gamermanh

gamermanh, 5 dni temu

It’s surreal reading comments pining for win7

Oh no they’ve been in a coma since 2012!

I jest, but seriously I was in HS personally while whinging about 8 and wanting 7 back after my laptop auto updated on me like a jackass. Its actually the event that lead to me learning IT!

gamermanh, 5 dni temu

For games that could run on Win7 and 8? Not really

gamermanh, 5 dni temu

Or machine virtualization, VirtualBox and similar programs are piss easy to learn to use and most machines today should have 0 issue emulating older windows and an old game in a VM

Any issues you might have are going to be hardware related, like really old games not playing nice on no original hardware, but if you’ve got one of those then just install the last version of the OS and isolate that original hardware machine from any networking and it’s completely safe to use as a game console

gamermanh, 5 dni temu

Its hard because stop using adobe as graphic designe

Premiere Pro, Photoshop, and After Effects all worked when I tried them on Linux Mint 22 to see if they worked

Older versions from before the CC updates for those programs that you can use them for also work and work quite well, though I do understand that there are literally missing features for professional work in some of those older versions

A real Linux alternative (or proper fucking Support but fuck adobe) would be GREAT, but the change likely won’t be as bad as you might be worrying

So far the hardest thing I’ve had to install was called YAD, and that was so I could install Morrowind mods specifically, a rather niche need all things considered, and I’ve made multiple audiovisual projects on my Linux workstation without having to do anything like that

I do keep a Win10 LTSC on a side boot drive for games with anticheat and any programs I might need there but so far that’s literally only been handbrake, which I’m sure there’s a Linux version/alternative for but I just haven’t had to use it on that OS yet due to work flow

gamermanh, 5 dni temu

Not them but 9 months into Mint and I’ve had 0 issues with any games or programs that don’t just not work on Linux (fucking anticheat)

Simple, supported, Community that isn’t entirely filled with elitists telling you to use the CLI, good comfortable starting spot

gamermanh, 6 dni temu

it was never supposed to be a ground braking game just a way to monotize their testing while giving the hungry fans something to play with while they wait.

Can’t re-write history just to cope, buddy

would you reather a buggy unplayable mess now or a fully flashed out game a year or two later

Right now we don’t get either so that’s a weird 2 options to pick

gamermanh, 13 dni temu

I know Terraflops are real and what they measure

I still refuse to believe they’re not a fake term used to fluff up tech announcements and make shit sound more powerful than it is because that’s a fucking stupid name that nobody should use

gamermanh, 16 dni temu

Nah, that’s not the insane rush, that’s actually a really chill first mission to help you get into the swing of them

The opening where you run down a big hill and then a cutscene where a bunch of shadow creatures attack and kill some guys really horribly and then a big explosion goes off and kills your character but the baby in his throat stops sucking it’s thumb so he can be reborn

“Get the presidents body the fuck out of here” makes perfect sense and looks tame as shit after THAT

gamermanh, 16 dni temu

Oh it’s for sure a trip, I fucking loved MGS but I have yet to actually finish DS, despite reading up on the lore and loving that I figured out some of the big twists before episode 3 by sheer Kojima pattern recognition

Its a dense game that’s surprisingly taxing on your brain as you move around, then it slaps you with deeply metaphorical bullshit while your burnt out to confuse you extra

gamermanh, 23 dni temu

But how feasible is it to have a recording of every single time any high school brit lit class put on Shakespear?

significantly less so than video games, which are digital files that are at least for a while all stored on a companies servers

But, again, is a copy of the state of WoW on October 25th 2024 all that important when you consider that what really matter are the players

You wouldn’t be copying a specific date, you’d be copying a game version. Opinions on how granular it should go vary, but in a game like FFXIV for example I’d say every major number patch. I’d quote like to go back and remember how things looked, felt, and we’re back then even without the players, which are the least important part of preserving that game world to me

Which gets back to the argument of preserving the games themselves (which I think has a lot of merit) versus preserving the culture around them. And people tend to conflate the two because they think “we are preserving culture” gives them a stronger argument.

Ah, I think I get what’s happening here: video games are culture. Youre misinterpreting it as meaning “the culture around games” but we mean it literally as “a work of art/part of culture”, like “high culture art” or similar phrases. People preserve paintings, why not games? Both are culture

Because they are very different problems. And conflating the two is how you end up losing masters because “there are VHSes with it on it”.

You’re the only person conflating them

gamermanh, 30 dni temu

It annoyingly needs a more complex HOTAS to properly play than most cheap entry-level ones have, while also not having ENOUGH complex need to justify me pulling my godamn keyboard over for

Literally the main reason I don’t play it even though slapping my quest 2 on and space VR flying is fucking fun

gamermanh, miesiąc temu

Battlebit: Remastered before the devs bailed on it, too

gamermanh, miesiąc temu

Relying on favorable interpretations of “reasonably functional” is just begging lobbyists and lawyers to ruin it for everyone.

