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- Comment on Why do some gamers invert their controls? Scientists now have answers, but they’re not what you think 3 days ago:
To be clear, this only concerns one axis of one analog stick. None of the other axes or buttons are affected, so calling it “inverting the controls” is a poor description to begin with.
This is nothing more than standard flight stick configuration. If you were to hold your game controller up in front of your face, with the handles pointing downward and the sticks pointing at your eyes, then flight controls might seem like the Y axis is inverted, because you would have to push the stick up to aim down. But if you hold the controller parallel to the floor, with the sticks pointing toward the sky like those on an airplane, then you push forward to aim down, just as humans lean forward to look down. Likewise, you pull back to aim up, just as we lean back to look up. It’s very sensible.
- Submitted 3 days ago to science@mander.xyz | 0 comments
- Comment on Proton Experimental adds fixes for various games not running on CPUs with high core counts 3 days ago:
It’s a rare pleasure to see a big corporation’s interests align with our own.
- Comment on AT&T will listen to your phone calls and block spammers with a new AI-powered tool 1 week ago:
Doesn’t Nomorobo block them without eavesdropping, LLMs, or excessive power consumption?
- Comment on We're down again 🎉 1 week ago:
I don’t have any inside info, like which machine runs the lemmy instance.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to patientgamers@sh.itjust.works | 16 comments
- Comment on BIG MILESTONE! We’ve just crossed 100 posts on !videogames@piefed.social. 🎉 2 weeks ago:
I like having someplace nice to go when the previous place grows into a noisy echo chamber.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org | 3 comments
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 or Clair Obscur: Expedition 33? 3 weeks ago:
You can replay any game, of course, but Clair Obscur’s gameplay is mostly on rails with basic JRPG combat repeated over and over again, so I wouldn’t bother. (Honestly, I found the gameplay boring within a dozen hours or so.) Its music is where it really shines. You could buy the soundtrack alone for a fraction of the price.
BG3’s atmosphere is good. The soundtrack IMHO less inspired than Larian’s previous soundtrack and not really outstanding like the one in Clair Obsucr, but still decent. And as a game, BG3 has a lot more to offer.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 or Clair Obscur: Expedition 33? 3 weeks ago:
For interesting game mechanics and replay value: Baldur’s Gate 3.
For beautiful music and scenery: Expedition 33.
If I had to choose, it would be BG3.
- Comment on It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes 4 weeks ago:
Finally, you say?
To emphasize that bugs in implementations of floating point arithmetic are far from rare, we mention that the Calculator application in Microsoft Windows 3.1 evaluates f[(2.01 - 2.00) = 0.0.
- Comment on Subnautica 2 studio Unknown Worlds are now suing their former execs for stealing docs and sharing them with the press 4 weeks ago:
As PCGamer’s Andy Chalk suggests, the suspicion is that the lawyers have picked Unknown Worlds as plaintiff, rather than Krafton, because they think they’ll get more sympathy that way from Johnny Average Gamer.
For good reason. Many of us had never heard of Krafton until we learned about them avoiding payment of the bonuses they promised to the people actually making the game.
- THE NVIDIA AI GPU BLACK MARKET | Investigating Smuggling, Corruption, & Governmentswww.youtube.com ↗Submitted 5 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 2 comments
- Comment on Wean yourself off of Windows with Linuxfx — I've tried many Linux distros designed to look and feel like Windows, and this is the best one yet 5 weeks ago:
License: Proprietary
- Comment on VIC-20 cassette stash - what's worth backing up? 1 month ago:
Seconded. Old stuff that seems worthless sometimes turns out to be sorely missed years later when it can no longer be recovered.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Please use Lemmy’s cross-post feature when you want to post the same thing to multiple communities. This avoids flooding members of multiple communities with duplicate posts, and helps people discover related discussions in different communities.
- Comment on LEAKED: A New List Reveals Top Websites Meta Is Scraping of Copyrighted Content to Train Its AI 1 month ago:
Lemmy really hates piracy… in this specific context.
Specifically, Lemmy hates it when corporations profit by using people’s work without permission or payment.
- New Zealand engineers discover process which creates zero-waste battery productionspectrum.ieee.org ↗Submitted 1 month ago to technology@lemmy.zip | 0 comments
- Comment on YSK The World’s Most Common Passwords 1 month ago:
I’m a little surprised not to see “changeme” on this list.
- Comment on Open-access database offers insights into U.S. congressional candidates 1 month ago:
I give it a +1 for being a nice idea, and a -1 for being built as a javascript application (with all the related privacy & security issues) instead of a web page.
Related work:
- Comment on Red Dead Redemption 2 was amazing. 1 month ago:
I haven’t seen that video, but I suspect I would agree. RDR2 is something of a paradox.
They did an amazing job on environments and characters, and then turned around and hobbled the game with bizarre PC controls, a save game system and unskippable cut scenes woven from pure contempt for the player’s time, and dog shit mission mechanics that punish the player for any attempt to exercise agency and really have no place in an open world game.
- Comment on What are some games with absolutely fantastic soundtracks? 1 month ago:
Skyrim fans might enjoy this:
- Comment on Will Rock: A shooter held together by boom and glue 1 month ago:
Please use Lemmy’s cross-post feature when you want to post the same thing to multiple communities. This avoids flooding members of multiple communities with duplicate posts, and helps people discover related discussions in different communities.
- Comment on Tetris Elements – one of the strangest Tetrises ever released 1 month ago:
Please use Lemmy’s cross-post feature when you want to post the same thing to multiple communities. This avoids flooding members of multiple communities with duplicate posts, and helps people discover related discussions in different communities.
- Comment on Day 375 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 month ago:
This game took mediocre gameplay on rails, and through a great storyline and acting, built it into something outstanding. I wish I could play it for the first time again. The sequel doesn’t even come close, IMHO.
- Comment on Native Arch Linux Games - Share Your Favorites 1 month ago:
I don’t know of any native Linux games that are specifically for Arch Linux. Your favourite distro is a bit of a red herring.
- Comment on Fuck RePosts, for defenders of OC 1 month ago:
Or I probably have green skin. Or I am probably a monster. Or I probably do whatever else you can imagine that might sway community opinion against me for contradicting you.
Once again, you are wrong. In both senses of the word.
I suggest learning what words mean before you go round using them in public, especially in accusations. It might help you to avoid embarrassing yourself. And, if arguing with people is what makes you happy, consider learning to avoid informal fallacies while you’re at it.
- Comment on Fuck RePosts, for defenders of OC 1 month ago:
It’s theft. You are stealing from artists.
No, it is not theft. Not in the dictionary sense. Not in the legal sense. Not in any sense at all.
It might be copyright infringement, inappropriate, and/or rude, depending on the particulars and the jurisdiction. But your claim that it is theft demonstrates that you either have no idea what you’re talking about, or you are deliberately misleading people.
Please stop.
- Comment on Fuck RePosts, for defenders of OC 1 month ago:
I think they know this, and were aiming to exploit that initialism by associating its negative connotations with the totally unrelated thing that they don’t like.
- Comment on Does anyone else find it suspicious that there wasn't any criticism on here about Stop Killing Games until after it hit 1.4M signatures? 2 months ago:
I don’t find the absence of criticism suspicious. The petition makes sense.
What I do find suspicious is the sudden emergence of criticism now that it looks like it might succeed. I smell astroturfing and media manipulation.