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- Comment on Honey has now lost 4 million Chrome users after shady tactics were revealed 3 days ago:
Can’t see the contents of the post, because I assume it’s available to members only.
- Comment on Jacksepticeye Reveals He Was Working on an Unannounced Soma Animated Show but It Fell Apart 'Out of Nowhere' 3 days ago:
Look up Soma Transmissions. There was also a bunch of short stories about the game. The one about climbing the big orbital gun to the top really stuck with me.
And there was more characters than just the scary proxy things.
- Comment on Jacksepticeye Reveals He Was Working on an Unannounced Soma Animated Show but It Fell Apart 'Out of Nowhere' 3 days ago:
Soma is far far more than a horror game. The horror aspects are secondary to the transhumanist questions it raised every hour you were playing it.
- Comment on Terraria Hive Base 4 days ago:
Unepic wasn’t bad, but doesn’t hold a candle to Terraria. It’s still my favorite sandbox game.
- Comment on Online ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going Viral: With the rise of loosely moderated social media platforms, a fringe vigilante movement is experiencing a dangerous evolution. 4 days ago:
That’s a shit take.
I swear everybody here is fucking black and white, with no room for nuance. This is how cults and echo chambers get started.
- Comment on Cyan (Myst, Riven) to lay off 12 people, "roughly half the team" 6 days ago:
The fact that this headline has to call out the studio that made a 30-year-old game speaks volumes as to why they have to lay people off.
- Comment on Is Baldurs Gate 3's voice acting so great that it ruined other games for me? 6 days ago:
I second Disco Elysium’s voice acting and also all of Supergiant Games catalogue, especially Bastion, Transistor, and Hades. Portal 2 is the more hilarious video game of all time, and a major part of that is its voice acting.
The Stanley Parable, Borderlands 1/2, Prey, System Shock 1/2, the Bioshock series, SOMA, the new Doom games, Path of Exile, all elevated by their voice acting.
- Comment on I reckon this is the usage distribution of Lemmy servers that we'll end up with. 1 week ago:
The raw SMTP landscape on the internet is such a shitshow. Setting up a SMTP server requires so many goddamn condoms that you might as well just give up and start using some other professional email service. Or you set it up just to forward email to a GMail account, and even then, Gmail bitches about how much spam you’re forwarding it and blocks you for a time.
- Comment on Even the bravest retro gamer fears Sega Genesis' final form 1 week ago:
> WEAR GOGGLES
- Comment on Minecraft is getting a visual overhaul you probably don't need because of all of those mods you've got installed 1 week ago:
Especially from places like RPS and Kotaku.
- Comment on Fable delayed to 2026 1 week ago:
Fable already came out, and it was a pretty mid game. Why are we doing this again?
- Comment on Why aren't lemmy DMs compatible with mastodon? 1 week ago:
They have conferences about ActivityPub. Why isn’t W3C trying to fix this mess in newer backwards-incompatible versions? The time to do it is now, not later, because it would involve a major version and years of pushing for adoption. The lack of standardization of basic concepts is why integrations of different types of implementations is a broken mess, which is the whole fucking point of ActivityPub! Now, we have to compete with ATProto, which has different kinds of problems, and it’s very possible that it just wins out and kills ActivityPub.
This reminds of the early days of SMTP, where there was zero thought behind security, and that created an entire spam industry.
PeerTube integration into Lemmy is still shit, poorly implemented, and rarely linked by Lemmy admins.
- Comment on The specter of a GTA 6 delay haunts the games industry: 'Some companies are going to tank' if they guess wrong, says analyst 1 week ago:
Huh? For £70 I’m getting
Based on what? You don’t actually know until it gets released. Sure, past history and reputation are certainly things to factor in, but we’ve seen plenty of major gaming companies shit the bed, despite their reputations.
Wait until it launches and the reviews come in.
- Comment on The specter of a GTA 6 delay haunts the games industry: 'Some companies are going to tank' if they guess wrong, says analyst 1 week ago:
Release timing is always a critical thing to think about, whether you’re talking about games, movies, TV series, or toys.
- Comment on New Portal pinball table may be the closest we’re gonna get to Portal 3 2 weeks ago:
The portal gun doesn’t really fit in a Half-Life game. The mechanics of the gun almost demand an enclosed space, with flat surfaces and puzzles that require the player to understand that they’re solving a puzzle. The portal gun would break the outside world too easily, as players figure out how to just zoom past everything, and not follow the linear path that FPSs like Half-Life guide towards. Testing surfaces for game breaks and boundary checks would be a QA nightmare. It doesn’t kill enemies in any useful way, which is the primary function of a FPS weapon.
