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Ubisoft CEO responds to the Stop Killing Games petition, stating the publisher is 'working on' improving its approach to end-of-life support, but that 'nothing is eternal' in c/gaming@beehaw.org
[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 days ago

It really does. On the other hand, you can spin this as Ubi CEO is literally, just a little illiterate.

Oolite, the FLOSS spiritual successor to Elite, just got a graphics overhaul with 1.91, and it looks good in c/gaming@beehaw.org
[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

I played only a bit of Oolite about 10 years ago and man, this does not look like the same game at all. In a good way, of course! There's actualy detail on the ships now! Props to the Oolite team!

The Hunt For The Perfect Laptop Continues in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fine, then "more ugly and cumbersome" than it needs to be. I frequently have to hook up laptops to devices that simply don't have wifi (think unconfigured network devices like routers and the like), so connecting via cable is the only option. Having a gigantic, plastic, snag-prone wart sticking out of my laptop certainly wouldn't help matters.

The Hunt For The Perfect Laptop Continues in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago (7 children)

And the ugly and cumbersome ethernet expansion card.

Infallible Code in c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml
[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago

Which sounds impressive until you realize a janitor who worked there for the same amount of time could claim the same.

Sorry Mario in c/memes@lemmy.ml
[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago (5 children)

What's that table thing above Mario and Toad? Was that in the original game? I can't remember.

Peak UI Design in c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml
[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago

Decoctoy sounds...lewd.

This time I will ask, what do you think the future will be like, that is, 2030+, how interesting will everything be? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not sure. How interesting would you find a desert planet?

I give up (pissing and moaning) in c/antiwork@lemmy.ml
[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 weeks ago

Sorry you found yourself in this situation. I hope it gets better for you sooner rather than later. And to comment on one of your questions: "do we really have this many assholes in the world?!" Man, do we ever.

Xbox Producer Recommends Laid Off Workers Should Use AI To 'Help Reduce The Emotional And Cognitive Load That Comes With Job Loss' in c/gaming@beehaw.org
[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 13 points 3 weeks ago

Matt Turnbull doesn't have a singular clue what LLMs do and what they should be used for. Except touching up your resume, I think that's actually a good use for LLMs. However, he also suggested using it as a career coach and even a psychiatrist. That man is a raving lunatic.

Can you prove you're not AI? in c/shittyasklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Would an AI be able to identify bridges, traffic lights and motorcycles in photos? I rest my case.

How Nintendo locked down the Switch 2’s USB-C port and broke third-party docking in c/gaming@beehaw.org
[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 17 points 3 weeks ago

Ah, fair point. Still, I'm not too jazzed about Nintendo making their own USB standard. They may as well call it just SB, because there's nothing universal about this.

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How Nintendo locked down the Switch 2’s USB-C port and broke third-party docking (www.theverge.com)
 

Doesn't this run counter to EU's rule that all small electronic devices - which the Switch 2 falls under - need to have USB-C chargers? In the sense that even though the plug is USB-C shaped, it's not compliant to the standard?

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SpaceX's Starship explodes in flight test, forcing airlines to divert (www.reuters.com)
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A new Virtua Fighter project has been announced (www.youtube.com)
 

Big news for VF fans. Yes, both of us.

In all seriousness, this is probably my favourite 3D fighter and I'm eager to see how it comes out!

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I hate being asked to convert PDFs (lemmy.ml)
 

It happens all the frickin' time. Someone wants to convert a PDF file to Word. Fine, we have tools for that, but depending on the quality of the PDF, the resulting text may contain some errors or just complete gibberish. But then you find out that they had the original Word file all along. I hate that so much.

And now today happens! But this time it's different. Someone wants to convert a PDF... to an Excel file. Are you fucking kidding me right now? I have an urge to run down the office with a megaphone screaming "WE DO NOT EDIT PDF FILES! WE MAKE PDFS WHEN WE'RE DONE EDITING THE DOCUMENT!".

