rozodru

@rozodru@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox ditching hardware and exclusive games "makes sense," former Microsoft exec and Blizzard boss says, as "only a moron would continue" making consoles as games go third party⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe if a new generation of consoles are released they’re just going to be glorified streaming boxes. Sony has pretty much hit a plateau as far as graphics go, there’s not much you can improve upon now. And sure people are cancelling and complaining about gamepass but Microsoft might just go the route of “we’ll tell you what you want, and if you want this exclusive you’ll have no choice but to subscribe”.

  So you’ll pay for this streaming box, you’ll get maybe a couple months of the subscription for free, then you’ll pay $30 to $50 a month to get access to their catalog. Sony and Nintendo will follow suite. If you want to actually “own” anything you’ll play on PC and even then that’s truly up for debate. Like do you actually own the content you buy on Steam?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'This is definitely my last TwitchCon': High-profile streamer Emiru was assaulted at the event, even as streamers have been sounding the alarm about stalkers and harassment⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t even watch anything on Twitch anymore. I used to watch moonmoon, gigaboots, cohhcarnage, northern lion, etc and I just stopped months ago. It’s not fun anymore. I might tune in to watch desert bus or AGDQ but that’s about it and that’s just for background noise when those events are happening.

  But the site, overall, just isn’t the same. Maybe the content got worse or I just grew out of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which game would you erase from your memory, in order to experience it fresh once again?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Bioshock, Dark Souls 3, and Cyberpunk 2077

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  someone likely borked IAM.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fediverse alternative to Facebook is what's really missing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  as others have stated, Friendica. The issue is finding a stable working instance. I was on Friendica.world but doesn’t work anymore as far as I can tell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They must have a decent marketing budget because I’ve seen A LOT of big streamers playing it. It looked ok. not my cup o tea.

  also funny note that the new Call of Duty apparently censors “ARC Raiders” in the in game chat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They say word-of-mouth marketing is the most effective form of marketing. What games did you (not) enjoy that came well-recommended by friends to you, and why did they recommend it to you?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I was the same with the Dark Souls games. I just had no interest in them because they just looked way too punishing.

  Then I discovered the lore. I’m a huge lore nerd. I mean I absolutely love Warhammer 40k and I’ve never played it and don’t know how to play it. I don’t have any of the minitures but man the lore for that is awesome. It was the same for the Dark Souls games. I just stumbled across a video by that VatiiVidya guy and I was hooked. Now I wanted to play and just pick up everything and read the tiny bits of lore attached to every item in the games and then piece together this universe.

  Dark Souls 3 being my favourite. That story once you discover what’s REALLY happening is amazing. The lore for DS3 really turns the whole playing experience on its head. Suddenly you go from thinking you’re the good guy trying to save this fucked up world to realizing that “wait, am I the baddie?” Like you have to return these guys to their thrones but you begin to understand WHY they don’t want to sit on their thrones and in the end you honestly don’t blame any of them for abandoning their task.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They say word-of-mouth marketing is the most effective form of marketing. What games did you (not) enjoy that came well-recommended by friends to you, and why did they recommend it to you?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Last of Us.

  When the first one came out everyone was ranting and raving over it so I picked it up for my PS3. Granted the beginning of the game was an absolute gut punch and I thought I was hooked, I was not. I found the rest of the game so damn boring. I didn’t like the story, I felt it was forced fed to the player, and honestly I just never bothered finishing it. for me it wasn’t fun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study proves being rude to AI chatbots gets better results than being nice⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I found you get more specific solutions the worse you treat it. none of the “it’s a known issue” or problem confirmations or any of that. you just call it an idiot, moron, use all caps, cuss at it a few times.

  The funny thing is, at least with Claude, is that it will mimic your language and start cussing back. ChatGPT on the other hand will just start insulting you back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cry Havoc for this open world cyberpunk dog-fighter inspired by G-Police⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I loved G-Police and will be checking this out

  Come to think of it the PSX did have some pretty good flight/space sims. The Colony Wars series was awesome especially Vengeance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨another social network?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  mobile only.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla's Firefox adds Perplexity's AI answer engine as a new search option | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean honeslty why use base firefox when there are much better forks of firefox. Floorp for example which I like.

