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Etterra, do games w Microsoft asks many Game Pass subscribers to pay more for less

This is was inevitable. I have opposed the idea of game pass since inception, and I still do.

alyqz, do astronomy w Mystery object waits nearly an hour between radio bursts

So maybe a binary system causing the signal to only periodically wobble into earth’s path wile missing for mist of it?

Holyhandgrenade, do astronomy w NASA officially greenlights $3.35 billion mission to Saturn’s moon Titan
@Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.world avatar

One step closer to ornithopters becoming real

chocosoldier,
  1. ornithopters are already real
  2. the machine in the article image is not one.
Krudler, do games w Why there are 861 roguelike deckbuilders on Steam all of a sudden

Why is everybody saying slay the spire pioneered the genre when it’s a clone of others?

RustyEarthfire,

I don’t think it’s fair to call Slay the Spire (StS) a clone. While Card Quest introduced a lot of the key elements years earlier, StS adds enough innovation that it feels like a totally different game. Definitely would be more fair to say StS popularized a lot of the mechanics rather than invented/pioneered them though.

RememberTheApollo_, do astronomy w [Eric Berger] Seeing this eclipse is probably the highest-reward, lowest-effort thing one can do in life

I can imagine the traffic jams anywhere along the path of totality. It’s gonna be a mess. We already booked a place in the path, but it’s in the sticks and I’m not looking forward to the lengthy drive back to civilization.

electric_nan, do astronomy w The US government seems serious about developing a lunar economy

Develop the fucking US economy.

Grass, do gaming w Playtron’s wildly ambitious gaming OS aims to unite stores, lure “core casuals”

Sure… I would also say that handheld design has gone way too far in the direction that the other alt-decks would have benefitted from going for just a little bit. The result is a pure no. There is no way you can make an all purpose gaming device without real buttons. And whatever core casual means I don’t think a megagimmick input system fits that description.

NegativeLookBehind, do astronomy w The US government seems serious about developing a lunar economy
@NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world avatar

What’s the USD to MOONBUX conversion rate?

pelletbucket, do gaming w Rooster Teeth, home of Red Vs. Blue and RWBY, shutting down after 21 years

I’ve always liked them but honestly it seems like it’s about time. I can’t speak to rwby, but I feel like they’ve been winding down for a while.

empireOfLove2,
@empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Most of the old classics have been, tbh. Life moves on and corporations come for their piece of the pie.

Omegamanthethird,

It seems like podcasts are their main product now. And that should be staying for the moment. That’s what I listen to. I don’t watch their videos anymore, and I haven’t in quite a while.

bozo, do games w F-Zero courses from a dead Nintendo satellite service restored using VHS and AI

This is honestly incredible work being done for preservation. As usual, it’s being done by fans and not Nintendo. It’s a travesty that Nintendo can’t be bothered to do more than the bare minimum and put the Satellaview content on SNES NSO.

Cypher,

It is highly likely that Nintendo don’t have any copies of that content given it was done through a partner company.

Tristaniopsis, do astronomy w A sleuthing enthusiast says he found the US military’s X-37B spaceplane

If he’s an American or ally, why doesn’t he STFU?

vzq,

Because in a democracy we have a right to do research and publish our results.

Shittyretar_,

Despite the secrecy, it’s difficult to imagine the US military’s adversaries in China and Russia didn’t already know where the spaceplane was flying.

From the article.

OsrsNeedsF2P,

If he’s an American

Because many Americans realize their army terrorizes most of the world?

verity_kindle,

Our navy terrorizes most of the world. The US Army just figured out Class A uniforms. There is no reason why the Bundeswehr should outshine us in uniform design. It’s a tailoring gap we must overcome before we can conquer ze world. So you have nothing to worry about, except coming up with better comments.

danl,

It’s not a secret, just hard for amateurs to do. No doubt states with space monitoring equipment always knew. He just did it with a camera in his backyard and his laptop.

Also, he’s Finnish.

Amateur observations of the spaceplane indicate it is flying in a highly elliptical orbit ranging between 201 and 24,133 miles in altitude (323 and 38,838 kilometers). The orbit is inclined 59.1 degrees to the equator.

This is not far off the predictions from the hobbyist tracking community before the launch in December. At that time, enthusiasts used information about the Falcon Heavy’s launch trajectory and drop zones for the rocket’s core booster and upper stage to estimate the orbit it would reach with the X-37B spaceplane.