Our department keeps refusing conversions from PDFs to other formats, because the conversion is not always accurate or reliable, so we direct our users to the tools we have available for this sort of thing, while clearly pointing out the downsides of the conversion process and explicitly stating that ensuring the accuracy of the conversion is the responsibility of said user, not our department. Because, inevitably, the software WILL make some mistakes. Os become zeroes, 5 becomes the letter S and don't even get me started on the whole capital i, lower l and number 1 situation.

And despite all of this, despite all the warnings and examples of failings in the past, nobody seems to get through their hollow skulls that they should avoid editing and converting PDFs just because of how much of a pain in the ass it is! Ugh.

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Are there any voxel-rendered (if that's the term) game like Voxatron? (lemmy.ml)
 

Lately I've been thinking about Voxatron, an incomplete yet fun little top-down-ish shooter game from 2011. I love the way it looks and plays, so I've been wondering if there are any other games with the same aesthetic?

It's a bit hard to explain, but what I liked specifically about Voxatron was how the characters and the environment were animated. Everything seemed to snap to an invisible three-dimensional grid, or in other words, voxels didn't rotate. Here's an example.

What I'm not looking for is a game that is made of voxels, but is animated like polygons, if that makes sense. Like this. I'm not really sure what term to use, because searching for "voxel games" was not very fruitful for me. Search results encompassed everything from Minecraft to Severed Steel.

I imagine animating a game in such a way would be super time consuming, but I still have to ask: are there any games that fit this criteria?

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US sues Adobe for “deceiving” subscriptions that are too hard to cancel (www.theverge.com)
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Nintendo, Xbox, And PlayStation Have All Now Abandoned Twitter/X Integration (archive.is)
 

So, really, a win for everybody.

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Microsoft's payment to Bobby Kotick would cover the salaries of Tango Gameworks and Arkane Austin employees for over 17 years. (lemmy.ml)
 

FYI, the article is in Spanish: https://www.hobbyconsolas.com/noticias/desarrollador-summerfall-studios-carga-bobby-kotick-1385082

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List of every game trailer from The Triple-i Initiative (lemmy.ml)
 

For those unaware, The Triple-i Initiative is a group of indie studios whose purpose is to highlight fan-favorite games and hype up established indie classics as well as new IPs.

So, without further ado, here are the trailers. Names in bold are new releases, the rest are updates to existing games:

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I hate the term "Boomer Shooter" (lemmy.ml)
 

Not to say I hate the genre, I actually love me some Dusk or Turbo Overkill, but why, oh why are they called Boomer Shooters?

These games clearly took inspiration from 90s FPS games, which 👌, but they were played mostly by Gen Xers and Millenials, not Boomers. When games like Duke Nukem 3D or Quake were out, Boomers were what? 30 to 50 years old? I'm sure some of them played FPS games, but there is no way they were the majority.

Whenever I see the term Boomer Shooter, my mind goes to games like Shootout! for Magnavox Odyssey. Can't we call them something else, like Retro FPSes or something?

Anyway, rant over. Thank you for your time.

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Akira Toriyama has passed away (en.dragon-ball-official.com)
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[RMA] What is this lump on my friend's CPU? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by onlooker@lemmy.ml to c/techsupport@lemmy.world
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EDIT: We decided not to pursue further diagnosis, because we wouldn’t know what the hell we’re doing anyway, and decided to start the RMA process instead. It might not even be the reason why the PC won’t turn on, but I’m not comfortable with putting that CPU back into his PC again. Once we get a replacement, we’ll see what happens. If it’s still busted, we’ll just take it to a local shop. Thank you everyone for your for your suggestions and insight, they are very much appreciated.

My friend called me to take a look at his PC that wouldn’t turn on. Upon inspecting his CPU, I noticed a silver bump at the bottom. I’ve never seen this. Can anyone tell me what it is?

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