Da_Boom

Da_Boom, 4 miesiące temu

Nope, you have to obtain the decryption keys yourself - I spent hours hunting around online for a set of console keys and firmware dump to get the emulator working on my steam deck.

If you own a moddable switch you can dump the keys legally, but I don’t plan on doing that any time soon.

Da_Boom, 4 miesiące temu

If you’re into MMO and jack sparrow- The Legend of Pirates Online - a remake of an old PoTC online game is a thing

tlopo.com

Da_Boom, 4 miesiące temu

I used to play the original PoTC version

Da_Boom, 8 miesięcy temu

Or just windows store exclusives…

I’ll eat my fine leather hat before I use that dog shit store again.

Keep in mind that that’s extra special because I don’t own a fine leather hat, so I gotta buy one first.

Da_Boom, 9 miesięcy temu

Only on Microsoft sanctioned tournaments. Which I highly doubt that would happen.

Da_Boom, 9 miesięcy temu

I’m willing to bet this won’t affect the AAA companies - they almost certainly have exclusive licencing deals already.

Da_Boom, 9 miesięcy temu

If it’s good, it will generally develop a community around it anyway.

Da_Boom, 9 miesięcy temu

Except a lot of companies and investors don’t really care about long term profit anymore anyway.

Da_Boom, 9 miesięcy temu

Except this licencing change removes sustainability from all licencing models except the ones that run subscription models or advertising.

Now they say they aren’t going to impose this crap over any not for profit or for profit that’s earning revenue under 200K. But I have serious doubts that certain scenarios are going to slip through the cracks.

What it is essentially a way to bleed any viral indie game studio dry of their capital, which could force them to declare bankruptcy and sell off their assets.

I wouldn’t be surprised if this was a way to build a unity game studio.

1. Game goes viral and reaches the threshold of 200K+ revenue
2. Every install and reinstall of the game gets charged, costs start to outweigh profits.
3. Money drains fast with no way to stop it.
4. Indie company declares bankruptcy due to cash flow issues
5. Unity demands payment for unpaid bills in assets - gets the ownership of game title as payment.
6. Unity opens game studio and continues to sell the game, while employing minimal Devs to maintain it.

Bam! they’ve a bunch of viral hits completely for free under their umbrella in a bunch of payments. And because they own the engine, they can make money hand over fist while stopping everyone else from doing the same.

That said I’m sure they have separate payment and licencing deals with big AAA companies. So really it’s only the indie companies that end up with a viral hit that get screwed.

So the other option is that they do not open a game studio and they’re merely just doing big techs dirty work and taking out their competition, while providing IP fire sales for big tech.

That said, once the company goes after a group for failure to pay this money, I wouldn’t be surprised if a legal fight ensued in order to declare the terms of service unenforceable and/or anti consumer and have them nullified or forcibly rewritten/reverted. If that happens I’m sure the EFF or other non profit software foundation will end up providing legal funding and or services. Heck it could end up being a class action.

Da_Boom, 9 miesięcy temu

It’s time to chuck unity in the bin. If not Godot, go for unreal… though I would check their requirements beforehand first.

Da_Boom, 9 miesięcy temu

Also, what counts as an install? Ive seen many unity based games that don’t have an installer and just run standalone? Would a standalone game count as already installed? Is it a first run thing in that case? Honestly this, and the additional clarification raises more questions than it answers?

Da_Boom, 9 miesięcy temu (edited 9 miesięcy temu)

The problem with blue products, isn’t the quality but rather it’s the price, you can get so much more for the same amount of money as a snowball or yeti.

As for it being too sensitive, try turning it down andoving closer to it, or just using a noise gate, or even noise reduction (like rnnoise based or RTX voice). There are plenty of options for tuning a microphone for better quality. And you don’t have to go for the manufacturers software.

Personally I have a Audio interface with an XLR AT2020, and my noise gate and compressor plugin chain running on Carla works fine for what I have on my Linux setup, but you don’t even have to go that far. All you need is something like voicemod, voicemeeter, EasyEffects or noisetorch or other standalone setups.

Da_Boom, 9 miesięcy temu

Ahh, a noise reduction setup like rnnoise (noisetorch) might actually help you with that - you can use it to replace the noisegate, as it has voice activation detection which works like a noisegate

Da_Boom, 9 miesięcy temu

If you are willing to switch to Pipewire, try EasyEffects, it might work better as it’s based off of pulse effects, but for Pipewire, it’s actually developed by the original Devs of pulse effects - in fact the original pulse effects repo is now the easy effects repo, the old pulse effects hasn’t actually been updated for an entire year now, so you might notice it working less and less well.

To me, Pipewire is the best option for audio on Linux at the moment, it combines the power and low latency of JACK with the ease of use, and multiple device capability of PulseAudio, it really is a great project and is pretty much rock solid at this point in time. It might also fix your issues with pulseeffects/EasyEffects not recognising your microphone.

Honestly, I still don’t use flatpaks for specific things - namely OBS, as I have a Blackmagic capture card, and the flatpak version of OBS won’t support it due to how the BMD driver is required to be installed. Sure it’s good for a lot of things, but sometimes the other options are better for your purposes. I still use the AUR Tytan652 version.