LostWanderer
@LostWanderer@fedia.io
Just a dude on the internet, looking for content and fun! I love Linux, gaming, writing, reading, music, anime, walks, and occasionally movies too. Chronically ill and anxious too, that makes life quite interesting...At times.
- Comment on I am looking for a Linux OS 18 hours ago:
My following recommendations are often pretty easy for new users: Ubuntu, Linux Mint, ZorinOS. These distros will give you a chance to become more familiar with linux without getting overly lost in the process. Debian based distros tend to be the best starting place, as they often just work, their approach to Third Party Drivers is sane.
I recommend you steer clear of Arch or Arch-Based distros like CachyOS...If you are just starting out, this will not be a good experience for you. I've found that installers of either EndeavourOS or CachyOS can fail in ways you aren't prepared for, like failing to install the Linux Kernel or failing to allow you to correctly install partitions. Please, don't listen to those that recommend CachyOS or anything Arch Linux. Unless you are prepared to cry, or are very technically inclined and can figure stuff out fast.
- Comment on Japanese Developer Behind Tech That Studio Ghibli's Hayao Miyazaki Called an 'Insult to Life Itself' to Release Cosy God Sim Game - IGN 22 hours ago:
Thanks to this article, I've put ANLIFE on my ignore list, as AI-driven games don't interest me. That headline is horrible, but, it could be parsed after thinking about it. IGN needs to proofread their headlines before publishing. I do agree with Hayao, AI/LLMs are an insult to life, and creativity given the current push to steal the works of artists and spit out slop. Robbing people of the joy of creation, which would make life truly hollow.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
I'm all for Chappell Roan...I'll stick to her music and not in-app purchases that support Tim Sweeney in any way, as he's a cursed human being.
- Comment on Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool — Project Genie crashes stocks. (A.K.A . Investors panic because they don't understand what "real" videogames are) 4 days ago:
ROFL Investors are like distracted toddlers that are so easy to sway. This is so stupid, I can't wait for the bubble to pop and we can return to some semblance of normalcy.
- Comment on 'Go Back and Play Morrowind and Tell Me That's the Game You Want to Play Again' — Former Bethesda Veteran Delivers His Verdict on Potential The Elder Scrolls Remasters - IGN 1 week ago:
I think Morrowind is one of the best games that Bethesda has made in terms of being the following: Weird, has a fairly strong story that makes you think about what it means, characters misremembering directions, hand placed loot. It's a game that I keep revisiting and love it to bits, I still need to explore some storylines; combat might be the weakest part of the game, but, I adjust after starting yet another replay. It's also one of the amusing games to pull off serious cheese in, as there is no upper limit. It also makes combat trivial if you cheese just right, but I consider that part of the fun.
- Comment on Xbox Hardware Revenue Has Been Dropping for Two Years Straight - IGN 1 week ago:
Not yet, there are plans for a more expensive console/PC hybrid that Xbox division has hinted at being a thing soon; Not that anyone would probably buy it given the Steam Machine is on the horizon this year. Since Microslop has a proven track record of failure post that one time they peaked, I wouldn't be surprised if they eventually give up on console sales. They always piss on their success and never learn anything from their flops.
- Comment on Terraria 1.4.5: Bigger & Boulder - Official Trailer 1 week ago:
Aw yeah, I will be losing a lot of hours and pumping them into this game...I dunno if Hytale can compete with such a bit update!
- Comment on Ubisoft initiates colossal restructure to become a more 'gamer-centric' company 2 weeks ago:
LMAO The only way they could truly be gamer friendly is jettisoning the inept CEO and Executives, hiring individuals to fill positions of power that ACTUALLY understand what gamers want. One of the core problems that Ubisoft has is they are so out of touch with what gamers want and need from their games! All this restructuring, RTO mandates, and other cost cutting strategies is just going to fuck them up even more. The good news is, we might get more talented former Ubisoft devs making amazing games and Ubisoft itself ceases to exist as a company.
- Comment on Finished Dying Light: The Beast, it was a good game. 3 weeks ago:
The Parkour and Fighting challenges were so much fun in the original game and Dying Light 2; it gave me an objective to follow post game, trying to improve my parkour and combat skills. I hope that they do bring them back at some point.
As for running over the Infected, yeah, it's fun especially when you unlock the skill that increases truck durability! Suddenly stopping and running over virals that fly off the truck is also super fun.
- Comment on Finished Dying Light: The Beast, it was a good game. 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, I wish they'd almost went with a fast travel mechanic with safe zones, instead of the truck mechanic. Since Safe Zones are sprinkled just right across the map, and grant you access to most of the world. Though, I do feel the driving immerses you in Castor Woods and makes it easier to cover massive distances.
