Godort
@Godort@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Hollow Knight Sequel 'Silksong' Crashed Game Stores, as $20 Price Irks Competitors 17 hours ago:
Honestly, I would’ve paid $60 for this game and still would be happy with it at that price point. The game is incredibly good, if a bit punishing.
The fact that it was only $20 means that this game is an incredible value prospect, and will likely reach a much larger audience as a result.
TC was in a lucky position because their first game was also incredibly popular and sold well enough that budget was probably never a concern, and not all devs have that luxury, but indie games are supposed to be like this. They’re supposed to be made for the enjoyment of the artform with lower scopes and lower budgets. They aren’t supposed to compete with the AAA space.
- Comment on what replacement to nova launcher would you recommend? 1 day ago:
I’ve been really happy with Lawnchair
- Comment on There's an FPGA handheld that looks perfect for playing GBA, but it's still in the crowdfunding phase 3 days ago:
huh, neat.
I can see that being a draw for enough people to own both
- Comment on There's an FPGA handheld that looks perfect for playing GBA, but it's still in the crowdfunding phase 3 days ago:
What makes this better than the Analogue Poket?
- Comment on The UK just took a harder stance on Banksy than genocide 3 days ago:
It’s a lot more complicated than that. Their stance us "Pro-genocide, as long as it’s profitable and far enough away that I don’t have to see it.
Actually, I guess it’s not that complicated after all.
- Comment on Legend of Legaia – 1998 Developer Interview (shmuplations.com) 1 week ago:
This game is wildly underrated and probably would be better remembered if it didn’t come out in 1998
- Comment on android 2 weeks ago:
If you want to entertain yourself you’ll carry a guitar with you.
This just guarantees that you’re going to hear Wonderwall by the white guy with a guitar at literally every party you go to.
- Comment on android 2 weeks ago:
Having experience with both, I can tell you that a safety razor is way easier to use than a straight razor, and gets you the same result in half the time.
- Comment on [minor spoilers] Promise Mascot Agency 3 weeks ago:
I bounced off of this game initially because I didn’t care for the mascot management aspect. I think I need to revisit it with adjusted expectations as most people love it so I must be missing something.
I much preferred their prior game, Paradise Killer.
- Comment on It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, no doubt.
Having access to visual basic is dangerous enough, let alone Python
- Comment on If you got in a time machine 3 weeks ago:
Writing all the songs on the disc is amateur hour. You cant look at them while it’s playing to skip to the right track unless you know the CD perfectly.
It’s better to write it on the insert, even if it means you have to keep it in the case and not in a CD wallet
- Comment on Techrights — Internet Relay Chat and Gemini Protocol Help Us Relive the Net of the Dial-Up Era 4 weeks ago:
Discord circa 2018 was pretty much everything I’d want in a modern IRC.
If they can just bring that set of features, I’d switch back to IRC in a heartbeat.
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 5 weeks ago:
The pathological need to find something to use LLMs for is so bizzare.
Venture capital dumped so much money into the tech without understanding the full scope of what it was capable of. Now they’re so in so deep that they desperately NEED to find something profitable it can do, otherwise they’ll lose the farm.
- Comment on what are in you're top 3 favourite games of all time? 5 weeks ago:
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Chrono Trigger
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Link to the Past
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Super Mario RPG
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- Comment on Next BioShock Game Suffers From More Development Hell After Failing an Executive Review 1 month ago:
The game’s narrative was identified as an area that was particularly in need of improvement and will be revamped in the coming months
I really don’t trust executives to be the arbiters of what is considered good narrative. I hope they didn’t just kneecap the writing because it wouldn’t appeal to as many people as possible.
- Comment on Im an unworthy Fraud when it comes to Tech 1 month ago:
This is Dunning Kruger in effect. You actually know way more than you think because you’re more aware of what you don’t know than a total beginner.
