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- Comment on 2025 Game Awards Results Discussion 1 day ago:
Sad to see that so many FANTASTIC games ended up with nil, because E33 stole the show so hard, but it’s tough to argue that they didn’t deserve each one.
I’ll argue it.
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is a beautiful game. The music is amazing, the scenery is lovely, and the English voice acting surprisingly good.
But its gameplay is bog standard JRPG battles with a basic parry mechanic. Nothing original or otherwise interesting there.
I feel it deserved every award it received for being a work of art, but Game of the Year? No.
- Comment on Any games I missed in the last 21 months? 1 day ago:
Hi-Fi Rush was released shortly before that time, but it was Denuvo-encumbered until about a week ago.
- Comment on Hytale can now be pre-ordered 1 day ago:
Pre-ordering games encourages publishers to release buggy, unoptimized, incomplete, garbage.
And, since there’s no scarcity, the assurance you might get from pre-ordering physical goods doesn’t exist here.
Please don’t do it.
- Comment on Fox News: for news about foxes 3 days ago:
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- Comment on When a video codec wins an Emmy | The Mozilla Blog 1 week ago:
encoding can most often happen ahead-of-time.
If you’re counting in terms of viewer hours, then sure. However, given the rise of Twitch-style live broadcasts, I think the picture would be noticeably different if you count programming hours instead.
- Comment on The tech world is sleeping on the most exciting Bluetooth feature in years 1 week ago:
I editorializing titles as well, but so many headlines these days are written as clickbait, so finding a good alternative link is usually time consuming and sometimes impossible. I compromise by adding [the key info in brackets], which is widely recognized as acceptable when clarification is needed.
- Comment on Day 505 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 week ago:
Thrower is a viable build in this game, and there is a source of rats in Act 2. :)
- Comment on Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama. 1 week ago:
the HDMI Forum (which manages the official specifications for HDMI standards) has officially blocked any open source implementation of HDMI 2.1.
- Comment on Unofficial IETF draft calls for grant of five nonillion IPv6 addresses to ham radio operators 1 week ago:
nonillion
noun
nō-ˈnil-yən
US : a number equal to 1 followed by 30 zeros
also, British : a number equal to 1 followed by 54 zeros
- Comment on India asks smartphone makers to preinstall its cybersecurity app Sanchar Saathi on phones 1 week ago:
- Comment on My thumb stick on my 3ds is disintegrating, and my switch is starting to follow. Please help. 2 weeks ago:
I’m talking about the whole stick, which most likely extends into the device. Not just the broken-off piece of the stick.
If you’re determined to avoid opening the enclosure to do the replacement, you might consider drilling a post hole into the remaining piece of the broken stick, and printing a replacement piece with a matching post, but I think you would get better results replacing the entire part.
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 2 weeks ago:
“Calls to scrap” the disclosures make it sound like a societal movement, when in fact it’s just two people with obvious bias: Tim Sweeney and some guy who promotes Tim Sweeney’s products on youtube.
I hope this doesn’t seem overly rude, but I don’t give a flying frog what they think. When I allow someone to sell me something, I like to know what’s in it.
- Comment on My thumb stick on my 3ds is disintegrating, and my switch is starting to follow. Please help. 2 weeks ago:
I think I would start by scouring the web for suitable replacement stick 3D-printer files. Once I had those, I would investigate what 3D-printing filament material is especially strong, and look for a place to print the files with that material.
- Comment on Make Amazon Pay 2 weeks ago:
I was interested in the topic, but that web page is blinding. Pity, that.
- Comment on Dangerous Firefox WebAssembly bug went undetected for 6 months 2 weeks ago:
affected all Firefox versions from 143 through early 145, and Firefox ESR versions before 140.5
- Comment on YSK that americans can now deduce private jet expenses from their taxes 2 weeks ago:
Gross.
- Comment on Here’s a few music playlists I made for my FR campaign, which included places like Icewind Dale, Icespire Peak and the city of Waterdeep. 3 weeks ago:
For those of us who don’t Spotify:
- Comment on The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal 3 weeks ago:
The FBI’s report from August, prepared by its New York division, does not make clear how the bureau accessed the Signal group.
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- Comment on D&D tabletop-style RPG Battlemarked is out on PC today with a singleplayer mode for Baldur's Gate 3 nutters 3 weeks ago:
Never heard of it.
Demeo is a cross-platform cooperative adventure for up to four players that recreates all of the magic and camaraderie of gathering around a tabletop with friends to do battle against the forces of evil.
Huh. Looks like they combined a 3D virtual tabletop with a pre-made adventure, so you can play without a dungeon master.
- Comment on Zork I, Zork II and Zork III are now officially open source 3 weeks ago:
Good judgment. There is at least one puzzle all about navigating a confusing area without a guide. Having a pre-made map would rob you of the challenge.
I second the suggestion of mapping by hand.
- Comment on JSAUX are teasing Steam Machine front panels with built-in screens 3 weeks ago:
The posts in question:
JSAUX @jsauxofficial
We are developing accessories for the new Steam Machine—and the final decision seems to be in your hands.
Pick your fighter:
1⃣E-Ink — slow refresh, smart look.
2⃣LCD — bright, battery killer.
3⃣Dot-Matrix — retro vibes only.
Vote in the comments👇.
We’ll build whatever wins… probably🤪.xcancel.com/jsauxofficial/…/1990418613380186120
Ink or pixels? Either way, all Steam Machine product updates drop on Reddit first.✨
- Comment on How quake.exe got its TCP/IP stack 3 weeks ago:
It is impressive to see Quake run at full speed knowing that Windows 95 runs DOS executable in a virtual machine.
To be clear, I don’t think it wasn’t a virtual machine in the modern hypervisor sense (as the term often implies today), nor in the bytecode interpreter sense (à la Java).
- Comment on It's not just you: Cloudflare, and half the Internet, is down 3 weeks ago:
You mean a single company being gatekeeper and man-in-the-middle to so much of the world’s web traffic?
What makes you think it’s not being exploited already?
- Comment on Guild Wars Reforged, a free 20th anniversary revamp of the original Guild Wars, arrives this December 3 weeks ago:
Looks like it’s free to people who bought any of the existing campaigns. Not to new players.
- Comment on I've Wanted to Play That 'Killer Shark' Arcade Game Briefly Seen in 'Jaws' 3 weeks ago:
- The Librephone project aims to remove proprietary blobs from smartphones running an open-source OSwww.cnx-software.com ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.zip | 0 comments
- Comment on ‘Clair Obscur’ Leads The Game Awards 2025 Nominees With 12 Nods; ‘Silent Hill f’ Has Four Nominations 3 weeks ago:
You’re not alone. The visuals are nice, the voice acting is good, and the music is gorgeous, but the gameplay is very repetitive JRPG combat with a minor twist.
As art, I could see it winning awards. As a game, I think others are more deserving.
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- Comment on The Turbulent, Seven-Year Saga Behind Hit Game ‘Dispatch’ 4 weeks ago:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispatch_(video_game)
Critical Role fans will appreciate that a bunch of their favorite voice actors are involved in this game.