ICastFist
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- Comment on Emperor of overpromising Peter Molyneux says he's done with games after Masters of Albion, which is also his 'redemption title' 21 minutes ago:
Fable 1 was a game I had lots of fun with. Being Brazilian, I was more or less immune to the hype buildup around the game, so I had no clue what was promised vs. what was delivered until years later
- Comment on How Much Energy Does It Take to Power Billions of AI Queries? 1 day ago:
“Could hit 329bn queries a day by 2030” - my guess is it probably won’t, because the bubble will burst before it and most AI companies will crash hard
- Comment on Why can't we have a static vintage web? 2 days ago:
The why: because a lot of people have been conned into “needing” sites that can fry the client’s CPU, to the point where the con became the norm.
Another why: it’s easier to woo bosses/higher ups/clients when you show them pretty visuals. Doesn’t matter that the visuals are a fucking atrocity of spaghetti code, now they DEMAND pretty everything everywhere, fuck being practical or lightweight
- Comment on Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs 2 days ago:
put the pikachu part in code so it’ll render monospaced ;)
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- Comment on IT'S A TRAP 3 days ago:
- Comment on Shortly After Xbox Game Pass Prices Spiked, the Page to Cancel Game Pass Subscriptions Was Overwhelmed 3 days ago:
Westwood, my beloved 😢
Would be good if Maxis also got out of their throes, though that’s extremely unlikely, given The Sims
- Comment on Shortly After Xbox Game Pass Prices Spiked, the Page to Cancel Game Pass Subscriptions Was Overwhelmed 3 days ago:
Never too late to introduce them to all of your favourite classic games, either
Easier if you start with Bomberman Party on the PS1 or the arcade Neo Bomberman. I think those play much better than anything Bomberman released after 2004
If the kid enjoys strategy, starting out with Age of Empires should be easy. Or just leave them messing around with Settlers 2
- Comment on Shortly After Xbox Game Pass Prices Spiked, the Page to Cancel Game Pass Subscriptions Was Overwhelmed 3 days ago:
I want a subscription free Console that supports online play.
Sorry, best we can do is a PC or phone
- Comment on Shortly After Xbox Game Pass Prices Spiked, the Page to Cancel Game Pass Subscriptions Was Overwhelmed 3 days ago:
I mean, you can set up a gaming pc or laptop to mostly work with a controller and have a general interface akin to that of consoles. Retro stuff like Lakka or RetroPie already do it super well. The “set up” part is where you’ll likely spend several hours, though
- Comment on Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme crushes Apple M4, Intel, and AMD in new benchmarks 4 days ago:
That one will go hard
- Comment on James should have used his money 6 days ago:
All the money’s spent fixing their damned balloon
- Comment on What Are Ya'll Playing? 6 days ago:
I finally started Roboquest last week. After getting my ass handed to me nonstop on standard difficulty and realizing grinding like that would take forever, I went with Discovery (super easy) to unlock stuff faster. It’s a pretty fun game, though not retro by any measure (EA started back in 2020)
I might also bite the bullet and try to finish Dungeons and Dragons: Shadow Sorcerer. I managed to successfully finish the two previous Silver Box DnD games (they really fucking suck), but this 3rd game throws so much shit to fuck your progress that ragequitting seems like the only correct option. As to why bother, it makes for a good conversation topic with RPG players and aspiring game devs
- Comment on One of the best parts of Cyberpunk (as a theme) is the ubiquitisation of cultures 6 days ago:
We don’t have pockets of cultures, we are steadily pushing toward having a single culture, a mass of haphazard associations and little comprehension of meaning.
Kinda true on the push, but not on the “we don’t have pockets of cultures”. Lemmy and the fediverse as a whole can be described as a pocket of culture, maybe a subculture of a larger thing. It doesn’t matter how hard the corporate overlords try to impose a single culture, people within it will want to subvert or change it one way or another.
I’m talking about how pockets and islands of cultures pop up everywhere within these settings,
In real life, this happens with cities that receive many immigrants or after any diaspora. People from far away always bring something with them and, depending on how they are received and integrated within their neighborhood and society, some changes will show up, given time.
