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npe, do games w What game is this? (On the Switch that they're holding)

looks like splatoon 3

Nomad,

Jup. My kids play that daily. Great fun

BmeBenji, do gaming w Shower thought: Valve could do the ultimate boss-move this year

I see all of these “Why SteamOS and why not another distro?” comments and it kinda blows me away how much the idea of approachability designed by a trusted name seems like a foreign concept here.

Then again, we’re talking about Linux fanatics who probably also argue over whether emacs, vim, or vi are the best text editor lol

ReversalHatchery,

real linux users don’t need a graphical session!!! everything can and should be done on the terminal!

/s

BmeBenji,

I love running Elden Ring in the terminal. Hells yeah, foul tarnished

ReversalHatchery,

the ASCII graphics are stunning, aren’t they?

mic_check_one_two,

You guys are getting graphics? Mine is just a Matrix-style series of special characters.

SkaveRat,

That’s called dwarf fortress

Kolanaki,
@Kolanaki@pawb.social avatar

VIM is the best because once you try it you are unable to quit.

BmeBenji,

Just like meth! :D

RisingSwell,

I keep seeing this, is it actually hard to close? Surely Linux has a version of alt f4, does that also fail?

arsCynic, (edited )

Alt + F4 does not fail to quit the terminal window where Vim is running in if that shortcut is configured so. But if that terminal has other things going on in it, they’ll be closed as well. It’s like demolishing a house to undo some text written on a fridge note, albeit exaggerated.
If Vim is not running in a terminal window, then that shortcut will indeed fail and users without knowledge of the commands below become stuck, sometimes to the point of a hard reboot.

Vim Cheat Sheet

:wq or :x or ZZ - write (save) and quit
:q - quit (fails if there are unsaved changes)
:q! or ZQ - quit and throw away unsaved changes
:wqa - write (save) and quit on all tabs

✍︎ arscyni.cc: modernity ∝ nature.

superkret,

It’s actually ed .

dbtng,
@dbtng@eviltoast.org avatar

Those editors are toys. Use something with real power. Use nano.

zerofk,

edlin or bust

zod000,

Nano’s a knockoff, use pico.

dbtng,
@dbtng@eviltoast.org avatar

Nano is the one true fork.

Chozo, do games w Would you like to see a mainline Pokemon game created in the old style?
@Chozo@fedia.io avatar

Honestly, I'd rather see another studio take a crack at the franchise. I don't know whether Gamefreak have lost a lot of important talent over the years or if they just got lazy because their games are guaranteed to sell no matter how poorly they're produced, but they do not know how to make games in the current era. Full stop. The last handful of mainline Pokemon titles have been unacceptably poor quality, and Nintendo won't light a fire under their ass because... why would they, when they're already printing money?

I think it would be wildly beneficial to the health of the franchise if a completely new studio took the wheel for a minute. They don't have to reinvent the game mechanics or take the story in some dark and gritty direction or anything like that, but if they just made it functional that'd already be a huge step up over Gamefreak's last few releases.

Personally, I'd love to see Retro Studios take a crack at a mainline Pokemon title. They've already got a very close relationship with Nintendo, and have released nothing but bangers.

NONE_dc, (edited ) do games w What is your favorite indie game?
@NONE_dc@lemmy.world avatar

Hollow Knight

I love it so much that I can’t finish it, I always stop when I’m about to fight the final boss. I just don’t want it to end.

Maybe when Silksong came out I finish it once and for all.

Deconceptualist, (edited )

Hollow Knight isn’t exactly over when you finish the story. There are more fights, especially Godhome. If you can beat all that you’re an incredible player.

You probably know this but just wanted to make sure you’re not unintentionally missing out.

Zahille7, do games w Oblivion Remastered Impressions (and Discussion Thread)

Well, this is a discussion thread, and I found some shit I need to discuss, although not with the game itself directly, but with “fans” and other G*mers:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/7a053e56-68e1-4da5-8936-e50f85fe7aac.jpeg

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/62eea6e7-3d2f-4adc-a33d-f7b12980ecd2.jpeg

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/9a4e6efa-d5bc-403b-82f1-08ba29271be6.jpeg

This chucklefuck is actually getting some attention and people agree with them. The human race is fucked if the average person thinks like this on a daily basis. I’m not sure what’s worse; the out in the open bigotr, or the fact that they’re apparently okay with the current administration turning the government a completely fascist regime, or let alone they think this administration is “too soft” on perceived entertainment slights.

