When the baby is that small, it’s the perfect time to do stuff like this. You have to be “on call” if they need you, but they spend 90% of the time sleeping. So just hold them or have them strapped to you and do your thing!
I got caught up on so many shows during the first few days when my daughter was still nocturnal, and I know my wife beat a few games she had on the back burner.
Hahahaha, they violated that well over a decade ago. It was supposed to give acceas to all future releases at one point, which died the moment it released on consoles. iirc people were pretty upset about it way back when.
Unfortunately the actual text of the alpha license terms appear to be lost to time, but you can find a number of posts online claiming the same thing, that it was worded in a way to indicate the license covered all future versions (across all systems), not just all future updates of java (and bedrock if you converted your account early enough).
The fuck is Lake Isabella and why is this written like an ad? This might make sense if you were writing about the setting of a famous or popular game, but even then it would be a stretch.
A retro shooter inspired by classics like Wolfenstein and Doom. Think of it as a tribute, a love letter to the games that defined a generation, with a few modern touches of my own. It’s tough, fast, and demands skill, just the way those old-school shooters did.
I play games on emulators, I was playing the 1999 version of CTR and hmmm it’s way better than Mario kart 64 or Double Dash on GameCube from a gameplay mechanics, fun, enjoyability perspective. Anyone else think so?
Something to remember is that CTR came out three years later than MK64. That was a lot of time for that generation of games.
That said, I remember not liking CTR as a kid because while it had more depth, the friend who had it had put a ton of time into the campaign so I had no chance of keeping up with him trying to pick it up casually through the occasional multiplayer match.
Today’s game is Don’t Stop, Girlypop! (Steam Link). I saw this game somewhere, i don’t remember where though. It looked super fun though. So i decided to take a brief break from my Horror Month for this (unless the 2000s are scary to you, in which case prepare to be spooked)....
You might like Mullet MadJack too, if you like frantic shooters with a “keep killing or die” element.
Completely different style, and no customization that I know of, it’s 90’s cyberpunk anime styled. Each level you have ten seconds until your heart stops. Each kill gets you more time, and flashier kills like melee finishers get you more, as in universe you’re doing some sort of livestream death game. At the end of each short level, in roguelike fashion, you get to pick one of a few randomly selected upgrades/powerups.
Look up some footage on youtube, it’s a lot cooler in motion than words can cover. But it’s definitely one to play with mouse and keyboard so you can do twitch movements fast.
I’ve played a handful of games that precompile shaders at boot up without it taking 15 minutes, and they try to hide at least some of it behind the splash screens and such. This is absurd. If pre-compilation or caching is needed, just fucking do it.
On top of what you said, that any company with the funds of Gearbox has no excuse for not being able to optimize it to happen during runtime without tanking FPS.
I feel you, but there’s some good news! There’s an indie games team working on a game that’s Air Ride combined with the Chao Garden from Sonic Adventure.
Literal millions of us (myself included) voted “correctly” for Harris. Blue no matter who. We did our part for your petty ass purity test and we’re still getting fucked.
Must be nice to live in a world where people only experience the results of who they voted for.
Zandronum was the Doom server browser of choice, at least 4 years ago or so. Even will auto download the mods the server is running (if the admin configured things right).
Updates are usually automatic (at least in the modern days with Steam), and DLCs are optional.
DLCs are also usually a paid affair, unless they’re explicitly referred to as “free DLC”. Not sure if you worded it that way or not, came to this post after you edited the title.
Today’s game is some more Wind Waker. With my limited library of games, it seems like this is going to be my game for a bit (at least until next Sunday). Though I do have Silent Hill 2 Remastered installed along with The Last of Us, so those are things I’ve also been cracking away at. I did the forsaken fortress today and...
In the bloom-ified remaster OP is playing, there is a double speed sail you can get, and once you get the bombs you can fight an optional mini-boss to get the abilty to warp.
Sailing is still monotonous though, if you aren’t in the mood to just vibe to the music.
They also streamlined the section of the game where you have to search high and low for triforce pieces. It was a hell of a slog in the original GC version.