Also, as far as wanting to switch back goes, That’s a path of least resistance. For a multitude of reasons, stock Windows is simply easier to use than Linux for most people. Especially if you’re already used to Windows’ workflows and its particular quirks. And somewhat ironically, Linux is harder to adapt to if you’re a power user. Power users tend to use their PC for more things than a basic user does, and therefore need to configure more things to work properly.
- Comment on Is it possible to make wireless charging broadcast electricity throught an entire house similar to how wifi can broadcast to the entire house? 1 month ago:
I would seriously doubt it, not because it’s impossible, but because it’s massively impractical.
It turns out that wireless charging is shockingly inefficient. The antennas you would need are way bigger than you could carry practically, and the amount of power you receive is very tiny compared to the amount of voltage you’re pushing through.
A YouTuber I like actually built a setup like this in a recent video.
- Comment on The Age-Checked Internet Has Arrived 1 month ago:
Isn’t this basically what TOR and I2P are for?
- Comment on Startup Claims Its Fusion Reactor Concept Can Turn Cheap Mercury Into Gold 1 month ago:
- Comment on MFW I read an opinion that displeases my brainslug 1 month ago:
I think brainslugs are bad, actually.
- Comment on Where are all the successful "red cities"? 1 month ago:
Absolutely, thats something you get with population centers, but I think they’re farter right politically than most major US citites.
- Comment on Where are all the successful "red cities"? 1 month ago:
Miami, maybe. But I think they’re still pretty left in comparison to the Rest of Florida
- Comment on Is the peoples deep interest in chemical experiment viral videos (e.g. liquid nitrogen in a pool) related to being shooed away from understanding real science? 1 month ago:
Almost certainly no. This is the gateway for “yhr algorithm” to start recommending pop science and science communicators, and from there, a seed will sprout for people to get interested in “real science”
- Comment on It's the truth 1 month ago:
The jar with the stern chinese woman on the label contains wonders.
- Comment on Japan sets new internet speed world record — 4 million times faster than average US speeds 1 month ago:
A crate full of microSD cards could deliver speeds like this with a ping time measured in hours
- Comment on What should I get my online friend for their birthday? 1 month ago:
Satisfactory was a phenomenal video game that you guys can play together. Not quite like Minecraft, but similar.
- Comment on Are password managers secure to use? 1 month ago:
Bitwarden is FOSS but requires some technical setup and has no redundancy.
Bitwarden offers a cloud-based service in addition to self-hosted options. I choose to pay $10/year to get access to store OTP codes and easy Yubikey enrollment
- Comment on We're Not Innovating, We’re Just Forgetting Slower 1 month ago:
Oh, I fully agree.
I really want to go back to electronics and appliances being both more robust and more repairable. It’s just that the vast majority of the population disagrees with that once they learn that it will make things cost more initially.
- Comment on We're Not Innovating, We’re Just Forgetting Slower 1 month ago:
I think the “black box” nature of electronics is mostly illusory due to how we treat our devices. A friend bought a walking treadmill that wouldn’t turn on out of the box. She contacted the company, they told her to trash it and just shipped her a new one.
She gave it to me, I took it apart. One of the headers that connects the power switch to the mainboard was just unplugged. It took literally 10 minutes to “fix” including disassembly and assembly, and all I needed was a screwdriver.
This is a symptom of industry switching to cheap “disposable” electronics, rather than more expensive, robust, and repairable ones.
From the treadmill company’s point of view, it’s cheaper to just lose one unit and pay shipping one way rather than pay to have the unit returned, spend valuable technician time diagnosing and fixing an issue and then pay to ship the repaired unit back.
About 50 years ago, you could find appliance repair shops that would fix your broken toaster or TV, and parts for stuff like that were easily available. Now, with the advanced automation in building these, combined with the increased difficulty of repair(fine-work soldering, firmware debuging and the like) it makes way more sense to just replace the whole thing.
- Comment on How are you doing fellow kids 2 months ago:
It does feel that way sometimes, but humans as a species are shockingly resilient. This isn’t the first crumbling empire we’ve had to deal with, nor will it be the last.