lolcatnip

lolcatnip, miesiąc temu

In my experience with telemetry, it’s100% about understanding how the product is performing and being used, and 0% about monitoring individual users. Telemetry data has little to no value for anyone not directly supporting the product.

lolcatnip, 2 miesiące temu

Y’all, the article is obviously written for people in the path of totality. You’re not being clever complaining about the cost and hassle of traveling.

lolcatnip, 3 miesiące temu

I was never bothered by the visual quality in The Mandalorian or Ahsoka, so I guess I have nothing to worry about.

lolcatnip, 3 miesiące temu

Man, lots of people in this thread seem happy to accept any wild, physics-breaking idea rather than accept that there’s just a bunch of matter we can’t see.

lolcatnip, 3 miesiące temu

Don’t be such a tardigrade.

lolcatnip, 4 miesiące temu (edited 4 miesiące temu)

I’ve also stopped buying early access games. They may not be bad, but they’re not finished, and I don’t want to be bored with a game before I even get to see its finished form.

lolcatnip, 4 miesiące temu

So the headline is just a lie.

lolcatnip, 4 miesiące temu

Couldn’t they just insist on a perpetual license?

lolcatnip, 4 miesiące temu

That kind of defeats the purpose of using licensed music.

lolcatnip, 4 miesiące temu

So basically music rights owners are too greedy and demand so much money for a reasonable license they have publishers can’t afford it? Sounds about right.

lolcatnip, 5 miesięcy temu

What if you treat receiving subsidies as a failure condition?

lolcatnip, 5 miesięcy temu

Why does that matter for a game?

lolcatnip, 5 miesięcy temu

I wish rent-to-own was a more common model. Unfortunately the only examples I know of in real life involve customers paying several times the retail cost of the items they rent before they actually own them.

What I’d really like to see is a system that keeps rental and purchase prices roughly where they are, except that once you’ve paid rental fees equal to the purchase price, it counts as a purchase. That would relieve me of having to guess whether I’ll be using something enough to buy it, and I doubt it would hurt seller’s profits.

lolcatnip, 5 miesięcy temu

If everything is wired, why not just use an HDMI cable?

lolcatnip, 5 miesięcy temu

That was also my experience playing XCOM on a PS3 and then on a PC. It was almost like a whole new game.

lolcatnip, 5 miesięcy temu

I think people will be bothered if the voice acting in their games sounds like it could have been done by Stephen Hawking (or with less exaggeration, like an actor doing their first reading of a script).

lolcatnip, 6 miesięcy temu

My experience with large projects is that the bigger they get, the more their build systems turn into large projects in their own right. Maintaining the build for something like Windows is probably many people’s full-time job, so it’s no surprise a bunch of amateurs with no docs couldn’t do it.

lolcatnip, 6 miesięcy temu

Idk the science behind it but there’s a reason AI assistants are like 95% female voices.

That varies a lot by country.

lolcatnip, 6 miesięcy temu

I wonder about that for myself, not gonna lie. But I’ve been wondering off and on for like fifteen years, so if I am an egg, I’m having very hard time cracking.

lolcatnip, 6 miesięcy temu

Well, I am very full of myself.

lolcatnip, 6 miesięcy temu (edited 6 miesięcy temu)

How do Chinese judges react to transparent attempts to circumvent laws that have the same effect as just breaking the law? I wouldn’t expect them to fall for the “I’m not touching you” defense.

lolcatnip, 6 miesięcy temu

If I believed Epic was really that good at making money by secretly collecting data, I don’t know why I’d believe they need me to download their launcher to do it. They’re either cartoon supervillains or they’re not.

lolcatnip, 6 miesięcy temu

To me, Occam’s razor also says they’re not recording that data anywhere because it exposes them to liability and because it’s useless.

lolcatnip, 6 miesięcy temu

Not from what I’ve read elsewhere.

lolcatnip, 6 miesięcy temu

BG3 really wants to be played with a mouse and keyboard. Using a controller is clunky AF.