The faster sail and having the wind automatically change to be the direction you’re sailing are both features I’ve seen people use with randomizer mods for the GC version, but I don’t know if they’re available without randomizing treasures.
Yeah, my phone screen is cracked and I’m holding it together with scotch tape, so there’s a slight blur. With it scaled down in this lemmy post, at a glance the yellow shade is indistinct enough that it almost looks like she’s nude and holding like a yellow posterboard in her left hand to cover up.
Sony Interactive Entertainment has filed a lawsuit against Tencent over its upcoming game Light of Motiram, with Sony saying it is a "slavish clone" of the Horizon series.
Would not be the first time, although usually developers then go out of their way to make things more legally distinct.
Off the top of my head, the PS1 game Croc was reportedly originally pitched to Nintendo as a 3D platformer starring Yoshi (it was made by some of the team behind StarFox). They obviously reworked it a ton before it released as what it ended up as.
I don’t like subscription based software, and a subscription based game launcher is even more ridiculous. Especially when there are already free open source alternatives.
With the subscription aspect in mind, this reads to me like an advertisement rather than news. Probably because you just pasted in their literal ad copy instead of giving us any of your own thoughts about it whatsoever.
A big part of why I’m on lemmy is to get away from the “natural engagement” ad posts, so in short this sort of post isn’t something I want to welcome or encourage.
Personally, this post would have come across a lot differently if it was just the link to their site/blog post and even a few sentences about your personal thoughts on it. This comes across as a poorly done ad.
You didn’t “just share news”. You just shared an ad with effectively no further context.
Short term profits? How are they supposed to make any profits if payment processors refuse to process payments to them? They can’t just spin up their own fucking payment processor.
Beyond that, how does limiting the sale of any products make them money?
I swear, were none of you people paying attention when this happened to the right wing ghouls in the lead up to the 2016 election? Nothing of value was lost (or would have been), but Visa, Mastercard, etc have already shown they aren’t above using their position in the transfer of money to enforce their will.
Edit: Can’t believe I forgot about the payment processors playing games with Wikileaks. For shame. Would have been a much better example.
Jesus Christ we can’t be back to this old chestnut.
We cannot, and do not, standardize society’s guard rails around the most extreme edge cases.
Leave it back with Jack Thompson in the late 90s-early 00s where it belongs. The horse has already been jellied by repeated blunt force trauma more than a decade ago. You’re just punching a horse shaped divot into the dirt at this point.
Tell me again how you’ve not actually read up on the issues with crypto as payment processor.
This shit has already been tried and the issues discussed at length. I think it was Mullvad that stopped accepting BTC and did an extensive writeup on why.
In short: the constantly shifting conversion rates make this unsustainable, as even if they accepted payment in crypto, they have to pay their bills in fiat currency. So their choices are to have crypto prices change literally every page load to reflect the exchange rate, or to just eat extra costs when suddenly 0.51btc goes from being worth $5 when the user pays to being worth $1 when they try to use it for anything else. Even with constantly updating prices, the shifting rates screwing them will still happen. The costs associated with even offering it as a payment type outweigh the actual revenue generated by an extreme order of magnitude, and even privacy/crypto oriented storefronts see something like under 1% of users using the option when it’s available.
And that’s my understanding of the short version.
There’s a big difference between “prioritizing short term profit” and “committing commercial/financial suicide to make a point”.
This restated question is not the problem directly.
The problem is the entire discussion/concept of “exposure to a dangerous idea in a pretend context maybe might maybe make someone more likely to emulate it in reality” when there has been little to no evidence found supporting that concept. Additionally the non-proportional amount of concern given to videogames in relationship to this concept as compared to literally any other form of media.
If there was even one iota of connection between “exposure to horrible things in media” (or even “pretending to do horrible things in a pretend context”) and “doing horrible things in real life”, the world would already look considerably different than it does. Militaries would be using these games as “exposure therapy” for soldiers. We’d be seeing crime rates of all sorts shifting in accordance with the media industries. There would already be measurable impacts after the decades of these things existing.
And more so than any of that: This discussion has literally been happening for longer than any of us here have been alive. I’m tired of having it.
Please stop letting the vague idea of “but it might help” override the logic of “but there’s no evidence to support that except a vague gut feeling”.
