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bhmnscmm, in Open source evolution sim Thrive has a new physics engine and big performance upgrades
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Hopefully this eventually becomes the game Spore was supposed to be.

littlebluespark,

Spore had so many of my young hopes riding on it… 🥹

edit: purchased on Steam to send $5 to the dev team just now!✌🏽

Shou,

Elysium Eclipse is much, much closer to spore. Thrive is a very different kind of game.

bhmnscmm,
@bhmnscmm@lemmy.world avatar

Thanks for the recommendation! I haven’t heard of Elysian Eclipse. It definitely seems like it’s trying to fulfill the Spore concept.

Shou,

Yeah! It’s pretty much trying to finish what Maxis started.

UpperBroccoli, in I tried visiting The Day Before developer Fntastic’s offices in Singapore, and this is what I found [physical office in SG where shared and "virtual"... other things too...]
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JJROKCZ, in You’re going to need an SSD in order to play Final Fantasy 16 on PC

In 2023/4 you should not be running a hdd in your gaming machine anyway, SSDs are so affordable now

0xD,

What a privileged thing to say.

otp,

Playing modern games as soon as they come out is privileged too.

paradiso,

SSD’s have massively decreased in price over the last couple of years. I’m confused by your comment?

Nevoic,

A basic GPU will cost you $150-$250 dollars. A 1tb SSD will cost you $50, or the same price for a half terabyte nvme.

You can’t even realistically get a proper HDD below $40, they just don’t sell. You’d be best served at the $80 price point, getting either

  • 1tb nvme
  • 2tb SSD
  • 4tb HDD

I’d suggest the nvme in this situation.

MangoPenguin,
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A cheap SSD is less money than a cheap HDD at this point.

Spoilt, in 6,000 PC Games Discounted In Massive Winter Sale

I have the GOG reflex

DebatableRaccoon, in Starfield dev promises mod support, new ways to travel & more for future update - Dexerto

They’re going to add different splash screens to all those loading screens? How innovative

RHSJack,

About frikkin time. It’d be cool if it were user generated splash screens. Some of the community’s screenshots are beautiful.

DebatableRaccoon, (edited )

That’d require effort on their end setting up a server interaction. Not to mention an opportunity for a loading screen glitch

ekZepp, in I tried visiting The Day Before developer Fntastic’s offices in Singapore, and this is what I found [physical office in SG where shared and "virtual"... other things too...]
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The more you find, the more make it sense.

CJOtheReal, in Cult of the Lamb dev doesn’t stop at sex, now adds guns to the chaos

Lmao

littlebluespark, in Starfield dev promises mod support, new ways to travel & more for future update - Dexerto

Get in line, clowns. 2077 might’ve had a hobbled launch, but y’all squirted at the starting gun and they’ve come around gloriously while you pointed at anyone but the culprit for your full diaper.

Hell, we all knew you were wearing one and we still gave you the benefit of the doubt. Shame on us, for sure, but you’re still walking around like you’ve changed your damn drawers… Nasty.

Ganbat, in PC gaming news: Epic defeat for Google, dev. studio mysterious rebirth, free game and more

How the fuck did they beat Google on a platform that allows sideloading, but lose to Apple when their platform doesn’t? Some judges need to be fucking removed.

alessandro,
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In this case, Google did look more shady than Apple because there were reports of Google pushing developer to not publish on other Android’s store (which is an illegal anti-competive practice Google operate on some of its platform like Youtube etc.). Apple didn’t need to employ such practices because alternative stores on iOS are nearly impossible.

Ganbat,

So Google gets hit for trying to establish a monopoly but Apple gets a pass for having one already established?

Some judges need to be removed.

RightHandOfIkaros,

Its Apple, haven’t you heard? Their $8m is actually worth more like $16m. Some judges clearly heard.

alessandro, (edited )
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Judges apply law written by your lawmaker. They are not some sort of kings, you know.

Don’t get me wrong, Apple surely is a shit company like many others, but barking at the wrong tree… just help them.

