🎮│game

[fringe salmon]

didnt it go f2p then?

[bleak pike]

It was free for a long time before then

Base game was always given away and you could play the trial aka what we mostly have rn

The whole f2p shit was just basically removing extrs steps

[fringe salmon]

all I know is WoW having the same cheats it had years ago and that never got patched

so if they have something it'd have to be really bad

[bleak pike]

Like d2 was mega locked down during bnet

But as soon as it used the steam wrapper

Or whatever irs called

Open season

[orchid prism]

lolwat

maphacks have existed for D2 and Warcraft 3 forever. Never got caught.

[fringe salmon]

sounds more like people got interrested in making/selling and buying them when it came to steam

[bleak pike]

Never ever experienced a hacker when it was on bnet

And never heard about them

[orchid prism]

You THINK xD

[fringe salmon]

you are talking about different D2s

diablo2/destiny2

[bleak pike]

Oh

XD

[orchid prism]

Of course I am - Why would you need fucking maphack in DESTINY

[bleak pike]

I was a bit confused

When you said that

[small comet]

why would u ever play destiny

[bleak pike]

There was nothing to sell tho

[fringe salmon]

either way bnet has nothing

[fading spade]

Olivia seems to be spending a lot of time in Kyle's house....

Everytime I go in to talk when he isnt elsewhere around the island she's is always there....

[bleak pike]

@fading spade

casting couch

[orchid prism]

That's a stool you philistine.

[fading spade]

That's a piano stool you philistine

[orchid prism]

[fading spade]

:')

[small comet]

thats a philistine you piano stool

[barren pewter]

everyone knows a casting couch is actually just a giant-sized, very puffy and stuffed red chaise

😏

[fading spade]

Xd

[bleak pike]

and?

casting couch is just a term

lol

[barren pewter]

we know what casting couches are actually for

😏

[young hill]

Time machines of course

[orchid prism]

And they all seem to involve couches.

[feral ferry]

https://gameinfinitus.com/news/starfield-final-stage-development-polishing-optimization/

[orchid prism]

https://tenor.com/view/girl-sure-jan-sarcastic-brady-bunch-gif-11590179

You know it's a joke post. Bethesda and polish are oxymorons.

[feral ferry]

You know, Bethesdas games are polished to be fun

Fun is sometimes subjective, and broken game is honestly a fun game

[trim rock]

Epic has integrated EAC into EOS. Only this new EAC has gotten proton/wine support. People are furious because they think this means games have to be on the Epic store (false) or require Epic accounts (false).

[ripe tendon]

people like to get angry

[fading spade]

https://youtu.be/JNoi2pfcQFI

a GameBoy / GameGear you can place in a Dock and connect BT controllers to! neat

[orchid prism]

Pricy though

[small comet]

that case

looks like the old gameboy cases

[fading spade]

https://youtu.be/KDH_Ynv8MWo

my brain hurts from just watching.....

how tf

[young hill]

Well gta online updates make the game worse and worse. Last time it do double presses in the update and now it is causing sensor lag.

[fading spade]

...

Bro, that's a jump!
Jordan - 2022

[small comet]

no thats a a jump

[fading spade]

That would be pretty damn great indeed

[dusky aurora]

Please do not use such words here.

[fading spade]

Wtf

What word ???

Anyway.....
I really like this layout
Or the one the switch uses

[fringe salmon]

well it seems the bot thinks you typed something containing the n word lmao

[dusky aurora]

Please do not use such words here.

[fading spade]

Ahb

Got it xd

The other name for shoulder buttons

Wait
The ones below the shoulder buttons

[fringe salmon]

ah ok

ye that seems to need some tweaking then lmao

[fading spade]

Very much so

rt unless you could nayhe say that other work if you type it and swap t and r around

rt sorta looks like n

[bleak pike]

@fading spadeill disable it

[fading spade]

Danke

Why's that word blocked?

For the buttons name

[fringe salmon]

...

[fringe salmon]

this

[fading spade]

But....

[fringe salmon]

yes it's not exactly the same

[fading spade]

It rhymes with it
That's the only thing close

[fringe salmon]

5/6 and 5/7 letters are in the same order

pretty close for something that does more than exact matching

[fading spade]

True

[ashen lark]

Still I think it would be better to just block exact words

I mean the exact words blocked will already cause ton of accident deletions and imo more stuff to deal with then if no words were blocked. But that just imo

[dusky aurora]

Please check out #📦│batch_updates regarding deliveries.

[fading spade]

Workarounds...

What caused that to happen?

[fringe salmon]

@bleak pike I feel like for this there is no need to delete the original message

[fading spade]

Idek what caused it

[ashen lark]

Yeah my least favorite thing. You can’t type “arrival of a thing” in any form

Starts with del

[fading spade]

O

[ashen lark]

Haha knew this would happen

But yeah you can just use arrival for now

[bleak pike]

its meant for bad words

[dusky aurora]

Please check out #📦│batch_updates regarding deliveries.

[fading spade]

Such bad word

[bleak pike]

i disabled it

xD

[fading spade]

UwU

[ornate cedar]

They are censoring us brothers THE LIBERALS ARE COMING TO TAKE OUR GUNS

1984

crt

cbt

freedom

[trail dove]

I'm coming to take your guns because I want them for myself :) not because I'm a liberal

you now have to watch out for two different entities

[barren pewter]

I guess my vacation spot was decided

Train to NEW VEGAS

[ornate cedar]

🤮 fallout 3

[barren pewter]

Tale of Two Wastelands

train still works too

off to the better fallout game of the X360/PS3 age, I go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[trail dove]

who the fuck would want to go to st. louis

idk might just be that I live close to it but it's a shit hole everywhere except for the arch and parts of delmar loop before the divide

but ig fallout takes place in an alternate timeline so St. Louis might be sexy

[barren pewter]

idk...

St. Louis is in another fallout game

Fallout Tactics

place is a shithole, infested with super mutants

but it's where you get some good stuff

M2 Brownings with DU rounds, Humvee, etc.

