snooggums

@snooggums@midwest.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Minecraft creators are already trying to fix the Minecraft movie⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sonic had some digital effects in the real world. This looks like they went all in on green screen digital effects. There is zero chance this one will change.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Minecraft creators are already trying to fix the Minecraft movie⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Did the same guy who wanted the ‘realistic Sonic’ look have input on this one as well?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Wars Outlaws Is A Crappy Masterpiece⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mods are where asset reuse shines.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam now identifies reviews that come from Steam Deck players⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Heck, I’d even take it a step further and have it include basic system specs for each review since Steam already gets that info.

  That would get complex for games that are played for lengthy periods of time and across different builds. Basic specs as of the review would be cool though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nothing is requiring employees to be in the office five days a week⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “People can’t communicate as well remotely,” the CEO, projecting their personal lack of communication skills on everyone else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nothing is requiring employees to be in the office five days a week⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “I know this is a controversial decision that may not be a fit for everyone, and there are definitely companies out there that thrive in remote or hybrid setups,” he added. “But that’s not right for our type of business, and won’t help us fully realize our potential as a company.”

  By comparison, Nothing’s demand for five-day office attendance may sting for employees who helped shape the company while embracing its founding work-from-home environment.

  Besides calling people who want flexibility children, the company was founded as work from home even though that wasn’t right for the type of company. Sounds like maybe the CEO doesn’t know how the company works.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Saber boss explains Space Marine 2's microtransactions: “People don’t want to be sold horse armour anymore"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Says people don’t want horse armor, then brags about how the full priced game is selling horse armor and that people like it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox now lets you choose your preferred AI chatbot in its Nightly builds⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I read that as opting into the early access, not as opting in to having AI in Firefox. Hope it is the way you read it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox now lets you choose your preferred AI chatbot in its Nightly builds⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is no chatbot a choice?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Gaming CEO: “I think we should have a handheld, too”⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is microsoft, so I expect unhealthy competition.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Overwatchy FPS Concord gets new trailer and August PC release date with a beta in July⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The dialogue was painful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No Man’s Sky Adrift update leaves you completely alone in its universe, except for sandworms and ghost ships⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So while I upvoted because it is clearly a personal opinion, adding achievements to games over time can impact people in a couple of ways. I sometimes do them for fun, but know some people who are dedicated to completing sll achievements for games they love.

  Someone who has already hit 100% achievements would lose that 100%. A lot of people care about stuff like that.

  If the achievement is time locked, someone who starts later cannot 100% the achievements. I have some achievements in a game I played that can never be achieved now because the conditions needed for it to be met no longer exist.

  There are some people that like time locked and unobtainable achievements, so it is a balance between people who want ongoing achievements and those that want a specific list to work through at whatever pace they choose to play.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feds add nine more incidents to Waymo robotaxi investigation⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s waymo accidents than they started with!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FCC proposes all AI-generated content in political ads must be disclosed⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How about just banning it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Helldivers 2 players rally around an unlikely hero who just wanted to make friends⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It is one of the emotes you can buy in the warbonds, don’t remember which one has the hug. The hug starts with the arms outstretched and only hugs if the other person does the interaction thing. So if you see someone that looks like a friendly T pose go up and click that interact button!

  Sometines in game I like to start it while watching explosions with my arms spread wide like a lunatic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Helldivers 2 players rally around an unlikely hero who just wanted to make friends⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Whike I generally play with friends, I do hop in the random queue sometimes for fun and this game has the best community for an online game that I have ever played. Haven’t come across a single griefer or rude player, it is either silence or people helping each other.

  I (level 40ish) joined a random group all around level 15 last night and did all three of a level 5 mission set to get me some super credits and rares. Assuming the group was in their own voice chat because they were quiet but coordinated I let them know what I was doing snd we cleared them all out fairly easily. At the end I thanked them for the game and offered a hug, then the other two nunched up for hugs all around. A really wholesome end to our robogenocide.

  It is the little things that encourage a great commmunity and HD2 put them in. Hopefully they make more progress on the game defects so it can stick around for a while without people drifting away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Low-tech tactics still top the IT security risk chart⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, even the brute force attacks that used to be prevalent only worked because people made vulnerable passwords or lazy security settings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I’m fascinated by this open-world delivery game that sounds like Death Stranding on a horse in 13th-century Mongolia, with “unparalleled equine realism”⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Death Stallion

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨D&D makers are spending $1 billion on their own video games, promising they’ll be ‘quality and authentic’ like Baldur’s Gate 3⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Based on how they bought DnD Beyond and then stopped supporting user experience improvements in favor of increasing the annoyance of the Marketplace, they will be nowhere close to BG3 and will most likely be microtransaction hell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palworld is bringing in fun new Pals for you to put to work⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Did they ever fix the Pals not eating on a server when nobody is logged in?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cops can force suspect to unlock phone with thumbprint, US court rules⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s like that except fo the fact that ut us not at all like that.

  It is forcing someone to grant access to information that requires a search warrant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big Tech can’t hoard brainwave data for ad targeting, Colorado law says⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Always have been.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Showtime’s streaming service will finally shutter later this month⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When you suck so badly that sleeping on Paramount’s couch is an improvement…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I used to be a frame rate snob but owning a Steam Deck has made me realise the error of my ways⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It also depends on the type of game. Quick turns with lower frames an fps shooter will seem very different from low frames in a side scrolling platformer. Third person games often feel smoother with the same frames than with the first person view because the way the game turns is different.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Judge Slams Elon Musk For Filing Vexatious SLAPP Suit Against Critic, Calling Out How It Was Designed To Suppress Speech⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Words are great and all, but couldn’t the judge do something that actually impacts Elon in any way whatsoever?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨House passes bill to prevent the sale of personal data to foreign adversaries⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why would they stop the easy way around needing warrants to spy on citizens?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dakota Johnson on ‘Madame Web’ Blowback: “I’ll Never Do Anything Like It Again”⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is often over looked when people wonder why someone might sign up to something that is a trainwreck, and it usually comes down to the final film being far different than the original vision. Hell, a movie can be destroyed during script rewrites, bad scenes, and even during the editing process! Bladerunner has multiple versions based on editing the same filmed scenes. The theatrical version was ruined by insistence on a voiceover and the final cut is the best version due to what they cut out or left in.

  This one sounds like the Bladerunner theatrical cut being ruined by execs, and that does suck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roku Issues a Mandatory Terms of Service Update That You Must Agree To or You Can't Use Your Roku | Cord Cutters News⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I just agreed because one sided bullshit being added to something I already own lets me continue to use it until whatever they added even comes up and someone else might sue them in the meantime because ever changing terms of service are not enforceable.