Goblin_Mode

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[–] Goblin_Mode@ttrpg.network 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Isn't that an issue with the developers of those games? Steam is ultimately just a game library. If the book you check out of that library is only readable on Kindle that's not on Steam lol

[–] Goblin_Mode@ttrpg.network 1 points 6 months ago

Production, most likely

[–] Goblin_Mode@ttrpg.network 86 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (6 children)
  1. Old series that has a decent following of mostly niche dedicated fans is left to sit without a new installment for many years.

  2. New title is announced. It's sells gang-busters and flips the community on its head.

  3. Corporate Executives prioritize short term profits and begin planning a quick and easy cash grab. !

  4. Second new installment comes out. It is a shell of the previous title with the soul sucked clean out.

  5. Fans are dissapointed and outside of a small niche following the game series falls into obscurity.

  6. Repeat.

! we are here right now

Look.. Maybe BG4 will be good. But after watching this exact cycle play out over and over again for the past decade I'm not sure how you can expect anything else.

[–] Goblin_Mode@ttrpg.network 4 points 7 months ago

Don't... Don't give me hope...

[–] Goblin_Mode@ttrpg.network 150 points 8 months ago (18 children)

Oh shit, there's a working open source switch emulator out there? Thanks Nintendo!

Aaaaaaaand downloaded the source code, Windows Installer, and Linux installer. Thanks again Nintendo, I really can't express how thankful I am you brought attention to this!

[–] Goblin_Mode@ttrpg.network 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

In my experience, people who think Taiwan belongs to China are generally the same people who think China is a glorious utopia headed by a benevolent saint Jinping.

So it's a 50/50 toss up on bot or troll lol

[–] Goblin_Mode@ttrpg.network 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's so easy for the propagandists to convince western racists that DPRK is backwards and underdeveloped.

This you?

https://lemmy.ml/comment/7111152

 

Hiya,

I don't suppose anyone has a good source / 15 minutes and a drive to lecture a Linux noobie on some basic Linux functions or things to read up on?

Perhaps unsurprising given the gestures wildly to everything, but I have been planning to switch over to Linux on my home machine for a long time now and I feel like Microsoft slowly, inexorably, forcing the swap to Win11 is as great an excuse to finally bite the bullet as I'm likely to get.

A bit of background, I am an IT guy with many years of experience in Windows and some small bit in Mac. I am an experienced coder with a good fundamental understanding of Unix environments and how to make systems talk to each other. Im comfortable with deep, technical stuff, but, especially in new systems I have a bit of a hard time with abbreviations and acronyms. So I don't need a whole "Linux for Dummies" as I feel like I have a pretty firm grasp on the basics. I just want to know if there's any convenient tips or tricks to make the transition easier.

For example, I have literally no idea what distro I should use lol. I've spent a while researching but given how customizable it all is, after a while it all kinda just mushed itself into a gray maisma in my brain. I use my home machine almost exclusively for gaming and some light coding projects, but I also want to be able to play around with it and do some independent learning.

I just need a good source that can give me the basics on where and how to translate my knowledge of Windows to insert Linux distro. I know it's a completely new OS so I will need to learn a lot of new things. But at their core computers are computers so some things need to be the same, I'm just not sure what to look for.

[–] Goblin_Mode@ttrpg.network 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I can guarantee there is a significant number of people who do want more AI crap.

Hell I can understand why. If it was done ethically and with user privacy as a core tenant of its implementation I would probably love having convenient access to AI tools like that.. But this is Microsoft so I think I'm gonna instead go the opposite direction and add this to the list of reasons my next PC will be Linux

[–] Goblin_Mode@ttrpg.network 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Pretty sure they say wally in England/Australia.

That or I'm an idiot, that could be it too

[–] Goblin_Mode@ttrpg.network 29 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This is... A weird spread of awards...

Like BG3 winning GOTY and story rich makes total sense.

But RDR2 won labor of love? What? Lol. Have they been putting out massive updates lately or something?

Atomic heart won visual style... Sure? I mean I guess it's atmospheric but I wouldn't call it particularly stylized.

Lethal company getting better with friends is a solid pick

Hogwarts Legacy is best on deck? The fuck? Lol I suppose i haven't played this one but I was under the impression the game was like... Fine? Kinda boring after a while but still playable? It's not horribly offensive but how does a game like that win an award for being the most beloved steam deck game lol

STARFIELD WON FUCKING WHAT??? Okay, I was not as big a starfield hater as some. I thought it was boring as shit for sure but I don't think it's completely without merit on the whole... But Innovative? Fucking LOL! Starfield innovated exactly 0 things, hell it retroactively made things from 2011 seem new by comparison. I don't think theres a single fresh idea in that entire game. Starfield winning most innovative game paints a very uncomfortable picture of the steam awards. There is CLEAR tampering going on here, either by bots vote spamming, or just a behind the curtain dealings with Bethesda. To be honest every single other award here feels tenuous at best just by Starfield winning that specific award. If that boring ass rehash of 2007 gameplay can be called the most innovative game on steam then I'm not sure I can trust any of these games actually got nominated by real players for any of their respective awards. What a fucking joke

[–] Goblin_Mode@ttrpg.network 19 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Okay but forcing someone to pay you $550k (averaging your values) to not die maybe is still incredibly fucking awful, so it's really not hard to be better than that.

I can respect that developing a personalized vaccine might take a lot of work but I'm not a chemist. I don't know how much work it actually takes, nor do I know how many vaccines a person would realistically need to cure their cancer be it stage 1 up to stage 4?

What I do know is that if this vaccine ends up being more effective than the traditional method then it is a wonderful discovery, but if it leads to life-long medical debt and subsequent financial ruin all the same your life is still fucked.. I guess I'd rather be poor and alive, but I'd also rather not be destitute.

[–] Goblin_Mode@ttrpg.network 5 points 11 months ago

A lot of the old "Golden Age" League of Legends content creators have moved on to making really good content about other topics and games. Basically Dunkey and everyone who was at one point accused of being a Dunkey clone lol

Dunkey obviously still makes content and it's still good. I've never personally been a huge fan of the short length goofy one off gag style of his but I know people still really like his content.

Skooch does miscellaneous other games now (mostly Mario and sonic lately) but the content is the best it's ever been

Bricky does Warhammer mostly but also makes long form analyses of big AAA titles that are sequels to franchises from the 360 days

Keyori (now Barny/Maddy) rebranded, transitioned, and now makes literally the best World of Warcraft content I've ever seen

FrostPrime streams I know but I think his YouTube is literally exclusively just stream VODs now.

Outside of that group I still get a kick out of Game Grumps 10 years later but I know the old school let's play thing isn't really for everyone. Also Alpharad still makes good content, though lately it's been a lot of mid, sponsored or otherwise kinda forced out stuff.

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