Ephera
@Ephera@lemmy.ml
- Comment on Looks like Valve’s next game is Deadlock, a multiplayer shooter-MOBA mix of Overwatch, Dota and Team Fortress 12 hours ago:
Ah, aiming to be the most annoying videogame for software developers, right after “Rust”.
- Comment on Microsoft ties executive pay to security following multiple failures and breaches 1 week ago:
As part of these changes, Microsoft will also make its Senior Leadership Team’s pay partially dependent on whether the company is “meeting our security plans and milestones,”
Isn’t that the default? That the Senior Leadership Team gets bonuses or not, depending on whether they met company plans and milestones? Did they have security explicitly excluded from this?
- Comment on Mozilla finds that most dating apps are not great guardians of user data 3 weeks ago:
Great timing, with Grindr being sued for sharing HIV data…
- Comment on GTA 6 publishers Take-Two cancel games and lay off hundreds to "rationalize their pipeline" 4 weeks ago:
“Rationalizing your pipeline” sounds like a rude thing…
- Comment on MineClone2, inspired by Minecraft, gets renamed to VoxeLibre 4 weeks ago:
Well, it’s a community project. Tons of community members want Minecraft without the Microsoft, so those community members built that. It’s not that someone consciously decided to create a really blatant copy.
Besides, the name change was specifically motivated by players expecting an exact copy and complaining or filing bug reports when the devs took some liberties in their design.
- Comment on Users shocked to find Instagram limits political content by default 1 month ago:
- Comment on Mozilla Axes its Privacy-Friendly Location Service - OMG! Ubuntu 1 month ago:
They had no method of getting new data for two years already, because Google disallowed location collection like that on Android. It was just a matter of time before the service would be turned off.
- Comment on Minecraft expands its subscription drive with the Marketplace Pass 2 months ago:
I wanted to know just how icky it is (beyond selling community-made content), in particular, if you could stop paying and not lose all those items you got. And fuck me, they did choose the non-icky option for my question, but the sentence where I found the answer is kind of even worse:
And remember, once redeemed, these limited-edition pieces will stay in your wardrobe, so get them while you can!
So, they’ve solved the technical hurdle to keep the content around forever, but then decided to arbitrarily limit availability to exploit people’s fear of missing out.
- Comment on Xbox Turns To Sports Titles To Combat Dwindling Game Pass Subscriber Sign Ups 2 months ago:
Hmm, interesting. I feel like many people who play these sports games play them, because they’re familiar with the real sport. To them, it’s an easier entry into the video game medium, as they just need to learn the controls, not also the rules.
But as a result, they tend to only play one specific sport game (for their favorite sport) and not that many other games. Keeping Game Pass for the whole year for one game, is definitely not worth it. For 2+ games, I guess, technically, but it certainly doesn’t have the same bang-for-your-buck.
So, yeah, I hope they know better what they’re doing than my armchair expertise, but I certainly find it surprising that they didn’t diversify elsewhere…
- Comment on PSA - MineTest on SteamDeck 2 months ago:
Minetest is a game engine & launcher for Minecraft-like games. It and its various games are developed by a lovely open-source community.