This Steam Next Fest killed Unreal Engine for me.

Every single game with that splash screen ended up as a slide show, and not even prettier, I play 15 years old games that look better than most games I saw coming from UE5.

I used to recommend Unreal 4 for everyone, but they are already going for 6 without optimizing the 5.

No need to upgrade, just give a chance to other games, devs and engines that cares for their customers.

I got into Cassette Beasts a while ago and notice all Godot games run well on Steam Deck and my older hardware. Cry Engine looks beautiful and still run well on stuff.

Linux gave extra life to so many computers. I still have a core 2 duo running Void.

Sadly, I can only open two tabs on Firefox. But it is great. For some games thought, I can only run stuff on hardware that came after 2012.

Wow almost 20 years! Kudos.

future proofing

I understand the sentiment, but this wording was always a marketing ploy for people to spend more than they need and it was never useful.

When I was young, we were having so many innovations that there was no need to overpay, in two years you could get something twice as powerful for half the price. Even less if you could get used.

Then it took a halt, by the time I needed more memory. It was cheap to get a DDR3 + mobo + CPU than filling the empty slots on my DDR2 motherboard.

I failed for “future proofing” a few times. Extra memory slots, multicores and 64bits that windows and programs struggled to see, PSU with 4x that power I needed, when I needed it most of the plugs already changed.

I lived through a bunch of hardware shenanigans, some were shrugged, some were caught and received a slap on the wrist.

Now, more than ever, people should buy what they can afford and properly dimension their hardware for their current needs, not some future fantasy. There are communities over here that can help them with that.

There are no big innovations either, mostly exaggerated hardware usage for no apparent reason to force buy new hardware that does not do much either.

My rule of thumb for games early last year was if you cannot build something better than Steam Deck for cheaper, get the Deck, but now it is all crazy.

Awesome, I love it, Lucy. Thank you for creating it.

I would just disagree with the little to no story. I feel like dungeon crawlers have the most compelling stories because they are deeply attached to gameplay rather than exposition.

That is why Deloitte, PwC, Tata, … and the list goes on, exists. They were the gig economy before the likes of uber, door dash…

I worked for a multinational a long time ago and learned 2 important things:

• Some countries have strong labour laws, and a judiciary that bites. The company was sued and had to compensate those contractors similar to employees, including severance packages for people that were dismissed.
• One of the main unions (some unions cover a sector of the industry in a country rather than a single company) brought up terms related to contractors, to ensure they would have similar benefits, and they manage to get a few in during the collective agreement, sadly it only affected people in that region. It was ridiculous, some RH firms were paying people 10% of what they were billing us. It was cheaper to hire them straight, but for silly reasons we were not allowed to.

Wow, thanks for the link, I bookmarked it. When it mentioned it was a satirical article, I was not expecting a masterclass. 😅

Michael O’Donoghue was a writer and editor – as well as an author, playwright, radio writer, filmmaker, satirist, scribe, essayist and commentator. He was an editor and writer at the original National Lampoon, and a writer on Saturday Night Live in its early years.

Not sure if you mean the crossover between Jojo and Cromartie, but I could only think of that conversation in the train, going like the root comment said.

Sorry, I am still bad (and lazy) at Krita.

I imagine you haven’t dabbled in Korean web novels, or some humour/parody comics.

Your Zbijgl and cat food lines are better than a lot of stuff I read before. Honestly, in the right context, they could work on something from Hitchhiker’s Guide to The Shining.

I can almost hear them in an episode of JoJo or Cromartie High School

my favmamort

😅 Sounds cute.

Edit: today I will call someone my favmarmot to see their reaction.

It took me a while to realize he was a crazy con man, to my fault, it was only when he started meddling with stuff I had some understanding. Around the same time, he was investing in movies and making cameos: Thank You for Smoking, Iron Man…

But people were already pointing that out from his time on Paypal. And you can find stuff even before that. So no,

He was crazy/con man even before Tesla.

There is no excuse. Just because there was a time that he posted rainbows and talked about climate does not sane wash his actions, it is just that he was targeting another kind of people. Just like companies rainbow their logos during pride month.

I feel seen! Thanks for the link.

It might give them better ratings. With so many artists boycotting Eurovision, the line-up this year is feeble. I used to go through the playlist barely without skipping, now only a handful of songs are interesting.