Lastly, schismogenesis is a real thing - cultures can form entirely out of “we are DIFFERENT from them”
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- Comment on Old games with high GPU requirements (and look great) 1 week ago:
Total War games, like Shogun 2, Rome 2, Three Kingdoms or any of the newer Warhammer TW. It sucks that blood is a fucking dlc on those games
Titanfall 2
Doom 2016 and Doom Eternal
Monster Hunter World (currently on sale, too)
Max Payne 3
Metal Gear Solid 5
- Comment on Everyone thinks the Deus Ex remaster looks awful and they're right: 'They really turned those 1999 graphics into 2003 graphics' 1 week ago:
One of them is even linked in the article lol
- Comment on Both Sega and PocketPair are taking jabs at Nintendo and I'm loving it 1 week ago:
For an Animal Crossing-ish experience on PC, you can try Dinkum (indie, solo dev) or Hello Kitty Island Adventures (unironically good, but also limits some activities per real day, like AC New Horizons)
- Comment on 1 week ago:
40 fucking gigs???
Commodore OS Vision 3.0 is the largest, games oriented, Linux distribution ever produced, featuring 200+ free linux compatible games as well as an assortment of classic Commodore games and demos that will undoubtedly scratch your nostalgic itch.
Ah, that explains it. I wish they would use a more legible font on their forums
- Comment on Why doesn't Ghost v6 include Fediverse commenting ? 1 week ago:
Having an account won’t solve the problem with A, since spam accounts are a problem even in the fediverse
- Comment on Can someone find a redeeming factor about this game? Like anything good about it. 1 week ago:
I suspect the master system version was slightly better than the NES, as the stairs part wasn’t a stupid “mash A and B while being completely defenseless”, you only controlled 1 dude and could shoot the ghosts, and it wasn’t 20 actual fucking flights of stairs, though the music was the exact same from start to end.
- Comment on ... 1 week ago:
If there is enough skin/sag under your pectoral to hold a pencil, it’s a manboob
- Comment on Google says adblockers caused YouTube views count to drop - this is what adblockers told us really happened 1 week ago:
I have no problems with ublock on Firefox or Librewolf, unless I try to skip past what the video already loaded, then it’s a dice roll whether it’ll work or not
- Comment on Google says adblockers caused YouTube views count to drop - this is what adblockers told us really happened 1 week ago:
It was the first thing most people assumed was the culprit, as it silently enabled Restricted Mode, but since the biggest difference came from Computer views, despite the age verification happening on all platforms, that is strong evidence against that having any impact
- Comment on Both Sega and PocketPair are taking jabs at Nintendo and I'm loving it 1 week ago:
Except More Than Just Pals is actually being developed
Really? The community hub on steam has nothing ever since the announcement. I don’t follow pocketpair on any social media, so there’s that
- Comment on Palworld x ULTRAKILL collaboration announced 1 week ago:
Damn, if that gives Palworld a dungeon where the poor pals can get blasted into bloody gibs, I’m so fucking down - probably won’t get that violent, I suppose we might get some 2 or 3 weapons and 2 sets of armor + 1 raid boss
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- Comment on Does it feel like the PS5's library is *severely* lacking compared to the PS4's around the same time in its lifecycle? 1 week ago:
“Quickly” - the “Bioware magic” used to be years of lack of direction followed by one year of “HOLY SHIT WE NEED TO DELIVER!” crunch
But the former executive producer of Dragon Age, Mark Darrah (…) posted a YouTube video about how the so-called “BioWare magic” really worked. According to Darrah, it referred to a hockey stick graph where most of the progress is nearly unnoticeable. It’s nearly flat, and “if you draw that line out, then your game is shipping in like 30 years.” At a certain point, the developers hit a “pivotal point” when the game would finally shape up and a lot of progress would be made in a short amount of time. According to the developer, that tipping point is what is known as“BioWare magic.”
- Comment on Palfarm Trailer - Palworld Spin-Off Game 1 week ago:
“Hello Nintendo, please enjoy this video of us making Animal Crossing, complete with our own Ankha expy!”
- Comment on Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform 1 week ago:
Considering how the malware works, it seems that the criminal managed to copy/steal all the browser data of Rastaland, including open sessions, allowing him to login on any site that had an active session/cookies, including that pumpdotfun where the coin was
- Comment on Who got raptured today? 1 week ago:
I’m at work, so I probably got sent to hell
