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- Comment on Ubisoft target audience when they play a good game 7 hours ago:
Half-Life was the same. The game doesn’t spoon feed you a narrative, the same way real life doesn’t have a narrator (at least one outside of your head).
You need to pay attention to your surroundings, listen in to NPCs talking, read posters on the wall, etc to piece together the story.
It was and is one of the cooler ways to do storytelling in my opinion. Cutscenes etc are fine but for a first person game, I love the immersion of the story happening around you rather then being loredumped on you while you’re agency is taken away from you.
- Comment on Meta has discontinued its metaverse for work, too 2 days ago:
Bad for Meta. They wasted a lot of time, money, manpower etc.
- Comment on Valve reveal all the Steam events scheduled for 2026 3 days ago:
Valve has been publishing them publicly for years, it’s just in the developer documentation rather than on Steam.
- Comment on GOG plan to look a bit closer at Linux through 2026 4 days ago:
Exactly. Beating them up for being late has more risk of them dropping plans altogether. Celebrate their plans, they’ll want to execute on them.
- Comment on The AI explosion isn't just hurting the prices of computers and consoles – it's coming for TVs and audio tech too 5 days ago:
Pretty sure it’s My Name Is All En.
Dr En En En.
- Comment on Circumcision classed as possible child abuse in draft CPS document 1 week ago:
It’s genital mutilation. It’s been done for religious reasons, cultural reasons, social reasons, for slavery reasons, and more.
But cutting up babies’ genitals for any reason except medical intervention for relevant pathologies is genital mutilation.
- Comment on CD PROJEKT and GOG co-founder Michał Kiciński acquires GOG from CD PROJEKT 2 weeks ago:
Makes a lot of sense. GOG would have been an easy thing to sell off if financials weren’t going well. This way, GOG can be protected (100% owned by the founder with no shareholders) should the worst happen.
Hopefully this could mean GOG has a daring plan ahead (I’ve long thought they might take a gamble on a Linux client that packages Proton/DOSbox like Steam.
Here’s hoping GOG continues on strong into the new year and beyond!
- Comment on Leaker Who Apple Is Suing Says 'Screw It,' Here's the Foldable iPhone Early 3 weeks ago:
Apple’s entire history as an org has been as a fast follower, not a first mover.
The Apple Newton is a fast example of why they avoid being a first mover.
- Comment on It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser" 4 weeks ago:
I’m always confused why the energy isn’t just put on pressuring Firefox publicly rather than just sitting in comments being negative and suggesting forks that critically depend on Firefox and can no way continue development without upstream.
- Comment on Microsoft is pushing Copilot onto LG TVs with a recent software update 4 weeks ago:
I’m glad my LG TV hasn’t been connected to WiFi for years. Great display, shit software. Thankfully nothing a minipc can’t solve!
- Comment on Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life 5 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t know
- Comment on Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life 5 weeks ago:
Like wooden knife with a wooden wood
- Comment on Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life 5 weeks ago:
We’ve got four different sized ones in our house!
Next they’re going to say they don’t own any wooden butter knives…
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Steamdb lets you filter out games with less than x reviews which I’ve made liberal use of over the years.
- Comment on What are some lower size games that work well on linux handhelds? 5 weeks ago:
I’d just take a look at the Steam Deck Verified pages as that’ll give you a good idea about a game (at least though Proton).
- Comment on Windows compatibility layer Wine 11 gets a first Release Candidate 5 weeks ago:
It was in some video interview with the project leads after the Steam hardware announcement.
- Comment on Windows compatibility layer Wine 11 gets a first Release Candidate 5 weeks ago:
Not exactly. Proton is a Wine fork which Valve have stated they intend to merge back into Wine in the future (since they’re working on it with CodeWeavers). If you look at the code in GitHub, they’ve made a lot of changes to Wine and they’re not fully tracking Wine main (looks like they’re porting instead).
- Comment on Windows compatibility layer Wine 11 gets a first Release Candidate 5 weeks ago:
Pretty sure it’s the other around now - Proton is a future release of Wine and at some point Proton will merge back into Wine.
- Comment on Looks Like We Can Finally Kiss the Metaverse Goodbye 1 month ago:
Not entirely true. They’ll have black and white cameras at launch and have an expansion port on the front of the device for potential color cameras in the future.
They just said AR isn’t their focus for this device, not that it isn’t possible.
