MurrayL
@MurrayL@lemmy.world
- Comment on Netflix Animation Studios are now funding Blender development 3 days ago:
You realise Blender is open source, right? If they pull shenanigans the community can simply fork the project.
- Comment on Heroic Games Launcher v2.19 released adding ZOOM Platform, AppImage updates and more 4 days ago:
Seems like they’ve been around for longer than I thought, but I rarely hear them get mentioned and the barebones site doesn’t exactly inspire confidence.
- Comment on You'll no longer earn Steam points from community awards, as Valve try to kill off clownface-farming 1 week ago:
Nope. Just useless profile decorations and people using reactions to troll on the forums.
- Comment on Support For The Sega Dreamcast's Web Browser Has Ended After 25 Years 1 month ago:
*Google support has ended.
Alternative retro-friendly search engines are available, and the article even gives a shoutout to frogfind.
- Comment on It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser" 1 month ago:
I don’t think the bot will reply
- Comment on Free 3-16 player party shooter of teamwork and betrayal, Klaus Veen's Treason added Linux support 1 month ago:
Hadn’t heard of this but it looks fun!
- Comment on SteamOS tested on dedicated GPUs: No, it’s not always faster than Windows 1 month ago:
What we’ve found so far is basically the inverse of what we found when comparing handhelds: Windows usually has an edge on SteamOS’s performance, and sometimes that gap is quite large.
Lemmy won’t like this
- Comment on Russia bans Roblox over child safety fears 1 month ago:
Right move, wrong reasons.
- Comment on Valve block Steam game with queer art in Russia after state censor attacks it for “promoting non-traditional sexualities” 2 months ago:
In a letter, Valve have also reproached developers Flick Games for failing “to do your due diligence regarding where your game is allowed to be distributed, and to inform us of any territory where it cannot be” […] As of writing, Valve appear to be the only platform who have caved to Russian state requests to censor the game.
Surprised Valve are still operating in Russia given the optics, but I guess Gabe still needs another yacht or three.
- Comment on Top 200 Most Common Passwords | NordPass 2 months ago:
- Comment on IWGB union file legal claims against Rockstar, due to GTA 6 maker allegedly refusing to negotiate over firings 2 months ago:
“We are confident that what we’ve seen here is plain and simple union busting, and we will mount a full legal defence with our expert group of caseworkers, legal officers and barristers,” added IWGB president Alex Marshall. “Employers like Rockstar would do well to understand that private spaces such as trade union Discord servers have protections, and that their company’s contractual clauses do not supersede UK law.”
Yeah! Get ‘em!
- Comment on Wikipedia urges AI companies to use its paid API, and stop scraping 2 months ago:
Yeah, when I was at school in the early 00s we were specifically told not to use Wikipedia as a research source.
- Comment on Doom designer Sandy Petersen alleges former Xbox boss Don Mattrick killed Ensemble Studios and its Halo MMO to protect his personal stock bonus 2 months ago:
He’s one of the OGs and therefore had a huge impact on gaming in general, but my god his maps for Doom and Quake are by far the worst parts of those games.
- Comment on Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown gets a first gameplay trailer and you can keep Tuvix 4 months ago:
They absolutely knew what they were doing when they put Tuvix in the trailer, and that actually gives me some confidence that they understand their audience.
- Comment on Verified Steam game steals streamer's cancer treatment donations 4 months ago:
it’s a huge fuck up by Valve
Agreed! I’m kind of surprised they don’t automatically scan updates for malware. Or maybe they do but this slipped under the radar somehow? Either way the system clearly isn’t working.
- Comment on Verified Steam game steals streamer's cancer treatment donations 4 months ago:
Right, so there’s no such thing as an unverified Steam game because every game has to be approved before it appears on the storefront.
So why does the article repeatedly bother to specify that this was a ‘verified Steam game’? By that metric, they’re all verified.
- Comment on Verified Steam game steals streamer's cancer treatment donations 4 months ago:
The headline and article repeatedly call it a ‘verified Steam game’ but at no point do they explain what that means.
