RxBrad

RxBrad , 1 day ago to retrogaming in Fake Pokémon Cartridge Spotted At GameStop Raises Concerns Among Retro Gamers

I’m surprised that they don’t take even a minimal amount of effort to clean those things up before selling it. A little dab of isopropryl alcohol does wonders.

That cartridge looks like it spent the last 20 years in a butt.

RxBrad , 1 day ago to retrogaming in Fake Pokémon Cartridge Spotted At GameStop Raises Concerns Among Retro Gamers

Someone buys fake on eBay. Plays it. Sells it to Gamestop. Minimum wage employee does not spot that it’s fake and it ends up on the used game shelf.

None of this is new.

RxBrad , 7 days ago to games in Failing Manufacturers Are Pushing the Narrative That Consoles Are Dying, Says Ex-Xbox Exec

60fps PS5 games were only ever 60fps because they were really just PS4 games running on faster hardware.

Now that we’re finally getting games that aren’t cross-gen with the 10-year-old PS4, we’re back to 30fps-ville.

RxBrad , 8 days ago to linux in How dare you use a text editor because it's easy to use

The Holy Trinity: VIM, Arch, and Rust

RxBrad , 8 days ago (edited 8 days ago) to linux_gaming in GE-Proton9-12 Released

The regressions are what bum me out about playing Windows games on Linux.

Games like Yakuza 5, where Proton worked for awhile, but then broke. So you need to manually use year-old versions for the game to run correctly.

EDIT: Funny I should mention Yakuza 5, because I just tried it on this new version, and it works again. (No wrong audio on cutscenes. No getting stuck on the initial load screen when starting the game.)

RxBrad , 9 days ago (edited 8 days ago) to pcgaming in Can you trust Valve? Honest criticism of Steam.

It’s funny, because as much as people here hate corporations and monopolies, they would seemingly kill their own mother if it meant Steam would be the only seller of PC games.

EDIT: As demonstrated by these angry downvote reactions…

RxBrad , 17 days ago to programmer_humor in BS from MS about AI helping an MD

Actual pharmacist here, working in pharmacy IT.

Unlike other industries, Pharmacy is not particularly thrilled about or interested in AI. In fact, my hospital explicitly blocks access to all LLMs.

I was actually kind of hoping to see what Microsoft is claiming here, and just walked away from this post more confused.

RxBrad , 17 days ago to games in Avowed Runs at 30fps on Xbox Series X and S, Obsidian Confirms

Consoles are $500 gaming machines, generally capable of about 30fps in games. It’s no different for Microsoft or Sony.

And Nintendo… Well, Nintendo is Nintendo.

The bean counters have decided that people don’t want to spend more than that on videogame consoles. If you want more fps, luckily everything gets a PC port nowadays; and your almost-certainly-more-than-$500 rig can handle that.

It is what it is.

RxBrad , 17 days ago to games in Avowed Runs at 30fps on Xbox Series X and S, Obsidian Confirms

That was an option on console for most of the generation so far: Performance Mode vs. Quality Mode. But that’s mostly because nearly every game released so far has been a hastily ported last-gen title. It feels like this gen has really just barely started.

Single-player console games being 30fps is not new by any stretch. That’s basically what consoles do. And they’ve managed pretty well with it so far. If you want to spend 2-3x more on a beefy PC, you can get all the frames you want. More power to you.

20 years ago… Skyrim, Fallout, The Last of Us 1, GTA4-5 on PS3/360 gen. 30fps.

10 years ago… God of War, Gears of War single-player, Fallout 4, The Last of Us 2 on PS4/XBoxOne gen. Also 30fps.

RxBrad , 17 days ago to games in Avowed Runs at 30fps on Xbox Series X and S, Obsidian Confirms

Luckily, this is about as much of a FPS as Skyrim.

Skyrim, too, was 30fps when it first released on PS3/360 back in 2011. None of this is new.

RxBrad , 18 days ago to games in Avowed Runs at 30fps on Xbox Series X and S, Obsidian Confirms

Both can be true.

I mean… 30fps has been the single-player console experience for as long as I can remember. (Except for the PS4/XboxOne-native games – seemingly this entire generation – which get 60fps on current gen.)

Yes, PC can do 60fps+ if your rig is beefy enough. Yay.

Console wars bullshit is insufferable. Even when PC is one of the consoles.

RxBrad , 19 days ago to piracy in How do you handle backup?

Hey, at least all of us peeps in the US can upgrade our >$100 capped plans to unlimited for the low-low price of $30-50/month (i.e. what some of our friends overseas pay for their whole-ass unlimited crazyfast internet plan).

RxBrad , 20 days ago to piracy in Guide: Arr-Stack + qBitTorrent using Docker-Compose

Your -arrs see the torrent download folder as /mnt/arr-stack/torrents/completed, and qBittorrent sees it as /downloads.

Maybe this is only a problem with Transmission, but I’ve had trouble making my Arr stack play nice with torrents when the different apps think downloads live in different folders.

RxBrad , 20 days ago to piracy in How do you handle backup?

Your ISP with a 1.2TB data cap: “lol.”

RxBrad , 27 days ago to linux in The Best way to switch to Linux is to NOT

Strongly recommend a KDE-based distro if coming from Windows.

Gnome is too janky when you’re used to the workflow in Windows. It’s almost like Windows 8, which nobody uses if they can help it.

KDE is just way more familiar.