[trail dove]

dang

East St. Louis is where you get some good stuff as well

[barren pewter]

:>

[trail dove]

crack and bullet wounds

[barren pewter]

I like my .50 DU rounds

[trail dove]

turns out my dad can just copy 2000 windows keys from his work

so I'm now running a copy of windows 10 enterprise

[barren pewter]

👌

[trail dove]

hol up

it has more stuff than windows 10 pro apparently

[ornate cedar]

🤷 microsoft dont really care if you are running the software illegally for a long time

[trail dove]

not like I need any of the extras since it all has to do with business related stuff but I have access to it just incase

[trail dove]

ye but the activate windows is annoying and locking some customization options

[unborn spruce]

Fuck ikr.

[unborn spruce]

Dude just use any activation script.

They all work on everything.

Been using the KMS tool for years now.

[trail dove]

I was running it illegally for like 7-8 months until I got tired of my friends saying activate windows everytime I would screenshare

[ornate cedar]

Shareholders will cry if absolutely nothing would be done

[trail dove]

yeah but I could also steal a windows key from my dad's work

[ornate cedar]

Microsoft main focus is servers(azure), office(the softwarepackage), AI somthing and cloud computing

[unborn spruce]

Also enterprise.

They get a lot of money from offices and shit.

[ornate cedar]

They are really diverse company

[unborn spruce]

When your building is working on a per core basis and all 3000 PCs have 4 cores each...

Not a bad profit from a single building.

Especially if they need Azure and your enterprise package deal requires them to pay yearly for Windows.

[wheat kraken]

I mean... I just got a KMS key directly from Microsoft and forced an activation telling win 11 to use a KMS server

[fading spade]

TIL The Wii U can work with the Wii Balance Board.....

I guess it is nice that its backwards compatible with Wii hardware

[honest ruin]

you can also use it as a weight scale on a computer

[fading spade]

LOL

[fringe salmon]

hey @orchid prism want to know what I found and might farm with these prices? lmao

[bleak pike]

Holy

[orchid prism]

The fuck

[fringe salmon]

not hard to get

only 500 gemstone vouchers

which are 100 bicolour gemstones each

[orchid prism]

So... 50000 gems?

That seems like a lot of grind tbh.

[fringe salmon]

yup

[orchid prism]

https://www.kitguru.net/lifestyle/mobile/apple/mustafa-mahmoud/take-two-buys-zynga-in-biggest-studio-acquisition-ever/

Match made in hell.

[bleak pike]

Wtf lol

I didn't know zynga even existed anymore

[feral ferry]

Zynga's big

Or used to be

Take2 though, at least not something horrible like Tencent

[bleak pike]

I think I'm gonna restart metro exodus

[young hill]

Good idea

[bleak pike]

@small comet

[small comet]

how

[young hill]

Damn that is a lot of what do I see

Bells

[fading spade]

Ridge Racers is fun ....

From the PSP

[young hill]

Yeah psp emulator runs good on phones too

[fading spade]

I like having controls though

[young hill]

If you a bit of a challenge

Grab uh

[fading spade]

These ones feel gooood

[young hill]

Mortal Kombat unchained

[fading spade]

I prefer these thumbsticks to the ones on my switch

[young hill]

A lot of skipped frames on phones

[fading spade]

On this
It does slow down to about 50fps at times

That makes the audio all glitch out

[young hill]

Oh that sucks

Right that is problem

[fading spade]

But then it's back to 60fps like a few seconds later

Maybe twice a race that happens

[bleak pike]

@small comet halp

[young hill]

Lol

[small comet]

do i look like an atm to you

[bleak pike]

Yes

[small comet]

fuck u too

[bleak pike]

❤️

[young hill]

How does this work

Do your next bells go to the loan

[bleak pike]

No you can repay whenever

[small comet]

idk how much i gave u so far

but im confused how u spent it all

[bleak pike]

1m

[young hill]

Damnnnn

[orchid prism]

Tony the sugar daddy.

[bleak pike]

600k in housing expansion

Rest on clothes and house items

[small comet]

ill give u 2 or 3 mil tomorrow

[young hill]

Damnnn

[bleak pike]

I was really surprised how much house expansion cost

[wheat kraken]

god damn do you not make any bells yourself?

[bleak pike]

Then again servers cost a fuck ton

[small comet]

ikr

[bleak pike]

Ye

[wheat kraken]

squints

[bleak pike]

But i spend more

[small comet]

squint harder lumi

[wheat kraken]

squint

[small comet]

oh shit

[wheat kraken]

i don't have a suspicion emoji

out of all the god damn servers i'm on, that surprises me

[small comet]

psure they also fixed the dupe glitch that came with 2.0 long time ago

[ornate cedar]

🧐

[bleak pike]

How can you say no to her

[wheat kraken]

easily

those fucking glasses

[young hill]

Ew

[bleak pike]

XD

[young hill]

Sonic the mime hog

[wheat kraken]

the sonic the hedgehog knockoff

[bleak pike]

They are so funny

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-59937610

Habbo all over again xD

They talk about vrchat

[young hill]

Makes a ton of sense bunch of children last Christmas got one

[bleak pike]

You get so much abuse from kids in vr these days lol

https://www.reddit.com/r/ps4homebrew/comments/s0n875/control_execute_says_persistence_aka_permanent/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

[young hill]

Yeah kids are pretty mean these days

[fading spade]

Oooo
Not bye bye dev mode..???!!????!!!!

[young hill]

Huh

[fading spade]

Xbox dev mode

Few days ago, people who hasn't uploaded a game to the Xbox or Microsoft store got their dev mode deactivated

[young hill]

Same person wrote that was an error

[fading spade]

Yeah
Is back now

[orchid prism]

And once again community outcry wins 😄

[fading spade]

Yeah... Ahaha

[young hill]

Tears of a tiger

[fringe salmon]

More like random Reddit post ended up getting people to believe the worst case with no evidence. With it all just being an accident

[young hill]

Free karma low effort farming

[fading spade]

I've never held an N64 controller.... But it looks really janky to play on

Ok.... Nevermind
NES looks even more jank....

[orchid prism]

He's holding it like a pro would, not you know... a regular person xD

[fading spade]

Hmm...

I really wanna try these controllers someday

But I doubt I ever will

[fading spade]

Joycons are smaller xd

I know they make nes and n64 controllers for switch online now
But they don't ship to me

So unless I get someone to redirect them to me then idk

Oo

You mean on the kickstand?

