thejevans

thejevans, 1 month ago

The choice to use “AI” was deliberate. That’s malicious enough.

thejevans, 1 month ago

As long as people keep buying this slop and as long as game studios don’t have strong unions, things will continue to degrade.

thejevans, 1 month ago

Why the hell aren’t UT2004 and UT3 in there as well?

thejevans, 1 month ago

I know that. I mean why are they not part of this agreement with the Internet Archive.

thejevans, 1 month ago

HOLY SHIT Onslaught was definitely WICKED SICK

thejevans, 2 months ago

I’ve been able to return some games based on news that they will be adding kernel-level anti-cheat. I’m glad Valve is doing this right.

thejevans, 3 months ago

Ryujinx did everything right and legal. Let’s see how Nintendo supporters try to justify this one.

thejevans, 3 months ago

I played through it yesterday. It was interesting, and there were fun story beats, but it was very easy. With all the accessibility features and tutorials, it’s probably a great game to get people who don’t play games interested in platforming games and maybe even some RPGs.

thejevans, 5 months ago

Like all game mechanics, it can be implemented in a clumsy way, or as part of a rewarding movement system.

I think that skeuomorphism in games is a decent accessibility feature for people just getting into games, but also video games have been a cultural staple for decades, so it’s not really that necessary that games mimic real movement anymore.

I don’t have a good crouch-jump example, but games like Quake have taken jump movement tech to a crazy level, originally intended or not.

redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=XhzK5fL1mj0

thejevans, 7 months ago

Majora’s Mask Decompiled on my Linux PC

thejevans, 8 months ago

Just played a few hours. fantastic!

thejevans, 10 months ago

I got a used Herman Miller Sayl for $175. It’s not the best chair in the world, but it’s pretty good. There may be used office furniture stores in your area. I’d start there.

thejevans, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

Yet another project that claims to be open source, but isn’t actually licensed under an open source license. This one doesn’t even have an explicit license, so it’s “all rights reserved”

Neat, though.

EDIT: I really appreciate that hackster.io didn’t perpetuate that claim in their article. More news outlets need to be better at this.

EDIT 2: The creator has added a GPL 3 license to their repository :)

thejevans, 11 months ago

When I was in high school, before smartphones, I would sit on the left side of the classroom, put my flip phone in my left hand next to my thigh, and play Tetris one handed. I’d have my pencil in my right hand to make it look like I was taking notes and would pause periodically to look up and look like I was paying attention. It got me through the vast majority of classes haha.

thejevans, 11 months ago

Keen, Cmdr.

thejevans, 11 months ago

I’m looking forward to Ara: History Untold, but I’m biased bc my buddy is developing their AI system.

thejevans, 11 months ago

I’m in. The multiplayer games that I mostly play are Civ 5/6, BG3, and Tetris Effect.

thejevans, 1 year ago

So did you: The Day Before

thejevans, 1 year ago

Constant connection to servers required to play, even if the entire game is being run locally.

thejevans, 1 year ago

Always online single-player is the dumbest thing. It’s disgusting.

thejevans, 1 year ago

Another data point: I have a Ryzen 5900x and an RTX 3080. In BG3 I average 80-90 fps with 1% lows over 60fps on a 4k screen with ultra settings and DLSS quality setting.

thejevans, 1 year ago

I have an Nvidia GPU and I use it with Linux, even with Wayland, but it’s still not quite there yet, and because all the fixes have to come from proprietary Nvidia driver changes, nobody really knows when/if everything will be fixed. AMD has been much better with support and switching to AMD for your next.card will save you a lot of headaches.

thejevans, 1 year ago

I imagine it being done similarly to Genndy Tartakovsky’s Primal. I doubt a Hollywood studio would back a feature film done in that way, but I think if it was, it could be faithful to the game, impactful, and beautiful.

thejevans, 1 year ago

I think that 404 Media is a great example of a recent independent media organization that has a great user experience and a monetization strategy that doesn’t make me feel gross. A lot of their pull is the excellent journalism and writing, and the fact that the journalists that started it are respected and have a decent following. I don’t know how feasible this type of setup would be without that head start.