Katana314
@Katana314@lemmy.world
- Comment on Spain's Pedro Sánchez hits back at Trump threat to sever trade saying 'no to war' 1 day ago:
I’m wondering if the speech was delivered in Spanish, and it’s four words in a given delivery.
- Comment on I want to replay Skyrim but 1 day ago:
A streamer I like has been playing Avowed. It’s different in a lot of ways, and on modern detail levels it ends up being smaller, but I feel like it was maybe a bit over-criticized by players.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
I guess if we define it loosely I know of a few of those now. Baby Steps, and Easy Delivery Co are simple games about getting around, with some terrain challenges.
- Comment on i guess this is why i'm a controversial figure just by existing 2 days ago:
I really want a good way to vocalize this to the people who think the “Pro-Woman” crowd means inherently being “Anti-Pervert”. Everything is always one or the other to these people. Meanwhile the LGBT world, as well as the furry world, is super pro-perversion.
Thus we have the worst, stupidest, loosest definition of the word “woke”, that these people live by.
- Comment on California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup 2 days ago:
If you don’t want your info (whether you are an adult a teen or a child) to be shared with “owners of apps that are on the Epstein list”, then don’t install those apps. There is nothing in this law requiring you to download any particular app.
Linux, as well as any decent system of security, operates via varying levels of trust. If I install a game on Steam, that does not get root access with permission to rewrite my kernel. Similarly, if I have banking info on my device, it doesn’t get to view that, or anything with my face or name. You can install and even run something without trusting it with your life.
If an app were sending this data to a third party, like palantir, then they would be in direct violation of this law.
We have seen time and time again that courts do not provide adequate protections for these types of data breaches. The law does not matter. At the most, software companies get slapped on the wrist, but more likely they get away with it, as “programming is hard, and it’s easier to just send everything”. It is far, far easier to assert that a malicious app is not submitting marketing, or “fuckability” information on your child if that device does not denote itself as a child’s device in the first place. That’s only possible if the law isn’t hammering the OS into openly exposing its own user data to anyone that asks for it.
Your last point about personal responsibility is an important one. It’s why, if you happen to be using an old insecure device running Windows XP, you can toy around on the web with it, but you should disconnect it from your personal network, and should not enter personal info on it. Any device software that is forced to keep an open “Would_President_47_Seek_To_Rape_This_User” flag, available to every application, is removing that option for personal responsibility.
- Comment on xkcd #3214: Electric Vehicles 2 days ago:
A car powered by gasoline? It’ll never take off. I mean, what will you do if it runs out of gas? Start a war in the middle east?
- Comment on California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup 2 days ago:
Does it even allow for user privacy protection? Nothing I’ve read of the bill suggests that an app could ask whether the user is of a fuckable class by its Epstein-list owners, and allow the user to block the prompt. Every other app has to ask for permission to use the camera, to write to certain directories, they can even be firewalled to prevent network access. The very idea that an OS must code in a form of user information that must be provided to any app, trusted or not, is a warped, Palantir-driven approach to (in)security.
- Comment on California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup 2 days ago:
Most practitioners of data security are aware of the severe dangers of fingerprinting users, and that is a hardline issue. Thus, in order to maintain their security practices, their only choice is to not collect this sort of info on users at any level. If they’re delivering a security product with a built-in vulnerability, they’re not delivering a security product. It’s much better to just surrender one state until it invents sanity.
- Comment on California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup 2 days ago:
Wake me when that actually leads to enforcement penalties. This law is vague enough as it is, no company is going to get slammed for “accidentally” skipping a user permission check, and having their FunPad app offer up your age info to one of Palantir’s long fingers.
- Comment on California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup 2 days ago:
Even entering DoB is imo too much of a privacy breach. In my view, they should just take the highest age bracket described, apparently 18+, and then ask that on OS installation: “Are you over the age of 18?” If the user says yes, it installs, and every app is hardcoded to receive that 18+ bracket when checking demographic. If they say no, then it simply replies that users under 18 may not install it under the laws of California.
- Comment on the two party system is just one big party 2 days ago:
This criticism is fixed by primaries, not the vote in the general election. This comic is criticizing the latter act. South Park is right about that one.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
Introducing a niche, unheard indie game by a small, unknown team: The Witcher 3!
- Comment on many have been saying this 3 days ago:
I mean, even the UK just masks it.
Much of the support for Israel is around it being a white ethnostate, not a Jewish haven; and this is the place that banned even verbal support for Palestine Action. You can tell me if you think that’s out of empathic protection of Jewish communities, or racist radicalism.
- Comment on The State of Gaming (2026) 3 days ago:
I wouldn’t even agree with the idea that “Mobile is powering most of gaming’s growth”. Quite often, the two sectors have nothing to do with each other. For the most part, PC and console gaming has stagnated because the publishers controlling those spaces have flipped off their customers and given them nothing.
- Comment on Day 8 of posting an indie game I found that I think looks cool - They Killed Your Cat 4 days ago:
That’s what I saw out of it. Being attacked by non-zombies trying to rush you makes for an extremely disconcerting look. I can’t help but think the dev pictured themselves in that situation.
- Comment on Jason Schreier says Sony is backing away from putting single player games on PC 5 days ago:
I’m acutely aware of how anti-consumer it is, but I always found it strange they ever started putting singleplayer games on PC.
Yes, it’s some revenue for the game itself, filtered through Valve’s 30% cut. But from what I gather, most of the reason the console offering works is because people who’ve finished God of War will learn about some new forever F2P game, and decide to play it on that same PlayStation, thus getting all the microtransaction revenue. None of that environmental connection really happens on PC.
