I hope so, a duopoly isn’t exactly good but it’s better than a single viable player.

And it’s not like AMD is perfect: their APUs had several issues that Valve and open source contributors had to fix on their own.

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Ah fuck me man, I absolutely hate reading stuff like that, it ruins my day

I can only imagine how much better the world would be if cars weren’t a fetish.

No car looks “badass” - electric or internal combustion.

We will truly live in a world where 95% of games are based on Unreal Engine, 4% on Godot or GameMaker Studio, and 1% custom engines.

Which is such a shame… When Unreal does something bad, like absolutely messing up shader compilation, pretty much all games start suffering with this for years. And there are some amazing engines out there… Resident Evil’s scales surprisingly well and looks way better than it has any right to.

It reminds me of the absolute insane stuff arcade manufacturers would do to keep control over everything.

Capcom used to sell full blown arcade systems where the game’s ROM was actually volatile - in 2 years, it would vanish. You needed to pay them a monthly fee so that a technician would come up with a special device capable of rewriting the data periodically.

The point isn’t that it’s quite literally free. It’s a figure of speech.

Between taking a game you’ve already completed and is already popular and reworking it to sell to a brand new audience… versus creating a new AAA title, which one is more expensive?

I quite literally just started the SNES original, for the first time, 3 days ago… Guess I’ll stop and wait for the Switch release. The 2D graphics are surprisingly charming, but I bet the new version will have some QoL improvements.

we hate

“We” don’t. I fucking love it. If I could drink significantly more without disrupting sleep, I would.

Your body adapts to bitterness. But most importantly, there’s a difference between buying good coffee, grinding and preparing it how you like it, versus buying 8 month old burnt pieces of leaves and some coffee from Walmart and shoving sugar with vegetable oil on top.

It doesn’t even need to be expensive or special coffee - just give slightly more mental effort to a drink you consume everyday.

This is a complicated situation because it’s a real life embodiment of an argument often used in the copyright and reaction content debate: the game is a visual novel, which means that unlike say The Witcher 3, the creator can indeed argue that by showing the entirety of the game as a recorded video, the final customer does not need to buy the game to have pretty much the same experience.

For a big game, irrelevant. For a small indie developer? Your visual novel being a YouTube longplay or a streamer react could be the end of most of your revenue.

That’s the devil’s advocate instance on it. My own worldview is very much radical to the opposite extreme, so I’ll refrain from talking much.

It probably was an irregular account, yes. Not that it ever mattered.

That’s what happened to me once due to Bitwarden - it lost all my 2FA codes. It was an absolute pain getting access back to all accounts.

My Google account has been rock solid from the day I created it as a child to today, even though my needs and their services changed dramatically over the years.

Most of the issues with people claiming their accounts got locked up “for some unknown error” are actually hosting and sharing copyrighted material, like creating public Google Drive links to a movie or sharing a game ROM via Gmail.

People should be leery of every Chinese app they install.

True. They also should be leery of every American app they install. Unlike the speculation with Chinese apps, we actually know all these apps will have NSA’s backdoors or direct data collection.

so far

Yeah, that’s true for literally everything.

Your self hosting setup never failed I guess… So far!

I know Lemmy’s classic “Google bad” but you know what? Google’s password manager and authenticators never lost my passwords, never charged a subscription, didn’t require me to invest money and effort into self hosting, never leaked, never disappeared, and always worked perfectly on any device within seconds of logging into my account.

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I get Intel having issues with DX9 ~ DX11 games. These are quite literally the composite of a thousand hacky patches, bug workarounds, engine quirks, and a mix of drivers being developed around game issues and games being developed around driver issues.

But Starfield is DX12… DX 12 was quite literally the standard before Arc was made, during it’s development, and the main graphical API for at least a few more years. It’s also nowhere near as filled of issues as previous ones.

Pretty inexcusable that you buy a full price graphics card, and then need to wait until Intel blesses you with a functional driver to be able to play a game.

Obviously. People need to be aware of the scam to not fall victim to it.

Notepad = good.

WordPad = people randomly using it to open Word documents, breaking the document and calling me because the PC I built them five years ago is “destroying their documents”

Top level domains have been a significant source of income for several countries for a while now.

To be honest, even all these decades later, I’m still not happy with how everything became “.com” and that’s it