Ohhh

There is a pro controller mount for switch that lets you mouth the switch on the controller so you can use that controller in handheld mode

I forgot what brand it was
.....

This is what it does

[ripe tendon]

Just get usb versions for PC

[unborn spruce]

Ngl they aren't worth trying.

Especially the N64 controller.

How that thing ever got beyond the design phase I have no idea, it's a small miracle.

NES ain't as bad, but it's a far cry from particularly awesome.
Super iconic controller, tho.

[ripe tendon]

N64 is no worse than the original Xbox controller made for grizzly bear paws

[unborn spruce]

Not wrong.

[wheat kraken]

I just...

I read stuff here that makes me feel weird

I now realize I've tried practically every first party controller ever made except for the Xbox Elite and like... The Dreamcast

[novel umbra]

is that why i think it is fine?

[feral ferry]

Knew it

https://www.championat.com/cybersport/news-4571231-sluh-s-t-a-l-k-e-r-2-perenesli-na-osen-2022-goda.html?utm_source=copypaste?utm_source=copypaste

Stalker 2 rumoured to be postponed to Autumn 2022

[novel umbra]

You sure

[wheat kraken]

I meant like... More normal controllers

Not the semi almost one off things

[novel umbra]

Hey for a while that was the only playstation controller with analog input

[fallow bronze]

whats that thing just right above r1?

i cant tell from the pixels

[novel umbra]

A mode switch

Iirc it changes one of the sticks into dpad mode

[fallow bronze]

oooh that thing. the dual shock also had one.

[novel umbra]

Dualshock mode switch was just for rumble though?

[fallow bronze]

dont remember tbh, its very much long ago

[novel umbra]

Same

[fallow bronze]

i do remember it was one of the shittiest soft buttons to press

[unborn spruce]

Fuck everything Thrustmaster makes, Sony clearly peaked right here with joystick tech. 👌

[fading spade]

Im so tempted to buy the Super Mario Game & Watch

but its 45 euro...

[barren pewter]

wait for official announcement

[feral ferry]

https://massivelyop.com/2022/01/11/star-citizen-and-squadron-42-are-still-many-years-away-cig-confirms/

500M in development

[orchid prism]

[barren pewter]

[fading spade]

Why is it always a tennis game thats among the hardest for emulators to run at full speed???!!??

[ornate cedar]

Because that was the funniest

[bleak pike]

Lol witch queen is coming out 2/22/22

[orchid prism]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3XbVJZQ5To

[warm trail]

has anyone tried wooting support mod for skyrim?
I can't mange to get this work https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/54785

but auto input switch work just fine https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/54309

[fading spade]

https://youtu.be/L-A5QrhZtGU

Mans got a point

They sell us graphics and not a game

TBF, as much as you can hate Nintendo, they have always made it clear they care about gameplay experience and how fun the game is over graphics quality

And that's the damn right approach

Ok, if the game looks pure dogshit, then fair enough

but yeah, what nintendo game looks bad?

RTX 6090, nvidia g-succ, gaytracing cards

[fringe salmon]

god I wish my favorite game had the overhead to focus on graphics

[fading spade]

hm?

[fringe salmon]

ffxiv still has PS4 compability for at least the next expansion so they are severly limited

[fading spade]

oo?

[fringe salmon]

still needs to run xD

the game started out with ps3 and only dropped that on the second expansion

[fading spade]

Walking simulators about depression....

90% indie games, yes

[fringe salmon]

all because they promised it will be on ps3 before the game was ready so they were forced to include it lmao

oh well, still a 10/10 with potential left once they ditch ps4 lmao

well yea they just released an expansion last month and next expansion is probably also still on it

so it'll be like 3 or 4 years before they could drop it anyway

or people would just go to pc lmao

also they already sold like 15 million ps5s

so not like they would not have any players htere

the game currently had to stop sales because they cant hold more players xD

that is not the issue atm

[ornate cedar]

[fringe salmon]

https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/16/22839415/final-fantasy-14-sales-suspended-servers-over-capacity-digital-physical

[ornate cedar]

General incompetence

[fringe salmon]

cant buy more servers

they told us in july they are trying to get more and only now we will have news about when we will get more

even willing to pay much more than usual they just couldn't get any

[trim rock]

They haven't migrated to the cloud yet where servers are infinite?

[ornate cedar]

Money

[orchid prism]

They tried cloud a while back - It made latency hell.

[ornate cedar]

And more user data to scrape

[orchid prism]

Amazon I believe? Like everyone else xD

They're kind of stuck ordering fairly special server configurations from HP? I believe to match their existing infrastructure - And there are long lines for getting those even when offering to pay more than most.

[fringe salmon]

aws is also extremely expensive for what they offer

then add in they are adding a new data center in oceania

[orchid prism]

They've suspended the ability to buy the game (existing owners can still buy expansions), and handed out 3 weeks of free gametime to anyone playing around launch. So... 😄

[fringe salmon]

they even recalled physical copies that were in retail

yup

[orchid prism]

I don't think they went that far. Just asked distributors to hold back on shipping more.

[fringe salmon]

3 weeks of free game time is also a couple million

maybe not what was in stores already but they did recall things and not just pause it

[ornate cedar]

Cloud infrastructure services vendor market share worldwide from 4th quarter 2017 to 3rd quarter 2021

[fringe salmon]

milan cpus alone have 20 weeks lead time

that is just the cpu

[orchid prism]

[trim rock]

hot

[ornate cedar]

Covid is not to blame

[fringe salmon]

it makes it bad in some parts sure

but like, without home office idk if I would've even started an MMO

[ornate cedar]

It was inevitable something came along to bring the entire supplylines into the shitter

[fringe salmon]

well that wouldn't cause lasting changes bc they would just start taking the long route

so not massive changes aside form the first occurance

[ornate cedar]

Putin is not an idiot.. war is costly

Especially in the modern time

practically useless to try and invade other countries

[unique bane]

Mmorpgs are the best

[fringe salmon]

not if you dont have time to even do weeklies lmao

[unique bane]

tru, but mmorpgs without dailies and weeklies are even better ;D

[ornate cedar]

That would be total war, which is very looked down upon. Like even in medieval europe it would be.. an unjust war. Getting excommunicated and the whole of chrisendom to allow to attack you

[fringe salmon]

well, not for people who have a lot of time 😛

[unique bane]

wdym

[fringe salmon]

in moderation that is, not stupid ammount of dailies like wow

but some extra bonus/incentives

[unique bane]

you can have grindy mmo, they are usually even grindier if u dont have catchup mechanics like weeklies

Just give me a mmo ffs ill play nearly anything

[ornate cedar]

🤨 The US is also poisoning and murdering people.

