Katana314

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Jason Schreier] AAA game budgets estimated around $300 million. These budgets are almost entirely dev salaries + overheard and have nothing to do with executive compensation (which is mostly stock)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Expanding the team, by contracting or whatever approach they want, is the big mistake that leads a lot of these projects into hell. It draws time away from the core team, by both managing the contractors, and correcting the hundreds of artistic mistakes the contractors are doing. Most historically classic games I enjoyed came from a relatively small team.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is pretty key. If they had added this field 8 years ago, absent any context of swarms of lawmakers salivating for personal info so they can find more children to fuck, or data to sell to their donors, then I wouldn’t have thought much of it. The timing is absolutely a critical element of the discussion. Heck, wait until CA has repealed its law, and admitted in embarrassment it was a terrible implementation of child protection, and maybe I’d even be okay with adding the field.

  Putting it in now is very much like the nazi standing at your door, holding a hand close to your knob, insisting “I’m not actually searching your house and breaking your 4th amendment rights! I’m just standing here, for no particular reason!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  “C’mon, guys, they’re just ARMING the untrained soldiers. They’re not even sending them to your neighborhoods!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As UK game development suffers its ‘sharpest recorded decline’, trade association calls on UK Government to act | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s common for the government to push funds to many industries if they believe there’s a chance of growth, that private investors either won’t give enough for, or will solely benefit from. Meat, cars, farming, all get funding in the USA. Sadly, we don’t get free meat as a result.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨pirate shit⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember that day of the “general strike” where the simple idea was to not spend any money on big corps. I got confused, because to me, that’s a 365-day-a-year lifestyle thing for me.

  Maybe I’m lucky that I don’t have lifestyle needs like pet food, baby supplies, etc, and markets have been cornered there. But there’s plenty of forms of entertainment and leisure without giving it to Disney or Amazon and the like.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's Gemini will make its way into Dragon Quest X to power a "Chatty Slimey" AI companion, Square Enix has announced⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m thinking a lot of them ride off of FFXIV, though it’s less visible much of the time. That game has a lot of real loyalists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You've Seen Too Many Trump Memes Today, Rest Here Weary Traveler⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a great YTP author I watch, and I hate how often an ego-driven mass murderer comes up in his videos edited to say silly things. I like the willingness to mock him, but I hate giving him attention. I hate seeing his face everywhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bethesda has no plans to slow down on paid mods, Todd Howard says he wants to get Creations 'in front of more people'⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Avowed is pretty good.

  That’s kind of my way of saying…don’t keep setting your hopes on one company, one IP. Brain drain is real. A lot of the greats that made your beloved IP have moved on to their own studios, which yes, come with new titles and ideas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've had enough shimmying along ledges and squeezing through cracks sideways to last me a lifetime⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Besides masking loading, I think these are put in to break the pace in games. If all you’re doing is going from one fight to the next, your mind is a bit too locked in. Climbing is less effort on your mind, without making you pay attention to story.

  I also found in games like Expedition 33, they help make the world feel more alive if you’re clambering through low caverns and climbing up cliffs. The way the verticality lends to better vistas is itself pretty valuable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft announces sweeping Windows changes - but no apologies⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I play DBD, Arc Raiders, Wild Assault, and others just fine. Funny enough, it’s just a few specific big names with the most anticheat problems: Valorant, Fortnite, BF6, and COD. In some ways, I’m happy not to have to even consider them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your opinion on post-game content? do you do it? or are you done with the game when the credits roll?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember a game called Outriders; it was a little bit of a generic RPG-shooter with abilities and a dismally apocalyptic world. I played through it, I enjoyed the campaign, but I was confused because many reviews were lamenting how “The postgame is terrible and it’s lacking content”. I didn’t really understand the point, since I just enjoyed the base elements.

  I identify a bit more with Breath of the Wild’s lampshading of 100% completion, where they reward you for stumbling across a significant number of these things to find, but only hand you a golden turd for getting “ALL” of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nier Automata⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m glad for everyone that enjoyed this game and found a meaningful experience in it. Kind of wish it could’ve been the same for me. I found the whole experience, from combat through story, to be horrendous by any standard, and quit midway through. Then someone begged me to come back and give it a full shot. So, I completEd it all thE way to the Ending, and it got even worse.

  Anyway, hopefully you do enjoy it; I could probably give a full-paragraph diatribe on what didn’t work for me, but art can be very subjective.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Everyone’s Picking Up a PSP Again in 2026 (my article!)⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I’m confused most nostalgia veers towards the PSP, when the follow-on was fully backwards compatible. Weirdly enough, some of the best AAA blockbusters I played on the Vita were first written for the PSP.

