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Nelots, do astronomy w Phobos: Doomed Moon of Mars

I mean in the grand scheme of things, all moons, planets, and even stars are doomed eventually. For a species with an average life expectancy of 80-some years, there ain’t much of a difference in 50 million and 5 billion years anyway.

guy,

Our moon is escaping us though

Nelots,

True, though as far as I’m aware our sun will destroy Earth and its moon long before it manages to break free.

hissingmeerkat, do games w Ubisoft target audience when they play a good game

Half-Life 2 would be a mediocre game if you lacked empathy for people in conditions where the protagonist (the player) starts.

Thorry, do astronomy w Jupiter from the Webb Space Telescope

It’s still stunning to me how small the great red spot has become. If it gets any smaller it’s hardly a feature worth talking about. I remember back in the 80’s looking through my telescope at Jupiter and clearly seeing the spot. I know it’s entirely possible, but to see a large thing like that visibly change over my lifetime still somehow feels wrong.

__Lost__, do gaming w When I was a child I thought as a child...

Back when 16 bit graphics were cutting edge, we thought they were getting close to photorealistic. It’s crazy seeing screenshots of games that I thought looked amazing at the time.

nymnympseudonym, do gaming w When I was a child I thought as a child...
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ASCII NetHack FTW

PushButton,

I’ve never ascended, only descended to my inevitable grave…

nymnympseudonym,
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My IRL gravestone will read simply:

YASD

ExtremeDullard,
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Mine will read “You have died of dysentery”.

catfeeder,
nymnympseudonym,
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holy shit I feel personally identified

Imma go get drunk

@!!!!!!!!!!!

DmMacniel, do gaming w Does Nintendo ban Nintendo accounts opening up eshop from a hacked 3DS / 2DS?
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No you are safe, as all servers are dead since April 2024. Only a husk of the eshop still is active to redownload purchased titles.

thingsiplay,

The servers are not really dead. One can not buy new games, but the Nintendo account is still active and checked for legitimacy, as you can download purchased games. And some other functionality are still working on eshop. My fear is, that a list of games and game IDs are uploaded when connecting.

DmMacniel,
@DmMacniel@feddit.org avatar

…nintendo.com/…/announcement-of-discontinuation-o…

this is why h-shop and pretendo.network exists now.

pyrinix, do games w How Are You Guys Handling This?

I don't know what I can tell you.

I'm one of those patient gamers, where I'm just happy I finally have a machine that can play about 89% of the games I have to throw at it. Moreso happier that it can confidently run PS2 emulation, something I've been chasing for years to have a machine that can do, to own anyways.

I think you just need to sit down and contemplate to yourself what you want out of a machine. It's not a good healthy mindset to be fretting about upgrading all of the time. I mean, you made a huge leap already going from 15 years to what you have now.

Also consider that, there will still be games released that look graphically demanding and everything, but will require maybe a 1060 GPU, just as an example. Probably 8GB of RAM. It's only the AAA stuff that wants everything to be tip-top shape. Don't chase those.

AnchoriteMagus,

This is honestly the healthiest take, there are just a lot of games currently out that I want to play but have no way to.

Space Marine 2, KCD2, Stalker 2, etc etc etc

It’s just been a good year to be a single player gamer, and I wanna get in on it. 🤷‍♂️

tal,
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The good news is that single-player games tend to age well. Down the line, the bugs are as fixed as they’re gonna be. Any expansions are done. Prices may be lower. Mods may have been created. Wikis may have been created. You have a pretty good picture of what the game looks like in its entirety. While there are rare cases that games are no longer available some reason or break on newer OSes with no way to make them run, that’s rare.