[young hill]

State of California cancer labels

[ornate cedar]

I hope the US does it intentionally

Do you prefer the US to carry out death sentences without intending to?

[fading spade]

https://youtu.be/JQDBjVAC9Os

[orchid prism]

https://tenor.com/view/okay-smile-ok-happy-gif-14150032

[young hill]

$15 for a flower.........

[bleak pike]

omg lol

[young hill]

well better than the cat ear bundle

[fading spade]

Cyberpunk 2077

You go with panam into the desert
Spend hours doing chores for people so they will help you
Spend hours with those people to build an emp bomb
Blow up the bomb when the arasaka flying craft thing is above it
The thing survives
Panam suddenly has a fucking laser guided missile launcher and she takes down the hover craft in one shot

WHY TF DID YOU GO THROUGH MANY MANY MANY HOURS OF CHORES

IF SHE HAD A MISSILE LAUNCHER THE WHOLE TIME

[ornate cedar]

Hmm, could be possible it might be semantics. Like intentionally and indirectly are independent factors from each other.

You could indirectly and intentionally do something.
You could directly and unintentionally do something.

Intention relating whether it was desired and planned for.
Direct would mean it was done by doing it themselves.
Indirect would mean that it was by proxy/environment/third-party.

Atleast that is how I think about the concepts.

[fading spade]

What a title....

[young hill]

Screw you Kotaku

[feral ferry]

Way too late on that one

Kotaku's so shit it should have been on a blacklist for a decade now

Scandalist journalism

[fading spade]

Yeah.... That's definitely a kotaku headline

[orchid prism]

Because a single missile won't take those down - At all.

(Especially when their defensive measures are online - The whole point of the pulse is to take down all of its systems and turn it into a falling brick)

[ornate cedar]

Wouldn't that also affect the missiles target acquisition ability.

[orchid prism]

It's a pulse, not an ongoing concert 😛

You could argue that the launcher should have been fried, but meh. Probably in a shielded case while not in use.

[ornate cedar]

Keep in mind all it would mean at worst is, it turning into a dumb missle. And onboard sensors are likely still available. You would just lose the communication with external guidance.

[fading spade]

Aha, one month anniversary of my server :D

Holo skin with Astolfo head xd

[bleak pike]

@fading spade have you ever actually completed mc on survival lol

Holy shit https://youtu.be/L2CtVIqgNBI

[trail dove]

I know a person that has had the game since 1.4 java and still hasn't beaten the ender dragon

[fading spade]

In terms of killing the ender dragon
Then yes

[young hill]

probably type in game mode creative

[fading spade]

No xd

[ornate cedar]

Been playing the game since beta 1.7.3 Cant remember ever killing the ender dragon.

[barren pewter]

I remember killing one dragon with you, Pinch

we were at it for like...

an hour and a half?

[ornate cedar]

That was not the ender dragon. It was a dragon, though.

Also remember when the base got grief-ed by one

[young hill]

Sounds sick dude

[ornate cedar]

ah, the good old times

lots of were exchanged

[barren pewter]

also a lot of

"admin abuse"

[young hill]

Easy fix

Use 3rd party service and start it

[feral ferry]

@barren pewter

OI

BOY

I got some news for you

[ornate cedar]

Remember how I was still winning in pvp as the admin was abusing their power.

[barren pewter]

because the Admin sucks

[feral ferry]

Doge remember when I said Stalker 2was rumoured to be delayed to Autumn?

[barren pewter]

official announcement?

[feral ferry]

Do you want the bad or good news first?

[barren pewter]

BLYAT

DECEMBER 8TH

[ornate cedar]

Imagine losing in pvp while you are taking the armour and weapons from your opponent

[feral ferry]

It's not autumn anymore

[young hill]

Actually you can say it is plus 3 months

[feral ferry]

Sounds like a No Man's Sky this game

At least Bethesda doesn't delay their games

[ornate cedar]

A bit of time to polish the game from nfts

[young hill]

Yah but bethesdas games look like poop

[ornate cedar]

[young hill]

And are buggy

[barren pewter]

yep

Obsidian outbethesda-ed bethesda

[young hill]

Maybe elder scrolls looks decent

[barren pewter]

Fallout New Vegas is still a gem

[young hill]

But I do not remember it clearly since I hate it

[barren pewter]

[ornate cedar]

Obsidian made a better fallout in 1.5 years than bethesda could try to ever make

[young hill]

What game did obsidian make recently

[orchid prism]

Outer Worlds? Which was... meh?

[young hill]

Oh Grounded

[feral ferry]

That was actually bad ngl

[barren pewter]

Outer Worlds was...

honestly

yeah

[feral ferry]

Like Outer Worlds felt just bad to play

[barren pewter]

meh

worldspace was also way too small for me personally

[feral ferry]

People think Obsidian's some good company

They have a few talented devs, that's it

Sawyer's game will launch soon though

[young hill]

They made star wars the old republic

[barren pewter]

I'm constantly bedazzled by a project of theirs from 2010

that's it

[feral ferry]

And that's the lad that made some of Obsidian's hits

[orchid prism]

I loved the setting, I enjoyed the worldbuilding. I hated how it ended about 2/3rds into the story I had imagined it would have while playing it.

[barren pewter]

yep

also...idk, combat felt rather generic and everything felt very spongy

[orchid prism]

It also had a TON of balancing problems. If you went hard into Science? (Weapon modding) or Charisma? (Companion stats), no enemy would stand a chance. Either your own weapons would one shot basically anything, or your companions would roflstomp even bosses in seconds flat.

It was ridiculous.

[barren pewter]

yeah...

that also left a sour taste

[ornate cedar]

The Outer Worlds's publisher was Private Division?

..

