altkey

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gaming Pet Peeves⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Heal-over-time systems in CoD-like shooters lack feedback and are unreliable in terms of measuring difficulty of a task and feeling like you did something special. Everything becomes boringly average.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gaming Pet Peeves⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Another one is QTE in the middle of a cutscene, ugh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vermintide 2 is currently free on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  EAC works on Linux, FatShark just didn’t initially choose that option, and about a year ago game became playable again. IIRC you should choose a beta workaround version in your steam client for that.

  Yet, it’s fair to feel salty about that. Versus is a fine gimmick but wasn’t worth introducing EAC, like gatekeeping mods wasn’t too. It is too heavy-handed for a game with a small, tight-knit community, that would rather play a four Bardin game than install wallhack or aimbot for whatever reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We have one at home⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The logo circle is so big and vulgar it looks like a fake gucci bag. It’s great they got rid of that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🤔 Interesting Theory.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Double barrel Bill

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🤔 Interesting Theory.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I start to get tired of these jokes, if they are jokes at all. What’s to get from them, with them? While I don’t think it hurts his base at all, it does occupy others and stirs some of them wrong. Like that meme playing into the stereotype of gay people being grotesque and shallow movie-esque characters. Playing with that bone thrown to non-believers is not productive, even Epsteing files are irrelevant because him sucking off Clinton or diddling kids in the past does nothing to his current reign, destruction of economy, mass imprisonment. He can eat a cock, a pussy, or shoot a person on Main St., but nevertheless the damage he does right now, his cult and his friendly elites are what really matters. His supposed blowjob is a nothing-burger, but also a cutting board to break lemmy-like communities around how homophobic these, present assumptions are, and they do sound ill-biased.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roblox to block children from talking to adult strangers after string of lawsuits⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Them having an office large enough to moderate in-game communications, on every popular language? They have some billions to spare. Serving kids requires a lot of work they have neglected for a very long time.

  Facebook was a vehicle for hateful, genocidal messages in Myanmar, and they seemingly got of the hook having no person understanding local language on the market they occupied.

  If Roblox primarily targets kids, they can’t go without agressive moderation, psy-help on demand, things one would find obvious, but these are never required, not to say it’s not that sexy as getting profits and cutting corners.

  I don’t know if their business model would be viable if they started things right from the beginning, but it would be more stressful to them to finally start doing something about that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Widespread Cloudflare outage blamed on mysterious traffic spike⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Anubis never worked for me on mobile. I’m afraid of mass adoption if that won’t be fixed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'I've had so many projects that have been discontinued lately': Nier creator Yoko Taro says he's been working on plenty of games—but they keep getting cancelled before he can announce them⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s better not to release something than to release something weird

  He wrote wearing Emil’s head.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ratioed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  BOSS HOG GETS NO CRANKING TODAY, AWOOO

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My BF never bakes anything. Get up this morning and there is a sheet of these cookies on the counter. Is he trying to tell me something?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Gingerbreed that cake, now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Artist sneaks AI-generated print into National Museum Cardiff gallery⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s funny because trip-hop landed in pretty much elitist, conceptual album category for snobs and luxury products’ ads, with sampling being one of it’s core features. Useless gateekeping and/or mischaracterising the ‘art’ word as something well-defined.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hard drives on backorder for two years as AI data centers trigger HDD shortage — delays forcing rapid transition to QLC SSDs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If so, you are fucked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the package that you want to check feel so warm?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the one ordering them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Robot rescues Ukrainian soldier trapped 33 days behind Russian lines, navigating minefields and mortar strikes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Robux or bust!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Great Firewall: Massive data leak reveals the inner workings of China's censorship regime⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The sense of security is what makes the tongues talk and the users browse, them incriminating themselves openly. Overly violent law that puts everyone in the grey zone allows you to pick anyone you want at any time and jail them. Government/party structure of any size is pretty much unable to track everyone 24/7, so while it’s seemingly a compromise from the idealistic vision of the great firewall, it is better to control a thing that organically rise with or without your involvement. If it could’ve been inpenetrateable, we could’ve heard of alternative systems appearing, but there you see none of these, at least for average consumers. It is there, and while it’s not overingineered, it’s enough to make 50% of safe, normie people give up and other 50% marks itself, and, unless everything is e2e encrypted, writes it’s court cases for itself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GTA 6 dev Rockstar says recent firings were due to leaks of "confidential information" and were "in no way related to people's right to join a union"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Rockstar patched out a bunch of radio music they had time-limited licenses for. I don’t think you would notice that, though there are mods to bring them back. Performance-wise it only had problems with integrated graphic cards under Windows in my expirience. Haven’t tried it on Linux.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that gamers can sacrifice a bunch of fps if it comes to that, but they should know why, and they should have an otherwise working game. If everything gets to work on a SteamDeck, that would be a huge booster in confidence. This one platform is a flagship of linux gaming not because it’s better, but because it’s a frame of reference we can use on other setups and distros.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The idea of unified interface layout itself wasn’t bad, that’s the implementation. It felt like they both didn’t have people testing desktop UI at all and didn’t have any idea how to leverage that idea on a desktop.

