Not so much a preference, more how the human brain work.

Humans prefer what they know, so they will choose a brand that they’ve seen on TV over an unknown brand.

Ghost of Tsushima on the PC. 90 fps (most of the time) 4K.

The gameplay is really to my taste, so I am planning on playing this one for a while.

I haven’t played for almost two years. Are they making more PvE friendly?

They have one of the biggest franchise in the world and they still produce the same uninspiring game time after time.

You have all these crazy pokemons, and all these adventures in the anime, and yet the games are bland.

Console should stop running a proprietary OS that needs a special SDK to develop on.

Take the Steam route : use Linux with their flavor on it. Makes life easier for devs, more games can run on your console and we get (hopefully) better optimized games

I haven’t played DF, but I imagine it’s a bit like Rim World where your citizen gain traits, develop relationships with other citizens and have varied skills.

It doesn’t have to be deep. Palworld has a pretty basic system where Pals can have traits, they have skills and they move around the encampment somewhat organically. It isn’t complex, but at least it feels like my choices makes my camp different and I want to find the Pal that has the skills I require with good traits.

People build crazy things in Minecraft, but no matter what you do, buildings feel empty.

Dogfights in VR Elite Dangerous is probably my best VR experience. It was just so fun even if the fights themselves weren’t that deep.

I just want a sandbox with meaningful town NPCs, not just a placeholder for a menu.

It’s like recreating the vacuum of space with words.

PR talk needs to die a fiery death.

Even though Facebook is a terrible inhumane corporation, they have the best product because it is lightweight, can be used without any base station and can be used without a pc-link.

The fact that a VR set requires at minimum a 5x5 feets space with a computer within the vicinity is definitely hurting the VR market.

So I just hope that we get something akin to the Quest but without the evil corporation bit.

When I played Elite Dangerous with a VR headset, man was it magical. But I won’t dedicate a small room and a PC just for that experience.

Yes, but not by another mega corpo that tries to get into everything.

I mean, the real problem is that Alphabet and Apple should be dismantled in littles companies by anti-trust laws. Adding another third big player will only add another corpo to the duopoly.

I like Steam because they are more upfront about what you get when you “buy” a game, but I don’t want Steam to become a mega corpo that has tentacles in every technological industries just like Google or Microsoft.

They still are a company first and foremost, and Gaben isn’t eternal. Their attitude can change as fast as getting a new CEO when Gaben steps down.

Nothing good comes out of a mega corpo getting bigger, and we have many examples of that.

They can see how it’s done and code their own thing. They don’t have to cut and paste the code, just know how its done.

Until Gaben steps down or pass away. It will be a butt clenching moment.

Which website should I avoid to make sure I don’t fall for the pirate scam?

Do you smell the sweet scent of money made by amassing more data from you and selling it.

Hmmmmmmmmmm hmm!

Yes, but it is not acceptable in today’s capitalism. Only the growth of growth matters.

If the line does not go up enough, the company is failing.

There is no point of starting the chart to 0 since it doesn’t give any information other than the share price, which is already communicated by the Y axis anyways.

Might be that the CEO and upper management are dumb fucks running the company to the ground.

No more innovation, just microtransactions in shitty games, and the same old rehashed concepts.

The comparison is valid, but doesn’t mean it infringes on any patent.

Otherwise, FromSoftware would sue the shit out of every soulslike out there.

The player count is pretty high (95k as of this writing)

Now is a good time to bring back a moba because the market isn’t as saturated when MNC was released.

And for what it is worth, MNC was a great game.

Kill Chrome/Chromium and Firefox by proxy. Revert back to pure html websites, live a free life.

I’m not a game dev, so I am asking naively this: why is networking code for games not standardized?

It’s crazy to me that so many companies develop their own netcode instead of pooling resources to create a library once and for all for netcode.

It is a non-trivial thing to develop, so everyone would gain from having a framework and library ready to use that works well and can be implemented into any game.

In the end, the information exchange is done between the client and the server and the application layer can have any packets it needs.

That’s a naive take. Microsoft saw that there is money to make in AA games, so they want in on the action.

If they didn’t think that AA games could increase their profits, they wouldn’t do it.

Outsourced to an indian firm. The next expansion will be fire!

I personally don’t hate SBMM, but I hate that it is the only option in modern competitive games. When I want to sweat, SBMM is great.

But sometimes, I want to goof off with other people. I want the option to play de_westwood pistol/shotgun only server again if I so choose.

I want a little bit of control in my gameplay experience. Nowadays, it’s either ultra try hard or people not giving a shit mode, nothing in between.

What do you consider the first half of DS1? Before Sen’s fortress?

It depends on the actor. When you have an actor, like Gary Oldman for example, that really transform into its role, they can play in an infinite number of movies and they won’t get boring.

But actors, like The Rock or Kevin Hart, that just play themselves over and over again get tiring fast.

Were you around during the ps1 era when you could go to someone and change a chip to play copied discs? That’s the same thing here.

Someone has the know-how, he shares that info and that’s it. There is no knowledge involved, and the person installing the VPN doesn’t even need to know what it is called or what it does, as long as it allows them to watch tiktok.

Then that person tell their friends and it spreads. There is no technical knowledge.

Your initial point is that if someone is capable of installing a VPN, he is probably not a tiktok user.

But VPNs nowadays are extremely easy to setup. If for a tiktok user that means that they can access tiktok even though it is bannes in their country, they will follow a guide to set up a VPN, or a friend will show them.

There is literally no knowledge involved in that. So i’m not sure why you think VPN users are above that.

It worked for Netflix, it will work for tiktok.

You think too far. Some people have the knowhow to install a VPN on a phone and access tiktok. They share that info.

People that just want to access tiktok follow the info to install the VPN and have access to tiktok.

I don’t have the pc with me anymore, but I will try to find a screenshot that was circulating around with a ton of ads, which was my experience as well.

I just installed Win11 on a work computer last week, and there were at least 3 screens of the installer trying to push o365 or one drive.

Then you have the start menu where if you look for a software, 90% of the menu is an ad trying to push you a software. At the bottom, you have your search results.

And then there is the pop ups on the bottom right of the screen trying to sell you Candy Crush or another bullshit software.

That’s awful and I’m glad it wasn’t my computer

I genuinely didn’t know all that. Thanks for bringing that up. I’ve been lazy and told myself countless times I should switch to LibreWolf. Now’s the time.

Let’s not kid ourselves, there were a lot of shit games on console as well.

It’s just that they’ve been forgotten and only the classics persist.

Always is. They went too far. They scale back and try again when the dust has settled.

Oldest trick in the books

There might be some Hollywood accounting here.

I timed it today on an hour video. It’s an ad every 3 minutes I got. This is fucking mental. 20 ads for an hour long video.

I rarely watch YouTube on chromecast, I will be watching less going forward

Thanks I will read the links.

Do you have a privacy oriented email provider alternative to proton?

I have my domain name, but I don’t want to manage an email server on my server.