Blackmist
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- Comment on Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads 1 week ago:
I don’t know what Perplexity is but I know I don’t want it.
Let me guess, two guys in a garage, both Linked In "CEO"s, strapping more spyware to Chromium?
I even went to the website. It doesn’t what they are, but it’s something to do with AI, which figures…
- Comment on You can get DOOM, DOOM Eternal, more DOOM and multiple Wolfenstein games in this latest Humble Bundle 1 week ago:
Much preferred the “original” to Eternal.
Far too fiddly for my liking.
- Comment on Ahead of its 10 year Steam anniversary, Black Mesa has a new beta with improved Linux support and many fixes 2 weeks ago:
10 years old already?
Somebody should remaster it.
- Comment on Nintendo is Bringing Us Kicking and Screaming Into the $80 Game Era with the Switch 2 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, if you’re the sort of gamer who sells their games when they’re done with them, you can basically rent Nintendo games for the cost of postage and eBay fees… Second hand they’re only a few quid less than in the shops.
- Comment on Nintendo is Bringing Us Kicking and Screaming Into the $80 Game Era with the Switch 2 4 weeks ago:
Ah c’mon man, that’s just not true.
Nintendo games will be $90 after a decade.
Steam games do go on sale eventually, but the best deals are often not even on Steam any more. I’ve got like >1000 games on Steam but most are from Humble Bundle before they went to complete shit.
- Comment on Nintendo is Bringing Us Kicking and Screaming Into the $80 Game Era with the Switch 2 4 weeks ago:
You think Steam games won’t follow console prices?
I can currently get AC Shadows (just an example of a new game, I don’t want it) on PS5 (physical) for a few £ less than it is on Steam. They’ve gone from like £40 a few years ago to £60. As standard.
- Comment on "Relaxing" horror game LiDAR Exploration Program is PowerWash Simulator but with lasers 5 weeks ago:
There was a VR game like this called Scanner Sombre.
- Comment on Steam Deck Brick Mod: No screen, no controller, and absolutely no sense, just a power button and a USB port. 3 months ago:
The PS4 could drive VR. I suspect this would be similar. A bit fuzzy, crap framerate in places.
You could run the simpler games like Beat Saber well enough.
- Comment on Valve is looking to add an optional battery charge limit to the SD, to preserve battery life 3 months ago:
That’s how all rechargeable batteries work isn’t it? If I understand correctly, there’s no such thing as 100% because it would break it.
Is the change here that they’re letting the user set the limit?
- Comment on Sid Meier's Civilization VII is Steam Deck Verified with the Linux version ahead of release on February 11 3 months ago:
Does it not have a touchscreen?
- Comment on Steam Deck is getting official Nvidia GeForce Now support, with HDR 3 months ago:
Having a quick glance at the license agreements there doesn’t appear to be anything in there about having to run the licensed games on my own hardware though.
I’m more than aware you don’t own anything on Steam, I’ve been saying that since before Valve were forced to. I’m just curious which part of the rental agreement Geforce Now violated.
- Comment on Steam Deck is getting official Nvidia GeForce Now support, with HDR 3 months ago:
This isn’t Nvidia’s fault though.
It went live so you could play anything on it and publishers pitched a fit. Presumably because they’d sold exclusive streaming rights to somebody else.
Even though it’s literally none of their goddamn business where you run the games you already paid for.
- Comment on Elon Musk says too many game studios are owned by giant corporations so his giant corporation is going to start a studio to 'make games great again' 5 months ago:
Can we just sever the internet in half and let these pricks live on their side so they don’t bother us any more?
- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 5 months ago:
I hear the new guy in charge of that is a genius!
- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 5 months ago:
Man, I bet those dead kids in the back seat feel so stupid now.
- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 5 months ago:
Look it’s very simple if you get in a crash and are on fire.
Stop. Drop. Roll. Remove the mat from the bottom of the rear door pocket. Press the red tab to remove the access door. Pull the mechanical release cable forward. Remember that not all Model Y vehicles are equipped with a manual release for the rear doors. Die.
Rolls right off the tongue. If you’re still in trouble call 0118 999 88199 9119 725 3.
- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 5 months ago:
- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 5 months ago:
This is what it says on their website. Hope you’ve got the link handy if you’re in a crash, and also that you’re not in one that doesn’t have this…
- Comment on God of War Ragnarok PC port suffers review bombing on Steam due to PlayStation Network account requirement 7 months ago:
Funny, I don’t remember PC gamers flipping out when they had to make UPlay accounts and Rockstar Social Club accounts to play those games on Steam. Those were single player as well.
