Rentlar
@Rentlar@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Stop Killing Games Australian Petition - Open for Signature Until **20 May 2024** 22 hours ago:
Yeah it likely is. For whatever reason it’s only open for a handful of weeks so I’m trying to remind anyone that hasn’t signed but wanted to or told their friends about it before it closes.
- Comment on Stop Killing Games Australian Petition - Open for Signature Until **20 May 2024** 1 day ago:
A petition for folks who live with me in the Great White North (Canada): www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?P…
For my Commonwealth mates across the other pond (UK): petition.parliament.uk/petitions/659071/
Luckily these two petitions are a little more lenient on the deadlines than the Aussie one.
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- Comment on V Rising has launched out of Early Access! 1 day ago:
You might be able to try a “demo” of v rising 1.0.0.79266-b23 before you buy…
- Comment on Sonic Rumble - Announce Trailer 1 day ago:
Seems interesting, though this trailer was probably made in Powerpoint.
Sonic Forces™ fans to play another mobile game with plenty of microtransactions.
- Comment on ANIMAL WELL - Launch Trailer 1 day ago:
Demo’d this at PAX West Seattle and said hi to Billy there. It was quite a charming experience.
- Comment on Professor sues Meta to allow release of feed-killing tool for Facebook 1 day ago:
Professor Zuckerman vs. Zuckerbot. Who will win?
- Comment on Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause 3 days ago:
Yeah I don’t use prime video but as soon as I saw they were going to add ads, that opens the door for them to make their app shitty as hell.
- Comment on Pokémon Go players are altering public map data to catch rare Pokémon 4 days ago:
For anyone else that didn’t read the article (or can’t hear words in parentheses because they are too quiet):
According to a report from 404 Media, some of those players have been adding fake beaches to OpenStreetMap so they could have easier access to the beach biome in Pokémon Go (though the game Go initially used Google Maps data, it apparently switched to OpenStreetMap at some point in 2017).
- Comment on Sony - Helldivers fans -- we’ve heard your feedback on the Helldivers 2 account linking update - PSN no longer required 4 days ago:
I’m curious, what’s the problem? There was an upsetting change, review was negative. That change was walked back and not happening. What would the reason be to keep it negative?
- Comment on Sea drone warfare has arrived. The U.S. is floundering 4 days ago:
Main difference is that the battles are going to be a hyper-advanced nuclear-powered vessel with a mounted cannon that can turn on a dime, vs. An aluminum encased stick of dynamite with a sail x2000.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 Players Express Frustration On Steam As It Will Soon Require A PSN Account 5 days ago:
I presume you will have heard, Sony/Playstation has announced it will reverse on the PSN linking mandate.
- Comment on Sony - Helldivers fans -- we’ve heard your feedback on the Helldivers 2 account linking update - PSN no longer required 5 days ago:
We did it Lemmy~
Updated my review: (PERSONAL ORDER COMPLETE)
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
I know the FOSS fans within our community don’t like the terms of Grayjay. That said we have options like NewPipe, ytdlp, nvidious, Libretube, etc. which are FOSS and AFAIK each have different extraction mechanisms, so one change on the page end can’t reliably shut down every method. I get that Louis is against Sponsorblock and his personal feelings and morals influence the direction of the software too.
The Grayjay app is a bit more like Shareware, Louis himself described his app’s monetization scheme like an infinite free trial. He knows many people are going to use it for free. He knows that others will pay the one time payment for a license, and it doesn’t necessarily have to be linked to the install or anything.
The thing is that diversity in the space makes us stronger in the face of the gigantic monolith that Google is. His repair foundation or whatever that was means that he has a few more resources pooled together than the rest of us to put up a legal fight that in the end will hopefully effect change that helps all of us.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 Players Express Frustration On Steam As It Will Soon Require A PSN Account 6 days ago:
In the compromise model, Sony gets the interaction data they want and pad their account numbers for investors. Players get sustained access to the game. Win-win.
