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- Comment on In the side-scroller automation game Sandustry every single pixel is a simulated resource 18 hours ago:
I downloaded the demo last night. It’s pretty fun but definitely rough around the edges. I hope the developer is amenable to feedback.
- Comment on In the side-scroller automation game Sandustry every single pixel is a simulated resource 1 day ago:
I’ve found that demos can be a double-edged sword.
I picked up the demo for A Bumpy Ride after watching a YouTuber play it. I really enjoyed it, but it only lets you play for one in-game day so there’s only so many times you can do that without progressing before it gets old. I still find myself jonesing to play it but I can’t really do anything but wait for the full game to come out.
- Comment on In the side-scroller automation game Sandustry every single pixel is a simulated resource 2 days ago:
Instantly wishlisted. My inner child is screaming with delight. I’ve wanted a game like this for literal decades.
I’d try to build machines and industrial flows in falling sand games but never be able to manage anything much more complex than distilling saltwater because of the limitations of the game.
- Comment on [Opinion] Firefox is dead to me – and I'm not the only one who is fed up 2 days ago:
It’s still using the Blink engine, so it only provides an illusion of competition just like all other Chromium-based browsers.
If the web becomes nothing but Chromium, then Google can dictate web standards as they see fit.
And don’t count on Apple to save you, either. WebKit’s monopoly over browsing on iOS is slowly being eroded by anti-trust rulings. The first browser most people will install when they have a choice is Google Chrome.
Ditching Firefox entirely because of a few missteps by Mozilla is throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
- Comment on Researchers claim spoof-proof random number generator breakthrough 5 days ago:
And ofc the original paper is paywalled.
- Comment on China claims to have developed the world's first AI-designed processor — LLM turned performance requests into CPU architecture 1 week ago:
It’s probably just regurgitating stuff from a paper from 2017 that no one paid attention to.
Which has value in itself, I guess. It’s just intellectually dishonest to say the AI came up with the solution.
- Comment on Microsoft finally solve the Linux dual-boot issue after 9 months 4 weeks ago:
I just figured that they’d decided dual-booting was for losers back when Windows 10 started overwriting GRUB with its own bootloader after every update. I have no doubt at least one middle manager over there whines constantly about how much developer time is wasted because they don’t have total control over the hardware. Probably the same guy who keeps trying to make the Surface Tablet a thing.
- Comment on xAI’s Grok suddenly can’t stop bringing up “white genocide” in South Africa 5 weeks ago:
This likely means Melon Husk himself went in and started fucking with Grok’s prompt to push his agenda, and in the process completely broke it.
- Comment on Linux shoots back up the Steam Survey for March 2025 with Simplified Chinese dropping 2 months ago:
I really wonder how much of these wild swings is just from sampling bias, because I’d expect the actual trends to be a lot smoother.
- Comment on Samsung admits a bad software update has been bricking its soundbars 2 months ago:
Why the fuck would a SOUND BAR need automatic updates? It’s not exactly a complex system.
- Comment on Scientists develop battery that converts nuclear energy into electricity via light emission 3 months ago:
This actually isn’t just wrapping a radiation source in solar panels like the shitty title implies.
They developed crystals that can convert gamma radiation into electricity. The power output is piddly now, nanowatts to microwatts, but it’ll be interesting to see how it can be improved.
- Comment on Three years later, the Steam Deck has dominated handheld PC gaming 3 months ago:
I’ve yet to see another handheld that has touchpads like the Deck. IMO those are a must-have because a lot of older games especially don’t have good controller support.
- Comment on Three years later, the Steam Deck has dominated handheld PC gaming 3 months ago:
The Steam Deck arguably created the handheld PC gaming market.
Sure, there were handhelds before, but almost no one gave a shit about them. Gamedevs certainly didn’t.
It wasn’t enough just having the hardware exist, it’s also the massive amount of effort Valve put in to ensure compatibility with a ridiculous number of titles.
The renewed emphasis on controller support in games alone has significant ramifications for the wider community. A lot of players with physical disabilities use input devices that map to controller actions.
- Comment on Valve set Palworld back as Steam Deck Playable but with multiple listed problems 5 months ago:
Called it: lemmy.zip/comment/15677719
- Comment on While Palworld enjoys a resurgence Valve dropped the rating to Steam Deck Unsupported 5 months ago:
If it was only a performance issue I’d expect it to remain at Playable. Plenty of Verified titles guzzle battery and get barely more than 30 FPS at minimum settings.
Unsupported is generally for games that literally won’t run, often because they have DRM or anti-cheat that isn’t compatible with Proton.
I feel like this may have been a mistake on Valve’s part.
- Comment on Riot Games is cracking down on players’ off-platform conduct 6 months ago:
Anyone remember this? www.pcgamesn.com/…/sirfoch-wargaming-hate-speech
Different publisher ofc, but I can totally see Riot using this as carte blanche to censor any streamer whose statements they disagree with, especially ones critical of their games.
