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RightHandOfIkaros ,

Publishers when a game specifically designed for consoles does not sell like Candy Crush on mobile: :shocked_pikachu_face:

RightHandOfIkaros ,

Im pretty sure none of Jupiters moons would survive. But I suppose if they did perhaps they would change classification from moon to planet, but I think planet classification now also depends on size, so depending on size they still may not qualify. I don’t know if any of Jupiter’s moons are larger thaan Pluto, Ceres, etc.

RightHandOfIkaros ,

Sony needs to be punished for this trash. No chance that this wasn’t the result of Sony paying money to prevent this from dropping on Xbox.

It’s anti-consumer and needs to stop.

RightHandOfIkaros ,

It’s the most impressive video game to come out of china, the first that seems poised to generate significant buzz internationally.

Uh, Genshin Impact? Massive global buzz around that game, and makes a huge amount in revenue yearly.

RightHandOfIkaros ,

That may be true. I don’t play many games from China, not because of any reason its just the games that come from China usually don’t appeal to me. I mean sure, I am concerned about Chinese government spyware, but also I am not anyone that is important so them having my data is completely valueless. I have a lot of fun with Super Mecha Champions, but when I tried out Genshin I just stopped playing after the big controversy of Rosarias bust size getting nerfed and the ice area was added to the game. I just didn’t find the game much fun anymore, but it has made a massive amount of money.

Wukong looks like a fun game though, I look forward to its release.

RightHandOfIkaros ,

The problem is if Sony has a monopoly on the premium console market, they can charge any number they want and consumers have no other option. Less competition always means prices go up.

Sony’s practice of paying money not for exclusivity for their platform, just to stop developers from developing for Xbox for a period of time, is anti-consumer and needs to stop.

RightHandOfIkaros ,

Yeah, defend the mega corporation more. Good job lickin’ them boots.

RightHandOfIkaros ,

This is cool but not for $200. That’s way overpriced for something this underpowered.

RightHandOfIkaros ,

Maybe, but this doesn’t seem to be a product made for businesses. It looks like a product designed for hobbyists.

RightHandOfIkaros ,

Lemmy is very hostile to people that don’t have views or thinking that aligns with most of its users. More hostile than Reddit, I would go to say. Whether you were earnest or not never mattered in this situation, you were getting downvoted regardless. Unfortunate, but the quicker you understand that maybe the less this stuff happens. Lemmy is a big echo chamber just like Reddit or Facebook.

RightHandOfIkaros ,

Less tolerance, that’s for sure.

RightHandOfIkaros ,

Is it going to be packaged with UPlay malware/bloatware?

RightHandOfIkaros ,

AliExpress is either a scam or a great deal. There is no inbetween. I have been successful with clothing from them, and even an Xbox One wired controller that had both joysticks at the top like a WiiU Pro controller. I haven’t been scammed yet, but I do know that it can happen.

RightHandOfIkaros ,

Abyss looks cool but its so derivative with some of its elements, I would be afraid of legal trouble if I was the developer.

Obvious clones of elements from Kill la Kill, AKIRA, and Mega Man Legends, while also including some other stuff that looks like Metal Gear Solid and EVE Burst Error or Silent Mobius.

RightHandOfIkaros ,

There are some forks of Dolphin that support VR.

RightHandOfIkaros , (edited )

Kotaku - “Unscored”

Were they too busy with their other garbage to do a proper game review or what? Don’t they have something like Black Myth Wukong to complain about?

EDIT: “By Alyssa Mercante” – So its totally ignorable, got it.

RightHandOfIkaros ,

Alyssa Mercante wrote it, so I don’t care to bother reading it.

The only thing she does properly is attack other people and say the absolute dumbest crap imaginable.

RightHandOfIkaros ,

Outside of the Lands Between and the Shadow Realm, I have spent nearly four months as the subject of a near-endless harassment campaign. It feels, at times, like logging on for a day of work is akin to walking through a boss door over and over again.

Alyssa is a narcissistic “Professional Twitter Victim.” Its not even past the second paragraph and she is already playing the classic narcissist card of making it all about how she’s a “victim,” despite it being her that is creating the problem by going out of her way to attack, harass, and insult other people.

