SnotFlickerman

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SnotFlickerman, (edited )

The thing about this shit is…

Microsoft, like Google, is now a user-data driven company and they have already made loss/profit ratio analysis on this long before they released the price increase. They’re absolutely banking on people cancelling but making up the difference and then some from the people who stay.

For a thought experiment let’s consider how many subscribers they were reported to have in Feburary: 34 million. Let’s assume that everyone is paying for the highest tier to make the math easier. So current income would be 34 million user x $20 a month and thats $680 million a month. New income of 34 million users x $30 a month is $1.02 billion. The difference is $340 million a month. Let’s divide that by $30 a month. That gets us about 11,333,333 users. So they can hemorrhage over 11 million users and still break even. To make sure, let’s subtract 11 million users. That gives us 23 million users. 23 million users x $30 a month is $690 million a month, a cool $10 million a month above current profits.

For final context, 11 million users is roughly 32% of their entire subscriber count. They can afford to lose a third of the people subscribing and still make money.

The math doesn’t bode well for us who vote with our wallets.

SnotFlickerman,

You had me at “pet the cat.”

SnotFlickerman,

I never thought I’d see the day where PapEA itself would be the one being put in the mass grave along with all the studios it killed.

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/d7ed43f5-686d-4ef2-9100-1728ffbfe2e9.webp

SnotFlickerman,

Civvie? No, I’m the other guy!

Well played.

SnotFlickerman, (edited )

Sometimes its over an hour of spoilers.

Most of the time though he seems to be reviewing stuff like Fallout 2 restoration of previously cut content.

I mean I understand why it’s more of an issue with a game that just came out but a game that came out in 1998 I think is fair game for spoiling.

Download Eden a Switch emulator as long as you can angielski

It’s reported that the Google Play store entry of Eden emulator (a Switch emulator) is no longer available. We don’t know the reason, but my educated guess is that Nintendo might have striked. I recommend to download current official clean builds and source code for backup, just in case you want to use it later....

SnotFlickerman, (edited )

Do you know where to get that final build of Yuzu anymore? Asking for a friend.

EDIT: Flathub still works:

flatpak install flathub org.yuzu_emu.yuzu

Same thing works for final build of Ryujinx:

flatpak install flathub org.ryujinx.Ryujinx

SnotFlickerman,

I am happy to build from source, but I don’t have the source.

SnotFlickerman,

Dug in a little bit and ended up here:

web.archive.org/web/…/org.yuzu_emu.yuzu

Which was linked to from here on the original Yuzu site:

web.archive.org/web/20240304063132/…/downloads/#l…

The flathub manual installation via command line still works. Unless flathub has been hacked (which there is currently no evidence that they have), it’s the same Yuzu. Seems to be version 1734.

flatpak install flathub org.yuzu_emu.yuzu

The response from the server indicates this is the same Yuzu.


<span style="color:#323232;">Info: app org.yuzu_emu.yuzu branch stable is end-of-life, with reason:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">   This application is no longer maintained. See https://yuzu-emu.org/ for details.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Required runtime for org.yuzu_emu.yuzu/x86_64/stable (runtime/org.kde.Platform/x86_64/5.15-23.08) found in remote flathub
</span>
SnotFlickerman, (edited )

I’m glad the only Windows based parts of my OS are sandboxed away since I run Linux.

Also I use a hardware wallet that can’t be accessed when it’s not plugged in to my computer.

SnotFlickerman,

I’m skeptical as well but they already restarted the game once when the original development team wasn’t producing a quality game. I suspect at worst it won’t be the worst game ever but it would be subpar for a Metroid game. Nintendo is usually pretty good at taking chances and making it work. Hell, I never thought Metroid could work in 3D and they proved me wrong. I guess my main issue is that Metroid traditionally is a cramped corridor style game, the opposite of an open world.

SnotFlickerman,

I actually quite enjoyed Dread for what it was, imperfect as it may be.

SnotFlickerman,

I, for one, fucking hated Jack yapping in my ear for half of Borderlands 2. I still don’t understand the love for that chode.

SnotFlickerman,

If he has Disco Elysium ask him who his favorite character is to gauge whether he is marriage material.

(Hint: The right answer is Kim.)

SnotFlickerman,

I really appreciate not having to wait months or years or decades (looking at you Bethesda) after first hearing about a game.

