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Cake day: December 9th, 2023
  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyztoGaming@lemmy.ml•Why compete when you can buy the competition?
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    2 days ago

    Because that is part of the cycle of collapse and shock doctrine these corporations rely on to keep from being clowned on by moderately competent smaller game studios who actually are excited by the challenge to convince people to buy their art instead of shoving derivative slop down their customer’s throat as the cinematic monochoice for entertainment product category no. 1254…

    If you mow the grass, the longterm benefit of preserving a strict monoculture is well worth the temporary mass destruction (from the perspective of the person driving the mower, it smells quite pleasant actually).

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shock_Doctrine

    To be clear the blades of grass are the smaller game studios on Microsoft’s lawn.

  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyztoSteam Deck@sopuli.xyz•Any good racing games you have been doing on the deck?
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    2 days ago

    I accidentally put myself on the top 10 board for highest level taxi driver for a bit (I am like top 20-30 currently) just because the driving feels THAT dialed and I can treat it like a chill open world point to point racer on my steam deck that I can pause or put into autopilot whenever I want.

    I don’t really care enough to pursue getting back on the leaderboard, the driving just feels so good my ADHD brain was actually able to focus on something repetitive and incremental enough to be competitive and it briefly made me feel like a wizard.

    Have you tried powersliding the box van yet? Put the biggest engine you can into it, load it up with fragile vases and other delicate delivery items, slam it into drift mode and then start ripping the most massive, nearly industrial sized powerslides you have ever seen.

    … or get a garbage truck and get into the zen of being chill and collecting trash, you do you, that is another reason I love Motortown, it is about giving you complete agency in the driving vibes you want while being challenging and rewarding.

  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyztoGames@sh.itjust.works•EA lost $6 billion in market value, following FC 25 & Dragon Age underperformance newsEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I mean, I regularly fly helis on european servers from us west coast, sometimes it is laggy but overall it works fine.

    I am sorry you didn’t have a great first experience, it is a community project and there are definitely bugs, I didn’t mean to oversell how polished the game was, I just love it and am having such a blast with finally having an accessible, moddable spiritual successor to Project Reality.

    I would say give it another shot on a lower ping serv, but I also don’t want to be pushy (or try a different mod like Casualfield, it has COD style hit reg indications if you think weird hit registering problems are happening that will clear it up whether shots are landing or not) movement is similar to other semi-realistic tactical shooters with a touch of inertia and a mantle obstacle button, it shouldn’t in my opinion feel like a puck on an airhockey table lol.

    Regardless, whatever you do keep your eye on the project, I think it will be a platform for a lot of cool projects but you are seeing it an early stage.

    For me, it is already a blast to fly attack runs in the apache, crew IFVs or play on infantry only servers, but I am sorry if it isn’t there yet for what you are looking for!

    edit on the topic of hit registering/landing shots, bullets travel VERY fast in this game (translating to a minimal but real bullet drop) but it isn’t instantaneous (or hitscan). If you are used to games like battlefield especially in the context of sniping you are likely acting like it is way less point and click than it is (or maybe it seems hitscan when it isn’t and that is the basis for it feeling off?). They slow down bullets in more arcadey games like battlefield to make it more intuitive. Try putting the crosshair on the leading edge of your target and aiming for roughly chest level, you should generally be able to get rounds on target just doing that, otherwise maybe there is a netcode issue idk?

  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyztoLinux@lemmy.ml•Thank you Microsoft, for the final push
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    2 days ago

    Yeah I know that is how they see it but the generational wave they have been coasting on was the fact that computer nerdy kids would learn the ins and outs of windows software long before even entering the workplace.

    Microsoft has been taking advantage of the fact that kids like me would be so excited to learn computers that they would learn the basics of just poking around the desktop before they could read.

    Nowadays that is gone, there is no playful connection and the sea of change will butterfly effect consequences into the future and cause a million symptoms of an issue we all know microsoft will never actually value or address.

    Microsoft has been functioning this entire time with a special unspoken in with nerdy kids who grow up to build important and valuable computer tools. Microsot has steamrolled that, and on the scale of 10+ years I am not sure there will be anything Microsoft can actually do to mitigate the strategic defeat that is going to cause even if they are able to be honest and lucid about it.

    More and more computer nerdy kids are going to learn the shit out of Linux because it is where they game and it feels welcoming to them (i.e. it doesn’t feel like sneaking into a suffocatingly boring office full of identical cubicles that gives periodic blaring notifications on a gambling casino nobody your parents know can afford called the Stock Market).

    I can’t understate how much this will lead to microsoft completely losing the plot, because no one could ever suggest this as a danger in a microsoft boardroom and be taken as seriously as they should.

    gets popcorn I for one and going to enjoy the show

  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyztoLinux@lemmy.ml•Thank you Microsoft, for the final push
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    3 days ago

    Same, Microsoft is about to force my laptop to update and I am about to own zero devices that run Windows.

    There is no coming back either, which is what makes the schadenfeude of Microsoft (the dog) really actually catching the car this time so funny and satisfying.

    I think it is going to make heads spin how fast the idea that Windows has unassailable hegemony in the desktop space becomes an antiquated idea. There is an asteroid in the sky, and the time of dinosaurs is over lol.

    All the alarm bells should be going off at Microsoft hq and I know they probably feel like they are sitting pretty and are nice and future proofed in their business plan it is amazing and makes my heart sing.

    Sorry not sorry you law breaking, monopoly chasing, morally bankrupt losers. You might be richer than I ever will be, but lets be honest, that is because I have standards about what I am willing to do for money.