overload

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[–] overload@sopuli.xyz 4 points 7 hours ago

God this guy broke ToS while connected to the internet? Can't MigSwitchs run offline? I thought it was just a cart dump.

[–] overload@sopuli.xyz 5 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Giving Outer Wilds another go from a new save. I played 5 years ago but got stuck and gave up.

[–] overload@sopuli.xyz 15 points 11 hours ago
[–] overload@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago

That all sounds true to me. I've been with Sony for PS1, 2, 4 and 5 but had an Xbox OG/360. I've got to say I'm surprised that M$ hasn't with all their trillions been able to create a platform yet that makes them dominate in either the PC or console space. That said, I mustn't be the only one who thinks that the PS5 generation has been such a bad sign for the future of Sony. In 5 years I've played 3 good exclusive games on the system, the console has frankly been a waste of money.

And they've had 12 live service games in development. 12 great single player or couch coop exclusives would have been fucking great, but instead they're chasing the live service dragon.

[–] overload@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That could be compelling. I think they would want to design the OS in a way that strongly incentivises you to buy games through the Microsoft store, like SteamOS with the steam store. If they make it too flexible, they've just sold hardware at a loss to be someone's steam machine as well as making the OS potentially too complicated for a normal person to figure out.

If they can make a windows machine that can play all of the old Xbox games, run other storefronts, and do quick resume/hibernate properly, I'm interested. I was kind of waiting out for SteamOS on desktop to get a console like experience on a PC.

 

I'm not sure if there's another version of this song out there.

I'm a fan of summoning salt on YouTube and I am shocked that this particular song has so few listens and is released so late after videos using it came out. Seems that HOME produced this one.

[–] overload@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If you still have those messages and they prove that he knew you were a minor and pursued you anyway, you have an opportunity to take a civil lawsuit against him. Considering the age difference the value of that case to you may be significant.

[–] overload@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Yeah, maybe. The OS will be built around Game Pass like how SteamOS heavily incentivises you to use Steam. I think they'll have a unified game launcher like Armory Crate on the ROG Ally devices.

That way, it's a PC that you can use steam on, but the choice architecture and UX will be pushing you to the MS store.

[–] overload@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (7 children)

Broadly speaking, what are Xbox looking to do here?

They optimise Windows for gaming and open up the console for other storefronts, then is it just a Steam device? They won't make money from Steam sales.

Is this a cloud streaming device? Can you cloud stream games from other storefronts? It's all incredibly vague to me.

[–] overload@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 days ago

As a console I agree completely, Xbox is pretty much done unless they succeed with Handheld and "opening up the ecosystem" (however it is they are supposed to make money off of that).

As a PC/PS5/Switch gamer, I've given more money to Xbox than I've given to Sony or Nintendo the last 2 years. Steam key resellers have gotten most of my money but Game pass for PC has been compelling recently.

I'm not sure how profitable it is, but the service is currently good.

[–] overload@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 days ago

The lost crown was extremely refreshing.

[–] overload@sopuli.xyz 6 points 4 days ago

Loll, people will never stop getting these confused

 

With game pass popping off the last 18 months it seems like Xbox has really hit their stride as a publishing house. Admittedly they've largely done this by throwing billions upon billions of dollars to buy IP, but Expedition 33, Palworld, blue Prince and other hits popping off shows this hasn't exclusively been the case.

Meanwhile, Sony have had the most expensive flop in video game history with Concord, PSVR2 basically being DOA, and a perplexing pivot to chasing live service trends has meant that the system has missed out on several potential first party hits. Their subscription service pales comparatively to game pass, and there is very little of interest coming in the pipeline.

The PS5 has won this gen over Xbox in terms of sales, but I think customer confidence in their approach has dropped massively, at least for me.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by overload@sopuli.xyz to c/world@lemmy.world
 

Labor has stormed to victory in the federal election and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will lead a majority government following a disastrous night for the Coalition and Peter Dutton.

At 8.24pm, less than half an hour after the final polls closed in Western Australia, 9News projected Labor had won the election.

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by overload@sopuli.xyz to c/unpopularopinion@lemmy.world
 

Game prices for the past 30 years haven't kept pace with inflation.

I recognise the argument that publishers are shifting larger volumes of units now, which has been a factor that has allowed the industry to keep price increases below inflation for the last 30 years.

Wages not being even close to keeping up with inflation (especially housing inflation) is the real issue here, not the $70/$80 video game.

You should be angry at your reduced purchasing power in all of society, not just with the price of Nintendo games.

(Secondary less unpopular opinion, the best games out these days are multiplatform and released at least 5 years ago, buy them for << $80 and wait for sale the new releases, when they too are 5 years old)

 

Just wanted to shout out this piece of software.

I've been time poor lately and the ps5 has been gathering dust in my office. Streaming onto the deck has been a godsend, as I'm not tied into locking myself away from the family to play a game. Bit of a hassle to set up but so handy once it's been added as a non-steam game.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by overload@sopuli.xyz to c/piracy
 

Just wondering what a rough split is of people using either Usenet, torrents, or both?

I've only just discovered Usenet and while it is paid, it is very cheap and much more convenient than torrents.

Using torrents as well with the *arr suite set up for my various Linux ISOs.

 

Seen a few times bazzite has been mentioned, but just have seen another user say they have OpenSUSE installed.

I'm not sure what the benefits of these options are, especially non-steamOS ISOs?

 

I see it referenced constantly here, not quite as much on Reddit. I know what it means, but just wondering why such the popularity over on this side of the fence?

 

I really didn't think this was going to happen. Lemmy is missing an app at the level of boost for reddit.

If the UX is close to what BFR was, then this will really help with platform migration.

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