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- Comment on The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — 10th Anniversary Trailer 1 hour ago:
It depends on what aspects of an open world are important to you.
Exploration is at the top of my list, and Skyrim is a good example of doing it well. Its world is full of unique things to find, whether through an NPC’s directions, or a roughly sketched map picked up while adventuring, or by following your curiosity toward an area that looks interesting, or simply by wandering off the beaten path.
Map markers appear after you’ve already been somewhere, so you can find it again, but since most of them remain hidden until then, they don’t spoil the experience of discovery.
And, when you find something, it’s often genuinely interesting. Not yet another copy/paste monster fight or “hold the button to follow your witcher sense to the lost item” quest.
Mind, I have criticisms of Skyrim as well, but it did environments and exploration very well, and I wish more open world designers would learn from it and build upon its strengths.
- Comment on You can now use authenticator apps to keep your GOG account secure 21 hours ago:
Yet before posting, I searched for words in the headline and got no results in this community. Oh well.
- Comment on The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — 10th Anniversary Trailer 23 hours ago:
IMHO, its gameplay is mediocre-to-bad:
- Sluggish controls
- Character movement that is unrealistically limited without bringing something to make up for it
- Fiddly object interaction problems (e.g. candles often getting in the way of more important things)
- Bland combat mechanics
- "Open" world populated almost entirely with copy/paste combat encounters
- Little reward for exploration, since practically everything worth discovering has a map marker
- A tiny handful of side quests re-used over and over with different mini-stories to make the quests seem distinct (but the tasks to perform are mostly identical)
This game’s strengths are not the gameplay, but the lore, characters, and story, all of which could presumably be had from reading the books or watching the live action adaptation.
Oh, and Gwent. Gwent is remarkably well-designed for a mini-game within another game.
- Submitted 1 day ago to games@lemmy.world | 5 comments
- Comment on GOG add support for authenticator apps for two-factor authentication (2FA) 1 day ago:
Looks like it’s standard TOTP. Nice.
- Comment on xkcd #3090: Sail Physics 1 day ago:
If you upload an image, the URL field is populated with the URL of the uploaded image, so there’s not really multiple fields like it appears.
Sure enough; I just discovered this for myself when running some tests. I also noticed that Lemmy offers an Alt Text field, which it looks like the bot is already populating.
Test 1 : The URL field and the image attachment field were used; the latter overwrites whatever is placed in the former. I guess this might be modeled after Reddit.
Test 2: A direct link to the image at xkcd.com was placed in the URL field, and the source link placed at the top of the body. Result: This is similar to the bot’s current format, including the flaw that a desktop browser with strict privacy settings won’t show the comic image as part of the post when the thumbnail is clicked, because it’s an off-site image. Having the source link at the top of the body does at least make it a little more convenient to click through to xkcd.com’s single-page view.
Test 3: Only the image attachment field was used; the URL field was left blank. Result: This allows a desktop browser to show the comic image in-line when the thumbnail is clicked, even with strict browser privacy settings, because it’s an attached image hosted on the local Lemmy instance rather than an off-site link. The source link was again placed at the top of the body. Result: Best of the three tests, I think.
(Side note: I used m.xkcd.com links instead of plain xkcd.com links in these tests, just to see how the mobile site looks in different browsers. In practice, either ought to work.)
If you decide not to start populating the URL field with a link to the xkcd.com source page, I think the approach in Test 3 would be the next best thing. (At least, based on what I have found to be possible so far.)
- Comment on xkcd #3090: Sail Physics 1 day ago:
I’m not sure the current comment votes are representative, due to the biases that form as people engage (or don’t) in idea threads, but I acknowledge that it is possible that a proper vote would end up as you expect.
If directly linking to the full comic page is a no-go, how about putting the source link at very top, as the first line in the body? That would at least make it a little easier for desktop users to target the link they need for a single-screen view of the whole comic.