Like why does reality have to be so shit?

dataprolet,
@dataprolet@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

The world is steadily running into an authoritarian, economical and climate catastrophe and bro is afraid of “woke videogames”, lmao.

Zahille7, (edited )

G*mers are so far gone I’m not sure we can save them at this point.

Edit: dude literally believes people are gonna hack into your PC and uninstall certain mods or games if it doesn’t fit with a certain worldview in a couple years. If anything, the only evidence I’ve seen for people to totally censor shit like video games (and other media) is nazis Republicans.

Asafum,

One is specifically tied to the other. These people are being manipulated into being right wing pro-authoritarian voters because of “woke” blah blah blah. It’s always their boogie man because it has been made part of their identity, it’s part of the victim complex they have and they feel like “free speech warriors” when they fight against it… It’s fucking disgusting.

icecreamtaco,
@icecreamtaco@lemmy.world avatar

This drama doesn’t deserve to be the top post here. Let those morons have their miserable lives while the rest of the world enjoys a fun video game

v4ld1z,

wtf

SplashJackson,

I don’t get it. Is Bethesda preventing people from making sexy body replacer mods for Newblivion? People have been making those since Morrowind. Is that what this guy is on about?

Zahille7,

Everyone gains collective amnesia about all the good times they had playing/modding Bethesda games whenever they’re in the news cycle for some reason. It’s kind of fascinating/frustrating.

Add in the fact that a lot of these people have regressed over the past 10 or so years to the point where they think like 12-13 year olds again, and we get this whole “anti-woke gamer” bullshit.

To be completely fair though, I had to go out of my way to find people shitting on the game for even being “woke” in the first place. I saw the type 1/type 2 body type when I was making my character, but I just figured it was a natural progression since every other game with a character creator in the last 5 years has done away with gendered body types, and Oblivion is such a classic that it might have been overlooked; sadly not. In my head though (also because duh, it’s obvious if you use your eyes) I ascribe each to male or female, and it took me like a second to get through that entire thought process.

Jakeroxs,
Honytawk,

Mods like “replace all black people” get banned from Nexus for obvious reasons.

SplashJackson,

I don’t think people were ever making mods like that. If they were, fuck 'em.

Zahille7,

You’d be surprised. There are/were mods for Marvel’s Spider-Man to replace the Pride flags flying around NYC to American flags. I’m almost positive there were some fucked up ones for the Miles Morales game too.

whodrankarnoldpalmer,

Because nobody’s punching bigots in the teeth at every opportunity.

danciestlobster,

Ok but I did lol at pulling of a complete submersion. Also, it’s a little funny that they seem to know at some level that this ideology will piss off their wives/gf (as they wrote), but still advocate doing it. I guess all their wives and gfs must be woke? Or maybe women are too woke and therefore they never had wives and gfs to begin with?

The sentiment here is obviously terrible but at least there can be a laugh at how stupid it is. I mean…its so full of typos how could you ever think this person is trustworthy

False,

That sounds like paranoid schizophrenia

Hadriscus,

All this text and I still don’t know what he’s complaining about

Tattorack,
@Tattorack@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah, I’m very confused. Maybe his favourite mod got banned or something?

Zahille7,

Maybe it was something like a word-swap mod to change “type 1/type 2” to “male/female” that got banned?

No clue. /s

ETA: which, I saw a couple posts in the steam discussions “celebrating” that Nexus put that mod back up. Like how fucking childish do you have to be to actually go out of your way to make a post like that? Saying shit like “I bet all the people who complained about it in the first place are CRYING right now!” It’s literally changing some words in a menu of a fucking video game

Tattorack,
@Tattorack@lemmy.world avatar

People like that are incredibly shallow. I’m probably going to get shit for this, but it also exists on both sides.

Example; Kingdom Come Deliverence 2:

Before the game’s launch it was getting pasted by certain people for “repeating the same mistakes as the first one” in regards to diversity.

Then it turned out the game has one gay romance option, and I think one briefly encountered North African merchant. Now it’s getting pasted by other types of people for being “woke.”

Goes to show that such loud-mouths get greatly effected by the smallest kinds of tokenism. So if course just changing the text in a menu is going to be such a big deal!

Kolanaki, do gaming w Tetris
@Kolanaki@pawb.social avatar

It does have an ending tho. And until recently, when a 13 year old kid managed to do it, the end of the game was only achieved by machines/AI. Tho, to be fair, the ending is basically just going so far that the game stops working.

embed_me, (edited )
@embed_me@programming.dev avatar

Truly, reaching singularity is the end goal

Kolanaki,
@Kolanaki@pawb.social avatar

Tetris as a commentary on transhumanism.

