You can hit “take screenshot” but it results in a black frame iirc. Same for screen record.

iPhone absolutely has this concept

The long weekend from Thanksgiving gave me unprecedented access to factorio space age. I think I hit 60 hours last week.

Idk the internal company culture is supposed to be pretty damn good and stable. Flat management structure with everyone getting to work on whatever they please…

Seems like a replacement council would probably do fine.

Private companies, for better or worse, are beholden only to the boss. No shareholder value to worry about.

That’s the only reason steam hasn’t been turning the thumbscrews on developers for stage 3 enshittification profit seeking.

The choose N heroes things is also in deadlock. They require you to choose 3 and you’re given 1 based on preference and queue time. Can’t be a1-trick but you can usually get the same hero each game

This is a good thing why you trying to spin it as bad?

Arbitration has always favored companies.

That’s pretty normal for financial charts like this though.

They’re scum for the grift but flappy bird doesn’t deserve a trademark. US IP laws are draconian enough.

Pixel 7 comes in right at 200 on swappa and has 8gb ram. Pixel 7 pro has 12gb and is around $50 more.

Quake 1 popularized mouselook

Get in the closed alpha/beta and play. It’s a ton of fun.

The next patch fully opens the game to end to end mod support. Items, characters, races, quests, dialogue - all available to mod.

It seems like the game will be able to live on in the modding community for a long time yet.

I wonder how many of them are just bots tbh

Cause the game is pretty inherently political. The setting is a farcical fascist govt…

What review page are you talking about??

I went to check out the reviews and all I see is people complaining about Sony blocking out so many countries. I don’t see a single “woke” complaint.

Are you sure you’re not just hearing that people have complained and then assuming they actually did?

Fan base isn’t regressing - there’s just an increasingly polarized contingent that won’t stop wailing about every snub.

Overall the gaming fan base is growing because of this embracing of diversity.

Hmm maybe I stop donating then… I’ll have to dig into where my money is actually going.

Sorta. The foundation does.

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/donate/

Yes. Just like I donate to my Lemmy host on a regular basis.

I even pay for YouTube, despite using Vanced.

Fuck ads.

The issue is fuck ads

“I want to make a movie so painfully obvious in its satire that everyone who understands it lives in perpetual psychological torment inflicted on them by all the people who don’t.”

• Paul Verhoeven, director of Starship Troopers

The movie makes it clear that:

1. The bugs were responding to human colonization
2. Humans fired the first shots
3. The government is lying to everyone claiming the bugs are mindless. They overjoyed shouts of the soldiers when they learn the opposite is true - is only because they learn that the bugs are terrified.
4. The endless over the top propaganda is supposed to be a pretty fuckin heavy clue that it’s a fascist state.

I mean the deadlock game is in invite only closed beta rn…

It’s not really planning so much as “about to release to Early Access”

I mean… They have though. It’s not in bing.com but “Microsoft copilot” is their newly rebranded Bing + AI search engine, which they’re embedding directly into desktops. They’ve been doing the AI summaries longer than Google has afaik.

You think Bing aka Microsoft is not planning on this exact same folly?

On the One hand I live in a major metro. On the other hand I have family out in bumblefuck middle of nowhere. So I’ve gotta have the US only bands.

It’s tragic the 1 VI Is a Europe only release. I was looking forward to picking it up in the US.

Which he’s still working on.

People can do 2 things.

There devs have done an excellent job stabilizing the game to be fair. That launch was rouuuugh

they

They being the publisher, Sony, who also was the one who removed it from many countries. Sony did the same thing with Ghosts.

It sorta did. There was a “galactic campaign” but it didn’t have a Game Master the way that HD2 does.

Battlefield has probably been in development for 4 years now and their C-Suite doesn’t know shit about dick. That ship turns like the titanic - It’s going down.

Yes in that there is a new battlepass every month with new guns and armor to unlock.

No in that you can earn the battlepass with in game currency and never have to give them more than the $40 that the game cost to have a ton of fun.

Beyond that - They’ve taken live service games to a better place. There’s an ongoing galactic campaign and the individual missions you run contribute to galactic objectives which have real consequences in game. They have a dedicated “Game Master” like a DND Dungeon Master who decides when to release new units, what happens when we succeed and how to punish failure.

And most importantly: It’s a lot of fun.

I know helldivers 2 had a ton of controversy around the PSN login but otherwise it’s a fantastic game. Been loving it.

They won’t be back - they’re not leaving.

But that phrase also seems like pretty normal rationalizing in an apology.

If I had to bet it was mostly steam issuing refunds and pulling the game in more than 100 countries that changed their mind.

They specifically said “not moving forward”. Seems pretty clear and concise. No PSN requirement.

that defend it as if it was a good thing.

I haven’t really seen much of that. Just people pointing out that from the start the game has always said a PSN account was required to play online, but a bug meant that it wasn’t enforced.

Ultimately it’s all shit Sony is pulling as the bastard publishers.

I’m just baffled by the idea. No need to defend it though, this is all arbitrary anyways. It’s not like anyone is going to do this.

So you’re going to take all the places a character could be in the next 200ms, do Ray casting on all of them and send that data to the server to check every 17ms?

While the server also does that for 15 other players at the same time.

Do you know what algorithmic complexity is? Big O notation? If so - that’s a n³ * 15m³ problem space that you’re expanding out across 200ms every 17ms, where n is player locations possible in x/y/z and m is the other players locations. Physics collisions are usually the biggest drain on a computer’s cycles in game and in the worst case that’s n² complexity.

You’re talking insanely taxing here.

You cannot break the speed of light with computational effort.

You’re saying that you want to have a round trip from client to server and back happen in-between frames.

You cannot do that. Period. You will not ever have latencies that low.

Even if you frame lock it at 60fps that means you’re calculating views, sending the data up the tube, checking it on the server, responding back with all the data about the new character that should appear and then rendering the new guy within 17ms.

That is physically impossible.

There’s no way in hell you’ll ever get a game company to agree to that. You’re talking 100x the expense of running a server at a minimum.