Today’s game is Old School Runescape. I was in the mood to hop on and mess around in the game, so i booted it up and did the Cake Quest (finally). It took me a while to find the bucket for the milk, but i eventually did it. While i was looking for the Dairy cows i found these goblins watching the Cows. I don’t know if...
The goblins being peaceful might be due to your combat level. Once you outlevel an enemy by a certain amount, they stop auto-attacking you and you have to initiate combat with them if you want to.
Huh? Investment people definitely didn’t wait for that classification to start turning it into a speculations market. The SEC actions were largely reactive.
My local bank’s investment and wealth management bros were already all about crypto long before regulations.
3 More Days until a Year! Today’s game is Sea of Thieves. I figured I took a screenshot of some fish and jellyfish i saw in the water today and thought “Why the hell not, let’s see if i can keep this fish train going”. The fish in this one are far more cartoony, which is to be expected for Sea of Thieves. They’re a...
So it’s been about two and a half years since I’ve played (before my daughter was born), so take this with a grain of salt. I think last big update I experienced was the addition of the Reapers’s equivalent of the Athena’s Fortune faction.
Unless they’ve changed how captained ships work, every time you log in your ship only has a basic set of resources (like 30 wood, 30 canonballs, 15 bananas, something like that). Stocking up from the outpost barrels was an every session start thing. The whole captained ship thing was originally just a way to save your ship cosmetics and adding a bunch of ship specific achievements. Also gave access to a convenient one stop sell location and some “captain” exclusive quests.
Regarding PVP, natural “emergent” PVP has really dried up since they added in the hourglass (dedicated PVP match queuing) and the ability to server hop (lose all your sellable loot and active quest progress, keep the barrelled resources on your ship). So people up for scrapping usually hop servers until they find a popular and lucrative server event happening where there are likely to be other players. There already was the Reaper’s flag and emmisary to imdicate you were up for/looking for PVP too (both make you visible on the map to the whole server). So a lot of players left running around aren’t as bloodthirsty.
Also, unless they changed server limits again, each server has an absolute max of six ships. It’s a big sea for so few ships. Especially when we stayed around The Roar (volcanoey area at the east side of the map) we could go entire sessions without running into other players.
Man, I really hope it’s still around when I have the time to come back to it. Awesome game.
Because you can buy other people’s code for cheaper than developing it yourself, as long as you use it within the restrictions of the license you paid for.
Today’s game is Sea of Thieves. For the first time ever me and some friends managed to get a full crew together and sailed my ship. We even managed to get our resident chef and arsonist to join us. He adds an extra challenge because the only thing he really does is stand at the stove and let food cook. He never really cycles...
It’s been hours now (and a very busy day), but I swear that half of that comment (including that section) wasn’t there when I commented regarding safer seas.
But there’s no mark showing the comment has been edited either.
The issue with using torrents is longevity. You’d still want/need traditional storage backing it all. Don’t want some mod to become lost media because nobody is actively seeding it.
Wait, was it confirmed sold? The news post on Nexus fron this morning indicated that the existing head admin and CEO (of 24 years) was just stepping back (and not even away entirely), and had already put the year+ in of identifying two successors from his existing team.
I didn’t see anything regarding a sale, and the existing admin said quite a bit about taking this seriously from a standpoint of what’s best for mod makers and users and not best for business profits.
Edit: I’m not seeing any company name given because as far as I can tell, it wasn’t sold. It’s the same company, same employees, the person at the tip top is just shifting.
And since when is “comicbook dot com” a source for game modding news? Unless someone can show me something from a more direct or reputable source, I think this is just someone running with the most click bait interpretation of the nexusmods post.
Edit x2: Dormedas’s resetera link has some convincing investigation that the two people named as taking over the reigns may work for a company that provides esports training, and also consulting services for user generated content focused companies.
Thanks! That’s damn good for “best effort”! A convincing lead on what company it may be.
Personally, I still don’t think it’s time for immediate red alert, but I’ll have to keep an eye on things. Hopefully we’ll see some competitors like GameBanana step up to the challenge.