As far as I know, the only verification scheme on Steam is Steam Deck Verified, but the screenshot of the offending game’s store page shows that it was rated as ‘Unknown’.
Do they mean verified as in ‘Valve approved it for release’? Surely not, because every Steam game is approved for release so ‘verified Steam game’ would be a tautology.
Either I’m missing something, or this source is just adding words for no reason.
- Comment on Outlaws + Handful of Missions: Remaster is the next Nightdive Studios release 5 months ago:
Love Outlaws and hope this makes it easier to play on modern systems as even the GOG version can be temperamental.
That said, the trailer here looks rushed, which raises concerns. Notice how the player goes out of their way not to actually shoot any enemies, often actively aiming away from them before firing. Suggests maybe the damage/death sprites weren’t even ready?
- Comment on Xbox Is Investing In AI For Their Next Gen Console 5 months ago:
What do you think is powering the latest upscaling and frame generation tech?
- Comment on Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed 6 months ago:
That’s just the reality of ‘adult’ as the most common euphemism, as in ‘adult films’. It’s not going anywhere.
- Comment on Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed 6 months ago:
On the other hand, this is Valve capitulating to PayPal and removing games from sale because they didn’t like them. Not a good precedent to set.
- Comment on Lorde Fans Are Complaining That Her New Translucent CD Won’t Play on Their CD Players 6 months ago:
Loving this little nugget from the article:
the translucent CD, which was pitched as an environmentally friendly option
Ah yes, the environmentally friendly option of producing thousands of plastic disks that don’t work.
- Comment on Amazon Fire Sticks enable “billions of dollars” worth of streaming piracy 8 months ago:
Interesting how they continue to blame the pirates, devices, DRM, and everything else they can think of, but never the fact that content is getting spread across more and more services and prices keep going up.
Their greed in chasing profits is fuelling the very problem they’re trying to fight.
- Comment on Elon Musk Cuts Funding for Internet Archive 9 months ago:
The Internet Archive is a fantastic resource, but to say they take a lackadaisical approach to copyright/IP law is putting it lightly. There is SO much pirated content on there that it’s a wonder they’ve managed to last as long as they have being US-based.
Whether you agree with the spirit of the laws or not, there’s no arguing that they’ve long been on a collision course with major US copyright holders and I doubt they can survive without a massive effort to relocate somewhere out of reach.
- Comment on Shenmue beats Doom as the most influential game of all time in BAFTA poll 9 months ago:
I’m sorry if you’re a fan, but there is no way that Shenmue was more influential than fucking Doom, or many of the other games on the list.
- Comment on Ubisoft warn staff not to celebrate Assassin's Creed Shadows launch as part of “anti-harassment plan” 10 months ago:
This sucks.
Regardless of your thoughts about the game, Ubisoft, or AAA gaming in general, it’s incredibly sad that developers - real working people - feel they can’t celebrate their work on their personal accounts without opening themselves up to attack or harassment from these unhinged trolls.
- Comment on Make your complaints heard about bad games, says Dragon Age veteran Mark Darrah, but "your $70 doesn't buy you cruelty" 11 months ago:
Congrats on missing the entire point of what the guy is saying.
The people losing their jobs are not the ones making the decisions that created a (subjectively) bad product.
- Comment on 1997 classic adventure The Space Bar upgraded with ScummVM and Linux support 11 months ago:
Genuinely never heard of this one before. Anyone played it?
- Comment on Valve saw a record-breaking 19,000 games released on Steam in 2024 1 year ago:
Getting harder and harder for new games - even good ones - to find an audience.
I don’t think an abundance of releases is necessarily a bad thing, because more art is more art, but I also don’t know what a solution might look like to help prevent otherwise great games from vanishing into the masses immediately on release.
- Comment on Valve added an invisible wall to this sewer pipe in Half-Life 2 in their anniversary update - but it only annoyed speedrunners 1 year ago:
Barely a bug IMO - Valve wanted an invisible wall to block players from being able to skip a small environmental puzzle, but invisible walls are a lazy solution. If the player can find an alternate route to climb up into the pipe, more power to them I say.