SpaceCowboy,
@SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca avatar

the ending is basically just going so far that the game stops working.

Seems even more appropriate for a game from the Soviet Union.

m0darn,

Isn’t it a lot more like a capitalist treadmill? Work hard to make number go up! It is in fact beatable in the sense that the number can’t actually go up forever, eventually the system crashes.

ZhprbE,

This description of capitalism perfectly reflects soviet communism as well, tho

marsNemophilist,

you do realise that are hundreds of Tetris games where you can play endlessly?!?

kuberoot, (edited )

Virtually endlessly. What they’re talking about is, AFAIK, the actual original (not actually original, but NES) Tetris. It was meant to be infinite, but at some point the numbers get too big to store, and the programming starts breaking down. Some games might be able to keep going indefinitely, just resetting/looping some numbers, and in modern games it might take years, centuries, or even universal lifetimes to reach that point, but almost all “infinite” games will break down at some point.

ActionBasto,

they’re talking about the nintendo entertainment version of tetris, which is the most popular competitive version of tetris.

marsNemophilist,

i wouldn’t call it the most popular.

ActionBasto,

it’s the one that they play at the largest tournaments, and the tetris game with the most sought after world records, so i’m using that as my indicator. what would you say is the most popular version for competative play?

marsNemophilist,

Nes Tetris is practically unplayable for today’s gamers. While it draws massive nostalgia-driven tournaments targeting the US audience, games like TGM, TETR.IO, and PPT are far more popular globally.

ActionBasto,

yes, that’s why i specified competitive tetris.

YiddishMcSquidish,

When watching any big competition, it’s the one they use. While arcade variants like Grand Master have their own cult following, they are clearly in the minority.

marsNemophilist,

original Tetris was made on Electronika 60, very few people played that version.

kuberoot,

That’s cool, I didn’t realize that - according to Wikipedia, it was “adapted to the IBM PC” and spread throughout Moscow and then to eastern Europe, so I wonder how many people actually played that. I guess the NES version was the first commercial one

Zizzy, do gaming w Art imitates life

90% of 40 player raids are absolute nightmares. This is not right.

corvi,

But imagine if you grew up with and struggled alongside those 40 plays for your whole life.

teft,
@teft@lemmy.world avatar

Agreed. The sweet spot was ten man raids. You know everyone is pulling their weight. With 40 half the raid was slacking since those bosses didn’t need a lot of coordination.

Soulg,

I think the 20man mythic is the perfect place when you add in game balance considerations.

DarkDarkHouse,
@DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

15 player original UBRS was where it was at

Zizzy,

I agree, 10 was the most fun I ever had raiding in WoW by a long shot for a multitude of reasons.

lightnsfw,

That’s the maximum, not the amount that usually works. My car can go 120mph in the right conditions. Doesn’t mean it’s a good idea.

Zizzy,

Fair, but I think the analogy is closer to saying like “a car can go 120mph.” But also my reply was a bit tongue-in-cheek as evidenced by the fact that I pulled the 90% number out of nothing more than my anecdotal feeling.

But if we are going to take this post seriously, I find it highly suspect as WoW never even had any serious content where more than 40 players are acting simultaneously. And if the limit is 50, they would have had to have data even higher than that. Im not sure how they could collect such data when you would only have 40 players you put in a raid. Maybe for things where multiple raids try to work together? But then youre putting two groups that dont normally play together and comparing them to one that has been hand selected to be cohesive. Doesnt really make sense.

Flames5123,

FFXIV added 24 player hard raids called “chaotic raids” that’s absolutely a nightmare. They have a few 48 player raids that are more midcore content that works well, but 24 is super common and works well for other casual content. But most midcore/hardcore raids are 8 player, and that feels like a good spot.

Zizzy,

Yeah I did the 8man raids, loved them. Kind of miss doing them

Flames5123,

7.2 comes out in a week. New 8 player raids are dropping and people will be doing them and the savage versions for the next 3-4 months! Come on back!

scops, do gaming w I'm doing my part (unfortunately)

Here is the source article. It’s light on methodology. Are they going off of price of the game at launch? I maybe pay full price for a game once or twice per year. 50-70% of my unplayed games are probably from Humble Bundle/Humble Choice.

ech, (edited )

Probably the same price used by SteamDB to calculate library value, which seems to be some version of “current price” or “most recent non-sale price”.

atlas,

every time this gets brought up, it rarely mentions humble bundle even though it’s probably a major contributing factor.

how many of us have bought bundles for 1 or 2 games we were interested in and ended up with 10 more that you never even had an intention of booting up in the first place?

