Steam Deck, released in 2003

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I’m glad the tone is going back to the original games. I hated the tone of the reboot series, it turned one of the representations of strong, capable women in games and pop culture into a perpetual screaming rape victim.

There was a lot of neckbeard stuff going on around the time of the reboot, but seriously, it felt like they rebooted indiana jones and turned him into a whimpering victim. I get that’s what they were going for, and the tone they wanted and etc, younger Lara, whatever. It turned a powerful character established as independent and capable and stripped it away.

So, “Order of the Sinking Star” by Thekla was just announced, which takes several small free games (two of which are mine) and gives them a major graphical upgrade and mashes up their rulesets. I haven’t been very involved but it’s a great concept and looks cool.

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Additionally, in recent years it has become increasingly clear that Jon’s beliefs/priorities and mine are not aligned. He’s adversarial to people talking about privilege and representation, is dismissive of diversity efforts, has dabbled in covid trutherism, and is pro-MAGA.

I believe Trump is a self serving authoritarian who’s dismantling democracy, trying to make trans people illegal, and wanting to set up concentration camps for immigrants - whereas Jon in February called him “the best President we have had in my entire life”.

That took a turn. Also the reason why I said that if this falls flat on its face, there’s a chance he goes rambling crazyguy mode

Oh god. He’s finally releasing that sokoban game he wrote an entire language for, and it’s this.

I fear that if it wasn’t for his attachment, no one would care, it looks like a first timer indie/failed mobile port.

I give 60% odds this falls flat on its face. I give 5% odds that if that happens, he goes rambling crazyguy mode.

Yeah. I barely played NMS, despite pre-ordering it due to launch fallout. Still worth it, because the money was for “the joe danger guys want to proc-gen a fucking universe? I’ll kick in”.

It seems like you’re too emotionally invested to have a normal conversation like a person.

My bad for having opinions. Sorry. /s

Health is an app you can delete. It’s not forcing you to do anything. You don’t even need iCloud for anything. You don’t even have to use their walled garden App Store. I know because I download and install shit from the internet all the time.

All lies.

OSX has several things going for it, primarily, it’s got the clowns at apple running the show, thus, it has a bunch of “natural” interface bullshit that only make sense if you intend to live like a caveman and not understand that computers can function differently to physical objects.

On top of that, they pushed themselves as an “alternative” to windows back when they were even more corporate than fucking Microsoft, while blaring out the ignorant ass ipod adverts whose goal was to make the user into consumers making computing choices based on fashion. The iphone and it’s money gated, walled garden BS was just the cherry on top.

If you wanted a fucking alternative to microsoft, linux has been there for you all along instead of the “worse but shinier” osx, which mac served to just overshadow with its increased advertising budget and psychotic CEO.

And I mean that literally, Steve Jobs was actually fucking insane and a horrible person. From firing people at random, to abandoning his kids, to stealing livers and trying to cure his cancer with smoothies.

Also, it’s basically open/free BSD with more propriety bullshit on it than you can shake a stick at.

I don’t know how anyone can use Windows after 7.

Yeah, windows 8 , 10 and 11 are toxic shitholes. You know what macs did before windows started begging you to log in and create microsoft accounts? Force you to have Icloud or whatever the fuck it is accounts. You know how I know? My work laptops suck ass and forces me to have mac accounts, and is complaining that it can’t sync HEALTH DATA. MY WORK LAPTOP WANTS TO SYNC HEALTH DATA.

Apple blew the doors off for enshittification. They primed the fucking pump, and now microsoft and google are following through the door, you guys are like “yeah, putting osx on a steam box would be cool” fucking no. Ew.

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You can install OSX on there /s

Operating System SteamOS 3 (Arch-based)

They can’t stop meming (calling arch based, also, pointing out it uses arch btw)

I mean, based on their previous most recent titles, and what the ad budget is going to be, they are going to expect at least a billion dollars in profit

the LLMs can barely make fucking working code, let alone test it

Part of me thinks that this game will always sell gangbusters no matter what.