[feral ferry]

Sounds like Skyrim

Or Cyberpunk

[barren pewter]

Even FALLOUT NEW VEGAS wasn't that bad

[feral ferry]

NV wasn't any better bruv

[barren pewter]

that game was actually reasonably well balanced imo

clear weapon progression, and yes, there were OP combinations, but those were generally tricky to assemble or make work

[feral ferry]

FNV had broken skill progression

You leveled up too fast, and got too many points

You could 100 guns in like what, 10 mins?

Or even less

[barren pewter]

except that isn't the full story

I found that almost every skill plays a role in NV

[feral ferry]

survival would want to find your location and smack you

[barren pewter]

I usually maxed out speech because lonesome road slaps at level 5

[barren pewter]

that skill actually is useful AF

it becomes a genuinely viable alternative to medicine and stimpacks

especially with thin red paste and blood sausage from the Them's Good Eatin' perk

[ornate cedar]

New vegas has multiple endings in like each quest. Bethesda could barely manage multiple endings

[feral ferry]

That perk's a bit broke tho

[feral ferry]

That one

It's a bit too good

[barren pewter]

again

viable alternative to stimpacks

[feral ferry]

You found way too many of the red sausages

Way too common

[barren pewter]

although for balance purposes, I wish they either made those food items weigh more or spawn way less

I think the rate of spawn was 50% off of killed enemies

sausage ftw

[ornate cedar]

JSawyer's mod to remove less of bethesdas influence from fallout nv

Feature: less bethesda.

[feral ferry]

Project Missouri is slated for 2022

So, we'll see how that rumoured L.A Noire 2 goes

[mossy mural]

Man... despite how buggy it was, Alpha Protocol was a fantastic game. Obsidian at their best from a narrative standpoint

[orchid prism]

It was honestly TOO buggy. Gamebreakingly so.

Like how if you were to load a quicksave or ... any save? while on the same level, enemies would suddenly not spawn in the same area as you are - And that just ruined the gameplay.

[mossy mural]

I dont believe I had that happen to me. There were a lot of places where you could get stuck on though and game crashes were very frequent

But honestly it's the only game for which I can say that choices actually mattered and changed the game in a tangible way

[fading spade]

Ooooo.....

Amiga 500

[ornate cedar]

Ez Money

[fading spade]

Qwak

If that game isn't about ducks, imma murder someone

[ornate cedar]

https://tenor.com/view/tf2-among-us-imposter-when-the-is-sus-gif-20142552

Alien breed 3D

[orchid prism]

Not to worry!

[fading spade]

Ayyy

Nice

[orchid prism]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYy3YAuPy9I

I know I have a diskette with it somewhere.

[ornate cedar]

https://tenor.com/view/ducks-conquering-duck-conquering-duck-and-dog-duck-flag-gif-18127160

The Duck kingdom will never disappoint

[fading spade]

.... Ofc you would :')

In other Steam Deck news, it appears to be quite a sturdy device, as developer Rami Ismail found out noting on Twitter "Happy to report that the Steam Deck can survive a drop from countertop height" and as an amusing follow-up asking about "How's that heart rate though haha", Ismail replied "didn't measure but I guess higher than the resolution of the screen".

Hah.... I'd be fucking scared shitless if that happened me

[orchid prism]

[ornate cedar]

I did not drop the device. It was an sudden and spontaneously testing of the device.

[fading spade]

:')

[ashen lark]

POV you let Linus hold a tech device

[ornate cedar]

https://tenor.com/view/ltt-linus-linus-tehc-linus-tech-tips-poggersepic-gif-23430099

[fading spade]

I must find out the average size of a COD Black Ops 3 custom zombie map

[trail dove]

for a good one 3-6gb

[fading spade]

O.o
Makes sense I guess

[bleak pike]

https://tenor.com/view/star-wars-not-clear-sector-not-clear-battlefront-battlefront-ii-gif-20021181

[novel umbra]

you can get an actual amiga a500 for less

[ornate cedar]

Amateur hour over here

[fading spade]

Oo

[orchid prism]

And have to deal with the passing of time. 😛

Those old consoles are a neverending maintenance and repair job.

[novel umbra]

are they?

have no experience with amiga stuff

[orchid prism]

Not an Amiga specific thing.

[novel umbra]

or computers that age in general

[orchid prism]

We're talking about a console that came to market ... 33? 32? years ago.

[novel umbra]

windows 98 exposure is enough to turn me off from anything old computer

[novel umbra]

aka mostly solid state stuff

at worst you replace caps once

[orchid prism]

Caps, dying chips (of which several are proprietary with zero modern replacements), trace rot, need for replacement keyboard components etc...

[novel umbra]

apparently the a500 has like a dozen caps

[orchid prism]

Honestly buying a Mister for such a low-power console is a blessing.

[novel umbra]

so that can be done in like 10 minutes

imo you miss out a lot with the mini version

you loose the entire desktop enviroment

no aftermarket software

which was BIG with the amiga

and not even the actual keyboard

which imo is key for something like that

[orchid prism]

What? No?

[novel umbra]

do you not

from what I have read it JUST comes with the games

[orchid prism]

Why would you?

Mnope.

[novel umbra]

it looses it

you just get a selection of the games

nothing more

[orchid prism]

No...

[novel umbra]

https://retrogames.biz/thea500-mini

Play one of the included 25 classic Amiga games, selected from a simple to use carousel

Or load your own games via USB stick through WHDLoad

so you can load aftermarket stuff

[orchid prism]

We're talking about two VERY different fucking things now 😛

[novel umbra]

potentially

are we?

[orchid prism]

You're talking abou tthe C64 (not an amiga) mini. Which is a Raspberry Pi style console. I'm talking MISTER

[novel umbra]

that article is about the a500 mini

says so in the domain and the site itself

[orchid prism]

What article? I'm literally responding to the videos further up showing off FPGA xD

[novel umbra]

I was talking about the mini

you know

the one I commented on before

[orchid prism]

Those are shit, consumer casual stuff. FPGA's are proper emulation of the hardware.

[novel umbra]

in the message you referenced

the FPGA stuff is cool

[orchid prism]

But - You can easily get one of those minis to run the workbench interface.

[orchid prism]

Eh... very mild burn.

