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The worst kind of an Internet-herpaderp. Internet-urpo pahimmasta päästä.

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It looks like a shiny plastic toy.

I was just about to say exactly this. For some reason the go-to effect seems to always be reflections. Why does everything need to be super glossy? Add lens flares while you’re at it, why don’t you.

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I play quite a bit of idlers and clickers, and they’re generally quite low on the gameplay department, but this… this just looks minimum effort meme game. Doesn’t seem like there’s anything more than a click counter and an image of a banana.

Am I missing something?

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figures, but hey, if people really enjoy it then… fine.

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I guess just because how the question was laid out, I’m disqualified as I was taught how to use it the first time I used it. :P

with my first linux -system, I had an experienced friend to hold my hand while installing, configuring and usage - including vim. So, the first thing he taught me was how to exit it. This was sometime in … 2003-ish?

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gamingonlinux.com/…/microsofts-new-recall-ai-will…

www.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/copilot-plus-pcs#…

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looks cool, I’m assuming it’s diablo-esque? Consider my interest tickled.

OTOH: now, I understand this is a me-thing, and totally a peeve, but: …steamstatic.com/…/ss_9c16fc30038768654d12a33dad5… - why, WHY, is chromatic aberration (CA for short, TLDR: blue/red colors separating towards the edges of the screen) so prevalent nowadays? It’s like the modern-day lensflare, who wants this? It only makes sense if you’re simulating a bad camera lens on purpose. Is there supposed to be a drone flying over your character in the game, filming it all? Can it be turned off?

It’s a hard nope for me as far as effects go, my eyes start to hurt due to some strain very quickly if a game uses it. Had it on Outer Worlds (ini-edit removed it, no in-game option. BOO), Cyberpunk (in-game option to disable it, YES!).

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obvious privacy concerns aside, who the hell actually needs this?

If something I do is important enough to remember later, I do save it (bookmark, screenshot, screencast, whatever). This doesn’t need to be automated, esp. since it seems to require 25-50 GB of diskspace to do anyway.

For users, this is a solution seeking for a problem. For megacorpo this is just more data harvesting, even if it’s “only local” for now. Hard pass, nopety-nope-nope, also arch btw and so forth.

Fallout Series (Why don’t I like it?)

I think my first Bethesda game was Skyrim and I love Skyrim. I’ve played through Skyrim when it first came out I played through it again in the DLC came out. I played through it again on the switch I have since played through it again on PC. I love Skyrim. I played it so many times and I know it’s a meme to keep re-releasing...

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“Where’s John Connor” - could work :D

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list of surprised people:

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Games/franchises like this feel like they’re aimed for youtubers. But do people actually enjoy them as games, or do they enjoy them as reaction/gaming videos?

I might be a bit out of the loop with these, but I kinda feel the “main audience” is mostly kids, are the kids actually going to go to the movies to see it?

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Yea, there’s always the one that innovates and then there’s the imitators. Trend setters and trend chasers.

Now, I’m fully admitting my experiences with any of these mascot horror things is limit to youtube videos, but still… to me these just feel like cheap jumpscares and kinda jank youtuber-bait games with excessive tacked-on lore… But that’s just me, if anyone enjoys these, don’t let my grumpy old-man-yells-at-clouds-grump dampen your parade, go you go!

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installing operating system: 15 minutes, give or take.

give a name to the computer: 45 minutes

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Hell yea, Indy Atlantis is absolute peak… then again so is most of lucasarts point&click adventure games.

Man I wish the teased sequel for atlantis was actually made :/

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while all of those qualities are great, they alone don’t make game great.

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I haven’t played many SNES games, but the ones I have have been pretty good. Fairly sure there’s quite a bit of stinkers in there too.

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as far as I’ve understood it, the main issue of the account lies in the fact that the game has been sold on regions which either cannot make a psn account, OR are allowed to link their steam account to the PSN account.

So basically, for quite a few people this means the requirement will lock them out of the game. Sure, VPN’s and linking accounts outside of their home region is apparently possible, but then they run the risk of getting their account(s?) banned.

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steamcommunity.com/stats/1363080/achievements huh? the numbers show differently (for me, at least) on the page.

https://sopuli.xyz/pictrs/image/4d29d258-171e-4379-846d-a9a9096a4faf.webp

Interactive Loading Screens - High Hell

Developing interactivity is effort and an investment. Most developers put up a simple loading screen, maybe some text like rotating tips, and a loading indicator. Until 2015 a patent on interactive loading screens may have made developers and publishers cautious and decide against developing interactivity....

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Dunno if it is good or bad, but Warframe has this loading screen where you see players’ ships and you can steer them a bit. No real point to it, but at least it’s something to do when waiting for someone to load in.

