DocMcStuffin

@DocMcStuffin@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what was the last game you played in 2024?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  A Shelter Full of Cats I’m a sucker for any game from Devcats.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy New Year! Thought I'd share my new year's resolution to the people here⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Quality Ultra HD shitpost

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Longtime buddy of mine just got a gaming PC. What games would make up a good "welcome to PC" care package?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  So, most of my recommendations are going to be FPS or first person. For Valve related stuff:

  • Half-Life 2 is pretty much a must have along with Episodes 1 and 2.
  • Black Mesa is a remake of the original.
  • Entropy : Zero 2 is a fantastic fan made mod that’s a good follow up after finishing Half-Life 2 and the episodes.
  • The original Entropy : Zero is pretty good, but the default difficulty is hard as hell.
  • Portal 1 and 2 are also a must have
  • Portal: Revolution is an independent mod that’s a good follow up after 2.

  As for non-Valve games and related:

  • Crab Champions - fast paced, fps, rogue-like shooter.
  • Talos Principle 1 and 2 - fps puzzles with a serious philosophical scifi story. It actually gets a bit heavy when it discusses death.
  • Untitled Goose Game - Honk!
  • Gnorp Apologue - fun little game
  • Pineapple on pizza - it’s free. I would describe it as games-as-art.
  • Any of the Serious Sam games. They were made for PC.
  • Fallen Aces is still in early access, but a good story driven retro FPS with sprites and multiple ways of navigating each level.
  • Trepang2 - a bit of an odd FPS with bullet time.
  • Roboquest - rogue like FPS
  • Exit 8 - horror walking simulator. Kinda short once you figure it out.
  • APE OUT - Ape smash! Top down “shooter”.
  • Hotline Miami 1 and 2 - top down shooters with fast deaths and excellent soundtracks
  • The Binding of Isaac - has always been popular if a little dated
  • Gunpoint - stealth puzzle third person. Came out a decade ago, but a good game.
  • Party Hard - little indie murder-everyone-and-don’t-get-caught.
  • The Stanley Parable - walking simulator with some interesting dialog and interactions. 9-to-5 office people can relate.
  • Dusk - awesome boomer shooter
  • Antichamber - came out a decade ago, but a it’s a mind bending puzzle fps.
  • Hades and Hades 2 which is in early access. Third person isometric rogue-like.
  • The Invincible - Story driven walking simulator based off the book of the same name. Good story.
  • Firewatch - story driven walking simulator
  • Deeprock Galactic - wasn’t my pint of beer, but a lot of people like it.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Longtime buddy of mine just got a gaming PC. What games would make up a good "welcome to PC" care package?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Half-Life 2 is pretty much a must have. Black Mesa is a good remake of the original.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Do ppl on lemmy lurk more then interact or post anything?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not limited to Lemmy. It’s what happens across all social media. A tiny percentage of people will post, a larger percentage will comment, and the vast majority will lurk. The general numbers I’ve heard thrown around are 1-9-90, but the posters and commenters are probably much lower than 1% and 9%. Especially as platform size increases.

  As for why, and this is hazarding a guess: posting takes effort, commenting takes less, and lurking takes the least.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hi-Rez Studios announces February 17th shutdown for Realm Royale and Divine Knockout⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d be surprised if they had net positive income on Tribes 3. A lot of veteran gamers of the series saw who was really running development and decided to stay away. Once bitten, twice shy. The writing was on the wall that it was a dead game back in June.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I always get them confused.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s easier than that: c for ceiling, g for ground.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i am hella indifferent to humans of any gender taking shits⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But they could be shitting right next to you! Menacingly!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple Shares Full iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro Repair Manuals⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Apple has a long history of working against right to repair and third party repair shops. This includes making it difficult for third parties to source the parts needed and changing the designs to requiring part pairing in the name of security. It got to the point where repair shops were buying broken Apple products so they could hopefully source the parts needed.

