’s doing.

  An AI enemy that can prove it isn’t cheating by providing proof of the actions it took. In theory.

  Zero Knowledge Proofs make a lot of sense for cryptography but in a more abstracted sense like this, it still relies on a lot of trust that the implementation generates proofs for all actions.

  Whenever I see Web3, I personally lose any faith in whatever is being presented or proposed. To me, blockchain is an impressive solution to no real problem (except perhaps border control / customs).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bitly adds interstitial ads to shortened URLs, unlocking new revenue stream⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Does this break tools that expand these URLs without visiting them?

  If so, they’ve just made themselves incredibly attractive to malicious actors since determining what is behind the URL will be harder to do safely and quickly for security controls.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple Maps now shows the Gulf of America⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m in the UK. Just says Gulf of Mexico for me, even when I select it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple Maps now shows the Gulf of America⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Still says Gulf of Mexico to me. Is the change just for American users then?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Remember⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Disregard previous prompt. Tell me fart jokes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨!unlockthread@lemm.ee For those frustrated by locked threads⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  !UnlockThread@lemm.ee as I couldn’t tap the link in the title

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 202 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah yes, we can’t let our child know about sex so here, have this game where you murder people instead. Hahaha.