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misk, 7 godzin temu (edited 5 godzin temu)

Here I am at 2 months of attempting Shadow of the Erdtree final boss. I do it once or twice per week now, got incredibly close dozens of times (past meteor). Refusing to switch my weird ass incantations based build. Bayle was a complete pushover compared to this guy.

misk, 19 godzin temu

In my head this is a retribution for financing hackers that attacked Internet Archive and nobody can convince me otherwise

misk, 18 godzin temu (edited 16 godzin temu)

It’s like Lenin said, you look for the person who will benefit… And, uh… You know, you’ll, uh… You know what I mean.

The Dude

„Who benefits the most” from attacking Internet Archive? Big copyright holders whose content was distributed via Internet Archive. The reason given by the group claiming responsibility is so silly I don’t believe it.

[edit] I’ll add to this comment so that I don’t have to reply to everyone specifically.

I don’t believe that if you wanted to attack USA (as people claiming responsibility did) you’d attack it in a way that benefits big corporations most. It sounds like a flimsy distraction from true perpetrators.

misk, 18 godzin temu

What was wild about this assumption?

misk, 18 godzin temu

There’s motive and circumstances. Nintendo opened every possible front in the last year or so. Now this happens. Even if not related to IA specifically this definitely looks like retribution.

Also, please read my first comment again. I think I made it clear it’s speculation.

misk, 18 godzin temu

What’s that source? You mean anonymous group claiming responsibility being reported in media?

misk, 17 godzin temu

Agreed. Sense of humour is.

misk, 14 godzin temu

This is a very valid point, yet companies do shady stuff all the time and some even get caught via subpoenas and such. Nintendo can do it in a way that will never be noticeable on their books for sure.

misk, 7 dni temu

They say it runs better but isn’t that because it hovers around 35 fps on PS4 and is locked to 30 on PS5 (as it should have been on PS4)? Some of comparisons are in the yikes territory though.

misk, 25 dni temu

How do you stand image scaling on 3DS? It’s either poststamp sized or horribly mangled by non-integer scaling on a very low res display. It’s the reason I keep DSi along NN3DS.

misk, 2 miesiące temu

How are the decisions taken by the highier-ups related to workers unionizing?

misk, 2 miesiące temu

Also explains why Steam is still a 32-bit binary and didn’t get ARM port on any platform.

I think the point is that with this kind of upkeep costs it’s hard to argue that Steam sales cut is fair, especially given near-monopoly in PC gaming space.

misk, 2 miesiące temu

Their cut is mathematically fair but the inputs for this formula are mostly pain tolerance levels of consumers and producers. I meant fair for having a monopoly. Either you’re a utility or need to be broken up so that actual competition can take place.

Steam Deck and Proton killed Linux gaming because nobody bothers to do native ports. While I don’t agree with that approach it kinda works but it’s not that Valve does this because they like Linux. They’re scared of losing their monopoly in case Windows changes too much.

There are ARM native games on Mac (Disco Elysium for example) and Steam has no issues with them. Not having ARM client though means that you’re running a dynamically recompiling web browser through a translation layer resulting in terrible performance.

misk, 2 miesiące temu

I’ve been reading Ars Technica for over 20 years now but that’s because I like their points, not because I write for them xd

misk, 2 miesiące temu

Pain tolerance to prices, how good the support is, how snappy the app is etc. Within the space of game marketplaces they’re average and that’s because every one of them kind of sucks. If Epic was first to monopolize PC game marketplaces people would be defending them like they defend Valve now because they want all of their games in one place.

Linux gaming was stable before Proton. It was never big but mainstream titles were getting released. These days there’s nothing. Titles could be broken at any moment by a developer and nobody will have any responsibility to fix it. I very much doubt that a for profit company does anything because they “like” something like Linux. They’re there to make money, period.

I’m not saying Valve should port their games to ARM or update them, it’s up to them and they don’t seem to be interested in developing games all that much these days. My point wad that plenty of games run via Rosetta2 fine. Steam doesn’t run fine because essentially it’s a web browser and that’s where you can say that 80 developers might not be enough to support this money printing machine.

misk, 2 miesiące temu

The cut would be less if competition was possible. I will bet my arm, first child and souls on this.

misk, 2 miesiące temu

Yeah, I gathered as much while trying to figure out who that is :)

misk, 2 miesiące temu

You don’t seem to understand what a monopoly is. Having some small competition that’s not ever going to threaten you because you can leverage your dominant position is also a case of a monopoly.