And I get it - everyone I know that already has XR headsets doesn’t bother with AR as the experiences are limited (and I imagine the union between AR gamers and tidy environments with clear surfaces is pretty small).
- Comment on In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet 1 month ago:
Netscape Navigator -> Firefox Netscape Communicator -> Seamonkey
- Comment on After Apple originally announced the first version of Halo in 1999, Xbox apparently called Bungie and said "'Steve Jobs can't have that. We're going to buy you.'" 1 month ago:
Apple already has the Game Porting Toolkit which is made by CodeWeavers - D3DMetal can run a lot of Windows games like Proton’s DXVK/VKD3D. MoltenVK is a little behind to fully empower VKD3D on macOS; it’s not as smooth sailing as Proton.
The biggest issue is that Apple are still hoping developers spend the time to work on converting shaders to Metal, implement Game Center, UI and Accessibility features etc so the game feels like a native app.
Which is dumb. As was Metal (they should have just made Metal as a Vulkan abstraction layer).
Valve took the smart route and while they love developers using the Steam SDK, at least with the Steam Overlay they can still offer a native-like feeling experience.
Here’s hoping Steam Machine etc is incredibly disruptive as if it’s a decent workstation too, there’s a dwindling number of reasons to not use Linux (Adobe / Affinity / Office / AutoCAD / MinecraftBE / Fortnite).
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 1 month ago:
CVEs don’t get issued “resolved” statuses… They are either reserved, published, or rejected (technically NVD have a few extra for published). That’s just junk data in that tool you’re using. Use authoritative sources like cve.org or nvd.nist.gov.
You can see the CPEs on NVD and they’re old versions of Plex.
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 1 month ago:
You’re aware those CVEs are only relevant for ancient versions of Plex and were fixed long ago?
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 1 month ago:
You’re going to need to back up your claim otherwise you might as well be lying as there’s no CVE like this I can find nor any public disclosure.
Plex have a bug bounty program and a responsive security team too.
Post your security report.
- Comment on Fuck Microsoft 1 month ago:
Nah practically every office uses TempleOS and Lotus720.
Come on, dude. You’re in lemmyshitpost.
- Comment on What is your favorite Metroidvania? 1 month ago:
I’d say the second one was even harder too.
- Comment on Can someone please identify this plant ?? 1 month ago:
Looks like it could be a Bushwillow. Combretum malabaricum / Malabar Madhu Malati ?
- Comment on Possibly the most complex space strategy game yet made has just received its last major update before 1.0 release 1 month ago:
I’m a huge retro board game fan (we just called them board games back in my day) but computer games have been implementing far more complex systems, and far more systems, than board games for decades.
The Campaign for North Africa, for the board game example, isn’t exactly complicated as most of the rules are referenced as you get to the mechanic or scenario. People talk of the 200 page manual like it’s scary but D&D has more pages of rules across the PHB, DMG, and MM alone.
The “complexity” you’re talking of is basically the admin that a computer game does for you in the blink of an eye, without you needing to think about it.
Europa Universalis was a very complex board game that required 6 players and was turn based yet when it became a computer game, the complexity increased, it was made real-time, the number of events taking place across the map increased, and you could finally play it solo (sure, you can play the board game solo but you spend more time doing admin that playing). And the game has been built upon for years, the 5th one just came out.
If it spun out into a board game again, mechanics would need to be paired back again as, without the computer to ease the implementation of mechanics to the player doesn’t have to do it themselves, it’d be the most baffling rule book ever.
Again, I’m a huge fan of board games. But computer games have offered way more complexity since the 90s and Civilization.
- Comment on While we eagerly await the second coming of Steam Machines, it's worth remembering what a gloriously awful mess Valve got itself in over a decade ago 2 months ago:
Really well articulated.
Valve have enabled a critical mass of “target platforms” that enables both the community and developers to get things working on Linux, which all other distros are about to benefit from.
I’m likely going to buy all the new Valve hardware out of principle. The Deck is incredible, but I still have my beefy gaming rig. But my living room wouldn’t mind a Steam Machine (and my girlfriend is definitely after both a Steam Frame and Controller 2.
I’m taking time off work in a couple of weeks and I’m moving over to Linux completely - I too have felt the inertia of dual booting and find myself in Windows far too often.
- Comment on Today is the birthday of His Majesty the King 2 months ago:
If he wanted me to celebrate, he’d have made the day a public holiday.