lolcatnip, 6 miesięcy temu

We’re literally here to read what strangers think. If anything is your opinion we don’t care about because it’s just a low-effort insult.

lolcatnip, 6 miesięcy temu

diegetic

I upvote any time I see this word.

lolcatnip, 6 miesięcy temu

You’re not wrong, but OTOH, it’s pretty funny to see a planet having a building on it equated to the planet being explored, considering Earth was still being explored thousands of years after the first buildings.

lolcatnip, 6 miesięcy temu

In my teen years I spent a large fraction of my disposable income on music. A Spotify subscription is a vastly better value than buying whatever I could scrounge from a used CD store. Back then it was common for me to read about some semi-obscure recording and just have to wonder what it sounded like, because I had no hope of finding it in a store, and a special order was way out of my budget, especially for something I had no idea if I’d even like. Now I can listen to damn near anything that’s ever been published for less than I spent as a teenager. I find new music by listening to personalized recommendations instead of local radio stations. It’s just better in every way (except probably for the artists, but music has always been a cutthroat business so who knows).

A lot of subscription services suck and are just a way to milk customers, but streaming audio and video are not in that category.

lolcatnip, 6 miesięcy temu

Ok but that’s kind of on you for not noticing that everything supported Soundblaster.

lolcatnip, 6 miesięcy temu

Back then Amiga computers were at their peak, it wasn’t uncommon for a whole game to be on a single 1.44 MB floppy. It was also pretty common that booting from the disk was the only way to launch the game.

lolcatnip, 7 miesięcy temu

It’s honestly amazing even more games don’t feel like a chore considering how many of them involve playing a character doing their job.

lolcatnip, 7 miesięcy temu

Wait 10-20 years. Play games that are way too large and complex for your attention span. Build up such a huge Steam backlog that whenever you try to play a game, you feel guilty about all the ones you’re not playing. Play games that require reflexes better than the ones you have.

Using these tricks, I’ve cut my gaming time down almost to zero!

lolcatnip, 7 miesięcy temu

Check out Unravel 2.

lolcatnip, 8 miesięcy temu (edited 8 miesięcy temu)

“Hey, here’s some shit we threw together without knowing what we were doing” is a weird marketing tactic.

I’m sure they’re doing it more to promote Godot rather than themselves, but it looks really weird with my consumer hat on.

Edit: FFS, I wasn’t trying to disparage them. The hostility in the replies here is really disappointing.

Edit 2: Or maybe I’m just in a bad mood today.

lolcatnip, 8 miesięcy temu

Yes, I did.

But also free things can still have marketing. I assume they want people to actually play their game.

lolcatnip, 8 miesięcy temu

I didn’t say it wasn’t good enough. I said they way they pitched it is a strange way to entice people to play it.

lolcatnip, 8 miesięcy temu

Downplaying the time and effort put into creating a product isn’t usually how you hype it up.

lolcatnip, 8 miesięcy temu

You’re probably right.

lolcatnip, 8 miesięcy temu

If you put something out there, you want to maximize something. Probably attention in this case.

lolcatnip, 8 miesięcy temu

I wasn’t disparaging them in the follow up comments either.

lolcatnip, 8 miesięcy temu

Selling or licensing IP should be a hard requirement for maintaining ownership of it. That doesn’t require compelling anyone to do anything; it’s merely withdrawing privilege of IP ownership from someone not using it for its intended purpose, which is, to quote the US Constitution, “[t]o promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.”

lolcatnip, 8 miesięcy temu

It’s shitty but it’s not enshittification.

lolcatnip, 8 miesięcy temu

You would think licenses for a game hardly anyone buys anymore would be incredibly cheap to renew. OTOH I know the music industry is run by greedy fucks who make Ubisoft look like a charity, so I don’t expect reasonable license terms to be offered.

lolcatnip, 8 miesięcy temu

It’s like they’re more interested in being dicks than they are in making money.

lolcatnip, 8 miesięcy temu

There’s no wrong choice there.

lolcatnip, 9 miesięcy temu

If it does what it sounds like, it really should be integrated directly into Lemmy or Lemmy clients.