MrGamingHimself

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

At least they didn't release it at a broken state like they usually do

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Depends on how much you care about privacy. There are a lot of not bad chinese phones in the low/medium price range. Realme phones are pretty good for the price. Samsung a52 and a52s are pretty good as well though a bit more expensive. Both of these have great cameras. I would recommend a phone that is at least 6gb of ram though, 4 is way too low these days.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Copyright is theoretically a good idea but what ends up happening the last few decades is that it's just become about companies that abuse the system to hoard as much intellectual property as possible. It's absolutely ridiculous that most of the time an author's work belongs to a company, and a company will run it into the ground even after the author's dead (see: Spongebob). And they keep extending copyright dates because Disney keeps whining while owning most of the entertainment industry.

Then you have stuff like Alan Moore's works. The man has gone insane from how much they milk his works and make bad interpretations of it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So your solution to make people cultured and free-thinking is the censor the opposition

Hmmm...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

For real. Coming into the fediverse is so confusing as a newcomer. For one of the main features being "all these social medias can interact with eachother", it sure is confusing to actually use it...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's a riff off an old meme and I will not accept slander about it

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Maybe losing all his scripts can inspire him to write a good show next time lmao

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I still can't get over the fact that a supposedly massive team (Ubisoft Pune and Ubisoft Mumbai) couldn't remake a <5 hour game. They're not even tasked with making a new game, just remaking a 2 decade old game and making it look good.

And they couldn't do it so they gave it to a real part of Ubisoft and apparently that's in development hell too. What is even going on? I guess it's just cursed.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Buying components separately is cheaper, though sometimes there are good deals on pre-builts.

Choosing the right components can be a bit tough, it all depends on your budget. That's the first question. If you're buying it for Christmas you may want to wait for black friday and buy then.

The market is still kind of in shambles. Everything is a lot more expensive than it should be because of parts shortage. If you're looking for mid-range I'd recommend a GTX 1660, but if you want to spend a little more and future-proof your PC, I'd recommend an RTX 3060.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

We'll surely hear about Hollow Knight Silksong and Avowed, right...? Geoff...?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Bruv, I skipped through most of that and saw this interesting line at the footer

You also should consider the fact that if humanity itself becomes worthless, then good software no longer has any value. To fight the degeneration of humanity, you might also consider my Arkian project.

Then things got really wild. I don't wanna derail this thread too much, but that dude literally owns a cult where he wants to do a noah's ark style system where he only allows intelligent or very religious people in where they would be "safe from genetic decay" and be the perfect family. It's TempleOS levels of screaming for help. Dude needs to chill out and see a therapist. Wild stuff.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Honestly I feel like it's a thing that is becoming better as time goes on. A lot of people say the opposite, but it's the 2010s that things went really south. Electron being the prime offender. A lot of what made bloat maddeningly big is starting to get scaled back.

Electron is very slowly being phased out in favor of Tauri (Electron binary size 127mb compared to Tauri's 6mb). NodeJS is slowly getting phased out in favor of Deno (Lighter, more secure). There's been a trend of re-writing things with Rust which makes things faster and tiny. Most bloated apps now usually have an open source alternative that does the same thing better (see for example OBS as opposed to how I had to fight with my system to record my screen before that)

The reason big tech companies like Microsoft and Facebook are so chalk full of bloat is because they're using old technology, and they're in too deep that they don't have the time to re-write a decade of progress in something else. If you use the right tools nowadays though, I feel like you're likely to get much better results.

Also the trash trend of dynamic languages is also falling out of favor. Took like two decades, but now JS getting replaced with Typescript means the morons writing it will mess up less. Now all we need is a way to make WASM (Web Assembly) viable and we can kiss javascript internet bloat goodbye. I, for one, think it's looking pretty good.

Side note: someone in the comments of that article compared people writing bad code to 1984. Lol.

Other side note: Dude writing this article is the developer of Gratitious Space Battles. Hey, I used to really love that game.

 

Anyone else really excited for this game? I played the original Dead Space on release and it remains one of my favorite survival horrors out there. Just really atmospheric and tense, plus the gameplay is pretty fun.

 

Looking forward to this game

 

Can't believe it's been 10 years. I played this game many times near release and still remember it so vividly. What a fantastic experience!

 

For those unaware, Overwatch 1 has basically been on life support for the past 3 years and hasn't been recieving any new content due to devs moving on to Overwatch 2.

This dev update is mostly about them apologizing for running their own game into the ground, they're promising more communication, more updates, listening to the fans, and are having a closed beta soon.

Honestly it's a step in the right direction, I'm a big fan of playing this game with my friends (it's especially fun when we gather as a full team), and it's been frustrating seeing how much they messed up and all the employee abuse happening at blizzard. Here's hoping they can start fresh after being bought by a company that knows what they're doing.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/189305

Elden Ring runs better on Linux thanks to Valve pre-caching shaders on first launch, while Windows users have to suffer through stuttering and poor DX12 performance. Pretty wild!

It also has Proton-specific fixes that help performance, such as https://github.com/HansKristian-Work/vkd3d-proton/commit/54fbadcc9405841cc018210ba6d1045e71f405c0 . Thanks, Valve!

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/189205

In 2017, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild released and is generally considered one of the greatest games of all time. The game had a surprisingly big impact on the industry by introducing a new genre: true open world games.

In short, a true open world game is where you're dropped into a world and can go in any direction you want. The game is more minimalist than most, there are no quest markers or level scaling and you're not forced to go in a specific direction. You're free to explore the world without having a sense of direction, tackling its challenges and discovering new things at your own pace and in any order.

And now a new challenger comes in: Elden Ring. This game takes BotW as its inspiration and (imo) really excels where the other one lacks. There are so many unique events and interesting places in the world, with interesting rewards and an awesome sense of scale. I looooove finding caves and catacombs and having no idea what rewards are inside, whether it's a cool set of armor, new spells, spirits, or maybe some talismans. Not all the rewards are useful obviously, but they usually find a way to be interesting (like a talisman that makes you stronger around poison). It just genuinely feels like you're exploring a world for the first time, something I never felt in other open world games.

Dark souls is also my favorite series of all time so I might be a bit biased lmao

What do you think of this new genre/trend? Are you a fan of these new types of open world games or do you prefer the older ones like Far Cry 3? Do you prefer more linear games? I wonder which company is going to try this next.

 

In 2017, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild released and is generally considered one of the greatest games of all time. The game had a surprisingly big impact on the industry by introducing a new genre: true open world games.

In short, a true open world game is where you're dropped into a world and can go in any direction you want. The game is more minimalist than most, there are no quest markers or level scaling and you're not forced to go in a specific direction. You're free to explore the world without having a sense of direction, tackling its challenges and discovering new things at your own pace and in any order.

And now a new challenger comes in: Elden Ring. This game takes BotW as its inspiration and (imo) really excels where the other one lacks. There are so many unique events and interesting places in the world, with interesting rewards and an awesome sense of scale. I looooove finding caves and catacombs and having no idea what rewards are inside, whether it's a cool set of armor, new spells, spirits, or maybe some talismans. Not all the rewards are useful obviously, but they usually find a way to be interesting (like a talisman that makes you stronger around poison). It just genuinely feels like you're exploring a world for the first time, something I never felt in other open world games.

Dark souls is also my favorite series of all time so I might be a bit biased lmao

What do you think of this new genre/trend? Are you a fan of these new types of open world games or do you prefer the older ones like Far Cry 3? Do you prefer more linear games? I wonder which company is going to try this next.

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