[ripe tendon]

And there's that song "It's hip to be square"

[ornate cedar]

Technically it isn't full proper implementation But it is as close as you can without having to go asic/dedicated hardware. FPGAs are pretty much a bunch of configureable LUTs.😉

great concept. Horrible to actually work with

[orchid prism]

Shush you 😛

[ripe tendon]

when you do it I imagine

[ornate cedar]

Until you run out of digits of pi

[ripe tendon]

I don't know that doing something for an amount of time has anything to do with something becoming a method rather than a concept

[ornate cedar]

Just need to get everyone together and write some standard

[fading spade]

Til Mariokart Wii is 2.1gb

[fallow bronze]

https://xkcd.com/927/

xkcd: Standards

Fortunately, the charging one has been solved now that we've all standardized on mini-USB. Or is it micro-USB? Shit.

[fading spade]

Yes

[fallow bronze]

TIL the ubuntu iso is x MB

[ornate cedar]

Purge all the non-believers of the standard to resolve

[fading spade]

Ubuntu is 3gb

[ripe tendon]

3.50?

[fading spade]

Nope
2.9

[ripe tendon]

liar

[fading spade]

Truth

[ripe tendon]

no

[ornate cedar]

https://tenor.com/view/gun-stalin-gif-18158984

[ripe tendon]

2.9 isn't 3

therefore liar

unless you're doing that 4.999 repating is 5 or w/e

I think it's 9.999 repeating is 10 actually

[fading spade]

2.9gb xd

[ornate cedar]

2.5 and up gets rounded up

[fading spade]

Xd

What's the best Wii emulator? Dolphin maybe?

[ripe tendon]

obvs

[fallow bronze]

startopia got updates last year O_o

[ripe tendon]

what wii emulators do you even hear about otherwise

[fading spade]

They dropped Linux support from version 4.0.1
.-. ;_;

Ffs

[trim rock]

Wait what?

[ripe tendon]

time to buy a wii

also no more upscaling for you

[trim rock]

As is common of open source projects, they're not distributing Linux binaries themselves, instead relying on distributions and such to package it up

[fading spade]

Ohh

Hmm

[fallow bronze]

5.0+dfsg-6build1 on ubuntu

[ripe tendon]

just use androids version

[trim rock]

https://wiki.dolphin-emu.org/index.php?title=Installing_Dolphin#Linux

[ripe tendon]

it's linux-y

[fading spade]

It's only 9mb large wtf damn ol

[ornate cedar]

Why are you not using your package manager. Ya windows user

[fading spade]

No
Usually software like this isn't in the software repo

So I went to the website

[ripe tendon]

these are proper professionals

[ornate cedar]

Its in the aur

[fading spade]

I just found it on the Arch community repo

GG

[ripe tendon]

I want a good fucking emulator for 360 and ps3. I miss those RPGs

[fading spade]

There is a 360 emulator but I forgot the name rn

[ripe tendon]

yeah it blows though

[trim rock]

Isn't RPCS3 pretty damn good nowadays?

[fading spade]

Yes

[ornate cedar]

https://tenor.com/view/klatschen-clapping-gif-12186138

[fading spade]

Eta prime made a video about it recently

[ripe tendon]

rpcs3 is like 60-ish% playable I think

I'm not sure about overall performance though

[orchid prism]

Still waiting for Xbox OG to be emulated properly. So slow atm 😄

[trim rock]

It'S jUsT a Pc

[ripe tendon]

xbox is apparently a bitch because it's always behind the most

[fading spade]

New Super Mario Bros Wii is 201MB

[ripe tendon]

playing emulators and UT GOTY on OG xbox was so fun though

[fading spade]

Tf is Mariokart Wii so large then

[ripe tendon]

or was it Quake? I always forget which

[fading spade]

LOL

[ornate cedar]

...

yes?

[fading spade]

I forgot the kde file manager is named dolphin

[ornate cedar]

oh, ok

[trim rock]

Konqueror died for this

[fading spade]

Oo...I don't have my Xbox controller damn it

I forgot the cutscenes are not skipable

[young hill]

Is there no fast forward button built into the emulator

[fading spade]

Maybe
Idk

First time using dolphin

[young hill]

Oh

[fading spade]

Enter is the home button

Oh wtf

Left click is b

Wtf is a

[fallow bronze]

!google wtf is a

[small comet]

how about configure it

instead of complaining

[fading spade]

Can dolphin use a switch pro controller?

[fallow bronze]

!google can dolphin use a switch pro controller?

[fringe salmon]

Beep. Command google is on cooldown

[small comet]

should make a lmgtfy command shouldnt i

[fading spade]

I'm glad I have a Wii remote with me so I can see what buttons I'm mapping

Ffs

Can't steer

[trim rock]

You need to use tilt controls

[fading spade]

I also can't get it working on super Mario bros

Despite thinking I mapped the buttons right

Can't enter a level on the map

Found a video to setup motion controls on switch pro controller
Apparently it works by default??? But it don't for me
He had a profile for the switch controller already in the settings for some reason

I downloaded some guys switch pro controller config
So now I need to do some chores and I can try again to import these settings

Cause he got motion controls to work

[feral ferry]

@barren pewter

Starfield got some... weird leaks

The collector's edition leaked

Like, it's an actual watch?

I kinda like that for a collector's edition

[trim rock]

Cool, at least it's not just a thing you slot your phone into

[feral ferry]

This thing's sick to be fair

[barren pewter]

it is cool

but...

I am not getting a collector's edition

especially after bethsoft's previous one

[feral ferry]

If it's priced well

Honestly

[barren pewter]

😡

[feral ferry]

I might

I'm starting to get into "collecting"

I'm old enough for that

And this looks like a sick thing to have

[barren pewter]

and let Todd leak your personal details owo

[feral ferry]

If the game doesn't suck

https://manuals.plus/the-wand-company/lpv6-chronomark-smartwatch-manual

Here you go, the original post

I don't think I have heard of a barometer in a smartwatch?

That's news to me

Bruh

[trim rock]

How else would it get it?

[small comet]

it shouldnt display demo data

just should display anything

so i need to get the colectors edition now for the watch

[feral ferry]

WiFi?

[trim rock]

Bruh

[small comet]

the watch doesnt get location data from wifi

psure they dont have a gps onboard

[feral ferry]

I mean you can literally specify a location, the thing'd send data via wifi to some kind of weather service, like the IBM weather

And display the return

That would not be hard to do

[small comet]

so when can i order the stuff

[feral ferry]

Prolly a month or two before the game releases, obviously

[small comet]

so

in a few years

[feral ferry]

Nice try, this year

[small comet]

so

[small comet]

anyone here want the game

i only want the watch

ngl

[feral ferry]

Me?

