Malgas

@Malgas@beehaw.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yes, Paradox are aware that a “barrage of DLCs” can scare away new players, for all their bundles and discounts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to buy a lot of DLC for Paradox grand strategy games. I never thought full-price was worth it, but they regularly had 90+% off sales where you could pick up all but the most recent for a couple bucks each. Nowadays they never seem to go lower than 50%, which puts them solidly in the price range where I could get an entire game for the same price, and I can’t justify that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pi calculation world record shattered at 314 trillion digits with a four-month run on a single server — StorageReview retakes the crown, thanks to storage bandwidth⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s approximately 314 trillion more digits than is necessary to calculate the circumference of the observable universe to within a Planck length.

  (The actual number is 62.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looks Like We Can Finally Kiss the Metaverse Goodbye⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Like many crappy things these days, the name and some of the concept were stolen from good sci-fi. Snow Crash, in this case, in which it was as if the entire Internet was VR.

  Which, the Web barely existed when that book was written, so wild visions of what the Internet might turn out to be were to be expected. And something like it remains a common cyberpunk trope to this day.

  That said, I disagree with the other poster that it will ever happen, let alone is inevitable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe there’s some dialect where it’s used that way?

  Like how “scheme” strongly connotes nefariousness in American English, but I’ve heard Brits use it non-pejoritively.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Colony building sim Mountaincore is now free to play and open source⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So is this a Dwarf Fortress knock-off?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My SO got a steamdeck today, and it's a lot better than I imagined it to be⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Looking at you Windows 11

  Yeah, I got a new laptop recently with no intention of using the pre-installed OS, but I wanted to boot it up once just to make sure all the hardware was working.

  It may have actually taken longer to figure out how to create a local account on W11 than to wipe it and install Linux.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PC gaming fan Steven Spielberg says he "can't do controllers," prefers keyboard and mouse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Then you get things like GTA or Saints Row, where whether I want to be using kb+m or controller changes based on whether I’m driving or on foot.

  I’ve long thought that the ideal control scheme would somehow incorporate both a mouse for camera control, the sheer number of buttons you get from having your off-hand on a keyboard, and also analog inputs for things like movement/steering and vehicle throttle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This upcoming dating sim lets you romance household objects turned absolute fitties⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  “Objects are made by men and used for many purposes. But we never…love…objects.”

  —James Franco

  “There’s nothing going on with the ottoman! That’s a business relationship!”

  —ibid

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What demos are you playing for this edition of Steam Next Fest?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been having a good time with Heart of the Machine, in which you play as a nascent AI figuring out how to survive in a sprawling cyberpunk city.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hasbro exec says Baldur's Gate 3 "proved for us that people really wanted great D&D games," supports Larian's plan to "take the time we need"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t mind some Spelljammer also.

  Give us all the weird settings!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Our Flag Means Death’ Canceled After Two Seasons at Max⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not a cliffhanger. I say go ahead and finish it.