- Comment on Cloud Imperium quietly steal Star Citizen developers' weekends from under them with mandated overtime in the lead up to Citizencon 8 months ago:
What’s the point? It’s not like the people who still put money into this scam are going to be turned off by yet more undelivered promises.
- Comment on Microsoft embraces more open standards with DirectX 12 adopting SPIR-V 8 months ago:
When I was gaming on Windows, the DirectX 12 implementation in every game I tried was kinda garbage.
It usually either would just perform bad in general, or just have really bad input lag.
The first thing I’d try whenever I had problems was switching the renderer to DirectX 11, and that would often fix things.
In fairness, Vulkan implementations have been pretty hit-and-miss too. I think developers still just need to get used to the new execution model.
This also was on Nvidia graphics, which may or may not have had something to do with it.
- Comment on The next Battlefield is a return to the "peak era" of Battlefields 3 and 4, with a modern setting and smaller headcounts 8 months ago:
Despite a rocky launch, I ended up playing a fuckton of Battlefield 4.
And Battlefield 1, while not historically accurate in the slightest, was actually a nice breath of fresh air, and a setting that hasn’t been covered nearly as much in popular media as other 20th century wars (with possibly the exception of Korea). It’s actually one of my favorites.
Battlefield 5 just felt so… bland by comparison. They tried to change too many systems, and ended up making just a completely milquetoast game. Really disappointing for what should have been a triumphant return to the series’ roots.
Battlefield 2042 had no soul whatsoever, and some of the worst designed maps in a Battlefield game I’ve ever seen.
One of the maps that was available in the beta that I played was literally just a giant fucking field with hardly any cover and a hundred-foot wall for the enemy snipers to stand on top of and pick off attackers one by one. I really wish I could have been in the meeting room when they were workshopping that map, because I wanna know exactly what the fuck they were smoking to think that it would be any fun at all to play.
I’d honestly welcome a return to formula here if it means another game like BF4 or BF1, even if most players don’t consider that “classic” Battlefield.
- Comment on Ford seeks patent for tech that listens to driver conversations to serve ads 9 months ago:
Car manufacturers have brilliantly managed to convince me never to buy a car made after ~2015.
- Comment on Steam Beta adds new shortcut key to save a clip of recent gameplay 9 months ago:
Your opinion is posited as an absolute: “This is useless”
That’s not even correct. I said “not all that useful” and then “next to useless”. Never “absolutely useless”.
The whole point of this feature is to provide something built into Steam that works without a whole bunch of fiddling like other recording software. It currently fails at that on Linux because the implementation of it is half-assed. That is my position. End of conversation.
- Comment on Steam Beta adds new shortcut key to save a clip of recent gameplay 9 months ago:
I see this as a substitute for Shadowplay, which records your microphone if you enable it, which I previously used on Windows to record gameplay clips, but it doesn’t exist on Linux.
Steam Game Recording can record your microphone on Windows, but they haven’t bothered to make it work on Linux for whatever reason.
As currently implemented on Linux, it captures all system audio and cannot be configured to do anything otherwise, so if you’re talking with friends on TeamSpeak, it’ll only capture half of the fucking conversation. Making it next to useless.
I’m getting really annoyed that people are going out of their way to invalidate my opinion here.
- Comment on Qanga is an indie Star Citizen in a seamless universe with no loading screens 9 months ago:
From the article:
IolaCorp Studio consist of just five developers, although the impressiveness of the project is somewhat soured by their disclosure of AI-generated voice acting and music, so just something to be aware of going in.
- Comment on Steam Beta adds new shortcut key to save a clip of recent gameplay 9 months ago:
I do post footage to YouTube, some publicly and some privately because my friends and I actually enjoy our time together and want to remember the best moments.
The fact you think that’s cringe just makes me feel sorry for you.
- Comment on Steam Beta adds new shortcut key to save a clip of recent gameplay 9 months ago:
For those of us who actually have friends to play with, we like to be able to record banter.
- Comment on Steam Beta adds new shortcut key to save a clip of recent gameplay 9 months ago:
Sadly not all that useful on Linux because it doesn’t record your microphone.
- Comment on Arrowhead emerge with a bullet-pointed peace offering to pacify mutinous Helldivers 2 players 10 months ago:
I honestly hate the changes to Terminids. The fucking tentacles that pop out of the ground on level 7 and above can just keep you constantly ragdolled. It’s just not fun to fight the bugs anymore.
- Comment on The Dead Rising remaster no longer gives you points for "Erotica" creepshots because it's not "required" or "appropriate" 10 months ago:
- Comment on An algorithm, among the many other things they ruin, is causing stability problems on Intel Core CPUs 10 months ago:
What hot garbage of a title.
- Comment on Star Citizen is free for the next few days, please don't accidentally buy a $300 spaceship 11 months ago:
They do just enough to fend off any serious allegations of fraud.
The fact you haven’t felt compelled to check in 4 years says everything.