[ashen lark]

I am curious about the game but not planning to buy it

TES 6 if collectors is good though may consider

[feral ferry]

They did tease the collector's

You should be getting the smartwatch, a case it's carried in, some kind of collectable displayable memorabilia like that helmet, and booklets

[ornate cedar]

"should"

[feral ferry]

Also FCC listing is here too

https://fccid.io/2AFJA-LPV6

Internal photos are available

Bruh is that

MicroUSB?

[ornate cedar]

It would be only bethesda if they got the shittiest ones available. The ones lacking even the data lines, only power

6 months late and missing the rest

[small comet]

microusb

really

if thats real

imma

not

[ornate cedar]

Compensation offered for the trouble the minimum amount of premium currency

Not before leaking all your private information to the public

[young hill]

Honestly should have a magnetic connector

Though usb c is easier to implement

[ornate cedar]

The price difference between usb-c and micro-b for reference

[ashen lark]

I mean you need some extra components

But yeah the difference isn’t very high

[ornate cedar]

You wont need to add any component 👀

[ashen lark]

Like two resistors I think

[ornate cedar]

Just change the pcb and its wiring

[ashen lark]

Don’t you need two resistors for pins so it can be connected to other usb c stuff?

[ornate cedar]

Would have to look it up in the specs but remember 2.0 being specifically defined for usb-c. But resistors are basically free.. Especially if you already using the same resistors somewhere else in the design

[feral ferry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-kVr2X306A

Not terrible, for Ubisoft

[orchid prism]

Can't remember the last time there was a good Settlers game.

[ornate cedar]

https://tenor.com/view/the-rock-hmmm-gif-21574594

Sussy data

Youtube api stopped reporting dislikes too

[orchid prism]

I just removed all likes. Dis or otherwise.

[ornate cedar]

😎 Google sitting back after it singlehandedly solved all harassment and mental issues at once. Oh btw creator this is your worst performing video of the month, also here is a random content strike and congrats all your videos can now not be monetised. no we wont explain why, wait a few days.. or something

[trim rock]

A Ubisoft Original

[orchid prism]

Give it time. Apparently they turned it into a multiplayer focused game.

[young crow]

gaming 😎

[feral ferry]

Shit I had that like 15 years ago

[young crow]

help

i think it’s the tv

disc drive does the disc drive things

it sounds like death but it’s definitely working

who was the knowledgeable guy

bet it’s the duck

@orchid prism help

yes the drive is dying

doesn’t matter

i want image

guess i need an analog to digital converter

cause this tv is shit

[young hill]

Just get a crt

[young crow]

🤔

are there crt monitors with av in?

[young hill]

Oh

[young crow]

figured as much

guess i can buy a shit tv for 500 rubles

[young hill]

You kinda sound like you are american

Av is the colored cables right

[young crow]

👍

[young hill]

Nice tv

Okay so we are on the same page, cannot be hard to get av flat screen

[young crow]

oh i very much doubt that

[young hill]

[young crow]

i’ll just get something like this

easy

[trim rock]

gamer's choice

[young crow]

just 5 bucks

[young hill]

Why are split like that

[young crow]

people don’t know what commodore is in russia

even c64s go for braindead prices

yep let me just pay 500

that’s moscow mind you

lowest prices

for shit like that

3k

people are retarded

“for tracker music”

[young hill]

Lol

[young crow]

this is a bit more fair?

box, amiga, mouse, joystick

though still i’ve seen those get thrown out for a couple of bucks in usa

og hardware is fun

[young hill]

Is that keyboard a whole computer?

[barren pewter]

yes

[young crow]

ok zoomer

[young hill]

https://c.tenor.com/GCpJBUm3YBQAAAAM/umm-confused.gif

[young crow]

fuck mister anyways

russia is powkiddy appreciators

[ashen lark]

Despite almost no games wanting to run on windows 11 arm that also run on macOS, pc building simulator seems to work, how ironic

I have played mc, total war, LiS, couple of games that run.
On M1 bit less things work but still some do.
Just can’t get total war Rome 2 to run

Also south of the circle, great story game though Apple Arcade exclusive

Medieval 2 does too, just wish Rome 2 would too, two of my favorite total war games

[young hill]

Would gta work

[ashen lark]

Oh, kingdom two crowns, can be fun too

Would it on M1?

[young hill]

Yes

[young crow]

dota 2

fellow degenerate

[ashen lark]

But I definitely recommend playing south of the circle for anyone who still has free trial of Apple Arcade

I just 5.5

[young crow]

does apple still give free trials of tv+ to everyone i wonder

last time i tried you could get a free trial by making a macos vm

thought it’s a new mac!

[ashen lark]

Hmm looks fun gotta try it

But yeah, myself would really recommend South Of The Circle

[bleak pike]

people are horny tonight

[young crow]

surely not just tonight

[bleak pike]

"there's no bomb"

[barren pewter]

Cal

remind me to never play Ready or Not with you

you're clearly

not ready

[ornate cedar]

Defuq is even happening. The incompetence is too high to even recognise

[bleak pike]

My friend killed me by opening tbe door and not looking up

[trail dove]

funny story about the movie Clear and Present Danger is that my grandpa was in it for like 15 seconds

[fringe salmon]

@orchid prism it's taking till july to expand servers after they started looking into doing that around july last year

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/topics/detail/9a6bed5c06ae511c363ece5ead0a98a3986554a2?s=09#03

[orchid prism]

Nice. I haven't been affected by queues for a while now though.

[fringe salmon]

and second expansion of servers summer 23 lmao

[bleak pike]

Jesus

Finally

[fringe salmon]

cross data center travel coming in patch 6.1x

[orchid prism]

https://twitter.com/ProudBavaria/status/1481912276907139072

The germans are not at all pleased with the french takeover of Bluebyte (hell the original author left)

One Proud Bavarian (@ProudBavaria)

In case you didn't catch it - "The Settlers" is not what "The Settlers 2020" promised to be.
The entire game is different outside of visuals. Comparing the features in this video to videos from 2019/2020 is just crazy.

