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whostosay, do games w Founder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts sales

I like how this prophecy was foretold a clean 1 week after this shit really went downhill. Who could’ve thunk Microsoft would be a shitty money grubbing whore?

neon_nova, do games w Day 354 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing

That last photo is really great! What a beautiful game.

I don’t think I ever noticed that the entrance was a beasts open mouth.

PerfectDark, do games w For people who want to play their favorite games but are unable to, what are you currently doing?
@PerfectDark@lemmy.world avatar

If you want to reach out to me for a chat, I’m happy to walk you through what your phone is capable of doing. Emulation is such a scene now, even low-low end phones are capable of doing so much now. You might now be getting winlator running to play PC games (which is no problem for some phones), but you can even play some basic Switch games. Or worst case if it’s very underpowered, you’ve got so many games from the golden age of RPG’s to play through

  • SNES
  • Mega Drive/Genesis
  • PS1

…and so on. I know this won’t be the “…the games I would otherwise want to play on PC…” but it is still playing incredible games. So, as always, let me know. I’m happy to help with that front!

hector, do games w Thank you, Thor! 🥳

I don’t know what happened in details but I really don’t hate him, as a member of the video game industry he has the right to make his voice heard.

I’m still glad consumers won here :)

helpmyusernamewontfi,

If you’re interested in the details: youtu.be/HIfRLujXtUo?t=1117

Atomic,

I’m not saying you should hate him. And he absolutely have the right to his own opinion. But what he did is the equivalent of reading a news title, and then go trash talk it in the comments about how awful it is, when the article wasn’t about what you were mad about, at all.

Basically this;

Title: Denmark shuts down 60% of their wind-power

Article: Denmark shuts down 60% of their wind-power, pending an investigation as 1 million birds have died in them over the past 3 months, they are currently assessing the situation and investigating why this change in bird migration route has occurred and how to prevent more deaths. According to local expert, they will use the time to perform maintenance and test various methods of scaring birds away.

PirateSoftware: Denmark are the fucking worst, they shut down tons of wind farms, they are anti renewable, they don’t want wind farms, they realized that they can get cheaper gas, if they import more, and the difference will offset the cost of running and maintaining these wind farms. Where are they getting this gas? Probably Norway, possibly even Russia dude! They can eat my ass, the entire thing. Dried shit in my ass hairs and all.

Eggyhead,

No one’s silencing him, though right? They’re just reacting to what he said, which is consequence. Is this somehow challenging his right to make his voice heard?

crmsnbleyd,
@crmsnbleyd@sopuli.xyz avatar

Lying and being rude to someone for no reason is not making your voice heard

TachyonTele, do games w The EU initiative for Stop Killing Games has reached the goal of 1 million signatures!!

That's great and all, but this needs to stop being spammed everywhere. Theres two of these posts in games alone.

Crosspost, people. That's what is there for.

Duamerthrax, do games w The UK Stop Killing Games petition has reached 100.000 signatures

Keep pushing. There are probably people using VPNs to sign the petition and those will get purged. Either from idiots who don’t know better or AAA studios trying to get people to stop now that it’s reached the goal. This is true for both the UK and EU petitions.

Tudsamfa, (edited ) do games w Patient Gamers - Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?
@Tudsamfa@lemmy.world avatar

OpenTTD. Trains go vroom.

Had it on my radar for a while, didn’t think I would like it this much. Boy was I wrong, my sleep is as badly scheduled as my trains.

qarbone, do games w My statue Peebee (Mass Effect Andromeda)

The only asari I’ll ever truly accept is Dr. Liara T’soni, my OTL.

MentalEdge, do games w Why don't Steam or Discord offer the option to hide when we're typing?
@MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz avatar

Unless they were looking, they wont have seen it. And as far as I know, just the cursor being active sends the “typing” indicator in some apps. When I see it for just a second I just assume someone hovered over the chatbox for a bit.

No-one thinks it’s weird for it to pop up for a second and then go away. Or for it to appear for a good while and still not get you a message. Sometimes I’ll write a first draft of a response right away, then leave it there for hours while I think about it some more, before finalizing it.

It would be smart if chat apps implemented a minimum, where “typing” won’t apper until you’re three words into writing a response or something.

That way it wont go off over nothing. It’s still useful, it lets you/them know whether you’re getting/giving an immediate response, so you/they know whether the conversion is continuing right away, or later.

daniskarma, do games w Microsoft's real problem was never PlayStation

Who even uses steam big picture?

In my experience it has always had an horrible experience.

Also pc gaming has always been a thing.

It’s just that consoles have been harder to justify not only because pc gaming have gotten better. But because consoles have gotten worse. It’s no longer plug and play, now you have to do the same steps of installing, downloading things, checking if your version of the console can run that game… At that point big consoles are harder and harder to justify.