She is an awful person and I don’t have any empathy for awful people. I don’t need to read anything from her to know I can ignore it and be better off for it.

RightHandOfIkaros ,

If I provided sources, would you believe it or would you try to move goal posts/ make excuses? Under normal circumstances I would have provided sources, but in this kind of conversation I have found 99% of people that demand sources do so without intent of actually wanting to see sources and simply to continue bad faith arguments.

If you actually want sources, Google is there. DMs sent to Jeff of SmashJT and his wife, remarks to Mark Kern, its easily findable. I don’t care who you are, you don’t have beef with someone online and then find their wife to harass in DMs. That is too far.

RightHandOfIkaros ,

Realistically, at least for Stellaris, Paradox updates the game for free for everyone that breaks everyone’s in-progress games and breaks key features of the game by fundamentally changing how the mechanics work. Then they sell the DLC that is absolutely necessary to fix whatever they broke for people who don’t own the DLC.

Paradox creates the problem and then sells the solution.

RightHandOfIkaros ,

Nah, get them all. Just to spite Nintendo.

Like, before I only had a small handful because I thought hey, if I ever need to access them in case my dumping hardware stops working or something, I can. But now that Nintendo is making everything disappear and nobody is fighting them, other companies are following their lead. SEGA and companies in the ESA.

Get the entire library at once and you dont have to worry about media being destroyed forever.

RightHandOfIkaros ,

People did care, which is why people who played games competitively continued to use CRT monitors well into the crappy LCD days.

Heck, some people still use CRTs. There’s not too much wrong with them other than being big, heavy, and not being able to display 4k or typically beeing only 4:3.

RightHandOfIkaros ,

This only happens with TVs or very low quality monitors. The flyback transformer vibrates at a frequency of ~15.7k Hz which is audible to the human ear. However, most PC CRT monitors have a flyback transformer that vibrates at ~32k Hz, which is beyond the human hearing range. So if you are hearing the high frequency noise some CRTs make, it is most likely not coming from a PC monitor.

Its a sound thats a part of the experience, and your brain tunes it out pretty quickly after repeated exposure to it. If the TV is playing sound such as game audio or music it becomes almost undetectable. Unless there is a problem with the flyback transformer circuit, which causes the volume to be higher than its supposed to be.

RightHandOfIkaros ,

I know it. I myself have 2, a 1981 JVC UHF/VHF radio 4.5", and a Sylvania 27" with a DVD/VHS combo unit built into it.

They even made a curved ultrawide CRT once, surprisingly. Though it cost a fortune when it came out.

RightHandOfIkaros ,

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flyback_transformer

Under “Operation and Usage”:

In television sets, this high frequency is about 15 kilohertz (15.625 kHz for PAL, 15.734 kHz for NTSC), and vibrations from the transformer core caused by magnetostriction can often be heard as a high-pitched whine. In CRT-based computer displays, the frequency can vary over a wide range, from about 30 kHz to 150 kHz.

If you are hearing the sound, its either a TV or a very low quality monitor. Human hearing in perfect lab conditions can only go up to about 28kHz, and anything higher is not able to be heard by the human ear.

Either that or you’re a mutant with super ears and the US military will definitely be looking for you to experiment on.

RightHandOfIkaros , (edited )

Yes, as I previously stated, if there is a problem with the flyback transformer circuit, it is possible that the frequency or volume of the noise it generates can become increased or different.

Though again, PC monitors never made an audible noise unless they were low quality and used the cheaper 15.7kHz transformer in their construction.

Other noises associated with CRTs are the degaussing noise, which only happens once usually after turning on the CRT or after pressing the degauss button, or the sound of old IDE hard disks spinning, which also make a constant high frequency noise.

RightHandOfIkaros ,

Your secret is safe with me.

RightHandOfIkaros ,

I suppose its possible with a low quality CRT that has poor construction, leaving loose parts or thin plastic fins that can vibrate at harmonics of a lower frequency, but high quality CRTs don’t have this issue.

