Kushan

Kushan, 2 days ago

The engine Can of Duty uses is effectively a heavily modified quake 3 engine.

By this point it’s so modified it may as well be a different thing, but make no mistake it has evolved from the quake 3 engine.

Kushan, 8 days ago

I used OSMC for years going back to when it was still raspbmc, got the first Vero and then the 4k model.

They were never perfect and hassle free, a lot of which I put down to Kodi itself. I love the idea of Kodi, but the base interface is lacking (especially when you have a big collection) and most of the fancy front-ends / skins I tried would run too slow and once again bring back the shoddy TV experience I was trying to avoid. It also does not support streaming services like Netflix or Disney+ in any usable capacity. Kodi has a rich add-on ecosystem, which usually means you can plug some gaps but the add-ons have a habit of just breaking out of the blue or during major upgrades. I’ve had to have Kodi index my library so many times that I got sick of it ruining film night.

Eventually I bought an Nvidia shield, still using Kodi at first but switching between Plex, jellyfin and emby until I settled on emby for my local content. Being able to use other streaming services was a bonus and the hardware was good enough that it doesn’t feel sluggish.

You can also install 3rd party apps like smart tube for an excellent YouTube experience (and now my preferred way to watch YouTube).

The shield is starting to show it’s age big time (it doesn’t support HDR on YouTube, for example) but sadly outside of the USA there isn’t really any devices that match or beat it - you keep hearing about that Wal-Mart device being brilliant but that’s US only.

So in short, get a good android TV box for the best experience and the most options.

Kushan, 11 days ago

He likes his coffee how he likes his women.

Kushan, 11 days ago

In fairness, that scene with the destroyers was fucking awesome. Fuck the canon, it looked cool as fuck.

Kushan, 17 days ago

In the UK we’re mostly using metric with the odd exception (we still love a pint of beer), one of which is that speeds are measured in MPH. It’s not really a big deal, there aren’t many customers between miles and kilometres and anything less than a km is still usually measured in metres.

Kushan, 22 days ago

He makes billions of dollars from YouTube videos or something

Kushan, 22 days ago

That context is exactly why Karl’s content is what it is, it’s the same reason so many YouTubers use click bait titles and stupid thumbnails - it gets more hits and more hits is more money.

If it takes you a week or more of your time to make a single video, of course you’re going to want as big a return from the video as possible. And if the choice is 3x the return for the same effort then it’s a complete no brainer.

Kushan, 21 days ago

You uhhh…you might have missed the sarcasm on that one.

Kushan, 30 days ago

It was front page on the BBC as well.

Kushan, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

If the game is good I’ll buy it, if it’s shit I won’t. I don’t see how these NPC’s will make the game good and I haven’t personally bought an Ubisoft game in several years.

Kushan, 1 month ago

I doubt many of the commentators here used any of the deprecated methods to contribute to openssl.

It’s one thing to talk about what’s good for open source, it’s quite another to practice it.

Kushan, 1 month ago

Your analogy would fit if the deprecated methods didn’t have a higher barrier to entry than using GitHub.

This is less like removing the wheelchair ramps and more like removing the steps at the back of the building.

Kushan, 1 month ago

And yet no actual contributor to openssl is losing sleep over this.

Kushan, 1 month ago

Yeah I love nano. I can use vim a little, enough to make a change and save the output. I can even exit vim!

But 9 times out of 10 if I need to edit a text file in a terminal window, I’m just making a quick config change - I need the terminal equivalent to notepad, not the terminal equivalent to an IDE.

Nano is exactly what I need, nothing more and nothing less.

Kushan, 1 month ago

Those keybindings are prevalent outside of windows though, Ctrl+C is almost universally copy and Ctrl+V is almost universally paste - it might have been popularised by windows at some point in history but it’s well beyond that.

There’s an argument for consistency, especially with basic functions.

Kushan, 2 months ago

I understand where you’re coming from, but you’d have to really go out of your way to ignore a lot of stuff in the game to just get the gameplay without any of the dialogue or text that is absolutely dripping with satire.

Kushan, 2 months ago

You make money by both selling more and spending less.

Think about it, you can have none money left over at the end of the month by working extra hours at your job or by spending less money on something - but what if you can’t work extra hours because there’s none available? And what if you need that extra cash at the end of the month? The only thing you can do is spend less.

Phil is kind of saying the same thing you’re saying here, but it’s not easy to just “sell more”, not when everyone else is struggling to have that extra cash to spend.

The games industry right now, as a whole, isn’t growing. That means companies are selling less. Phil end everyone else would love to sell more, by all means if you’ve got some solid ideas on how to do that then every games industry veteran out there will happily listen to you, but the sad and shitty reality is that sales are down and when you’re a business, if you can’t increase sales you’ve got to cut costs.

And that means job losses. It fucking sucks and we can have debates all day long about the merits of capitalism and all that, but that’s the reality of today. That’s the game. Phil is being honest and up front here, it’s a shitty game but he’s playing it and if he wasn’t playing it, someone else would.

Kushan, 2 months ago

A Simpsons reference?!

At this time of year?

In the part of the lemmyverse?

Localised entirely within this post?

Kushan, 3 months ago

Wow, guess the Saudis overpaid with that $1billion, they must be kicking themselves

Kushan, 3 months ago

SNW has been an excellent show that I’ve greatly enjoyed, but each season has had one episode that stands out as being incredibly sub par.

In season one, it was that weird fantasy one that felt like an attempt at doing a holodeck episode without the holodeck.