As is explained by Ross in the very video good over this initiative:

If it’s successful in getting the votes then the EU will base what they do off of expert opinion and consultation. You’re going in with the assumption that it’ll work exactly as it does in the US it seems, which is silly as shit to do

gamermanh, miesiąc temu

Sometimes I wonder whether Starfield truly deserves all the bad publicity

Having played it on games pass, which I was mostly paying for for other games I was enjoying at the time:

It’s quite literally the worst Bethesda game I’ve ever played. And yes, I’ve played Battlespire.

Honestly even the harsh reviews tend to go nicer on it than it deserves, imo

gamermanh, miesiąc temu

My guess is that this game pivoted during development

Nah, the game matches pretty well with what Lyin’ Todd said he wanted to make almost 20 years ago

It’s also very clearly their usual design decisions but in a new setting

If anything the issue is that they stayed stuck in EXACTLY their usual development methods: no design document because Emil doesn’t like them, their writers make their quests too, and use an engine that’s absolutely not meant for the kind of game they’re making ON TOP of being ancient and garbage

gamermanh, miesiąc temu

If you take any major gaming publications scores as at all legitimate then I have a bridge to sell you

Major publications give it a passable score because “lol glitches are Bethesdas thing”, ignoring objective critique because of reputation, as well as our of fear that they won’t be given access to the next product released by the or Microsoft because they give games “bad publicity”

Starfield is a broken, poorly written, dumpster fire of a game. It objectively doesn’t function correctly often, like many Bethesda products, and was designed by a team lead by a man allergic to basic game design ethos (seriously fuck Emil, my dog could do game design better than me "fuck design docs). It has moments of being interesting and, much like Skyrim, could be the base for some cool mods, but people hated it so much it won’t ever even get that

gamermanh, miesiąc temu

Gameplay: watered-dowm DMC + watered-down FFXIV. You’ll be spamming a base combo and using “rotations” as they pop. It can be a little more.complicated than that but even normal raid tiers in FFXIV require more thought than any fight in FFXVI

Story: couldn’t tell ya, gameplay was so shit I sincerely regretted buying the game physically, as I was too lazy to return to the store to return it in time

gamermanh, 2 miesiące temu

Because it would apply to games people do want

gamermanh, 2 miesiące temu

Off the top of my head not really, but I just woke up

But there’s this magic way to learn about stuff called “looking it up” you can try! I recommend the people the post is talking about, you’re obviously really poorly informed on the topic

gamermanh, 2 miesiące temu

This is so important to you that the government must be petitioned to act but you don’t have a single example?

Yup, that’s exactly what I said, nailed it!

Did you purchase Concord?

No, irrelevant anyway

Have you ever purchased a game that no longer works?

Yes. Multiple, even!

Why do you think you have the right to tell the devs what they should be doing if you didn’t buy their game?

Because nobody should have the ability to take a paid-for product and make it no longer work after the fact. That flat-out _shouldn’t be an options for anyone

You should really inform yourself on this topic, it’s super clear you’ve got no idea what youre on about

gamermanh, 2 miesiące temu

glances nervously at my cheated-in 200+ in BL2

gamermanh, 2 miesiące temu

I emulate GBA games on my beast of a gaming PC if I’m home because that’s the most comfy setup

If I leave, I used to use my hacked PSP and manually synch the files, then it was my hacked Vita and a program that synched them automatically, and now I use retroafch and my steam deck so my files are synched automatically without even having to think about it

Everyone I know who’s just playing emulators is doing so on their phones these days anyway

gamermanh, 3 miesiące temu

Multiplayer was fixed like a year ago, I had 5 great matches last night with maybe a bit of lag on some guys, but that’s normal for vidja gamez

gamermanh, 3 miesiące temu

Old ratchet and clank games were 60fps on the PS2, pretty sure many PS1 games as well

Can’t be assed to think back further than that

gamermanh, 4 miesiące temu

Even worse if what I’ve read is true and it’s basically a flag setting for shit like EAC

gamermanh, 4 miesiące temu

I’ll second that STL will make FNV work on Mint, I’ve made many comments extolling how much better it runs that way than it ever did on windows

that being said RED ALERT:

You need a version of YAD not from the stone age (so not the distro software manager version) to install STL. The instructions for making your own YAD from the GitHub assume you’ve done it before and can understand what phrases like “do the usual” mean. It’s not hard but it took me 45 fucking minutes to find a comment 5 months ago on Reddit that said “do this exact command” and made it all go smooth. If you’re familiar with GitHub and the make command: you’re good homie.