It is a puzzle gun, in a puzzle game. And that’s okay.
- Comment on YSK: There are 6 levels (0-5) of autonomous driving 2 weeks ago:
Because marketing.
- Comment on YSK: There are 6 levels (0-5) of autonomous driving 2 weeks ago:
I think it’s misleading to even say that any car company is producing Level 4 autonomous vehicles. If you need to geofence a Level 4 car, then it’s not really Level 4.
- Comment on Bluesky does federation-washing 2 weeks ago:
I still don’t understand how the PDS concept matters in an interconnected network of replies. Conversations are threaded, and that “personal data” needs all parties involved in the chain to move to this new thing at the same time. It’s not going to happen.
- Comment on AI can steal your voice, and there's not much you can do about it 3 weeks ago:
Exactly. This used to be something only rich people or corporations could do. Now, anybody can do it.
- Comment on AI can steal your voice, and there's not much you can do about it 3 weeks ago:
Sound-alikes have been around for as long as there has been voice actors.
John Kricfalusi did the voice for Ren during the first season of Ren & Stimpy, got fired, and then Billy West took over the job. Nobody noticed the change. Did John consent to the change? No, of course not.
This shit happens all the time with music and singers. It’s just that now the availability has increased.
- Comment on Epic Games is delisting Dark and Darker due to an ongoing legal dispute 4 weeks ago:
Is “my homie” the new “some people say”?
- Comment on Bluesky will trap academics in the same way Twitter/X did 4 weeks ago:
I still don’t understand why that’s the barrier to entry for many people. It’s like people want to be enslaved to a monopoly on purpose.
- Comment on Bluesky will trap academics in the same way Twitter/X did 4 weeks ago:
The more effort we put into making Bluesky and Threads good
While I somewhat agree, I don’t think we should be putting “Bluesky” and “Threads” in the same sentence.
Also, I think Threads is a cautionary tale around this whole protocol argument, where a federated technology does not automatically mean it’s safe.
- Comment on Digg founder Kevin Rose and Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian buy Digg for an undisclosed sum from Money Group, aiming to focus on “connection and humanity” online. 4 weeks ago:
Ha! I jumped into Reddit to get away from Fark, many many years ago.
- Comment on Liked Slay the Spire? Slice & Dice is the best dice-building roguelite to date 4 weeks ago:
Ditto.
- Comment on Liked Slay the Spire? Slice & Dice is the best dice-building roguelite to date 4 weeks ago:
This is also a really good game on phone. Easy to pick up, very good UI for mobile, and you can pause at any time.
- Comment on New Junior Developers Can’t Actually Code. 1 month ago:
This is more of a personality problem than an issue with AI itself. StackOverflow has been doing people’s homework for decades now.
If the talent is crap, then you tighten the hiring process. Never hire a developer without a series of code tests.
- Comment on Loops by pixelfied Is Doomed to Fail Because of Daniel Supernault 1 month ago:
Are you seriously using alts to cross-post?
- Comment on Xbox Sales Hit Rock Bottom After Historic 2024 Decline 1 month ago:
Consoles have essentially become obsolete, while PC gaming is at an all-time high.
Consoles are more expensive than video cards, except you can’t upgrade them. GPU processing power hasn’t been jumping exponentially, like it had in the past, so you can still play most anything with a decent 5-year-old card. Hell, with AAA gaming falling behind indie games, there’s not really a point in investing so much in graphical output, and you have far far more indie game options with PC.
Console exclusives are a thing of the past, so everybody has the option to jump ship to a PC version. While some of the console->PC ports can be pretty bad, most are starting as PC-first and then moving to console, which ends up with bad porting quality happening in the other direction. Exclusives used to be a huge driver of buying a console (like Metroid Prime for GameCube or FF7 for Playstation), and now PCs have the most access to almost every game.
Steam Decks are starting to drive the industry, pushing Linux gaming to the highest its ever been, and is making Nintendo worried enough to push Switch 2 as a competitor. A vast vast majority of PC games are on Steam, and a vast majority of games in general are on PC. So, accessibility to play just about anything you want on both PC and on a portable Steam Deck makes it way more attractive than anything the consoles could provide.
Consoles are already dead. They just need another 10-15 years before their respective industry leaders finally realize that. At best, Nintendo would carve a market with their own brand of exclusivity and first-party titles, but even that will fall.