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wonder if it’s going to rat someone out by saying something along the lines of

A member of your Steam Family already owns Horny Hentai Ladies: Stupidly huge dongs GOTY

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ah, right. that’s a thing.

Goes to show how little I have needed it (or how little shame I have) :P

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the plot of

spoilerSOMA

in a nutshell?

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I guess I’m in the older segment as I’m in my 40’s, and still basically exclusively a pc-guy, making a slow but somewhat sure transition over to penguin themed os from windows.

I do play some older console games (via emulation), adventure games (scummvm <3) and quite a bit of modern pc singleplayer/coop titles. My go-to launchers are Steam and GOG.

Sure, pc maintenance can be a lot at times, but I’m a nerd and tinker on my pc a lot anyway, so it just happens.

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I don’t play TF2, but I thought basically all hl2 -family games were updated to 64bit ages ago… apparently this wasn’t the case :o

Any of the other games running the same engine still in 32bit land?

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Overall I’m still getting used to the Steam “processing vulkan shaders” pretty much every time a game updates, but it’s worth it for the extra performance.

That can be turned off, though. Haven’t noticed much of a difference after doing so (though, I am a filthy nvidia-user). Also saving quite a bit of disk space while too. https://sopuli.xyz/pictrs/image/22a40c69-6148-4e7d-8e68-c8c9515f706e.webp

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turning it off will wipe the cached shaders. That cleaned up like ~40 GB (IIRC) for me, without any noticeable difference in performance, stability or smoothness. Though my set of games at the time wasn’t all that big: path of exile, subnautica: below zero, portal 2 and some random smaller games.

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well, I do have this one game I’ve tried to play, Enshrouded, it does do the shader compilation on it’s own, in-game. The compiled shaders seem to persist between launches, reboots, etc, but not driver/game updates. So it stands to reason they are cached somewhere. As for where, not a clue.

And since if it’s the game doing the compilation, I would assume non-steam games can do it too. Why wouldn’t they?

But, ultimately, I don’t know - just saying these are my observations and assumptions based on those. :P

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yep, I’m aware. I just haven’t observed* any compilation stutters - so in that sense I’d rather keep it off and save the few minutes (give or take) on launch

*Now, I’m sure the stutters are there and/or the games I’ve recently played on linux haven’t been susceptible to them, but the tradeoff is worth it for me either way.

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amd cpu, but nvidia gpu, so as far as I’d understand, not using ACO then?

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Multiplayer? With randoms, hard pass. With friends-only, sure, why not.

But I’d still rather save scumm my way through immersive sims on my own like I usually do, I don’t need witnesses to my shame.

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It’s been a hot minute since I last played F4. But now that a friend of mine roped me into F76 I’ve been itching to get some F4 action in between the sparse F76 sessions, esp. since the big update is just around the corner.

IIRC the perks system in F4 requires you to have stats in the SPECIAL -stats to open up the stat related perks, and then choose to spend the perks points to those instead of the stats. Other perks are given as rewards from (side?) quests - if memory serves, but it’s been a while.

I did enjoy the adventuring aspeects of F4, but the settlement management was pure agony. The more you build the settlements, the more attractive they become for mutant/bandit/whatever attacks. If you don’t build them, the settlers moan about not having places to sleep or food to eat. Even if you build them everything, the idiot settlers can’t figure out themselves to start farming if there’s no food, instead they require the player to specifically assign them for the task.

Other than the settlement management, the game is great, but as it’s bethesda creation it gets better with mods. I recall esp. enjoying mod which removed ambiguity from dialogue choises and just showed the actual lines instead of “snarky” or “okay” or whatever.

As far as companions go, I do enjoy “the private detective” as a companion, if I had to choose, but mostly I prefer going in alone, as the companions can be dumb as left boots. Died so many times because the idiots walk into all the traps imaginable. And the “stealth archer” doesn’t need companions, they’re powerful and broken like in every Bethesda -game :P

Last time I played my VATS got glitched and didn’t work anymore, apparently this has something to do with vault 114 & is a known issue. Didn’t bother me one bit and I kept on playing without it. IMO, the game got better without VATS.

Tips? Nah, you do you. The game turns into power fantasy regardless of what you do. But in general talk to everyone and do listen in on the radiochannels which can pop out randomly out there, there’s always something cool or funny to find.

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…that actually sounds interesting, Might need to look into that. My original plan was just to mod in infinite carryweight and such and just pick a direction and go on an adventure but now I’m reconsidering.

So how does the sim settlements thing work, if I’m going with it, do I need to (or want to?) install all the chapters, or should I add those once “I’m done” to move it along?

