reverendsteveii

@reverendsteveii@lemm.ee

Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short

Profil ze zdalnego serwera może być niekompletny. Zobacz więcej na oryginalnej instancji.

reverendsteveii,

I love this thing where buying something has been replaced by buying an alterable, revokable license to access that thing. It lowers costs and adds flexibility for producers, which allows them to save money, and they pass that savings on to me in the form of higher prices and my shit that I paid real fucking money for just disappearing one day. Then they explain that I never really “owned” it despite the fact that they use the word “own” in the marketing material, because it’s also legal to use words that have known definitions in agreements and then later explain that you were actually using an entirely different, secret definition of that word that’s actually the opposite of what you very purposefully implied.

reverendsteveii,

I can’t help but think that if this sort of thing proliferates that it will essentially hamstring reviews. This particular agreement might be just because the game is in alpha, but it’s part of a broader trend of ToS/EULA wishlists that are so restrictive that they’re probably illegal already buy in order to test that you have to go to court against a huge, overpaid legal team which leads to people having their basic rights violated.

reverendsteveii,

which tv manufacturer was it that updated their eula and if you didn’t agree it bricked your tv?

reverendsteveii,

even then, it’s essentially paywalling your rights. you need to go to court, wait for the matter to be adjudicated, hope it works out in your favor, run out any potential appeals, all while paying attorneys and not being able to do something you’re legally entitled to do. If you can’t do all that, then your rights are moot.

reverendsteveii,

what’s your solution for online matchmaking in a squad shooter?

reverendsteveii,

How do you propose bootstrapping a dedicated community? Genuinely asking, is the plan for there to be a dev-hosted service for a while until the community either develops or fails to develop, then to hand it off?

reverendsteveii,

if it’s normally 3 years just hire 12x as many developers and it’ll be fine.

reverendsteveii,

for some reason only things already ubiquitous get marketed these days

the reason you’re looking for is capitalism. why would I bet marketing money on anything but the most likely big return? this is also why such a huge portion of movies are either reboots, sequels, prequels or “homages”.

reverendsteveii,

I’m currently playing through the ace attorney series, couch party w my fiancee. We’re having a blast, but there’s absolutely no doing this a second time. The nature of the games is such that you can’t really progress in any of the cases without having asked every question of every witness, gathered every piece of evidence and explored every relevant branch in cross-examination, so by the time you finish a case there’s just nothing left to go over a second time.

reverendsteveii,

Torchlight is Torchlight. You might like it because not Diablo, but Torchlight.

reverendsteveii,

I play a lot of single player shooters. One thing they all have in common is that I know they exist, which I’m thinking could potentially be part of the problem with this one. Based on reactions in this thread it seems like a lot of people are in the same position I’m in, where the first they hear of the game is when it’s being pronounced a flop. I’m getting big The Producers vibes.

reverendsteveii,

not support Linux with Fortnite despite only needing to click a single checkbox

I’d love to see that, because my understanding is that the anticheat software that fortnite and others use requires pretty deep access to your system that linux either can’t or won’t give them

reverendsteveii,

any idea where commentOP got their notion that supporting linux would involve “only needing to click a single checkbox”?

reverendsteveii,

wizards are turning into Gaben as he echoes across eternity. It seems like he’s turning into a wizard, but that’s because we can only see behind us in time.

reverendsteveii,

Hallelujah

reverendsteveii, (edited )

how long have you been a web developer? Because I’ve been doing it for six years and almost every web app I’ve ever seen uses http with TLS to send the plaintext password to the backend, where it’s popped into a request var at the controller level, then passed as an instance var to the service level, salted, hashed and stored. This includes apps that have to submit themselves for HIPAA compliance because they deal with PHI.

reverendsteveii,

shit, I wonder why the protocol that’s much more well-adopted than yours does things differently

reverendsteveii,

Not without compromised certificates they haven’t. You can tell because if they did they’d be world famous for having destroyed any and all internet security. Then again, they’d probably already be famous for having figured out a way to salt, hash and store passwords without ever holding them in memory first like they claim to do above, so maybe someone is lying on the internet about their vague “proprietary network protocols”.

MechWarrior 5: Clans Stomping to PC, PlayStation and Xbox in 2024 from Piranha Games (www.techpowerup.com) angielski

Piranha Games revealed MechWarrior 5: Clans today, a new stand alone MechWarrior game coming to PC, Xbox and PlayStation consoles next year. MechWarrior 5: Clans, while retaining the MechWarrior 5 designation, represents a transformative step forward in the MechWarrior 5 franchise. MechWarrior 5: Clans linear campaign will be an...

reverendsteveii,

Who’s the battletech lore channel on YouTube to follow? The only one really on my radar right now is black pants legion

reverendsteveii,

I’ve never done king of queens but friends and big bang theory without the laugh tracks are almost David Lynch levels of unsettling

What games had easy soft locks that prevented you from either progressing or getting a true ending? angielski

The thought came to mind after reading a recent post about Baldurs Gate 3 here but it reminded me of the Japense only PSX game Mizzurna Falls where if you don’t perform a certain action early in the game you are prevented from getting a true ending. While this might not be a traditional soft lock because you can still progress...

reverendsteveii,

I was under the impression that ludonarrative dissonance was when you purposely try to subvert the way the game “wants” to be played, rather than you trying to do what the game wants and the game failing to interpret your actions in a realistic or satisfying way. Like the people who try to be law-abiding pacifists in GTA V or people using armor stands to turn Minecraft into multiplayer chess.

reverendsteveii,

I loved vtmb enough to overlook the late game and I’m very nervous about the tumultuous history of this game. But here’s hoping.

reverendsteveii,

Anybody able to talk about the steam deck experience?

reverendsteveii, (edited )

This is a long time coming, but they’ll always be the studio that made Freespace 2, the 6DoF combat sim GOAT

Good luck, Alpha…

reverendsteveii,

There’s a wing commander mod that’s megadope as well. FS2 is one of the few story games I can go through just again and again.

reverendsteveii,

Are you a thief?

I think that when they define “thief” as someone who will watch a TV show on Dailymotion when there’s no other way to get it, they’re going to be surprised how many people (especially schoolkids) are willing to say “Yes, I’m a thief.”

The Steam Deck is changing how normies think of gaming PCs.

Just thought I’d share something I thought was pretty interesting. I have a mother in law who is… well let’s just say she’s a stereotypical older mom who doesn’t own a computer, just an iPad. During the pandemic, she started getting into Nintendo games and bought herself a Switch. Fast forward a few years later and...

reverendsteveii,

I would also like to bitch at you for talking in terms of “normies”. Gross.

reverendsteveii,

I feel like ‘layman’ would be the perfect word here

without the artificial air of superiority

reverendsteveii,

lacks a certain it factor

the it factor you’re talking about is “being a dick”

reverendsteveii,

The implied derision.

reverendsteveii,

What if games have to be good, not just eventually but on the day we sell it to someone.

reverendsteveii,

Fuck it, exiting the game now costs $2. We need to recoup the opportunity cost of you not being somewhere you can be directly marketed to.

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