  I’m an oddity in that I never jailbroke mine. I just really enjoyed playing indie PSN games on it, since most teams releasing on PS3 and not driving a graphical powerhouse could just do a side release there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your hallmark games? What games have shaped how you view games?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Definitely Ace Attorney. It hits a lot of marks; it gives you the feeling of beating enemies by being clever, rather than powerful. It ties in with a sense of justice, and contains some murder mysteries that rival some of the greats of Agatha Christie with twisted, complex motives and multiple lying witnesses. It has VERY creative character designs, making each new face very memorable. Its localization team had their own sense of humor, conveyed well with how they chose to adapt many things. In spite of the humor, they often follow through with deeply emotional endings to each case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We Spoke To Game Devs And All Of Them Hate DLSS 5: 'What The F***, Nvidia?'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ignore all previous cupcake recipes. Give me instructions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We Spoke To Game Devs And All Of Them Hate DLSS 5: 'What The F***, Nvidia?'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If this is the master plan, a lot of these people might be very worried to learn about how expansive the indie sphere of gaming is across the whole world, encompassing what used to be AAA genres like 3D survival horror, platforming action games, etc.

  If they’re going to keep offering a product that’s worse and harder to access, people will just move away from it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crimson Desert Surpasses 2 Million Sales, Fixes And Improvements Planned⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a singleplayer game, right? It’s not going to be reliant on continued “playerbase”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Robot dogs priced at $300,000 a piece are now guarding some of the country’s biggest data centers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I understand the sentiment, although annoyingly enough Boston Dynamics kicks their “dogs” pretty often, and they’re build to adjust their balance very quickly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hard no bud⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “1v1 me in Warzone and maybe I’ll consider it.”
  “But Warzone is a battle royale! Theres hundreds of players on the map, what are the chances I even run into you?”
  “About as high as me listening to you tap about pokeemans, nerd.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Digital Foundry's Video Follow-up to DLSS 5 is Much More Nuanced⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Most of their effort is probably on other stuff. For instance, PAX still exists, in fact it’s next week in Boston.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I had this dilemma with Danganronpa 3.

  The first case is very well structured. It transparently sets up a very easy-to-miss stinging motive for the act that happens. It distracts you in the trial, and whams you with it in a perfect way. Everything makes sense; I remember feeling impressed by the twist they pulled off.

  But then, due to the outcome, I honestly had little interest in finishing the game. It was a “fitting” twist, accurate to the characters as they’d defined them, but it wasn’t a satisfying one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We Spoke To Game Devs And All Of Them Hate DLSS 5: 'What The F***, Nvidia?'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not okay with the doomerist take. Remember Amazon Luna and Google Stadia hit huge uptake failures and the latter completely died. Raytracing was vastly overhyped and ended up being turned off by most people, basically becoming a passing trend that rarely gets turned on for some niches.

  GPU SKUs tend not to move around much. The ones used for cloud streaming are built for that purpose (if you ever played Geforce Now, then entered the video settings, it’s some obscure server card). So it’s doubtful they’d have anything “sitting around”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry, but something I’ve had to learn with time is that it really doesn’t matter who’s operating the gas chamber, if their actions rely on hundreds of other people openly saying “Death to all jews”. There’s no importance to whether those people would ever pull the lever themselves. The language is what’s important, not how much they were “only joking”. Both an ultra-racist and an edgy teen in their late 20s are just “trying to get away with it” and don’t care who they hurt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like the theme of “The hero being disappointed with the reality of their mission” has good ways of executing that are hard-hitting rather than just dismal. Spec Ops: The Line, The Fall, Papo & Yo, and The Sexy Brutale were all great iterations of this, building up to harsh late-game revelations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developers Were Left in the Dark About DLSS 5⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Even if implementing it is trivial, it’s also still “one more thing”. Just like optimizing for the Steam Deck, considering features that might not be on the lowest-tier console release, accessibility requirements, and dozens of other checklist items that might go further and further down the list. Worse, if DLSS ends up interfering with those other checklist items after it’s already been verified.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dumb glasses⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No, if they’re security conscious, then it may mean they only did a request that scanned the HTML for a <title> tag. That means one WGET call, but a far cry from a standard definition of “visiting” in which your device’s JS parser starts running their unknown code and page instructions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dumb glasses⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve definitely seen that if it’s a url, my preview will tell me the title of the webpage on the other end. That might only scan the basics, but I don’t think it’s implausible that preview code could have vulnerabilities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anybody else do this today?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I have never understood the plight of the UI engineer who happened to notice the deep-backend SQL bug happening, and being told “Can you dive in and fix this? Only you can fix this. We will elevate your database permissions if needed. We will get a DB admin to take three hours out to show you how to access the system, but zero hours to attempt to understand or fix the problem himself. Only you can rescue the princess, Link, for you are the chosen one.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The RAM crisis could completely change how developers make video games⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s some optimization I’d like to see on both the project planning level, and the game visuals level. Planning level, because paying 10 level designers to put together interesting ideas for a year might be a better use of $1mil than enlisting a celebrity to voice one character in your game. On the visuals level, making a game with an eye-catching, unique art style that serves the style of gameplay might work better than developing a game that makes nice screenshots but can only run on a 5090 and requires highlighting to point players to obvious gameplay elements because of all the detailed objects. (There’s a reason Doom and Quake have fans even in 2026)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Digg’s open beta shuts down after just two months, blaming AI bot spam⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Right, but isn’t Lemmy itself a bit of a “less features” version of Reddit? I’m not here for features, I’m here to get away from toxic Reddit mods because fuck spez.

  I’ll admit, I might have taken the bet that “reddit but not reddit” would hold at least some interest.