Very, very disappointed. I didn't want a fast-paced MP RTS. https://t.co/J1qQIYo4NE

Twitter · Jan 14, 2022, 8:53 AM

[novel umbra]

[fringe salmon]

sales are resuming january 26 and free trial at a future point

[novel umbra]

can't wait for a new anno (whenever it will inevitably come) to be shit as well

[unborn spruce]

Did it really seriously take them a year to work out higher capacity servers?

[fringe salmon]

looks like it

[novel umbra]

convincing suits is no easy task

[orchid prism]

Or getting actual servers delivered 😄

[unborn spruce]

Wager that's where 70% of that time budget went, yeah.

[novel umbra]

higher ups probably assumed that it is no permanent growth they are experiencing

+prices are rising

[unborn spruce]

Naaaaaah c'mon, that's not true.

[orchid prism]

It is though.

[fringe salmon]

they dont need to convince the suits, game director is on the baord of directors himself

[novel umbra]

so they probably didn;t want to get something short term since that is expensive

there have been sever server shortages

for like 2 years now

more even

[fringe salmon]

they literally wanted to pay extra in july already

[unborn spruce]

It takes a while but it ain't the monumental task it seems to be.

[novel umbra]

started before covid

[orchid prism]

Yes it is.

[novel umbra]

with intel shortages

like they don't just buy a handful

[unborn spruce]

it really is not. See the contract for a minimum amount of servers might be the issue, but actually obtaining them isn't too bad.

[orchid prism]

It... really is.

[novel umbra]

it has been problematic for ages now

in those amounts at least

[fringe salmon]

given that all of NA/EU/JP are not getting the upgrade earlier despite them wanting to get it earlier, I dont think it was possible

[unborn spruce]

It's maybe a few months of work from delivery and some super specific timing, I never said it was good, just not too bad.

[novel umbra]

especially if their software is optimized for intel

[orchid prism]

Aeon... go eat some grass and read up on server leadtimes on this scale 😛

[novel umbra]

no like hp etc just had NO servers for some time

at least no intel ones

before covid even

[unborn spruce]

I'm aware of the lead times, Mansen. I did have to go through this for my business certs.

[novel umbra]

if you just buy one or two the lead time might be 2 months etc

[unborn spruce]

But it's not too awful.

[fringe salmon]

the other part is that it's also taking time to physically install, then validate things

[unborn spruce]

Pretty bad, but certainly not to the point of actually PTSD for all of your staff.

[unborn spruce]

Eh with a decent team it's maybe a couple months.

Biggest challenge is integrating everything without something breaking.

[fringe salmon]

yes but now add that ontop of waiting times and we get to the year delay

[unborn spruce]

At a rough guess I'd have figured maybe 9 or 10 months, but delays I suppose.

Then again the update cycle happened, so probably also shortages from that.

Well also SLAs would have done a little... eh.

[fringe salmon]

given this is costing them millions I would call it an awful situation

[unborn spruce]

Oh no, Squenix having to pay millions for FFXIV, man they're about to go bankrupt.

Poor Squenix, how little we knew ye.

[fringe salmon]

not about that, less money means less money to make the game better either by better servers or better content

sure it wouldn't got 100% to the dev team

but also not 0%

[feral ferry]

Less money to pay millions to their CEO

kappa

[unborn spruce]

On the flip side having to spend millions to make more servers due to demands would really smell like more money on the next financial year.

Especially considering how much MTX that game has.

[fringe salmon]

it's still worth it sure but they are still losing more overall

[orchid prism]

They have literally moaned about not being able to get servers and people to install them for a year now - in spite of basically offering to bribe their way to the front of the line...

But sure - It's definitely not lead times 😛

[unborn spruce]

I didn't say it wasn't lead times. :p

[orchid prism]

They're not that bad
A year and some isn't bad? 😛

[unborn spruce]

Just a little surprised it took them a full year and a bit.

Would have assumed Squenix had a pretty tightly nailed down SLA for this kind of purpose.

[orchid prism]

No - I'm pretty sure you were refusing that was the case a bit further up, not just surprised.

[unborn spruce]

Their entire business do be reliant on servers, y'know?

[fringe salmon]

not like they are a company that primarily makes online games, you dont need to lock down vendors for making playstation singleplayer games

[unborn spruce]

True, true.

Though this isn't the first time they've run into server issues.

Also remember that dedi servers working faster means more players per server means higher density.

And their major server merge coming up, idk I would not want to be attempting that without an SLA to fall back on if shit hits the fan.

[fringe salmon]

they probably had enough for the original estimations

just not for the unexpected rise in players

[unborn spruce]

No plan survives contact with the enemy. :p

[fringe salmon]

and they probably have some solid contracts but even with that, unless you're facebook or google sized it's not like you can offer enough money for them to lock down servers just incase and hoard them while nobody has spares lmao

[unborn spruce]

That's true.

Wonder if MS offers services like that with Azure.

Just an oh shit moment deployable server cluster.

[fringe salmon]

I'm just glad they are so transparent so we know it's taking a literal year and not just half a year if they only had announced it now

[unique bane]

January report: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiP3xmzrEq0

[fringe salmon]

in other news my contribution in paying for the servers had arrived, oredered in october and now they are finally here

[unique bane]

@fringe salmon 440~ tickrate :D:D that network stack is op. (Just to showcase performance, prob not gonna run that fast)

[fringe salmon]

wtf why though lol

[ornate cedar]

That sounds just a marketing point than for practical use

[unique bane]

"A typical MMO server has it's tickrate running around 20 ticks per second.
Kyle had his at 30 ticks per second and during that time the client was receiving about 90 packets per second.
Then he set it to a 128 tick rate and the client was getting receiving 380 packets per second.
Then he set it to unlimited and the client started receiving over 1300 packets per second. I'd roughly estimate that the tickrate was about 440ish.
The server was updating the positions and creating/destroying actors on those 100 clients perhaps 22x more frequently than a typical MMO server, and it was stable with only 5% cpu usage.

Hypothetically having as much as 2000 clients (The New World server max) running around and the servers would still be chugging along like it's practically nothing... Just insane"

[unique bane]

ya, just showing how performant it is

Do you know what Unity addressibles are Quin?

[fringe salmon]

yup