Tristaniopsis,

Ok fair enough.

ijeff, do gaming w CEO Bobby Kotick will leave Activision Blizzard on January 1, 2024
@ijeff@lemdro.id avatar

Great news! I’m normally not a fan of mergers but hope Microsoft will do a better job with the Blizzard IP.

thepixelfox,
@thepixelfox@kbin.social avatar

Considering Microsoft own Bethesda and they pulled the whole 'xbox and pc exclusive' bullshit. It seems like Microsoft are trying to create a monopoly of gaming companies so they can compete with and try pull people away from Sony. They hate that Sony continues to beat them in console sales.

So my concern is they're going to stop selling things on Sony, such as overwatch, diablo etc. They only promised call of duty for 10 years. I didn't read any other games with this promise in the merger deal. I honestly think it should have been blocked cause they are trying to monopolise the gaming industry and basically force a switch to their game pass or console.

Yes blizz was a shit show. But Microsoft are children who don't like that people have friends other than themselves.

Gordon_Freeman,
@Gordon_Freeman@kbin.social avatar

they pulled the whole 'xbox and pc exclusive' bullshit.

Unlike Sony that keeps launching games on Xbox /s

thepixelfox,
@thepixelfox@kbin.social avatar

I was meaning more the fact that Bethesda released on playstation until Microsoft bought them. If Bethesda only ever released on Xbox I wouldn't have an issue. But my issue is Microsoft are already pulling their bullshit with another company they acquired.

Gordon_Freeman,
@Gordon_Freeman@kbin.social avatar

I was meaning more the fact that Bethesda released on playstation until Microsoft bought them.

Sony has been playing this game for a longer time, as @CoderKat said, and nobody cared

Do you know Psygnosis of WipEout fame? They developed multiplatform titles for Staturn, PC and N64, when Sony aquired them that stopped (Well, they launched WipEout on the N64 and that angered Sony but they stopped after that)

Sucker Punch (Ghost of Tsushima) first game was for the N64

Guerrilla Games (Horizon Forbidden West) started developing on the Game Boy Color, and also made games for the GBA and Xbox

And a very long list of developers now owned by Sony, most of them developed for a bunch of different platforms before Sony's acquisition

But the thing is most people think those studios were created by Sony rather than purchased

CoderKat,

The frustrating thing is they’re both being shitty for consumers. It’s terrible that they’re acquiring these previously cross platform publishers and making them exclusives, but at the same time, this is what Sony has been doing for a while (at best, they very recently have started doing PC releases but with a multi year delay, which I don’t really count as truly cross platform).

ijeff,
@ijeff@lemdro.id avatar

I’m not into consoles so as long as there’s PC support, I’m good. I wouldn’t call something exclusive if it’s on PC… As long as there isn’t a crippling anti-cheat, that means it can be played on Linux!

thepixelfox,
@thepixelfox@kbin.social avatar

But there's people who don't play on pc. That's a pretty crappy thing to say. 'i don't care about it unless it affects me.'
I console game, cause I grew up on consoles, I can't do the whole sitting in a pc chair thing. There's more than just people who play pc. And if it's on pc only, that is pc exclusive.

ijeff,
@ijeff@lemdro.id avatar

Picking up a console means locking yourself down to (and supporting) a platform designed around creating exclusives. PC games aren’t locked down and can work on a much wider range of hardware and even operating systems.

I use my PC almost exclusively from the couch with my OLED TV. Sometimes from bed with a tablet on a flexible arm via Sunshine/Moonlight.

Crotaro, do gaming w Deep Rock Galactic: Rogue Core looks like a tougher, action-minded co-op dig

I hear a rock, I yell a stone!

This is great news and I’m incredibly looking forward to the release. GSG have my trust when it comes to doing Early Access right.

Venat0r, do games w Oldest Unity game developer group breaks up over lack of trust in the company

Why don’t they change the focus of the group to another engine?

MajesticSloth,
@MajesticSloth@lemmy.world avatar

Their official statement says they are creating another group (without Unity in the name) that will cover any game engines. Which they specifically mentioned Unity, Unreal, and Godot.

MrPoopyButthole, do games w Unity makes major changes to controversial install-fee program ...😑
@MrPoopyButthole@lemmy.world avatar

“I am sorry,” Unity executive and industry veteran Marc Whitten said in the blog post.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/509732c8-e12c-47fe-ba32-715c4e72aca9.webp

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