Today’s screenshot is from Starfield. I know it wasn’t very well received, but i looked into it and wanted to give it a try myself. I got it on Discount a while ago (around 35$ if i remember correctly), and was originally going to play a while ago but Oblivion Remastered stopped that. I decided to give it a go though....
Don’t chase weapon upgrades and crafting research too hard. The minor stat upgrades don’t really effect much for the stupid amount of grinding required to get the exact right materials needed.
I found that the novelty of the game wore off pretty quick after I started finding what initially felt like handcrafted points of interest repeating for the third time. Apparently there’s a mod that tweaks the RNG to significantly reduce how often things repeat, because it’s really rough out of the box.
Probably update 2.00. They completely redid the game balance, about half of the damn RPG stat related mechanics, and reworked a decent chunk of the iconic weapon effects.
Notably, they removed the Overwatch sniper’s wall piercing. Intentionally. There’s mods to revert that.
Today’s game is some more Daggerfall. I originally intended to just go back to oblivion, but fuck Daggerfall is addicting. I love how immersive it feels. There’s a ghost haunting this one specific town? It actually attacks you at night in that one specific town out of like 2000 towns in the region. Need to find someone...
Just be careful. If a quest giver gives you a time limit, like a letter saying “get here in one month”, they mean it. It’s possible to silently fail the main quest this way, but it’s also possible to get back into the main quest line via some other quest paths into it.
It’s all fairly complicated. Thankfully failing doesn’t stop you from exploring the world, interacting with NPCs, or doing other quests. You can always use the console to restart the main quest line quests when you’re ready.
Seems like a goldmine of content for them to work on for the next decade+. Plenty of people will never experience these worlds or stories due to the turn-based combat, so giving them the Remake treatment could be the only way an audience ever finds them....
Imagine being this cool angielski
The story:...
The oldest Minecraft server, MinecraftOnline, is being shut down by Microsoft
cross-posted from: ttrpg.network/post/27970929...
"I Told Him I Loved Him, Because I Do" - A Tribute To The Late Dead Or Alive Creator Tomonobu Itagaki (www.timeextension.com) angielski
Steam News - A new way to discover new & upcoming games: Personal Calendar (store.steampowered.com) angielski
this looks amazing. I always hoped for a way to see a calendar of upcoming games and know whats coming up
Lake Isabella Lore Drop: What’s Your Favorite Find? angielski
cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/48350988...
Darkenstein 3D free on Steam angielski
A retro shooter inspired by classics like Wolfenstein and Doom. Think of it as a tribute, a love letter to the games that defined a generation, with a few modern touches of my own. It’s tough, fast, and demands skill, just the way those old-school shooters did.
Do you feel Crash Team Racing was better than Mario Kart? angielski
I play games on emulators, I was playing the 1999 version of CTR and hmmm it’s way better than Mario kart 64 or Double Dash on GameCube from a gameplay mechanics, fun, enjoyability perspective. Anyone else think so?
Day 450 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing angielski
Today’s game is Don’t Stop, Girlypop! (Steam Link). I saw this game somewhere, i don’t remember where though. It looked super fun though. So i decided to take a brief break from my Horror Month for this (unless the 2000s are scary to you, in which case prepare to be spooked)....
Borderlands 4 Dev Gearbox Asks PC Gamers to Wait 15 Minutes for Shaders to Compile in the Background While Playing After Reports Indicate Recent Update Causes Stuttering - IGN (www.ign.com) angielski
Premium experience for premium gamers /s
Amid Palworld Lawsuit, Nintendo Patents a System for Summoning a Character (gamerant.com) angielski
Sony is releasing a new PS5 console, but it's a downgrade (www.tweaktown.com) angielski
Same price, less storage. Shrinkflation at its finest....
Today’s game consoles are historically overpriced (arstechnica.com) angielski
Sony is raising all PS5 console prices in the US by $50, starting tomorrow (www.theverge.com) angielski
What foss MP games are still active? angielski
Like xonotic, opensrena, red eclipse, warfork, alien arena, etc. are they ever active or are they completely dead?...
I just played "Slay the Princess" and it rocks, here's the trailer (www.youtube.com) angielski
Holy crap this is a good game....
