circuitfarmer
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- Comment on Handheld consoles are the industry's next battleground | Opinion 2 days ago:
This isn’t new.
The list of handhelds goes back 50 years.
- Comment on Assassin's Creed Shadows to Feature Denuvo & Mandatory Ubisoft Account Linking 4 days ago:
As if I needed more reasons not to play it. Thanks Ubi, you shouldn’t have.
- Comment on Three Men Die When Google Maps Tells Them to Drive Off Unfinished Bridge 5 days ago:
Given that there is death involved, this is “sensitive”… So I will not post a gif of Michael and Dwight driving into the river because the GPS told them to.
- Comment on Elon Musk Says He Owns Everyone's Twitter Account in Bizarre Alex Jones Court Filing 5 days ago:
Not supporting Musk here, but there is some truth to the claim in the headline.
One major danger we currently have is everyone thinking that social media platform accounts are property. They simply aren’t – at least, not yours. If the company decides to terminate your account, they can do that. It will be supported by the TOS. You do not own it.
You also don’t own data you put on it. Post a bunch of photos to FB? They own them and can do whatever they want with them.
The danger is that these things are so ubiquitous they appear like information utilities, but they are not. They are corporate services wholly owned by their respective corporations. It is something that makes federated systems stand out from the crowd (not that you own an account there either, but there at least is not a single centralized corporate owner).
More people need to be made aware of this.
- Comment on Opera labels every other browser 'f***ing boring' in an inexplicably sweary promo reel. Oh, and updates its gamer-focused Opera GX browser a little too 1 week ago:
If not having my data stolen is boring, then call me… someone really boring.
- Comment on Microsoft built a PC that can't run local apps — Windows 365 Link starts at $349 and doesn't come with storage 1 week ago:
No thanks. I’d rather not take a step back so that MS can make more money.
- Comment on Meta must face FTC trial that could separate Instagram and WhatsApp 2 weeks ago:
Any anti-corporation action has about 60 more days to complete. The US is about to be more of an unregulated runaway capitalism machine than it has ever been.
- Comment on Take-Two are selling Private Division and closing Roll7 and Intercept, because they're in "the business of making great big hits" 3 weeks ago:
I’ve enjoyed that one a lot, as a long time KSP player.
Two things stand out to me about it which are better than (unmodded) KSP:
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It has a ton of procedural parts, from tanks to fairings to struts. Though I would argue it makes rockets look less detailed in terms of texturing, it really amps up what you can do overall.
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Vizzy is a built in automation system where you click and drag keywords and functions into place. It is something similar to the kOS mod on KSP, though I’d argue much more approachable and with more features. You can even do multithreading (think: process staging while also processing telemetry data).
Juno is also very well optimized – after all, it also runs on Android. So if you can get beyond the relatively simplistic visuals there is a lot to like.
But is it a KSP killer? No. The character models are not great and that affects everything from EVA to immersion. It lacks a certain “it” factor, and though I have put many hours into Juno, it usually ends with me firing up modded KSP again.
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- Comment on Take-Two are selling Private Division and closing Roll7 and Intercept, because they're in "the business of making great big hits" 3 weeks ago:
I’m not holding my breath until there’s more than a tech demo to see.
- Comment on Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 will NOT have Denuvo on PC 3 weeks ago:
If KCD2 is competent on release (which I think is very likely, considering how great KCD1 was), it might be the first game in a long time that I pay full price for. As much as it is important to be vocal about devs screwing their customers, we also have to support those doing the opposite.
- Comment on Hori’s officially licensed Steam controller is coming to the US 3 weeks ago:
I still regularly use my original Steam Controller – for the trackpads. It allows me to do M+KB strategy gaming from the couch.
This lacks the killer feature, IMHO, given that I can use any of a wide variety of regular Bluetooth controllers for stuff with controller support.
- Comment on Assassin's Creed Shadows will reboot Assassin's Creed's patchy modern-day story 4 weeks ago:
I fully believe it is so that things like eagle vision make more sense, and also so they can have small portions of map which complain when you get outside of “memory range”.
A true historical open world game probably wouldn’t have either thing.