Ganbat,

Uh… What? No. One judge said moving towards this type of control is monopolistic, while another said that already having that control isn’t. They’re applying the same laws, but applied them completely differently. That’s on the judge. And most anti-trust laws are federal, so they would be applying the same laws

PP_BOY_,
@PP_BOY_@lemmy.world avatar

Fuck off I’ll take one win and one loss against the two shittiest tyrants in tech than two losses.

Ganbat,

Yep, better to ignore the judges that let monopolies exist than bring attention to them, right?

Kolanaki,
@Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar

I’d rather take wins that matter over hollow victories that set awful precedents.

Kolanaki, in PC gaming news: Epic defeat for Google, dev. studio mysterious rebirth, free game and more
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Someone gimme a tl;dw directly to the free game.

alessandro,
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Gog.com

It’s on their homepage ._.

Sanctus, in Knights of the Old Republic 'still has a lot of demand,' Disney exec says
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But what do they interpret that as? I want this. But mostly as an HD Remaster. If they were going to rebuild it they’d change things and it really doesn’t need that.

Sturgist,
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I mean…I just play the old one with the HD texture pack. 10000% better than anything they’ll try to pump out, guaranteed. Also, kotor 1 is free right now if you have Prime.

Sanctus,
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I have 1 & 2 modded to hell and back on Steam and I also have 1 on my android device. I guess there isn’t really a need for a remaster.

DebatableRaccoon,

So it’s not free

Sturgist,
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Well, no, but it’s paid for by your monthly fee.

thedirtyknapkin,

i think they’ll still manage it with a remaster. they’ll tack on a battlepass somehow…

Sanctus,
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Straight up, the only games with season passes I don’t avoid like the plague are Rocket League and Sky: Children of Light.

Krackalot,

We’re remastering the old republic franchise. We’ve made some minor tweaks. Mostly swapping out Revan for Kylo Ren so we can keep selling the same toys and other totally minor changes. Also, it’s an auto clicker game, too…

Sanctus,
@Sanctus@lemmy.world avatar

The rage I felt at that third sentence… I need to go exile to a swamp planet, maybe talk to some whales…

edgemaster72,

We’ve made some minor tweaks…

Pray we don’t tweak it further.

Rentlar, in [Lethal Company from 115th to 2nd place] "November 2023 Top 20 Titles Played on Steam Ranked by U.S. Monthly Active Users"

Crazy how a stupidly funny C$15 game gets so popular so quickly. I had a good time with it.

averyminya,

My friends and I have been enjoying it too, we only play a couple times a week maybe but man is there a lot of screaming!

Rentlar,

The best moments are when you don’t see your pal, but you know exactly what happened to them from the sounds.

Last night we had a base commander who got us killed because they were too slow at disabling two turrets near the entrance, then they thought they were hot shit and could rescue some of the stuff. Instead they got shot by the same turrets and we lost all our scrap on the final day. That was a laughfest.

averyminya,

Oh gosh, the fading “nooo!” When someone falls is too funny!

One of our best stories was from the delivery planet where we were exploring the area. We went down the ladder to check out the ocean and that walkway down there. We’re all talking and one of our friends goes, “hey guys wanna see something cool?”

We kinda ignore him for a minute and finish our conversation, then we go over to him to hear what he found.

We found his dead body. He fell from the stairs right after he said that and died! We were all stunned, it had been a couple minutes so we just kind of laughed. Decided his sister should give him a sailors funeral and drop his body off into the sea.

So she picks him up and tosses him over. Well, the railing got in the way and stopped him from falling, so she went over the raining and jumped on the pipe. Giving her eulogy, she took a step forward and disappears, dying to the ocean! Gosh we were cackling for hours about that one, sheer gold!

smotherlove, in Counter-Strike 2 players warned not to play CS2 as huge exploit could leak your IP

I play CS2 on VPN and I still get about 25 ping. No excuses

lud,

My excuse is that it’s a waste. There is no point in doing that unless you want to do something that you are not allowed to do like hop regions or something.

hihellobyeoh, (edited )

Security, that’s a major use of vpns.