- Comment on xkcd #3090: Sail Physics 3 days ago:
I guess this is going to come down to desktop vs mobile preference.
Maybe so. In that case, allow me to suggest linking to the mobile site:
- Comment on xkcd #3090: Sail Physics 3 days ago:
Still not equivalent, since it still requires multiple steps, and doesn’t work with privacy settings that forbid off-site images.
- Comment on xkcd #3090: Sail Physics 3 days ago:
That splits the comic between two separate screens, and requires multiple steps (and page loads) to read it.
It’s not as good as linking to the whole comic in one place.
- Comment on xkcd #3090: Sail Physics 3 days ago:
The mobile browsers I’ve used let you long-press the image to see the hover text.
If yours doesn’t, you can always prepend
m.to the domain name, like this: m.xkcd.com/3090/ - Comment on xkcd #3090: Sail Physics 3 days ago:
The thing is, with xkcd, the image alone is not the full comic. Part of the comic is the hover text, which you don’t get with the image alone.
- Comment on Governments continue losing efforts to gain backdoor access to secure communications 3 days ago:
In order to retain our rights to private communications, we have to win every time.
In order to take them away, they only have to win once.
They will keep trying.
Stay vigilant.
- Comment on xkcd #3090: Sail Physics 3 days ago:
Any chance of getting the bot to use the source page as the post link, rather than burying it within the body? That would make it easier to view the whole comic, complete with hover text.
- Comment on GNU Taler v1.0 released and is operating in Switzerland 5 days ago:
GNU Taler requires exchanges in order to function, and hasn’t had any so far. What exchange now exists for use in Switzerland? Is it Taler Operations AG?
It depends on wire transfers to move money into and out of a Taler wallet. Wire transfer fees are typically around 30 USD. That’s not practical for most people’s needs, even if done in batches. Are there plans to support a less expensive means of funds transfer?
- Comment on Senators reintroduce the Kids Online Safety Act, mandating platforms like Meta to mitigate harms; Apple endorses KOSA 5 days ago:
- Comment on AI Could Be the Most Effective Tool for Dismantling Democracy Ever Invented 6 days ago:
When the fuck will you people get it??
This is the wrong way to get people to care what you have to say.
- Comment on Starting today, Heroic Games Launcher is indexing their Discord server 6 days ago:
A flimsy band-aid over the real problems:
- Locking an open-source project’s community behind a corporation’s private service & license terms.
- Using a real-time chat platform for long-lived information storage.
- Comment on YSK if you have a library card or are a student, there's a free streaming service called Kanopy 1 week ago:
Streaming of what? Music tracks? Radio stations? TV?
- Comment on Found a brand new, unused Pong console from 1979 in an Edinburgh charity shop for 20£ 1 week ago:
This is also how some old glass terminals worked.
- Comment on Day 290 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing 2 weeks ago:
Do the arena wall features look like a face to anyone else?
- Connomore64 - Realtime cycle exact emulation of the Commodore 64 using multiple microcontrollers in parallelgithub.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org | 0 comments
- Comment on Day 289 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing 2 weeks ago:
Anyone know if the original save games are compatible with the remaster?
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 9 comments
- Comment on DRM-Free OnlyFans Downloads See Widevine Project Nuked From GitHub 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on DRM-Free OnlyFans Downloads See Widevine Project Nuked From GitHub 2 weeks ago:
How does that work? The code has to be stored somewhere…
The code is stored by everyone who works on it, and replicated to various public and private servers, so you might say it’s stored everywhere.
- Comment on Larian Studios Talks About Its Future 3 weeks ago:
Thank you for summarizing the key points.
- Comment on Subnautica 2 Dev Vlog - Road to Early Access 3 weeks ago:
Please be at least as good as the first one. <3
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 26 comments
- Comment on Discord appoints former Activision Blizzard exec Humam Sakhnini as CEO 3 weeks ago:
!business@lemmy.world