  If I want straight up firefox without the AI stuff then I’ll just go use Librewolf.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Built to last⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember I had NHL 95 on the Genesis brand new and could never figure out why it would never save my season. Years later I realized “damn battery was dead, why didn’t I just return it?” still played the hell out of the game though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Backup recommendations⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I just use borg on a timer. I can set it on my various machines via a shell script or on my NixOS machine in the config. I have it backup stuff daily at the same time, have automatically remove old backups after a certain period of time, and I can easily mount it to whatever computer using an alias. I don’t think about it, just does it, easy peasy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No Mans Sky exclusively in creative mode.

  I don’t care for getting resources or any of that. I just want to build stuff and explore. it would be 10x better if they made building regular ships as easy as the new ones and that’s my only gripe, having to sit in a station to wait for a ship to show up with a part you want. It’s an incredibly idiotic system for creative mode.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great games you would recommend from before 1990?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Meant the first one on the NES.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great games you would recommend from before 1990?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  can’t remember WHEN it came out, might have been 89 might have been 90 but Batman The Videogame for the NES (the first batman game)

  absolutely fantastic game, amazing soundtrack, easily one of the best Batman games ever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Space battle games for casual player?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  yes! believe it or not most of the music in the game is also copyright free music. like “Evil Ways” for example which was also the theme song for professional wrestler AJ Styles when he was in TNA.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Space battle games for casual player?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  +1 for Rebel Galaxy.

  It came out a few years ago but it’s still a really good game that I’ll pick up every now and then. The combat is surprisingly good for a space game that’s on a 2d plane.

  Completely offline which is nice also.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your greatest "gaming high" you've been chasing ever since? Please take care not to spoil anything, if you are going to be story-specific.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  the very first Call of Duty and Tribes 2 on PC way back in the early 00s.

  I used to be fairly “known” on the old “Planets” websites (PlanetQuake, PlanetTribes, etc) that were hosted via gamespy. I was popular, on a few of their camportals that were invite only and I worked on a couple of the gaming news sites providing art, writing reviews, and doing web dev stuff. I was friends with some very early internet celebs which really just consisted of guys that made webcomics or had their own websites. Friends with Mike and Jerry at Penny-Arcade, etc.

  So anyways about once a week we’d all get together, Jerry from PA, myself, couple of gamespy guys, and a few other close mutual online friends and we’d play CoD, Tribes 2, etc. We started playing CoD fairly frequently. One guy on our team, Porkfry, had a thing about not playing as the Nazi’s so if we got into a game that put is on the Nazi side we’d always have to leave and find another server until we were Americans.

  It was funny, we joked about it. just one of his many quirks.

  Now on one map in CoD there was this german truck that had a raised flatbed. there was NO WAY to normally get in it but Porkfry had figured out that if you jumped at the rear of the truck at a certain angle you could get inside, duck down, and you’d essentially be hidden. So we did that. We would hide in the back of this truck and while the enemy team was frantically searching for us we would stop crouching and just blast them when they got nearby. We’d do this constantly and just howl with laughter over vent or teamspeak or whatever we were using. That’s what we did, just silly stuff like that. Or we’d be playing Tribes 2 and one of us would act like a disgruntled bus driver when flying the troop transport. We’d just do dumb shit in the games we’d play to keep us all entertained and make each other laugh.

  I really miss those pure early internet days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨15,000 Retro Gamers Voted And Chose The Best Retro Handheld Of All Time⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Man they did they Wonderswan dirty. I always felt that was a fantastic handheld. IMHO way better than the Lynx.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Framework supporting far-right racists?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’d be one thing if the projects being supported were good and lead by devs with questionable ideals but I’m more upset that Framework decided to support a couple of really shitty projects lead by shitty people. I mean one dudes dotfiles and anothers very buggy WM that you can pay $5 to get “premium” for it? Cool Framework, that doesn’t give me a whole lot of confidence in what YOU produce now.

