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boothin, do piracy w PSA: AI can help you decode file names

there's an entire wikipedia article for this that makes it super easy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirated_movie_release_types

Anissem, do gaming w Did you even try?
@Anissem@lemmy.ml avatar

Fucker even had a sword on him

Battle_Masker, do games w A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"?

Yoshi’s Story. Yeah it’s short, and level unlocking is weird as all outdoors, but people really hating on it for being too easy? Bro, it’s a YOSHI game. That’s a quarter of the appeal! It’s a game you can get younger kids involved in, or you can play after a hard day when you want to turn your brain off partially.

Plus almost everything in that game is adorable. And 64 bit sprite art is goated

otp,

I dunno, Yoshi’s Island can get pretty hard…

missingno,
@missingno@fedia.io avatar

Story (N64), not Island (SNES).

otp,

I was referring to where they said

Bro, it’s a YOSHI game

Going based on the expectations set by Yoshi’s Island, one wouldn’t be off to expect challenge in Yoshi’s Story, its follow-up.

whygohomie,

Its the context and expectations. The last “Yoshi” game was a mainline Super Mario World 2, and people expected similar scope and challenge but in 64 bits. Super Mario 64 had further primed people for crazy genetlrational leaps. Yoshi’s Story was a fine game, but it wasnt SMW3 by a longshot.

Zarxrax,

Exactly this. Yoshi’s Story was a follow up to Yoshi’s Island, often considered one of the greatest 2d platformers of all time. I spent weeks if not months completing Yoshi’s Island. Then when Yoshi’s Story came out, I rented it and completed it over the weekend.

criss_cross,

I loved Yoshi’s Story as a kid. Never knew there was hate for it for a long time.

Rai,

I loved it but I was sad I completed it before the rental period was up.

DaddleDew, do games w What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews.

A government that cares for is people would ban this shit and procecute any company trying to find ways around it.

paraphrand, do gaming w Newly open relationship

People always get this wrong. They were cucked by Link.

RowRowRowYourBot,

In this case “Zelda” refers to the game not the character or at least that is how I read it.

OrganicMustard,

Zelda is the doctor, not the monster

RowRowRowYourBot,

Bravo/a

rikudou, do games w STOP destroying videogames
@rikudou@lemmings.world avatar

It really looked like it’ll be signed quickly in the beginning, I was really hopeful.

Now I’m not really sure it will pass.

bjoern_tantau,
@bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de avatar

Sometimes they still look at a petition even if it didn’t reach the threshold. At least that has been the case for German petitions.

In the end they still get ignored, whether they reached the threshold or not.

rikudou,
@rikudou@lemmings.world avatar

I mean, not even 500k people in the whole of EU care about this apparently, so we get what we deserve, I guess.

ampersandrew,
@ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

That’s a bit reductive. Perhaps plenty care but don’t know to even look for this thing to sign, or are too young to know how games used to be made, or didn’t get the message about this petition in their own language. 1M signatures is an absurdly high threshold to clear; that’s one out of every 450 people in the EU.

witty_username,

I think that reframing it in the context of consumer protection for digital planned obsolescence might benefit this campaign. Ultimately, this is bigger than games and I think it could benefit from a broader appeal

sugar_in_your_tea,

Exactly.

And it’s something that only applies to a fairly small subset of people. If we look at Steam users (decent indicator of people passionate about games), Germany has the highest in the EU at 3.6M. 3.6M is ~4.3% of the German population, so if we extrapolate to the EU, that’s ~19M Steam users.

If we assume that’s an accurate measurement of people who would be interested in this petition, you’d need 1/20 of them to sign. I’m not in the EU, so I don’t know how popular these petitions are or what the requirements are (do you need to be voting age?), but if I assume a lot of people who play games are young, and that young people tend to be fairly uninterested in politics, getting 1M signatures would be incredibly difficult even if it’s something that all games agree with (and I would imagine most would care about this at some level).

So yeah, getting >400k signatures for something like this sounds like amazing success.

Aielman15,
@Aielman15@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah, under 50% of the required signatures and it’s just a few weeks from expiring, there’s no chance this will succeed unless some big-name influencer gathers support for the petition, which at this point I doubt will happen.