Venator,

In addition to that there’s also a few games in my library that I intend to play later but bought it while it’s on sale as it might be more expensive when I have time to play it later…

AHorseWithNoNeigh, do games w What's the greatest joy you have gotten from a video game?
@AHorseWithNoNeigh@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

I’ve probably played an uncomfortable amount of FF7 to most. During covid, I recently became single so I decided to find some like-minded discord communities to pass that time. I met someone who was streaming FF7. I hopped into the stream and kicked it off with explaining how to get a golden chocobo to reach the final red materia. We’re married now and have a dog :D

JudahBenHur,

thats fun

starman2112, (edited ) do games w What are your favorite "gotta go in blind" games?
@starman2112@sh.itjust.works avatar

You should go into Nier: Automata thinking it’s a game about a hot chick fighting a bunch of robots. The only spoiler you should know is that the end isn’t the end, and you need to play it again.

You should go into Spec Ops: the Line thinking it’s a game about a cool special forces team fighting a bunch of terrorists or something. The only spoiler you should know is that it’s supposed to feel like a generic third person shooter.

SaharaMaleikuhm,

Haha I stopped playing Nier Automata after finishing it once. Yeah, yeah I heard it’s not the end, but the gameplay really isn’t good enough to go through it again. Right now I’d give it a 7/10, but if you force me to do it all again I am going down to 3/10. I think it feels incredibly cheap to do this gimmick.

iheartneopets,

For you, a little extra spoiler: the next ending also isn’t the end, there’s a lot more. I will admit that playing the second run is a big grindy at first, but it quickly differentiates itself from your first run by the time you get to the first boss. Also, in the second run, the side quests are crucial.

An extra-extra spoiler: there’s a lot to dig your teeth into, philosophically, that makes the whole rigmarole worth it.

starman2112,
@starman2112@sh.itjust.works avatar

An extra-extra spoiler: there’s a lot to dig your teeth into, philosophically, that makes the whole rigmarole worth it.

That’s a strong point for me, and the main reason I liked it as much as I did. Same reason I loved The Talos Principle, despite having to look up guides for the majority of the puzzles.

iheartneopets,

Ooh, yeah, Talos Principle! Perfect rec for someone who loved Nier and Portal. I haven’t played the sequel yet, but really really enjoyed the first game. I agree about some of the puzzles, though.

2ugly2live,
@2ugly2live@lemmy.world avatar

I love Nier! I’m thought the second play through would be a slog, but they kept it really interesting imo. And starting it up for a third time was wild. Even starting that game is part of the game mechanic, it’s so neat!

PM_Your_Nudes_Please,

I would have to disagree about the second playthrough; I found it to be a very large slog. The third and subsequent playthroughs were amazing though.

2ugly2live,
@2ugly2live@lemmy.world avatar

To each their own! I enjoyed playing as

spoiler9S

But I’m glad you like the other playthroughs!

PM_Your_Nudes_Please,

Oh I enjoyed the gameplay. But the actual story of the second play through was a slog until about 75% of the way through.

msage,

I bought it expecting like a Devil May Cry or maybe Souls… then the game started and I noped the hell out. It’s weird and I did not like it at all.

starman2112,
@starman2112@sh.itjust.works avatar

If I remember right, the first couple minutes is like a top-down shoot-em-up, but it transitions into that Devil May Cry style pretty quickly

msage,

Not really, the out-of-combat movement was almost strictly 2D? And the first real fight did not teach me the controls in any way, I had no idea what was going on.

PM_Your_Nudes_Please,

It’s a game that relies on shifting the gameplay mechanics based on where you are and what you’re doing. There are certainly 2.5D and top-down sections, but it’s a small part of the game overall.

7U5K3N, do games w What are some video game quotes that is stuck in your head?

hey listen

Hilariously I never played the game… It’s my buddies tone for text messages. Lol

IlIllIIIllIlIlIIlI,

After 30 seconds I started to hear “hey, lizard”.

missingno, do games w Are any games using neural networks for better hard AI that doesn't cheat?
@missingno@fedia.io avatar

Chess.

For most games, it's not difficult to make AI that can absolutely destroy humans. But it turns out to be very difficult to make AI that feels like a fun and engaging challenge to a human. Hardest of all is making AI that realistically plays like a human does.

MalReynolds,
@MalReynolds@slrpnk.net avatar

Hardest of all is making AI that realistically plays like a human does.