  I mean hell I got some killer dotfiles for Arch using River and Sway, where’s my money?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Framework supporting far-right racists?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a really piss poor excuse though. It’d be one thing if it was “I like Hyprland, I’ll support that” but then it’s also “I also like Omarchy” annnnd now you’re starting a trend that isn’t a great on to start. THEN you have people in the know who see this trend and being to put two and two together.

  Saying that Framework is tiny with no PR is no excuse. It takes all of a few minutes to discover what kind of piece of shit DHH is and what kind of bullshit the devs/mods over on Hyprland spew out. I mean I’ve been a developer for 20+ years now and I knew DHH was a piece of shit years ago. Hell anyone that’s spent any time with Ruby knew he was a piece of shit years ago.

  honestly if you had a bit of extra money on you that you wanted to donate to a charity you would utilize your common sense and research said charity before donating money right? I would hope so. I hope a lot of people would. That’s what I do. I’m not going to throw money at some random charity then I later find out uses kittens as toilet paper.

  So Framework coming out and saying “yeah we like to support open source projects, sure the ones we support are lead by racist homo/transphobes and a guy that thought Hitler had some neat ideas, no we’re not going to discuss it” is not a great look.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Framework supporting far-right racists?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t use Hyprland (honestly it’s still a buggy mess and the $5 a month for “hyprland premium” is a joke), I won’t ever use Omarchy (I already know how to install Arch), and I guess I just won’t use Framework anymore. That’s it.

  If other people want to use that crap and support it? sure, have at it. I won’t lose sleep over it. I would much rather people stop hailing these things as the greatest achievements in FOSS and Linux when they’re clearly not. I mean christ on a cracker people are treating Omarchy like it’s the second coming and it’s just an Arch installer with hyprland, a bunch of cherry picked applications and a fancy TUI styler. that’s it.

  Oh wait, sorry, Omarchy also has a hyrpland keybind set to open X/Twitter for you….groundbreaking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to set up a decentralized game/chat server⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  should be find depending on the chat server.

  I mean hell we used to do this way back in the day with IRC and Quake servers. it’s not hard at all and you don’t need to over think it. I mean it’s not like the thing is going to crash often so I’m not sure why you want to spread it out. I generally reboot my server like once a month and it takes all of 5min.

  Depending on the game and the type of chat server you’re looking to run I don’t think you need to over think it. Just start out with like a VPS, see how it goes, maybe switch it up to a dedicated. neither are expensive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Rec] "REDLINE" is one of the best and bizarre animated movie I have ever seen.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I love anime like this. just pure visual candy. I’d also suggest to people who just want none-thinking visual candy Anime to check out Dead Leaves. it’s a quick like 50min romp that is just weird, bizarre, and fun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Once again, looking for PS2 game suggestions!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Zone of the Enders 1 and 2
  Shadowhearts
  SSX Tricky
  Burnout
  Katamari Damacey
  Ribbit King
  Roommania #201
  SkyGunner
  Oni
  Dead or Alive 2
  Silent Hill 2 and 3
  Mobile Suit Gundam: Zeonic Front
  Mobile Suit Gundam: The Lost War Chronicles
  Xenosaga
  .dot Hack
  Smackdown: Here Comes The Pain
  Def Jam Vendetta
  GunGrave
  Capcom vs SNK
  Marvel vs Capcom 2

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A fediverse platform that lets you block whole topics, not just communities?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Piefed does this. haven’t seen any posts about Elon Musk in awhile.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  /me chuckles from his IRC chat room

  and people will continue to use Discord.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wipeout series - The Cane and Rinse videogame podcast⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My favourite game series of all time.

  Wip3out 3, Mega Mall, Assegai, Xpander by DJ Sasha. my favourite thing in gaming of all time.