Ephera

@Ephera@lemmy.ml

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Minecraft-like free and open source game VoxeLibre (formerly MineClone2) hits over 500K downloads⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, the bulk of the work on this happens for the fun of it. The underlying game engine, Luanti, has a really lovely community. Some folks love creating mods/content, others love playing that content.

  If you really want a hard reason, it’s that Microsoft bought Minecraft and has forced changes, such as a Microsoft account being a requirement now.
  Microsoft has a long history of being extremely hostile to the open-source / libre software community, so after the news broke the community definitely bundled together even moreso to create our own Minecraft, with blackjack and hookers screwdrivers and mese.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Luanti (formerly Minetest) v5.10.0 out now bringing UI updates, fancier shaders, renaming work⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm, did you try this? blog.rubenwardy.com/2022/…/minetest-steam-deck/#c…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Minetest breaks the chains of being a Minecraft clone with a new name — Luanti⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It does have a decently-sized modding scene, though? Like, it cannot compete with the popularity of Minecraft and therefore doesn’t have as many modders.
  But it has a modding API, which makes it a lot easier to mod and means that the mods don’t break with every new version, so the effective output of those modders is actually pretty good.

  Or well, just look at it: content.minetest.net

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Minecraft's multiplayer Realms servers have been down since its last patch over three days ago⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh, are they also doing Patch Tuesday on Minecraft now or is this a coincidence?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GTA 6 may "disappoint" players hoping for a technological "jump", says former Rockstar North tech director⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, I feel like even the jump between 4 and 5 wasn’t that massive. San Andreas to 4 went from chunky polygons to rather realistic graphics. GTA 5 feels almost like a HD remaster in comparison.

  But of course, there may be a difference in expectation, since there were five years between 4 and 5, and currently scheduled to be twelve years between 5 and 6.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Softbank plans to cancel out angry customer voices using AI⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Based on the title, I thought it would just bleep out the customer voice. That would certainly not make the customer less angry. 🙃

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The First Microtransaction in Gaming⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What really bothers me about it, is that the horse armor looks ridiculous and is practically worthless in terms of gameplay. Like, it could have gotten to the current point by the content gradually getting worse and more expensive, but no, they fast-tracked right to complete garbage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Slack users horrified to discover messages used for AI training⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve had customers send passwords to me, plain-text, over chat. Frankly, that end-to-end-encryption is not considered basic security for chat applications, that’s just beyond me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adobe comes after indie game emulator Delta for copying its logo⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly never saw that shape in Adobe’s logo. It always just looked bad to me. But I could see someone thinking that former Delta logo is an improved Adobe logo, so I’ll allow it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looks like Valve’s next game is Deadlock, a multiplayer shooter-MOBA mix of Overwatch, Dota and Team Fortress⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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"⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Rationalizing your pipeline” sounds like a rude thing…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MineClone2, inspired by Minecraft, gets renamed to VoxeLibre⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla Axes its Privacy-Friendly Location Service - OMG! Ubuntu⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨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.