- Comment on There's a reason we aren't as harsh on the Steam Deck. Actually, a couple. 7 months ago:
It might do now. They’ve done a lot of improvements.
Even on PS5 it was an absolute mess in co-op. 30fps (if you were lucky) all round, constant freezes (several seconds) when swapping characters, many many crashes. Whenever we told it to save, we’d have to both touch nothing to make sure it didn’t crash while saving. Oh, and there was a bug meaning only the player who chose to sleep for the day would get any companion progression.
- Comment on There's a reason we aren't as harsh on the Steam Deck. Actually, a couple. 7 months ago:
I really like my PS5, but I see no value in a model costing 80% more and being only current for half a generation.
All that for an “up to” 40% performance increase.
I don’t care how much of a graphics nerd someone is, that just isn’t worth it.
- Comment on There's a reason we aren't as harsh on the Steam Deck. Actually, a couple. 7 months ago:
The dollar ain’t buying what it used to either.
Also, remember that our prices include VAT, so we slap 20% on it right there. That £700 is £583 excluding the VAT.
That’s still 10% more than in the US doing a direct currency conversion, but it’s not quite as bad as it first looks.
Still a lot of money for a games console though, especially a mid gen refresh. Paying at the start of a gen for 8 years gaming ain’t too bad when you look at it per year. PS5 Pro will be over 4 years, and on that alone is piss-poor value.
- Comment on There's a reason we aren't as harsh on the Steam Deck. Actually, a couple. 7 months ago:
My TV from 2017 was HDR, so it was. But HDR monitors would have been pretty rare, so the bug probably wouldn’t have shown up in any great numbers.
I don’t even run Windows in HDR mode (because it looks awful), but it picks it up anyway and completely fucks the graphics up.
- Comment on There's a reason we aren't as harsh on the Steam Deck. Actually, a couple. 7 months ago:
Yes, I know. And I already can’t play it due to changes in hardware.
- Comment on There's a reason we aren't as harsh on the Steam Deck. Actually, a couple. 7 months ago:
I mean, a pound don’t buy what it used to. We’ve had rampant inflation, and it’s going to be hard to keep any next gen console in a price point that we think of as suitable. I mean, this is the first gen where the price has gone up during it. PS2 slim went down to under £100 by the end. I paid about £80 for a GameCube late in the gen. I remember Xbox having to give money back to people because they launched at about 300 and Sony immediately went down to £199. It was carnage.
£299 felt like a standard price point for ages. My Amiga 1200 cost about that in the early 90s, and I paid the same for a PS2 nearly 10 years later, and the Xbox 360 was about the same.
£700 feels like a piss take though, and the sales figures will surely reflect that. PS6 has got to be under £600 I reckon, and we’re probably about 5 years away from that.
- Comment on There's a reason we aren't as harsh on the Steam Deck. Actually, a couple. 7 months ago:
Load times have always been bottlenecked by the CPU, so it’s not a massive surprise that the SSD is about on par with a decent SD card.
On the PS4 an SSD was faster than a HDD, but not by a massive amount. At least it was quieter though.
- Comment on There's a reason we aren't as harsh on the Steam Deck. Actually, a couple. 7 months ago:
It was MS that started that back on the OG Xbox.
I think all the F2P ones (and a handful of others like FFXIV) are exempt from it. At least on Playstation.
- Comment on There's a reason we aren't as harsh on the Steam Deck. Actually, a couple. 7 months ago:
Fucking auto correct…
It was Nex Machina.
- Comment on There's a reason we aren't as harsh on the Steam Deck. Actually, a couple. 7 months ago:
PC streaming is extremely hit and miss. I ended up with Moonlight/Sunshine for playing from my nVidia Shield and that works a charm. Steam streaming never quite worked right. There’s a ton of options, and unless you pick exactly the right ones for your setup, it’ll do stupid things.
- Comment on There's a reason we aren't as harsh on the Steam Deck. Actually, a couple. 7 months ago:
Steam sales have been crap for years though.
You used to be able to pick up games a year after they came out for like £5 on a flash deal. These days stuff is still full retail price years after launch just so it looks better during the few sales a year. We need to get back to the days of cut price re-releases (Playstation Platinum).
I got a shitload of games from bundles though. That at least is cheap on PC, along with Epic delving into their Fortnite war chest to bribe us with actually free games.
Think the best way to game cheaply on consoles is to pick up physical discs second hand (although a lot of games don’t even launch on disc any more), and be on the higher tiers of PS Plus for all the games. There’s some really good stuff on there, more than enough to keep me busy.