- Comment on League of Legends’ anti-cheat won't brick your PC, Riot insist, after adding Valorant’s controversial system to the MOBA 1 week ago:
I know what can fix their launcher problems! A new launcher to launch the Riot Launcher to launch the League of Legends Launcher to launch League of Legends.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 Players Express Frustration On Steam As It Will Soon Require A PSN Account 1 week ago:
I think those people that will no longer be able to play it, because Sony doesn’t let them do the thing that they now require, deserve refunds. I will leave a negative review when the update drops, despite really enjoying this game, because it’s not fair to those who bought it and will be locked out. If they can make it such that you can have a placeholder Sony account that can’t access all PSN features for the purpose to play this and other Sony games on Steam, that anyone in the world can access, that would be an appropriate compromise to me.
I understand EULA and account creation fatigue. It’s just that it’s not the accounts themselves that are the worrisome part of the change for me is what I’m saying. If it’s for specific reasoning (console crossplay), is unobtrusive, and maintains access for existing Steam purchasers then I don’t have a real problem. If they use it to limit people’s access that’s where I have a problem.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 Players Express Frustration On Steam As It Will Soon Require A PSN Account 1 week ago:
This is the point of contention I am curious about. If Sony can be the one to kick you off the game that you bought on Steam and you don’t get refunded for it, I will review it negatively. Let me know what happens after the update forcing PSN.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 Players Express Frustration On Steam As It Will Soon Require A PSN Account 1 week ago:
It doesn’t seem like a big change to me, so long as you can just have it linked to your Steam account and nothing else.
I’d only be upset if it breaks Linux compatibility or was a single player game (HD2 isn’t).
- Comment on What are these "bass" and "treble" that I see in an equalizer ? 1 week ago:
Bass is for low frequency sounds, so use that if you want to hear the kick drums, the bass guitar, trombone etc more clearly and you want a deep and mellow sound. Mid for human voices and most lead instruments. Treble if you want other drums and cymbals to stand out and you want a brighter but slightly shallower sound.
- Comment on The “Require videogame publishers to keep games they have sold in a working state” petition just got a response. 1 week ago:
Sounds to me that if you bought The Crew with the understanding that you could play indefinitely, noting that they didn’t provide an end date at any time while they were selling it, they need to honour your access to it in one form or another, else provide you a refund.
- Comment on CenturyLink left users with no service for two months, then billed them $239 1 week ago:
Yeah telecoms are garbage, common story.
Neat thing is I wonder if Century Link supports Pulse Dialing for rotary phones still? Where the connection was intermittently connected and disconnected, it might have randomly been calling 411 and 911 because of that.
- Comment on Catholic 'media ministry' defrocks AWOL AI priest after it told faithful you can baptise babies in Gatorade and that, sure, it can totally perform your wedding 1 week ago:
Father Justin, will you trade my 25 Diplomatic Favour for 20 horses please?
- Comment on Elon Musk Laid Off Supercharger Team After Taking $17 Million in Federal Charging Grants 1 week ago:
That’s the crazy thing. He is letting the entire division go instead of just replacing the head he might have had a problem with. So now the good workers and the bad workers if there are such, are all being flushed out of the Tesla toilet.
- Comment on I'm a Tenured College Professor. I'm Quitting. Here's Why. 1 week ago:
Governments are underfunding education, and in Canada there’s pressure to limit international students who pay big bucks to study here, so there’s a bit of talk of austerity at many public universities in Canada.
When you combine it with the profit incentive of private universities and their administration acting like CEOs, and all the contracting out that was done by both public and private that are now screwing them over, paints an awful picture for education in North America.
- Comment on A bot in Tekken 8 is demolishing players by only pressing one button over and over 1 week ago:
Eddy is the first of four DLC characters for Season 1 of Tekken 8. And… what’s this? The next character was just announced this morning. I don’t want to have to make a whole separate news post for that. So look:
Lidia is Tekken 8’s next DLC fighter. She’s coming this summer, say the developers on Twitter.
Honest lazy journalism, hahaha.
- Comment on Post your Servernames! 1 week ago:
Firebox to run my Firefox.
- Comment on Post your Servernames! 1 week ago:
I lol’d at Evergreen. Excellent choice.
- Comment on NHTSA opens investigation into Ford’s BlueCruise after software linked to fatal crash 1 week ago:
BlueCruise ran into an error and has been disabled. Falling back to BoozeCruise mode.
- Comment on Send a message! Use a digital pipe bomb! 1 week ago:
First/Given Name: Ya
Middle Name: Like
Last Name/Surname: Jazz