In season two, it was the musical episode.

Kushan, 3 months ago

No he’s right, Yuzu’s Devs were openly encouraging piracy. It was all over their discord.

That’s why they settled so quickly, they were fucked otherwise.

Kushan, 3 months ago

I don’t know why you’re getting down voted, it’s completely reasonable to ask for sources.

Here’s an example, look at the tweet referenced which shows an except from the legal filing: twitter.com/gamr12/status/1765098920521461869

Essentially, the Devs were writing articles and posting messages about games working before they were officially released. As in, before people have legal means to purchase them.

You might argue that it’s not uncommon for people to get pre orders early, sure, but this is clearly pushing it.

Kushan, 3 months ago

There were several sequels, but they were all terrib-ohhhhh, I see what you did there

Kushan, 3 months ago

I’m convinced its a mistake, especially given that origin hasn’t dropped the price

Kushan, 3 months ago

So a cartridge?

Kushan, 4 months ago

I think it’s more like pepsi issuing a product recall for something that has been accidentally left on the side of the road. You know you should not be drinking it anyway, but you also know someone would try it.

Kushan, 4 months ago

I feel slightly obligated to buy it day one.

Kushan, 5 months ago

I love this right up until the random rule gets applied, then it’s just frustrating.

Kushan, 5 months ago

It sounds more like they’ve consolidated build pipeline and this obfuscation is part of it.

Kushan, 5 months ago

Several years ago I got an email about my rockstar account - someone had guessed the password and logged in, they were trying to change the email address. Luckily I’d managed to stop it in time and recovered the account.

Several years later, I decided to give GTA Online a go, I logged in and found I had billions in cash and loads of property and cars. I guess that they must have been nodding while using my account.

But I didn’t get banned so free stuff I guess?

Kushan, 6 months ago

Game pass is legitimately great. I’ve played loads of games I wouldn’t have otherwise bothered with thanks to it.

Kushan, 6 months ago

Maybe I’m a bit of a luddite but many of those “outdated” games have far better gameplay and stories than games today.

Kushan, 6 months ago

Yes, good games exist today, that doesn’t mean lots of games aren’t also terrible live service cash grabs.

Kushan, 6 months ago

I am doing. What you’re saying is a non statement given the context of the discussion.

Kushan, 6 months ago

Please highlight where I said all video games were good at a period of time.

Kushan, 6 months ago

You care enough to reply.

Kushan, 6 months ago

Lol okay buddy, have yourself a nice day.

Kushan, 6 months ago

You said that modern games were terrible cash grabs

I said:

Yes, good games exist today,

You seem intent on putting words in my mouth.

Kushan, 6 months ago

They were already at 283k followers when they said they’d add it in if they hit 300k. Sounds to me like they wanted it to happen.

I’m pretty sure the developers have already planned this out and that “the sex update” isn’t going to be anywhere near as hardcore as the article implies. The Sims had sex, remember.

Kushan, 7 months ago

I just want to know if they’ll let me replace the screen. I can live with the battery but I’d love an OLED screen.

Kushan, 7 months ago

yeah I’ve seen reviews of that and I am not keen

Kushan, 7 months ago

Then it should fit, it might need a spacer or something but I can live with that.

Kushan, 7 months ago

I dunno, between redfall and Starfield it sure does feel like Microsoft leaves them to their own devices and doesn’t even check their homework.

Kushan, 7 months ago

Not quite, they promoted some folks and reorged the upper structure of Xbox a bit but Zenimax is still operating fairly independently:

“ZeniMax will continue to operate as a limited integration entity led by Jamie Leder, President and CEO, reporting to Matt,”

theverge.com/…/microsoft-reorg-xbox-marketing-ai-…

Clearly Microsoft is trying to avoid more bad game launches, they need to exert some amount of control but I’m looking at that and seeing them trying to do it with a minimal touch.

Microsoft has had a spat of sub-par, underwhelming releases lately - Redfall, Starfield, even going back as far as Halo Infinite and to my knowledge, none of the war stories there have said it had anything to do with Microsoft meddling. I’d go as far as to say that Microsoft needed to keep a closer finger on the pulse of all these studios, not less.

Kushan, 8 months ago

That’s literally the only reason I’m supportive of this. Super mega corporate mergers are usually bad for consumers, but those fuckwits are so much worse.

Kushan, 8 months ago

You can bet your sweet ass CoD will be part of it. Possibly not MW3 but the next game will be a big day 1 game pass launch, guaranteed.

Kushan, 9 months ago

Why is it that her actions of sleeping with someone while you were broken up are on her and have consequences, but your actions of breaking up with her aren’t on you and don’t have consequences?

You guys broke up. The consequences of that are that you’re no longer together, no longer committed to each other and how long you were together before that is completely and utterly irrelevant.

If you still believe 2 weeks is “too soon”, please do tell us how long she should have waited - and please show your maths on that one because I’d like to what the formula is for length of time after a relationship is over before it’s “okay” to sleep with someone else. Is it 1 week for every year you’re together? Does the nature of the breakup affect the result? Would it have been more or less okay if it was a total stranger over someone she already knew?

Hopefully by the tone of my response you can start to appreciate how farcical what you’re suggesting is. You owe her an apology for gaslighting her into thinking she’s done anything wrong there and you need to take some self reflection to figure out why you feel the way you (hint: you’ve got insecurities to deal with but don’t feel bad or ashamed of it, we’ve all got them).