That’s actually hilarious that you mention this in regards to Silksong, which was first stated to be in development so long ago that people thought it was never going to release. It’s actually a prime example of having to wait years and years after announcement to get any updates.

SnotFlickerman,

What others have failed to mention is how Expedition 33 is much more of a linear story where BG3 is comprised of a multitude of non-linear branching paths where “save-scumming” is important for new players.

Skyrim has the non-linear branching paths, but Bethesda doesn’t like cutting you off from content based on the path you choose so usually you can still continue to pursue other paths. Baldur’s Gate 3 is much much less forgiving and makes your choices matter and impact the paths you can take deeply. This can be daunting for new players.

I personally love games in the style of BG3 with non-linear branching paths and decisions that force specific paths, but they can be tricky to get used to if you haven’t experienced them before.

If you are more comfortable with the more linear stories, Expedition 33 is probably closer to what you’ll be comfortable with. However they are both worthwhile in many differing regards.

SnotFlickerman,

Interesting that the article doesn’t mention the Steamdeck and the explosion of portable PC gaming devices as well. The Switch opened the market, but the Steamdeck expanded it and showed there was room for competition.

SnotFlickerman,

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/8dec8b44-7b9a-46ec-9489-c1a954c83351.webp

SnotFlickerman,

I think that’s exFAT.

SnotFlickerman,

I know SA members were called “goons” but does the modern “gooner” really come from that?

SnotFlickerman,

You can’t stop him, you can’t reason with him, you can’t kill the boogeyman.

And you obviously couldn’t afford a decent Donald Pleasance soundalike yeesh.

Also this game company has an abysmal history of post-release support.

SnotFlickerman,

What could possibly go wrong?

SnotFlickerman,

I mean, from the little bit of gameplay I saw, it seems like all his moveset from the original Bubsy is back and they’re leveraging it well for 3d platforming.

Dying Light 2 Removes Stamina from Parkour System (store.steampowered.com) angielski

Still going to have narrative limitations and swimming based stamina (I assume there are some progress gates with that). But holy crap the number of times I tried to enjoy Dying Light 2 and just hated that I couldn’t scale a wall or even effectively run away at night.

SnotFlickerman,

That seems like a big change to be making 3 and a half years after release.

SnotFlickerman,

I thought DL1 protagonist was Kyle Crane? Was Aiden even in DL1? I’m a little confused by what you mean.

SnotFlickerman, (edited )

Totally agreed. Kyle Crane is pretty forgettable, I had to look his name up, in fact I had to look both the protagonists names up.

The funny thing about the Kyle Crane stuff is that for anyone with even a passing interest in media other than video games… you’ve heard Roger Craig Smith’s voice everywhere for over a decade now! He’s one of the most prolific and easily forgettable voice actors there is! Not only was he the voice for Sonic the Hedgehog in a litany of cartoon and video game iterations, but he’s just in nearly anything you can think of that requires voice acting. He literally was in 122 episodes of Cartoon Network’s Regular Show playing about 170 different characters, including Thomas, a character whose entire arc is based on a joke about how shows add new characters and then focusing on them so they constantly avoid focus on Thomas and make him ridiculously boring! In fact, episodes where he played Thomas were airing during the time that Dying Light released.

I don’t know how they ever thought Roger Craig Smith was going to be remembered as the action hero everyone loved. I mean, I love me some Roger Craig Smith, but way more for being a fucking goofball than being a gritty action hero.

SnotFlickerman,

Devil’s Advocate: This is for the adult gamer set who only have a prescribed amount of time they can spend on gaming. They get a chance for a few hours every few weeks. Their lives are overwhelming with details and information they need to remember regarding every day life. They simply don’t have the mental capacity to remember all the details from a game they spend two to three hours on once every few weeks, not when their mental focus is given to you know, real fucking life.

While I understand the frustration with such writing, because it bothers me as well… I don’t have a job where I work 60 hours a week nor do I have children. I’m kind of the exception to the rule when it comes to being able to give a game my full attention. Further, I have always had an incredibly good memory and attention to detail. Most people I have met in my life simply… do not have incredibly good memories or attention to detail. That doesn’t make them bad people who are living life wrong, it just means their brains work differently or they’re putting that mental energy to different things.

If we want people to pay attention to these stories, well, we’ve got to change fucking society from the ground up so they have the free time to actually be able to do so. Whinging about it like this isn’t going to magically make people pay better attention when they have to split their time with taking care of their children, which obviously should take priority over a fucking video game.

