empireOfLove

empireOfLove, 6 miesięcy temu

Coming soon: 5000 spam copes of the same relabelled, stolen mods by every single scammer in existence

empireOfLove, 6 miesięcy temu

Damn guess I’ll just never buy it till the inevitable port then.

empireOfLove, 6 miesięcy temu

And Roller Coaster Tycoon! (although it was technically under Hasbro at that point)

empireOfLove, 6 miesięcy temu

Yeah. They got sold once around 1996 and then again to Hasbro in 1998 after they were failing IIRC. So they were kind of an amalgamation of a bunch of different companies

empireOfLove, 6 miesięcy temu

Plot twist: there are no biters, the planet just spits lava at you

empireOfLove, 7 miesięcy temu

Wube is the most absolutely massively based game development company in the world and you cannot tell me otherwise.

empireOfLove, 7 miesięcy temu

You say that like they haven’t already done that. The sheer amount of optimizations they’ve put into factorio are insane, I’d almost guarantee they’ve invented some new data system that’s never been seen before and haven’t told us.

empireOfLove, 7 miesięcy temu

Slow burn to death might not be so slow. Good riddance.

empireOfLove, 7 miesięcy temu (edited 7 miesięcy temu)

beamNG was one of the games that drove me to build a new PC this summer with an actually modern CPU. That physics engine is completely unparalleled but damn have you gotta pay for it.

empireOfLove, 7 miesięcy temu

Beautiful, while running at a stuttery, jittery 20fps 🤣

empireOfLove, 7 miesięcy temu

Vimeo was supposed to be the “Professional’s Youtube” that was more of a paid service for businesses and pros. They figured out users wouldn’t migrate there unless they let most other stuff in too though.

empireOfLove, 8 miesięcy temu (edited 8 miesięcy temu)

Ubisoft does the Ubisoft thing - nothing new under the sun.

Refund, refund, refund. The only single thing they will ever care about is the $.

empireOfLove, 8 miesięcy temu

No clue, cause my instance has downvotes disabled and idgaf lol

Probably a corporate bootlicker(s), why there are so many who feel like they need to defend the huge game companies I have no idea…

empireOfLove, 9 miesięcy temu

This infinite growth is annoying as both a developer and a player.

wait until you find out what the world economy is built on…

empireOfLove, 9 miesięcy temu (edited 9 miesięcy temu)

So, the trap of modern game setups is that there is a lot of super high powered hardware out there- but unless you’re driving 4K monitors at 120hz+, or striving for super fast 360hz+ refresh rates for competitive gaming, you don’t need any of it. And people often get too caught up in the flashy new latest-and-greatest to recognize what’s a good deal and what’s just showing off.

Define your use case. What’s your desirable budget? What kind of games do you want to play, do you want to do VR, what kind of display do you plan on using. Because while it’s easy to drop $2800+ on hardware these days (like I did), it is still very possible to end up with a $900-1k machine that is super capable at 1440p and can run most all games you throw at it for at least another 5 years. Dpending on what exactly you want to do with it, prioritizing certain areas of hardware over others will pay off.

empireOfLove, 9 miesięcy temu

it’ll only cost $2600 lmfao

empireOfLove, 9 miesięcy temu

It won’t matter, there won’t be any cards available to buy anyway because 97% of their silicon will be going to AI accelerators to make CEO’s richer.

empireOfLove, 9 miesięcy temu

Of course they are valuable. But corporations will always prioritize that which generates value for themselves.

What good are those massive improvements to gaming cards when GPU costs spiral into the multiple thousands of dollars and become completely unavailable to 98% of gamers? 'Cause institutional buyers have no qualms dropping $20k per card, and that will inflate the market to an insane degree. Jensen knows this and will happily kick individual consumers right into the firepit.

empireOfLove, 9 miesięcy temu (edited 9 miesięcy temu)

So, classic corporate walk-back. Put something out that’s horrible, get backlash, walk it back to what you originally wanted to do which is “less horrible”, then make people feel good cause they feel like they won while you’re still laughing to the bank.