Sony will go behind of they don’t do some changes. Xbox fell sooner because they had a thinner base. But sony is not out of danger.

Nintendo is probably fine as they rotated to handhelds, which are a different niche than normal pcs. And because they hold massive exclusive IPs.

atomicpoet,

I use Steam Big Picture.

Specifically, I have a desktop PC, with an RTX 3090, hooked up to my TV.

Now I don’t recommend doing it this way anymore. It’s probably better to buy something like a Legion Go, hook it up to an eGPU, while you dock it to a TV.

But probably your bigger question is, “Why do I use Steam Big Picture?”

Because I specifically want to play PC games on my TV. Half my Steam library natively supports gamepad. And of those that don’t, I can easily adapt keyboard controls to a gamepad—if community-built options have not yet been made.

Truly, Steam is what Xbox should have been.

Sylvartas,

Pretty sure Big Picture uses the exact same interface as the steam deck nowadays, which is a much better experience than the old thing. At least when I stream through Moonlight, I haven’t manually launched big picture in years.

XiberKernel,

When was the last time you used Big Picture? I have a micro ITX build hooked up to my TV running Bazzite desktop, and have Big Picture loading at boot.

It’s a console. And it’s fantastic. It also lets me mod it so I can make it look like a Wii U if I wanted.

daniskarma,

Last year. It still had a lot of lag moving around in my machine.

acosmichippo,
@acosmichippo@lemmy.world avatar

been using Big Picture for years. it’s a better experience than the ad-riddled UIs of the xbox and playstation.

Pappabosley, do gaming w I have a shelf of boxes that I just can't throw out...

But if i threw out the box, where would i keep the manual, warranty card and a few little screws or other bobbins that are always left.

Scolding7300,

I’ve got a big zip bag with manuals, and for screws and such I write a post-it note with a description/appliance name and I just tape it to the parts (tape it all together if there’s multiple

nyctre, do games w Steam Deck / Gaming News #22

Thanks again for these, fun read as always. Really sucks to hear about the health stuff. Rooting for you to get good news from the specialist!

Helluh, do games w (PC) Chill farming games (non-Anime)?
@Helluh@lemmy.world avatar

Seconding Graveyard Keeper and Traveler’s Rest.

I would also like to recommend Schedule I. It’s not exactly a farming game, but there is farming, and it has a similar chill vibe.

Farming Simulator 25 is surprisingly very fun, but the time it takes to complete work can be draining.

Palia is free, and the actual farming portion is super neat with the way crops interact with each other based on placement, though it might be too cute.

Apico is bee farming, so slightly different. The creator is making a similar game with frogs.

Staxel isn’t exactly anime but might not be your style either, I adored it, but it makes me motion sick to play.

ComfortableRaspberry,
@ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.org avatar

Oh boy, I had the same issue with Staxel and I don’t get it… why? This annoyed me way more than I expected

Dyskolos,

Might be a slightly off (unchangeable) FoV. I, too, could not play this one very long.

ComfortableRaspberry,
@ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.org avatar

This is sad. For the same reason I can’t play Half Life 2, Portal and Talos Principle >.<

Dyskolos,

But in those you CAN most definately change the FoV. Usually you need to just try out your optimal in regard to monitor-size and resolution. Staxel had no option for that as far as i remember. When you found your FoV your nausea/motion-sickness should be gone for good. At least this is the culprit in most of the cases and some devs still haven’t learned :-)

NuXCOM_90Percent, (edited ) do games w Hesitating getting a Switch 2 (1st game console in 15 years)...

I would very much not trust a 7 year old with a 450 USD device but you do you.

Honestly? If what you want is something to play “nintendo games” with the family? I would just go buy one of the pi-like devices or even go full sicko with an FPGA and then totally obviously legitimately purchase and rip every single game you want.

But in all seriousness, a small raspberry pi-like device running ES-DE (fuck the hateful transphobic shithead behind Retroarch) is probably the genuine best choice for someone who wants to play the games of their youth without thinking much. AliExpress is nowhere near as good as it used to be but Retro Game Corps has reviewed a LOT of these kinds of devices over on youtube.

And if you want the portability? You can buy two (there are plenty of gameboy-like devices in that space) and still come in way under the price of a switch 2. Which, again, seven year olds are stupid and destructive.

Yermaw,

the hateful transphobic shithead behind retroarch

Brand new concept to me, we cant have anything nice.

Glide, do games w What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes?

Bugsnax. Substantially better game than I anticipated.

chunkystyles,

I adored the details they gave the characters in that game. I accidentally

Tap for spoilergot the good ending just because I wanted to see the story of each character

It also had such nice and natural-feeling LGBTQ characters.

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