Example of the boycott affecting the choices. From the 16 artists competing in Portugal’s nationals final, only 2 said they would not boycott, guess who is representing PT, by televote, in Eurovision now? And the (lack of) quality shows. Put them side by side with any harmonic group from Eurovision, and it feels like when they had a regular guy competing in the swimming Olympics. They have no charisma. They cannot interpret the song, it is supposed to be about love and longing, but they just look and sound tired and confused on the stage. I don’t worry much about the quality of vocals because usually competitors improve that a lot by the performance day, but still.

Anyway, Lemmyvision is way more exciting!

Thanks for raising awareness on forced labour in Canada and sharing the sources! There are plenty on the rest of the world too.

They also destroy the environment (on top of the car polution) Ford, GM and Nissan are one of the worst. There was Greenpeace report a while ago about the Amazon Rainforest, I cannot find the orginal but found a similar https://news.mongabay.com/2012/05/u-s-car-manufacturers-linked-to-amazon-destruction-slave-labor/

Even before EVs were a thing, I was already worried about the cars in Canada collecting and monetizing my data, including things unrelated to the car. I think the worst was Nissan that disclaimed collecting sexual activity data. But every single car company: Ford, Volkswagen, BMW… you name it.

https://www.mozillafoundation.org/en/blog/privacy-nightmare-on-wheels-every-car-brand-reviewed-by-mozilla-including-ford-volkswagen-and-toyota-flunks-privacy-test/

scrapped the digital services tax

did PP give them to you

Of course, it is a young troll account cosplay as a USAsian 2 party system being rude all around.

Edit: Guess someone was scanning my profile for upvotes (https://lemmy.ca/post/64456317)

Yes! Thanks for the recommendation.

I watched the first episode, and it is almost like they threw everything about animation in that episode. Very enjoyable to watch those styles and colours.

Thanks for the recommendation, I watched the first episode and it is great. It got very weird at one point, I was afraid what was going to happen to the little girl, but I am glad how it turned out.

The intro and outro music on the episode are great too.

I consider S1E7 to be one of the best episodes

Great to hear that, a lot of those animations come out strong ointhe first episodes but let me down later in the series.

edit: the S01E07 hit me right on the feelings. And the animation was superb, that first person run under the rain gave me shivers, felt very real. And every episode so far the music was spot on.

One problem is that condos downtown did not reduce in price. During Covid, it was common to see half-empty buildings. People were willing to pay +2k in rent to cut on commute time and costs. It is nice to have a bunch of options at walking distance, but it is hard to justify paying that price just to be close to a coffee shop.

On the other hand, friends in the suburbs rarely do activities that benefit “small local business”, it is always a chore to go out in sprawls areas with barely no sidewalk or proper transit infrastructure. I don’t see the government investing in more density or better mobility to help those business. But you can count on them to force you to use that oil.

The bad part is that Canada is taking no measures to reduce usage like some other countries are doing. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/mar/20/oil-price-energy-watchdog-iea-emergency-measures-work-from-home-slow-down-on-the-road

A bunch of people don’t need to work from offices. That would reduce the demand by a lot, and also free the roads for those who need to drive, helping those to save on gasoline. Back to office was just a way to pleasure real state and oil billionaires.

Even more buses can reduce the demand for cars.

Those are some great songs, thank you all for the effort put in this event.

I am more excited for Lemmyvision that for Eurovision this year.

That high note with the kid’s piano in Limbo gave me shivers. I keep going back to it.

Suffer is the friend I introduce to my parents. Merz leck Eier is the one I show my grams.

The anime music is a banger, I wonder if the anime is as good. Same goes to the video game soundtrack.

It is taking me too much time to rank them all.

My recommendation did not win, but I am happy with the picks representing ‘.ca’ and I learned about so many great songs beyond my usual stuff. The French category is on repeat the past couple of days, and I have Dogue stuck in my head.

The organization of it was great, thank you so much for your work!

I decided on the Borda count, normalized by the number of choices ranked, so that voters who ranked fewer songs are not disadvantaged compared to those who ranked all of them.

I really like this, I heard about Borda count when people discuss ranked voting, but this normalization seems to improve it a lot.

And seeing it on practice is next level. Thanks for teaching me something!

When I checked where else people use Borda

The Eurovision Song Contest uses a heavily modified form of the Borda count, with a different distribution of points

So it makes sense for Lemmyvision.

Cheers.