Extra or louder noise does not occur in normal operation of a correctly functioning flyback transformer circuit. Any frequency or harmonic (vibration) that occurs that is not the specified frequency of operation of the flyback transformer is caused by a problem in the circuit. A brand new CRT with known good parts will not have any kind of extra harmonic.

I had to replace a flyback transformer because it was too loud, and it was a pretty simple job. Hardest part was finding a new flyback transformer. After replacement, the noise volume was reduced to normal levels.

RightHandOfIkaros ,

You will 100% overpay if you get one on eBay. Best place is to try asking businesses, schools, or local news stations if they have old CRTs you can look at they’d be willing to sell to you. News stations preferrably since they usually had very high quality BVMs.

RightHandOfIkaros ,

This lawsuit build on a false premise. Steam doesnt have a price parity clause for other stores. What this lawsuit alleges applies to Steam keys that the developer generates through Steam. If the developer lists those keys for sale at a price lower than what the game is listed for on Steam, then the price of the Steam Store purchase price must match it, so that people visiting the store page on Steam get the same discount. It doesn’t matter if you list your game on GOG and discount it there.

Its literally helping players.

RightHandOfIkaros ,

This is Nintendo trying to enforce Japanese law on a global scale, again.

Nintendo, I used to love you. Now I hate you. Stop it.

RightHandOfIkaros ,

Honestly, pirating Nintendo products should be considered an ethical obligation at this point, just to spite them.

RightHandOfIkaros ,

Pirated copies of old ROMs that Nintendo doesn’t sell anymore cannot be counted as “lost sales,” so that really only applies to their latest releases.

RightHandOfIkaros ,

Nintendo was never reading my comment to begin with. Its merely an expression of disappointment and frustration. I never expected it to ever actually do anything.

RightHandOfIkaros ,

Yep, Steam Machines were basically that, but just a PC that ran SteamOS. I think they could come back to moderate success now where they kinda failed before.

RightHandOfIkaros ,

If their pricing and performance is comparable to premium consoles, and your whole Steam Library automatically carries over, I definitely think more people would be interested.

Best way of playing Wipeout these days?

So…after watching latest Noclip video, I was having a bit of a Wipeout itch…I have a rather decent gaming computer, but I was wondering what would be the best way to play the wipeout series…was 2097 the best one? Is there a good way to get it running at decent resolution/effects these days?...

RightHandOfIkaros ,

Everyone sleeping on WipeOut 64, SMH my head

RightHandOfIkaros ,

“A lethal dose of one point three to two point one (or one and three tenths to two and one tenth) nanograms per kilogram in humans.”

RightHandOfIkaros ,

Honestly, if your hardware is good enough just run StableDiffusion locally via Automatic1111 or something.

RightHandOfIkaros ,

Starfield is popular to hate on, anything Bethesda does with it will “draw player ire.”

RightHandOfIkaros ,

This game looks better every time they show it. Initially I was very worried when they talked about the dreaded project killing words “made for a modern audience,” but it appears this is going to be alright.

RightHandOfIkaros ,

This looked interesting visually, and they probably blew their entire budget on the soundtrack, but as a marketing video it was pretty bad. It didn’t clearly communicate what kind of game it is, or how I play it. Is it an RPG? A point and click adventure? A free roam story game? I don’t know because this trailer didn’t tell me.

RightHandOfIkaros ,

It looks like theyre not only using elements from the N64 original, but elements from Perfect Dark Zero as well, which wasn’t the worst game ever but it wasn’t a masterpiece.

Perfect Dark was always like the woman-led version of James Bond with a high science fiction flavoring. It doesn’t seem to stray too far IMO.

RightHandOfIkaros ,

Only from the parkour though. Literally nothing else felt like ME.

RightHandOfIkaros ,

I hate that it looks so good without Kojimas involvment. Then again, its a remake and everything needed is already there.

RightHandOfIkaros ,

It does, and I am happy for that. I wish more remakes would be close to remasters like this.

RightHandOfIkaros ,

I hope this sells well in Japan. Maybe we can get more.

RightHandOfIkaros ,

I loved Starfield, and I am happy to see theyre still working on it.

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