However it is being worked on and coming along, you can play one here

Artyom,

Chess has been using neural networks for their AIs way before it was cool. Different AI skills are usually just trained to different depths.

jordanlund, do games w Starfield's first DLC is one of the worst Bethesda DLCs of all time
@jordanlund@lemmy.world avatar

(cough) Horse Armor (cough)

knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/horse-armor

NuXCOM_90Percent,

Yeah…

Basically every Oblivion DLC that was not Shivering Isles (and MAYBE Heroes of The Nine or whatever) was god awful. And Fallout 3 (aside from the last two hours of the story DLC) was only really tolerated because it was mostly sold as a season pass. Operation Anchorage was a cool novelty that made stealth trivial and the rest… existed.

pancakes,
@pancakes@sh.itjust.works avatar

I would argue that all the fo3 and oblivion DLC were decent. Some obviously better than others, but they weren’t just soulless cash grabs. They had effort go into them, and were fairly new into the DLC space so some trial and error is to be expected. They had a pretty good amount of content for the price relative to the base game, compared to the starfield DLC/ current AAA norms.

NuXCOM_90Percent,

According to UESP, Oblivion had

  • Orrery: A few spells and a player house with a fetch quest attached
  • Wizard’s Tower: a mage player house with a few spells and a fetch quest
  • Thieves Den: A few spells and items and a very small dungeon
  • Mehrunes’ Razor: Decent sized dungeon to get a dagger
  • Vile Lair: A few spells, a player house, and a fetch quest
  • Spell Tomes: Literally just spells
  • Fighter’s Stronghold: A short dungeon and, you got it, another player house

Then we have Knights of the Nine (really mediocre) and Shivering Isle (arguably the best DLC Bethesda ever made)

Oh. And…

MOTHA FUGGING HORSE ARMOR!!!

People tend to be more favorable to Fallout 3’s DLC than I am (most are incredibly tiny dungeons but with a new tileset). I suspect in large part because Operation Anchorage channeled how amazing storming the memorial was in the base game and… I genuinely don’t know why people are so obsessed with flipping The Pitt. And Broken Steel itself was one of the worse examples of “We’ll finish the game later” of the era… and I played ALL the Blizzard games.

pancakes,
@pancakes@sh.itjust.works avatar

To me, it wasn’t so much about each DLC making a huge impact or the story being amazing. It was more about already playing the game to death and then gaining access to more content to explore. Kind of like eating a delicious cake, still being hungry, and then finding another slice of that cake that was sitting out all day.

yamanii,
@yamanii@lemmy.world avatar

Then the Starfield DLC is just like that, it’s just more of a bad cake.

NuXCOM_90Percent,

Exactly. It is the same logic as “This game is great if you play it with friends”.

Different people have different tastes. EYE Divine Cybermancy is still one of my favorite games of all time.

But also? Guess what game I will point out is objectively bad and has massive amounts of jank and UX issues?

yamanii,
@yamanii@lemmy.world avatar

Very creative game though, but player hostile lol.

samus12345,
@samus12345@lemmy.world avatar

Which was exclusive to…Microsoft! Full circle.

Glytch,

This was exactly my first thought. Not surprised that the pioneers of shitty dlc made shitty dlc.

Zeusz13, do games w What are some game series you would like to see revived? And if possible, which entry should the new game follow from?

Titanfall. Proper Titanfall.

bitfucker,

This. Titanfall 2 has ruined my taste in FPS forever. Nothing ever comes close for me

faercol,
@faercol@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

And there were some really great levels in the campaign, that was a fun game

Miphera,

Yes please. I personally preferred the slower PvP of the first game, but the campaign we got in Titanfall 2 was incredible. Really with they would revisit that franchise.

misericordiae, do games w Help Finding a Game

Did a quick search, looks like ExeKiller, which isn’t out yet. Hope you find something good to play in the meantime!

diviledabit,

Right or wrong your searchfu has hit something perfectly matching his description.

Nima,
@Nima@leminal.space avatar

whoaaa. that looks amazing. I added it to my wishlist. I dont know if that was what op was looking for but I’m certainly glad you linked it!

naticus,

And here I am blown away by the screenshots and want to wishlist it, only to see I already had it on my wishlist and remember NOTHING about seeing this previously.

ItalianSkeletonGaming, (edited )
@ItalianSkeletonGaming@mastodon.social avatar

@naticus @Nima It's one of those cases of a game shown so far away from its release you eventually forget it even exists

Fuckfuckmyfuckingass,
@Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world avatar

Yup that’s the one! Thanks.

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