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- Comment on Cloud Imperium quietly steal Star Citizen developers' weekends from under them with mandated overtime in the lead up to Citizencon 1 month 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 1 month 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 3 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" 3 months ago:
- Comment on An algorithm, among the many other things they ruin, is causing stability problems on Intel Core CPUs 3 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 4 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.
- Comment on Star Citizen is free for the next few days, please don't accidentally buy a $300 spaceship 4 months ago:
Star Citizen isn’t a game. It’s a carefully crafted enterprise product designed with a single purpose in mind: to separate fools from their money.
Source: they took me for $30 almost a decade ago and I’m still not over it.
- Comment on There’s something in the water: PowerWash Simulator’s trippy Alice in Wonderland DLC arrives next month 4 months ago:
The consensus on Powerwash Simulator DLC from what I’ve seen so far is that it’s not a lot of content for the price.
What do ya’ll think?
- Comment on Star Trucker delivers its chill mix of Euro Truck Simulator and Freelancer onto Steam and Game Pass this September 5 months ago:
Good suggestion.
It runs okay, but the segment after the jump gate didn’t run very well with everything on screen, even at low settings.
Besides that, the flying itself feels sluggish and unsatisfying, and the demo has you fucking with the radio while you’re trying to drive.
Also, I could swear it had an AI trucker steer into me so it could teach me about crash penalties, but then it made me deal with the radio shit while my truck was yelling at me for leaking air. I rage quit the demo at that point.
Overall, not very impressed. It’s got too much going on for a truck sim.
- Comment on Star Trucker delivers its chill mix of Euro Truck Simulator and Freelancer onto Steam and Game Pass this September 5 months ago:
No mention in the article or on the Steam store page of whether it’s meant to be compatible with the Steam Deck or not.
This game has been on my wishlist since I spotted it on Steam a while back, but I’m not likely to buy it unless I can play it on the Deck. I’ve got too many other games in my backlog already that don’t run on it, but I need more casual games I can play on my Deck while watching TV.
- Comment on Spilled! is PowerWash Simulator’s oceangoing cousin, and just as chilled 5 months ago:
The Steam store page says the game only takes about an hour, but it doesn’t say anything about replayability.
I love Powerwash Simulator so much because it has enough levels to play all them through multiple times without getting too tired of them. It’s a game I can play absentmindedly while watching a show.
It is starting to get old though, so I’ve been trying to find games that scratch the same itch.
- Comment on What are you playing this week? May 27 2024 Edition 5 months ago:
PlateUp, it’s surprisingly addicting. Very similar core loop to Unrailed but more much more open-ended.
Runs well on the Steam Deck but really chugs battery for what it is, even on low settings.
Plays better with a controller; the keyboard controls are kind of weird.
- Comment on Atari acquires Intellivision brand and over 200 games 5 months ago:
Wait, what year is it?
- Comment on Google plans to to reuse heat after expanding a data center for AI 5 months ago:
Don’t let this fool you into thinking AI is green. Finland is certainly not the only place they’re going to be expanding datacenters.
- Comment on The MSI Claw is an embarrassment 5 months ago:
What baffles me is I’ve yet to see another handheld with touchpads that can even begin to rival the Steam Deck’s.
AYANEO has them on the Retro Mini PC but they’re smaller and way too far down to be comfortable to use regularly.
The touchpads are one of the Steam Deck’s greatest features. They actually make it enjoyable to play games designed for use with a mouse. Why are none of the other manufacturers getting that?
- Comment on Asus’ next ROG Ally will be the ROG Ally X 6 months ago:
I have two strong opinions that will lead me to never be interested in the ROG Ally X:
- Fuck Windows 11.
- Any handheld that looked at the glorious touchpads of the Steam Deck and decided “nah, no one wants those, just touchscreen and joysticks for us,” will never have a place in my home.
- Comment on What are you playing this week? May 06 2024 Edition 6 months ago:
Been enjoying Helldivers 2 on PC in spite of this PSN nonsense. Glad they backtracked on that.
- Comment on Recruiters Are Going Analog to Fight the AI Application Overload 6 months ago:
It’s their fault for cramming the process with tons of patronizing hoops to jump through in the first place.
“Oh no, people are using tools to get through the tedious and humiliating bullshit I put them through because I’m a power-tripping sociopath who loves making arbitrary decisions that affect their livelihoods”?
Gtfo of here.
- Comment on ChatGPT's 'hallucination' problem hit with another privacy complaint in EU 6 months ago:
By the way, for anyone interested in how ChatGPT works, the channel 3blue1brown recently put out a very good video on it.
- Comment on ChatGPT's 'hallucination' problem hit with another privacy complaint in EU 6 months ago:
This is an inherent, likely unfixable issue with LLMs because they simply don’t know right from wrong, or truth from fiction. All they do is output words that are likely to go together.
It’s literally just the Predictive Text game, or the “type <some prompt> and let your keyboard finish the sentence” meme. It’s not the same algorithms (autocorrect is much less sophisticated) but they’re surprisingly similar in how they actually function.
You can try to control what an LLM outputs by changing the prompt or adjust the model with negative feedback for certain combinations of words or phrases, but you can’t just tell it “don’t make up lies about people” and expect that to work.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reiterates his tabs-versus-spaces stance with a kernel trap 7 months ago:
No matter which side you’re on, I think we can all agree that there’s a special circle in hell reserved for people who don’t follow conventions.
- Comment on Stop Killing Games hopes to petition regulators to stop developers from shutting down games 7 months ago:
Unfortunately I have a strong feeling that courts and regulators are gonna go, “not our problem, vote with your wallet.”
You could make the argument that the consumer can’t make an informed decision about purchasing a product if they have no idea how long the publisher intends to keep it functional. But at the most I only see this leading to some fine print on the box/site saying “publisher only guarantees game services will remain available through <arbitrary2-3 years in the future>.” Better than nothing, sure, but it’d still be on the consumer to pay attention to that.