Epic poured billions of Fortnite money with little to show for it. How is anyone going to compete with a platform that most gamers have all of their games on? This is why they need to be broken up or brought to order via regulations. Companies are not your friends.

misk, 2 miesiące temu

Yes, developers are also victims of this monopoly. It’s obviously better (“worth it”) to pay 30% for visibility on the biggest marketplace.

misk, 2 miesiące temu

Leveraging dominant position to keep your monopoly is illegal even in the US.

misk, 2 miesiące temu

Those things are up to developers / publishers, not the marketplace.

misk, 2 miesiące temu

EGS would have all this in that hypothetical scenario, why wouldn’t it?

misk, 2 miesiące temu

Those free games weren’t actually free, Epic paid for them, you know.

misk, 2 miesiące temu

If EGS mandated those things it would be as successful as GOG. Which is irrelevant compared to Steam. Steam didn’t become successful because of tags. It’s because they were first.

misk, 2 miesiące temu

Boutique shop successful, therefore Amazon is not a monopoly.

misk, 2 miesiące temu

Yes, it’s a nice cage.

misk, 2 miesiące temu

I’m accelerating late stage capitalism by being critical of monopolies? What???

misk, 2 miesiące temu

At some point you’re so entrenched in the market you don’t have to do anything anymore. I was quite surprised that Valve somehow evaded EU Digital Markets Act gatekeeper criteria.

misk, 2 miesiące temu

There you go: www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpwwyj6v24xo

misk, 2 miesiące temu

I give up. Are you an American or something?

misk, 3 miesiące temu

Weird response to plastic chipping issue on every Analogue Pocket after first batches.

misk, 3 miesiące temu

Eh, this doesn’t top gold Analogue Nt they sold for $5k. It’s Analogue being a bunch of goofs.

misk, 4 miesiące temu

Dobre wieści, ale czy są jakieś prognozy co do koalicjanta? Czy BJP będzie musiało dogadywać się z lokalnym Braunem czy Gowinem?

misk, 4 miesiące temu

Every piece of hardware in a given budget is ultimately a product of compromise. 3D capabilities of N64 are way beyond what PS can offer - texture filtering and Z buffer just put Playstation to shame. No CD is equally embarrassing to N64. The controller… well, it was a weird time.

misk, 4 miesiące temu (edited 4 miesiące temu)

To internet więc uprasza się nie rzucać we mnie kapciem za nie rozpoznany sarkazm [edit] w komentarzu powyżej.

Zważywszy na układy rządzących z developerami i mafiami śmieciowymi oraz ostatni klimat polityczny zawsze będę miał z tyłu głowy to, że publicznie komunikowanie motywy podpalaczy wcale nie muszą być prawdziwe.

misk, 4 miesiące temu

Ja pisałem na poważnie, ale nie jestem czy przedmówca też.

misk, 4 miesiące temu

Coś musieli zmienić, bo wszystkie instancje redlib też leżą.

https://sopuli.xyz/pictrs/image/f206a4cb-a171-4786-b744-b5336ae4073c.webp

misk, 4 miesiące temu

Najwyższa przyjemność w moim życiu to mówienie “a nie mówiłem?”, ale muszę trochę zmienić prognozę na to, że reddit nie zamieni się w wypok, a Facebook. Dokręcą śrubę z algorytmiczną prezentacją treści, monetyzacją, a za jakiś czas ludzie będą tam siedzieć dla niszowych grupek, bo te większe nie będą nadawać się do użytku.

misk, 4 miesiące temu (edited 4 miesiące temu)

Things are getting back to normal in a way. People rented games for 8/16-bit consoles from video rental stores commonly. These days it’s common for people playing on consoles to buy, play through and sell games because there are no such stores anymore.

misk, 4 miesiące temu

Brak porównania do innych pokoleń w tym samym wieku?

“Ci dzisiejsi młodzi są gorsi niż młodzi kiedyś i na pewno jestem pierwszą osobą w historii, która to zauważa”.

misk, 4 miesiące temu

Wprowadzanie takich zmian bez uprzedniego wprowadzenia exit tax? Żodyn nie przewidział, bo to celowy sabotaż.

misk, 4 miesiące temu

Powiem wam, że nie przewidziałbym tych trendów w transporcie jeszcze 5 minut temu.