Edit: I should of pointed out that I meant limited use for security reasons, like accessing your bank account in public areas, its not much but it can help to protect you from MitM attacks at the very least.

lud,

VPNs doesn’t really improve security in a way that usually matters.

Nearly all web traffic is already encrypted.

VPNs absolutely have their uses (like accessing remote networks, bypassing firewalls and censorship, piracy) but they are not needed for just using all the time.

smotherlove,

Web encryption is genuinely security theater considering whose root certificates come pre-installed. Microsoft has the ability to decrypt all web traffic on Windows at will due to their preinstalled cert, and they are almost certainly under gag order and compelled to give the NSA unrestricted access to this backdoor.

Futher, the EU is going to install their certs on every computer and make it illegal for browsers to uninstall or untrust them. I don’t live in the EU so I can’t confirm if this is happened already but theoretically this can have global impact.

I’m not saying a VPN necessarily helps here but your trust in web encryption is misplaced.

lud,

Microsoft has the ability to decrypt all web traffic on Windows at will due to their preinstalled cert,

I am gonna need a source for that.

EU is going to install their certs on every computer and make it illegal for browsers to uninstall or untrust them.

You sure? Are you talking about the encryption thing? That was (of course) rejected.

smotherlove,
nik282000,
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YouTube sponsorship is the major use of VPNs. Hiding your IP does nothing to mitigate user tracking by application/hardware finger printing, tracking of users logged into a service, or tracking of user activity with cookies.

Auli,

I know there are so many other ways they are tracking people. There was one discovered they put a list of I think 500 top sites and they could identify people with I think it was 90% accuracy, just by telling which sites they visited because the links turn purple. I these are the ones discovered, so they where doing this before people found out what else are the doing that nobody knows about yet.

Auli,

So what are you gaining using a VPN to access your bank? Your bank website is https so it’s already encrypted. VPN’s are vastly misrepresented in their commercials.

smotherlove,

If you must know, I seed my public tracker torrents to a ratio of 10:1. That’s why I have a router-level VPN config. Someone’s gotta do it.

nik282000,
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Fighting the good fight. I have about 25 torrents that have one one seed, me, and can’t be otherwise purchased. I just leave them on unlimited ratio and feel better when every I see a leech connect.

smotherlove,

I wouldn’t mind joining you in eternally seeding those torrents if you wanna send me a list.

satanicleftist,

Okay but why not set up a separate/dedicated route for that traffic?

Not that I disapprove of what/how you’re doing, curious because it’s what I do. I’d assume you’ve got a VM or node other than your workstation hosting your torrent client, otherwise this method doesn’t make sense.

smotherlove,

The VPN runs on my router and my torrent client runs on my server. Anyhow, why would I want only some of my traffic to go through VPN when I can send it all through?

smotherlove,

All of my traffic for all the devices in my home goes through VPN cause I have it configured at the router level. I’m not gonna turn it off for gaming.

VelociCatTurd,

Have you considered just setting up the vpn in a better way.

Nindelofocho,

Thats not actually a bad way to have a vpn set up though?

smotherlove,

This is the better way.

Rentlar, in Payday 3’s first DLC [Syntax Error] heist is out now, but it’s not cheap [ $17.99 / £14.99 ]

How long ago did this game launch? Official release in September and 3 months later they’re offering DLC? What are they smoking?

I still hear reports of teething problems with the game and they really are asking people who stuck with them from the start to pay up more? I guess the developers are role playing holding their players hostage in keeping with the style of Payday gameplay.

spudwart, in E3 Is Permanently Canceled

I swear reality forked in 2020 and this is the bad ending timeline.

SpaceNoodle,

10 January 2016

Kalothar,

28th May 2016

soviettaters,

That’s the real date. The harbinger of doom.

Numpty,

🦍 😢

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