If you have any issues with FNV you can PM me as I finished my playthrough recently and did everything you can do in modding to it, LoD and all, no issues. Ok, that’s a lie, but the issues were my fault, not the system.

gamermanh, 5 miesięcy temu

The DSs charger is plugged into the top one, blocking the lower one

It IS quite high off the floor tho

gamermanh, 5 miesięcy temu

Gonna just completely ignore that said 2s is otherwise unneeded so you can feel like you still have a point, hm?

Seeing an ad while walking does not require me to stop what I’m doing and wait for the ad. Putting an unstoppable ad in your pre-game logo does

gamermanh, 5 miesięcy temu

Discussing it provides entertainment value of some degree

Seeing a logo for 2 seconds does not

You guys cant actually be that fucking stupid, right?

gamermanh, 5 miesięcy temu

I didn’t, I insulted their intelligence by insinuating that I didn’t believe they were as intelligent as they are

gamermanh, 5 miesięcy temu

Yet you keep replying, how funny

gamermanh, 5 miesięcy temu

Don’t really care, honestly.

Still not name calling.

gamermanh, 6 miesięcy temu

Seriously? Maybe it’s just cuz I was a poor kid who had to play the same games a shit ton but I went through at least 5 different disks in my time that I can think of just from playing them too hard.

Something closer to to 50 for disks that were scratched from other shit, though that’ll include music CDs and DVDs too

gamermanh, 7 miesięcy temu

Oh no, Meta is shutting down official support for an old system?

Good thing nobodys made an alternate store front that’s piss easy to use on any of their devices and gives 0 fucks about their rules, that would make their dickheaded moves almost entirely pointless!

gamermanh, 7 miesięcy temu

Lol, of course not, you have to make an account to enable developer options to enable side loading

The stealing of our data is how they make the headset so cheap

gamermanh, 7 miesięcy temu

I’m expecting it, tbh

I have a quest 2 and it’s actually a FANTASTIC headset, but I want to rip the meta shit out

Not even because they’re a gross company (tho they are), I use a burner account with burner info and play in a gray room through a router specifically for my VR (almost completely lag free wireless this way, it works) but because I HATE that they made you have arms in an update and didn’t let us turn it off. They’re horrid

gamermanh, 7 miesięcy temu

Not in games, but in the main hub menu of the device

It tries to guess where your arms are based on controller position

It’s c r a p

gamermanh, 7 miesięcy temu

I wish they gave me a firearm

But no, it’s a garbage implementation of giving you a digital avatar that displays arms in a first person view by guessing where they must be based off of controller position.

It clearly doesn’t use the cams on the device cuz they’re bad

gamermanh, 7 miesięcy temu

That’s what happens with old devices and dealing with it is part of the cost of using them

gamermanh, 7 miesięcy temu

"oh, do you need me to just invent the fundamental technology for a massive sector of computing again? Sure, no problem, have it to ya by Friday"

• John Carmack on multiple occasions

gamermanh, 7 miesięcy temu

Lol, the famously great reading comprehension of the Internet.

1. I didn’t excuse shit
2. 5 years of updates is a pretty normal timeline for mobile devices

gamermanh, 7 miesięcy temu

Pointing out that you’re whining about something thats irrelevant isn’t excsing shit, but reading comprehension is hard for you I guess.

The initial point was that the dick move was blocking developers who wanted to and were able from sending content hosted on metas server to Quest 1 headsets. I responded with a sarcastic comment giving people a way to get around that dickheaded move by sideloading

It is not related in any way to not giving security updates anymore. That’s normal EOL shit for devices and software. If you don’t like that or don’t like how long meta offered support that’s a you issue and I did not comment on it other than pointing out that 5 years is normal update life on devices like that after you already changed the subject

gamermanh, 8 miesięcy temu

For me the barrier is ATB

Worst decision FF ever made was using that fucking atrocity from 6 to 9, can’t stand any of em that use it.

If someone could mod all those games to have Xs/bravely defaults system of being able to see and edit turn order based on moves, that’d be greeeeeat

gamermanh, 8 miesięcy temu

Weird that nobody mentioned the GTA games on PSP

Vice City Stories and Liberty City Stories are absolutely awesome GTA games somehow squeezed onto the PSP

gamermanh, 8 miesięcy temu

I listed the consoles next to the games (forgot MGS3, which is PS2 originally)

MSX is an old Japanese computer, and why I recommended emulation or the copy that comes with MGS3s remakes

PSX is the original PlayStation

If you found the GBC one hard then the very first Metal Gear on MSX will be even worse. MGS1 shouldn’t be too bad, though.