You should not breathe the air from sewage pipes. You'd have to be at the end of your options to do this, if there's a fire and you can't leave the room via the door or window, you would want to cover the door with clothes/towels whatever to slow the ingress of smoke and open/smash the window calling for help. You should be crawling around if the room is filling with smoke, keep low to the floor as that's where the cleaner air is, the sewage pipe is not cleaner air.
noooo its just nostalgia!! games weren't better, they are better nowww!!!
Games in general have gotten worse, the quality only exists in the indie space nowadays. But there's 1000s of them, so it's not easy to find the gems. As for 3PP platformers... I guess the genre isn't all that appealing to developers. Maybe there will be a new one when someone has an idea for a new fresh take on it. Great games are made from great ideas and passion, rather than them being made to fill a gap in the market.
And Remnant 2, a copy of the already existing Remnant 1. I mean Steam awards is usually just whatever game is most popular wins and with the nominations, looks like that isn't changing! Ah well, bit of fun aint it.
No, that redesign is horrendous. It follows modern 'design' principles of putting as little information on the page as you can and that's just a no go.
Steam's current UI isn't bad at all, everything functions and is similar to previous versions allowing anyone to find their way around comfortably. There are some issues, like in the older workshop pages and there is absolutely a lot of QoL that could be made, but the main store, discovery and library are all totally functional and nice imo. Steam having a slightly different style on different pages isn't actually a bad thing, at a glance you can easily tell what page you are on and makes it easier to find what you are looking for, whereas if it all looks the same, it's not as simple as they all become too similar.
Just because there isn't a shit ton of padding, doesn't mean it needs a redesign. Steam should definitely add skin support back though, for people who want to play around with it. I did personally use metro for the longest time.
That new generation design mentality, every webpage should have a max of 3 buttons, take up 50% of the page and the other half of the page can have 100 words maximum. Function over form please, every website is slowly devolving into this form over function bs the last 5-10 years. I think the UX designers all retired.
They have some good quality of life suggestions in the video, but also a lot of horrible design decisions.
I do like the idea of displaying the review ratios on games instead of "Mostly positive" etc. and the expanding info when you hover which moves the add to cart button is a problem Valve could fix. But that's like the only takeaways, everything else was a downgrade, while I can see where they are coming from with their ideas... they are just not good UX. Their design is a case of wasting space and minimising the amount of stuff shown, they just outright remove useful information because 'it exists elsewhere'. Just because it exists elsewhere doesn't mean it can't be somewhere else to be seen at a glance.
They mostly looked at it from a design perspective and not a functionality perspective, they are new to Steam it seems from their profile shown in the video, so it makes sense they don't really know what people want/expect from the application.
It wouldn't be as much as a problem if it was tucked away somewhere in Twitch, but these nudity streams will be broadcast to the front page. Kids can find whatever they want, sure, but that doesn't mean we should be sticking it in their faces when they come to a traditionally non-porn livestreaming platform. If they come to watch some people play games, they are going to be met with tits completely out of the blue. It is an issue, the excuse 'but kids can go watch porn anyway' doesn't cut it, because they weren't even supposed to be looking for porn in this instance.
Do parents just ban them from using Twitch? Or should Twitch have better systems in place to make it harder for kids to stumble across porn?
Of course its ads, but the main focus was the convention and not the streams. The crowds were fans and lots of developers got to show off their games. The game awards is just the worse part of e3 amplified, the awards themselves mean absolutely nothing, they are skipped over anyway, but imo gaming doesnt need an awards show, it's silly. The rest is just publishers paying for segments and a bunch of devs and random celebrities sit and watch in the crowd. I don't know how anyone sits and watches it. E3 was fun cause you could watch anyones perspective as they walked around and did interviews, met people etc, or even better if you could make it there yourself.
It was like computex of the gaming world, where any journalist could come and take part, which is not like geoff's bs at all.
Yes... but E3 allowed smaller devs to get an audience and allow people to try their games for early feedback, it was a place for gamers to go and experience new games, meet people in the industry etc. The game awards is literally just a 3 hour long advert for the highest bidders. The game awards doesn't give a shit about anything but the money they are rolling in, they get more and more shameless with it each year, a lot of developers complained this year as they were quickly ushered off stage to make way for the next big advert.
Yeah if you just watch the big players' streams from E3 then I can see the similarities.
Games don't need awards, it's just all subjective anyway and just gives the cringe oscars vibe of 'patting ourselves on the back'. You know if a game is good by it's player reviews and how many friends have told you to play it etc, we don't need a random set of judges deciding for us behind the scenes what the best games are.
No, the players choose the player's choice winner and contribute only 10% towards the actual winners.
The games are nominated by a committee, the committee of 'game news organisations' is chosen by the 'advisory board' of the game awards, the board consists of Activision Blizzard, Ubisoft, EA, Sony, Microsoft, Valve, Nintendo, Tencent, AMD, Riot Games, Rockstar Games, Epic Games and for some reason Kojima Productions. So they have the choice to pick their favourable 'news' outlets, which in turn will pick the nominees and the winners of the awards. There's a lot of room for bullshittery to happen and with some past winners/nominees, I wouldn't doubt there has been.
People like Xbox would show off more games, from smaller devs, you can do a lot more in 3 days than you can in 3 hours. It was sad when they pulled out, that was the writing on the wall for E3, but its not even comparable to the game awards lmao, which is literally just a 3 hour ad break.
Like CDPR changing Cyberpunk from RPG to Action-adventure. At least the game didn't release at that point though, but still. I mean Destiny even gets called an MMO when it isn't. Genre is kind of misused a lot, people just need to stop buying or getting invested in games that haven't even released.