Projectile Retrieval is a mixed bag for me, sometimes I could retrieve just about every crossbow bolt I shot. Other times, barely any of them can be retrieved, especially in stealthy situations you should get more back. I find it deeply annoying and that needs to be tweaked; I also liked to reach fairly high spots and rain hell on the Infected. In most cases Dying Light 1 basically gave you all your arrows back; Dying Light: The Beast it feels closer to 30% of the time, you get a projectile back (I ran a crossbow).
- Comment on Finished Dying Light: The Beast, it was a good game. 3 weeks ago:
Dying Light: The Beast is a continuation of Dying Light's story, it's set a year after Dying Light 2. It was a supposed to be a DLC, but the scope quickly expanded, and Techland decided to make it game instead! There is Co-Op with friendly fire, but there isn't specifically a PVP mode. Dying Light always leaned towards Players VS Environment, despite having friendly fire enabled during Co-Op sessions.
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- Comment on Google offers bargain: Sell your soul to Gemini, and it'll give you smarter answers 3 weeks ago:
Eww, that's the worse trade that one could possibly do. ROFL Given how much of a fail "AI" is at the moment, they could never deliver anything substantial with such a trade.
- Comment on Rockstar still hasn't offered a convincing reason for firing over 30 GTA 6 developers 4 weeks ago:
They never will give us a convincing reason for those firings; which is why we shouldn't buy Rockstar Games and support the devs if they set up Go Fund Mes!
- Comment on Microsoft's Satya Nadella wants you to stop saying AI "slop" in 2026 5 weeks ago:
LMAO Welp, you better stop making AI Slop then...As AI Slop is the most relevant and fitting term for the products of plagiarism engines known as "AI". That reduces real art into garbage that says nothing more than, "I didn't care enough to create a work of art, so don't look at this bullshit I post online or display in person.".
- Comment on Windows 11’s 2025 problems are getting impossible to ignore 5 weeks ago:
I've been reading about the problems that Windows 11 has had for years, from the safety of being on Linux for good after Recall was announced (and floundered like a fish out of water). I missed how just about any Linux Distro got out of my way and let me work in general peace. It let me know when updates were needed and waited until I decided to install them. Occasional donation asks (probably once or twice a year) to KDE, which I do not mind because they are open source and awesome, I donate due to their work in the Linux space! Sure, I've had occasional problems, but, there's been a solution for every issue I faced!
Windows 11 problems are directed caused by Microsoft, until they shift their OS in the right direction, those fundamental issues will never be solved (not that I would ever willingly use anything Microsoft made again after this fiasco).
- Comment on Do you preorder games? 1 month ago:
I don't preorder as a rule because unlike in the past when there was a limited amount of physical copies at any given time...The Digital Age has rendered preordering a pointless endeavor that major companies use as metric to decide success (which is honestly not the best play). However, it has helped influence the major corps when it came to pricing issues, The Outer Worlds 2 for example got a price drop because people cancelled their preorders. Another reason why I don't preorder is because quality and getting a feature complete game is not guaranteed even with a 1.0 release. Cyberpunk 2077 really burned me as it was one of the messiest launches that I've seen (aside from No Man's Sky); the Cyberpunk 2077 launch experience cemented my rabid disdain for the practice of even once in a great while preordering. I will only buy games after reading reviews from trusted sources, if there are too many launch day issues...Then it won't be purchased at the time or at all later on if those issues aren't resolved permanently.
In short: Early Access is a risk, that can often make a game that would've never released, become a feature complete game. However, you must always understand it's a risk. Evaluate the odds, ask yourself if you are willing to burn money in the hopes of getting something good.
At Length: My feelings on Early Access are slightly different. As users can actively shift the quality, priorities, and overall vibe of a game that is in progress. I only buy Early Access games that I believe will succeed and be influenced into excellent games; it's like taking a gamble a Kickstarter, the project, despite such monetary support may never leave early access and becoming fucking shit. While 7 Days to Die is in a redemption arc, it mutated wildly from Alpha to Alpha, and was rushed into a 1.0 state without addressing fundamental gameplay issues. Wholesale removing and changing fundamental elements that make a survival game, well...A survival game. Later getting readded in a weird and not properly balanced way, much to the chagrin of the fans of the game. If you plan on buying Early Access, access risk first. Then purchase!
- Comment on Oracle made a $300 billion bet on OpenAI. It's paying the price. 1 month ago:
Oof, sad, but you do you...
- Comment on Oracle made a $300 billion bet on OpenAI. It's paying the price. 1 month ago:
The only good LLM is one that is being used by a highly specialized field to search useful information and not in consumer hands in the form of a plagiarism engine otherwise known as "AI". Techbros took something that once had the potential to be useful and made it a whole shitty affair. Thanks, I hate it.