- Comment on Intel Fails To Achieve Gaudi AI "$500 Million" Revenue Target, Showing Slacking Performance In The AI Segment. 4 weeks ago:
Are these targets made by the corpos just throwing darts at a board filled with numbers?
- Comment on 'It even breaks my heart a bit': Denuvo pushes back on its haters, says Steam forums are a 'very toxic, very hostile environment' 5 weeks ago:
Fuck Denuvo. DRM does not benefit the gamer. Period. No amount of gaslighting will change that.
- Comment on “Extreme” Broadcom-proposed price hike would up VMware costs 1,050%, AT&T says 1 month ago:
Aw, a corporation upset when another corporation does the kind of shit that corporations tend to do with regular people, thanks to the years and years of corporate lobbying allowing corporations to do whatever the fuck they want.
I almost had a tear.
- Comment on STAR WARS Jedi: Survivor gets Denuvo DRM removed, plus performance improvements 2 months ago:
This is important to mention. Most people should know that Denuvo tends to impact performance in a significant and negative way. It provides nothing positive to the consumer.
- Comment on Would you recommend any of the Star Trek games? 2 months ago:
It seems to be scene based. So if you have already watched 5 mins of content within the same scene, I’d expect to see it again if you quit before the scene change. It is annoying but I just stop playing at scene changes.
- Comment on Would you recommend any of the Star Trek games? 2 months ago:
The timeline is set around 5 years after the Dominion War ends.
- Comment on Would you recommend any of the Star Trek games? 2 months ago:
Star Trek: Resurgence is relatively new. The graphics are pretty janky at times and it performs somewhat strangely, but it does feel like a 10-hour episode of post-TNG Trek, so I enjoyed it.
- Comment on Blue Screen of Death photos from around the world 4 months ago:
…btw
- Comment on Twitch lifts its ban on Donald Trump 4 months ago:
starts up farming simulator
“This will be the best farm, believe me, everyone is saying it”
- Comment on Blue Screen of Death photos from around the world 4 months ago:
I haven’t seen one in about 4 years. Around the same time I switched to…
I’ll leave the last part blank. This is Lemmy. You know what I’m gonna say.
- Comment on AMD Frame Generation On The Steam Deck Is Here With FSR 3.1 4 months ago:
“Better supported” is an understatement. AMD on Linux requires no handling of drivers whatsoever, so far as the user is concerned.
- Comment on True actual sailing games are underrated and a criminally underexplored genre of video game simulation... which is why Pancake Sailor is the next free game you should try! 5 months ago:
That DLC is actually $1.49 during the sale, at least in the US.
- Comment on Meta is tagging real photos as 'Made with AI,' say photographers 5 months ago:
…I don’t think we disagree, and it doesn’t really matter about the filter. All points valid.
- Comment on Meta is tagging real photos as 'Made with AI,' say photographers 5 months ago:
Regardless of the filters used in photographs, taking over a narrative like this is one of the oldest tricks in the book. If every photo has AI in it, then everyone is already complacent and should support the rich pushing more and more AI.
Easter totally isn’t named after Ēostre, it’s the day Jesus rose from the dead.
- Comment on T-Mobile users thought they had a lifetime price lock—guess what happened next 5 months ago:
I’m not sure what you mean RE 4g/5g. I just replaced my phone with a 5g handset and get 5g coverage with it. I had 4g with my last handset.
Are you saying the 20-40GB plans have overage charges? I’d rather be throttled if that is the case.
- Comment on T-Mobile users thought they had a lifetime price lock—guess what happened next 5 months ago:
Not sure, tbh. I haven’t shopped around, but because I never go over, I’m fine with it. It may not be a good deal at all but I never see the difference.
- Comment on T-Mobile users thought they had a lifetime price lock—guess what happened next 5 months ago:
I’ve been on T-Mobile prepaid since at least 2010. I get 10GB of data off contract for $40/mo. If I use above that it gets throttled, but I never do.
My price still hasn’t gone up. I am certainly waiting for it.
I buy a new handset every few years. Most times I get one from the EU that has the bands I need for local service.
- Comment on The spam came from inside the house: How a smart TV can choke a Windows PC 7 months ago:
I wouldn’t either. Dumb TVs are getting harder and harder to find though.