It made some people talk about the problem, though. That’s a step in the right direction.

lowleveldata, do games w What is the best Sea based game out there in your opinion?

Subnautica

bagelberger,

I’ve played Subnautica so much that it’s no longer a challenge, even on hardcore. I installed this mod (Deathrun Remade) to increase the difficulty and had the most fun I’ve had in a while

FancyLad,
@FancyLad@lemmy.world avatar

I’ll look into this! I also love Subnautica

surph_ninja, do games w Should we boycott games with loot boxes?

Many of us have been doing this from the beginning, but it represents a fundamental misunderstanding of how gacha games work.

Most people do not pump loads of money into these. Many don’t pay anything at all. But those people are not the target audience. These companies are going after the whales. Basically gambling addicts who will destroy their entire lives to pump everything they have into it.

Which is exactly why these games either need to be illegal, or the law needs to put caps on how much individuals are permitted to spend on these.

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA,
@HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world avatar

Don’t get me started on magic the gathering

Inaminate_Carbon_Rod,

Ohhhhhhhhhh boy

MrFinnbean, do games w 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?

Why Gates in the picture tough?

He stepped down as a chairman over 10 years ago and didint he leave the microsoft board like 5 years ago?

Krompus, (edited )
@Krompus@lemmy.world avatar
Digestive_Biscuit,
@Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk avatar

This should be the test all millionaires and billionaires have to take yearly. If they fail, they are no longer fit to own or lead a business.

LeFantome,

I always think the same. But everybody knows Bill Gates by sight. Do you think everyone instantly recognizes Satya Nadella?

CodeBlooded,
@CodeBlooded@programming.dev avatar

Who?

Peruvian_Skies,

The current CEO of Microsoft.

slaacaa, do games w From the trailer of Wolfenstein: The New Order (2014)

Throwing his heart out to Planet Earth, such a beautiful picture ❤️

Tap for spoiler/s

Klear,

o/

/s

TootSweet, do games w Are mods usually confusing as hell or am I just an idiot?

Most games were never made to be modded. The communities are hacking mods into these games, many of which were even designed to make modding harder. (Because mods compete against sequels or something? I dunno. Intellectual property is a mental illness.) It’s not terribly surprising that games that weren’t meant to be modded have confusingly inconsistent methods for loading mods. Because those mods work fundamentally differently from game to game. If a mod happens to be easy-ish to install, chances are it’s either quite a simple mod (a model/texture replacement or some such, or just something that’s not terribly hard to mod) or a lot of work has been put into making it easier.

Die4Ever,
@Die4Ever@programming.dev avatar

(Because mods compete against sequels or something?

yea sequels, expansion packs, and DLC

snugglesthefalse,

It’s more that most games aren’t made with consideration for modding, this means you can have core gameplay elements hidden in encrypted packages and modding is limited by what you can actually get access to. Sometimes the devs/publishers will actively make mods harder though. Really depends on the game, the company, how determined people are to mod it, how long the game’s been out for, the engine and probably a bunch else that I haven’t thought of right now.

kipo,

Also the timeline usually matters. Mod methods can change as game patches are released. Mods can have mod patches. Mods can be deprecated for new mods or mod methods. Mods can have other dependencies. Install order sometimes matters.

I think OP is right; mods can be messy, complicated, and a lot of work.

sirico, do games w Do you have any recommendations for casual games?
@sirico@feddit.uk avatar

Stardew Valley is the embodiment of chill

CatsGoMOW,

Seconded

dan1101,

As long as you realize you don’t have to eat and the time constraints aren’t as tough as it first seems.

bob_omb_battlefield,

As long as you have enough monitors for all the spreadsheets and wiki pages you need to consult!

IronKrill,
@IronKrill@lemmy.ca avatar

This really depends on the type of person you are. I find with the time pressure each in-game day that every time I launch it I get caught up in a mess of wiki pages and spreadsheets figuring out the ideal crops to plant and when, what gifts people like and when to gift them, etcetera etcetera. It became stressful and I stopped playing it after finishing most of the main objectives.