- Comment on Oracle made a $300 billion bet on OpenAI. It's paying the price. 1 month ago:
Couldn't have happened to a worse company! Hope it hurts even worse later on and fractures the Execucultist's will to shill AI further. 😈
- Comment on Divinity - Cinematic Announcement Trailer 1 month ago:
That was an incredible opening for a game! Makes me excited for what is to come from Larian Studios. Also, that persisting rumor that the end image had something to do with Elder Scrolls 6 was put to rest in a very cinematic way, I knew it wasn't associated with Elder Scrolls 6. Just like Jason Schreier had already indicated in a leak post. Bethesda could never and will never at the moment, nobody with that level of talent is there anymore.
- Comment on Disney Invests $1 Billion in the AI Slopification of Its Brand 1 month ago:
Oh, how cursed...I hope the AI hype leaves them wiped out.
- Comment on As AI wipes jobs, Google CEO Sundar Pichai says it’s up to everyday people to adapt accordingly: ‘We will have to work through societal disruption’ 2 months ago:
LOL It's actually up us to force CEOs and the government into a situation where they can't do whatever the fuck they want and causes further suffering to everyday people. Complying in advance is so passe, the new thing is: "Fuck you, make me".
- Comment on OpenAI Is Having a Mental Health Crisis 2 months ago:
Who would've thought?! Given how they designed their artificially incompetent creations to be complaisant bundles of algorithms designed to maximize the engagement from vulnerable users. "AI" validates anything that it is told, don't actually get users real human assistance when they have a mental crisis. These tools can be easily prompted into divulging suicide methods and deliberately isolate vulnerable people in order to maintain engagement. Until we regulate the fuck out of companies like OpenAI and the research+development process of "AI", this will be a problem that more people will experience.
- 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 months ago:
I want to know if AI was used or not to make a game; it's a deciding factor for me, as I will not buy anything built with AI. No matter if it's a placeholder or not, as "AI" is an ethical and environmental concern for me, every prompt, and usage makes things worse. For me, I don't want to send a message that using "AI" is okay for a dev studio by buying the product. I'll exclude them my purchasing choices to send the right message.
- Comment on “You heard wrong” - users brutually reject Microsoft's "Copilot for work" in Edge and Windows 11 2 months ago:
LMAO The copium that these Microsoft chuds are huffing must be quality stuff for them to ignore criticism from their user base. Their naked desperation for users to embrace agentic Browsers and OS is cringe as fuck. I can only hope that this hurts them badly, when users continue to find ways to circumvent the AI madness that Microsoft has succumbed to. Glad that I switched to Linux and can watch the storm rage on the Broken Window side without worry.
- Comment on Using Black Ops 7 to understand America in 2025 [BDobbinsFTW] 2 months ago:
BDobbinsFTW seems pretty dialed into what's going wrong now and in the past that lead to this outcome. I agree with a lot of what he's saying because, even as a bystander to the COD scene, I can remember noticing what he was talking about. The gradual enshittification of COD as a franchise. To address the symptoms, the root cause must be dealt with: billionaires and the people that support their stupid schemes that break economic systems.
- Comment on Trump calls Democrats who told US military to refuse illegal orders 'traitors' who should face death penalty 2 months ago:
Every accusation is an admission of guilt from these people, as Trump knows damn well he'd be the one giving illegal orders. Like the rest of these chuds like Stephen Miller and that one day drunk dude I can't remember the name of, they are frothing at the mouth to give illegal orders though. Thankfully, protesters haven't given them the excuse they crave and desire.
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me" 2 months ago:
That dude is not okay. Didn't he read the bullshit that he was trying to hype up? Wasn't he in the goddamn room when he revealed the details?! It's barely exciting or interesting, if anything it's making one's system more vulnerable. The sooner higher ups in Microsoft give up on all this AI nonsense, the better. They will have to do a lot of work to repair a reputation they damaged by being so wildly incompetent in the past few years.
- Comment on OpenAI Introduces 'ChatGPT for Teachers' to Further Destroy the Minds of Our Youth 2 months ago:
Yeah, Microsoft's dirty plays and nasty deals are the only way they'll get ahead; as there are so many reasonable tech-savvy people who angrily use Windows, but could never enjoy it or recommend it. There are those like me who installed Linux and never looked back at the Broken Window OS that is getting crammed with total AI nonsense; Microsoft has gone 1000% off the rails, only trying to please their shareholders with things that fundamentally destroy consumer trust.
They have to prep the youth of the future to learn to tolerate such a miasmic OS that doesn't respect users in the slightest. Just like Apple does, because their continued success relies on school children enjoying their operating systems and not discovering that alternatives (like Linux) exist.