Part of me thinks that this is going to be the one where no one fucking gives a shit because of all the BS that R* have been doing since GTA5, and the oversaturation of open world games, and the stagnation of the series is going to make it sell WAY less than expected and fuck them over significantly.

I barely gave a fuck about 5. I’m 100% not going to buy this one.

4 was basically Ironman : the game. 3 was upside down spiderman, and felt so good.

That was a really cool time to be into open world games, where we had knockoff superhero open world stuff with Just Cause and Saints row. SR4 felt like you were the flash.

I don’t think so. It’s unlikely, but not implausible. I don’t think ICE have a list of “don’t arrest” people, and not everyone knows what every CEO looks like. They might run into him randomly and just act on it.

I don’t think Satya Nadal is going out in public like regular people, but it could still happen.

I’m sure if Satya Nadal were to become a target of ICE he’d have a comment.

to be fair, the layoffs (could) have been done under Activision.

HAH! the sims is about to get nuked

Let’s say gamers do that. The average EA/“Fifa” buyer will see the box art with Messi/Whoever and buy the fucking game.

I mean,I bought that just for SMG, so this feels shitty. It certainly wasn’t to play fucking super mario sunshine

Interesting take. I thought the lack of knowledge on item behaviour added to the ludonarrative harmony, since you’re a lost child wandering around. I did look up the item descriptions after though, in case some things didn’t make complete sense.

Once I started mastering the game and they added zillions of new items that diluted the item pool, it lost its lusture.

But I can see how it could be frustrating to not know wtf the stuff does

making up deficiencies in your own artistic and linguistic skills , getting easy starting points for coding solutions.

LLMs still hallucinate,

Emergent behaviour can be useful in coming up with new ideas that you were not expecting and areas to explore

they still confidently distribute misinformation,

yeah, that’s been a problem since language, if you want a statement more close to the topic at hand, the printing press.

they still contribute to mental health crises in vulnerable individuals, and no one really has any idea how to stop those things from happening.

so does the fucking internet.

Are you really gonna use the “guns don’t kill people, people kill people” argument to defend LLMS?

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Is that a problem with the existence of llms as a technology, or shitty corporations working with corrupt governments in starving local people of resources to turn a quick buck?

If you are allowing a data center to be built, you need to make sure you have power etc to build it without negativitely impacting the local people. It’s not the fault of an LLM that they fucked this shit up.

The topic is : using AIs for game dev.

1. I’m pretty sure that generating placeholder art isn’t going to ruin my ability to research
2. AIs need to be used TAKING THEIR FLAWS INTO ACCOUNT and for very specific things.

I’m just going to be upfront: AI haters don’t know the actual way this shit works except that by existing, LLMS drain oceans and create more global warming than the entire petrol industry, and AI bros are filling their codebases with junk code that’s going to explode in their faces from anywhere between 6 months to 3 years.

There is a sane take : use AIs sparingly, taking their flaws into consideration, for placeholder work, or once you obtain a training base on content you are allowed to use. Run it locally, and use renewable sources for electricity.

The only sane and ethical solution going forward is to force to opensource all LLMs.

Jesus fucking christ. There are SO GODDAMN MANY open source LLMs, even from fucking scumbags like facebook. I get that there’s subtleties to the argument on the ProAI vs AntiAI side, but you guys just screech and scream.

https://github.com/eugeneyan/open-llms

doesn’t have to be an ethical nightmare. Public domain datasets on local hardware using renewable eletricity, who’s mad now, the artist you already can’t afford to pay because you have no fucking money anyway?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvPkAYT6B1Q

Video Game Pricing videogamedunkey

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But I don’t want to be a gamer, I want to feel like I’m playing a game at an arcade

OK, never played hollow knight. this seems to be a “sink one million hours into it and git gud” game, and I have an arcade stick that I’ve been dying to use constantly on a game with.

