alphabethunter @ alphabethunter @lemmy.world

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Don't even try to reason with people here that governments should be responsible for blocking harmful agents to affect the population. Government control and communism are bad words here, it's obviously much better to be free to spread misinformation and foreign propaganda, and if you can't have such freedom, you're obviously being oppressed by the government. I wish my ""free"" country had done the same ~10 years ago when social media truly became mainstream, and maybe we wouldn't have suffered a coup d'état that was clearly in the best interests of other nations.

Not everyone lives in America. Most governments in the world are not just fronts for oligarchs. I trust the current government of my country to act in the better interests of the people most of the time (sadly we live in a capitalist dystopia, so sometimes lobbying can make politicians fuck up). If you don't trust yours, you should look into what you can do to make a change.

I always tell people that decent customer support is not a crutch to have poor quality assurance. Customer support should be the answer only when something unexpected and unpredictable happens, not the answer after a screw up that should have been caught with internal testing, smart processes and auditions. If I'm a customer and I buy something that broke in transit, you taking the product back and sending me a new one is the bare minimum, what should have been done is to predict and safeguard against the product breaking in transit. And only in the case of clear misconduct by an agent at the logistics company can such a thing be forgiven as the responsibility over the fuckup is on the other company that hasn't trained their employees properly and/or might not be providing a mentally/physically safe work environment.

Yeah, I just use the fork.

I just use Obsidian + Syncthing + MEGA. My obsidian folders are on my mega synced folder on my pc, and they are set up to use syncthing to push updates to all my other devices (2 phones and a tablet), but you can have as many devices as you want. It's all free as well, and the cloud service can be any that you like.

2002~2003 We got a glorious "high speed cable internet" of 1mb when we were kids. My mom got pissed off that we were waking up at 4 am to play Tibia on school days and hired it. In my country, dial-up was free before 6 am and past midnight, and after 2 pm past saturday, so we had to play while it was free. She got really mad at us, but instead of taking the pc away, she realized that the game was helping us learn English and decided to hire cable internet. I bet my home was one of the first ones in my city to have """good""" internet back then. None of my peers at school had it until a couple of years later.

Enshrouded is like 30 dollars, so half the price of Veilguard. With a fraction of the AAA marketing Budget.

If Concord had been a perfectly fine shooter it wouldn't have failed so hard. It was mediocre, uninspired and greedy. A project that sought after the Overwatch hype and got release far too late to capitalize on it, coupled with a 70$ premiun pricetag in a world where Overwatch itself is already free. Add to that a cast of uninteresting characters, poor marketing, barely any gameplay review (which wasn't showcased because they knew it was lacking), and you get the fastest shut down of a game in gaming history. Concord is a textbook example of mismanagement, poor development, and being out of touch.

Paladins, a game that definitely didn't qualify as a perfectly fine shooter, is the polar opposite of Concord. Capitalized on the hype on time, released with a proper price tag, free, and is still alive to this day, somehow with a very positive rating on steam.

It's in the same tier as Enshrouded, a crafting survival adventure indie game that doesn't even come close to it in Budget, market and scale. Yeah, no, it wasn't a success.

About 30% only are fps, plenty of variety in there.

Did you play with hard exploration turned on? I felt that hard exploration + hard combat is probably the best way to play. Puzzles were not incredibly complicated, but some of them did have that "aha!" moment (from the words of GMTK). The enemies were indeed a bit dumb, but I felt like that was part of that Indiana Jones movie charm (most of Indy's villains in the movies are really dumb, case in point, the guy that steals the golden idol just to die five seconds after betraying him).

A tip I can give you is that the game never actually forces you to play stealth. You can literally kill all the fascist/Nazis you see, and progress normally. I played on hard combat mode, and just killed my way through the game, playing stealth only on parts that were swarming with enemies, and only for a little while, after knocking down some enemies and stacking some guns, it was all Rambo's action.

It's obviously a game made for people who like the movies, but it's a very solid standalone game even if you remove Indiana from it. Good puzzles, nice action, great voice acting, good levels/environments. The one thing I learned after finishing the game though is that the secret "ending" is not worth the effort. Just play the story and the game at your own pace, and then look up the secret ending after you're finished.

Amazingly good in some ways, and bad in some other ways. Eg. Doesn't work on linux.

I have picked up the same habit. I'll download and test a couple of dozen demos every next fest, and then wishlist/buy the ones that are good. I played 108 demos this year, and some of my favorite games this year were demos like this: Kill Knight, Last Plague Blight, Karate Survivor, Empty Shell...

Nah. Nintendo has been a shitty company for the last 10 years at the very least. They make good games, but as a company they should fail and go out of business. They are extremely litigious, shutting down many fan projects simply for existing, which apparently is enough to have a chance to hurt their profits on decades old games. Their services suck as well, overpriced and lacking. They close down their online store fronts before everybody else, case in point, the xbox 360 online store was closed down recently, at the end of last year, meanwhile, the Wii has been dead for 6 years already, and it was a console released a year after the 360. There are many other examples on why you shouldn't support Nintendo, a 15-minute search on the internet will give you plenty.

It makes no sense to me how they can think a 1300 dollar 10~15% more capable (at best) device is appealing in a market where the steam deck exists.

I cancelled mine last month, it was literally a couple of clicks. I got some ads about "all the things I would be losing" for some time after and that was it.

Truthfully 800, but there is an old model that costs "only" 300...

Thing is, Intel is 100% losing money on this, and they're willing to lose money to gain any modicum of market share, but AMD has no such concern/incentive. But we shall see about the RX 8000 and how they're going to do, considering they dropped top of the line and are allegedly focusing on fighting Nvidia on their turf (rt and ai features), maybe they'll have something nicely cooked for us. I'm really happy with my RX 6750 XT though, playing everything new 1080p high at 60+.