People act like the Netflixication is because people are all busy staring at their phones… I posit that it’s actually people cooking meals, doing dishes, doing laundry, ironing clothes, and a thousand other tedious daily activities where they’re trying to squeeze in some entertainment while also paying attention to something else entirely.

SnotFlickerman,

Blue Prince

I am ashamed to say how long it took me to get the pun in the title for this game.

https://i.redd.it/e6bvgbml1sne1.gif

SnotFlickerman,

From my youth:

Mega Man 2
Super Metroid
Fallout

Current, as games have grown as a medium:

Borderlands
NieR Automata
Baldur’s Gate 3

My favorite type of games were really always the story-rich non-linear storytelling of the Baldur’s Gate/Fallout style but in my youth I was far more attracted to Fallout than Baldur’s Gate. However, there are no modern iterations of Fallout in the same style. New Vegas is fun and all, but what I would give for a modern fallout in the style of BG3.

SnotFlickerman,

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/d384e5de-625c-4955-8f2c-37f037141fac.webp

SnotFlickerman,

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/301154ff-a405-40dd-a3dc-da116c2bb550.webp

SnotFlickerman,

Rock and stone, brother.

SnotFlickerman,

I’ve been curious about LISA: The Painful for a long time.

SnotFlickerman,

The official game of /c/FuckCars!

SnotFlickerman,

You control a character with the keyboard and a tiny moon with your mouse (it will also be playable with a controller). Explore a small open world and uncover secrets and mechanics hiding right under your nose. Use the moon to manipulate creatures and the environment and explore a tiny open world. Curiosity, knowledge, and discovery of game mechanics are the primary ways to progress.

From the announcement in /r/godot on reddit.

itch.io now seemingly affected by same payment processor rules as Steam (bsky.app) angielski

so itchio has shadowbanned any games tagged with ‘nsfw’, ‘adult’, or ‘erotic’ so they don’t show up in searches, and several devs have reported that their r18 games have been removed from the site with no warning...

SnotFlickerman,

itch.io is also a lot “smaller” than Steam in terms of the teams behind it I’d wager, and they probably have a lot less money for legal representation and probably had the screws turned to them a lot harder due to that.

Yes how little was communicated sucks, but they genuinely might have not had a lot of choice if the payment processors were really turning the screws to them. They don’t have the wealth to fight something like this like Valve does, and even Valve bent over for this.

SnotFlickerman,

no reason to give him more work

Unpopular opinion but setting up a whole recording studio and cutting a video without fucking up a bunch is a lot more fucking work than just writing a damn text document.

SnotFlickerman,

People generally prefer audio-visual content more than reading.

That’s because people are generally fucking morons who can’t, or worse, won’t fuckin’ read.

Bring on the downvotes. I don’t give a fuck. It’s been proven without a shadow of a doubt that watching things makes you more passive and digest less information than reading. I understand some things make more sense to share in a video format (like a how-to video showing how to fix something) but someone just talking at a camera is not one of them.

Maybe if we stopped enabling the fucking neanderthals among us the world wouldn’t be in such a shitty place as it already is.

SnotFlickerman,

This guy gets it.

SnotFlickerman,

I don’t necessarily agree with all of Kaldaien’s points, but I can’t say they aren’t well argued. Their opinions are valid if you’re willing to accept and consider their perspective.

I personally don’t see the point playing games on the original hardware, and I think keeping them updated for modern systems is a good thing, but I can see why someone might disagree and prefer running them in a VM on a traditional operating system, especially in terms of keeping the original way the game ran intact. I also disagree about the value of Microsoft’s game rental service, but I also see the value in saying “if I don’t actually own my games anyway, why not take it to it’s logical conclusion of just renting them.”

As I said, their points are well argued, even if I don’t necessarily agree on them.

SnotFlickerman, (edited )

The entire back-end has changed.

Literally. People miss the fact that Steam is still a 32-bit app just to support older games. The rest of the world has moved onto 64-bit operating systems and applications. It’s shocking they still support 32-bit in 2025. So the argument that they aren’t supporting older titles is a little misleading because that’s the whole reason they still run a 32-bit client.

Most operating systems are no longer even offered in a 32-bit variant, 64-bit only.

I haven’t had a device with 32-bit hardware in almost 15 years. The last device I can even think of that was still 32-bit within the last 15 years was a Google Nexus 6 in 2014. All the Pixel line have been 64-bit.