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what I meant was that their site (simsettlements2.com) lists 3 different chapters as different downloads, each newer requiring the previous ones.

haven’t delved in their documentation yet, I’m assuming these are stacking changes/quests somehow, but… dunno. I’ll read into it.

How to revitalize this sub?

I love the original patientgamers subreddit so I was stoked to find this community. And because lemmy seems to have a more knowledgeable crowd any topic I posted here had great engagement and discussions, despite the small community. I am too busy to be a mod but maybe I can help by sparking this discussion: what would be needed...

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I‘d post about games I‘ve played lately (like Unravel) but I feel like „was a cool game with a cool style which made me enjoy the graphics even today and was interesting to platinum“ doesn‘t start much of a discussion.

I’ll be the first to admit I mainly lurk, but I’d be interested to read about games people find interesting. Who knows, might be a title which flew under my radar and was one introduction away from being my all time favorite.

But yea, the “what are you playing” threads were fun reads.

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Got to play it with someone for a bit, they seemed to know where all the neat things were (iirc, the murals, scarf lengthening thingies, etc). But due to the inability to communicate more than just “dings” I couldn’t convey that I needed a quick toilet break. They were gone after I came back, which was a bit sad but I probably wouldn’t have stayed waiting either, tbh.

It was quite okay, I recall playing it through twice, but the second round didn’t really offer much in terms of “value” over the first. Cool visuals and concept, though.

Other somewhat similar vibing games which I somewhat relate to Journey:

  • Sable - Somewhat similar character designs, quite a bit more scifi and some dialogue. Pretty cool 3d platformer puzzle.
  • Proteus - walking-sim, graphics are those “if atari 2600 could do 3d”. Kinda cool experience, but also kinda one-and-done.
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doesn’t seem like there’s any assets in there (textures, music, sounds, videos…), just the code, so the footprint of it is fairly small just because of this.

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I was just reading the steam reviews for it, apparently the game pushes FOMO hard. Daily grind to run optimized route to gain in-game currency (with daily caps!) to afford cosmetics which may or may not ever return, so gotta act now. Or throw in 15 $€£ now now now, item is gone soon! …At least the game has the decency of being free to play.

Might take a looksie, Journey was pretty cool once or twice. This seems like a decent try, I guess?

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huh, maybe I could squeeze out some effort from myself to actually finish the game after the update drops. Played the game few times to the doorstep to the last battle (AFAIK) and never returned to continue the saves. Maybe this time will be the time.

Also, kinda wish they’d push similar updates to 3 and NV. They do kinda work as is (atleast the gog versions + some modding), but… you know, some official fixies pls? :)

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(the creator may have to enable this, not sure).

afaik not an option for creators, OR it isn’t an option for me/my videos.

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That’s probably the thing. My videos are in finnish, with quite a bit of background speech in english (long story short: they’re letsplays). Could be that the auto-transcription can’t quite parse the random mix of finnish and english. I’ve mostly seen some odd videotitles translated to finnish, and tbh, they are so wildly confusing to me. I almost skipped a video from one of my fav. creators due to the title as I wasn’t expecting it.

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am I correct to assume this is the thing that’ll fix eg. Steam going full seizure mode under wayland + nvidia?

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Exactly that. Awesome and thanks.

Now, aggressive waiting for the updates begins

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Last Epoch

playing offline because that’s where all my stuff is as last I checked the online was a disaster. Other than that, it’s pretty cool ARPG. Though I have some thoughts about some “gearcheck” -type bosses. After ~180h (since beta) or whatever, I’m still thinking it’s a solid 7/10. Fairly enjoyable, but not greatest of all time by any stretch.

Content Warning

It’s completely stupid and I love it. Essentially wannabe-“spööktubers” take a camera and few flashlights into dark, abandoned industrial complex to film something spooky, just to gain views on “Spööktube”. Views gain you money, money buys you gear.

The dives to the industrial complex are very short too, as you can only film so much (90s max, it seems), and the monsters are hella deadly. Either the camera gets filled or everyone is dead in minutes.

The footage can be saved as .webm -videos to desktop, which is GREAT

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good to hear. But, either way all my current stuff is on offline and none of my friends have the game, so moot point.

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needs few circles around the X in the corner too.

bonus points for subtly hidden dick and balls, though

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It’s not even limited to nvidia, I also get it on intel igpu (i5-2320, ancient, I know).

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I’m ok with timezones, but the guy who invented daylight savings time I’d slap to all the way to the sun

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yea I do also use the favorites (and two other manual lists), but thats about it. Mostly I just use the “last played” view of the library and hide games which aren’t installed locally.

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come on! Lindsay 'em up!

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