That especially hurts because the cost and risk for singleplayer games hasn’t always been great. Sure, we look positively at Hollow Knight: Silksong, but that often ignores the 95 other indie failures for every Silksong. At the least, a publisher like Sony that’s put out enough big hits can pull that failure rate down, but they’ll still put out stinkers; and the whole “environmental buy-in” helps to pay for that failure rate.
But, if people can get their well-produced games anywhere, the insular cycle encouraging people to get PlayStations kind of falls apart. Not many people will buy them specifically to play FortNite (though they will, in the end). It was good for PC consumers for a time, but I feel like PC releases were very much motivated by short-term profit. You can also see how, since singleplayer games fit in a longer-term industry plan, it may explain why we don’t see many of them anymore.
- Comment on Is spreading. 6 days ago:
I feel like so many Linux advocates would get more interest if they were at least a little honest about the upfront friction, and recognized how obtrusive so many acronyms and half-names (or “hames!”) become.
Main thing I want to work out is a reliable path for reinstalling Windows, so people know they have a safety net. Licensing is often complicated since it came with people’s computers.
- Comment on Is spreading. 6 days ago:
There’s a dumb anime game in Steam next fest called Fate Trigger. It’s not innovative at all, but it runs fine under dwproton, which lets me experience the thrill of battle royale that I’d never been willing to stomach Fortnite to try out.
- Comment on Is spreading. 6 days ago:
It took a bit of time, but using a protontricks launcher, I’ve been able to do this for a trainer or two on a game on Steam.
- Comment on New York sues Valve for enabling "illegal gambling" with loot boxes 6 days ago:
Trading cards are arguably a problem too, but one that becomes much less prevalent due to their comparative inconvenience. The internet can gamify immediacy around them, and the cards of that store will never run out of stock.
- Comment on DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media 6 days ago:
My libraries still lend out a lot of DVDs. I ended up getting Fallout S1 in that format, and while it was a resolution drop, it was perfectly bearable.
I can guess for the audience using discs, a lot still have archaic hardware to play them on.
- Comment on 'Space Marine 2' - The Free Techmarine Update Hits At Last 6 days ago:
Man I want to finish the campaign and enjoy this game, but as long as they have this split-lock issue on Linux causing severely low framerate every few minutes, I basically can’t. ProtonDB for more info…
- Comment on ‘This shouldn’t be normal’: developers speak out about bigotry on Steam, the world’s biggest PC gaming storefront 1 week ago:
Even if they had it, a lot of smaller developers don’t even want to be serving as chaperones for their playerbase. Some have even said they don’t want their game page to create a Steam subforum.
- Comment on FINAL FANTASY VII - now on GOG 1 week ago:
Trails in the Sky became bearable because of this. It was so well enjoyed that the full remake of the game kept the feature around.
- Comment on Xbox CEO Asha Sharma shares her gamertag — what it reveals 1 week ago:
Nothing will ever get better
Stop suggesting policies and theories. Don’t vote. Don’t even suggest taxing the rich.
/s
- Comment on What do you guys think of Crimson Desert? 1 week ago:
I’ve said this before about games like Dragon Quest. I’ll play a good JRPG, but it needs a hook to make it stand out and seem interesting, be that storywise, combat wise, etc. A game showing off swords and magic still needs to define why it’s different and why I should care.
- Comment on Xbox CEO Asha Sharma shares her gamertag — what it reveals 1 week ago:
Might be another time to push Elizabeth Warren’s Accountable Capitalism Act, in which workers of a company must vote in a show of support for a large number of chair members. That would likely help a lot of industries get perspective below the sacred MBA.
- Comment on "I pray they are cursed to never play the game again" Resident Evil 2 director Hideki Kamiya goes off on Resident Evil Requiem leakers 1 week ago:
I think all it takes is a good E3 reaction to make me understand just how much developers want to own those reveal moments, position them perfectly. If you find out 5 hours ahead of time that you have a surprise birthday party waiting for you at home, that’s “really nice”, but probably doesn’t have anywhere near the same impact as if it goes off just as the planners organized.
I’ve also heard of on-paper spoilers that sound really stupid and aggravating how an article describes them, but then playing through the game events that lead into it, I end up respecting the outcome quite a bit more as something that makes sense. This happened for the oft-forgotten Prince of Persia reboot; the one where you have a teleporting lady cohort with you the whole game.
Prince of Persia
The game ends with the lady being locked away in order to seal off the evil that had been plaguing the land. An article lamented how the game’s full ending is to just have the prince undo the locks, reversing all your hard work over the game, and releasing the woman he’d been getting to know all game. The bit they didn’t describe was how the credits had already rolled, signalling it as an ending, and no objective marker actually told you to do as such - it’s just something you can do if you’re left unsatisfied post-credits, making it a decision owned by the player.
- Comment on "I pray they are cursed to never play the game again" Resident Evil 2 director Hideki Kamiya goes off on Resident Evil Requiem leakers 1 week ago:
It’s definitely more towards character-scenes than any overarching plot where a big bad wants to use a virus to rule the world. I genuinely think the messed-up behavior of Jack from Resident Evil 7 was well-done though. The general theme of “a weird, angry, and incredibly decisive guy” is generally underused.
It’s not beyond them to write something pretty good on that vein.
- Comment on Video games are losing the "attention war" to gambling, porn, and crypto, according to industry report 1 week ago:
People follow “rules/systems” and notice “patterns” when pulling slots too.