Day 386 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing angielski
Today’s game is some more Wind Waker. With my limited library of games, it seems like this is going to be my game for a bit (at least until next Sunday). Though I do have Silent Hill 2 Remastered installed along with The Last of Us, so those are things I’ve also been cracking away at. I did the forsaken fortress today and...
Steam Doesn't Think This Image Is ‘Suitable for All Ages’ (www.404media.co) angielski
Steam Doesn't Think This Image Is ‘Suitable for All Ages’...
Tetris Elements – one of the strangest Tetrises ever released angielski
Turns out Tetris Elements is my favourite Tetris....
Sony Sues Tencent Over Horizon Lookalike (www.gamespot.com) angielski
Sony Interactive Entertainment has filed a lawsuit against Tencent over its upcoming game Light of Motiram, with Sony saying it is a "slavish clone" of the Horizon series.
Junk Store 2.0 has released angielski
I saw that no one had shared Junk Store’s newly released version ‘2.0’ announcement, so I figured I’d format it for Lemmy and post it here....
Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors (itch.io) angielski
The group responsible is “Collective Shout”, the same org has targeted Steam before....
Day 371 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing angielski
Today’s game is Old School Runescape. I was in the mood to hop on and mess around in the game, so i booted it up and did the Cake Quest (finally). It took me a while to find the bucket for the milk, but i eventually did it. While i was looking for the Dairy cows i found these goblins watching the Cows. I don’t know if...
Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Valve have added a new rule to the Onboarding guide for game developers, noting that payment processors get a say in what stays on Steam....
ROG Xbox Ally Is $700 And Xbox Ally X Is $1050 (fandomwire.com) angielski
Day 362 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing angielski
3 More Days until a Year! Today’s game is Sea of Thieves. I figured I took a screenshot of some fish and jellyfish i saw in the water today and thought “Why the hell not, let’s see if i can keep this fish train going”. The fish in this one are far more cartoony, which is to be expected for Sea of Thieves. They’re a...
Krafton Issue Statement Regarding Subnautica 2 angielski
To Our 12 Million Fellow Subnauts,...
The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact angielski
Day 347 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing angielski
Today’s game is Sea of Thieves. For the first time ever me and some friends managed to get a full crew together and sailed my ship. We even managed to get our resident chef and arsonist to join us. He adds an extra challenge because the only thing he really does is stand at the stove and let food cook. He never really cycles...
Nexus Mods' new owners promise they won't monetise the site to death as users panic at the whiff of venture capital (www.pcgamer.com) angielski
Nexus Mods Sale Sparks Concern in Modding Community (comicbook.com) angielski
Day 331 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing angielski
Today’s screenshot is from Starfield. I know it wasn’t very well received, but i looked into it and wanted to give it a try myself. I got it on Discount a while ago (around 35$ if i remember correctly), and was originally going to play a while ago but Oblivion Remastered stopped that. I decided to give it a go though....
Elden Ring Nightreign’s Massive Steam Launch Tarnished by 'Mixed' User Reviews Over Lack of Duos Co-Op, Voice Chat (www.ign.com) angielski
People should’ve known these things going into it but hopefully the bad reviews should push fromsoftware to make the duo mode quicker.
Cyberpunk 2 is now in preproduction, CD Projekt says (www.videogameschronicle.com) angielski
Moonbase Alpha: That time NASA made a meme video game (www.spacebar.news) angielski
Nostalgia is a cruel bitch angielski
MAGfest 2026 dates dropped: Jan 8-11 (youtu.be) angielski
Day 297 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing angielski
Today’s game is some more Daggerfall. I originally intended to just go back to oblivion, but fuck Daggerfall is addicting. I love how immersive it feels. There’s a ghost haunting this one specific town? It actually attacks you at night in that one specific town out of like 2000 towns in the region. Need to find someone...
Do you think Square Enix should remake other Final Fantasy entries? angielski
Seems like a goldmine of content for them to work on for the next decade+. Plenty of people will never experience these worlds or stories due to the turn-based combat, so giving them the Remake treatment could be the only way an audience ever finds them....