You don't like excessive padding and useless information thrown into your face? The update is just to sell themes and shit on mobile, there was no UX consultation. Download version 205.15 to get the normal UI back.
There's lots of information on downloading APKs, the instructions can differ depending on which phone you have.
But essentially you download an APK file from a mirror site and install it. An example being APKMirror, just the APK version will work.
Oh and this is android btw, no idea how you would do it on ios.
Most studios do not spend large amounts of money to appear on advertising shows either and with Hello Games' history they should defo have a qualified PR manager or at least some serious consultation about it.
Okay why do these random packages keep popping up with this? For attention?
It's irrelevant, they are barely used by anyone and if a site blocks legitimate e-mail providers, then it is not a site worth registering with in the first place.
Insurgency was great, but I never got into Sandstorm and just stopped playing Insurgency at that point. I think they were expecting to go big with the sequel, but it was always going to be a niche game.
Yeah, that's what all trailers are, but Rockstar ones are never that great. Compare them to, for example, Bethesda trailers. It's a night and day difference, even if the Rockstar games are usually better, the Bethesda trailers just instill more awe and hype imo. It's the way trailers usually tell a mini story, the music having impact with what's on screen and the Rockstar trailers usually miss the mark on this.
I just looked and they actually scrapped it, they were working on one. Perhaps they wanted to just target existing devices in the end, although that hasn't seemed to have gone anywhere either, with game pass only being available on some samsung tvs.
I have got my OLED Steamdeck today and made a picture with my old one side by side. The display is a little bit bigger, the touch screen is way better (more like a smartphone).
On LCD and can see the richer colours on the OLED version, it's a picture so the differences will still show. I think there's some LCD panel quality and/or colorblindness coming into play for ones who can't see a difference.
I don't remember all the settings I changed, it was years ago, but when I initially swapped from Chrome I found the text on Firefox was horrible. Here's what I found though for text: gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.enhanced_contrast = 100 gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.pixel_structure = 5 gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.rendering_mode = 5 gfx.font_rendering.fallback.always_use_cmaps = true
And for smooth scrolling: general.smoothScroll.currentVelocityWeighting = 0 general.smoothScroll.lines.durationMaxMS = 250 general.smoothScroll.msdPhysics.enabled = true general.smoothScroll.stopDecelerationWeighting = 0.82 mousewheel.min_line_scroll_amount = 23
These tweaks made it much nicer for me personally, of course text rendering may differ on OS (I use W10).
Yup, I don't see how this suit ever goes anywhere. It would be a better use of time to argue that your $500 Xbox has a locked down marketplace and can't play Steam/PlayStation games.
Yeah as long as the game is available for the same price to consumers on Steam. Most people will just buy directly from Steam, so you would have to convince your audience to buy from your site directly.
Imagine if you could just sort and search. A lot of the problems DOS2 had that people complained about, they just kept for BG3. I don't think Larian play their own games.
It only supports up to 1080p/60fps, most videos I watch these days have 1440p or more, so the increased bitrate immediately makes the videos look a lot more crisp. For just a side to side 1080p comparison, there isn't much difference, just some more artifacting on the edges of things (not really that noticable). Maybe due to the YT stream being VP9 and FreeTube AVC? I don't really know to be honest.
Let's hope it never has to come to this (lemmy.today)
Why aren't modern 3D platformers as good as the PS2 era of 3D platformers?
Please prove me wrong and suggest me some modern ones that stand up to the older ones....
The Steam Awards: nominees are chosen, voting starts 21th Dec. (store.steampowered.com)
Someone redesigned the Steam UI, and I need it. (youtu.be)
I need it now....
If the internet has taught me anything it's that no one is an expert in anything (lemmy.world)
Twitch will now allow "Artistic Nudity" following the viral topless meta (www.dexerto.com)
Twitch Updated their Sexual Content Policy:...
E3 is officially dead (www.eurogamer.net)
The developer of The Day Before seems to be deleting evidence that it was ever an MMO game (www.pcgamesn.com)
venture capitalism goes brrr (feddit.de)
No Man's Sky studio Hello Games unveil Light No Fire, a fantasy survival game set on a single, huge planet (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
Proton domains blocked as disposable in disposable filter (github.com)
I hope it is a way to solve this…
Insurgency Developer New World Interactive Shut Down (insider-gaming.com)
Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 1 (peertube.wtf)
Steam Linux Marketshare Surges To Nearly 2% In November (www.phoronix.com)
store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/
Microsoft Wants Game Pass On PlayStation, Nintendo, And "Every Screen" Possible (www.gamespot.com)
Must-play Ubisoft games
Lo and behold, I have Ubisoft wallet funds! And it just happens to be that it’s everyone’s favourite time to buy games, Cyber Monday....
Normal and OLED side by side. (discuss.tchncs.de)
I have got my OLED Steamdeck today and made a picture with my old one side by side. The display is a little bit bigger, the touch screen is way better (more like a smartphone).
Firefox now supports clean URLs with the new "Copy link without site tracking" option
No need to remove the URL tracking parameters manually. 🥳...
What makes you not want to use Linux anymore and maybe move back to Windows, MacOS, or TempleOS?
How to un-tiny scrollbars in Firefox (snee.la)
Tl;Dr:...
Gabe Newell ordered to make in-person deposition for Valve v. Wolfire Games lawsuit (www.gamesindustry.biz)
Baldur’s Gate 3 players demand major “quality of life” changes for inventory management (www.charlieintel.com)
Spotify will end service in Uruguay due to bill requiring fair pay for artists (mixmag.net)
Google slows down Firefox users when watching YouTube.... (fosspost.org)
Google slows down Firefox users when watching YouTube…