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Ashtear

@ Ashtear @lemm.ee

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  • Having grown up on Sierra adventure games, I still have a part of my brain thinking about saving and loading in bad situations from time to time.

  • PC gaming getting worse every year

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  • Much of this isn't unique to PC gaming. And if there ever was a dark age for PC hardware, we've recently crawled out of it, thankfully.

    What bugs me the most right now (and doesn't quite get addressed in this article) is low performance standards. Everyone's pushing 4K and ray tracing, which makes it hard out here for us framerate nerds. It's starting to feel like every major release that comes out is Crysis, something for my hardware to grow into. Only with blurry anti-aliasing/supersampling techniques now.

    One new, big positive I'm not seeing talked about much is a growing variety of Japanese publishers are taking PC seriously now, and that hasn't happened in over thirty years. I'm including Sony in this, even with their recent missteps in the space, and Square Enix's recently announced restructuring suggests simultaneous PC releases in the future for their games. That will inject some competition in PC gaming, although be aware that Japan has its own share of publishers that release broken ports.

  • Total War: Star Wars reportedly in development at Creative Assembly

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  • Been a while since I've seen that name. One of a long line of very meh Star Wars games.

  • PS5 barely missed its sales target in latest earnings report, and Sony expects to sell even less by next year

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  • Which includes the pricing model. Some regions even saw a price increase.

    A lot of corps threw out the whole concept of a demand curve over the pandemic.

  • [Gamers] Nexus ASUS Scammed Us

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  • So what's the top alternative? I've had quality issues with the last two Acer monitors I bought 😭

  • Weekly what have you been playing discussion - week of May 6th, 2024

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  • Finishing up Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes. I wish it were polished, but it's still thoroughly scratching the Suikoden itch.

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    Why are socialist and communist countries usually considered more authoritarian than capitalist countries?

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  • One regime's political-dissident-by-speech is another's dissident-by-drug-addiction. America's "War on Drugs" was purely political disenfranchisement along racial lines, and it's a major reason why the US continues to have higher incarceration rates than the USSR had in many of the years the Gulag system was operational.

    By the way, prison rape jokes have long been a part of those late night comedy shows, to give you an idea of just how ingrained the American prison culture is.

  • What's changed in lemmy and the fediverse in the past 3 months?

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  • Seems things have shaken out (for now) regarding defederation, including less chatter about Threads than there was. I don't anticipate much change on that until the next big influx of users, whether it's people coming in directly through Lemmy/Kbin/Mbin or a new player joining the Fediverse.

    Other than that, I've just seen steady growth in my communities.

  • fucking beautiful. almost a year into the 'verse and its starting to become more functional than that R place... better than i imagined.

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  • We're doing our best!

    If you're in a niche community, don't be afraid to put some content out there. Niche communities are generally so happy to see any conversation. The amount of criticism/downvoting I've seen on topics in slow communities has been very low.

  • Other than AI, what technology are you excited about?

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  • Sometimes we get immediate benefits. It took a while for capitalism to take over the Internet.

  • What todo app are you using?

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  • Went back to college last year and Joplin's been amazing. More off-topic, but the only thing I wish it had was better search result organization.

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    Who's the most famous person you've met?

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  • I sold a copy of Golden Sun to Venus Williams once.

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  • Yep. I'm on lemm.ee and I don't even think about what content I might be missing.

  • Lemmy Babies of the Rexodus - it's been 9 months, how has Lemmy changed you?

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  • Correcting someone's English also almost never adds anything to the conversation at hand, which is the literal purpose of the downvote.

  • What is the best star trek moment of all time?

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  • "It's a faaake!"

  • What's your Patient Gamer's Unpopular Opinion?

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  • I don't like 3D platforming. I haven't liked it since it really kicked off in 1996. Even all these years later with Super Mario Odyssey, I feel like I'm constantly fiddling with the camera, and something in my brain struggles with judging distances in 3D space at times. I used to love platforming. Yoshi's Island is one of my all-time favorite games.

    If I were in a bubble, I'd say the camera and the floaty controls that are in a lot of these games need an overhaul, but Mario's as popular as ever. Between that and Mario games still being at the top of metascores, it's probably only me and five other people grumpy about it.

  • Lemmy active users down, comments steady and posts up

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  • lemmynsfw also banned CNC and is hostile to the drawn/animated side of the medium, which, if Pornhub's numbers are anything to go by, is going to cut your participation big time. People love hentai and kink.

    lemmynsfw's admins never seemed to get that running a successful porn site means hosting content that might turn you off personally and trusting your mods to handle content control in categories unfamiliar to you.

    Not surprising at all to me that a bunch of reposts and sex work ads what they were left with.