Does hollow knight use both analog sticks? can this be played with a standard 1 stick, 8 button arcade stick?

99% of Steam users don’t want this?

Windows 95.23% -0.44%

Windows 11 64 bit 59.90% +0.06%

OSX 1.88% +0.12%

Linux 2.89% +0.32%

60% are on windows 11. The rest are going to lose support on october or thereabouts. I don’t think everyone will switch to 11, but there’s hope that the change in OS will be enough of a deterrent to go into yet another windows OS instead, and trickle into linux, or *spits* mac.

I do think Breath of the Wild is very good at eliciting a state of slowness and calm in people that are normally rushing through actions or constantly distracted.

my current experience :

Stupid lizard, it’s running away. Finally, a new one I can actually see. Fuck, a bunch of bokoblin skeletons spawned and shood it away. Oh boy, a dragon, I gotta get some dragon pieces to upgrade my armour. Where did it fall to? Oh boy, a shooting star.

I still need more fucking lizards…

BTW : any advice finding dragon pieces after they fall? I have lost where they went a couple of times.

and if it will work on Win10

windows 10 is losing support this year, so I doubt it.

not sure why people will bother , no one wants to use direct x

And nobody cared.

It’s not “nobody cared” it’s “not enough people can afford to keep a roof over their heads, let alone afford an extra holodeck room in their house with an expensive holodeck setup”

I’d love to play HL alyx. I didn’t and don’t live in a place where I can have a perpetually empty room I can drill holes in the wall of, or drop $1k on a valve index (after shipping and imports) plus a new $2k gaming rig.

yeah, my point is that he’s quite good at behaving strategically, and a capable businessman. However, his art was just a means to an end, like this videogame. He isn’t very authentic or good at that.

Also, I resent him for hearing the “go shawty , it’s your birthday” song a zillion times in the 00s

who cares, he just used the arts to make money. The last time he was relevant was when he was shitting on someone worse than him, Floyd Mayweather , for not being able to read.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iD8Q0lvJZvI

EDIT : Fuck floyd mayweather, motherfucker hugs his opponents and punches his partners. He’s got that shit completely backwards.

vice versa.

BS2 was 2K australia and a rehash. Infinite was the Og team with ken levine

jesus fucking christ, the original lootbox, raking it in still.

EDIT : RIP Android Netrunner. Yeah, I know null signal games is carrying the torch, but I left when unconditional tagging and board wipes got introduced

Looks like this Collective Shout is only a 40,000 person organization. 40,000 people just broke content access for millions.

Not even that.

https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/australian-anti-porn-group-claims-responsibility-for-steams-new-censorship-rules-in-victory-against-porn-sick-brain-rotted-pedo-gamer-fetishists-and-things-only-get-weirder-from-there/

Collective Shout later wrote that 1,067 individuals called and emailed payment processors as part of this campaign.

It’s absurd. I’m just going to link to the last thread from when this was on steam , and repost my comment.

https://lemmy.world/post/33277694

Collective Shout later wrote that 1,067 individuals called and emailed payment processors as part of this campaign.

How the fuck can these goddamn censors achieve so much with just this much, while stop killing games has hundreds of thousands, if not millions of supporters and can barely get companies to do the minimum?

Just fucking anything worth doing needs overwhelming support, these dickheads can get it done with just over one thousand people. It’s a fucking joke.

Yeah, this is incest and rape, incest and rape bad. wow, hot take. It’s not about that, how fucking little effort do these dickheads need compared to how much fucking effort is needed to actually achieve something meaningful in this life.

These pricks are only doing it to try to limit speech instead of doing something to “protect the vulnerable”.

porn sick brain rotted pedo gamer fetishists

I’m sure they won’t finish there, and won’t rest until porn in general is outlawed.

Now you’re being actually ridiculous. “Sales are bad”? Really?

Valve was making bank before lootcrates, and lootcrates have been available to kids since trading card games.