TGhost,
@TGhost@lemm.ee avatar

You can play it, at your rythm,
Performance isnt mandatory,

You can learn the game before going “meta”, discovering things by yourself, etc.
Do not compare yourself to others or directly going on a wiki, to start paying it…

Perfection is fun with time. Its a solo game, why you should run it for real ?

darthelmet, do games w What are your favorite "gotta go in blind" games?

Tunic.

The one thing I think is worth “spoiling” just to save you some pain:

Tap for spoilerIf you find a room with a bunch of curtains and bells, it is NOT A PUZZLE!

I also second Outer Wilds.

lime,
@lime@feddit.nu avatar

i bounced off tunic super hard. i love the puzzle aspects, the cryptic manual pages, and figuring things out, but the combat was way too brutal, even on the easier setting. the bigger white ghost enemies at the very start killed me so many times i no longer want to go back to it.

darthelmet,

Understandable. It got pretty frustrating for me too at various points. I’m kinda bad at this kind of combat in general. Most of what motivates me to push through it in games like Dark Souls or Tunic is being interested in the world. But sometimes not even that’s enough.

lime,
@lime@feddit.nu avatar

it’s especially wild in a cutesy game like tunic where it just bodies you ten minutes in. it made me feel like i had been tricked.

boringbisexual,

I didn’t have too much trouble up until the first real boss. Thankfully there was a save point pretty close by so I just threw myself at it more times than I’d like to admit.

p03locke,
@p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

The game throws big bosses at you at a time when you won’t have range weapons, and expects you to dodge these big sweeping attacks that would be more appropriate fighting with ranged weapons. And by the time you get a ranged weapon, it’s too late, and they’ve raised the stakes again for future bosses to the point that having a ranged weapon isn’t even an advantage.

I was forced to reduce the difficulty just for the bosses. All of the other enemies were mostly fine.

p03locke,
@p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Try playing Environmental Station Alpha. Super cutesy robot, absolutely unfair difficulty for a Metroidvania. Which is a shame, because there’s an interesting story and gameplay buried in that difficulty, and I love Metroidvanias.

lime,
@lime@feddit.nu avatar

man, soulslikes ruined metroidvanias.

Katana314,

I’ve gotta remember what those ghosts are.

I’ve slowly acclimated to Soulslikes since Tunic, and a common theme is that they make you think you need to be pressing more buttons, when they’re often teaching specialized bits of patience. In Tunic’s case, a lot of people expend their stamina too quickly.

Still don’t like FromSoft’s games

lime,
@lime@feddit.nu avatar

i thought that too, and tried studying their movements, but they attacked faster than i could even press the button.

Blackmist,

I switched that to easy mode at one of the mid game bosses, and I still struggled. The combat is way too tough for what it is.

p03locke,
@p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

I thought the reward for the puzzles was not good enough, either. When you play Outer Wilds, you figure things out, unlock a wonderful story, and learn tricks for other puzzles. When you play Tunic, you (eventually) figure things out and get a bad ending for a game that barely reveals anything, story-wise.

I also thought that requiring a web app or a bunch of paperwork to figure out the language was far too inconvenient for a game made in the 21st century. They borrowed the wrong lessons from Fez.

lime,
@lime@feddit.nu avatar

hey i learned to read the language in fez fluently. this is more like they took the wrong lesson from double fines Hack’n’Slash, where the glyphs are absolutely everywhere and look so much alike that the easiest way to decipher them is to replace the font.

rooster_butt,

I just finished playing tunic (good ending). A friend and I were playing it at the same time. If I didn’t have that friendly competition I would have dropped it so many times. There is way too much manual work in this game that you often times aren’t playing a video game anymore.

At the end of it all I didn’t feel a sense of accomplishment just relief that I’m done with the game. Only to find out after doing the secret puzzle is just more meta puzzles outside the game.

Outer Wilds on the other hand is fantastic and not having to use a pencil and paper to advance in the game is A+.

Lautaro, do games w What are some video game quotes that is stuck in your head?
@Lautaro@lemmy.world avatar

“Rise and shine, Mr. Freeman. Rise and… shine”.

habitualcynic,

“Wake up…and smell the ashes.”

Simulation6,

The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference.

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

I’ll have two number 9s, a number 9 large, a number 6 with extra dip, a number 7, two number 45s, one with cheese, and a large soda.

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