Steam is literally one of the last 32-bit holdouts. Everything else has moved on. Even Discord dropped 32-bit support last year.

EDIT: Also, for reference, since Windows 98 is heavily mentioned in the arguments, those operating systems included 16-bit code. We’re talking about dropping 32-bit code, 16-bit code is deader than a doornail. Windows 3.11 was the first introduction of 32-bit code. Windows XP seems to be where they dropped all 16-bit code in 2001. We’re talking over 30 years of hardware changes.

All versions of MS-DOS and the below versions of Windows had 16 bit code:

MS-DOS (all versions)
Windows 1.x/2.x/3.x (all versions)
Windows 4.x or 9x (Windows 95/98/Millennium Edition) (all versions)

SnotFlickerman,

GoG also famously uses a model where GoG does not care what OS you’re using.

I could have sworn their model was keeping old games updated to work functionally on newer hardware.

www.gog.com/en/gog-preservation-program

The GOG Preservation Program ensures classic games remain playable on modern systems, even after their developers stopped supporting them. By maintaining these iconic titles, GOG helps you protect and relive the memories that shaped you, DRM-free and with dedicated tech support.

SnotFlickerman,

I need DOS Box

It’s Valve’s responsibility that Microsoft stripped DOS support from their OS in Windows 10?

Starting with Windows 10, the ability to create a MS-DOS startup disk has been removed, and so either a virtual machine running MS-DOS or an older version (in a virtual machine or dual boot) must be used to format a floppy disk, or an image must be obtained from an external source.

SnotFlickerman, (edited )

They keep a bunch of 32-bit libraries for backwards compatibility with older games that they launch. You can find numerous discussions about this in the Steam forums as well as on sites like Hackernews.

If you want, I can give it to you from a Valve employee:

github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/…/179#is…

We will not drop support for the many games that have shipped on Steam with only 32-bit builds, so Steam will continue to deploy a 32-bit execution environment. To that end, it will continue to need some basic 32-bit support from the host distribution (a 32-bit glibc, ELF loader, and OpenGL driver library).

Whether the Steam client graphical interface component itself gets ported to 64-bit is a different question altogether, and is largely irrelevant as the need for the 32-bit execution environment would still be there because of the many 32-bit games to support.

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/9ed2bbc7-6897-46f3-a00c-51e13d46c279.webp

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/97a7f1d2-0178-4f50-9762-4e2e1e14559f.webp

Maybe do some cursory research before talking out of your ass.

SnotFlickerman, (edited )

But if they keep it updated for modern systems that means as time goes on the files they are offering to install… won’t work on old hardware because they’ve been updated to the modern era.

Sure if you grab a file from them and never get a newer, more maintained version, it will play on exactly the hardware and software you had when you bought it… But if you lost the install file somehow and went to grab a new copy five years later the updated ones may no longer run on your old hardware

SnotFlickerman,

Also, they can still offer the olde versions of the file for download.

Except in a lot of cases they really don’t.

SnotFlickerman,

Microsoft probably were thinking “He’s just making another Daikatana, anyway.”

For people who want to play their favorite games but are unable to, what are you currently doing? angielski

I sold my PC yesterday because of financial struggles and as far as I’m aware, I would probably be unable to buy a PC or console ever again. That said, I still want to somehow experience the games I would otherwise want to play on PC. I’m thinking of watching let’s plays but of course, that’s not the same as actually...

SnotFlickerman,

and as far as I’m aware, I would probably be unable to buy a PC or console ever again.

I don’t have any suggestions but I am so, so sorry and I really hope things turn around for you for the better.

SnotFlickerman,

Right, socialism doesn’t necessarily say that markets themselves are evil, but rather that the workers should have direct control over their own workplaces and reap the value of their labor instead of being siphoned off to a parasite class. A socialist business owned by the workers would still be selling their goods in the marketplace. It’s just a fairer distribution of control of the company through democracy and a fairer distribution of the value generated by the labor.

As I often say, it’s not like Jeff Bezos can deliver every Amazon package or manage every AWS server on his own. No, the value he has is leeched from all the workers who make his business function. Without the workers, he is effectively useless on his own.

But it feels like we’re regressing and we can’t even get to that socialist ideal because we’re busy fighting for the basic rules of capitalism that produce an actually healthy economy where everyone is involved be followed.

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