Congrats!

One of your early stories got me into playing Zomboid with my buddies.

So barring this post, which one is the most up voted one?

I have an acquaintance who is a lead Dev at an Indie studio where he is developing and training an NPC behaviour engine with thousands of responses and actions. Think fallout or mass effect response wheel, where 2-4 dialogue choices have 2-4 outcomes, but instead you can tell the NPC anything and it will have a different response. Or it will do different things whether you hand it a book, give it book, throw a potion at it or cast a healing spell on it or hug it. It could also change tactics if you tried to snipe it vs if you went at it melee. All of these are trained and accounted for and made in a way where it can be built into any game using a certain engine. And this is just aimed at generic npcs, not companions.

So if this is what disclosure of the use of generative AI means, I’m not against it. I think there is nuance to what can be done with it. Using final art assets? It’s theft. Writing? Theft. NPC behaviour? Definitely not.

But Microsoft already bought Activision Blizzard.

I’ve been on the waiting list for my PS5 for the past four years. Just like my family doctor.

Damn, that article is from 2022. Did they get recourse?

Laser Squad, playing couch hot-seat is what sent me down this path.

I really liked Jagged Alliance 2, Afterlight and especially X-COM: Apocalypse. Apocalypse had such radical departures from the first two Ufo titles, which did not make it very well liked among enthusiasts, in particular the real-time battle mode. But the game had such fun mechanics and steep difficulty curve, I really enjoyed the challenge of it, as opposed to getting another Enemy Unknown clone that was TFTD.

Right. But I meant if SteamOS or Bazzite had that feature already for the ROG Ally, why reinstall an objectively worse OS when it also gains that feature?

I may be misunderstanding something.

But what for? Nothing makes it better, even if you would get this equivalent feature.

They could also just say “screw this” and invest in the excellent Heroic Games Launcher (just like CDPR/GOG did to some extent).

Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions. Microsoft is complicit in the genocide of Palestinians, as shown by the recent outburst of employees working on tools used by Zionists to perpetuate apartheid in Israel’s territories.

Here, someone gave more details:

https://lemmy.ca/comment/16914741

No. It’s randomly sampled supposedly.

Learn what? They’ve been relativly silent throughout the 12 years from announcement to release.

Recent reference cards for AMD were actually built by Sapphire from what I was told.

So the Sapphire Pulse AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT was their reference card basically. And it acts like that, a very solid card.

Is it customer hostile? I thought it was just licencing-hostile, fucking over others with their IPS left and right.

I don’t know much about them.

No one will care, and the non-critical echochamber will keep truckin’ on for the wrong reason.

I’ve switched from a 670 to a 9070 XT last week, and I have to say I am enjoying all the local coop in UWQHD with my family that were barred to me before due to old nvidia drivers or lack of fps. Turns out my wife is a natural talent at overcooked.

Which operating system is that?

Mine does. Some games are non stop booked. Others, mostly the sports games titles, are always available on the shelves.

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I haven’t had any issues with heroic launcher.

It also has rocks.

And caves.

And caves with water probably.

That’s like saying BNC in public during the 90.

No?

I’m using multi monitors with mixed resolutions and a very old nvidia card (gtx 670).

The only problem I have is that if I put them to sleep, while autorandr or whatever gets me the resolutions and layout back, the app windows move around like crazy because they all wake up at different times, likely due to a mix of HDMI + DVI + DisplayPort connections.

Edit: I see now, this is only an issue when we are talking about vrr simultaneously.

How good is it? Does everything work like on the deck?

How does steam deck handle kernel level anticheat any differently than arch?

That’s a somewhat weird, to me, use case. Even in a business setting, we share our screens with colleagues via meet or slack only one or two at a time. How does this work on Discord and why would a party of people do it?

BestBuy is generally overpriced. Sometimes good deals on peripherals and their returns policy is generous.

Odd that you have never heard of Canada Computers. If you are in Quebec, they are called Ordinateurs Canada.

Depending on where you live, you might have a Memory Express nearby.

Eeeeeeeeenter the Gungeon

Nuclear Throne’s low fps was off putting for me and I could never get into Binding of Isaac’s juvenile style, personally.

Crypt of the Necrodancer is an amazing game.

Dome Keeper and Runestone Keeper are also fun.

Me too. But I’ll wait for stable release.

Well, they still use internet Explorer, http sans s and fax machines.

When asked why, their response, roughly translated, was “we just want to play eroge ¯\_(ツ)_/¯”

Dragon Age 2 is a bit ooof. Excellent combat, but the story and especially the scenery… you revisit the same parts of town and the same dungeon over and over and over.

I used to. Not since 2012. I had a night shift job, getting paid to do nothing.

Also since 2020 I’ve been wfh. So technically yes, I play games at work.

Before this I used to play certain games exclusively, often for 10+ hours a day (beefy laptop at work and then home).

QuakeWorld - '98-2003

Ragnarok Online - 2003-2008

WoW - 2008-2012

EVE - 2012-2014

$150 for ultimate edition. And I don’t even understand what this game is actually supposed to be about.

If we are going down this path, I’d actually recommend touching grass first (proverbially), before a sinking time and money into a professional. It’s an easy, non-committal step, that may do wonders.

The EUR and GBP prices included VAT, import fees and whatever other fees levied by the local govt on electronics.

ASSUMING CONTROL

DIRECT INTERVENTION IS NECESSARY

Not to worry, discrete GPUs will likely go away completely within a few generations.

Out of stock everywhere, since they’ve stopped manufacturing it.