Fuck unity, let them rot.

empireOfLove, 9 miesięcy temu

Idk if there is an official term for it. But yes, it’s a very well known corporate and/or political tactic.

empireOfLove, 9 miesięcy temu

Doing the Lord’s work. Godspeed.

empireOfLove, 9 miesięcy temu

They can stay closed.

empireOfLove, 9 miesięcy temu (edited 9 miesięcy temu)

Tech companies have been doing massive layoffs recently

A. Sort of big, not recession-inducing.
B. Intentionally done by the larger companies to price-fix the tight job market so they don’t have to pay so much.

empireOfLove, 9 miesięcy temu

Effective January 1st, 2024, every indie game developing studio will be dropping Unity like a hot potato.

empireOfLove, 9 miesięcy temu (edited 9 miesięcy temu)

This is why internet download manager (and other, similar download manager softwares) were originally created. Download managers track the amount of a file you’ve downloaded and will repeatedly retry when interrupted without restarting from zero.

Getting Warez in the pre-P2P era meant grabbing bits and pieces over a glacial ISDN or 33.6k modem line (if you were lucky- some of us bastards got 28.8k, or even 14.4k…) Everything was “direct download”. You had to use a download manager for anything larger than 30 megabytes because the chances of your line being interrupted were very very high, either by other phone users or by your ISP booting you off because you looked like a zombie modem being connected for 24 hours straight.

They still have their place. Try something open source like JDownloader. Or just pirate the pro version of IDM.

empireOfLove, 9 miesięcy temu (edited 9 miesięcy temu)

Cracking often includes blocking all networking features of a game to kill any phone-home license checking, so it’s likely that Unity will not know cracked games are getting installed. But it is not guaranteed.

More likely every game dev save for a few big developers (who we don’t give a shit about) is going to drop this radioactive business model like a hot plutonium potato and it will become a non-issue.

empireOfLove, 9 miesięcy temu (edited 9 miesięcy temu)

You fucking lost, bud? Because you’re somewhere you’re not supposed to be.

Go spam your transphobic hate on exploding heads or something and GTFOH

empireOfLove, 9 miesięcy temu

Friends don’t let friends keep using uTorrent. There are so many better alternatives these days.

empireOfLove, 9 miesięcy temu

e926 obviosuly

empireOfLove, 9 miesięcy temu

Mineshafter[dot]info is what I used to use back in my cracked minecraft days. It basically provides a modified launcher that patches itself and the Minecraft JAR to look for the Mineshafter login servers instead of Microsoft’s. It lets you use singleplayer as well as multi-player on cracked servers that do not force online authentication.

The site is still up and paid for, which means someone still gives a shit about it, so I think it may still be functional. I haven’t used it in literally ten years though, so I doubt it supports the latest Minecraft versions though, but you can try it. Oh God. Ten years. I’m old…

empireOfLove, 10 miesięcy temu

What does he play it on?

If he’s like I was and playing on hand me down office PC’s, consider getting a better keyboard/mouse, headphones, a stick of memory or something in that line to improve his experience. Actual pc upgrades are probably a little expensive for your budget, although really nice large monitors can be had for <$150 these days.

empireOfLove, 10 miesięcy temu

Ayo I’m in the screenshot letsa fucking GOOOOOOOOOO-

For context, Bungiefan_ak has no fewer than 4 alts that I’ve seen (all on different instances with the same username) and has spent his time on !memes continuously spamming heavily transphobic, homophobic, and objectifying sexist “memes”. Just about every one of his alts is now banned but I’m sure more will pop up.

Now, why the fuck he cares so much about pirates at this point, I haven’t a clue…

empireOfLove, 10 miesięcy temu

I liked the part where Bobby Kotick said “its profiting time” and then profited all over the place

empireOfLove, 10 miesięcy temu

If you aren’t scanning every software you download, whether a pirate torrent or normal direct download, that’s kinda your own fault

empireOfLove, 10 miesięcy temu

It’s like a minimum viable product with a vaguely addicting gameplay loop.

You could have just stopped there. Every mass-market mobile game ends up in this trap.

empireOfLove, 11 miesięcy temu

Factorio

Gotta keep track of production balance somehow…

empireOfLove, 11 miesięcy temu

I always see people recommend Stardew Valley in these threads.