  Things they could do:

  1. Seamless device switching, projecting and control across Win platforms over local wireless;
  2. Crossplatform app development, with a wordpress-like UI wrapper;
  3. Tiling DE, so you can have a couple of vertical mobile-like apps contained in their constant positions for ease of use.

  Let it be an ecosystem where every new Windows device can be an opportunity multiplier. Like how KDE Connect makes my phone a media remote or a mouse+kb, and my PC a handler of recent photos I took with my phone today, no cloud involved. With their huge marketshare they could’ve pushed anything they wanted onto hardware producers as a demand and put Apple out of game entirely.

  Instead, we had horizontal scroll in Start menu, fullscreen Calc app, no third party desktop app bothering with Metro interface, everything being like a worse Win7 and the only living reminder of Metro phase ever existing being rectangular squares in w10 Start, now retired for MacOS copycat. GG WP M$. It could’ve been your turning point going into smartphone age, but you had too much money and yesmen to care.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Idk what was your problem, but mine was not reading on filesystems when the choice occured and not knowing how awesome BTRFS is with incrimental backups.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Valve does not get anywhere near enough criticism': DayZ creator Dean Hall says the 'gambling mechanics' of Valve's monetization strategy 'have absolutely no place' in videogames⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The thing with Valve is that, outside of this monetization of online games, they’ve unquestionably had an enormous positive impact on all sorts of things in this medium just by way of sheer market forces. They’ve done a lot of great open source work, and they’ve helped create a viable exit ramp from Windows.

  I don’t know about the exit ramp for a casual user, if you mean ditching Windows altogether, since that’s not really happening. But what did happen - Microsoft didn’t get to own the central position in gaming on their own platform, and Steam is a program that installs other programs uninterrupted - just to take a sense of what rights it has there for almost two decades. They had GFWL, now MS Store, integrated with XBOX, and they still aren’t mentioned as a PC marketplace anywhere besides having a monopoly on Minecraft. There hasn’t been their IE for games, and it’s awesome. I can’t say Valve and MS even compete there, but having eggs in two different baskets is better than having them in just one. Two different monopolies instead of one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Valve does not get anywhere near enough criticism': DayZ creator Dean Hall says the 'gambling mechanics' of Valve's monetization strategy 'have absolutely no place' in videogames⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Casinos and gambling venues IRL are almost always their own thing, you can’t go one by mistake and you shouldn’t see them surfacing in unspecialized common spaces, e.g. on Olympics stadium.

  In videogames the casino element penetrates recreational spaces that were mostly safe from that for years. Not as a shadow scheme with reselling/gambling on some third party site - this can’t be stopped - but in the game itself. Valve’s promotional algorythm walks around the lobby giving everyone free spins coupons, that not only reaches mentally unstable addicts, but also normalizes the practice of jerking the slot machine from time to time for the larger userbase. Every actor in that trend is a self-serving agent, but their collective influence puts a foot in the door and proclaims that gambling is a casual part of a daily life and there’s nothing wrong in seeing it everywhere, even parting with a couple of bucks recreationally, that in the end makes bazillions to the house.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sad to see⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At least it took him five days, not five years to know they aren’t compatible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨thats all⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fella fails.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨concert⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Iirc ticket services helped it a lot. Having a sizeable market share they were able to rise them accross all events and venues.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How gamers were nickel and dimed in 80s and 90s (besides arcades)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup. But that assistance in retrospect feels like the first time we encountered something alike. It prints faster for you but it needs a constant supervision, so you end up glued to the screen, fixing the results. I recall printing a long word with t9, and it followed me for 6 letters, but completely changed the word at the 7th letter to something else entirely, because it’s dictionary didn’t have my word in it, or it thought it’s not as popular. Less control, more attention, frequent fuck ups. It’s close in UX to what I personally getting now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How gamers were nickel and dimed in 80s and 90s (besides arcades)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This was time consuming, so when features like T9 Predictive Text came along it really helped improve texting in the pre-smartphone era.

  That’s brave to print that on Lemmy in times of LLMs, I give you that. It’s 20 years late too argue about that, but I do miss convenience of reliably printing whole paragraphs without even looking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apparently Palantir can access the content of social media accounts that were deleted a decade ago.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The obvious strong link is reddit+email. Someone could have got into his personal, probably old mailbox, where original registration letters (with r/handle) and notifications still are. I find it more probable, but since government is under MAGA, they could’ve used some way to ask Huffman if some account matches the mail address.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In the age of social media, content has a strong boost of community participation. Those who pirated [x] talked about it and therefore added to the hype, gave incencitive for other to try it or buy it. After a month or so it’s hard to hook anyone other than with big sales or updates.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If I don’t see that, am I the problem? 🤔