  Looking through what they provided now, it’s basic stuff any third party repair shop could do if they could source the parts. It’s useful. However good electronic technicians can go beyond that and do board level repairs. But that requires schematics and diagrams. A lot of times they would have to get those through other parties who in turn got them through less than official means or violated NDAs.

  Guess what Apple isn’t providing? Board level information. This is just doing the minimum the law requires them to do.

  Bonus: Louis Rossmann talks about how Apple’s history of right to repair

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bro almost lost his job 😭⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨stop⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember when this was just a joke on Futurama. Why does life imitate art in the dumbest way possible‽

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨stop⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When PSAs go too far⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s out there. You just have to search for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Taco Bell Programming⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And just like Taco Bell when something goes bad you get to deal with all the diarrhea.

  But seriously, shouldn’t this be in !programminghumor@lemmy.world and not technology?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #2976: Time Traveler Causes of Death⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Robot raptors

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brat summer is dead RIP⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone spread the rumor that JD Vance admitted to having coitus with a couch, and the rest was memes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The new Chinese owner of the popular Polyfill JS project injects malware into more than 100 thousand sites⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks like someone tried to archive an archived page. You can see https://web.archive.org/… is listed twice in the url. I just trimmed off the first one then it works: web.archive.org/web/20240229113710/https:/…/2834

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I wanted to, hypothetically, guarentee that I shit my pants 2 to 6 hours from now, how should I do it?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure if they’re still available, but gummy bears made with Lycasin guarantee explosive results.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bean jean⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there something in particular you want to point out? Because I’m not seeing anything that screams monster.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Smothsinian⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That depends on if you work for the government

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Needs more jpeg.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit has reportedly signed over its content to train AI models⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s one good news. Reddit didn’t want to pay to move all the old DMs to the new chat infrastructure. So they deleted them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit has reportedly signed over its content to train AI models⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At this point I wouldn’t trust Reddit to actually delete posts. Just hide them then sell them as training data if the upvotes are decent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate my mind⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or a shape shifting alien from a 1980’s horror film.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First ever iOS trojan discovered — and it’s stealing Face ID data to break into bank accounts⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Tom’s Guide has shit reporting. This was the same site that repeated the bogus DDoS smart toothbrushes story. And they’re at it again more sensationalism.

  From something more reputable:

  The use of the victims’ faces for bank fraud is an assumption by Group-IB, also corroborated by the Thai police, based on the fact that many financial institutes added biometric checks last year for transactions above a certain amount.

  It is essential to clarify that while GoldPickaxe can steal images from iOS and Android phones showing the victim’s face and trick the users into disclosing their face on video through social engineering, the malware does not hijack Face ID data or exploit any vulnerability on the two mobile OSes.

  More from bleeping computer:

  A new iOS and Android trojan named ‘GoldPickaxe’ employs a social engineering scheme to trick victims into scanning their faces and ID documents, which are believed to be used to generate deepfakes for unauthorized banking access.

  Now, don’t get me wrong, you should take malware and social engineering attacks seriously. But get your information from sites that do real security journalism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Politics] Have phobia, will travel⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You got me curious enough to look and what a shitshow of a person working against their own self-interests. She’s a good candidate for !leopardsatemyface@lemmy.world.

  Aaaannnnd she’s already there, lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Search is losing its 'cached' web page feature⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A few months back Ruud stood up a copy: searxng.world

  I’ve been using it, and it tends to be as good as or better than google’s search. There’s only been a handful of instances where I’ve explicitly used google’s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I would have disowned him too.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh no, disowned isn’t nearly far enough. Dad should have responded, “My hands are named crows because they are part of a murder.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maker Naomi Wu is Silenced by Chinese Authorities (And Why I Blame Elon Musk)⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, the first 2/3rds of the article covering Naomi Wu was worth a read, but that last 1/3rd… I get her argument, but she should have left that out to focus just on Naomi.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your washing machine could be sending 3.7 GB of data a day — LG washing machine owner disconnected his device from Wi-Fi after noticing excessive outgoing daily data traffic⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Internet of Targets