With (non-local) multiplayer games, one has a lot less flexibility, since once the crowd has moved on, it’s moved on.

mohab,

I played +400 hours last year and most demanding game in my library has a GTX 1050 minimum requirement. There’s much more to gaming than yearly AAA releases.

big_slap, do games w Arc raiders is a horrible game

I’m sorry you aren’t enjoying it, I haven’t had this much fun playing a game in a long time.

the thrill of finding something important and then trying to extract without dying has been so much fun. perhaps try using voice chat to talk your way out of potentially violent situations? if i hear someone else, I start chatting and if I dont hear voice comms or one of the emotes you can use to communicate, I’ll let them know im shredding them on sight lol

nutsack, do games w How Are You Guys Handling This?

you are seriously limited on the selection of games you can play with Apple silicon

Katana314,

Does Proton even work on Macs? It seems pretty clear at this point Linux is a far better gaming OS.

knolord,

From an colleague of mine, who bought an M1 Macbook Pro when they were new; he told me that there was a Wine fork (don’t know the name sadly) for Apple silicon which kinda worked with most (older) Steam games, not as nice as Proton on x86-64 Linux, but good enough for his game tastes. Don’t know if it’s still maintained or not…

spicehoarder,

Nope, that would be FEX. And support for Apple Silicon is currently on the roadmap. So maybe in a couple of years.

Venator,

Might be possible to run proton in a VM?:

github.com/AsahiLinux/muvm

nutsack, (edited )

no, it does not.

and a lot of mac games that came out before apple silicon simply will not run. and ive had mostly poor results trying to run games with crossover and whisky.

your best bet is to stick with the limited selection of games that have native apple silicon releases. and with native releases on my m2 mac mini im still experiencing some pretty bad input lag.

some strategy games like rimworld and stellaris are good options.

falidorn, do games w World's Video Game Companies

Why aren’t the “game focused” companies within Sony, Microsoft, etc. listed on here?

Infrapink,
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Because Sony and Microsoft make most of their money from other sources. That isn't to says their game studios aren't big, just that they don't make 90% of revenue.

Noodle07,

Would like to see Minecraft itself though

falidorn,

But they have gaming divisions which are technically their own companies. This chart js definitely cherry-picking. I didn’t even mention that “gaming” is highly subjective already. There’s more than just MS & Sony missing from this chart.

currycourier,

Tencent is huge as well. Though only around 50% of their revenue is from gaming.

RightHandOfIkaros,

Because they would make Nintendo look tiny by comparison.

Luxyr,

Sony would fall between EA and Nexon here. With a gaming division revenue of $31.5bn according to this: gamesindustry.biz/playstation-full-year-operating…

bjoern_tantau, do games w World's Best-selling Video Game Consoles
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Strange, I distinctly remember it being a big deal that the Wii outsold the PS2 at some point.

jedibob5,

The Wii might’ve had higher sales at its peak, but PS2 had a lot of longevity.

bus_factor,

I figured the 2004 release as the PS2 slim turned the tables again, but that was still before the Wii came out in 2006. It’s possible that story only counted the original PS2 and this chart counts both, though.

someguy3,

Never heard of that. Maybe it was for a specific year or region.

paultimate14,

I don’t remember that. Maybe you’re thinking of something like “if the Wii keeps selling at its current pace it will pustell the PS2”?

They said that about the Switch as well and it didn’t happen.

TachyonTele, do astronomy w First ever photo of the curvature of the Earth : December 30, 1930

Meanwhile scientists still haven’t built a mirror large enough to capture your moms ass

SpaceCadet, do gaming w Commentary on taking feedback as a game designer, from someone who worked on the original DOOM.
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I don’t think Sandy did much game design on Doom though. He was mainly a level designer who came in late in the project to finish the levels started by Tom Hall, who had left id software, and to grind out levels for the third episode. By the time Sandy joined id software, Doom (the engine and game mechanics) was already pretty much the game it was going to be.

I should also say that the maps he made for Doom and Doom 2 are by far my least favorite in the game.

jjjalljs, do gaming w Commentary on taking feedback as a game designer, from someone who worked on the original DOOM.

Expected more people arguing about dark souls in here. There’s usually a contingent of people going at it over “I want to win on the first or maybe second try” vs “the game is about failing repeatedly until you persevere”

Lucky_777,

I get the Souls like game type and the appeal. Not for me personally, but respect players will to grind out those victories.

MonkderVierte, do gaming w After playing DCSS for two years I finally beat it

DCSS = Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup

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